Family Values program

FAMILY VALUES DAVID WILLIAMSON’S

DIRECTED BY LEE LEWIS

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Sit back and relax while we take care of any feisty family disagreements on the Bille Brown stage. Amanda Jolly

Executive Director

Welcome to Season 2023. How was your festive break? If it was filled with family gatherings, hopefully they were genial and devoid of infighting, squabbling and drama. Either way, how better to open our exciting year of plays than by inviting you to sit back and relax while we take care of any feisty family disagreements on the Bille Brown stage. Played for laughs, of course.

One of our greatest playwrights, the inimitable David Williamson has a long history with Queensland Theatre. The Company’s first Williamson production was in 1975, with his groundbreaking work The Removalists at the SGIO Theatre, and since then we have staged some 20 of his plays. Family Values is the latest in David’s repertoire, and it has all the hallmarks of classic Williamson — a cast of all too recognisable characters thrown together in a one-room crucible, where their differing opinions and values do battle, with no quarter asked or given. And as ever, David is able to capture the zeitgeist of our nation at any given

time, delving into overarching issues that matter to us, now, as Australians.

Bringing David’s words to life is a cast made up of familiar faces: Peter Kowitz, Andrea Moor, Helen Cassidy, Leon Cain, Amy Ingram and Jodie Le Vesconte, joined by Sepi Burgiani, who is making her Queensland Theatre debut. Under Lee’s inspired direction, the comic skills of this extraordinary group of actors is on full display for our enjoyment. We’ll all feel at home in the classic Queenslander setting, designed by Renée Mulder, lit by Ben Brockman and filled with Tony Brumpton’s evocative music and sound.

It just remains for me to thank our production partners for this play, BDO and Board Matters, whose invaluable support is greatly appreciated. With that, the table is set, the celebration is about to begin — so leave all the yelling and screaming to us and enjoy watching the chaos unfold!

— Amanda

BILLE BROWN THEATRE

DAVID WILLIAMSON’S

FAMILY VALUES

Roger is turning 70. No gifts and no fuss. Quality family time. That’s all he wants from his wife Sue and their three children. Maybe some balloons. It is a party after all.

But Emily, Lisa and Michael have other ideas. Lisa is on a mission to save Saba, a detention centre escapee. All they need are the keys to dad’s holiday home and they’ll be on their way. Michael has found religion and is now following God’s plan. Emily’s marriage has fallen apart with new love found in Noeline, a Border Force boat Commander. A simple family birthday get together, right?

It’s like your worst family Christmas lunch where deeply held beliefs are pulled apart and long-held resentments resurface. Crackling dialogue, perceptive insight and fierce humour that skewers hypocrisy. Classic Williamson.

CREATIVES

Director Lee Lewis Set and Costume Designer Renée Mulder Lighting Designer Benjamin Brockman Composer/Sound Designer Tony Brumpton

Stage Manager Grant Gravener Assistant Stage Manager Bridget O'Brien

CAST

Saba Sepi Burgiani Michael Leon Cain Lisa Helen Cassidy Emily Amy Ingram Roger Peter Kowitz Noeline Jodie Le Vesconte Sue Andrea Moor

LOCATION

Queensland Theatre 78 Montague Road South Brisbane

DURATION

1 hour and 30 minutes with no interval.

WARNINGS

This play contains dead black outs and the use of balloons, one of which pops on stage.

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

Is a peaceful family gathering too much to ask for on your birthday?

David Williamson Writer

Family Values is a play about a family in turmoil.

In families there’s typically a lot of love and a lot of warmth but also sibling rivalry, parental tension and buried secrets and this family is no exception. They are gathered together to celebrate the birthday of their 70-year-old patriarch, retired Federal Court judge Roger Collins, but the arrival of a totally unexpected guest increases the normal family tensions tenfold. They are all forced to face a moral dilemma that’s faced so many over the centuries. Do we obey the law when the law itself is patently immoral or do we follow our conscience? For Roger, who has upheld the law all his life the dilemma is particularly acute, but his resolute wife Sue and his outspoken children ensure that dodging the issue is not an option. Family Values is essentially a drama but even in the direst of circumstances the antics of our species can’t help being often bizarrely funny. Welcome to the Collins family. Perhaps a little bit like yours.

— David

Peter Kowitz, Andrea Moor

Andrea Moor, Sepi Burgiani

Lee Lewis Director

How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you understand who David Williamson is in the history of Australian theatre? You don’t of course. You just sit back and enjoy one of his plays. His writing is so discussed, examined, critiqued, disassembled and evaluated it’s enough to make you forget that his writing is just meant to be played. Often the scripts themselves are not great reads on the page. They are, instead, great invitations to actors to animate the words with all their craft, passion and humanity; to create great characters and let them rip. For all the precision of his writing, David offers such freedom to actors in creating the emotional life of their characters that the stories become like great big playgrounds filled with people we know.

Aye, there’s the rub… people we know. Watching a David Williamson play is a peculiarly Australian experience. A delightfully, frustratingly, shamefully, hysterically, confrontingly Australian experience. He sees us. He records us. He satirises us. He accuses us. He challenges us. He makes us laugh

Watching a David Williamson play is a peculiarly Australian experience. A delightfully, frustratingly, shamefully, hysterically, confrontingly Australian experience.

at ourselves. He has high hopes for us. He always has. He has known us, written us, longer than any other playwright in the country. In the world. Maybe it’s the fact that he still has hope that draws us back to David’s writing again and again. He’s not delusional — he sees our worst parts. But he has always believed in the possibility of change for the better. That belief sits at the heart of Family Values and is possibly why I love it so much.

To create a state of the nation play set around a dining table in Ashgrove, to break our hearts, to tell us some home truths and most importantly make us laugh, all in ninety minutes, in real time… that is the craft of one of our greatest playwrights. But don’t take my word for it. Watch the play, it’s all in there. He didn’t write it for some director to bang on about, he wrote it for you, his beloved audience. It has been a real privilege to bring it to the stage with this gorgeous cast for you.

Enjoy.

— Lee

Creatives

David Williamson Writer

David Williamson is Australia’s best known and most widely performed playwright. Some of his 56 produced plays over the last 50 years include The Coming Of Stork, The Removalists, Don’s Party, The Club, Travelling North, Money & Friends, Dead White Males, The Jack Manning Trilogy, Up For Grabs, Emerald City, Soulmates, Nothing Personal, When Dad Married Fury, Rupert, Cruise Control, Dream Home, Odd Man Out, Sorting Out Rachel, Nearer the Gods, The Big Time and Crunch Time.

His plays (also in translation) have been performed internationally, including in London, Los Angeles, New York and Washington.

David has adapted many of his plays into feature films to great acclaim and his many original feature screenplays include Gallipoli, Phar Lap, The Year of Living Dangerously, Balibo (as cowriter) and On The Beach (adapted for television).

David’s many awards include 12 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, 5 Australian Film Institutes’ Awards for Best Screenplay and, in 1996, the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award.

Lee Lewis Director

Queensland Theatre: First Casualty, 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.

Renée Mulder Set and Costume Designer

Queensland Theatre: First Casualty, Return to the Dirt, 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, Fat Pig Other credits: As Designer: highlights include 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, 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). Positions: Member of National Artistic Team (2016-17), Queensland Theatre; Resident Designer (2012-14), Sydney Theatre Company. Awards: Renée has won two Sydney Theatre Awards; a Greenroom Award and a Matilda Award.

Benjamin Brockman Lighting Designer

Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other credits: Griffin Theatre Company: 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, Tinder Box; Hayes Theatre Company: Carmen Alive Or Dead, Razorhurst; Belvoir 25a: Horses, Jess & Joe Forever, Greater Sunrise; Ensemble Theatre: Tribes, The Big Dry, The Plant, Neville’s Island; Pinchgut Opera: Farnace; Critical Stages:

Alphabetical Sydney; CDP: Are we there yet?, Guess How Much I Love You, Spot Live On Stage; Sydney Mardi Gras Festival: Sissy Ball 2022, Sissy Ball 2020; Campbelltown Arts Centre: Mirage; Apocalypse: Cleansed, Metamorphoses, Angels In America Parts 1 And 2; Bakehouse: Coram Boy, Dresden, Visiting Hours, The Laden Table, Jatinga; Squabbalogic: The Day of the Triffids development, Good Omens The Musical development, Herringbone, Grey Gardens The Musical, Man Of La Mancha; Little Eggs Collective: Symphonie Fantastique; Legs On The Wall: Cat’s Cradle, The Raft, Waters Edge; Shaun Parker & Company: In The Zone, King; Dance Makers Collective: The Rivoli; Green Door Theatre: Omar And Dawn; Steps And Holes: 21 Forester Street, La Voyage; Bontom: Chamber Pot Opera, Chamber Pot Opera UK; Unhappen: Cough, Kill The PM, Mr. Kolpert, The Lightbox, Labyrinth, Animal/People.

Peter Kowitz

Tony Brumpton Composer/Sound Designer

Queensland Theatre: As Composer and/or Sound Designer: Chroma Town, We are the Mutable, Taming of the Shrew, Mouthpiece (with QPAC), Antigone, City of Gold (with Griffin Theatre Company), The Wider Earth (with Dead Puppet Society), Tartuffe (with Black Swan Street Theatre Company), Quartet, The Odd Couple, Grounded, Gasp! (with Black Swan Street Theatre Company), The Mountaintop, Australia Day, Black Diggers (with Sydney Festival), Design For Living, Other Desert Cities (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Managing Carmen (with Black Swan Street Theatre Company), Tides, Pygmalion, No Man’s Land (with Sydney Theatre Company), Sacre Bleu!, Macbeth (with Brisbane Festival), Fat Pig, The Little Dog Laughed, The Crucible, God of Carnage (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), I Am My Own Wife, Private Fears in Public Places, Absurd Person Singular, The Removalists, Waiting for Godot, Hurry Up and Wait (with Debase Theatre Company), Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed, Beckett x3, Maxine Mellor’s Mystery Project (with State Library of Queensland), Constellations (Queensland Theatre Youth Ensemble). As CoSound Designer: Rice (with Griffin Theatre Company), The August Moon, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome: A Shakespeare Commentary (with Bell Shakespeare Company), Stones in his Pockets. Other credits: Dead Puppet Society: Holding Achilles, Hive Mind, Laser Beak Man, Mega Fauna, The Harbinger, The Timely Death of Victor Blott; Brisbane Festival: Freeze Frame, King Here After; La Boite: The Time is Now; Jute: Queenslander; White Rabbit Theatre Company: The Grand; Centenary of Canberra Festival: Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters Songlines); I-Pin Lin’s Productions: Bamboo, Harmony, 4orces, 1984-2005; QUT Dance: Neural dust, Current, Accented Bodies, Altered States. Positions: Affiliate Artist (2014), Associate Artist/Head of Audio (2011), Emerging Artist (2010), Queensland Theatre; Resident Artist, Dead Puppet Society; Founder, Tone Black Productions; Lecturer, QUT.

Grant Gravener Stage Manager

Queensland Theatre: Othello. Other credits: As Stage Manager: Sun Opera: The Nurses at Vung Tau (World Premiere Brisbane 2022); Opera Australia: As Stage Manager Swing: The Phantom of the Opera (Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour 2022); Gordon Frost Organisation: As Venue Manager: Magic Mike Live (Sydney/ Melbourne Tour 2021); Cirque du Soleil: As General Stage Manager: Corteo Arena Version (Montreal Restaging/North American and European Tours 2018–2020), Luzia (Montreal Creation/North American Tour 2016–2017); As General Stage Manager/Artistic Assistant: Corteo (North American/Japanese/European/South American Tours 2007–2015); As Assistant Stage Manager: Quidam (Asia-Pacific Tour 2005–2006).

Bridget O'Brien Assistant Stage Manager

Queensland Theatre: First Casualty. 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).

Lee Lewis, Leon Cain, Helen Cassidy, Jodie Le Vesconte

Sepi Burgiani Saba

Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other credits: Noosa Arts Theatre: Money and Friends, Three Wives and a Funeral; Blue Room Theatre: The Secretaries; Chico State Theatre: Arabian Nights, Revengers Tragedy, A Doll’s House, Chamber Music, Anonymous Writing: Chico State Theatre: Phase Forward. Training: Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, Chico State University.

Leon Cain

Michael

Queensland Theatre: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Taming of The Shrew, The 39 Steps, Kelly, An Oak Tree, Orphans, Man Equals Man, School Of Arts, That Face, Away (25th Anniversary National Tour), Oedipus The King, A Winters Tale. Other credits: La Boite Theatre Company: Summer Wonderland, The Wishing Well, I Love You Bro (2010, 2012 National Tour); Shake and Stir: Fourteen, The Twits (2022), Fantastic Mr Fox (2019, 2020, 2022), George’s Marvellous Medicine (2016, 2017, 2018 national tour), Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts (2014, 2015, 2019 National Tours), Endgame (2016), Out Damn Snot (2013); Melbourne Theatre Company: North by Northwest (with Kay McLean Productions); Dog Spoon: Two guys in a Box (with Brisbane Festival); NIDA: Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo (Director’s piece); Someone Productions: He Died With a Falafel in his Hand; Oscar Theatre Company: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Merrigong Theatre Company: Thieves Like Us; Brisbane Powerhouse: Oman Ra (with Adelaide Fringe); Metro Arts: The Boy and the Goat. Film: Sit. Stay. Love., Mental, Nice Package, The Suicide Theory, Sisters of War (ABC telemovie). Television: Young Rock, Harrow, Safe Harbour, Terra Nova, The Straits, H2O Just Add Water. Awards: Matilda Award – Best Actor I Love You Bro (2010); Lord Mayor’s Fellowship Award (2006); Sydney Theatre Critics Award –Best Newcomer (2006).

Helen Cassidy Lisa

Queensland Theatre: Boston Marriage, The Glass Menagerie, The Seagull, Orphans, Man Equals Man, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Backseat Drivers, Absurd Person Singular, An Oak Tree, Long Days Journey into Night (with Bell Shakespeare); Scapin (with State Theatre Company South Australia). Other credits: La Boite Theatre Company: As You Like It, Rio Saki and Other Falling Debris, The Wishing Well (with Matrix Theatre Co), The Drowning Bride (with Matrix Theatre Co), Post Office Rose (with Dogs in the Roof); Shake and Stir: Fourteen, Fantastic Mr Fox; Debase Productions: Furze Family Variety Hour, Death in a Statesman; Western Standard Productions: Dirty Fame Flash Candles Club; Shock Therapy: Medea; 4MBS Shakespeare Festival: Midsummer Night’s Dream; Sydney Cabaret Festival: Cheeky Cabaret; Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre: The Cult of Dionysus, Unleashed, Steelflesh; Metro Arts: The Waiting Room; Grin and Tonic: Schools Touring, Various productions; Strut n Fret Production House: Schools Touring, various, Adelaide Fringe; Pretend Productions: Erotic Intelligence for Dummies, Glitter and Dust, Statuesque (European tour); La La Parlour: Tarnished (Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Fest). Film: Thirteen Lives, Australia Day, Sisters of War, The Contents Television: Wanted, Through My Eyes. Training: QUT Acting; Ecole Phillipe Gaulier (UK); Keith Johnstone; Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre. Awards: Lord Mayor’s Performing Arts Fellowship (2000); Matilda Award – Best Actress The Glass Menagerie, Best Supporting Actress Post Office Rose, The Drowning Bride.

Amy Ingram

Emily

Queensland Theatre: Bernhardt /Hamlet, The Odd Couple, The Seagull, Trollop, Seeding Bed, Fat Pig. Other credits: Shake and Stir: Fourteen, Out Damn Snot; MML Worldwide: Magic Mike Live; 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; QPAC: Cinderella (with Myths Made Here); La Boite Theatre Company: Blackrock, The Tragedy of King Richard The Third, Cosi; Metro Arts Awkward Conversation: Medea Redux; The Old Fitz: Low Level Panic (with Justin Martin); Elbow Room: We Get It; Adelaide Fringe: Tracksuit Girl (with Rebecca Meston). TV/Media: In Our Blood, Boy Swallows Universe, Young Rock, Joe Vs Carol, Mabo, Camp, Harrow, Bull, Freudian Slip (web series), Beyond Stranger Lands (Audible Book). As Co-Creator: The Good Room: 80’s Power Moves, 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. Positions: Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director, The Good Room; Co-Founder, Myths Made Here; QLD Equity Branch Council; CoDirector, National Young Writers Festival (2007/2008). Awards: Sydney Theatre Award – Best Theatre for Young People I’ve Been Meaning To Ask You (2020); Matilda Award –Best Female Actor in a Leading Role Cinderella (2019), Best Emerging Artist Fat Pig and Single Admissions (2010).

Queensland Theatre: Death of a Salesman, Butterflies Are Free, One Day of the Year, The Removalists, The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet, Kingdom of Earth Other credits: Melbourne Theatre Company: Heisenberg, Double Indemnity, The Weir, Australia Day; Sydney Theatre Company: Blackbird, Tot Mom, Australian Graffiti, Talk, Mariage Blanc, Australia Day; Ensemble Theatre: Taking Steps, Happiness, The Ninth Step, Emerald City, Blinded by the Son, The Deal, Rough Justice, Table For One; Bell Shakespeare: King Lear, The Alchemist; Griffin Theatre Company: The Floating World, Burning, Strange Attractor; Hayes Theatre Company: Miracle City; Railway Street Theatre: The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Away, Twelfth Night, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Much Ado About Nothing, Falling on my Left Ear; STCSA: The Wild Duck, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Creditors Australia/NZ Tour: Girl from the North Country Television: Janet King 1, 2 &3, Crownies, Packed to the Rafters, City Homicide.

Peter Kowitz Roger

Helen Cassidy, Jodie Le Vesconte, Amy Ingram, Peter Kowitz

Amy Ingram, Andrea Moor

Awards: Sydney Theatre Awards – Best Actor Floating World; Australian Film Institute – Best Performance by an Actor Body Surfer, Best Lead Actor The Long Way Home; Variety Club Heart Award – Television Actor of the Year.

Jodie Le Vesconte Noeline

Queensland Theatre: The Shot, The Memory of Water, Constance Drinkwater and the Last Days of Somerset, The Orphanage Project, Phaedra, The Threepenny Opera. Other Credits: Shake and Stir: Jane Eyre; Metro Arts: Anatomy of a Suicide; Illawarra Performing Arts Centre: Lost Boys; RealTV: War Crimes, Hoods, Children of the Black Skirt, Princess of Suburbia; Malthouse Theatre: Happiness, Turbine; Sydney Opera House: Shape of a Girl; Seymore Centre: The Trouble With Harry; My Darling Patricia: Africa. Film: Bigger Than Tina, Inspector Gadget 2, Sizzler ‘77 Training: Queensland University of Technology (Acting). Awards: Matilda Award – Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role 2021 Anatomy of a Suicide

Andrea Moor Sue

Queensland Theatre: Hedda, Switzerland, Design For Living, Romeo & Juliet, Pygmalion, An Oak Tree, Let the Sunshine (with Melbourne Theatre Company), The Crucible, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,

Absurd Person Singular, Vincent in Brixton.

Other Credits: La Boite: The Narcissist; Kooemba Jdarra: Bitin’ Back; …and Moor Theatre: Tender; Griffin Theatre: Myth, Propaganda & Disaster, Flame, The Return, Kayak, Witchplay, Away; Sydney Theatre Company: Furious, The Visit, Titus Andronicus, Re-Create the Rehearsal, Siren, An Ideal Husband, Emerald City, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The Game of Love & Chance, Woman in Mind, Map of the World; Ensemble Theatre: The Old Boy, The Ninth Step, The Family, Diving for Pearls; Marion Street Theatre: The Newspaper of Claremont Street; NIDA Company: The Aunts Story; Pork Chop: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Film: Elvis, Mistletoe Ranch, A Royal in Paradise, Nims Island 2, Mental, Subdivision, Bitter and Twisted, Left Ear, The Man Who Sued God, Oscar and Lucinda, Soft Fruit, Strange Planet, Airtight, Round the Bend, Travelling North Television: Darby & Joan, True Colours, Harrow, Safe Harbour, Mortified, H20, Home & Away, All Saints, White Collar Blue, Backberner, Heartbreak High, Water Rats, GP, Flying Doctors, A Country Practice, Army Wives Positions: previous Resident Director, Associate Artist, Board Member, Queensland Theatre; current Associate Professor, QUT BFA Acting; Intimacy Coordinator (Intimacy on Set UK). Training: NIDA (BA Acting), Doctorate of Creative Industries (DCI QUT). Awards: Churchill Fellowship (2014); Marten Bequest Fellowship (1994); Edinburgh Fringe Festival – London Monthly Review Best Actress (1991), Matilda Award – Gold Matilda, Best Supporting Actress.

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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 Charles Passi

Michael Tuahine Roxanne McDonald

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Lee Lewis

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Amanda Jolly

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Pete Sutherland

HUMAN RESOURCES AND GOVERNANCE MANAGER Donna Maher

ARTISTIC ARTISTIC ELDER

Roxanne McDonald

ASSOCIATE ARTIST (CAIRNS) Isaac Drandic

ASSOCIATE ARTIST Daniel Evans

LITERARY ADVISOR

Dr Julian Meyrick

WRITING FELLOWSHIP ARTISTS

Claire Christian, Wendy Mocke

DEVELOPMENT

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 Olivia Hutchinson FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS MANAGER

Jake Cook

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 COORDINATOR

Hannah Wilson

GRAPHIC DESIGNER (MATERNITY LEAVE) Sarah Gannon GRAPHIC DESIGNER Kristina Humberstone PUBLICIST IVY PR DATABASE SUPERVISOR Jeffrey Guiborat

TICKETING SUPERVISOR Madison Bell TICKETING COORDINATOR Dan Sinclair

TICKETING OFFICER Ngaire Lock

SEASON TICKETING

Myk Brown, Sophia Hodych, Oliver Hughes, Milena Barraclough Nesic, Liam Sceriha, Ellie Waddingham.

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

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR

Jane Youngs

EDUCATION, YOUTH AND REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT

SENIOR PRODUCER, EDUCATION, YOUTH AND REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT

Eylece Blaikie

PRODUCER, EDUCATION, YOUTH AND REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT

Laurel Collins

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

CUTTER / COSTUME MAKER Kiara Bulley, Leigh Buchanan WARDROBE MAINTENANCE

Tracey Leino

PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN Lauren Sallaway

HEAD ELECTRICIAN / LIGHTING OPERATOR

Brandon Duncan

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PHOTOGRAPHY

Brett Boardman

VOICEOVER ARTISTS

Andrew Buchanan, Liz Buchanan, Bryan Proberts

Special thanks to Kerith Atkinson, Dot & John Mulder, Daniel Lopez & Eleanor Streatfield, Steve from The Barn (Recording Studio) .

Information correct at time of printing.

L-R (from top left) Helen Cassidy, Leon Cain, Amy Ingram, Sepi Burgiani, Andrea Moor, Peter Kowitz, Jodie Le Vesconte.