Helen Varley Jamieson is a writer, theatre practitioner and digital artist; she has worked in digital media and the internet since 1996. She is the project manager of UpStage, a web-based platform for cyberformance (live online performance) and is a founding member of the globally dispersed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision. Helen holds a Master of Arts (Research) in cyberformance from Queensland University of Technology and currently resides in Munich, Germany.