The cast of SHIT
Peta Brady
Has worked for film, television and theatre. Other film credits include Some Happy Day, Mullet and Only the Brave.
TV credits include Safe Home, Jack Irish, It’s a Date, Dogwoman, The Slap, Librarians, Pig’s Breakfast, Simone de Beauvoir’s Babies, MDA, Good Guys Bad Guys, Big Sky, City Homicide, Blue Heelers, Beaconsfield, RAN, Kath and Kim, Neighbours and Street Angels.
In 2019 was invited to perform SHIT internationally at the Venice Biennale and Edinburgh festivals after its sixth successful season touring nationally at various Australian festivals. SHIT is the recipient of five theatre Green Room Awards.
Theatre credits also include The House of Bernarda Alba, Shark Fin Soup, Diving for Pearls, Raindancers (for Melbourne Theatre Company), Love (Malthouse/Hothouse – receiving the Gerda Nicholson Green Room Award), The Call (Melbourne Art Centre) and Save for Crying (La Mama – nominated for best performer by the Victorian Green Room Awards).
Peta is also a playwright and has performed in her own three theatre works Strands (La Mama Theatre), Status Update (La Mama Theatre) and was commissioned by the Malthouse Theatre Company to write and perform Ugly Mugs for Malthouse/Griffin Theatre. All three works received nominations for Best New Writing and Best Performance by the Victorian Green Room Award Association.
Nicci Wilks
Nicci Wilks is a freelance artist continually creating and performing works of various art forms. She has been touring her work around the world for over 35 years, performing in 14 languages, from the Pitjantjatjara lands to 42nd St., NYC. Various companies Nicci has worked with include Circus Oz, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, KAGE, CIRCA, Melbourne Workers Theatre, Legs on the Wall, Company 2.
Her one-woman intimate show The Teensy Top (she wears the venue!) has been presented at major art centres and festivals around Australia. She directed the award-winning dark comic circus show Party Ghost and was assistant director and performer in the award-winning show Taxi.
Nicci is a performer and co-creator of the highly acclaimed shows The Long Pigs and Caravan. She is a performer in the critically acclaimed stage production and feature film SHIT and was a co-creator and performer of the multi-award-winning production ANIMAL. In 2021/22 she co-created and performed two sell-out seasons of her solo show RUNT in Melbourne, followed by a season at Brisbane Circfest and the Sydney Opera House. Recently, she featured in the multi-award-winning short film Tarneit (Dances With Films, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, Iris Prize Festival, Shorts Mexico).
Sarah Ward
Sarah is a cabaret artist, actor, writer and one half of independent arts company, Fat Fruit. Sarah was awarded a Helpmann for her cabaret character Yana Alana and, along with her creative team, has 11 Green Room Awards. Sarah is a recipient of the 2022 Australia Council For Arts Fellowship Grant and is currently focusing on researching and implementing a relaxed performance model for all Fat Fruit shows.
Sarah has spent the past four years collaborating with Deaf artist Asphyxia who worked alongside Fat Fruit to create their d/Deaf accessible rock show, The Legend of Queen Kong. Sarah works regularly with Asphyxia to make music accessible to her ears and, alongside a team, supported Asphyxia in her journey to write her own music.
Outside of her own work, Sarah played the role of Bobby in the Dee and Cornelius play SHIT. She was the MC for Circus Oz for two years and has worked with La Soirée, Finucane and Smith, Retro Futurismus, Yummy, Arena Theatre Company, Hayes Theatre, Melbourne Workers Theatre and The Women's Circus. Sarah was also a co-creator of cult hip-hop cabaret act, Sista She.
Supporting cast
Emilie Bloom
Maddie Dyer
Sam O’Reilly
Amanda Ma
Denis Moore
Maude Davey