TANYA LEACH Stage Manager Tanya has been a freelance stage manager for almost 35 years. For theatre her credits include The Gospel According to Paul (Soft Tread Productions); Memorial (Brink Productions: Adelaide Festival / Brisbane Festival / Barbican 2018); Our Country’s Good / The Recruiting Officer (MTC / STCSA); Little Murders (MTC at Russell St Theatre); The Dance of Death (Sydney Festival 2004); Three Furies (Performing Lines / Adelaide Festival); The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe (Performing Lines); Saint Joan (dir. Gale Edwards), The White Devil, Salt, The Cherry Orchard, Mother Courage, Riflemind, True West, The Removalist, Sex with Strangers, Loot, Arms and the Man, Noises Off, Talk, and Still Point Turning (STC). For opera her credits include The Marriage of Figaro (VSO); The Turn of the Screw, The Pearlfishers, Lulu (dir. Mark Gaal 1994), Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Opera Australia). Since 2013 she has been associated with Pinchgut Opera (led by Prof Erin Helyard) for whom she has stage managed ten operas including Artaserse. Tanya is a proud member of The Alliance. BRONTE SCHUFTAN Assistant Stage Manager Bronte graduated with a Bachelor of Performance in Dramatic Arts, and in addition to working in stage management, she is also a published playwright, and has a background in performance, dramaturgy, and design. Bronte’s production credits include They Divided the Sky, The Overcoat, Extinction of the Learned Response, The Maids, and The Readers (Belvoir’s 25A Program), The Big Time (Ensemble Theatre), Senior Moments National Tour 2018 (Return Fire Productions), Gloria (Outhouse Theatre Company), Victor Ego: The Brainstorm (O’Punksky’s Theatre Company), A View from the Bridge (Red Line Productions; Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Production), The Servant of Two Masters, Measure for Measure, Cyrano de Bergerac (Sport For Jove), The Night Alive (The Old Fitz), Cherophobia (Antidote; The Opera House), BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival (Sydney Living Museums), Deadhouse: The Tales of Sydney Morgue (Blancmange Productions), Lotus Program & National Script Workshops (Playwriting Australia), and Misterman, Good With Maps, and Hendricks Gin – Awakening (Siren Theatre Co.)
19