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Nathan Stoneham is a community and cultural development artist who has been creating contemporary, socially engaged arts processes and performances with communities across Australia and the Asia Pacific region for over fifteen years. He is a member of Company Bad, and was part of Next Wave’s first Artistic Directorate from 2021 to 2023.
 
Collaborating with Australian and Korean artists, Nathan co-created Underground – a bilingual, queer music-theatre work that enjoyed seasons in Brisbane and Seoul, The Dokboki Box as part of Next Wave festival, and Nothing To See Here in collaboration with members of the blind communities in Brisbane, Seoul and Macau.
 
As an artist in residence at the LGBT Human Rights Centre in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Nathan created Love Bus – a multisite performance made in collaboration with the local queer community. He returned to Mongolia as an Australian Volunteer in 2022, working at community development NGO, Zorig Foundation, and the Arts Council of Mongolia. As an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development, Nathan worked in Tonga for a year alongside a drama troupe that promoted sexual health and human rights.
 
Nathan has extensive experience creating arts experiences for children. As an associate artist at Imaginary Theatre, he co-created a range of theatre works, installations, workshops that toured across Australia and internationally to Korea and India.  Nathan also co-facilitated The Walking Neighbourhood in Brisbane, Bagot, Chiang Mai and Seoul and Jarjums Life Museum on Minjerribah – Stradbroke Island. Both of these works saw children creating art experiences about their lives and their neighbourhoods.

From 2016 - 2020, Nathan was Brimbank City Council's Community and Creative Partnerships Officer at St Albans Community Centre and Bowery Theatre. In this role, Nathan partnered with artists, organisations and community groups to produce a community arts program, supervised a small team of community and cultural development arts workers, and managed community spaces used regularly by over 40 diverse groups.    
 
Recipient of the Australia Council for the Art's Kirk Robson Award, and the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor's Artist Fellowship, Nathan's art practice explores transcultural and queer approaches to making art and friends, and brings people together to collaborate on different ways of being together.