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Synopsis The requiem for the American Dream that defined the 20th Century As the death-rattle of American optimism echoes through the land of the Free Market, travelling salesman Willy Loman loses himself in the halcyon haze of the past. Once the king of the road, Willy is veering off it. Time was, he could sell anyone anything, and his reward was the whole package: wife, two sons, the car, the white picket fence. But now he’s feeling his years. He’s behind on the mortgage, he’s sidelined by his wet-behind-the-ears boss, and the final straw is when his adult son Biff – once a sporting prodigy, now a directionless disappointment – lands on the doorstep, further loosening Willy’s grip on the reality of his broken-down life. Arthur Miller’s towering classic is a timeless meditation on the human need to feel special, a withering commentary on capitalism, and a tragic portrait of a fallout between father and son.
Peter Kowitz, Angie Milliken
American Classic
Dream Sequence
1940s
Death of a Salesman By Arthur Miller Directed by Jason Klarwein
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CAST
09 February - 02 March Playhouse, QPAC
CHARLEY Charles Allen UNCLE BEN Kevin Hides WILLY LOMAN Peter Kowitz BIFF LOMAN Thomas Larkin HAPPY LOMAN/HOWARD Jackson McGovern LINDA LOMAN Angie Milliken THE WOMAN/MISS FORSYTHE Sarah Ogden BERNARD/STANLEY Ilai Swindells JENNY/LETTA Gemma Willing
ATTENDANCE INFORMATION Death of a Salesman will run for approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes including a 20 minute interval. WARNINGS This production contains smoke, haze and use of herbal cigarettes. The use of photographic or recording equipment is not permitted inside the theatre. Cover Photo: Tim Jones ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY Queensland Theatre would like to acknowledge the Jagera and Turrbal people who are the Traditional Custodians of this land. We pay our respects to their Elders both past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. RECYCLE THIS PROGRAM
CREATIVES DIRECTOR Jason Klarwein SET DESIGNER Richard Roberts ASSOCIATE DESIGNER/COSTUME DESIGNER Anthony Spinaze LIGHTING DESIGNER Verity Hampson SOUND & PROJECTION DESIGNER Justin Harrison STAGE MANAGER Marnie McDonald DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER Pip Loth ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Damian Tatum CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS VOICE AND DIALECT COACH Melissa Agnew DIRECTORIAL OBSERVATION Timothy Wynn DIRECTORIAL OBSERVATION Ellen Tuffley DIALECT COACH Melissa Agnew
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Welcome On the first day of rehearsals at Queensland Theatre we have a tradition where the Company and visiting artists
gather in the morning. As the Death of a Salesman team introduced themselves, classic character names rang out: Biff, Linda, Happy, Willy, Charley, Uncle Ben... Sam Strong Artistic Director
Hearing the reverberation of these names was a reminder of just how iconic Death of a Salesman is. From the specifics of mid-twentieth century America, Arthur Miller somehow created a great tragic story that has resonated louder and louder in the 70 years since it was first performed. I suspect the reason for this enduring appeal is the effect Death of a Salesman has on audiences who are lucky enough to see it performed. However near or far we might be (or think we are) from these characters, we all recognise something of ourselves. Death of a Salesman speaks across time to the love and lies at the centre of families, to the desire to live an authentic life, and to the sometimes crushing gap between our aspirations and our realities. As a result, it’s a uniquely powerful and moving experience. We’re thrilled that Director Jason Klarwein has assembled a team worthy of this monumental play. This is what a state theatre company does like no-one else: a grand classic, given a handsome production by a first rate team of artists at the height of their powers. You could see this show on Broadway or the West End or you could see it here. As we start the year it is my great pleasure to welcome RACQ in their new role as our Principal Partner. Thank you also to our Presentation Sponsor Ord Minnett and to our many other corporate and private supporters. And thank you finally to you, our audience. Enjoy the first instalment in our Season of Dreamers. Sam
American Classic
Dream Sequence
1940s
Director’s Note This year marks the 70th Anniversary of the
first performance of Death of a Salesman on
the 10th February 1949. For a modern play, this is a huge milestone and speaks to Miller’s craft as a writer and an observer of human nature. Jason Klarwein Director
Salesman is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century and for good reasons. Yet I can’t help wondering if it would make it past the development stage today. It has too many characters, at times it is politically incorrect and overall it is too masculine in parts for a contemporary committee of producers and dramaturgs. But probably most disturbing of all, is its form. On the page Miller has seamlessly constructed a time and place slippage that is, at first, very confusing to the reader. And in fact, some actors and producers in 1948 refused to work or fund the play because they thought an audience wouldn't ‘get it’. This demonstrates the prescience and progressiveness of Miller as a writer and one of the greatest thinkers and craftsmen of the theatre. Miller, like all great playwrights, had a keen sense of his society and its systems. He lived through the Great Depression, World War II and the rise of the individual consumer. He saw what unregulated capitalism could do to the common person and that the great ideals of democracy naturally don't go hand in hand with capital markets. That the nexus of a person’s identity and self worth are, as Willy Loman says, not only being ‘liked - but WELL liked’ and that ‘being liked’ is a form of currency itself. And like a good product, in order to be ‘well liked’, we must tell fantastical truths about ourselves to maintain our capital. Herein lies the fundamental existential problem for the modern individual. The inevitable crumbling of democratic ideals in favour of ‘late stage’ capitalism. The inevitable crumbling of self worth and community in favour of hollow
anxiety and FOMO (the Fear of Missing Out). That hyper-realistic lies will be told in order to maintain our societal and individual self worth. The examples of Trump, Lehman Brothers, the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/8 of which all evils are now forgotten, the Australian Banking Royal Commission, and the myriad of ‘social influencers’ online who have literally tied their faux physical identity and faux daily lives to the creation of capital through instant ‘likes’. That the perception of substance is more important than substance itself. This sounds as if Miller the ideologist is standing on his soapbox berating us for our complicity in these American Dreams. But now enter Miller the craftsman. In the documentary Arthur Miller: Writer his daughter and film maker Rebecca Miller asks her father, “How do you begin a play? Do you start with a character?” Miller, looking up from his other great passion, carpentry, says, “No. I start with a person. A human being!” And this is Miller’s great gift. Somehow, by sleight of hand he can take a person like Willy Loman, surround him with a tender, loving, embarrassing, exhausting, believable family and friends who make us laugh and gasp and sigh with recognition, and piece together the scaffolding and upholstery of a masterwork. Willy Loman is the great dreamer in each of us. The untapped potentiality in all of us. The belief in what our education system teaches us: meritocracy - work hard, dream big and of course you will rise. Then when you’ve ‘made it’ - leave a legacy. Miller takes Willy Loman, this washing machine of our human desires and disappointments in this hyper-capital democracy and pushes him to his logical end. A price tag. What is a human life worth?
‘Willy Loman is the great dreamer in each of us. The untapped potentiality in all of us. The belief in what our education system teaches us: meritocracy - work hard, dream big and of course you will rise. Then when you’ve ‘made it’ - leave a legacy.' – Jason Klarwein
Jason Klarwein
Arthur Miller: Attention Must Be Paid By Baz McAlister
When you think of Arthur Miller, what comes to mind? Is it the image of a lanky man, in thick-rimmed glasses that hide sparkling, intense eyes? The corner of his mouth upturned in a smirk, perhaps, or clasping a pipe? Do you think of him arm-in-arm with bombshell Marilyn Monroe, his second wife? Or as a principled rebel, standing up to the attack dogs of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the dark days of McCarthyism? Maybe he’s the man of the land, in a woodsman’s shirt, at home around tractors, who built a house and hand-planted 6000 pine trees on his farm? Miller led a life that defied labels. Born into a wealthy Polish-Jewish family in Harlem, New York, he seemed destined for luxury. But in Miller’s early teens, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 wiped out his father Isidore’s prosperous coat manufacturing business, and the young man was catapulted into the workforce, taking every menial job thrown his way, from truck driver to lab assistant, self-funding his education. At the University of Michigan, he discovered his knack for storytelling, both as a journalist at the school paper and as a budding playwright. His first play, No Villain, netted him the school's Avery Hopwood Award, and he returned back east to pursue a career writing for the stage.
A high school football injury excused Miller from the frontlines of World War II, so he spent the early 40s perfecting his craft in New York after marrying his university sweetheart, Mary Slattery, who supported and encouraged his writing career. They had two children, Jane and Robert. Miller’s second major play, The Man Who Had All the Luck, was his Broadway debut - and it was a disaster, running for only four performances and savaged by the critics. It wasn’t until 1947 that he truly ‘arrived’, with his hit All My Sons, winning him a Tony Award for Best Author, and marking his first collaboration with director Elia Kazan. Miller retreated from the whirl of Broadway to smalltown Roxbury, Connecticut, a couple of hours’ drive from New York, where he rolled up his sleeves and hand-built a cabin in which he wrote Act I of his next play, Death of a Salesman, in a day - finishing the rest in a matter of weeks. Again directed by Kazan, the play premiered in 1949 and was a smash hit, scooping multiple Tonys and a Pulitzer Prize. In 1953, Miller followed it up with The Crucible, partly as a scathing allegory of the anti-communist hysteria sweeping the United States at the time.
Thomas Larkin, Angie Milliken, Jackson McGovern, Ilai Swindells, Charles Allen
Peter Kowitz, Angie Milliken
In 1956, Miller began an affair with Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe - the pair had met some years before, when she was dating Kazan. He and Mary divorced, and he married Monroe - a relationship described by author Norman Mailer as the union of the Great American Brain and the Great American Body. That same year, Miller was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and ordered to name acquaintances who had been involved with Communism. He refused, and was found in contempt of Congress - a ruling that was later overturned. His turbulent marriage to Monroe lasted five years - during which Miller barely wrote a word, apart from the screenplay for 1961 film The Misfits, a vehicle for his wife. Around the time it was released, the pair divorced. Monroe, in the grip of addiction, would be dead within a year.
In 1962, Miller married Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath and he continued to write successful plays for four decades - however none hit the heady heights, either critically or commercially, of his late 1940s successes. Morath died in 2002, and Miller passed away at his Roxbury home in 2005, of heart failure, at the age of 89. The couple had two children - Rebecca Miller is a filmmaker and writer. Her younger brother, Daniel, has Down Syndrome and was institutionalised as an infant. His very existence was a virtual secret until after Miller's death.
A message from our Sponsor As Ord Minnett Executive Chairman, I am delighted to welcome you to Queensland Theatre’s production of Death of a Salesman.
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Arthur Miller
Jason Klarwein
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. October 2015 marked the centenary of his birth. His plays include The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The Archbishop’s Ceiling (1977), The American Clock (1980) and Playing for Time (1980). Later plays include The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), Mr. Peters’ Connections (1998), Resurrection Blues (2002), and Finishing the Picture (2004). Other works include Situation Normal, reportage (1944), Focus, a novel (1945), The Misfits, a screenplay and a cinema novel (1961), and the texts for In Russia (1969), In the Country (1977), and Chinese Encounters (1979), three books in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath. Memoirs include ‘Salesman’ in Beijing (1984), and Timebends, an autobiography (1987). Short fiction includes the collection I Don’t Need You Anymore (1967), the novella, Homely Girl, a Life (1995) and Presence: Stories (2007). Essay collections include The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (1978) and Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays 1944 – 2000, as well as the individually published On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001). Among other honors, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 for Death of a Salesman.
Queensland Theatre: As Director: My Name is Jimi, The 7 Stages of Grieving (with The Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe - National 2017 Tour and Origins Festival, London), St Mary’s In Exile,
PLAYWRIGHT
Kevin Hides
DIRECTOR
Much Ado About Nothing, Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, A Dream within A Dream, Orbit, This Hollow Crown. As Actor: Hedda, Twelfth Night, Once in Royal David’s City (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Riley Valentine and the Occupation of Fort Svalbard, The Odd Couple, The Seagull, Macbeth (with The Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe), Design For Living, Elizabeth - Almost By Chance a Woman, Fractions (with HotHouse Theatre), Faustus (with Bell Shakespeare Company), An Oak Tree, Macbeth, Thom Pain (based on nothing), A Streetcar Named Desire, God is a DJ, Phèdre, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Bash, Mad Hercules, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Shopping and F$$$ing, The Skin of Our Teeth. Other Credits: As Director: The Arts Centre Gold Coast: Oh the Humanity and Other Exclamations; The Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe: April’s Fool, Hoods, Lunatic, The Lover and The Loon, LIVID, I Am Macbeth, Sunburn, Island Home, Revolt, Inferno, VS, Super/Natural, Romeo and Juliet, The Zoo Story, The Trial, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As Actor: Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Peter and the Wolf, The Happiness Box, Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, The Carnival of the Animals, Tubby the Tuba; Bell Shakespeare: Henry IV; Sydney Theatre Company: A Streetcar Named Desire; Belvoir St Theatre: Paul, Capricornia, Maralinga; La Boite Theatre Company: The Glass Menagerie, Half and Half, Cosi; Adelaide Festival Centre: A Thing Called Snake; The Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe: The Trial, Monkey, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Richard the Third, The Winter’s Tale, Henry the Sixth, Romeo and Juliet, Seasons. Film: Celeste, The Baby Whisperer. Television: The Devil’s Playground, Illusion 5, Slide, Sea Patrol, Australia Remembers, Cybergirl. Positions: Resident Director, Queensland Theatre (2014 – 2015); Artistic Director, The Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe (2010– current); MEAA Queensland Branch Council (2011–current), MEAA National Performers Committee (2013–current), MEAA Federal Council Board Member. Awards: Matlida Award Nomination - Best Actor in a Lead Role Hedda; Queensland Reconciliation Award – My Name is Jimi; Helpmann Award Nomination – Best Male Actor Once in Royal David’s City; Logie Award – Most Outstanding Miniseries The Devil’s Playground.
Richard Roberts
Verity Hampson
Queensland Theatre: Noises Off, Much Ado About Nothing, Tartuffe, Design for Living, Managing Carmen, Fountains Beyond, The Sunshine Club. Other Credits: Melbourne Theatre Company:
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: As Lighting Designer: Sydney Theatre Company: Blackie Blackie Brown (with Malthouse), After Dinner, Machinal, Battle of Waterloo, Hamlet:
Last Man Standing, Soloman and Marion, The Gift, Frost/Nixon, Macbeth, Dreams in an Empty City, As You Like It, Hedda Gabler, The Sapphires, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman; Melbourne Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company: The Grenade, Australia Day; Melbourne Festival/ Sydney Festival: The Season; Playbox Theatre Company: Stolen, The Sick Room; Sydney Theatre Company: True West, Riflemind, Stones in His Pockets; Opera Australia: Rigoletto, Don Pasquale, My Fair Lady, The Pirates of Penzance, Die Fledermaus, La Sonnambula; New Zealand Opera: Rigoletto; Victorian Opera: Cunning Little Vixen, Nixon in China, The Magic Flute, Baroque Triple Bill, Don Giovanni, The Coronation of Poppea, The Marriage of Figaro; The Australian Ballet: Requiem, Molto Vivace, Raymonda,; West Australian Ballet: La Sylphide; National Institute of Circus Arts: Divino; Arts Asia Pacific: Avenue Q; TML: Fiddler on the Roof; Ambassador Theatre Group, UK: Riflemind. Television: The Battlers, Five Times Dizzy, I Own The Racecourse. Positions: Associate Professor, The School of Production at Victorian College of the Arts (Present); Head of Design, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2013-2015); Head of Design, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (1991-1996); Head of the School of Production, Victorian College of the Arts (2000–2007). Awards: Greenroom Awards - Best Design for Drama Stolen, Life After George; Best Design in Dance Requiem, Molto Vivace.
Prince of Skidmark, Little Mercy, Hamlet; La Boite Theatre Company: One The Bear, Blackrock, La Voix Humane; Belvoir: An Enemy of the People, Sami in Paradise, The Drover’s Wife, Faith Healer, Ruby’s Wish, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Ivanov, Is This Thing On?, Small and Tired; Griffin: The Bleeding Tree, A Strategic Plan, The Turquoise Elephant, The Boys, The Floating World; Sydney Chamber Opera: Fly Away Peter, In The Penal Colony; Sydney Dance Company: New Breed, PPY17; Bell Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Literati, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Malthouse: Fiery Maze; State Theatre Company of South Australia, Melbourne Theatre Company and Belvoir: Faith Healer. As Projection Designer: Belvoir: The Blind Giant is Dancing; Sydney Theatre Company: Little Mercy, Before/After, Leviathan, Like a Fishbone; Griffin: The Turquoise Elephant, Beached; Ensemble: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (co-design), Great Falls. Television: Live at the Basement, The Roast, The Crown Prince Awards. Awards: Sydney Theatre Award – Best Mainstage Lighting Design Blackie Blackie Brown, Machinal; Mike Walsh Fellowship.
SET DESIGNER
Anthony Spinaze
ASSOCIATE DESIGNER / COSTUME DESIGNER
Queensland Theatre: As Designer: Constellations, St. Mary’s in Exile, Love & Information, Switzerland. As Design Assistant: Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet. Other Credits: As Designer: La Boite Theatre Company: Blackrock, Lysa and the Freeborn Dames. Powerhouse/Jute: Joh For PM. Powerhouse/Matt Ward: Rent. NIDA: Spring Awakening, Capricornia, The Portrait of Dorian Gray. As Costume Designer: La Boite Theatre Company: The Mathematics of Longing. NIDA: Not Who I Was; Brevity Theatre: Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Space Cats. As Design Assistant: Opera Australia: Aida. Film: As Designer: TRIPLE J: Loose Change’s Grown Up. As Costume Designer: An Easy Death. As Costume Assistant: Riot. Awards: Matilda Awards Nomination – Best Costume Design Rent, Joh For PM; Matilda Awards Nomination – Best Set Design Switzerland; William Fletcher Foundation Award for Emerging Artists. Positions: Queensland Theatre: Resident Designer (2016). Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Design), NIDA; Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT.
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Justin Harrison
SOUND & PROJECTION DESIGNER
Queensland Theatre: As Sound & Projection Designer: My Name is Jimi, Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, The Landmine is Me, The 7 Stages of Grieving (with The Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe), Orbit. As Projection Designer: The Wider Earth (with Dead Puppet Society). As Sound Designer/Composer: 600 Ways to Filter a Sunset, Love and Information, Riley Valentine and the Occupation of Fort Svalbard, Much Ado About Nothing, Country Song. As A/V Consultant: The Longest Minute, 39 Steps, Switzerland. Other Credits: Dead Puppet Society: The Wider Earth UK, Laser Beak Man (with Brisbane Festival and La Boite Theatre Company); QUT Creative Industries: 3 Winters; The Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe: April’s Fool, 7 Billion Friends, Revolt, Inferno, Romeo and Juliet Must Die, I Am Macbeth, Livid, Super/Natural, Heartfail, Island Home, Romeo and Juliet versus The World, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth versus The World. Film: Tailgate, The Little Things, Conscience for Cambodia, Don’t Show Mother. Television: MirrorMirror, Mega Mechanics, Am I Perfect?, Snake Boss. Awards: Helpmann Awards Nomination (2018); Matilda Award (2016), Matilda Awards Nomination (2017); Brisbane Advertising and Design Club (2018, 2015), Brisbane Advertising and Design Club Nomination (2017). Training: Bachelor of Film and Screen Media Production, Griffith University.
Marnie McDonald STAGE MANAGER
Queensland Theatre: As Stage Manager: Twelfth Night, Queensland Premier’s Drama Awards 2016, Love & Information (Queensland Theatre Junior and Intermediate Youth Ensemble 2016), Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Honour, After The Ball (1998 remount and 1997 national tour). As Assistant Stage Manager: The Marriage of Figaro, After The Ball (1997), Julius Caesar (with Melbourne Theatre Company). Other Credits: As Stage Manager: Playbox Theatre Company: Competitive Tenderness, Pacific Union; Handspan Puppet Theatre Company: Dante: Through the Invisible; Bharatam Dance Company: Buddha – The Light of Asia, Boddhisatva, Krishna: The Celestial Dancer, Odissi: The Sensuous Spirit, The Speaking Tree, The Golden Lotus; Millennium Productions: Two. As Production Manager/ Stage Manager: Handspan Puppet Theatre Company: Viva La Vida! Frida Kahlo (including national tour); Bharatam Dance Company: The Churning of the Ocean; Arena Theatre Company: Electro Diva (including tour), Malache (including tour); Stable Productions: The Supper. As Production Manager: Handspan Puppet Theatre Company: The Kangaroo Tale. As Assistant Stage Manager: Melbourne Theatre Company: My Father’s Father. Positions: Project Manager, St. Martin’s Youth Arts Centre Melbourne.
Pip Loth
DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER
Queensland Theatre: As Stage Manager: My Name is Jimi, Constellations (Season and Queensland Tour), Riley Valentine and the Occupation of Fort Svalbard, Gloria. As Assistant Stage Manager: Hedda, Ladies in Black (2015), Country Song. As Set Builder: Macbeth. Other Credits: As Tour & Company Manager: Hi-5: Hi-5 Fairytale (Asia Tour). As Stage Manager: World Science Festival: Dear Albert; La Boite Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Motherboard Productions: Shimchong, Daughter Overboard!; EMS Entertainment: Barbie Live! The Musical (East Pacific Tour 2013 - 2014); Life Like Touring: Elmo’s World Tour, Dora the Explorer’s Pirate Adventure. As Assistant Stage Manager: Gordon Frost: Driving Miss Daisy; Dreamworks & Global Creatures: How to Train your Dragon – Arena Spectacular (North American Tour). As Follow Spot Operator: Brisbane Festival: FLOWN. Film: As Rigging Electrics: Nim’s Island, Terra Nova. Positions: Production Coordinator, Queensland Theatre; Stage Management and Technical Theatre Lecturer and Production Supervisor, University of Southern Queensland (2016); As Site Manager and Assistant Production Manager: Midsumma Festival; As AV Technician: Avcom. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production - Honours), Certificate II – Furniture Making & Finishing, Diploma of Live Production (Theatre & Events).
Marnie McDonald
Damian Tatum
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: As Stage Manager/Lighting Designer: Brisbane Festival: Umami Mermaids. As Co-Director/Stage Manager: Backbone Youth Arts: RIDE. As Assistant Stage Manager: Imaginary Theatre: The Voice in the Walls. As Assistant Director: The Danger Ensemble: Macbeth. As Dramaturg: RPAC/QUT: Bare Feet. As Sound and AV Technician: 2High Festival. As Costume/ Set Designer and Builder: Parallax Collective: TRAIN LINES. As Director/Designer: Independant: Unplugged (2018, 2016); FAST: WILD WEST. As Co-Designer/Set Builder: Melbourne Fringe Festival: Hi, Can I Help You. Awards: Darwin Fringe Festival Awards - Best Show: Theatre, Dance and Circus TRAIN LINES. Positions: Head of Productions, Vena Cava Productions (2015). Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama - Honours), QUT; Certificate II Live Productions, Theatre and Events.
Kevin Hides, Peter Kowitz, Thomas Larkin, Angie Milliken
Sarah Ogden
Charles Allen, Peter Kowitz
Charles Allen
Peter Kowitz
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Brisbane Powerhouse/Thomas Larkin: True West; THAT Production Company: The God of Carnage; Sport for Jove: Of Mice and Men; La Boite
Queensland Theatre: The Alchemist (with Bell Shakespeare), Butterflies Are Free, One Day of the Year, The Removalists, The Importance of Being Earnest, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Hamlet, Kingdom of Earth, School for Scandal, Savages, The Department, A Toast to Melba, Romeo & Juliet, Joan of Arc, The Last of the Knucklemen, For Years I Couldn’t Wear My Black, Season at Sarsparilla, Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Otherwise Engaged, Green Julia, Coralie, Lansdowne Says No, The Owl and the Pussycat, Maiden at the Gate, Punch and Judy, Spider’s Web, Jumpers, Arms and The Man, Good Works. Other Credits: Ensemble Theatre: Taking Steps, Happiness, The Deal, Table for One?, Emerald City, Ninth Step, Rough Justice, Blinded By The Sun; Sydney Theatre Company: Australian Graffiti, Talk, Marriage Blanc, Australia Day (with Melbourne Theatre Company), Blackbird; Melbourne Theatre Company: Double Indemnity, The Weir, As You Like It, The Changeling, Acts; Griffin Theatre Company: The Floating World, Burning, Strange Attractor; Hayes Theatre Company: Miracle City; Nimrod Theatre: Romeo & Juliet, The Choir, King Lear (with Bell Shakespeare); Kinsela Productions: Siren; Belvoir: Conqueror Cole; Railway St Theatre: The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Twelfth Night, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Falling on My Left Ear, Away; State Theatre Company of South Australia: The Wild Duck, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Creditors. Film: Black Fury, Stir, A Street to Die, Dear Cardholder, Spook, Page 73. Television: Janet King, Crownies, City Homicide, Packed to the Rafters, I Rock, Camp Orange – The Curse of the Emerald Eye, McLeods Daughters, All Saints, SUPERNOVA, Young Lions, The Restless Years, The Oracle, And the Meek Shall Inherit, The Timeless Land, A Town Like Alice, Cop Shop, A Country Practice, Pacific Drive, G.P., Ring of Scorpio. 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 - Television Actor of the Year.
CHARLEY
Theatre Company/Griffin Theatre: A Hoax; Odyssey Theatre: Love’s Uprising; Inglewood Playhouse: The Mighty Gents; Long Beach Playhouse: A Soldier’s Play; Shakespeare Festival Los Angeles: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Complex Theatre: Fences; Mojo Ensemble Theatre: The Mayor’s Limo; Gardner Stage: All Those Horses; Towne Street Theatre: Passing; Dallas Children’s Theater: Most Valuable Player; Company of Angels: Lucifer’s Lament; John and Juan Productions: John and Juan; Pinpoints Theatre: 1001 Black Inventions; We Tell Stories: We Tell Stories; Improv Olympic: Unbrindled. Film: Rise, Down In New Orleans, The Sleepless, 2 G’s and A Key, Makin’ Baby, Paramedics. Short Film: Adele, The Futurist, Pack, Sex Sells. Television: Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story, Arrest and Trial. Training: Eric Morris Actor’s Workshop; Upright Citizen’s Brigade; Kalmenson and Kalmenson; Beah Richards; Tony Greco; Tepper Gallegos.
Kevin Hides UNCLE BEN
Queensland Theatre: A Conversation, Sweeney Todd, Christmas at Turkey Beach, The Cavalcaders, The Threepenny Opera, Diving for Pearls, Romeo & Juliet, Money and Friends, Essington Lewis: I Am Work, On The Whipping Side, Seven Little Australians, A Month in the Country, Season’s Greetings, The Man From Muckinupin, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Loves Labour Lost, Who Cares?, Baby, Macbeth, The Three Sisters, Henry V, In Duty Bound, Much Ado About Nothing, Applause, Amadeus, Demolition Job, The Tempest, Hello Dolly, As You Like It. Other Credits: 4MBS Classic Arts Shakespeare Festival: The Comedy of Errors, Cribbie, Henry V; World Theatre Festival: The Trouble With Harry; La Boite Theatre Company: Closer (with Genre), Cosi; Harvest Rain Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night Theatre Company: Run for your Wife; QPAC: Over the Top with Jim, A Christmas Carol; Acronym: Cyrano De Bergerac; Metaluna Theatre Company: Summer of the Aliens, The Adman; Lyric Opera of Queensland: Carmen, The Abduction From The Seraglio, La Belle Helene, Die Fledermaus, Brigadoon, The Pirates of Penzance, The Maid of the Mountains, The White Horse Inn; Q Theatre: The Sentimental Bloke, Baby. Film: Fatal Honeymoon, A Heartbeat Away, Dartworth, Stage Fright, Through My Eyes, The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, Blurred, Mr Reliable, The Legend of Fred Paterson. Short Film: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, Twilight Tango. Television: Mabo, A Country Practice, Fat Cow Motel, Seconds to Spare, Cybergirl, Medivac, Fire II, Pacific Drive, The Last Resort, The Day of the Roses, Fire, Butterfly Island, Paradise Beach, Skippy, The Driver, Shark’s Paradise. Awards: Matilda Award – Outstanding Contribution to Queensland Theatre.
WILLY LOMAN
Thomas Larkin BIFF LOMAN
Queensland Theatre: Good Grief, The Wider Earth (with Dead Puppet Society and Sydney Festival), Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Lost Property Rules, Treasure Island (with Matrix Theatre Company). Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: The Wizard of Oz (with The Danger Ensemble for Brisbane Festival), As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Hamlet; The Good Room: I Just Came To Say Goodbye (with Brisbane Festival); Brisbane Powerhouse: True West, Sex With Strangers. Film: And The Winner Is, The Neon King, A New You. Television: Homecoming Queens, RUSH. Web Series: For A Good Cause, The Mother Load. Positions: Producer - True West, Sex With Strangers with Brisbane Powerhouse; Teaching Artist - Queensland Theatre, La Boite Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, NIDA, shake&stir theatre co., Backbone Youth Arts, Raw Dance Company. Awards: Griffith University - Most Outstanding Actor The Neon King; Brisbane City Council - Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship Recipient. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), Victorian College of the Arts.
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Jackson McGovern
Sarah Ogden
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Underground Broadway: This Is Our Youth; Little Match Productions (with Festival 2018 and Brisbane Festival): The Owl and the
Queensland Theatre: The Murder of Nellie Duffy (Creative Development), An Octoroon. Other Credits: Melbourne Theatre Company: The Crucible, Top Girls; Hayloft Project: Arden V Arden;
Pussycat; Metro Arts (with Rocket Boy Ensemble): Reagan Kelly; Rapidfire International: Alice in Wonderland Live (National Tour); Brisbane Powerhouse: Rent (with Matt Ward Entertainment), American Buffalo (with Troop Productions), Nineteen (with Wax Lyrical Productions); Creative Regions: White Rabbit Red Rabbit; The Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe: EPIC – Caucasian Chalk Circle, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth vs The World, Super/Natural, Romeo and Juliet vs The World, Island Home, Romeo and Juliet…and Bottom, Sunburn, Livid. Short Film: Flowers, Strange Aeons. Training: Bachelor of Musical Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University; ATCL (Performance and Teaching Musical Theatre, Speech and Drama), Trinity College London. Awards: Matilda Award Nomination - Best Supporting Actor American Buffalo, Matilda Award Nomination - Best Supporting Actor The Owl and the Pussycat.
La Mama: Heaven; Mutation Theatre: Love me Tender; Stuck Pigs Squealing: Night Maybe; Steam Productions: Ruby Moon; Arena Theatre Company/Malthouse: Moth (National Tour); Hoy Polloy: Electronic City; Winterfall Theatre: As You Like It; Bell Shakespeare: Actors At Work; Daniel Schlusser/ Store Room: Life is A Dream; QSE: The Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Mad Lear, Shakespeare’s Shorts; La Boite Theatre Company: The Final Bow - Farewell to Hale St; Gordon Frost: The Secret Garden (National Tour). Television: Stories I Want To Tell You In Person, The Wayne Manifesto. Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting), Victorian College of the Arts; Bachelor of Creative Industries (Theatre Studies), QUT. Awards: Orloff Family Charitable Trust Award (VCA); Green Room Nominations - Best Actress Moth, Best Ensemble Life is a Dream. Sarah has been a proud member of Equity since 1994.
Angie Milliken
Ilai Swindells
Queensland Theatre: The Effect (with Sydney Theatre Company). Other Credits: Sydney Theatre Company: The Real Thing, Three Days of Rain, The White Devil (NYC Tour), The White Devil (Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival), Closer, Betrayal, A Month in the Country, Three Sisters, Don Juan, The Herbal Bed, Much Ado About Nothing; Belvoir: Every Breath, My Zinc Bed, Master Builder, Dead Heart, The Tempest, Conquest of the South Pole; State Theatre Company of South Australia: A Midsummer’s Night Dream, ’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore; Bell Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet; Playbox: Redemption; Belvoir/Terry Clark Prod: Decadence; Independent: The Idiot; QPAC: A Christmas Carol. Film: Jungle, This Isn’t Funny, Impasse, Paperback Hero, Dead Heart, SOLO, The Condemned, What I Have Written, Talk, Rough Diamonds, Eight Ball, Mimi Goes to the Analyst, Act of Necessity, Harbour Beat. Television: Rake, CSI Miami, The Sharknet, Farscape, Beastmaster, The Lost World, The Beast, Feds, The Paperman, MDA, Through My Eyes, My Brother Jack, Stingers, Beastmaster, The Last Man Hanged, Watching Jack Shadow, A Country Practice, GP, Paper Man, E Street. Positions: Director, Sydney Theatre Company. Awards: Australian Film Institute/AACTA Awards – Best Actress in a Drama Series MDA, Best Actress in a Mini-Series My Brother Jack. Training: NIDA; UQ (B.A)
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: Wind in The Willows, Un-Australian, From Darkness Whence They Came; Australian Theatre for Young People: Intersection; Short & Sweet Theatre Festival: God, The Devil & A Barrel Of Monkeys, You’re Next! Film: 100% Wolf. Short Film: Girl & Body, Room 531, Fists Of Fives, MEAT, Black Buster, Julia, Jailbreak, Bathroom, Talisman. Television: 100% Wolf, Spongo, Fuzz & Jalapena, Advice To My 12 Year Old Self, Break The Future, Harrow, Open Slather, The Code, Redfern Now, SLiDE. Training: Advanced Diploma Acting Stage & Screen, The Actors Conservatory; Comedy and Screen Acting Workshops, NIDA; Match Fit Actor, Iain Sinclair, 16th Street Studios; Screen Intensive, Les Chantery, Hub Studio.
HAPPY LOMAN / HOWARD
LINDA LOMAN
THE WOMAN / MISS FORSYTHE
BERNARD / STANLEY
Gemma Willing JENNY / LETTA
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: shake & stir theatre company: Wuthering Heights (National Tour); 4MBS Classic Arts Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing; Black Swan State Theatre Company: Dust; WAAPA: Blood Will Have Blood, The Laramie Project, Anna Karenina, Summer of the Aliens. Film: Looking For Grace. Short Film: Rosebud, Driven, Cass, Annie. Television: Tidelands, Legally Brown. Training: Bachelor of Arts (Acting), Theatre Studies & Behavioural Science, University of Notre Dame; La Salle College of the Arts (Singapore); CNSAD Paris (Acting); WAAPA (Acting). Gemma has been a proud member of Equity since 2012.
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From October 2019 to the end of 2020, we’ll be celebrating our 50th Anniversary. And we want everyone to be part of the celebration.
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PATRON His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of Queensland MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Elizabeth Jameson (Chair) Rachel Crowley (Deputy Chair) Prof Richard Fotheringham Simon Gallaher Susan Learmonth Dr Andrea Moor David Williamson ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sam Strong EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Amanda Jolly RESIDENT DRAMATURG Isaac Drandic EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Tammy Sleeth DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Zoë Connolly DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS Nikki Porter SPECIAL PROJECTS Liz Prior PHILANTHROPY COORDINATOR Georgia Lynas DEVELOPMENT AND EVENTS COORDINATOR Felicity Clifford GRANTS & COMMUNICATION COORDINATOR Hannah Barr FINANCE & OPERATIONS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Valerie Cole ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT Georgia Knight FINANCE OFFICER Sarra Lamb VENUE & OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR Julian Messer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REHEARSAL PHOTOGRAPHY Stephen Henry
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Chair Professor Peter Coaldrake AO Deputy Chair Leigh Tabrett PSM Chief Executive John Kotzas Trust Members Dare Power, Susan Rix AM, Leanne de Souza Director-General, Department of Environment and Science Jamie Merrick The Queensland Performing Arts Trust is a statutory body of the State of Queensland and is partially funded by the Queensland Government
PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING Sophia Hall ARTISTIC COORDINATOR Samantha French PRODUCER, NEW WORK Shari Irwin ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR (Maternity leave) Hana Tow ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR Laura Henderson YOUTH, EDUCATION AND REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Travis Dowling DIRECTOR, YOUTH, EDUCATION AND REGIONAL TOURING Laurel Collins EDUCATION COORDINATOR Naomi Murphy INDIGENOUS REFERENCE GROUP Nathan Jarro (Chair), Jimi Bani, Dr Valerie Cooms, Isaac Drandic. FOUNDING DIRECTOR AIan Edwards, AM, MBE (1925-2003) QUEENSLAND THEATRE PRODUCTION STAFF CARPENTER Jamie Bowman, Chris Whitehead PROPS MAKER Aleksis Waaralinna SCENIC ARTIST Leo Herreygers PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN Tim Gawne FOH AUDIO ENGINEER Matt Erskine RADIO MIC TECHNICIAN Brady Watkins AV OPERATOR Derek Fraher COSTUME MAKERS Oscar Clarke, Bianca Bulley COSTUME MAKER/CUTTER Michelle Wiki, Leigh Buchanan ART FINISHER/COSTUME MAKER Louise Bannah WARDROBE MAINTENANCE Louise Bannah, Hannah Beier WIGS & DRESSER Katrina Anger WIG STYLIST Rebecca Anthony QPAC PRODUCTION STAFF HEAD ELECTRICIAN Lauren Sallaway HEAD MECHANIST Richie Aishford MECHANIST Michael Smith
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