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.

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).

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.

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.