Daniela is a passionate Italian and Brazilian performer who loves travelling around the world, spreading art, love and healing. She has worked in the performing arts for 23 years; she is an experienced voice actor, dancer and professional clown.

Daniela has a Bachelor's degree in Performing Arts from Faculdade Celia Helena (Brazil) and a Diploma in Dance Teaching and Management from the Australian Dance College.

Credits in Australia include Peculiar River (The Factory Theatre Company), Hamlet (Sydney Foreign Actors Association), Philosopher’s Hospital (Short and Sweet Festival, 2020) and Into the Light (D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective, 2023). Daniela also worked as a full-time clown at Luna Park in Sydney for two years, and was one of the finalists in the Short and Sweet Festival in 2020.

In Brazil, Daniela worked and toured with some of the leading theatre companies in Sao Paulo for 20 years. She also facilitated workshops and worked as a hospital clown doctor for five years with Doutores da Alegria.

Daniela joined D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective in 2022. She is excited to reconnect with her true source and breathe fully again.

Mary Eggleston is an actor, performance artist, director, writer and producer of performing and visual arts. She’s a keen collaborator and has worked with national and international artists since 1997.  She trained in physical theatre with Zen Zen Zo and then went on to study mime and movement theatre at dieEtage in Berlin.

Mary has toured extensively with Artslink and QLD Music Festival’s Youth Touring. She was selected to be part of the 2020 PlayLab mentorship under the guidance of Maxine Mellor and she’s currently writing collaboratively on a new work for theatre with Dr Nycole Prowse. Mary is also the producer of Project 24 – a council-funded arts residency program at 2^nd Space in Nambour.

In 2023, Mary became a performing artist with D.I.V.E. for the production Into the Light.

Originally from Ireland, Megan is a performing artist and student at the University of Queensland.

She joined D.I.V.E Theatre Collective's Ensemble in 2021 due to her shared belief in the potential of art to effect change. She is convinced that there is immense value in exploring and celebrating the multitude of (sub)cultures and experiences existent within Australian society, particularly those that are provocative, marginalised or misunderstood.

Megan has performed in Pandemonium (dir. Stephanie Dimitriou) and in D.I.V.E.’s productions Caprichos (2022) and Into the Light (2023), directed by Cesar Genaro. She has trained in Biomechanics, Theatre of the Oppressed, Improvisation and the Meisner Technique, and she is eager to expand and improve her knowledge and skills.

Megan presently works as D.I.V.E.'s Education Officer, overseeing in-school workshops and the South-East Queensland school tours of D.I.V.E.'s production Into the Light.

Mira is an award-winning songwriter and artist living and working on Jinibara land.

Her work investigates loss and meaning-making through music, community performance, experimental collaborations and site-specific installations. She facilitates small group workshops and creates participatory spaces using meaningful conversation and ritual. Mira aims to create a sense of emotional intimacy in her community projects, music composition and songwriting.

Following a career in traditional Chinese medicine, group facilitation, yoga and meditation teaching, Mira completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) at Charles Darwin University. Her research interests include melancholy, archival art-making as a practice of belonging and art and music as the temple. Residencies and performances include Caboolture Hub Studio residency, Old Lock Up residency, Project 24 Residency, Anywhere Festival, Moreton Bay Food & Wine Festival, Maleny Lane, Moreton Bay Park Jam and Woodford Folk Festival. 

Mira also hosts the Sunshine Coast Songwriters Roundtable, a supportive space for songwriters to meet and hone the art of storytelling with words and music. A recent 2023 project is the performing arts show Sometime Soon, which explores eight older community members experiences of loss and attitudes to mortality through movement, spoken word and music. 

Mira joined D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective in 2023. She is excited to extend her work into unexplored realms of physical theatre storytelling.