Simon has served as General Manager/Executive Producer and co-CEO of Polyglot since September 2007.  Since then, he has produced tours of Polyglot's work in four contintents, including major tours in Australia to the Sydney Opera House, Victorian Arts Centre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Brisbane Powerhouse and UNIMA world puppetry congress in Perth.  Simon was Executive Producer of The Big Game which premiered at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2008 and subsequently toured to the Singapore Arts Festival in 2009.  Also in 2009, Simon produced tours of Check Out! to the Shanghai International Children's Festival in China, and We Built This City to the prestigious Kennedy Centre in Washington DC.  In 2008, Simon was awarded a Margaret Lawrence Bequest Scholarship to attend the Senior Managers' Program at the Melbourne Business School.

Prior to joining Polyglot, Simon held the positions of Marketing and Development Manager at Gasworks Arts Park and Executive Officer of the Gasworks Foundation. He also spent two years coordinating the Taste for Living Festival and the Art of Difference program amongst a series of festivals and events at Gasworks. Previously, Simon worked at the Melbourne University Student Union at Union House Theatre, and was Festival Producer of Mudfest, Australia's leading student arts and cultural festival.

Simon is also a performer and has performed in Mysteries of the Convent and The Peepshow of Lost Puppets for Peepshow Inc, Emergency Exits at the New York International Fringe Festival, A Superhero Story at the Fun4Kids Festival and Lally Katz's Pirate Eyes.  Simon has even performed in Polyglot's own We Built This City. 

Simon served on the board of Peepshow Inc (2005 to 2009), and is currently a founding member of the committee of management for Theatre Network Victoria, a peak body organisation established to  develop the theatre sector to build its capacity and sustainability.  Simon holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Diploma of Arts (Cultural Studies) from Melbourne University, and a Diploma of Creative Arts (Theatre Studies) from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Mandy has worked with all arms and legs of the performing arts process: as a performer, in direction and in arts management, with a focus on physical theatre and outcomes in community and cultural development. She has trained in Body Weather, Dance Theatre, Clown, Mime and Puppetry, and has facilitated Community Projects for The Village, The Big West Festival, Yalikut Willam Ngargee, The Friendship Djerrip Festival and Woodford Folk Festival.

Between 2001 and 2004 Mandy travelled to Japan to study with Min Tanaka, and Yoshito and Kazuo Ohno, performed with Mbody UnLtd, Well Theatre, Tony Kishawi’s Transient Theatre Company and The Angry Mime. She was also co-creator of Children’s Theatre Duet ‘Puppet on a Harp String’ which was a well known feature of the Woodford Folk Festival 2001 – 2005. Between 2005 and 2007 Mandy created the Silent Landscape Series, facilitating projects that created partnerships between indigenous and non-indigenous people, exploring the idea of ‘Home’. After completing a Graduate Diploma in Animateuring at the VCA (Cross Modal Performance Making), Mandy studied with French Puppeteer Philippe Genty. She spent 2007 as the Creative Operations Manager for FEET Theatre, while researching her Masters in Community Animateuring.

Belinda joined the team at Polyglot as Venue/Production Manager in 2008. As a stage manager, she has worked with companies such as the Victorian Opera, OzOpera and international theatre makers Philippe Genty (France) and Petr Matasek (Czech Republic).

While completing a Bachelor of Production at the Victorian College of the Arts, Belinda was a member of a delegate design team who travelled to Prague in 2007 to collaborate with students from Czech Republic and USA to create performance and visual art pieces which were presented during the Prague Quadrennial, an international theatre design festival.

In addition to her work as a stage/production manager, Belinda is a resident lighting operator for Impro Melbourme, improvising the lighting for Theatresports performances. She has also worked as a puppet & props maker, design assistant and coffee maker.

Shalini is the latest addition to the Polyglot family. Since graduating from WAAPA with an arts management degree in 2007, she has worked as Associate Producer at The Blue Room in Perth before moving to Melbourne in May 2009. Shalini was Senior Administrator at The Necessary Stage in Singapore from 2000 to 2004, working on various aspects of main season and festival productions.

Shalini's range of skills include planning schedules, managing budgets and front-of-house, handling box office, managing database and website projects, coordinating marketing activities as well as being a nice person. She is also a trained graphic designer who brings her creative skills to Polyglot.