Democracy Repair Services

Democracy Repair Services is a play about four teenage climate activists, powerlessness, democracy and the endangered bogong moth.

The first season was presented in November 2023 at the Blue Room Theatre and the second production was presented at The Meat Market for Melbourne Fringe 2025.

Alongside the 2023 season, we also presented a program of community events including: workshops with Australian Youth Climate Coalition and the Climate Justice Union, a community library with the books that inspired the writing and banner-painting with Arts & Cultural Workers for Climate Action.

Best Writing Award at Blue Room Theatre 2023 & Best Ensemble at Performing Arts WA awards 2023

Named in Guy Webster’s ‘Writing Highlights of 2025’

Project Credits

2025 Melbourne season:
Director: Martha Latham
Cast: Michelle Rupert, Gabrielle Fallen, Oriana Morris-Johnson, Jess Lu
Set & costume design: Dylan Lumsden
Lighting design: Sophie Ness
Sound design: Nick Rinaldi

2023 Perth season:
Director: Andrew Sutherland
Assistant Director: Makaela Rowe-Fox
Producer: Briannah Davis
Cast: Rali Maynard, Zoe Garciano, Phoebe Gabriel Critti-Shnaars
Sound design: David Stewart
AV design & photography: Edwin Sitt
Lighting design: Jasmine Lifford
Set and costume design: Molly Werner

The Lion Never Sleeps

The Lion Never Sleeps is a walking performance about the queer history of Perth and the community response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. The audience listens to interviews I conducted with elders of Perth’s LGBTQIA+ community and visits the sites and remnants of these places. This project involved interviewing and connecting with LGBTQIA+ elders and community organisations and fostering intergenerational dialogue between younger and older queer people.

Project credits:

Creator & director: Noémie Huttner-Koros
Sound recordist, composer and sound designer: Josten Myburgh
Performers: Aisyah Aaqil Sumito, Ev Snook, Rhubarb Doneo & Noémie Huttner-Koros
Music: Jameson Feakes & Djuna Lee
Producer: Georgia Ivers
Publicist: Kayla MacGillivray
Interviewees: JC, Claire Bushby, Colin Young, Sandra Hayes, Mark Reid, Meredith Jackson, Carl Gopalkrishnan

This project was developed as part of the LGBTQIA+ Still Here residency lab through Propel Youth Arts WA, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Perth Festival. It then received further development and a premiere season at the Blue Room Theatre’s Winter Nights (July 24-27 2019). The Lion Never Sleeps had a sold-out season as part of the FRINGEWORLD and The Blue Room Theatre’s Summer Nights program 28 January - 2 February 2020. We also held an evening of queer intergenerational storytelling at King Street Arts Centre in January 2020 called Unsung Heroes.

Nominated for 4 Performing Arts WA awards 2020 & named in Australian Book Review’s Arts Highlights of 2019

Season history:
- Boorloo Heritage Festival, May 2023
- The Blue Room Theatre’s Summer Nights program, 28 January - 2 February 2020
- The Blue Room Theatre’s Winter Nights program, July 24-27 2019
-KickstART Youth Arts Festival 2019

Reviews:
Out in Perth, The Lion Never Sleeps is an Essential Work for this moment
Isolated Nation

Participatory, joyful and tender. Mother of Compost invites audiences into creative and unexpected ways to create and nurture families in the face of the climate crisis. We live in an ecologically precarious time. Some of us don’t want to bring children into this world, others are worried their children won’t have a world to grow old into ... but we’ve still got a whole lot of love to give. Rethink what it means to give birth and be birthed, and dance along with us in this gooey, camp and interactive subversion of family portraits, birthing classes and evolutionary biology.

Project credits:

Writer & performer: Noemie Huttner-Koros
Director: Andrew Sutherland
Dramaturg: Sam Nerida
Set & costume design: Molly Werner
AV Design: Edwin Sitt
Sound design: Lyndon Blue
Stage manager: Catherine O’Donoghue

Production History:
- Melbourne Fringe 2023, Motley Bauhaus - Nominated for Best Theatre
- M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2023
- Bunbury Fringe Festival 2023
- The Blue Room Theatre Summer Nights 2022

Photo credits: Edwin Sitt & Dan McBride

Reviews:
SeeSaw Magazine
Critics Circle Blog

I was the Graduate Dramaturg at Red Stitch Actors Theatre in 2023 and worked on the Australian premiere of Shhh by Clare Barron, directed by Emma Valente.

Shhhh is a fiercely provocative new play about empowerment, bodies, consent and how we might learn to listen to one another's complex desires. From the acclaimed writer of Dance Nation and You Got Older.

A cast of young performers take on their greatest challenge yet – playing their Grandparents!

Based on hours of verbatim interviews, Meet My Grandies reflects on the unique bond we have with our grandparents. Straight from the mouths of some big hearted, unruly grandchildren, expect some tongue in cheek tales that will strike a chord with all ages.

Created and directed by Amelia Burke for La Mama Theatre 2022 Victorian Seniors Festival
Dramaturgy & co-writing by Noemie Huttner-Koros

Presented by Sevenfold Theatre Company at Bluestone Church Arts Space, August 2025

An ensemble of actors breathe life into a rich tapestry of characters across time and place, unearthing the emotional depth and humanity of queer rights pioneer Hans Ulrichs’. Blending heartfelt intimacy with political urgency, Numa and Karl is a moving portrait of a forgotten pioneer whose legacy still resonates today. A tribute to courage, community, and the enduring fight for queer liberation.

Playwright: Emma Chandler
Director: Alanah Guiry
Cast: Sarah Hartnell, Nicklas J. Carr, Conagh Punch, Emerson Hansford, Kyle Cuthbert, Tristan Sicari, Jesse Martin
Dramaturg: Noemie Huttner-Koros
Producer: Joshua Strachan
Musical director & composer: Lore Phoenix Burns
Set designer: Leonie Leonida
Stage manager: Douglas Hassack
Costume designer: Zachary Dixon
Lighting designer: Hannah Willoughby