SWAY Productions: Company Biography

About Us:
SWAY Productions is a dynamic and innovative, Victorian-based arts company that reimagines public spaces through breathtaking performances and installations. Collaborating with a diverse team of multi-disciplinary performers, makers, and production specialists, we create large-scale, repertoire performances site-specific installations that fuse theatre, dance, and circus. Utilising custom-designed, sway-pole apparatus and bespoke equipment, our performances are spectacular, intimate, and accessible to audiences of all ages and cultural backgrounds.

Leadership Team
SWAY is led by Phillip Gleeson and Emily Ryan, both formerly of Strange Fruit, where Phillip served as Creative Director and Emily as Associate Director. With nearly 30 years of combined expertise in creative direction, technical design, and performance safety, they have shaped SWAY into a globally recognized force. Under their leadership, the team has delivered performances at over 400 international festivals across more than 40 countries, at one point representing Australia’s largest arts export.