Noemie Huttner-Koros
Noemie Huttner-Koros is a performance-maker, writer, dramaturg and community organiser based between Wurundjeri country and Whadjuk Noongar country. Noemie's artistic practice often engages with sites and histories where queer culture, composting and ecological crises occur, and their work taken place in theatres, galleries, alleyways, dinner parties and blanket forts.
Their shows include: Mother of Compost (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival), The Lion Never Sleeps (Australian Book Review’s Arts Highlights of 2019), The Trouble-Makers (You Are Here Festival & Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts) & Democracy Repair Services (The Blue Room Theatre 2023). Noemie is a graduate of the Bachelor of Performing Arts at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Master of Theatre (Dramaturgy) at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Their Masters Thesis explored the entanglement of ecological and queer dramaturgies in performance-making processes. Their writing has been published in Best of Australian Poems 2020, Rabbit Poetry Journal, Australian Poetry, Disclaimer Journal & SeeSaw Mag. Noemie was a co-founder of Arts & Cultural Workers for Climate Action in WA and has been organising on climate justice with a variety of organisations over the last ten years.
They are currently the Graduate Dramaturg at Red Stitch Actors Theatre and were the Creative Coordinator of 2022 KickstART Festival Youth Week WA (Propel Youth Arts WA). They were the winner of the 2020 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize & 2021 WA Young Environmentalist of the Year. Noemie is passionate about empowering people to participate in culture and democracy, the civic role of the artist in society, and dreaming up vibrant, queer, collective futures on this precious planet.