Thank you to Melissa Kayser, and all at Hardie Grant Australia and UK, for bringing this book to life.
To my brilliant editor, Meredith Rose, and my indefatigable agent, Benython Oldfield, for their persistence and passion.
To my husband and creative partner, Matt Davis without whose eye, patience and endless encouragement this book would have no spark.
To my other most important collaborator, Frankie Davis, my daughter and eternal inspiration.
To my mother, Lyn Tuttle. I wish I could share this with you.
To my grandmother, Niela Laws, reading the dictionary in the sky.
To my beloved family: John, Anna, Rodney and Andrew Tuttle. To Christine Tuttle, Luke Elliot, Anna Hedgcock and Emily Tuttle. To all the Davis family.
To my creative inner sanctum: Marisa Purcell, Mary Kelly, Jemma Birrell, Martine Murray, Anna Elliot, Leigh Whannell, Corbett Tuck, Luke Davies, Kate dan den Boogert, Ashod Simonian.
To those who shaped this book with their friendship, support and creative guidance: Libby Little, Angelica Mesiti, Mathew McWilliams, Sylvia Whitman, Krista Halverson, Michele Davis-Gray, Michael Shmith, Paddy O’Reilly, Toni Jordan, Elsa Morgan, Nick Robinson, Rachael Coopes, Lucy Wadham, France Lane, Kate and Mal Heppell, Alice Retif, Kitty Walker, Suzie Wyllie, Alice Barker, Marylou Gilbert, Luke Milne, Michael Bula.
To Nathalie Delhaye, and Rose.
To SD, for the beautiful adventure of those two years.
To Chrystel Dozias and the Centre Les Récollets in Paris, for being my mothership all these years.
To France, for giving me the mystery grant, that to this day I still don’t understand.
To the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques and my friends and teachers there. To Faye Lecoq, who supported and encouraged me always.
And to Jacques Lecoq, in spirit.