The Sound Bias: Unlearning How We Listen To Voices

Fuel for your artistic evolution

This Winter Nights, we’re delivering 10 professional development workshops designed to spark creativity and build industry skills. From performance to producing and marketing to design, these sessions are here to empower, inspire, and strengthen our arts community. 

This practical workshop invites screen and theatre practitioners to interrogate how voice is shaped, valued, and policed within cultural and institutional hierarchies. Through embodied practice and critical reflection, we will challenge inherited listening biases and reframe vocal authority to centre plurality, agency, and cultural safety.

About Host

Katrina Irawati Graham is an Indonesian-Australian director, writer and dramaturg working in screen and theatre. She is twice ADG nominated for STAN Originals series Bali 2002. She has dramaturged for La Boite, Queensland Theatre, Blakdance, Suara Dance and APT. She embeds cultural safety in all aspects of her creative practice. Katrina is represented by BMEG.

Luzita Fereday is a Perth Based Voice and Dialect coach with over 30 years of experience in theatre, television and film. A graduate of RADA (BA Acting), the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (PG Dip), and holds a Master’s degree from WAAPA. She has been a leading voice educator at WAAPA since 2010, training hundreds of actors in dialects and vocal technique.