If anyone pulls me up on grammar or full stop, honestly fair. I didn’t proof read it like a grant application 💋
Edit: in a fury of rage I forgot to add one important thing. It also feels like such a money making scheme. Surgeries cost 5K upwards, if you need a bladder resection it can be 10k+ and then 15k+ if endo is found in your chest and elsewhere and let me tell you I will be needing that. It grows, everywhere. Private health insurance makes you wait 12 months and nobody will see you privately once off without taking you off the public system. It’s all to keep you in this cycle unless you’re in the top tax brackets x
CRYING IN THE CLUB 😭 literally so in love and had to post this on reels because I am just so thankful for this gift 🪩🩷✨
#milliesavage #jewellery #australia #fashion
Can not believe we had a sold out and extended season for BUSH CHOOK at The Blue Room Theatre 🐓💙
What a small but mighty play. Thank you to everyone who came and saw this. To my best friend and parents who flew across the country to support me. As my first proper play, this was so exciting to me! I could not believe my face was plastered around the city on what felt like NYC billboards. A small part of me has been healed because look mum I’ve made it!!! But seriously ArtRage’s funding helped make all those dreams come true not just outside but in the rehearsal room.
We have a small but really, really mighty team. Those multidisciplinary divas, the ones who could do any thing if you asked them! Friendship through collaboration right? Well, let me tell you I love making with my best friends because they really do make this world a whole bit more hopeful ⭐️
Writer/Director (aka the one who always made sure we ate a sweet treat before and lived with me for a short while, which actually helped keep me sane!) - @oatbabie
Angus and Sound Design (the one who kept me calm in the dressing room before show time and reminded me I do know my lines) - @matthewj.yo
Stage Manager (the one who brought us choccies and really held the fort down! Ty for your endless supply of love) - @tazzipper
Photographer (the one who made us look good and really makes the best jokes) - @franklinphotography_
And a big shoutout to our mentors who helped shaped this work in unimaginable ways.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I can’t wait to put this show on in Melbourne and maybe some other things that may be coming xx
P.S. I’m actually yet to try an Emu Export 🍻
Being engrossed in other projects has been fabulously enriching but my heart keeps finding its way back to this work.
Here are some excerpts, some edits, some verbatim.
The world’s a scary place. I know I’m not the only one to think it. Maybe I shouldn’t post that cause it could get me in trouble right? Maybe I’m naive to think this is the first time in history we as human kind have experienced being scared, removal of freedom. My ancestors had it worse right? But it doesn’t stop me from feeling. It doesn’t stop me about thinking where my family came from and seeing what’s happening to others, like what happened to them. If anything it just makes my heart hurt to know that it’s my phone capturing it all and not doing anything to stop it.
I always forget I’m political. That I have opinions. I think it’s the doom scroll of the internet that tells me that. Or a fear in me that it makes me unemployable even though I work in the arts. Isn’t that the one place I should be filled with rage and want for change?
But again everyone is already saying it so why should I - but then I remember that I made this work or rather am making it. That there is hope and that art is love, it’s pain, it’s a form of freedom. I’m so lucky to have that as my skill. Whether I think it’s a curse or not.
So, here is some excerpts from my work, I think I will change the title. I hope one day it can be shared in length but now it’s this tile on the internet with a long caption hoping that maybe we can change the one thing we are all becoming into.
ive always wanted to learn to surf but i didnt live near the beach. so when i moved to WA i tried for three years but every time i got out or tried i felt intimidated. like the whole world was watching me as i wiped out and proved that i was the worst kook on there. but over the last two months i booked those lessons, with thanks to a friend x we got smashed by the waves, wiped out and ultimately became the funnest kooks.
over the last month i started to venture out alone in the big surf. some wipeouts leaving to bruises and others to revolutionary clicks on the brain. i forgot how much i missed the feeling of learning something new and the serotonin it gave me.
so if you ever needed a sign this is it. go learn that thing, go book a lesson, go be a kook. cause in the end you will eventually find a little community that cheers you on in that surf. and even if it took me 3 years, im glad i finally did it 🏄♀️
#surf #surfing
It's not often we post our faces on here, but hey you gotta celebrate the wins! It's been a big year for us, so we thought we'd have a bit of a yarn to cap off 2025 🙌
Here's a snippet of what kept us busy...
Kicked off the year with the debut of Live Takes 🎸🎥
Filming, editing & programming work with local festivals @bloomfest.com.au@sidequest.music@wam_musicwa 🎥 💻
Music releases & a film drop with @itsjaderich ✨
Booked a heap of shows & signed pop rock princess @rosaliechilvers for mgmt 💞
Booked a national tour for @mikedaymusic ✈️
Our video team shot amazing live acts like @spacey_jane@drapht@halfaliveco@standatlantic@dolce_blue_ and @odlawband
Dove deep into artist mentorship (shout out @karrakmusic )🙏
And we secured government funding to do Live Takes all over again in 2026 with the addition of Pro Takes 🎉
We love what we do. We've loved seeing so many new and familiar faces this year. Thank you to everyone who supports us and to the people who work with us.
Happy New Year, here's to a big 2026 for the WA music industry and beyond!
graduating feels like reflecting on a dead version of myself. a version that no longer exists in the walls of this universe. it’s a version that little me would look up and be like wow, is this what life looks like?
as the typical western syd narrative goes, it was pure delusion that allowed me to believe I could somehow ‘make it’ and uproot my life in 3 weeks to what feels like a whole new country in the pursuit of ‘success’. in pursuit of… well not being the girl from western syd.
most 40 hours weeks I spent suffocating myself in scripts, readings, friends and work trying keep afloat. trying to learn every new thing because i was about to make the most of this hecs debt.
you never really know if something is worth it until the end.
now, do i think it was worth it? im yet to come to that conclusion. but what i do know is that somewhere along the way I felt like I got to start life over and learn how to live it to its fullest again and that, that in itself feels like life’s greatest lesson. so if it wasn’t for that delusional western syd girl, maybe id be on a different path. maybe i would’ve dropped out when i realised institutions don’t make sense because how do u mark acting. but just maybe, just maybe that girl will make it. and to me that’s the greatest story that one day ill mourn this and look at all these dead versions and go wow.
