CHRYSOULLA MARKOULLI – SOUND DESIGNER Chrysoulla Markoulli is currently a second year student at the University of New South Wales, studying a combined degree of Bachelor of Music/ Bachelor of Education. Chrysoulla majors in music composition and has a keen interest in film music. A recipient of the fanfare competition, Chrysoulla had the opportunity to work with industry professionals and have her fanfare composition, The Epiphany, played by the Australian Youth Orchestra. Chrysoulla was selected for the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) Mentorship Scholarship as an Assistant Sound Designer. She has since worked closely with Steve Francis and Katelyn Shaw on the sound design for ATYP’s Fight With All Your Might: The Zombies of Tonight production.
EMMA LOCKHART-WILSON – LIGHTING DESIGN Emma is a production graduate of the University of Wolllongong Bachelor of Creative Arts and holds a Master in Design from the College of Fine Arts (UNSW). Lighting Designs include Tribunal (PYT), Forest Unyielding (Self Help Arts), My Name is Asher Lev and Coming to See Aunt Sophie (Shalom Encounters) All Good Things, The Trolleys and A Town Named War Boy (ATYP), Make a Band and JDIND (Applespiel), Jumping the Shark Fantastic (Malcolm Whittaker), Out of Line and Late Night Shopping (Shopfront), Ragnerok and Carly and Troy Do A Doll’s House (His Three Daughters), Framed (DeQuincy Co.), Harvest, Beguiled and Unsettlings (PACT) and Seven Kilometres North-East (Version 1.0).
SORIE BANGURA – STAGE MANAGER Sorie has been with ATYP since 2002, attending many workshops in the process and eventually making the shift to assisting and teaching. As a Stage Manage, Sorie has worked on ATYP productions War Crimes (2015), Rainbow’s Ending (2011), Click (2011), and for the NSW State Public Schools Arts Unit with The Grandfathers (2012), The Miracle (2012), We Lost Elijah (2013), What Are They Like (2013), Cyberbile (2014), and DNA (2015) along with OnStage, Writers OnStage and the NSW State Drama Festival from 2012-2016, and Pronoun (2015) with Bittersweet Productions. He was Production Assistant on Spring Awakening the Musical for ATYP (2016). Sorie has also worked as an actor in several productions including The 2004 Sydney Festival and The 2006 Adelaide Fringe Festival. He has also appeared onscreen in All Saints, and the short film, Secrets of Seduction.
THE ATYP TEAM Artistic Director Fraser Corfield General Manager Amy Maiden Finance Manager Emma Murphy Development Manager Andrew Deane Marketing Manager Kar Chalmers Workshops Manager Robert Jago Education Manager Adèle Jeffreys Production Manager Lauren Makin Resident Dramaturg Jennifer Medway Education Co-ordinator Rowan Bate Finance & Operations Co-ordinator Chrissy Riley Marketing & Development Co-ordinator Elise Barton Marketing Co-ordinator & Graphic Designer Justin Stambouliah
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Steve Francis – Sound Design Mentor Katelyn Shaw – Sound Design Mentor
CONTACT The Wharf Pier 4/5 Hickson Rd Walsh Bay NSW 2000 (02) 9270 2400 hello@atyp.com.au atyp.com.au
Administration Assistant Bonnie Leigh-Dodds Geek-in-Residence Daniel Andrews Archivist Judith Seeff Writer-in-Residence 2016 Lewis Treston Board of Directors Mark Warburton (Chair) Fraser Corfield Monique Farmer Nancy Fox Fiona Hunt Nick Jaffer Janine Lapworth Sophie Lieberman John Penton Edward Simpson Simon Webb Natasa Zunic ATYP Foundation Committee Angela Bowne SC (Chair) Antoinette Albert Rob Rich Mark Warburton
09.11.16 _ 19.11.16
FIGHT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT THE ZOMBIES OF TONIGHT BY MATTHEW WHITTET
#ATYP_ZOMBIES
FROM THE DIRECTOR
MEET THE CAST
TOM WATERS – Sean
MEET THE CREW
Sushi and Coldplay! Fight With All Your Might the Zombies of Tonight transports you to a bizarre world. A world of wolf cubs, half cat half humans, meteors and of course zombies. That world and reality may be different to ours but the characters, their struggles and relationships are so familiar to our own. This play took me back to the stories that captured my imagination growing up. Films like E.T., The Goonies and Stand By Me spring to mind. A tale of a group of misfits who band together to achieve a common goal and are changed forever by the experience. Matt Whittet has beautifully crafted an incredibly joyous play but there is also a darker tone that runs throughout. We see the dangers of a pack mentality, and how easily and quickly it can influence people’s choices, silence their opinions and stifle their growth. It is hard to go against the mob, and ironically it is the support of others that often empowers us with the strength to become an individual.
ATYP sat down with the cast to ask them a few questons: What is your favourite food? Do you have a favourite song/music genre/music artist? What is a zombie? Describe this play in three words. What is this play about? Their answers could raise the dead!..
MAX MULVENNY – Narrator Gnocchi , also sausage and broccoli. More “egh” then “ee!”
ISABELLE DOBBIN – Fifi Someone who is undead and doesn’t know how to feel. When life throws you something, if you stick with the people you love and your friends, you can work it out together. You can overcome anything!
Pasta. The play is exciting, fun and scary.
It’s about the transition from being a young kid, who is creative and thinks for themselves, into a teenager when you’re a bit “zombie-like” and you follow everyone and are obsessed with strange music artists.
MATTHEW WHITTET
PEPPA GRAHAM – Ulfhildur Margarita Pizza and lemonade. Meghan Trainor. Exciting, scary, zombies. Something that walks around eating people’s brains. Adults drink too much coffee.
ALEK GIOTOPOULOS MOORE – Zombie Ensemble Frappacinos. Bruno Mars. Amazingly awesomely cool. An undead person living again.
MAXI LIPIC-MCFADYEN – Ivy A dead person. Scary, dead and green.
KIRI JENSSEN – Zombie Ensemble Chocolate strawberries. Classical music. Individuality, friendship, zombies. A possessed normal person. To be yourself.
ROSY CARDIS – Alex Taylor Swift. Hawaiian pizza. Scary, cool and weird. Someone who has followed the pack – a person without much of an identity.
JASPER REUCASSEL – Leo This dinner that my mum makes me – chicken balls – amazing! I am a fan of Delta Goodrem. Something that’s less alive and not as lively as other people.
DAPHNE MASON – Cat Girl I love apples!
In all seriousness, writing a play for these young actors has been such a joy. They are the best. I’ve had such a ball being in rehearsals and watching them be so amazingly talented, smart and excellent! And without giving anything away, I never thought I’d be able to write into a play an enormous, deadly fart as a key plot point and get away with it. And I want to thank all involved for helping make this lifelong dream come true. FWAYMTZOT. FWAYMTZOT.
RAPHAEL MEANEY – Zombie Ensemble
ZAC FULLER – Craig Sean Mendez and Stitches. It’s a dead thing that doesn’t really have a brain. Lamb cutlets with mashed potato. I think that it’s about bullying and how to handle it.
MAEVE COX – Zombie Ensemble
When I saw that the ATYP Foundation Commission was coming around again I, started thinking about what I could try and do. I wanted to try write something that would basically be great fun to do. So I thought of writing something about zombies. And even though Zombie stories are pretty well everywhere, I thought when was the last time anyone did one as a play, (probably heaps of times and I’m just really ignorant.) And then I thought, what might these Zombies want? And I was alerted by a young ATYP-er that the zombies in her year at school all drank Starbucks. (My apologies to Starbucks too. But if that’s what they drink...!). And I thought zombies might like bad music, so a fictional pop star called Dustin Fever came to mind (No resemblance to any artists living or dead... I swear.) And then I talked to heaps of kids. And I thought it would be cool to explore what it’d be like to be an outsider who managed to escape this all pervasive zombie-ism. And then I thought, how many kids can I try and get on stage at once (Sorry to our director Rob Jago. Seriously). Then I sat down and wrote it. And I thought, what’s the longest title I could come up with? That’s basically how FWAYMTZOT came about.
Beef stroganoff (Mum’s). Jazz, pop and rap. Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons. Funny, serious, sci-fi. A figure who has no control over what they’re doing, only does what it thinks is necessary and tries to spread it’s virus. Nobody is the same, be yourself. You are you.
Ribs-beef/pork. The Avalanches. Zombie starbucks being-yourself. Someone that has no control over what they’re doing. Being yourself – because everyone else is taken.
ROB JAGO
FROM THE WRITER
SYLVIE RALPH – Zombie Ensemble Pork dumplings, lemon lime and bitters. Demi Lovato – Can’t stop the feeling. Someone who doesn’t feel emotion, doesn’t react in proper ways.
TIMOTHY ANDERSON – Zombie Ensemble
ELLA MAY – Marty The greatest gift the ATYP Foundation Commission gives is ensuring that a younger demographic is not lost to the theatre world. Matt’s play gives our young audiences and actors characters that they can relate to and empathise with. We have fallen victim to the powers of a Cat Girl at some point and should always be aware that even when not in view she could be lurking in some dark alley just around the corner. Sometimes in life it is important to speak up and go against the mob by fighting with all your might the zombies of tonight!
ROBERT JAGO – DIRECTOR
ALANNAH DAVID – Zombie Ensemble Brownies – crisp on the outside and gooey on the inside. Pop – Hello by Adele, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry. Zombies, adventure, fun. Not very lifelike. About everyone is the same on the inside, be yourself and don’t judge each other’s differences.
HANNAH MAVRAKIS – Zombie Ensemble Pavlova – homemade by mum and YiaYia. Chainsmokers, say it – Flume. Adventure, selfdiscovery, frappuccino’s. Someone who has died and come back to life in a rotten, dead form. Self-discovery for all characters, and learning about friendship.
AMELIA WARBURTON – Amanda Dumplings. TLC. Zombieism is like being everyone else, clones, don’t show individual characters.
MICHAEL HAWKINS – Zombie Ensemble Spaghetti. Eminem. Someone who has just woken up and wants to hit their siblings. That friends aren’t just to make you laugh, they can help you throughout your life.
Robert is currently the Workshops Manager at ATYP and this production marks his directorial debut. Since graduating from NIDA in 2003 Robert has created specialised drama programs and courses at institutions including Actors Centre Australia, NIDA’s Open Program as well as working as a mentor and acting coach for many of the young cast on Channel 7’s Home & Away. Also an established actor in his own right, Robert’s theatre credits include, Tartuffe and Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare Compay), Stop Kiss (Unlikely Productions) Cyrano de Bergerac and Much Ado About Nothing (Sport for Jove Theatre Company), with film and TV credits including Australia, Wolverine, Rescue Special Ops, City Homicide, All Saints, Home and Away and Love Child. Robert also produced the international and AACTA award winning short film Julian.
MATTHEW WHITTET – PLAYWRIGHT Matt is a playwright and actor. He graduated from NIDA’s acting course. Matthew’s writing credits include Cinderella, Old Man (Belvoir); Girl Asleep, Fugitive, School Dance, Big Bad Wolf (Windmill Theatre), and Harbinger (Brink Productions). His one-man show Silver (B Sharp), which he wrote and performed in, won the 2010 Philip Parsons Young Playwright’s Award. For Belvoir, Matthew has performed in Cinderella, Conversation Piece, The Book of Everything, The Threepenny Opera, The Underpants, King Ubu and As You Like It. Matthew’s other acting credits include The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Metamorphosis, Endgame, Fireface (Sydney Theatre Company); Hamlet, King Lear (Bell Shakespeare); Moving Target, The Ham Funeral (Malthouse Theatre); and The Department (State Theatre Company of South Australia). He also has extensive film and TV credits as an actor; some of his film credits include The Great Gatsby, Sleeping Beauty, Australia and Moulin Rouge!. Matthew’s feature film adaptation of his most recent play for Windmill, Girl Asleep, premiered at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival and has won which has won 5 international and 3 Australian film awards. Matthew was a 2013/2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow.
GEORGIA HOPKINS – SET & COSTUME DESIGN Georgia Hopkins graduated from NIDA in 2013. Recent credits include Moonchild (ATYP), The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, 80 Minutes No Interval, The House of Ramon Iglesia, (Old Fitz Theatre), Three Sisters (Sport for Jove), You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Rent, Dogfight (Hayes Theatre), A Man with Five Children (Darlinghurst Theatre Co), The Original Grease (Squabbalogic Theatre Co), MinusOneSister, The Dapto Chaser (Griffin Theatre). Georgia is currently designing Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar for Sport for Jove.
JENA PRINCE – ASSITANT DIRECTOR Jena Prince is a Sydney-based director and teaching-artist. She is currently a director with Imagination Theatre, and a tutor with Sydney Theatre Company and the Australian Theatre for Young People. Jena regularly teaches specialty workshops for DramaWorks, the NSW State Drama Festival and a number of Sydney high schools. She has taught performing arts and directed shows for primary, secondary and TAFE students in Queensland and New South Wales since 2007.