COMPANY AND COMEDY

With Sky O'Brien and Will Yeoman

Celebrate your successful two days with some BYO drinks and nibbles to share and enjoy the comedy that comes when words and wit are combined by enjoying the hilarious art of improv with Sky O'Brien and Will Yeoman.

MEET YOUR PRESENTERS

For nearly three decades, Will Yeoman has combined arts and travel journalism, music criticism and curatorial work with leadership roles in the writing sector. Will worked for many years at The West Australian as literary editor, arts and travel writer and West Weekend staff writer, and continues to contribute to the paper. In parallel he has built an international reputation as a music critic, writing for Gramophone, Limelight and other classical music outlets in Australia and the UK. As a festival director, Will has served as artistic director or curator for Perth Festival Writers Week, York Festival, York Regional Writers Weekend and the New Norcia Writers Festival, often foregrounding connections between literature, music and place. In 2023 he was appointed CEO of Writing WA, Western Australia’s peak body for writing and publishing, a role he held for about two years while remaining active as a freelance writer and critic. He is currently a freelance travel writer, critic, editor and events manager.

Sky O’Brien is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, United States. He is also Managing Editor of Dispatches Magazine, an arts and culture magazine based in Berkeley, California, where he writes about art, literature and politics