Alysha Herrmann

Novel November

Henry Boles is a multi-disciplinary artist from Port Augusta, South Australia whose Alysha Herrmann is an independent creative producer, writer, performance-maker and community organiser, and is the co-founder and Chief Storyteller at Part of Things. She makes performances, installations, experiences, presentations, poetry, digital exchanges and small moments of connection in public places. Alysha’s work is grounded in community arts and cultural development practice and she is dedicated to nurturing opportunities for regional communities and emerging artists to connect, create and experiment. Alysha writes and creates experiences about vulnerability, community, hope, grief, forgiveness and belonging. She’s a long-time fantasy nerd and would love to write for videogames in the future. Her recent work includes The Riverland of Rax for Critical Stages and Paines Plough’s Come to Where I Am Australia, and DEV for State Theatre Company and ActNow Theatre’s Decameron 2.0. Her written work has been published by Currency Press, Griffith Review, Rochford Street Press, The Dirty Thirty, ABC Open and others.

Alysha Herrmann is working with Riverland Youth Theatre on the Local Giants commissioned work War of the Worlds.