Bernhardt/Hamlet 2022 Program

BERNHARDT/ HAMLET

BY THERESA REBECK DIRECTED BY LEE LEWIS

Angie Milliken

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Queensland Theatre acknowledges the Jagera and Turrbal people who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, and their unique relationship with the lands, seas and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders both past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

QUEENSLAND THEATRE IS ASSISTED BY THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT THROUGH THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL, ITS ARTS FUNDING AND ADVISORY BODY. QUEENSLAND THEATRE IS SUPPORTED BY THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT THROUGH ARTS QUEENSLAND.

Theresa Rebeck’s Bernhardt/Hamlet is a story set in motion by a theatre going through some troubled times.

Amanda Jolly Executive Director

An outrageous riff on a true story, it follows the unstoppable Sarah Bernhardt at a time when her Parisian auditorium faces bankruptcy, and only a box office blockbuster can save her from drowning in debt.

This play about an audacious theatrical force of nature is, fittingly, directed by Lee Lewis and stars Angie Milliken at the head of a cast of Queensland Theatre favourites, and I can’t think of a better play to relaunch our beloved venue.

It was never our intention to present this play about a troubled theatre in an actual troubled theatre, but fate has a way of stepping in to invite life to imitate art. Bernhardt/Hamlet is, as you will doubtless be aware, the first play to be presented at the Bille Brown Theatre after the venue fell victim to the February floods and needed extensive repair work.

On the face of it, it is a story about the world’s greatest female actor taking on the world’s greatest role — but overarching everything, it is a story about the hope that things can be better, that we can break free of old, ingrained patterns, and launch ourselves towards a brighter tomorrow.

The flood isn’t the only challenge we have confronted in recent times, but through it all we ask ourselves, ‘What would The Divine Sarah do?’ — and like the irrepressible impresario of times past, we buckled down and got on with the job of Sorting Things Out. We have launched our Flood Appeal and with your help we know that we will be able to rebuild the Bille Brown Theatre to be stronger and more resilient than ever before, ready to face whatever the future flings at it.

It is with pleasure I thank our inspiring production partner, Philip Bacon Galleries, and invite you to raise a glass, have a laugh, and savour this moment we have together.

— Amanda

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28 MAY – 18 JUN BILLE BROWN THEATRE

BERNHARDT/ HAMLET

BY THERESA REBECK DIRECTED BY LEE LEWIS

It's Paris in 1899, and star of the stage Sarah Bernhardt has set her sights on playing Hamlet. Too old to play the ingenue and too bored to play the stale roles written for women, the diva needs a genuine crowd-pleaser to save her debt-ridden theatre. What better work than Shakespeare's finest play? And who better to take on the greatest part ever written than the greatest actress of the century?

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Traditionalists are horrified — a woman playing the sacred role of the Prince of Denmark? It's at best a gimmick, and at worst an unnatural upending of the status quo. As Sarah and her players delve into what makes Hamlet tick, the whole city is watching and waiting to see whether this bold plan will be her legacy, or her folly.

A vivid real-life backstage story by American playwright Theresa Rebeck, Bernhardt/Hamlet is a fast-moving, fearless comedy about a 19th century woman issuing a challenge to the system that still resonates today.

To be, or not to be... theatre star Sarah Bernhardt absolutely will be.

CREATIVES Writer Theresa Rebeck Director Lee Lewis Set/Costume Designer Simone Romaniuk Lighting Designer David Walters Composer/Music Supervisor Max Lambert Sound Designer Brady Watkins Stage Manager Khym Scott Assistant Stage Manager Natalie Callaghan CAST Sarah Bernhardt Angie Milliken Constant Coquelin Hugh Parker Edmond Rostand Nicholas Brown Alphonse Mucha David Valencia Maurice Julian Curtis Louis Anthony Gooley Rosamond Wendy Mocke Lysette Amy Ingram Raoul Gareth Davies Francois/Worker Leon Cain Offstage Swing Performer Thomas Larkin Offstage Swing Performer Rachel Nutchey CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS Fight Director NJ Price LOCATION Queensland Theatre, 78 Montague Road, South Brisbane DURATION 2 hours and 30 minutes including a 20 minute interval.

WARNINGS This play contains adults themes, a blackout, the use of herbal cigarettes and theatrical smoke.

The use of photographic or recording equipment is not permitted inside the theatre.

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Theresa Rebeck is the most produced American female playwright on Broadway. Her body of work in theatre, film, television, fiction and teaching is astonishing.

Lee Lewis Director

What is even more astonishing is the sense of joy in theatre that shimmers in her work given the obstacles to success that have stood in her way as a female playwright. Artists who specialise in joy should be cherished at the moment because we have never needed them more.

Bernhardt/Hamlet should have been our fourth play of the 2022 Season.

You should have journeyed to Afghanistan in Christopher Johnston’s First Casualty, and to a remote town in NSW with Hannah Belanszky’s don’t ask what the bird look like. Omicron and a flood have got in the way of our storytelling plans this year, but as you settle into your chair for this play, please know that our story is now all about joy. And that there couldn’t be a better story to welcome you back into the renovated, refurbished, smelling-likenew-again Bille Brown Theatre than the story of actress Sarah Bernhardt.

Sarah was a theatre visionary in 19th and early 20th century theatre.

Anything we have survived, she survived far more! Whether it was turning a theatre into a hospital for nursing wounded soldiers during the Franco-Prussian War, losing millions of francs on shows then earning it all back by touring to America, opening her own theatre, losing a leg, filming her work, having a menagerie of exotic animals, and earning legendary lover status — she was a woman of art and business who lived life to the full in a time that did not offer that as an option to women.

When we talk of the shoulders of giants, we don’t necessarily picture her slender frame as carrying us all, but we should… especially in the theatre. Witnessing now the rise of the female actors/ producers — Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington, Margot Robbie, Salma Hayek, Elizabeth Banks and Drew Barrymore come to mind straight away — you can

Anthony Gooley, Lee Lewis, Nicholas Brown

see elements of the great Sarah Bernhardt in all of them. It should not have taken this long to build on her legacy, but perhaps that is just proof of how far ahead of the times she was.

It is also a sign of how long the fight for equality continues to be.

The opposition to Sarah playing Hamlet in 1899 speaks to the place of women today in America as they face the loss of the right to control their own bodies again.

The fight for change is a long relay.

Sarah carries her baton long and far, Theresa Rebeck has carried it in her time and this play will inspire people in ages to come to keep running towards independence and equality for all people. We all have our race to run in our own time and place. I think Theresa Rebeck found solace in Sarah Bernhardt. I think we will find joy in the work of both women.

Joy too in the work of the seamstresses, tailors, scenic artists and builders who have brought to life the designs of Simone Romaniuk in this production. Our theatre traditions are so reliant on skills passed down through generations from maker to maker.

So often contemporary stories are costumed and built from retail stores but plays like this demand specialist craftspeople who keep our heritage alive to thrill us anew.

This is the moment in the season to celebrate them all.

Enjoy the corsets, love the swords, cherish the thundersheet, relish the brocades, covet the doublet, and thank a playwright who knows how to look to the past to create a play that speaks to us now of ideas that have always and will always matter.

Welcome back to the Bille Brown Theatre!

— Lee Lewis

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David Valencia

Gareth Davies, Leon Cain, Amy Ingram

Leon Cain, Angie Milliken, Gareth Davies

FROM OUR PRODUCTION PARTNER Philip Bacon Galleries is delighted to be sponsoring Queensland Theatre’s Bernhardt/Hamlet by American playwright Theresa Rebeck.

This audacious comedy of a 19th century woman issuing a challenge to the system is especially relevant today, and will speak to so many in the audience.

Meanwhile, at Philip Bacon Galleries we have exhibitions planned that will also amaze and delight, including Archibald Prize winner Wendy Sharpe, Australia’s

most sought-after female artist Cressida Campbell and local favourites such as Michael Zavros and Ralph Wilson.

I am delighted to be associated with Queensland Theatre and I hope that like it, Philip Bacon Galleries will continue to bring stimulating and challenging art to all Queenslanders.

I wish you a great night at the theatre.

Philip Bacon May 2022

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Theresa Rebeck Writer Theresa Rebeck is a widely produced playwright throughout the United States and abroad.

New York productions of her work include Dead Accounts at the Music Box Theatre; Seminar at the Golden Theatre; Mauritius at the Biltmore Theatre in a Manhattan Theater Club Production; The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels at Second Stage; Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection and Our House at Playwrights Horizons; The Understudy at the Laura Pels Theater in a Roundabout Theatre Company production; and View of the Dome at New York Theatre Workshop.

Omnium Gatherum (co-written, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003) was featured at the Humana Festival, and had a commercial run at the Variety Arts Theatre. Her play Poor Behavior premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2011.

Ms. Rebeck’s other publications are Free Fire Zone, a book of comedic essays about writing and show business. She has written for American Theatre Magazine and has had excerpts of her plays published in the Harvard Review. Her novels, Three Girls and Their Brother and Twelve Rooms With A View, were published by Random House/ Shaye Areheart Books, respectively, in April 2008 and May 2010. Both novels are available online and at booksellers everywhere. Her third novel, I'm Glad About You, was published by Putnam in February 2016.

In television, Ms. Rebeck has written for Dream On, Brooklyn Bridge, L.A. Law, American Dreamer, Maximum Bob, First Wave and Third Watch, and she created the NBC drama Smash. She has been a writer/producer for Canterbury’s Law, Smith, Law and Order: Criminal Intent and NYPD Blue.

Her produced feature films include Harriet the Spy, Gossip, and the independent features Sunday on the Rocks and Seducing Charlie Barker, an adaptation of her play The Scene.

Awards include the Mystery Writer’s of America’s Edgar Award, the Writer’s Guild of America award for Episodic Drama, the Hispanic Images Imagen Award, and the Peabody, all for her work on NYPD Blue. She has won the National Theatre Conference Award for The Family of Mann, and was awarded the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award in 2003 for The Bells. Mauritius was originally produced at Boston’s Huntington Theatre, where it received the 2007 IRNE Award for Best New Play as well as the Eliot Norton Award. Other awards include the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, the Athena Film Festival Award, an Alex Award and a Lilly Award, and in 2011 she was named one of the "150 Fearless Women in the World" by Newsweek.

Ms. Rebeck is originally from Cincinnati and holds an MFA in Playwrighting and a PhD in Victorian Melodrama, both from Brandeis University. She is a proud board member of the Dramatists Guild, a Contributing Editor to the Harvard Review and an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company, and has taught at Brandeis University and Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Lee Lewis Director

Queensland Theatre: Return to the Dirt, Prima Facie, Our Town, Mouthpiece, Rice. Other credits: Griffin Theatre Company: Family Values, First Love is the Revolution, Prima Facie, Is There Something Wrong With That Lady?, The Almighty Sometimes, Kill Climate Deniers, Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography, The Homosexuals or ‘Faggots’, Rice, Masquerade, Gloria, The Bleeding Tree, Emerald City, A Rabbit for Kim Jong-il, The Serpent’s Table, Replay, Silent Disco, Smurf In Wanderland, The Bull, The Moon and the Coronet of Stars, The Call, A Hoax, The Nightwatchman, The Literati, The Misanthrope (with Bell Shakespeare); Sydney Theatre Company: Mary Stuart, Honour, Love-LiesBleeding, ZEBRA!; Melbourne Theatre Company: Gloria, Hayfever, Rupert; Belvoir: That Face, This Heaven, Half and Half, A Number, 7 Blowjobs, Ladybird; Bell Shakespeare: The School for Wives, Twelfth Night; Australian Theatre for Young People: Battlegrounds, Citizenship; Darwin Festival: Highway of Lost Hearts; WAAPA: As You Like It; NIDA: After Dinner, Big Love, The Winter’s Tale; Hayes Theatre: Darlinghurst Nights. Positions: Artistic Director, Queensland Theatre; Artistic Director and CEO, Griffin Theatre Company; Richard Wherrett Fellow, Sydney Theatre Company.

Awards: Helpmann Awards – Best Play, Best Director The Bleeding Tree; Green Room Awards – Best Ensemble, Best Production, Best Director The Bleeding Tree.

Simone Romaniuk Set/Costume Designer

Queensland Theatre: Macbeth, Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman, Venus in Fur, Kelly, Head Full of Love, Fractions, The Little Dog Laughed, Australia Day, The Pitch & The China Incident, An Oak Tree, The Removalists, Man Equals Man, Waiting for Godot, Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed, Beckett x 3, Ruby Moon. Other credits: State Opera South Australia: La Bohème, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Love Burns, Boojum!; State Opera South

Australia/Opera Queensland/New Zealand Opera: The Mikado; Opera Queensland: The Magic Flute, The Merry Widow, Space Encounters; Royal Northern College of Music: La Vie Parisienne; Unicorn Theatre: The Hunting Lodge; Greenwich Theatre: Three Generations of Women; Ensemble Theatre: Honour, Kenny, The Last Wife, Luna Gale, Shirley Valentine, Frankenstein, Casanova; Brisbane Festival/The Danger Ensemble/La Boite Theatre: The Wizard of Oz; Sydney Theatre Company: The Crucible, Seneca’s Thyestes.

Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Design), National Institute of Dramatic Art; Bachelor of Design Studies (Three Dimensional Design), Queensland College of Art. Positions: Creative Director (2015–19), OzAsia Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre; Creative Director/Designer (2015 –19), Moon Lantern Parade, Adelaide Festival Centre; Resident Designer (2012), Queensland Theatre; Festival Designer (2012), Brisbane Festival; Affiliate Artist (2011), Queensland Theatre. Awards: Matilda Awards – Best Design Macbeth, Kelly; Gold Matilda Awards – Body of Work 2014, Body of Work 2012; South Australian Tourism Awards 2019 – Best Major Festivals and Events OzAsia Festival.

David Walters Lighting Designer

Queensland Theatre: Emerald City, Nearer The Gods, The Wider Earth, Motherland, Quartet, Ladies in Black, Brisbane, Boston Marriage, Gloria, Macbeth, Australia Day, Venus in Fur, End of the Rainbow, Romeo & Juliet, Pygmalion, Grimm Tales, The August Moon, Rabbit Hole, The Glass Menagerie, The Memory of Water, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Molly Sweeney, Chilling and Killing, My Annabel Lee, The Skin of Our Teeth, Vertigo and the Virginia, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Amy’s View, Master Class, After the Ball, Summer Rain, Arcadia, The Hope of the World, Money and Friends, Gilgamesh, The Shaugraun, Broken Glass, Shadow and Splendour, The Marriage of Figaro, The Game of Love and Chance, On The Whippingside, The Crucible, Essington Lewis: I Am Work, Mrs Klein, The Cherry Orchard, Seven Little Australians, Season’s Greetings ,The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Month In The Country, Top Silk, Moby Dick, The Taming Of The Shrew, Ghosts, Major Barbara, The Barrets of Wimpole Street, Snoopy, Chorus of Disapproval, Briefs, God’s Best Country, Hard Times, The Bloke, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Night And Day, The Recruiting Officer, A Month Of Sundays, A Spring Song, The Man from Mukinupin, A Different

Drummer, Fuente Ovejuna, Salonika, The Venetian Twins. Other credits: Melbourne Theatre Company; Sydney Theatre Company; State Theatre Company of South Australia; Bell Shakespeare Company; Playlab Theatre; QUT; QPAC; Jute; Handspan; Playbox; La Boite Theatre; Rock‘n’Roll Circus; Nimrod; Company B; Dead Puppet Society; Expressions Dance Company; Queensland Ballet; Australian Ballet; Opera Queensland; Opera Australia; Topology; Camerata; Boxties; Zen Zen Zo; The National Theatre of Iceland; The Icelandic Opera; The Reykjavik City Theatre. Positions: Adjunct Associate Professor in Drama, QUT. Awards: Matilda Awards/Commendations 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008,2012 and 2018; ABF Lifetime Achievement Award.

Max Lambert Composer/Music Supervisor Queensland Theatre: After the Ball. Other credits: As Composer: Sydney Dance Company/The Australian Ballet: Tivoli; Sydney Theatre Company: The White Devil, Miracle City, Arcadia, Coriolanus; Hayes Theatre: Miracle City, Darlinghurst Nights; Sydney Opera House: Miracle City; Griffin Theatre Company: Ladies Day, Diving for Pearls; Merrigong Theatre Company: Letters to Lindy; Bell Shakespeare/ Griffin Theatre Company: The Literati; Melbourne Theatre Company: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. As Co-Writer: Hot Shoe Shuffle. As Musical Director: 2020 World Expo, Dubai; Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the XXVII Olympiad, Sydney; 2002 Commonwealth Games, Manchester; 2006 Asian Games, Doha. As Musical Supervisor: Hairspray; Fame; King Kong Live; Strictly Ballroom – the Musical. Film: Happy Feet, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Sweetie. Television: As Musical Director (1992–2000), Pianist (1991– 2005), and Self (1993–97): Play School.

Brady Watkins Sound Designer

Queensland Theatre: Othello, Metamorphoses, Moth, Wisdom, The Trial. Other credits: Dead Puppet Society: Swarm, The Wider Earth (2022 national tour); La Boite Theatre: The Last 5 Years, Away, Bigger and Blacker, The Neighbourhood; Refraction Theatre: The Revisionist; Rocket Boy Ensemble: Reagan Kelly.

As Sound Operator: Lynch & Paterson: Jesus

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Christ Superstar; Woodward Productions: Sweet Charity, Edges: A Song Cycle; Underground Broadway: Spring Awakening, Don’t Call Me Ishmael; La Boite Theatre: Neon Tiger. As Sound Consultant: Queensland Theatre: White Pearl, Taming of The Shrew, Triple X, Our Town, The Holidays, Antigone.

Positions: Composer/Sound Designer – Artist Company, La Boite Theatre (2021-22). Training: Bachelor of Music Technology, Queensland Conservatorium of Music.

Khym Scott Stage Manager

Queensland Theatre: Prima Facie. Other credits: As Stage Manager: Griffin Theatre Company: Superheroes, Family Values, First Love is the Revolution, City of Gold (with Queensland Theatre), Prima Facie, The Misanthrope (with Bell Shakespeare), Good Cook. Friendly. Clean., Kill Climate Deniers, Festival of New Writing, Girl in Tan Boots, The Serpent’s Table, The Witches; Belvoir: The Cherry Orchard, Fangirls (national tour), Barbara and the Camp Dogs (with Malthouse Theatre), This Heaven; Kay & McLean Productions: North by Northwest; Contemporary Asian Australian Performance: Double Delicious, Stories Then and Now; Sydney Festival: Jali, Lady Rizo: Red, White and Indigo.

As Assistant Stage Manager: Belvoir: The Dance of Death, Miss Julie; The Australian Ballet (2013-17). As Broadcast Director: Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Award 2020, Griffin Lock-In. Training: NIDA; The University of Sydney.

Nicholas Brown, Gareth Davies

Natalie Callaghan Assistant Stage Manager

Queensland Theatre: As Stage Manager: Wisdom (The Scene Project). As Assistant Stage Manager: Return to the Dirt. Other credits: As Stage Manager: Playlab: Face To Face; Polytoxic: Demolition; Queensland Ballet: Aspire; Hive Collective: The Bull The Moon and the Coronet of Stars, Conviction; Ad Astra: Jingle Bells Sucks Baubles. As Deputy Stage Manager: QUT: The Season at Sarsaparilla, Dance ’17. As Assistant Stage Manager: Queensland Ballet: Dracula, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Academy Gala; QUT: Essentially Dance, New Moves. As Props Technician: GWB Entertainment: An American In Paris. As Production Manager: Brisbane Immersive Ensemble: The Midsummer Carnival, Cluedo!

The Interactive Game; QUT: 13, Radiate, Drama Practice 3, Let The Right One In. As Secondment: Queensland Ballet: Dangerous Liaisons; Brisbane Festival 2019; Jack Morton Worldwide: GC2018 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT; Bachelor of Creative Arts (Drama and Writing), UQ.

Angie Milliken Sarah Bernhardt

Queensland Theatre: Death of a Salesman, The Effect.

Other credits: Sydney Theatre Company: The Real Thing, Three Days of Rain, Closer, Betrayal, A Month in the Country, Three Sisters, The Herbal Bed, Much Ado About Nothing; The Sydney Olympic Arts Festival/Brooklyn Academy of Music: The White Devil; Belvoir: My Zinc Bed, Master Builder, Dead Heart, The Tempest, Conquest of the South Pole, Every Breath; State Theatre Company of South Australia: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore; Malthouse Theatre: Redemption; Bell Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.

Film: Elvis, Spiderhead, Jungle, This Isn’t Funny, Paperback Hero, Rough Diamonds, What I Have Written, Dead Heart, Solo, The Condemned, Passengers, Harbour Beat, Eight Ball, Act of Necessity. Television: CSI: Miami, Rake, Darby and Joan, Joe vs Carole, Troppo, Young Rock, MDA, My Brother Jack, Through My Eyes, The Sharknet, Farscape, Beastmaster, Lost World, Beast, The Feds, The Paperman, GP, A Country Practice, E Street. Awards: Australian Film Institute – Best Actress MDA, Best Actress My Brother Jack; Australian Film Institute – Through My Eyes, The Sharknet. Training: NIDA; UQ.

Hugh Parker Constant Coquelin

Queensland Theatre: Our Town, Hydra, Nearer the Gods, The 39 Steps, Scenes from a Marriage, Noises Off (with Melbourne Theatre Company), Tartuffe (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Much Ado About Nothing, The Seagull, Brisbane, The Pitch, Kelly, Fractions (with Hothouse Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Betrayal, The Clean House (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), 25 Down. Other credits: La Boite Theatre: Julius Caesar, Pale Blue Dot, A Doll’s House, Straight White Men, Lysa and the Freeborn Dames; shake & stir: 1984; Opera Queensland: The Merry Widow; The Good Room: Let's Be Friends Furever. Film: Crooked Business, Sinbad & The Minotaur, Fatal Honeymoon, Bullets for the Dead, Space/Time, Elvis. Television: Jonathan Creek, The Peter Principle, Beast, Black Books, Eastenders, I'm Alan Partridge, 15 Storeys High, Doctors, The Office, Casualty, Monarch of the Glen, Vincent, Wild West, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Lucky Jim, Sea Patrol, The Strip, Mabo, Secrets &

Lies, Gallipoli, The Killing Field, The Family Law, Rosehaven, Harrow, The Gloaming, Joe vs Carole.

Awards: Equity Ensemble Award – The Family Law; Matilda Award nominations – Betrayal, A Doll’s House. Hugh is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.

Nicholas Brown Edmond Rostand

Queensland Theatre: Taming of the Shrew. Other credits: Sydney Theatre Company: The Long Forgotten Dream, Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story; Newtheatricals: Come From Away; Belvoir: Counting and Cracking; Griffin Theatre Company: Lighten Up; Merrigong Theatre Company: Dead Man Brake; Australian Shakespeare Company: Wind In The Willows; Disney India: Beauty And The Beast; Tamarama Rock Surfers: Fewer Emergencies; SBW Stables: Spunks; Hi-5: Hi-5 Space Magic; Ace Productions Mumbai: Jesus Christ Superstar; Project 88 Mumbai: Seven Jewish Children; Kunsten Festival Des Arts Belgium: Doctrine: How To Survive Under Seige; Royal Albert Hall: Miss Bollywood The Shilpa Shetty Musical. As Writer: Griffin Theatre Company: Lighten Up; Riverside: The Yam Corsage (Myths & Legends). Film: A Perfect Pairing, Christmas on the Farm, Laka, Sedition, Dance Academy, Pratichhaya, Unindian, Random 8, Love You To Death, Kites, A Man’s Gotta Do, Temptation. Television: As Actor: Upright Season 2, After the Verdict, Joe vs Carole, Amazing Grace, The Unlisted, Harrow, The Letdown, The Code 2, The Elegant Gentlemen’s Guide to Knife Fighting, Mr and Mrs Murder, Home and Away, Packed to the Rafters, Underbelly: The Man Who Got Away, City Homicide, The Cooks, White Collar Blue, Heartbreak High. As Writer: ABC: The Wonder Gang, The Unlisted, Play School. As Presenter: Play School. Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Art, NIDA. Awards: Mike Walsh Fellowship recipient.

David Valencia Alphonse Mucha Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other credits: Malthouse Theatre: Blood Wedding; Belvoir: Mortido; State Theatre Company of South Australia: Mortido; Old 505 Theatre: Night of the Assassins.

Film: Loving Pablo, The Boy, Ex-Patriot, Malos Días, Detective Marañón, Spiderhead, True Spirit, Portable Door.

Television: NARCOS, Young Rock, Upright.

Training: NIDA.

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Julian Curtis Maurice

Queensland Theatre: 25 Down. Other credits: Sydney Theatre Company/HotHouse Theatre: Embers; Sydney Theatre Company/Legs on the Wall: Gallipoli; La Boite Theatre/Playlab Theatre: Dead Devils of Cockle Creek; La Boite Theatre: The Glass Menagerie; Brisbane Powerhouse/Playlab Theatre: Magpie; Brisbane Powerhouse: True West, Closer to Heaven; Riverside Theatres: Shakespeare R + J; Metro Arts: Harriers, Cock; shake & stir: Wuthering Heights; Queensland Arts Council: Something 2 Declare; Big Scary Animal: Savage In Limbo; Pinchgut: Rameau: Anacreon & Pigmalion; Carriageworks Siren Theatre Co: As You Like It; Darlinghurst Theatre: LaDispute. Film: As Actor: Battle of Bushy Run, Wish Man, Captured, The Middle, A Beautiful Day To Be Alive, 48 Shades, A Burning Thing, Screen Queensland: Gone; For A Good Cause, Italian Fair, The Killing Room, AFI: Dust; Dance Me To The End, Neon King, Poster Boy, Hide Behind. As Writer: Screen Queensland: And The Winner Is, Power the Kid. As Writer/Director: Just Deal With It; Clearance. Television: Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, Adam Ruins Everything, Spooked, The Britishes, Twister Warning, Acting Out, Dance Academy, The Hopsters, Legend of the Seeker, East West 101, Rescue Special-Ops. Video games: As Voice Over: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Final Fantasy. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), NIDA. Awards: Matilda Award – Best Supporting Actor True West; Marten Bequest, Acting Award; Just for Laughs Montreal finalist – Tallest Poppies, Playwriting Australia National Workshop – Legacy.

Anthony Gooley Louis

Queensland Theatre: Boy Swallows Universe. Other credits: As Actor: Ensemble Theatre: A View from the Bridge, Death of a Salesman; State Theatre Company of South Australia: The Glass Menagerie; Belvoir/Comedy Theatre/Arts Centre Melbourne: Calamity Jane; Sydney Opera House/Hayes Theatre: Assassins; Griffin Theatre Company: Replay; Sport For Jove: The Crucible, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Of Mice and Men, A Doll’s House, Othello, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors; Eternity Playhouse: Good Works, All My Sons; Sydney

Theatre Company: The Lost Echo; Old Fitz Theatre: The Shadow Box, Inner Voices; TRS: Empire, Rope; Cry Havoc: Three Sisters, Julius Caesar. As Director: Seymour Centre: The Underpants; Red Line Productions: Orphans; The Kings Collective: Gruesome Playground Injuries. Film: Buckley’s Chance, Venus and Adonis. Television: Joe vs Carole, Young Rock, Sheilas, Australia: The Story of Us, Underbelly, Packed to the Rafters, Tough Nuts, Satisfaction, Home and Away. Awards: Sydney Theatre Award – Best Actor The Libertine; Sydney Theatre Award nominations – Inner Voices, Of Mice and Men, A Doll’s House.

Wendy Mocke Rosamond

Queensland Theatre: Taming of the Shrew. Other credits: As Actor: Sport for Jove: Macbeth, Moby Dick; Darlinghurst Theatre: Jelbu Meri; NIDA: The Hypochondriac, Realism, Woyzeck, Twelfth Night; Centre for Australasian Theatre: Cargo Club #6, Cargo Club #3; Tropical Arts: Much Ado About Nothing; Old 505 Theatre: Home Invasion; Seymour Centre: Moby Dick. As Writer: STC Virtual: Tiger Scare; Reg Cramphorn Studio: Voices of West Papua. Film: The Reef: Stalked.

Television: Joe Exotic, Troppo, The Code.

Positions: Creative Director, Melanin Haus; Emerging Writer, Sydney Theatre Company; Resident Writer, JUTE Theatre. Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Arts, NIDA. Awards: Sydney Theatre Awards nomination – Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role Moby Dick.

Amy Ingram Lysette

Queensland Theatre: The Odd Couple, The Seagull, Trollop, Seeding Bed, Fat Pig. Other credits: As Actor: The Good Room: I Want To Know What Love Is, One Bottle Later, I Just Came To Say Goodbye, I Should Have Drunk More Champagne, Where We Begin, Rabbit, Single Admissions, Holy Guacamole; MYTHS MADE HERE/QPAC: Cinderella; La Boite Theatre: Blackrock, The Tragedy of King Richard The Third, Cosi; Metro Arts: Medea Redux; shake & stir: Out Damn Snot; MML Worldwide: Magic Mike Live Australia; The Old Fitz/Justin Martin: Low Level Panic; Elbow Room: We Get It; Adelaide Fringe/Rebecca Meston: Tracksuit Girl.

As Co-Creator: The Good Room: Let’s Be Friends Furever, I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You, Dirty Laundry, Red Light, One Bottle Later, That’s What She Said, I Want To Know What Love Is, I Just Came To Say Goodbye, I Should Have Drunk More Champagne, Where We Begin. Television: Mabo, Camp, Harrow, Bull, Freudian Slip, Beyond Stranger Lands, Joe vs Carole, Young Rock.

Positions: Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director, The Good Room; Co-Founder, MYTHS MADE HERE; QLD Equity Branch Council; Co-Director (2007-08), National Young Writers Festival.

Awards: Sydney Theatre Awards – Best Theatre for Young People I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You; Matilda Awards – Best Female Actor in a Leading Role Cinderella, Best Emerging Artist Fat Pig, Single Admissions.

Gareth Davies Raoul

Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other credits: Ensemble Theatre: Nearer the Gods; Sydney Theatre Company: Home, I’m Darling, The Torrents, Saint Joan, How to Rule the World; Belvoir: The Rover, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Peter Pan, As You Like It, And They Called Him Mr Glamour, The Seagull; Melbourne Theatre Company: The Cherry Orchard, Hay Fever; Griffin Theatre Company: The Literati, Feather in the Web; Malthouse Theatre: The Government Inspector; Bell Shakespeare: As You Like it; B Sharp: The Only Child, The Suicide, Midsummer Night’s Dream; Redline Productions at the Old Fitz: Masterclass, Masterclass 2 - Flames of the Forge; Black Lung Theatre: Rubeville, Sugar, Pimms, Avast, Avast II – The Welshman Cometh, I Feel Awful, Doku Rai. Film: The Daughter, Peter Rabbit, Little Monsters, I Am Woman, Elvis. Television: Frayed, The Letdown, Rosehaven, Hunters.

Leon Cain Francois/Worker

Queensland Theatre: Taming of the Shrew, The 39 Steps, Kelly, An Oak Tree, Orphans, Man Equals Man, School Of Arts, That Face, Away, Oedipus The King, A Winter’s Tale. Other credits: La Boite Theatre: Summer Wonderland, The Wishing Well, I Love You Bro; shake & stir: The Twits, Fantastic Mr Fox, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts, Endgame, Out Damn Snot; Brisbane Powerhouse: Two Guys in a Box; Melbourne Theatre Company/Kay McLean Productions: North By Northwest; NIDA

Director’s Piece: Only Ten Minutes To Buffalo; Someone Productions: He Died With A Felafel In His Hand; Oscar Theatre Company: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Merrigong Theatre Company: Thieves Like Us; Brisbane Powerhouse/Adelaide Fringe: Oman Ra; Metro Arts: The Boy and the Goat. Film: Sit. Stay. Love., Mental, Nice Package, The Suicide Theory, Sisters of War. Television: Young Rock, Harrow, Safe Harbour, Terra Nova, The Straits, H2O Just Add Water. Awards: Sydney Theatre Critics Award – Best Newcomer Away; Matilda Award – Best Emerging Artist; Matilda Award – Best Actor I Love You Bro; Lord Mayor’s Fellowship Award; Sydney Theatre Critics Award nomination – Best Actor Away.

Thomas Larkin Offstage Swing Performer

Queensland Theatre: Death of a Salesman, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Wider Earth (with Dead Puppet Society/Sydney Festival). Other credits: As Actor: La Boite Theatre: As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Hamlet; QPAC/MYTHS MADE HERE: Cinderella; The Good Room: I Just Came To Say Goodbye (with Brisbane Festival). As Producer/Actor: Brisbane Powerhouse: True West, Sex With Strangers. Film: Elvis, Combat Wombat. Television: Darby and Joan, Rock Island Mysteries, Troppo, Homecoming Queens, The Mother Load, RUSH. Web series: Sexy Nails, For A Good Cause. Positions: Teaching Artist, Queensland Theatre, Bell Shakespeare, La Boite Theatre, USQ, Griffith University, QUT and NIDA. Training: VCA. Awards: Matilda Award – Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role Death of a Salesman; Brisbane City Council – Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient; Brian Boak Outstanding Performer Bursary.

Thomas is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and Spotlight.

Rachel Nutchey Offstage Swing Performer Queensland Theatre: We Are The Mutable (The Scene Project). Other credits: TheatreiNQ: The Vagina Monologues, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frankenstein, Alice in Wonderland, Hamlet, What’s the Matter with MaryJane?; The Reaction Theory: The Unspoken Word is 'Joe'. Television: Young Rock. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts, QUT.

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REHEARSAL OBSERVATION Mikayla Hosking, Bronte Locke

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