The Rogues

Robbi James

EXECUTIVE CREATIVE PRODUCER

Robbi has been The Rogues’ producer since 2017 when he joined the company to take Gina Schien’s Morgan Stern to the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival. From a decade of professional performance in his youth to formal study his passion for creative production and audience engagement has fueled a career spanning media, business development, marketing & project management.

Robbi is a graduate of Western Sydney University and completed his Masters in Arts Management at the Sydney Opera House with the Australian Institute of Music. His final thesis critically investigated the measurement, systems of support for, and impact of, diversity strategies in Sydney theatre companies.

He is also currently the Marketing and Engagement Manager for Critical Stages Touring, Australia’s national touring theatre company.

Erica Lovell

EXECUTIVE CREATIVE PRODUCER

Erica studied English Literature, Media & Communications, and Theatre & Performance Studies at UNSW, where she graduated with Distinction. At UNSW, Erica performed in Clare Grant’s Everyone Was There & Carla Cooked, and wrote her first piece for theatre, Ophelia Likes Her Tea Black. She won the 2010 Act Now Play Now creative youth competition in the microfiction section for her piece Lucky Will. She trained in devising for theatre through the imPACT Youth Ensemble.

As an actor, Erica’s career highlights include playing Amy March in Little Women (Kookaburra National Musical Theatre Company), Fredrieka Armfield in A Little Night Music (Opera Australia) Martha in Spring Awakening (Sydney Theatre Company), Deb in Ordinary Days (Squabbalogic/Darlinghurst Theatre company), Bitch in Great Falls, Zelda in Happiness, Gail in A Conversation (Ensemble Theatre Company), Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice (Sport for Jove).

in 2018 Erica joined The Rogues to direct Boy Out of the Country by Felix Nobis, which premiered at the inaugural Pioneer Play Festival. Since then Erica became one of the company’s leaders, including directing the company’s Sydney Fringe work Gravity Guts, and the remount of Boy Out of the Country at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre. Erica is currently directing the premiere production of Wil and Grace by Madeleine Withington at FringeHQ Newtown (Old 505).

Talia Meyerowitz-Katz

CREATIVE PRODUCER

Talia is a producer who defines her practice as form-breaking and artist-led. She is extremely passionate about accessibility and diversity in the arts, audience development, and the producer’s role in empowering artists to make risky, innovative work; particularly in the realm of immersive theatre. Talia has a Bachelors of Media and Communications from Sydney University and completed her Masters in Creative Producing at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She wrote her final thesis on the role participatory theatre has in empowering audiences through collaborative storytelling. As well as completing her Masters in London, Talia also worked on the West End at Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, at arts education charity Shakespeare Schools Foundation, and on developing new British musicals with Mercury Musical Developments/Musical Theatre Network.

Apart from taking on the role of Associate Producer for Rogue Projects in 2019, Talia's other producing credits include The Ugly Show (2019), Social Media Suicide in London and Edinburgh Fringe (2018), Art Heist for Jetpack Theatre Collective (2017), Musical of Thrones at Adelaide Fringe (2017) and at Sydney Fringe (2016), How. Dare. for Jetpack Theatre Collective (2016), Small Trumpet Comedy at Sydney University, and Science Revues at Sydney University.  She is also currently working in print media, producing online events, podcasts, and other digital content for a magazine.