Stephen Quinn works within the form of contemporary hybrid performance. His primary training is in contemporary performance, traditional theatre, physical theatre and visual art. Over the past five years, hr has been involved in theatre in many different roles: performer, designer, director, writer and producer.

Stephen will be presenting a development work for Brisbane Emerging Art Festival called ‘Yellow’. Yellow, draws on Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1982), to pursue the question, What causes us to break? Yellow exists in a space of flux; its world is in constant transformation. It flows between mind and body, dream and reality, sanity and insanity. This world forces us, the audience, to sit in the discordant relationship between mind and body and deal with the historical treatment of the mentally insane and the continued lack of knowledge in contemporary sciences understanding of psychological disorders.

Yellow promises a contemporary theatre experience beyond linear narrative psychology with a visual and kinetic through line that is tailored for a modern audience.