Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers is a musical director, composer, sound designer, remixer, DJ and performer. Of Xhosa heritage and living on Yuggera country, she has been making fearless art to activate, pollinate and liberate for over 25 years. Her music is featured in cult Australian films Fresh Air, Eleven, Love and Other Catastrophes and The Well, and she has composed for films including Amar (directed by Fatima Mawas) and Love Bites (directed by Jermaine D’Vauz). Composition and sound design for theatre credits include Samson (Belvoir Street Theatre NSW), Straight White Men (State Theatre Company of South Australia), The Longest Minute (Debase and Queensland Theatre), Prize Fighter (La Boite Theatre Company QLD). Musical direction credits include East London West Sydney directed by Breakin’ Convention’s Jonzi D, Polytoxic Dance Theatre Company’s The Rat Trap, and she is the resident MD for the internationally renowned Briefs. This beat-making mama is the MD, composer and sound artist of the international smash-hit Hot Brown Honey, which saw her win the 2016 UK Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with Form, two Green Room Awards and the 2017 Helpmann for Best Cabaret Performer.