Whiskey & Boots is a Perth-based performance company creating Headphone Verbatim Performance works that explore the challenges and contradictions of the human condition.

Through storytelling and music, Georgia King and Mark Storen gather real stories from communities and share them publicly. Their work illuminates familiar moments, common struggles and private fears, reminding audiences that we are all complex, ugly, beautiful, brave, funny, flawed and vulnerable.

While in residence at the Cannery Arts Centre, Georgia and Mark will be developing Mama Stitch.

Georgia King is an actor, theatre maker, producer and educator. She is a member of Whiskey & Boots and has performed in and produced all of the company’s shows.

Georgia co-founded Little y Theatre Company in 2010, producing and performing in works including Scent Tales, Slut, Glengarry Glen Ross, Public Space and Second Hands. Her work has received multiple nominations and awards through The Blue Room Theatre Awards, the Equity Guild Awards and the PAWA Awards.

She has been a member of Equity since 2011 and won Outstanding Performer in a Leading Role for Mama Stitch – Mandurah.

Mark Storen is a Perth-based performer, musician, writer, director and educator. He is a founding member of Whiskey & Boots and has performed in all of the company’s shows.

His directing credits include Ruben Guthrie, Teeth 2 Tail, The Man and The Moon, The Dirty Cowboy and Glengarry Glen Ross. Mark has toured work nationally and internationally, with notable works including The Polite Gentleman, A Drunken Cabaret and Cut to The Quick.

He was Creative Director of Propel Youth Arts WA from 2015 to 2017, and has worked with The Last Great Hunt, Barking Gecko Theatre, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Perth Theatre Company and Black Swan State Theatre Company. Mark recently completed a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education, specialising in Drama.

Our Artist in Residence is supported by the WA Government through the Regional Exhibition Touring Boost.