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Meet the Team

Creatif Kate

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Co-Director, Workshop Facilitator

The GOAT. Multi-award winning, multi-talented, multi-chronic illness having, creative force behind DAT Fest, Femmes & Thems Comedy, and more. Full-time artist since 2018: producer, performer, poet. Disabled, queer, furious feminist with an intersectional lens. Driven, determined, decisive.

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Susan Williams

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Co-Director, Workshop Facilitator

Ace Access Advisor & workshop leader. Legendary legacy in the arts sector. Swiss army knife in vaguely human form: activist, actor, anything at all (can't say no). 

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Jamie Fenton

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Festival

Co-ordinator

Jamie is an actor and occasional stand-up comic raised and based in Taranaki. Jamie works as a data analyst and has studied with The Hub Studio (Sydney) and Stage Centre (Taranaki) and has acted in various stage shows in Wellington including Summer Star Trek (2013-2018), Binge and Chill (2019), and Don’t Date Androids (2018). Jamie works as a Data Analyst and has a Master’s in Business Analytics (Marketing) from Massey University.

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Liv Ward

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Designer

Liv is a trans-non-binary comic and designer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. They love accessible design and making art a sustainable career in Aotearoa. They graduated from Te Herenga Waka Architecture School in 2022 and are passionate about housing equity and land back! Free Palestine bitches!

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Charlie Hann

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Website Designer

Charlie Hann has some experience in website design and web accessibility. They have also done theatre production for the Victoria Ancient Theatre Society, Illegally Blind and Women Drinking Hemlock. 

Charlie has also been involved in multiple productions with amateur theatre group Drama Christi as an actor and scriptwriter. He is trying to publish his first novel about queer pirates and working on his second novel about queer spaceships.  

They are proudly Autistic, ADHD, mentally ill, and queer. 

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Lauren Hayes

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Accessibility Co-ordinator, Blind Consultant

Lauren is a creative and passionate Digital and Arts Accessibility Consultant. Originally from Melbourne, she now calls Aotearoa home. Lauren has over 8 years’ experience in collaborating with organisations to review and provide guidance on best practice regarding accessible and inclusive design of products and services. As a freelancer, Lauren has significant experience in providing technical and advisory support to not-for-profit, disability, arts and community organisations, including Arts Access Victoria, Melbourne Fringe, Canva, Arts Access Aotearoa, the Show me Shorts Film Festival, and the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts. When she’s not auditing websites or helping artists to make their work accessible, you’ll find Lauren checking out live concerts and theatre, learning Welsh, or exploring local cafes.

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Lyneen

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Deaf Consultant, NZSL Co-ordinator

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Keegan

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Marketing

Co-ordinator

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Wesley

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Assistant to Creatif Kate

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Bethany Miller

Role in DAT Fest: Assistant to Susan Williams

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Katie Wild

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Volunteer

Co-ordinator 

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EJ Barrett

Role in DAT Fest 2024: Finance and Wellbeing Co-ordinator

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