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MUSE

MUSE

PICA is proud to support the Most Promising Contemporary Performance Award to graduates of the Bachelor of Performing Arts at WAAPA. The award consists of a two-week development period at PICA plus mentoring and support from the PICA team. In 2024, the Award went to Talia Zipper, Laura Goodlet, Emily Jenkins and Isobel Finnie for their project MUSE.  

Are words ever really lost?  

Sappho. A Karaoke Machine. Poems. Pomegranates. For a night, statues step down from pedestals and invite you into a sapphic fever dream. What is absent, what remains and what lies in between? An imagining of The Tenth Muse and queer love across time, MUSE is an ode to Sappho’s lost poetry and all the fem voices that have been silenced from the ancient to the modern… so come close you precious graces and muses xxx 

About the artists

Talia Zipper – Director

Talia Zipper is a recent graduate of WAAPA’s Bachelor of Performing Arts (Performance Making) and has also completed a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, majoring in Theatre. Coming from a performance background, Talia has performed at notable venues such as The Malthouse Theatre (After Hero, 2018), TheatreWorks (Slaughterhouse 5, 2019) and The Blue Room Theatre (TILT, 2024).. Talia began her exploration of producing and stage management with FEMOID. and Blue Angel during The Blue Room Theatre’s 2025 Summer Nights Program, and has continued her producing career with How The KKK Saved The Day as part of the Blue Room’s 2025 Annual Season. Talia recently found success with her directorial debut, MUSE (2024), which she can’t wait to extend with this PICA residency. She has also excitedly made her mainstage directing debut with Bruised as part of The Blue Room’s 2025 Annual Season. She is a part of the artist collective, Lacuna, and is interested in making female-led, accessible work that pushes the boundaries of what theatre can evoke through a queer, immersive, post-dramatic lens.

Laura Goodlet – Writer/Performer

Laura is an emerging writer, actor and director, and a recent graduate of WAAPA’s Bachelor of Performing Arts (Performance Making) where she received the Blue Room Industry Award and 2025 PICA Residency for her TILT works CORE and MUSE respectively. In 2024 Laura was selected for ATYP’s Fresh Ink and National Studio programs for emerging playwrights, as well as WAYTCO’s 24hr Play Generator and Made In Boorloo project where she further developed her 24hr Play Generator play Fallen Star. Laura’s love for storytelling extends across multiple genres and disciplines, including film and photography. She has written and performed in multiple short ads for Luna Leederville, as well as writing and directing shorts of her own.

Emily Jenkins – Writer/Performer

Emily Jenkins graduated from the Bachelor of Performing Arts (Performance Making) from WAAPA in 2024, leaving with a strong interest in both writing and acting. As a part of the BPA TILT season she co-wrote and performed in the theatre work, MUSE, which was awarded the two-week development residency at PICA which she is looking forward to participating in later this year.  In 2024 Emily partook in a micro-residency with WA poets as a part of Perth Poetry Festival where she created and performed her own site-specific poetry. Earlier this year she worked as an actor with emerging Perth film production companies Ghost Martini Productions and Lacuna. Most recently she performed in Bruised as a part of The Blue Room’s 2025 annual season.  Em is interested in making heart-felt theatre which inspires joy and conversation.

Isobel Finnie – Performer

Isobel Finnie (she/they) is an emerging performance artist, producer, director and community-engaged arts practitioner with an ethos of curiosity, collaboration and innovation. Socially driven and politically charged, Isobel believes in amplifying the stories that need to be heard. Through their education at WAAPA in the Bachelor of Performing Arts (Performance Making), Isobel developed a key interest in queer and ecological performance, utopian performatives and theories of assembly. She is now commencing her Honours, researching how community informs our arts praxis. Isobel believes theatre has great potential for social betterment, tailoring their work towards outreach, accessibility and impact.  

Supporters

PICA’s Studio Program is supported by PICA’s Art Ambassadors