The Rogues

Robbi James

EXECUTIVE CREATIVE PRODUCER

Robbi has been a producer with The Rogues since 2017 when he joined the company to take Gina Schien’s Morgan Stern to the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Brisbane’s Undercover Artist Festival. He has since gone on to help produce all of the Rogues’ projects including the Bedlam Cabaret series, Sophia Simmon’s Gravity Guts, (Sydney Fringe, Fringe HQ), Sam O’Sullivan’s You’re Not Special (KXT), Ally Morgan’s Not Today, and Kasia Vickery’s Taz vs The Pleb (Flight Path). His is currently producing the autobiographical story Hillsong Boy by Scott Parker and Felicity Nicol, on stage in Sydney in September 2024.

He completed his Masters in Arts Management at the Sydney Opera House in 2018 with the Australian Institute of Music. Until recently Robbi was the CEO and Artistic Director of Critical Stages Touring, Australia’s only national touring theatre company dedicated to bringing outstanding independent theatrical experiences to audiences everywhere.

He is currently the producer of Salon for Arts on Tour, the primary arts market and conference for live theatre in NSW and ACT, and the Head of Marketing and Engagement for Creative Plus Business.

Erica Lovell

EXECUTIVE CREATIVE PRODUCER

Erica studied English Literature, Media & Communications, and Theatre & Performance Studies at UNSW, where she graduated with Distinction. She holds a Master of Secondary Education, which she puts to good use supporting young people in the public education system to develop the skills they need to tell their stories and change the world. She is the Lead Teaching Artist at Poetry In Action, where she directs annually (Elements of Rhyme, 2020, Unlocking The Poetry Code, 2021, The Poet’s Quest, 2022, and International Anthem, 2023) musically directs education program productions, coaches singing, and co-wrote with Lizzie Schebesta the company’s first work featuring writing exclusively by women Herstory 101, currently touring schools nationally.

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), and 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 as become one of the company’s leaders, including directing the company’s award-winning Sydney Fringe work Gravity Guts, and the remount of Boy Out of the Country at the Bondi Pavilion. Erica also driected the world premiere production of Wil and Grace by Madeleine Withington at FringeHQ Newtown (Old 505 Theatre) in 2021, which garnered a Sydney Theatre Award nomination that year.

Talia Meyerowitz-Katz

CREATIVE PRODUCER

Talia is a creative producer with a particular interest in the role producers can play in empowering artists and developing audiences. She has a Bachelors of Media and Communications from Sydney University and a Masters in Creative Producing from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Talia is has been a producing partner with Rogue Projects since 2018, working to produce award-winning theatrical experiences in Sydney and Melbourne.

Her producing credits with ‘The Rogues’ include Pear-Shaped at Theatre Works and Monkey Baa (2023), Blacklisted at Hayes Theatre Co (2022), Wil and Grace at 505 (2021), You’re Not Special at Kings Cross Theatre/Australian Theatre Live (2021), Rogues on the Rocks (2021), Gravity (development, 2020-2022), and Gravity Guts at Sydney Fringe (2019). She has also been heavily involved with launching Rogue PR, Rogue Projects’ PR arm.

Talia recently went to Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023 as part of the programming and producing team at House of Oz, the Australian Showcase venue.

When not producing theatre, Talia works as a producer and editor at a medical magazine group and performs her doubles lyra act Two Buff Ladies.