Converted Digital Program

Photos by Daniel Boud

ATYP would like to acknowledge that we are a company based on the traditional lands and waters of the Gadigal people, delivering programs in the lands of our First Nations people across this country, rich with history of storytelling.

We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The Australian Theatre for Young People presents

Book and Lyrics by Vic Zerbst Additional lyrics by Oliver John Cameron Music by Vic Zerbst and Oliver John Cameron Supported by Sydney Festival Season 3 - 25 January, 2025 The Rebel Theatre Eora Country Pier 2/3 Suite 2/13A Hickson Road Dawes Point NSW Duration 150 minutes (including 20 minute interval) Age recommendation 14+ Warnings Converted! uses laughter to diffuse the very real and harmful prejudices that impact queer and gender-diverse people around the world.

Performance contains mild coarse language, flashing lights, loud music and theatrical haze.

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Writer’s note I can’t even begin to tell you how much writing this show has meant to me. But I will try, because I have to.

Five years ago, I knew I wanted to write a comedy musical about conversion therapy. I knew the camp would serve as a satirical stand-in for the absurd social structures and ideologies that try to define, restrict, and control young people’s identities. I knew the high-camp aesthetic of disco music, musical theatre and farce would help package this story of self-liberation and selflove to a young LGBTQIA+ audience.

What I didn’t know was how much this show would change me as a person, and how much of the creative process would involve confronting my inner critic. I didn’t know how many social expectations I had internalised as a queer person, a gender-diverse person, and a neurodiverse person living in a world that doesn’t often celebrate my differences or my vulnerabilities. I didn’t know how many redrafts it would take, how many lessons I’d learn, how many tears I’d shed to get this show (and parts of myself) ready to be seen by others.

But now I know that personal process has been in service of a much larger goal: allowing other people to see themselves. Converted! is a reminder to everyone young and old the importance of being and embracing their authentic selves. It is a joyous call to action to affirm and celebrate the lives of trans, non-binary and gender diverse young people who just want to experience their lives without judgement and find connection in community. It is also for anyone who has ever felt the weight of societal expectations—and for those who know that falling in love, whether with others or yourself, can be one of life’s greatest acts of rebellion.

I am so deeply grateful to the incredible people who’ve helped bring this show to life. Jane Fitzgerald, dramaturg extraordinaire, has been a guiding force for many years, helping refine the heart of the show and ensuring its message remains clear. I would not be the writer or person I am today without her.

My co-composer, Oliver John Cameron, has been the perfect collaborator, infusing the score with energy and heart and blending humor and emotion with a bit of disco flair, along with our wonderful music producer, Liam Scarratt.

The director of my dreams, Hayden Tonazzi, has brought the story to life with vision and care, ensuring the humor always supports the show’s emotional core. Together with an amazing team of performers and creatives, they have brought this show to life.

And of course, my deepest thanks to Rebel Wilson, Fraser Corfield, and the entire team at ATYP for their unwavering commitment to supporting new voices and new works, giving this project the space to grow.

I hope you all enjoy Converted!

CONVERTED!

FURTHER CONTEXT FOR CONVERTED! Over the course of writing this show, conversion therapy has been outlawed in four states across Australia. This is a significant victory, one that provides hope for the countless individuals who have suffered under its damaging influence. But while legal progress has been made, the emotional and psychological scars left by conversion therapy persist. More importantly, the rise in anti-trans rhetoric and the ongoing debates surrounding LGBTQIA+ rights, particularly around young people’s identities, have intensified in a way that I find both heartbreaking and alarming.

As I witnessed this cultural shift unfold, it became clear that the battle for LGBTQIA+ rights was no longer only about access to healthcare or legal recognition. It was becoming a weaponized part of a culture war. Young people—especially trans youth—are increasingly being used as pawns in a political game, with their identities and their futures subject to attack, vilification, and outright denial. The very real danger here is that, in the fight to push back against the progress that’s been made, there is a deliberate attempt to erase the identities of young LGBTQIA+ individuals, to strip them of their agency and their right to self-determination.

This push is more than just rhetoric; it is actively harming the most vulnerable among us.

The musical is a meditation on how our society treats difference—how it fears it, tries to eliminate it, and tries to reshape it into something “acceptable.” It is a love letter to those who have survived such systems and a warning to the world that such harm cannot be ignored or minimized.

In the end, this work is about hope and survival. It is a reminder that no one—no matter how young, no matter how trans or queer—deserves to have their identity questioned, invalidated, or forcibly changed. As our culture continues to wrestle with these issues, my hope is that this musical can add to the conversation, shed light on the harm of conversion therapy, and reaffirm that love—unconditional, unfettered love—is the only force strong enough to heal the wounds of hate.

— VIC ZERBST

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Dramaturg’s note Back at the beginning of 2020, when ATYP first saw the pitch for Converted! by a young writer named Vic Zerbst, we knew it was something special. The work Vic was proposing had energy and passion, a seriousness of purpose but with a tone of joy. It was exploring issues of real importance to young people, especially from the LGBTQI+ community. It felt needed. It had a spark.

Emerging writers are at the heart of ATYP’s work, and we’re deeply committed to championing young voices so that their stories and perspectives have the impact they should. We’re ridiculously proud to have supported Vic’s development as a writer since 2019, when we selected them for our National Studio program at Bundanon. In 2020 they were chosen as one of our four emerging writers in our beloved Fresh Ink program - and that same year they won the Rebel Wilson Comedy Commission for Converted!. They were already established at that point as a writer of sketch comedy (for SBS’s television’s The Feed), but we’ve watched their growing career with awe and pride. In 2024, Vic is now a writer and maker in huge demand, with their work embedded in Australia’s cultural landscape - and there’s so much more to come from them.

For me, working with Vic as their dramaturg on this show has been unalloyed joy. It’s been my privilege to support them as they worked with tenacity, shining intelligence and spectacular creativity on draft after draft over the last five years. As always happens with new work, along the way there were roadblocks and detours (ah, the draft with aliens), but Vic’s passion for this show has carried it right up to this production.

Of course, to create a work of such scale takes an amazing team. What fortune to have had the absurdly talented Oliver John Cameron and the utterly brilliant Hayden Tonazzi as core collaborators with Vic on this work, as well as the dazzling array of creatives and cast who have now brought this show to crackling life.

In that initial pitch for the commission, Vic expressed that they wanted Converted! to deal with ‘massive political issues in a human, heartfelt and humorous way’ and to have a ‘positive impact on the queer community and the world’. And this is exactly what we see now as Converted! comes to fierce, funny, powerful life on stage - a celebration of young people and queerness. ATYP is thrilled to have been on this journey and we couldn’t be prouder.

— JANE FITZGERALD

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Creative team

Vic Zerbst (they/she)

Writer Vic Zerbst is an awardwinning comedy writer and director.

Vic has just finished filming a TV series with the ABC and comedy film Nugget is Dead for Stan and CBS. Vic’s work with comedy partner Jenna Owen, on the SBS series The Feed has garnered them three AWGIE Awards and has amassed over 90 million views online.

A freelance writer for film, TV and stage, Vic was the recipient of the ATYP Rebel Wilson Commission, for which they have written Converted!

Vic has directed two Screen Australia funded web-series: Me & Herpes and The War on 2020.

Vic is a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community and uses they/she pronouns.

Oliver John Cameron (he/they)

Co-composer Oliver John Cameron is an acclaimed composer based in Sydney, known for his skill and versatility across musical genres. His work merges music theatre and pop aesthetics with modern classical forms.

Since 2023, Oliver has been a composer-in-residence with Moorambilla Voices, and was recently commissioned by the Australian Vocal Ensemble, ABC Classic FM and the Biennale of Sydney. He has been selected for Omega Ensemble’s CoLab Program in 2025.

His first musical, The Colour Orange won awards at the Sydney and Adelaide Fringe Festivals before a sold out season at Sydney Comedy Festival in 2018. Other notable accolades include winning the Willgoss Choral Prize in 2021 and placing third in the Young Composer Award 2022.

As one of four participants in the Sydney Conservatorium’s Words, Text, Voice, Music program, his NIDA codeveloped chamber opera, M.TH.R, premiered at the Parade Theatre in October 2024.

Hayden Tonazzi

Jane FitzGerald

(they/he)

(she/her)

Director

Dramaturg

Hayden is the Associate Director & Creative Producer at ATYP, and a graduate of the NIDA MFA Directing program. They have been working for ATYP for over five years, and led the development of Converted! with Jane FitzGerald for the last two years.

Jane is Resident Dramaturg at ATYP, where she oversees the company’s writing programs and commissions, and mentors emerging writers and dramaturgs through the Fresh Ink, National Studio and Cultivate programs.

Recent productions for ATYP include Saplings (ATYP/Sydney Festival], Past The Shallows (Archipelago Productions x ATYP), CUSP, SHACK, and Follow Me Home.

Other recent directing credits include Pickled ‫( كبيس‬Belvoir St/PYT Fairfield}, The Last Train To Madeline (Fever103), This Genuine Moment (La Mama), and Tell Me Before The Sun Explodes (KXT).

As associate director their credits include Heroes Of The Fourth Turning (OutHouse x Seymour Centre), CAMP (Siren Theatre Co x Seymour Centre), 21 Forster St (Steps & Holes Theatre), and The End Of Winter (Siren Theatre Co).

This work is dedicated to queer teenagers who are finding their space and voice through the Arts, much like Hayden did.

Recent productions for ATYP include Saplings (ATYP/Sydney Festival), Scab, CUSP, The Resistance, Reboot, MRock and Shack.

Other work includes Summer of Harold (Ensemble and Edinburgh Fringe), Soul Trading (Steps and Holes, CYT), Black Cockatoo (Ensemble/Sydney Festival), Lost Boys (Merrigong) and The Big Dry (Ensemble/ATYP).

Previously Jane has been a Literary Manager at Ensemble Theatre (shared role). For STC she has been Literary Manager, Artistic Associate and administrator of the Patrick White Playwrights' Award as well as a dramaturg on new writing and mainstage productions. She has worked as a script reader for the Royal Court London, Playwriting Australia, ANPC and Playworks, and has worked extensively as a Mentor with Year 12 students on HSC creative writing projects.

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Jeremy Lloyd

Mark Chamberlain

Liam Scarratt

Savanna Wegman

(they/he)

(he/him)

(he/him)

(she/they)

Choreographer

Music Director

Jeremy is a Queer first generation Filipino Australian Movement Director/ Choreographer, Performer, EDI Liaison & Writer. Their intersection of skills & experience as a gender fluid Asian Artist living with HIV allows them to engage, encourage & empower many into expression & connection.

Mark is a music director, accompanist, and music production programmer.

Recent credits include Associate Music Director for Chicago: The Musical (Crossroads Live) and 9 to 5 The Musical (Crossroads Live); Music Director for The Dismissal (Squabbalogic); and Assistant Music Director for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Tim Lawson).

Track Production & Orchestration

Their commitment to Creative & Performing Arts spans the past 14 years with projects, works & jobs across the commercial, theatre, film, cabaret & cruise ship industries. They make their professional choreographic debut in Musical Theatre with ‘Converted!’.

Notable Credits include: ‘Cruise’ By Jack Holden (Movement Dir., Fruit Box Theatre, ‘25) Blanc de Banc: Uncorked (Line Captain & Dance Captain, Strut’n’Fret & P&O Cruises, ‘22/’23/24), ‘Love Lust Lost’ (Chan, Broad Encounters, ‘23), The 38th House on the Left (Script Writer, Dir. Douglas Reddan, ‘23), FBi Radio Best Music Video for ‘Lalaki’ by BVT (Choreographer & Performer, ‘23) Out Leadership Australia Summit (Speaker & Writer, Lateral Events, ‘22).

Other credits include Associate Music Director for School of Rock (GWB Entertainment), Cats Asia tour (S&CO, Lotte Entertainment, RUG), and Ghost: The Musical Australia tour (ATG, GWB). Mark has also played keyboards for Jurassic Park in Concert (TEG Dainty), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Michael Cassel), The Sound of Music (GFO), Strictly Ballroom (Global Creatures), The BBC ‘Planet’ Series Concerts (Sydney Opera House), Jersey Boys (New Theatricals), and is principal synthesiser player for The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO).

Mark was invited to be Music Director for the Invictus Games Australia launch for Prince Harry, and also arranges and programs music for Amazon ‘Alexa’ devices globally.

Liam draws on a diverse range of experiences in his approach to the track production for Converted!

Starting out as a singer/guitarist in rock bands, he refined his skills performing and directing university production bands and singing with The Acappelicans while earning his PhD in Chemistry.

His interests expanded into composing and performing with his absurdist sketch comedy group, BEAK, who have performed across Australia and at the Edinburgh Fringe.

As a research scientist abroad, he honed his sound engineering and arrangement skills drumming for the Swiss band The Gods They Made and providing live accompaniment for alternative comedy in London and Geneva. Liam’s work on composing for immersive theatrical projects has expanded his perspective on storytelling through music, culminating in his role as composer and technical director of the live-action video game Karate Man.

Set & Costume Designer Savanna is a set and costume designer, maker and writer of Chinese Malaysian and Dutch descent, born in New Zealand and now based on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne.

Recent design credits include Set & Costume Design for The Last Train to Madeline, Climbers, Brittany and The Mannequins (Fever103 Theatre); Biographica (Lyric Opera); STAUNCH ASF (Amelia Jean O’Leary, Melbourne Fringe); and Set Design for A Certain Mumble (Amelia Jean O’Leary, Darebin Arts Speakeasy).

Savanna was Assistant Designer for Marg Horwell on the new musical My Brilliant Career (Melbourne Theatre Company) and Associate Designer for Dann Barber on productions Candide (Victorian Opera); Far Away (Patalog Theatre); The Crocodile (Spinning Plates Co.); The Dream Laboratory (Essential Theatre) and The Mermaid (La Mama).

Her designs for Biographica and Brittany and the Mannequins have earned her two Green Room Award nominations.

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BROCKMAN

Harry Dowling

Anastasia Mowen

Milly Grindrod

(they/them)

(he/him)

(they/she)

(she/her)

Lighting Designer

Production Manager

Stage Manager

Brockman is an awardwinning lighting and set designer who has worked both in Australia and Internationally

Harry is a freelance production manager and stage manager, primarily based in Naarm/Melbourne. He has worked in production and stage management roles on productions for organisations including Malthouse Theatre, RISING, Sydney Festival, Perth Festival and YIRRAMBOI festival.

Anastasia is a stage manager and theatre technician, with credits as Stage Manager for the Flat Earthers: The Musical (Hayes Theatre Co and Griffin Theatre Company), 2024 tour of Murder for Two (Parramatta Riverside and Arts Centre Melbourne for Hayes Theatre Co), A Little Night Music (Hayes Theatre Co), The Lucky Country (Hayes Theatre Co), Sleeplessness (Bureau of Works), Ulster American (Outhouse), as well as Hayes Theatre Co’s 2024 cabaret season.

Assistant Stage Manager & Company Manager

Sydney Theatre Company: Constellations, A Fool In Love, American Signs; Queensland Theatre Company: Family Values; Griffin Theatre Company: Flat Earthers, Family Values, Splinter, Replay, Diving For Pearls; National Theatre Of Paramatta: Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World (AUS/UK), Lady Tabouli, Girl In The Machine, The Girl/ The Woman, The Sorry Mum Project, Let Me Know When You Get Home; Darlinghurst Theatre Company: Overflow, Torch Song Trilogy, Broken, Detroit, Mother Fucker With A Hat, Tinder Box; Hayes Theatre Company: Ride the Cyclone, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Carmen Alive Or Dead, Razorhurst; Belvoir 25a: Horses, Jess & Joe Forever, Greater Sunrise; Ensemble Theatre: Tribes, The Big Dry, The Plant, Neville’s Island; Awards: APDG Award for best lighting design for a Live Performance or Event (Cleansed), Best Lighting Design for a Mainstage Production 2023 (Constellations), Best Lighting Design for an Independent Production 2019 (Metamorphoses), Best Lighting Design for an Independent Production 2021 (Symphonie Fantastique)

This is his third production with ATYP having been the production manager for Saplings and Past The Shallows in 2024.

Harry is a co founding member of independent company Fever103 Theatre in Melbourne, where he has been the lead producer and production manager on all the company’s activities to date.

As Assistant Stage Manager; The Girl from the North Country (GWB), Ride the Cyclone (Hayes Theatre Co) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hayes Theatre Co).

Anastasia also has recent credits as a mechanist for Mary Poppins (Michael Cassel) and Into the Woods (Belvoir St Theatre/Hayes Theatre Co), a Flys Operator for An American in Paris (GWB), and as a lighting technician and operator for various Sydney Theatre Company productions.

Anastasia is a graduate of the NIDA Technical Theatre and Stage Management Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Milly has worked extensively across Australia’s vibrant theatre and music theatre scene, in Stage and Company Management. With ATYP, she worked on Saplings (2024) as well as Past The Shallows (2024 Tasmania, Victoria and NSW tour).

Music Theatre credits include Fangirls (Belvoir 2022 SOH), Come From Away (New Theatricals 2022/2023), Billy Elliot (LWAA 2018-2020) and School of Rock (GWB 2019) Additionally, she worked with Bell Shakespeare on the productions King Lear (2024), Romeo and Juliet (2023) and Macbeth (2023) as well as with Polyglot Theatre on productions of Paper Planet (2023 SOH, 2024 PHIVE, 2024 USA tour).

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Abby Dinger

Kate Beere

Phillipa Sprott

(they/them)

(she/her)

(she/her)

Assistant Stage Manager

Wardrobe Supervisor

Producer

Abby is a Gadigal based Stage and Production Manager. Their portfolio spans from small scale independent works to large scale touring productions.

Kate is a set and costume designer working across theatre, film and events.

Pip is a producer and marketing consultant.

Kate holds a Masters of Fine Arts (Design for Performance) and a BFA (Design for Performance) from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA).

Through her company PS Creative she provides marketing, communications, programming and producing services to a range performing arts and creative organisations.

Throughout their career Abby has contributed to the success of major events such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and VIVID and has collaborated with renowned companies including Bangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney Festival.

Abby has a passion for creating new works that celebrate those that are underrepresented and is excited to be a part of bringing Converted! to life.

In the past, Kate was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best independent Costume design for Significant Other (New, 2021).

This year, Kate has set and costume designed The Lonesome West, a sold out season at the Old Fitz, as well as Sparkly Darkling and The Eisteddfod. She most recently set designed Arlington and The Inheritance at the Seymour Centre.

Recent clients include Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, NIDA, ATYP, GWB Entertainment, Pavilion Performing Arts Centre, Ensemble Theatre, Australian Chamber Orchestra and Sydney Theatre Company.

PSCreative.au

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Cast

Megan Robinson

Teo Vergara

Helen Dallimore

Nat Jobe

(she/they)

(they/them)

(she/her)

(he/him)

MAYA

BONE

MRS DOCTOR

MR DOCTOR

Megan is a queer writer, composer, and performer based on Gadigal land.

Teo is an actor, singer, dancer and a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in Music Theatre.

Helen is an actress, singer, director, writer and voice-over artist. Since graduating from NIDA she has enjoyed a successful career in theatre, musical theatre, film and television both in Australia and the UK.

Nat is a graduate of WAAPA (BA Music Theatre).

With a passion for storytelling and songwriting, they have written and composed several original works, with Penpals A New Queer Musical being her most ambitious project to date, bringing a heartfelt lesbian love story to the forefront.

With over a decade of immersion in theatre spaces, Megan’s love for both new and established works has shaped their creative journey. After their involvement in the workshop, Megan is thrilled to be making her professional debut as Maya in Converted!, a role they’re excited to bring to full production.

Teo made their screen debut in the ABC series, Crazy Fun Park (2023) directed and created by Nick Verso, portraying the character Bridget. They followed this by starring in the queer and gender diverse series, Turn Up The Volume (ABC), playing Quinn. They were also a member of the original Australian cast for Jagged Little Pill: The Alanis Morissette Musical, directed by Leah Howard, which toured nationally.

Teo can currently be seen in the lead role of Laura in the animated adventure film, The Sloth Lane (2024), directed by Tania Vincent and Ricard Cussó.

She created the role of Glinda in the West End production of Wicked opposite Idina Menzel, and played Cinderella in the acclaimed Regent’s Park production of Into the Woods.

She won the Helpmann Award for her performance in Legally Blonde the Musical and was nominated for best actress in a musical for Blood Brothers.

Helen is renowned for her performance as Olivia O’Neill in Channel Nine’s Here Come the Habibs, for which she was also a writer.

Helen has many theatre credits, including for Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare and Hayes Theatre.

Her feature film credits include Two Heads Creek and Russian Doll and recent television credits include The Moodys and House Husbands.

His theatre credits include Shrek: The Musical as Donkey (GFO), Aladdin (Disney), The Lion King (Disney), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (TML Enterprises), Pirates of Penzance (Opera Australia), West Side Story as Pepe (The Production Company), Crazy For You (The Production Company), The King & I (The Production Company), You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown as Schroeder (Hayes Theatre Company), Kinky Boots as Lola (Packemin Productions), Mamma Mia as Harry Bright (Packemin Productions), Around The World In 80 Days (HIT Productions/Ellis Productions), Hyperdream (Red Line Productions) and Raj in Yoga Play (National Theatre of Parramatta/La Boite). For his portrayal of Lola in Kinky Boots, Nat won Best Performer in a Musical at The Broadway World Awards.

His TV credits include Home and Away (Channel 7), Bent101 (Channel 7), Mikki Vs The World (ABC), Soundtrack To Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse (ABC) and Growing Up Gracefully (ABC).

Nat’s proudest role is father to his beautiful kids, Taj and Oisín.

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Teo Persechino

Redd Scott

Melody Kiptoo

Cassie Hamilton

(he/they)

(they/them)

(she/they)

(she/her)

HORACE

DENVER

SAMMY

MS NEWSOME

Teo Persechino is absolutely thrilled to be making their professional debut in this big, beautiful, queer musical.

Redd made their professional stage debut playing Young Lola in Kinky Boots and has appeared in many short films, as well as web series Monologue.

Melody is a singer, actor, and writer from Darwin, NT, with a deep passion for storytelling.

Cassie is a writer, director and performer hailing from Awabakal Country and living on Gadigal land.

Teo is a British-Australian artist and performer who loves telling stories on stage and through music.

They are currently completing their final year of a Bachelor of Music Theatre at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and most recently played The Baker in their third-year production of Sondheim’s ‘Into The Woods’ (dir. Narelle Yeo). Prior to this, they performed in the Liebeslieders for the Hayes Theatre Company production of ‘A Little Night Music’ (dir.

Dean Bryant).

Teo is passionate about original works, and in 2024 was a part of the development workshops for both ‘Converted!’ and Maverick Newman and Kohan Van Sambeeck’s new musical ‘One Day in September’ (dir. Trudy Dunn).

Alongside this, Teo is an independent singer/songwriter and creates original pop music, their debut studio EP ‘Hindsight’ having been released in 2023.

They are proudly represented

by T&E Management.

They won Best Young Actor at the 2019 St. Kilda Film Festival for their starring role in All These Creatures (Dir: Charles Williams). The film won the Palme D'or at Cannes Film Festival, Best Short Fiction Film at the AACTA Awards and the Firebird - Best International Short Film award at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. All These Creatures continues to be successful, ensuring Redd's exposure on an international level.

Redd trained at the Australian Boys Dance Academy and the Children's Performing Company of Australia, as well as taking private singing and keyboard lessons.

In 2023 Redd’s self-produced music, made it to the top 5 of Triple J's Unearthed High.

They have since signed with music management and continue to release their own music.

Her creative journey began at the age of five when she wrote and performed her first song in the family lounge room.

Their career highlights include featuring in ABC’s Significant Others, leading the ensemble cast in the children’s series For Real on Network 10, and for her role in the award-winning short film Mate.

Converted! marks Melody's exciting stage debut, further expanding her artistic range.

Her acting credits include Overflow (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Our Blood Runs in the Street (Choptlogic and Redline) and Symphonie Fantastique (Little Eggs Collective and KXT).

She most recently performed in a concert presentation of her original musical, A Transgender Woman on the Internet crying, at Adelaide Cabaret Festival to rave reviews.

She was the co-writer and star of the feature film, Satranic Panic which debuted at SXSW 2023. She is a founding member of the Trans Theatre Collective which recently completed a residency at the Ethics Centre as they explore ways of telling trans stories outside of the expectations of cis audiences and collaborators.

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Ashley Garner

Scarlet Lindsay

(he/him)

(she/they)

KYLE/SILENT GREG

ON-STAGE SWING/DANCE CAPTAIN

Ash is a Melbourne-based performer who hails from Western Australia where he began his studies at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

There he graduated with a Diploma of Acting (2019) and additionally, the diploma in Music Theatre (2020).

Ashley’s VCA credits include Elegies: A Song Cycle (dir.

Tyran Parke) Urinetown (dir.

Trudy Dunn), Little Women (dir. Theresa Borg), Mongrel (dir. Maude Davey and Sarah Ward) and Morning Melodies (dir. Jayde Kirchert) at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne in 2022.

Additionally, Ash was part of the choir in the professional production of Chess: The Musical (dir. Tyran Parke) at the Regent Theatre in 2021.

Ashley was part of the 2023 season of Wind in the Willows (dir. Otis Elston) and the 2024 season of Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Glenn Elston) with the Australian Shakespeare Company. Ashley then was cast in the Sydney season of Parade (dir. Mark LoughranTaylor) as Young Soldier/Luther Rosser.

Ashley is currently part of the cast of Converted! (dir.

Hayden Tonazzi) as part of Sydney Theatre Fest presented by ATYP. Ash is a proud member of MEAA Actor’s Equity.

Scarlet is a queer, plus sized, neurodiverse, disabled artist and advocate.

An inaugural graduate of the Bachelor of Music Theatre at the Elder Conservatorium Of Music (University of Adelaide), Scarlet made their professional debut in Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Matt Ward Entertainment.) As well as performing in musical theatre productions, Scarlet is a skilled cabaret and burlesque performer known for their fabulous movement, comedic chops, and their bold, powerful voice.

After working in the development workshops, Scarlet is ecstatic to be performing in the premiere of Converted!

They are a proud MEAA member and are represented

by Random Management.

Paul Leandre Escorrido (he/they)

ON-STAGE SWING Paul is a proudly queer, Filipino performer based in Sydney on Gadigal land.

You may have seen him most recently in A Jolly Good Musical at Sydney Fringe Festival (Jolly Good Musicals, 2023) or in Ignite Theatre Company’s inaugural, sold-out season of Carrie: The Musical (Ignite Theatre Company, 2023).

In 2023 he completed a dual bachelor's degree in public relations and advertising, and Design at UNSW, and spent a year working in marketing as a Graphic Designer. After years of crediting musical theatre, sketch comedy and theatrical revues for keeping him sane throughout his degree, Paul decided to audition for the Diploma of Musical Theatre at NIDA and completed his training in 2024.

Paul is passionate about authentic, embodied storytelling and hopes he can become a role model for young, queer, and Asian kids trying to find their way.

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Creative Team

Set Electrics Aron Murray

Book & Lyrics Vic Zerbst (they/she)

Wardrobe Supervisor Kate Beere (she/her)

Additional Lyrics Oliver John Cameron (he/they)

Technical Placement & Mic Technician Ruby Baird (she/her)

Music Vic Zerbst and Oliver John Cameron

Technical Placement & Mic Technician Jack Talty (they/them)

Director Hayden Tonazzi (they/he)

Producer Phillipa Sprott (she/her)

Dramaturg Jane FitzGerald (she/her)

Development Producer Hayden Tonazzi (they/he)

Choreographer Jeremy Lloyd (they/he)

Marketing Image Photography Kate Cornish

Music Director Mark Chamberlain (he/him)

Production Photography Daniel Boud

Music Supervisor Oliver John Cameron (he/they)

Graphic Design 6T4 Design (Jenny Sullivan)

Track Production & Orchestration Liam Scarratt (he/him) Set & Costume Designer Savanna Wegman (she/they) Lighting Designer Brockman (they/them) Production Manager Harry Dowling (he/him) Stage Manager Anastasia Mowen (they/she) ASM & Company Manager Milly Grindrod (she/her) ASM Abby Dinger (they/them) Audio Engineer Oliver Brighton (he/him) Audio Swing Jeremy Cardew (he/him) Additional Audio Equipment Focused Productions

Cast MAYA Megan Robinson (she/they) BONE Teo Vergara (they/them) MRS DR Helen Dallimore (she/her) MR DR Nat Jobe (he/him) HORACE Teo Persechino (he/they) DENVER Redd Scott (they/them) SAMMY Melody Kiptoo (she/they) MS NEWSOME Cassie Hamilton (she/her) KYLE/SILENT GREG Ashley Garner (he/him)

Additional Lighting Equipment Audio Visual Events®

ON-STAGE SWING/DANCE CAPTAIN Scarlet Lindsay (she/they)

Inflatable Fabrication Marty Jay

ON-STAGE SWING Paul Leandre Escorrido (he/they)

Set Construction Belvoir St Theatre

MR DR (Development) Thomas Campbell (he/him)

The ATYP Team Artistic Director & CEO Fraser Corfield General Manager Shane Sutton Associate Director & Creative Producer Hayden Tonazzi Resident Dramaturg Jane FitzGerald Education Manager & Resident Artist George Kemp Workshops Manager Kate Murphy Venue Manager Thomas Hughes Digital Communications & Engagement Coordinator Melanie Raveendran

Front of House Managers Cat Tomsen Aidan Hale Thomas Hughes Maddie Diggins Ez Waygood Ushers Ez Waygood Maddie Diggins Lily Thomson Jago Field Katherine Ianno Lucy Burke Miranda Michalowski Margaret Aitken #ConvertedAU #SydFest #TheRebelTheatre #OnlyAtTheRebel

Workshops & Administration Coordinator Alex Fry Resident Technologist Daniel Andrews Archivist Judith Seeff

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