First Casualty program

FIRST THE ALMIGHTY CASUALTY SOMETIMES 13 AUG — 3 SEP BILLE BROWN THEATRE

BY CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTON DIRECTED BY LEE LEWIS

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.

Afghanistan 2011.

Our Australian soldiers.

Their story.

Amanda Jolly Executive Director

Queensland Theatre is immensely proud to present the world premiere of Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Johnston’s remarkable play, First Casualty, drawn from his experiences, and those of his friends, as they served in Afghanistan. It is a play that our Artistic Director, Lee Lewis, has championed since she first read it as a judge for the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award in 2016 and we are now the beneficiaries of her tenacity, belief and skill.

The war in Afghanistan is hard to picture, unless you’ve served.

Christopher gives us the rare opportunity to better understand the experience of serving soldiers, spanning the entire gamut of scenarios they might face - from the boredom of outpost life, to the culturally complex interactions with local warlords, and the adrenaline of a chaotic firefight and constant vigilance. But always, it comes back to their humanity, their mateship, and their personal struggles.

Many of us will know someone who served, but will not be fully aware of the challenges they faced and their impact.

This production would not have been possible without the invaluable support of our production partners, BDO and Board Matters and our Landmark Productions Fund donors, whose support allows us to develop and present important works of scale each season. We also acknowledge the guidance offered to us by Legacy Brisbane, which does so much to support the families of the soldiers who never returned from Afghanistan.

As well as being a gripping story, this play has so much: relatable characters, danger, humour, camaraderie, empathy and insight.

I hope you enjoy it, are moved by it, and continue to think about it for a long time to come.

— Amanda

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12 NOV — 10 DEC

BILLE BROWN THEATRE

FIRST CASUALTY

BY CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTON DIRECTED BY LEE LEWIS

PRODUCTION PARTNERS

GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY

Welcome to the remote Combat Outpost Mirage, home to eight Aussie Diggers mired in our longest war. From this tiny fortification overlooking a beautiful valley in the forbidding mountains of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, Captain Trent Kelly and his men have a lot to deal with.

When they aren't mentoring a platoon from the Afghan National Army, they're patrolling for Taliban insurgents, negotiating with a powerful local warlord, or simply making it through another day a long way from home.

Written by a serving soldier and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, First Casualty is a debut play like no other.

It's an authentic account of the real lives of Australian troops at war — the triumphs and the tragedies, the strains and the sacrifices, the pressure and the release.

There's tension, occasional explosions of violence, and humour, but at its heart First Casualty is about the friendship of the soldiers who have given up so much for their country.

This is not an anti-war story. This is not a pro-war story.

This is a story of soldiers — the sons, the husbands, the fathers, the people we love.

CAST Mohammed Arwin Arwin Corporal Nick "Woodsy" Woods Will Bartolo Captain Trent Kelly Mitchell Bourke Ahmed/Journalist/Ensemble Adam Kay Sapper "Thommo" Kent Reagan Mannix Ali Reza Momenzada Brigadier Michaela Cain/Lucy/Psychologist Christen O'Leary Bucko/Chorus/Dance Captain Trent Owers Abdul/Ensemble Silva Pearce Sergeant Jack Hunter Steven Rooke Journalist/Ensemble Kevin Spink Malim Khan Amer Thabet LOCATION Queensland Theatre CREATIVES Writer Christopher Johnston Director Lee Lewis

78 Montague Road, South Brisbane DURATION 2 hours and 30 minutes, including

Movement and Fight Director

a 20 minute interval

Nigel Poulton

WARNINGS

Designer Renée Mulder Lighting Designer Paul Jackson Sound Design THE SWEATS, Brady Watkins The Musical Music Max Lambert

This production contains coarse language, strobe lighting, herbal cigarettes, dead black outs, replica weapons, simulated violence and smoke and haze effects. It also contains audio and visual effects that may

Lyrics Christopher Johnston

be triggering for some people.

Musical Director/Orchestration

If you have audio or visual sensitivities or are

James Dobinson

concerned about the content of the play we

Choreographer Dan Venz

encourage you to contact the Box Office.

Video Designer Craig Wilkinson

If you or someone you know needs information or support, these organisations are there to help:

Associate Video Designer Jake Lodder Stage Manager Lucy Kelland Assistant Stage Manager Bridget O’Brien Contributing Artists Military Consultant Matt Cardinaels CSM Dari Language Consultants Arwin Arwin,

Open Arms 1300 22 4636 Headspace 03 9027 0100 Beyond Blue 1300 224 636 Lifeline 13 11 14

Reza Momenzada

The use of photographic or recording

Pashto Language Consultant

equipment is not permitted inside the

Masood Ehsan

theatre.

Christopher Johnston Writer

On my first deployment to Iraq I was stationed next to an extraordinary archaeological ruin. The Sumerian city of Ur, birthplace of Abraham, was buried on the outskirts of our desert airbase. After monsoon rain ancient artefacts would emerge from the terracotta mud. Ceramic and bronze remnants, cuneiform carved into stone. The first writing.

Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan was also reminiscent of the Old Testament. Some 25,000 Australians served there between 2006 – 2014. I was there in May 2011, at the height of violence and the surge, when Bin Laden was killed and coalition forces began to draw down on a timeline. From that point onwards we fought in a no-mans land between ends and means. Our campaign became monumentally insubstantial, full of sound and fury, evanescent like a dream.

My play is set at this moment — the apogee of our commitment — when the conflict began spilling and shifting.

Two days over two acts on Combat Outpost Mirage echo with two decades; and now those decades of blood and treasure are slipping back into sand. Soon there will be no trace left of our presence. Just stories, through a glass darkly.

Christopher Johnston, Lee Lewis

In Bandung a Kopassus blacksmith still forges the ancient Javanese curved dagger called a kris. At his crucible he marshals all the elements, pounding the blade layer upon layer, tempering the steel with nickel from a meteorite.

The finished weapon has jiwa: fire, soul, the restless energy of a dark star; life and death in its form. This kris and other artworks are on display in the Bille Brown foyer.

First Casualty took a lifetime to write.

My family instilled a love of learning and the arts. The Jesuits gave me a classical education. Duntroon was a masterclass in character. Formidable soldiers reviewed the script for me, then defended it from others. Amanda Jolly, Elizabeth Jameson and QT; Max Lambert, David Williamson, Karen Rodgers and Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company lit a path to the main stage.

But the hero of this journey is director Lee Lewis. Paratroopers are trained to

jump by night, heavy with equipment; the wind-rushing blackness made light by courage and conviction.

Lee Lewis radiates these qualities.

She is the play’s champion and chalk leader. I can’t wait for her to bring this story home.

First Casualty is not a documentary or official history. It is fiction; imagined away from reality to seek out and close with something more elusive.

The Army has never been more remote from most Australians. Trust is eroding on both sides, though one can’t survive without the other. I wrote the play for my friends and family, to experience among our community; to bridge the distance between caste and country.

If it falls short the fault is mine alone.

First Casualty is an elegy, a play within a play. An artefact emerging from the mud. Perhaps the writing will survive.

For the fallen.

... the Australian public's need to understand our military involvement in Afghanistan has never been greater.

Lee Lewis Director

It’s been seven years since I first read Christopher Johnston’s play in the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award shortlist. The world has changed a lot in that time, but the urgency, the purpose and the integrity inside First Casualty have never waned.

The voices of Australian soldiers in this story have grown stronger and clearer and braver, the complexity of the circumstances they were caught in has grown more nuanced, and the Australian public's need to understand our military involvement in Afghanistan has never been greater.

Bringing this new work to the stage over the years has involved support from battalions! Griffin Theatre and Playwriting Australia, many meals and cups of tea with generous people who offered cultural, musical, dramaturgical, and language insights, the extraordinary leap of imaginative faith made by the Landmark Production Fund donors, enthusiastic sponsorship by BDO and Board Matters, the knowledge of many many soldiers, the permission of the Army, the talent of so many actors in developments, and finally the crazy passionate commitment of the creative

team who gathered to make the production you see tonight — 12 actors, 12 creatives and the might of the entire Queensland Theatre production team — all deployed to tell this story.

As I wonder at the journey Christopher and I have gone on, I think back to my first reading of the script when I heard in his writing voices and ideas I had never seen on the Australian stage before. The chance to bring this soldier’s words to life so that we as a community can start to talk better about our involvement in the war in Afghanistan is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Rarely does fiction in the theatre matter so much to so many people. This play does not pretend to be definitive: it offers few answers but raises many questions. I look forward to the conversations it invites.

Sophocles was a general and a playwright. The combination is rare.

And valuable. Not only in the time he lived in but for future generations.

Around the world. Thank you Christopher, for your military service obviously, but for your artistic courage.

— Lee

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Mitchell Bourke, Steven Rooke

Ahead of the official start of rehearsals for First Casualty, the core cast went out on a three-day bootcamp with Australian veterans to get them ready to accurately portray ADF soldiers on the stage. The training program downloaded an enormous amount of information to the actors, including detail focused tasks like proper gun control, how to wear the uniform, and the process of going out on patrols.

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Mitchell Bourke

Steven Rooke, Mitchell Bourke

Reagan Mannix

Christopher Johnston Writer Christopher Johnston was raised in the theatre, then trained as a classical musician before joining the Australian Army in 2004. He went on to serve as a cavalry troop commander, linguist, paratrooper, civil affairs and intelligence officer; with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now a Lieutenant Colonel, his military honours include the Conspicuous Service Cross. Christopher is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, the Royal Military College Duntroon and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is the Australian Army Attaché (designate) to Japan.

First Casualty is his debut play.

Lee Lewis Director Queensland Theatre: Bernhardt/Hamlet, 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-Lies-Bleeding, 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; The Hayes Theatre Company: 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.

Nigel Poulton Movement and Fight Director Queensland Theatre: Boy Swallows Universe, Triple X (with Sydney Theatre Company), City of Gold (with Griffin Theatre Company), Scenes from a Marriage, Hydra, Black is the New White, Noises Off! (with Melbourne Theatre Company), Jasper Jones, Much Ado About Nothing, Switzerland, Macbeth, Fractions.

Other credits: Sydney Theatre Company: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Top Coat, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Grand Horizons, Appropriate, Playing Beatie Bow, Rules for Living, The Deep Blue Sea, Lord of the Flies, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, How to Rule the World, Mary Stuart, Dinner, The Harp in the South Part One and Part Two, The Long Forgotten Dream, Blackie Blackie Brown (with Malthouse), Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Saint Joan, Speed the Plow, Three Sisters, Dinner, Muriel’s Wedding The Musical, Black is the New White, A Cheery Soul, The Golden Age, The Present, Switzerland, Macbeth, Noises Off, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Removalists, Romeo & Juliet, Romeo & Juliet (Education); The Finnish National Ballet: Spartacus (2021); Australian Ballet/GWB Entertainment: An American in Paris; Australian Ballet: Spartacus; Metropolitan Opera: Carmen, Don Giovanni, Il Trovatore; Opera Australia: Faust, Cavalliera Rusticana & Pagliacci, Krol Roger, La Boheme, La Traviata, Carmen, Tosca; Opera Queensland: Tosca; Bell Shakespeare: The Lovers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Miser, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Dream, Macbeth, Julius Caesar; As You Like It, Servant of Two Masters; La Boite: Artists Company (202122), Tiddas, An Ideal Husband, The Last Five Years, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Blackrock, Prizefighter, Richard III, Cosi, A Hoax, Julius Ceasar, Hamlet; Belvoir: Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Wayside Bride, At What Cost, Isaac Drandic, Belvoir Theatre, Cherry Orchard, Miss Peony, My Brilliant Career, Cursed!, My Brilliant Career, Cursed, Packer and Sons, Things I Know To Be True, Counting and Cracking, Dance of Death, Sami in Paradise, The Sugar House, A Taste of Honey, An Enemy of the People, Prizefighter; Melbourne Theatre Company: Shakespeare in Love, Noises Off, Three Little Words, Jasper Jones, Hamlet, Queen Lear, Realism, Cyrano de Bergerac; Sugary Rum Productions/Sydney Opera House: Rent;

Film/TV: Nautilus, Deadloch, Poker Face, Thor: Love and Thunder, Escape From Spiderhead, Occupation: Rainfall, Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge, Deadline Gallipoli, The Water Diviner, Winter’s Tale, Vikingdom, Salt, I Am Legend, The Bourne Legacy, Sea Patrol, The Good Wife, Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, 30 Rock, Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Training: Certified Intimacy Director and Intimacy Coordinator, IDC; Fight Master, Society of American Fight Directors; Fight Director, Society of Australian Fight Directors; Honorary Fight Director, Fight Directors Canada, advanced training in Theatrical Biomechanics. Positions: Teaching NIDA, AFTRS, ACA, USQ; President, Society of Australian Fight Directors. Awards: Green Room Award — Outstanding Contribution to the Stage.

Renée Mulder Designer Queensland Theatre: Return to the Dirt, Prima Facie (with Griffin Theatre), Boy Swallows Universe (with QPAC and Brisbane Festival), Triple X (with Sydney Theatre Company), Mouthpiece, The Effect (with Sydney Theatre Company), Nearer the Gods, An Octoroon, Rice (with Griffin Theatre), Sacre Bleu and Fat Pig. Other credits: As Designer: Sydney Theatre Company: Grand Horizons, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Banging Denmark, Perplex, The Torrents (with Black Swan Theatre), Black is the New White, Hamlet Prince of Skidmark, Orlando, Battle of Waterloo, Perplex, Mariage Blanc, The Effect, The Long Way Home, Dance Better at Parties, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Splinter and The Bleeding Tree (with Griffin Theatre); Melbourne Theatre Company: Home I’m Darling, Arbus and West; La Boite: As You Like It, Ruben Guthrie, I Love You Bro; Griffin Theatre: Dogged, Prima Facie, Rice, The Bleeding Tree, The Boys, Hoax; Bell Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.

As Costume Designer: Sydney Theatre Company: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Playing Beatie Bow, The Harp In The South, Saint Joan, Top Girls, Chimerica, Endgame, Children of the Sun, Vere (Faith) (with State Theatre Company of South Australia). As Set Designer: Sydney Theatre Company: Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (with La Boite). Training: National Institute of Dramatic Art; Queensland College of Art. Positions: Sydney Theatre Company Resident Designer (2012-14); Member (2016-17), Queensland Theatre’s National Artistic Team (2016-17). Awards: Renée has won two Sydney Theatre Awards, a Greenroom Award and a Matilda Award.

Paul Jackson Lighting Designer Queensland Theatre: Our Town. Other credits: As Lighting Designer: The Australian Ballet; Royal New Zealand Ballet; Berlin Staatsballett; West Australian Ballet; Victorian Opera; West Australian Opera; Sydney Theatre Company; Melbourne Theatre Company; Gordon Frost Organization; TML; The Production Company; Bell Shakespeare; Playbox; Malthouse; Belvoir; Ballet Lab; Lucy Guerin Inc.; Chunky Move; World of Wearable Art New Zealand; Kage; Australian Art Orchestra; La Mama; Not Yet It’s Difficult; Chamber Made Opera. As Designer and Co-Designer: Belvoir; Malthouse; Berlin Staatsballett; La Mama; Melbourne Workers’ Theatre; Chunky Move; Lucy Guerin Inc; Ranters, Not Yet It’s Difficult; Melbourne Museum; Griffin Theatre Company. Training: University of Melbourne; RMIT. Positions: Australia Council of the Arts fellowship (2017); Artistic Associate (2007-13), Malthouse Theatre; Founding Member, Not Yet It’s Difficult performance group. Awards: Helpmann Award — Best Lighting Design Little Match Girl; Sydney Theatre Awards — Best Lighting Design The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Love and Information; Green Room Awards — Best Set Design I Am A Miracle; Best Lighting Design It Just Stopped, Body of Work, Recital, Away, Testament of Mary, Melancholia; Best Cabaret Design – Gotharama; Gilbert Spottiswood Churchill Fellow (2007); Australia Council Fellow (2017); Australian Production Design Guild Awards — Best Lighting Design Love and Information, Away, The Testament of Mary, Solaris; Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland — Best Lighting Design Solaris; an additional four Helpmann Award Nominations and thirty-two Green Room Award Nominations.

Brady Watkins Sound Designer Queensland Theatre: A Dream Play, Othello, Bernhardt/ Hamlet, Metamorphoses, Moth, Wisdom, The Trial. Other credits: La Boite: The Last Five Years, Away, Bigger and Blacker, The Neighbourhood; Dead Puppet Society: SWARM, The Wider Earth (2022 National Tour); THAT Production Company: Sea Wall; Refraction Theatre: The Revisionist; Rocket Boy Ensemble: Reagan Kelly. As Sound Operator —

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Reagan Mannix

Queensland Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (with STCSA), Triple X, Our Town, Antigone; Woodward Productions: Sweet Charity, Edges: A Song Cycle; Underground Broadway: Spring Awakening, Don’t Call Me Ishmael; La Boite: Neon Tiger. As Sound Consultant — Queensland Theatre: The Almighty Sometimes, Robyn Archer: An Australian Songbook, White Pearl, Taming of The Shrew, Triple X, Our Town, The Holidays, Antigone. Training: Bachelor of Music Technology, Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Awards: Nominated — Best Sound Design — Sea Wall. Positions: Composer/Sound Designer — Artist Company, La Boite (2021-22).

Recordings: Michael Longoria: Like They Do In The Movies, The ViewUpStairs, Clinton, Fancy Nancy. Television: Carols in The City. Training: Bachelor of Music (Voice/Conduction and Piano), Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Positions: Faculty Music Director (2013–21), Molloy College.

Dan Venz Choreographer

Queensland Theatre: Bernhardt/Hamlet, After the Ball. Other credits: As Composer: The Boy From Oz. As Co-Writer: Hot Shoe Shuffle.

As Musical Director: Opening and Closing Ceremonies of The XXVII Olympiad; The 2002 Commonwealth Games; The 2006 Asian Games.

As Musical Supervisor: Hairspray; Fame; King Kong Live; Strictly Ballroom — The Musical; Expo 2020. As Composer: Hayes Theatre: Miracle City, Darlinghurst Nights; Sydney Opera House: Miracle City; Griffin Theatre Company: Ladies Day, Diving for Pearls; Merrigong: Letters to Lindy; Bell Shakespeare and Griffin Theatre Company: The Literati. Film: Happy Feet, The Last Days of Chez Nous. Television: As Musical Director (1992-2000), Pianist (1991-2005), and Self (1993-97), Play School.

Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other credits: shake & stir: Fourteen; Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University: 42nd Street, Grease (QPAC), Heathers The Musical; Woodward Productions: A Very Naughty Christmas Cabaret Series, Sweet Charity, Yank! A WWII Love Story; Oscar Production Company: Boy&Girl Cabaret Series, Next To Normal, Spring Awakening; Brisbane Festival/Oscar ProCo: Razzle Dazzle Riot, Divine Bar and Arcadia Revellers; Melt Festival/Brisbane Powerhouse: Six Inches, Seven On Sinatra; Wax Lyrical Productions: Carrie! The Musical; Hayward Street Theatre: Footloose, The Drowsy Chaperone, Legally Blonde, Xanadu; Jally Entertainment: Margaret Fulton The Musical; Pen2Stage: Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid; Nickelodeon and Nick Jr.: Dora The Explorer, Shimmer & Shine, Paw Patrol Live Shows; Andrew Kay and Windmill Theatre Co.: Bluey's Big Play -Development; Wonderland Festival/Jacqueline Furey: Würst Almost All Male Review. Positions: Dance Director, Creative Generation-State Schools Onstage/QLD Government; Director, A Very Naughty Christmas 1-6.

James Dobinson Musical Director & Orchestration

Craig Wilkinson Video Designer

Queensland Theatre: Twelfth Night. Australian Credits: Powerhouse Theatre: Joh for PM!; Princess Theatre: Moonshadow; 12th Night Theatre: Dumped! The Musical; Queensland Performing Arts Centre: Defying Gravity; Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma: When We’re Gone, Mann… and Wife, Loch Lomond (Development); Crown Uptown Theatre: Hairspray, Spring Awakening, Shrek, White Christmas; The Tony Kiser Theatre: Between the Lines; Lynn Redgrave Theatre: The View UpStairs; New World Stages: Clinton The Musical; The Other Mirror Theatre: Between Gods & Kings; Network Touring: The Band’s Visit.

Queensland Theatre: Boy Swallows Universe, The Mountaintop, Gasp!, Country Song. Other credits: David Venn Enterprises: Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical; Matt Ward Productions: Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical; shake & stir: Fourthcoming, Green Day’s American Idiot, Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox, A Christmas Carol, Wuthering Heights, 1984; Broadway Entertainment Group: Dein Perry’s Tap Dogs; Circa/Aardman Animation: Shaun The Sheep’s Circus Show; La Boite Theatre: Prize Fighter, Pale Blue Dot; Queensland Music Festival: Frank & Fearless, The Night Parrot, Help Is On Its

Max Lambert Music

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Way, Voices of Remembrance, One Hundred and One Years; Opera Queensland: Hansel & Gretel, Candide, La Bohème (realisation), FiZZ!; The Good Room: Let’s Be Friends Furever, I’ve Been Meaning To Ask You; Polytoxic: Snapshot; Leah Shelton: Terror Australis; Counterpilot: Avoidable Perils; Empire Theatre: We Will Rock You; Black Honey Company: One The Bear; Ocean Park Hong Kong: Viva Spectacular, Cyber Illusion Spectacular. Training: Bachelor of Theatre Arts, University of Southern Queensland. Positions: Creative Director, optikal bloc; Accredited Member, Australian Production Design Guild; Seasonal Lecturer in Live Performance Video Design, QUT. Awards: Australian Production Design Guild – Video Design for a Live Performance or Event Boy Swallows Universe (2022), Avoidable Peril’s (2021); Matilda Awar — Video Design Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox; Matilda Award — Video Design A Christmas Carol; Adelaide Fringe ­— John Chataway Innovation Award Terror Australis; Matilda Award — Gold Matilda, Body of Work Pale Blue Dot, The Mountaintop, Wuthering Heights, Gasp!, 1984; Matilda Award — Best Technical Design Pale Blue Dot.

Jake Lodder Associate Video Designer Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other credits: As Associate Video Designer: David Venn Enterprises: Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical; Empire Theatre: We Will Rock You; optikal bloc: High School Musical, The Addams Family.

As Assistant Video Designer: Matt Ward Productions: Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical. As Video Director/Vision Switcher: Toowoomba Regional Council: Mayoral Carols.

As Camera Operator: QPAC: Spirit of Christmas.

Training: Bachelor of Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland. Positions: Associate Video Designer (2022), optikal bloc; Senior Editor, Thru A Lens Media.

Lucy Kelland Stage Manager Queensland Theatre: Chroma Town, A Dream Play, We Are the Mutable, Witches Can Be Burned. Other Credits: As Stage Manager: Potted Productions: Potted Potter — The Unauthorised Harry Experience; Western Standard Productions: Dirty Fame Flash Candles Club; Queensland Performing Arts Centre: Various; Candy Shop Show: Speakeasy, The Jazz Age, Sugar Sugar!, Up, Up & Away, Showstoppers; Pengelly Productions: The Lounge Suite; Tim McCallum Productions: The Crooners; Jubilee: Jali; Brisbane City Council: Yum Chat, Amigurumi Toyland, Rhizome; Assembly Festival: Edinburgh Festival Fringe. As Assistant Stage Manager: Queensland Theatre: Antigone; Queensland Performing Arts Centre: Armistice, The Arrival, The Spirit of Christmas; Jack Morton Worldwide: GC2018 Commonwealth Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies. Positions: Associate Producer, Wynnum Fringe; Production Coordinator, Jack Morton Worldwide; Program Coordinator, Brisbane Festival.

Bridget O’Brien Assistant Stage Manager Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other credits: As Assistant Stage Manager: Opera Australia: La Traviata, Mefistofele (2022). As Stage Manager: Opera Queensland: The Sopranos (2022); Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University: Iolanthe, Mr Burns, The Deepest Deep, Street Scene, Measure for Measure, Val Machin Scenes 2021, The Rover, Dido and Aeneas, Béatrice et Bénédict. Training: Bachelor of Music in Performance (2018); Stage Management Apprenticeship, Berlin Opera Academy (2019); Stage Management Apprenticeship, Komische Oper Berlin (2020).

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Christen O'Leary, Trent Owers, Arwin Arwin, Amer Thabet

Arwin Arwin Mohammed

Mitchell Bourke Captain Trent Kelly

Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other credits: La Boite Theatre Company; Queensland University of Technology; Queensland Museum. Film: My Dawning, Hello. Training: Griffith University (Film and Writing). Awards: Queensland Multicultural Film Festival - Best Up and Coming; People’s Choice Award; Best Short Film Award My Dawning; Gold Coast Film Festival (SIPFest) — Best Film Showcasing Surfers Paradise Hello.

Queensland Theatre: Return to The Dirt. Other credits: shake & stir: Fourteen; Ad Astra Theatre Company: Jingle Bells Sucks Baubles; The Australian Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice; QUT: Eurydice, Breaking the Code, Anna Karenina, Children of the Sun. Film: A Royal in Paradise, Delete Ignore, Tallebudgera Road, Solicit, A Heart for Vendetta, Terrannum.

Television: The Family Law, Diary of an Uber Driver. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, QUT; Australian School of the Arts.

Will Bartolo Corporal Nick "Woodsy" Woods Queensland Theatre: The Almighty Sometimes. Other credits: Australian Chamber Orchestra: How to Catch a Star; Bell Shakespeare: Play in a day - The Alchemist, The Players; The New Theatre The Angry Brigade; Fledgling Theatre Company: Appropriation; WAAPA: The Crucible, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Importance of Being Earnest, As You Like It, A Dream Play, Momentum, Remarkable, Stuff Happens. Short Film: Cut, Yannis, FILCH. Training: Bachelor of Arts (Acting), WAAPA. Positions: Teaching Artist (2022), Bell Shakespeare.

Christopher Johnston, Mitchell Bourke

Adam Kay Journalist/Morghan Bros/Ensemble Queensland Theatre: The Laramie Project. Other credits: Israeli National Theatre: Ghetto, Punk Rock; AADA, NY: The Cherry Orchard, Look Homeward Angel, Seven Sisters, Once a Catholic, The Merchant of Venice, Blast Radius; Dreaming Child Productions: Hiding Behind; QCGU: Philistines, Twelfth Night, The Rover, Mr Burns; Founder of Dreaming Child Productions.

Writing: Hiding Behind, The Cave, Lament, La Boite Assembly. Training: Bachelor of Acting, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (QCGU); Associate of Occupational Studies, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York.

Reagan Mannix Sapper "Thommo" Kent Queensland Theatre: Two Weeks With The Queen (Play Club Reading). Other credits: La Boite Theatre: Away; QUT: Gloria, Children of the Sun, Twelfth Night, The Laramie Project, Lungs, Algorithm.

Television: Boy Swallows Universe, Young Rock, The Family Law. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), QUT.

Theatre Company: Triple X, Threepenny Opera. As Associate Director: QPAC & Myths Made Here: Cinderella. Film: Australia Day, Pinch Me. Television: Upright S2, Hoges, Wentworth, Rush, Neighbours, Blue Heelers, MDA, Worst Best Friends, Crashburn, Seachange. Awards: Helpmann Award — Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Gold Matilda Award — End of the Rainbow; Green Room Award — Best Female Actor in a Featured Role Company, A Little Night Music. Training: Diploma of Arts (Creative), USQ.

Reza Momenzada Ali

Trent Owers Bucko/Chorus/Dance Captain

Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other credits: Critical Stages: Homebody/Kabul (Reading); Outhouse Theatre: Gloria; The Old Fitz: The Humans.

Darlinghurst Theatre Company: The Sound of Waiting. Awards: Glug Awards Nomination — Most Outstanding Performance by a Newcomer The Sound of Waiting.

Christen O'Leary Brigadier Michaela Cain/Lucy/ Psychologist Queensland Theatre: Triple X, Mouthpiece, Antigone, Twelfth Night, Scenes from a Marriage, Much Ado About Nothing, Ladies in Black, The Seagull, Gloria, End of the Rainbow, Bombshells, The Marriage of Figaro, The Game of Love and Chance, The Crucible, Seven Little Australians, The Cherry Orchard, A Month in the Country, Gilgamesh, The Woman Before, The Sunshine Club. Other credits: La Boite: An Ideal Husband, Away, Blackrock, Medea, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Melbourne Theatre Company: Assassins, The Rover, Cosi, Wednesday to Come, Gift of Gorgon, Ruby Moon, Don Juan in Soho, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Little Night Music, The World’s Wife, Man the Balloon, Comedy of Errors, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Company; The Production Company: The Boy From Oz, High Society, Hello Dolly; Malthouse Theatre: Ruby Moon, Tear From a Glass Eye, Porn Cake, Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd; Sydney

Queensland Theatre: The Sunshine Club (2022). Other credits: Ivers Productions: Finesse Burlesque Australian Tour; M.A.T: Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Qld Tour; Matt Ward Entertainment: Wicked, RENT, The Real Housewives of The Gold Coast; Draculas: Sanctuary, Muertos; Woodward Productions: BARE: A Pop Opera; Technicolour Theatre Company: A Midsummer Nights Dream; 4. Stage Productions: Blue Murder; The Hawth: La Cage Aux Folles UK; Film: Mistletoe Ranch, Heart Of The Man, Lumber, The Nutcracker and The Four Realms, Stan and Ollie. Television: In Our Blood, Joe vs Carole, My Mad Fat Diary, Undercover, Terra Nova.

Silva Pearce Abdul/Ensemble Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other credits: Monnot Theatre: Dare to die, Assumption; Brisbane Powerhouse: Wonders of a Godless world, Ostande Impar, Desire; Griffith University Theatre: Vagina Monologues; La Boite Theatre Company, The Village. Training: Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary and Applied Theatre, Griffith University.

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Steven Rooke Sergeant Jack Hunter

Amer Thabet Malim Khan

Queensland Theatre: The Odd Couple, Gasp, Gloria, Macbeth, 1001 Nights, Kelly (Brisbane Season and National Tour), The Removalists, An Oak Tree, Fat Pig, The Exception and the Rule, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome (with Bell Shakespeare), No Man’s Land (with Sydney Theatre Company).

Other credits: shake & stir: Animal Farm; That Production Company: Sea Wall; La Boite: Julius Caesar, 48 Shades of Brown; QPAC Out of the Box: Boat; 23rd Productions: The Pillowman; Baran Theatre: Tower of Babel. Film: Last Ark, Forever First Love, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Blurred, Footy Legends.

Short Film: Fall From a Height, Transmission, Quiet, You’ll Wake Up The War. Television: Harrow, Hoges, Schapelle, Always Greener, Home and Away, Beastmaster, All Saints, Comedy Inc. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Queensland University of Technology. Awards: 2011 Matilda Award — Outstanding Body of Performance Work Julius Caesar, No Man’s Land and The Removalists; 2011 Matilda Award - Best Supporting Actor No Man’s Land; 2010 Queensland New Filmmakers’ Award - Best Actor in a Main Role Quiet: You’ll Wake Up The War; 2009 Matilda Award — Best Actor in a Main Role The Pillowman.

Queensland Thearte: Debut.

Other credits: La Boite: The Neighbourhood; Metro Arts: The Revisionist; HIDA: Building Number 22, The Black Minister, Justice of Life. Screen: Head and Tail (Syria); The Welcome: La Boite short film.

Training: Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, Damascus, Syria.

Kevin Spink Journalist/Ensemble Queensland Theatre: Antigone, Twelfth Night, St Mary’s in Exile, Kelly, Gloria, Macbeth. Other credits: La Boite: An Ideal Husband, Away, Colder; Dead Puppet Society: The Wider Earth; Hive Collective: Conviction; The Good Room: Rabbit; QSO: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; 23rd Productions: The Ugly One, My Night with Harold; DeBase: Ithaca Road; Harvest Rain: Peter Pan; Imaginary Theatre: Tashi; The Forward Movement: Magda’s Fascination with Wax Cats, Laramie Project; Three Sisters: Bronte; The Restaged Histories Project: The Last Days of the New Theatricals; AndMoor Theatre: Beautiful; Zen Zen Zo: Dracula, Romeo & Juliet. Film: Thirteen Lives, Celeste, The Moths Will Eat Them Up. Television: Mako Mermaids, Parer’s War, Heartbeat. As Director/ Writer: A Man and a Cat, Emma.

Mitchell Bourke, Amer Thabet

Mitchell Bourke, Amer Thabet, Will Bartolo, Adam Kay, Arwin Arwin, Reza Momenzada, Trent Owers

Reza Momenzada

Our second landmark production of the year, First Casualty, is making its world premiere thanks to the generosity and support of our Visionaries family and the Landmark Productions Fund.

With the help of all our supporters, we’ve been able to fulfil our shared vision to develop and present significant works of scale for Queensland audiences. We look to 2023 with great anticipation for our next landmark production, Vietgone by Qui Nguyen, directed by powerhouse duo Daniel Evans and Ngoc Phan, to be presented at the Playhouse, QPAC in November.

Tim Fairfax AC & Gina Fairfax AC Ian & Cass George Elizabeth Jameson AM & Dr Abbe Anderson The Mather Foundation Liz Pidgeon & Graeme Wikman Bruce & Sue Shepherd Trevor St. Baker AO & Judith St. Baker 2 Anonymous

Together we are making our ambitions a reality For more information about our giving programs, please contact Zoë Connolly, Director of Development, on 07 3010 7602 or zconnolly@queenslandtheatre.com.au

Thank you to our donors Queensland Theatre wishes to extend a heartfelt thanks to all our donors. Each gift, large and small, helps us make great theatre.

QUEENSLAND THEATRE VISIONARIES Rainmakers Tim Fairfax AC & Gina Fairfax AC Ian & Cass George The Jelley Family Foundation

Pamela Marx Cathryn Mittelheuser AM Liz Pidgeon & Graeme Wikman

Trevor St. Baker AO & Judith St. Baker

Elizabeth Jameson AM & Dr Abbe Anderson

The Mather Foundation Bruce & Sue Shepherd

Keith & Jeannette Ince Colin & Noela Kratzing Karl & Louise Morris Nigel & Liz Prior

Dr Marie Siganto AM Courtney Talbot

Dr Anita Green Dr Geoffrey Hirst AM & Dr Sally Wilde Amanda Jolly & Peter Knights David & Katrina King Dr Joan M Lawrence AM Stephen & Terry Leach

Judith Musgrave Family Foundation Nicklin Medical Services Greg & Wendy O'Meara John Reid AO & Lynn Rainbow-Reid AM Stack Family Foundation

Rachel Crowley Lisa Domagala Andrew & Leonie Douglas Alan Galwey Sharon Grimley & David Readett Geoff & Michele James Susan Learmonth & Bernard Curran

David & Erica Lee Andrew & Kate Lister In memory of Jann McCabe Charles & Catherine Miller Monica Muggeridge Debra & Patrick Mullins Blayne & Helen Pitts John Richardson & Kirsty Taylor

Artistic Director's Circle 2 Anonymous Barbara Bedwell Barbara Duhig

Leaders 1 Anonymous Nic Christodoulou The Frazer Family Foundation John & Gay Hull

Benefactors Christopher & Margot Blue Dr John H Casey Russell & Joan Dart Davie Family Foundation Wesley Enoch AM & David McAllister AC Ian & Ruth Gough

Collaborators 1 Anonymous Tracey Barker Noela Bartlett Sarah Bradley Sue Brown & Lisa Worner Phillip Carruthers & Sharni Cockburn Rodd & Wendy Chignell Sheryl Cornack

Annual donations over $500 are acknowledged in play programs for 12 months from the date of donation.

Acknowledging Visionaries who individually support special Queensland Theatre funds: Landmark Productions Fund

Patrons 6 Anonymous Anne & Peter Allen J M Alroe Roslyn Atkinson AO & Richard Fotheringham AM Michael & Anne Back Jennifer Batts Dr Glenise Berry & Dr Damien Thomson Virginia Bishop Andrew & Trudi Bofinger Robert Bond Suzanne Boulter Nicholas & Sharon Bryant Julian Buckley & Bec Langdon John & Lynnly Chalk Zoë Connolly Harvey Cooper-Preston Kerry & Greg Cowderoy Bruce & Helen Cowley

Dr Genevieve Dingle Michael Farrington William Glasson AO & Claire Glasson AM Dr Sara Gollschewski Meta & John Goodman Merrilyn & Kevin Goos Helen Gough Mike Gowan Catherine & Nanda Gulhane Prof Lawrence Hirst & Mrs Jill Osborne Kevin & Joanne Holyoak Patricia Jackson Marc James Tempe Keune Karen & Peter Lane Fred Leditschke AM & Margaret Leditschke Lee Lewis & Brett Boardman

Mrs Maria & Dr Bill Lindsay Greg Livingstone Barbara Lloyd John & Janice Logan The Lynas Family Marina Marangos Bill McCarthy Sandra McCullagh Glenn McIlroy John & Julienne McKenna Kate McLoughlin Mark Menhinnitt Andrea Moor Philip & Fran Morrison Naomi Murphy R & B Murray Denise O'Boyle Kartini Oei Kathryn Panaretto Parascos Eagles Family Lynette Parsons

Jill Paterson Dr Joanna Peters Katharine Philp G. Pincus Catherine Quinn Angela Ramsay Janet & Alec Raymond Tim & Kym Reid William Rivers Crispin Scott Jodie Siganto Nick & Barbara Tate Richard Whittington OAM David Williamson AO & Kristin Williamson Dr Peter & Mary Wilson Dr Catherine Yelland Ian Yeo & Sylvia Alexander Richard & Carol Yaxley Tony & Linda Young

Gregory & Michele Endicott Elizabeth Flynn Nerida Fox Sandra & Malcolm Gay Toni Glynn Gail Goodair Merrilyn Goos Louise M Gourlay AM Kathleen Grace Ruth Hamlyn-Harris Daryl & Trish Hanly David Hardidge Andrew Harding Fotina & Roger Hardy Jean & Herbert Heimgartner Stephen & Yvonne Henry Judith Hoey & John White Jodie Hoff Leslie & Pamela Hussey-Smith Gregory Ingram Anne Jackman & David Chappell Grace Kahlert Michael & Karlie Keating David Kelly Helen Kerr & John Ratcliffe Jan Kitchin

Marie Krestan Nicole La Rosa Catriona & Rob Labrom David Levitt Ranjeny & John Loneragan Dr Linda Lorenza Fiona Lowes Paul MacMahon Sue & Ted Marchant Brian & Noreen McCarthy Deborah & Patricia McGill Warren McKean Loraine Mclaren Anthony Mellick & Sue McCormick Mary Milanovic Valerie Miller Valma Millican Janette Moore Lyndall Morgan Jim Murphy PSM Judith Murphy Susan Musgrave Patricia Neely Alison Nicol Darryl Nisbet Kathy Noble optikal bloc Dr Kris Plummer Glenda Powell Tina Previtera

Wendy Price Joanne Rennick Karen Roberts Leona Romaniuk Lyn & Joanne Scott Barbara Searle Marianna Serghi & Harvey Whiteford Suzanne Sheridan & Peter Hastie Antonia Simpson Bronwyn Springer Michael Stewart Nicole Stimson Annette Stoddart Katherine Stuart & John Preston Dr Josephine Sundin Anthony & Catherine Tannenberg Chris & Jenny Tanner Mrs Jacky Upcroft Jankees Van Der Have Kevin Vedelago & Karen Renton Trish Wadley Jacqui Walters John White & Judith Hoey R & P White

Supporting Cast 23 Anonymous Virginia Allen Paul & Monica Banister Jennifer & Leigh Bayley Geoffrey Beames Chris & Patty Beecham Trudy Bennett Penny Bond Helen Bowskill & Peter Vallance Victoria Cardell-Ree Rita Carter-Brown Kay & Sarah Margaret & Michael Clancy Ross & Tina Claxton Bob Cleland Ralph Collins Lydia Commins Dr Jan Connors Jennifer Cooper Erin Coster Pauline Crowe Tom & Judith Cullinan Debra Cunningham Cherie Davis Leanne de Souza Michael DeLacy Amanda Dines & Graham Hook Yanni Dubler Joanne Eager Robert Ellis & Michelle Skene

TRUST AND FOUNDATION PARTNERS Australian Communities Foundation – Davie Family Fund Australian Communities Foundation – Keith & Jeannette Ince Fund

Copyright Agency Cultural Fund Shepherd Family Foundation Tim Fairfax Family Foundation

Information correct as of November 2022.

William Angliss (Queensland) Charitable Fund

BEQUESTORS

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Thank you This year, our family of supporters has played a vital and active role in helping us rebuild our theatre and reopen our doors. From volunteering during our clean-up callout to digging deep for our Flood Appeal, together we have achieved so much.

Thank you all for believing in the importance of theatre and supporting our performances and programs in 2022. Join us as we create more magic and bring the joy of live theatre to more audiences in 2023.

We warmly invite you to join our family of philanthropic and corporate supporters in 2023. For more information, please contact our Development team at development@ queenslandtheatre.com.au or 07 3010 7614.

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Mitchell Bourke

FROM OUR PRODUCTION PARTNER At BDO, we are proud to be a long standing partner of Queensland Theatre and the arts in Queensland. People are at the heart of our approach and we recognise the valuable role the arts community plays in bringing people together and connecting communities, whist celebrating our rich cultural heritage and inspiring innovation.

Our Brisbane office has been helping Queensland organisations for more than 100 years. Drawing on our thorough understanding of the State’s market, along with the capability and depth of our global organisation, our people deliver the ideas their clients can trust to guide them on their journey – wherever they want it to take them.

Whether you are running a business, leading a major organisation, or you need advice just for you, our team of 77 Partners and more than 635 staff across Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast has the expertise you need.

We hope you enjoy the performance!

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Mitchell Bourke, Steven Rooke

FROM OUR PRODUCTION PARTNER Board Matters is very proud and excited to support Queensland Theatre. It’s never been more important to support a vibrant performing arts community in Queensland. The arts make us think, feel and understand whilst giving us insight into who we are or who we could be, as an individual and as a community.

For over 20 years, Board Matters have been helping boards and organisations understand who they are and who they could be with our industry-leading corporate governance solutions.

We are a team of specialists practised in the art of directorship for better organisational performance. Getting the right cast around the board table is a great start. But getting them working from the same script demands great skill. We are deeply experienced, practicing directors ourselves, and know the challenges of the board room, first-hand.

Intent on creating value for every single client we work with, we deliver solutions as bespoke and as unique as you are.

Enjoy the performance!

Jennifer Robertson Managing Director, Board Matters.

PATRON Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PSM, Governor of Queensland FOUNDING DIRECTOR AIan Edwards, AM, MBE (1925–2003) MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Elizabeth Jameson AM (Chair) Dean Gibson (Deputy Chair) Tracey Barker Mundanara Bayles Liz Burcham Associate Professor Stephen Carleton Rachel Crowley Simon Gallaher Susan Learmonth INDIGENOUS REFERENCE GROUP Judge Nathan Jarro Mundanara Bayles (Chair) Dr Valerie Cooms Isaac Drandic Dean Gibson Michael Tuahine Roxanne McDonald ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Lee Lewis

VENUE AND BAR MANAGER (MATERNITY LEAVE) Kimberley Mogg VENUE AND BAR MANAGER Peter Carroll MARKETING AND TICKETING DIRECTOR OF MARKETING (MATERNITY LEAVE) Laura Oliver DIRECTOR OF MARKETING David Graham MARKETING MANAGER (MATERNITY LEAVE) Maneka Singh MARKETING MANAGER Cinnamon Smith MARKETING ASSISTANT (DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT) Thomas Manton–Williams MARKETING ASSISTANT Nikolina Gagic GRAPHIC DESIGNER (MATERNITY LEAVE) Sarah Gannon GRAPHIC DESIGNER Kristina Humberstone PUBLICIST IVY PR DATABASE SUPERVISOR Jeffrey Guiborat

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Amanda Jolly

TICKETING SUPERVISOR Madison Bell

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Pete Sutherland

TICKETING COORDINATOR Dan Sinclair

HUMAN RESOURCES AND GOVERNANCE MANAGER Donna Maher ARTISTIC ARTISTIC ELDER Roxanne McDonald ASSOCIATE ARTIST Isaac Drandic LITERARY ADVISOR Dr Julian Meyrick DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Zoë Connolly CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER Merryn Csincsi GRANTS AND CONTENT WRITER Yvonne Henry DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Jade Rodrigo FINANCE AND OPERATIONS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Christopher Blow FINANCE OFFICER Sarra Lamb ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT Wendy Harris FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS MANAGER Jake Cook

TICKETING OFFICER Ngaire Lock SEASON TICKETING Myk Brown, Sophia Hodych, Oliver Hughes, Milena Barraclough Nesic, Liam Sceriha, Ellie Waddingham, Hannah Wilson PRODUCTION DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL AND PRODUCTION Daniel Maddison TECHNICAL MANAGER Chris Goeldner TECHNICAL COORDINATOR Harry Provins PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Mia McGavin SOUND ASSOCIATE Brady Watkins HEAD OF WORKSHOP Peter Sands COMPANY CARPENTER/ HEAD MECHANIST John Pierce COSTUME SUPERVISOR Nathalie Ryner WARDROBE COORDINATOR Barbara Kerr PROGRAMMING SENIOR PRODUCER Helen Hillman

CASTING MANAGER Samantha French PRODUCER, NEW WORK Shari Irwin ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR Jane Youngs EDUCATION, YOUTH AND REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR, EDUCATION, YOUTH AND REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT Laurel Collins DIRECTOR, EDUCATION, YOUTH AND REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT (ACTING) Emma Funnell ASSOCIATE ARTIST Steve Pirie YOUTH PROGRAM COORDINATOR Alana Dunn ADMINISTRATION COORDINATOR Abigail Taylor QUEENSLAND THEATRE PRODUCTION STAFF CARPENTERS Chris Maddison, Tim Pierce SCENIC ARTIST Leo Herreygers CUTTERS/COSTUME MAKERS Kiara Bulley, Leigh Buchanan, Millie Adams COSTUME MAKER/MILLINER Cody Newnham WARDROBE MAINTENANCE Tracey Leino ART FINISHERS Olga Dumova, Zena O’Shannessy WARDROBE DRESSER Adrian Teveluwe ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER/ DRESSER Nicole Neil MAKEUP CONSULTANT Yentl Shi WIG AND HAIR STYLIST Rebecca Anthony SOUND OPERATOR Mick Trevisan RADIO MIC TECHNICIAN Linus Monsour VIDEO OPERATOR/ SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN Sam Maher PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN Chris Conway SET ELECTRICS Lachlan Cross LIGHTING PROGRAMMER Tim Gawne LIGHTING OPERATOR Lauren Sallaway PROPS Adrian Davis

MUSICIANS CONDUCTOR/KEYBOARDS James Dobinson FLUTE & PICCOLO Rhoslyn Carney OBOE Ruby Cooper CLARINETS & SAXOPHONES Diana Tolmie, Karen Corkeron BASSOON Glenn Prohasky FRENCH HORNS Neil Favell, Ian O'Brien TRUMPETS Bob Schultz, Chris Hudson TROMBONES Trevor Beyer, Todd Burke TUBA Sean Burke GUITARS & BANJO Joel Woods BASS GUITAR Annie Silva DRUMS Alanna Richie VIOLINS Jonny Ng, Helena Wang VIOLA Anna Colville CELLO Katherine Philip DOUBLE BASS Samuel Dickenson VOCALISTS Beau Wharton, Harry Pitts, Nate Stevenson, Etuate Lutui ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HERO, REHEARSAL AND BOOTCAMP PHOTOGRAPHY Brett Boardman Special thanks to Scott Johnson, Rowan Chapman, Reza Momenzada, Liz Buchanan, Jeremiah Wray, Jayden Popik, Arwin Arwin, Amer Thabet, Abdul Ibrahimi, Mohammad Ali, Matt Cardinaels (CSM), Mailan Noori, Chris Mead, Julian Meyrick, Brooke McElligott, Barbara Kerr, Bryan Probets, Griffin Theatre Company, Australian Plays Transform, Guy Webster at Hunting Ground Studios, Matthew Gray Mastering, Christine Castley, Janet Mhindurwa and Poppy Browne from Multicultural Australia, and QSMC (Physiotherapy).

Film footage AWM F09580 and F09579 provided and authorised by the Australian War Memorial.

Information correct at time of printing.

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