ABOUT US
CRAM is a South Australian independent theatre collective.
By cramming the most passionate and daring creatives into a room,
we make work that changes the audience experience and redefines the Adelaide art scene.
Connor Reidy is a South Australian director, producer and co-founder of The CRAM Collective. He graduated with first class Honours in Directing at the Flinders University Drama Centre. His directing credits include pool (no water), BC, Control, Iphigenia in Orem, The Seagull, and Lungs (Flinders DC).
His credits for CRAM include NEW WORLD COMING, Something Big, EDGE and THE FUTURE IS YOU. In 2024, he directed the sold-out production of Fag/Stag and it’s successful return season.
Connor’s recently assistant directed the Sydney Theatre Company production of Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation. His other most recent assistant directing credits include Lines and The Bleeding Tree (Theatre Republic), Oleanna (Flying Penguin Productions), Prima Facie, The Normal Heart and Hibernation (STCSA). Connor recently directed Emily Steel’s The Worst (Theatre Republic) and Proud (Famous Last Words).
CONNOR REIDY
Ren Williams is an Australian screen & stage actor, writer, director & co-founder of The CRAM Collective; having graduated with Honours at the Flinders Drama Centre.
With a screen-acting diploma from Actors Studio UK at Pinewood Studios, Ren has appeared in a number of short films such as ‘The Hitcher’ [2024 AFF], ’With Love, Lottie’ [2025 SFF, Raindance & St Kilda], ABC’s Beep & Mort Season 2 and the Bugeja Studios latest short ‘Mind Awake Body Asleep’. Ren’s theatre credits include 'Kill Climate Deniers’ [STCSA StateSide], Bluey in the North American Tour of Bluey’s Big Play, the one-woman show ‘Guthrak’ [DreamBIG], ‘Hits’ [Adelaide Festival Centre], and Slingby’s trilogy ‘A Concise Compendium of Wonder’ [2026 Adelaide Festival]. Ren’s latest directorial short ‘This is Fine.’ won Best Directing and Best Film at the 2024 Adelaide 48HFP, sending it to the Filmapalooza Seattle wining 3rd Best Film and the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner.
REN WILLIAMS
Melissa Pullinger is an Australian/English stage and screen actor, writer, puppeteer & co-founder of The CRAM Collective, having graduated with Honours at Flinders University’s Drama Centre.
Growing up in England, Melissa appeared in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of ‘The Sound of Music’ at the London Palladium, where she played Brigitta Von Trapp for six months. Upon emigrating to Adelaide, Melissa performed in Border Project’s ‘Disappearance’ and then Windmill Theatre and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Granpa’.
With a particular interest in devising and physical theatre, Melissa trained at Frantic Assembly’s International Summer School.
Across 2023 and 2024, Melissa joined the North America & Canada tour of ‘Bluey’s Big Play’ puppeteering both Bluey and Bingo. She then joined the UK & Northern Ireland tour, puppeteering Bingo. Melissa also toured across New Zealand with ‘Bluey’s Big Play’’ in 2025, puppeteering Bluey.
Melissa's original, one-woman auto-biographical show, ‘Meteors’, will premiere at the 2026 Adelaide Fringe.