
PRESENT MISCHIEF
PIGEON FOOL
@ HORIZON FESTIVAL
A theatrical Turing Test meets Game Show to prove your humanness amidst the AI Revolution, returning to Horizon Festival in 2025. Are you up for the challenge?
THE AWE EXPERIMENT
@ WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL
Science-adjacent, determinedly explorative and restlessly curious, this is an experiment on artistic terms. Join us in our collective quest to feel something.
Counterpilot is an award-winning collective of interdisciplinary artists based in Meanjin/Magandjin (Brisbane, Australia).
Together, we create interactive performance works - activating audiences with new technology, rich design, and transmedia storytelling. Counterpilot seeks to transform the familiar, juxtaposing rich fictional worlds against a backdrop of the everyday.
By subverting real social circumstances, we co-opt our participants as authentic performers. In this way we are harnessing what we believe to be the most exciting thing about theatre - the live audience.
We seek to provoke refreshed perceptions through acts of trouble, mischief and low-key chaos. We play in the space between people, and we poke at the tensions that bind us.
Counterpilot is directed by Nathan Sibthorpe, with core creatives Christine Felmingham & Mike Willmett, and creative producer Elizabeth Hunt.

”AN ENIGMATIC LIVE ART CONSPIRACY WHICH ALL THE COOL KIDS WILL WANT TO JOIN...
NO ONE ELSE IS MAKING WORK QUITE LIKE THIS.”
- THE AGE

Mischief RECALLED…
SCAREDY HOUSE
A reverse haunted house for young people to confront the darkness within. A bold new work for audiences aged 7-10, and their families. You’ve never heard a ghost story quite like this one…
truthmachine
A working polygraph test for a room full of strangers to explore truth in a post-truth world. Our multi-award winning theatrical social experiment has been touring since 2019.
