Alice Beaver Clapham grew up in Tennessee, USA. She received her BA in Theatre Arts at Rollins College, Florida, and her MFA in Theatre for Young Audiences at Arizona State University, Arizona. She studied acting at RADA, in London, and at the Stella Adler Studio, in NYC. 

Alice has worked professionally as a performer, playwright, director, and arts educator for the past 20 years in the USA (Childsplay), Honduras (Teatro La Fragua), Hong Kong (Faust, HKYAF, AFTEC) and Singapore (Faust). 

She has worked on several community-based theatre projects ranging in communities such as foster kids to social workers to entire towns.  She has worked and studied with renowned community-based theatres, such as Cornerstone Theater in Los Angeles and Sojourn Theatre in Portland, Oregon. 

Alice is also an accomplished voice actor working for companies such as Disney, Cartoon Network, Animax, and V-Tech. After recently relocating to Australia, Alice joined D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective in 2022 as an ensemble member on the Sunshine Coast.

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) and the comedy Philosopher’s Hospital, for which she was one of the finalists in the Short and Sweet Festival in 2020. She also worked as a full-time clown at Luna Park in Sydney for two years.

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.

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, directed by Ms Stephanie Dimitriou, and Caprichos, 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.

Mia Hollingworth (b. Melbourne 1975) is an Australian Educator and Performance Artist based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Hollingworth has been creating, producing and performing in intimate shows in the family home since the age of four.

A dance graduate of the Victorian College of Arts in 1996, her career as a contemporary dancer for live and film work has seen her collaborate and tour with some of Melbourne’s leading experiential contemporary companies and choreographers from 1997 to 2007.

During a lengthy hiatus from practice and performance, Hollingworth became a mother and returned to studies, completing a Bachelor of Education.

Since moving to the Sunshine Coast, Hollingworth has slowly returned to her practice and has since been a grant recipient to create in Place2Play, a Sunshine Coast Council initiative, 2020; Creative Spaces Artist in Residence recipient, 2021. She collaborated with LJ Projects for the premier of Poetical Inhabitants as part of Horizon Festival, Sunshine Coast 2020/2021, and Caprichos with D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective in 2022.

Hollingworth co-facilitated a Community Development Art Project - The Creative Catalogue, supported by RADF and launched in 2022.

She is now primarily interested in exploring performance opportunities that enable a more authentic mode of expression and connection to the public.

Paula is a Brazilian-born author and performer based on the Sunshine Coast since 2014.

The past decade has seen Paula engaged in multi-artistic creative projects. She has developed Body Poetics, a series of visual arts representations of the human body in the natural environment, as part of her Master's degree in Contemporary Arts.

Paula has written and published the academic articles: Bare Life and postpartum in performing arts, Primal scream, Body Poetics; and Gaia’s daughters, published by Cambridge Scholars. She also performed Bare Life and postpartum in performing arts at the L.O.T.E exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil. 

In 2016, Paula started touring schools and libraries in QLD and NSW, performing a play based on her children’s books: Tresses, the story of a girl with wild and curious hair, and Nina’s Wish, the tale of a girl who lives near the sea and wants to be a mermaid.

Her passion for the ocean and surfing has led Paula to write and produce the short documentary The Surfing Mum’s Journey, about local Sunshine Coast mums who swap weekly childminding for surfing. The movie was screened at the Sunshine Coast Surf Film Festival in 2019.

Paula has also studied active theatre, stand-up comedy, clown, singing, and contemporary dance and is now experimenting with new characters and content on social media platforms.

She is feeling privileged to be part of D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective in 2022.