ANDREW BROADBENT KATE COLE CARITA FARRER SPENCER BOBBY FOX KATHRYN MCINTYRE LUCY MAUNDER SARAH MORRISON CHRISTEN O'LEARY NAOMI PRICE DEIDRE RUBENSTEIN GREG STONE
Queensland Theatre Company in association with Queensland Performing Arts Centre presents
WORLD PREMIERE
14 Nov – 6 Dec
Playhouse, QPAC
Tickets 136 246 or queenslandtheatre.com.au
Ladies in Black is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Queensland Theatre Company presents
Cast
Tim Dashwood
Roy
Amy Ingram
Cecily Pigeon
17 October – 8 November Playhouse, QPAC
Lauren Jackson
Gwendolyn Pigeon
Jason Klarwein
Oscar Maddison
Tama Matheson
Felix Ungar
Bryan Probets
Vinnie
Steven Rooke
Speed
Colin Smith
Murray
Wesley Enoch
Director
Christina Smith
Designer
Tony Brumpton
Sound Designer
Matt Scott
Lighting Designer
Daniel Anderson
Assistant Lighting Designer
Melissa Agnew
Voice and Accent Consultant
Eloise Grace
Stage Manager
Margaret Burrows
Assistant Stage Manager
The Odd Couple will run for approximately 2 hours and 5 minutes, including a 20-minute interval. Warning: Smoke effects
and herbal cigarettes.
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L-R: Jason Klarwein, Tama Matheson
L-R: Amy Ingram, Tama Matheson, Lauren Jackson
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Welcome Sue Donnelly, Executive Director
Dear Patron, Supporter and Friend We’re very pleased to be presenting the classic Neil Simon play The Odd Couple. This is one of those master plays which has a special place in many people’s hearts, given all the renditions of it. Who of you can remember the fabulous 1970s TV sitcom with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall? Or the 1968 film with the irrepressible Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau? Or did any of you see the film The Odd Couple II which was released 30 years after the first one? And how many of you can personally relate to the pairing of the neat and tidy Felix with the fun-loving slob Oscar? As a neat little girl I never used to understand the chaos of Oscar but, as I now look around my office, I can see that my inner Oscar is winning out over my inner Felix. It’s been a huge year for QTC and is one that will go down in the annals of QTC history as the BIG ONE. I’m planning my office clean up in December once we’ve finished the 2015 season with our luscious new musical Ladies in Black (14 November – 6 December). Many of you have already sent
in your subscriptions for 2016 but for those who haven’t, I’d like to suggest that as we only have 10 plays next year you book all of them! Wesley has programmed a truly exciting season. However, if you’d like more information about any of the plays, please don’t hesitate to call us and one of our season ticketing team can talk through them with you. While I’m looking forward to big belly laughs in The Odd Couple there is also a personal sadness for me as it marks Wesley’s last play with QTC before he takes up the reins of Artistic Director at Sydney Festival. Wesley and I have known each other for a long time and it was because of our shared commitment to making great theatre, particularly Indigenous works of scale, that I came to QTC. As I’ve said elsewhere, Wesley introduced a new era of passion to QTC; not only in the Indigenous works, but in everything he did. He has been a great champion of local actors, writers, creatives and small companies. He reinvigorated our education and youth programs and he has worked with all the QTC staff to make us the most welcoming theatre company 3
in the country. Wesley has directed 16 plays for QTC over 18 years – having first started in 1997 with Radiance. This year alone he has directed three mainstage and two touring shows. Most notable of his directing gigs over his five years as Artistic Director is his landmark work, Black Diggers, which has been seen around Australia to great acclaim. He was also pivotal in bringing internationally renowned director Michael Attenborough to Brisbane to direct Macbeth 18 months ago. Wesley’s energy and commitment to theatre is boundless and I will miss him. The importance of Wesley’s legacy at QTC cannot be quantified and we look forward to many collaborations with him in the future. In fact, I am talking to him about a play right now! I do hope you enjoy The Odd Couple and a special thanks to our Associate Production Sponsor, Herbert Smith Freehills. Cheers,
Sue
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Message from our Sponsor
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broader community. With 23 offices spanning Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and the US, we offer local insight and seamless cross-border service in all major regions. Positioned to support the major trade flows, we help the world’s top companies thrive in the global economy. We look forward to enjoying QTC's production of The Odd Couple with you. Michael Back Managing Partner – Brisbane
L-R: Jason Klarwein, Enoch, Tama Matheson Christen O'Leary,Wesley Hugh Parker
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Director's Note Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director
Soon after completing Design for Living in late 2013 I knew Tama and Jason were destined to play Oscar and Felix. Their natural rapport and synergy lent itself to working together. Their timing, skill sets and their shared vision of theatre meant it was easy to decide to cast them. We had been talking about doing The Odd Couple since I arrived as Artistic Director in 2010. There was something about the representation of men on the cusp of a new-found bachelorhood that seemed to resonate in the modern world. The redefining and exploration of masculinity articulated in this play is both dated and modern. The modern hipster rediscovery of poker playing, cigars and man caves could be taken straight from the pages of this Neil Simon classic. It is a play that spans time and reminds us of some male archetypes. It seems fitting that The Odd Couple is the final show of my artistic directorship as it was one of the first shows I wanted to program back in 2010.
I grew up at Queensland Theatre Company. From seeing shows as a 13-year-old with my school Woodridge High, attending Theatre Residency Weeks and joining the Queensland Youth Theatre as a 16-year-old. I went on to study at QUT and, in the early 1990s, took a job teaching voice and movement for QTC in their Brolgas Youth Theatre. My professional acting debut was in a QTC production called One Woman Song in 1993. After working with CONTACT Youth Theatre and later Kooemba Jdarra, I directed my first QTC show Radiance (1997). In 1998, I became an Associate Artist and devised a schools show called Black-ed Up, going on to write my first big commission in 1999 called The Sunshine Club which toured to Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Brisbane and Sydney. I directed Fountains Beyond in 2000. It would be 10 years before I was to return in 2010 as Artistic Director where I have directed Bombshells, Elizabeth, Head Full of Love, Managing Carmen, Mother Courage and Her Children, Trollop, Design for Living, 7
Black Diggers, Gasp!, Country Song, Happy Days and now The Odd Couple. The other great dream we had was the Youth Ensemble and TRACTION – over 100 young people who work with QTC every week. These young people are the creative future of Queensland. They represent the dreams and hopes of so many. They are growing up with QTC and one day might be the Artistic Director. I would like to thank everyone for their ongoing support and care for me and QTC. The artists, audiences, staff, technicians, artisans, government representatives, Board members, donors, sponsors, volunteers, teachers, students, parents, and the people of Queensland. As always ‌ Love,
Wesley
L-R: Colin Smith, Jason Klarwein, Tama Matheson, Bryan Probets, Tim Dashwood, Steven Rooke
L-R: Lauren Jackson, Amy Ingram
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Designer's Note Christina Smith
In approaching The Odd Couple we felt it necessary to land the design in an ambiguous setting so as to let it speak to both a contemporary understanding and the period in which it was written. I am referencing, both in set and costume, the very current fashion of mid-century modern everything old is new again! The textures, colour palette and forms are in every way connected to 1965 but I have striven for every element to echo or replicate the mid60s rather than be actual vintage – in short, it has all been sourced from now, 2015. You, as the audience, should feel as if you are both in the world of Manhattan in the mid-60s and also sitting here and now in the zeitgeist barrio of tomorrow – whether it be the Flatiron district or Williamsburg or Fitzroy
or Newstead, or whatever desirable neighbourhood that these characters have found themselves in via love and marriage. Ultimately the play is speaking to us about a scenario that is as relevant today as it was fifty years ago - that of the fate of middle-aged men at that certain point when long term relationships break down, leaving them rudderless and adrift amongst the detritus of their “married life”.
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A Note from Andrew Bovell It is a pleasure and an enormous challenge to be adapting Kate Grenville’s The Secret River. She has written a story about a dark and tragic part of our history; a history that Australia is still coming to terms with. As is the case with most novels the author takes us inside her characters’ heads. And through this she illuminates a deeper understanding of what happened and of how her central characters, William and Sal Thornhill, brutalised by the poverty and deprivation of early nineteenth century England, made sense of the unfamiliar world they encountered. William comes to see the potential of a new life here whilst Sal holds fast to the dream of returning home. This is a common theme through the history of migration; a tearing of the heart between the need to stay and the yearning to return. But the central moral question at play is what price is William Thornhill prepared to pay for this new life. The great challenge of the adaptation is how to make the internal world of the characters external; how to
make it exist and felt within dramatic action. How to bring the complexity of the character’s rich internal lives, as they are described so beautifully in the book to life on the stage because unlike a novel on the stage we cannot be inside a character’s head. Kate also gives us a portrait of the Dharug people and the landscape of the Hawkesbury River or Dhirrumbin as the Dharug call it. But this portrait is observed at a distance, through the eyes of the European characters. It is impossible to maintain this distance in the stage version. The adaptation must bring us closer to these people and render them in all their dimensions as human beings, as characters as rich and complex as the white characters in the story. Unlike in the novel they will speak and we will hear their words. But what words will we hear? The Dharug language still exists and we will draw on it for our production. But this is the greatest challenge for all white storytellers in this country - how do we make sense of what indigenous peoples thought and felt about the arrival of Europeans in this country. 10
We can only be led by contemporary aboriginal people who with great generosity show us the way back so that we may begin to reconcile with this past. For me the theatre is a place to tell the important stories about who we are. The Secret River is one of those stories. 25 February – 5 March Playhouse, QPAC Tickets on sale now Call 136 246 or visit queenslandtheatre.com.au Commissioning and Touring Patrons: David Gonski AC & Orli Wargon OAM, Catriona & Simon Mordant AM This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative, managed by the Australia Council its arts funding and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc., Sydney Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and The Centenary of Canberra.
QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS A SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION
BY KATE GRENVILLE AN ADAPTATION FOR THE STAGE BY ANDREW BOVELL
PRODUCTION SPONSOR
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Season 2016 will give you something to talk about. In this very special year, our Artistic Director Wesley Enoch presents his last program for us - a season of thoughts, ideas and questions that will ensure lively post-show conversations and stay with you long after the curtain falls. We look forward to sharing with you one of the biggest productions QTC has ever staged, The Secret River. Featuring 22 actors and a spectacular set, it is an acclaimed Sydney Theatre Company production, based on the award-winning book by Kate Grenville. Join us for a tongue-in-cheek production of Much Ado About Nothing, Joanna Murray-Smith’s gripping thriller Switzerland and the story of Brisbane’s own Father Peter Kennedy in St Mary’s in Exile. Board the HMS Beagle and adventure with Charles Darwin across the world in Dead Puppet Society’s The Wider Earth and laugh with Quartet, a devilishly funny journey into aging told with tenderness, grace and hope, before it tours regional Queensland. We also invite you to be a fly on the wall at an explosive dinner party in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Disgraced – a Melbourne Theatre Company production - and be entranced by the slick swindler, Tartuffe, a coproduction with Black Swan State Theatre Company. In addition to the mainstage, we present works from exciting local playwrights. Stephen Carleton’s powerful Bastard Territory mixes wry humour and raw human insight as it travels from Papua New Guinea to Darwin. Motherland by Katherine Lyall-Watson is an elegant, painstakingly researched historical drama about three very different women, united in the heartache of exile from their homelands.
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Christen O'Leary and Tim Finn in QTC's upcoming production Ladies in Black
CELEBRATING OVER 30 YEARS OF LEADING THE MARKET
Biographies Neil Simon PLAYWRIGHT
American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon is widely regarded as one of the most successful, prolific and performed playwrights in the world. In addition to The Odd Couple, his plays and musicals include Come Blow Your Horn, Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, The Good Doctor, God’s Favorite, California Suite, Chapter Two, They’re Playing Our Song, I Ought to be in Pictures, Fools, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, The Odd Couple (female version), Broadway Bound, Rumors, Lost In Yonkers, which won a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, Jake’s Women, The Goodbye Girl, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, London Suite, Proposals, Hotel Suite, The Dinner Party, 45 Seconds from Broadway, Oscar and Felix, and Rose’s Dilemma. In addition to the film adaptations he has written of many of his plays, his screenplay credits include After the Fox, The OutOf-Towners, The Heartbreak Kid (original 1973 version), Murder by Death, The Cheap Detective, Seems Like Old Times, Only When I Laugh, Max Dugan Returns, The Slugger’s Wife, The Marrying Man and The Odd Couple II. Other motion pictures based on stage plays include Come Blow Your Horn, Sweet Charity and The Star-Spangled Girl. For television Mr. Simon has written series, teleplays and motion pictures including The Tallulah Bankhead Show, The Sid Caesar Show, The Phil Silvers Arrow Show, The Phil Silvers Show, The Garry Moore Show, The Trouble with People, ABC’s Broadway Bound and Jake’s Women. Books by Neil Simon include Rewrites, A Memoir, The Play Goes On, four omnibus collections of Neil Simon’s plays The Comedy Of Neil Simon, The Collected Plays Of Neil Simon, Vol. II, The Collected Plays Of Neil Simon, Vol. 3, The Collected Plays Of Neil Simon, Vol. 4 and Lost In Yonkers (screenplay). Mr. Simon has received more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer. Awards he has received include the Pulitzer Prize for Lost In Yonkers, Emmy Awards for The Sid Caesar Show and The Phil Silvers Show, Tony Awards for The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues, Lost In Yonkers and a special Tony Award For Overall Contribution To The Theatre. His nominations include Tony Award Nominations for Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, The Last 16
of the Red Hot Lovers, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers and The Goodbye Girl (musical). Other nominations include a Writers Guild Screen Award for The Odd Couple and The Out-Of-Towners, a Writers Guild Laurel Award, an American Comedy Award for Lifetime Achievement and a Writers Guild Screen Award Nomination for Barefoot in the Park as well as an Oscar Nomination for The Odd Couple, an Evening Standard award a Sam S. Shubert Foundation award, Kennedy Center Honors, a UCLA Medal, a Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award and a William Inge Theatre Festival award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre.
Wesley Enoch DIRECTOR
Queensland Theatre Company: As Director: Happy Days, Country Song (co-production with Queensland Performing Arts Centre), Black Diggers (co-production with Sydney Festival), Gasp!, Design For Living, Trollop, Mother Courage and Her Children (co-production with Queensland Performing Arts Centre), Managing Carmen (coproduction with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Head Full of Love, Elizabeth, Bombshells, Fountains Beyond, The Sunshine Club, Black-ed Up, Radiance (co-production with Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts). As Writer: The Sunshine Club. As Actor: One Woman’s Song. Other Credits: As Director: Sydney Theatre Company: The 7 Stages of Grieving, Black-ed Up, The Cherry Pickers; Company B: The Man From Mukinupin (co-production with Melbourne Theatre Company), Yibiyung, Black Medea (co-production with Malthouse Theatre), The Sapphires (co-production with Melbourne Theatre Company and remounted co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Paul, Parramatta Girls, Capricornia, Conversations With The Dead, The Dreamers, Stolen; Erth: Nargun & The Stars (co-direction, co-production with Sydney Festival); Gondwana (co-production with Queensland Performing Arts Centre); Queensland Performing Arts Centre: Red Earth, Blue Water (Associate Director); Nyurin Ga (Associate Director), Boat (for KITE Arts Education and Out of the Box Festival); Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts: The 7 Stages of Grieving, Bitin’ Back, The Dreamers (co-production with Brisbane Festival), Murri Love, Little White Dress (coproduction with Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Out of the Box Festival), A Life of Grace and Piety (co-production with Just Us Theatre Ensemble), Changing Time (coproduction with Salamanca Theatre Company), Up the Ladder (co-production with Melbourne Workers Theatre/Festival of the Dreaming); Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company: Waltzing The 17
Wilarra; Performing Lines/Sydney Festival: I Am Eora; Browns Mart Theatre/Jute Theatre/Totem Theatre: Head Full of Love; Malthouse Theatre: One Night, the Moon; Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Cooperative: Rainbow’s End, Shrunken Iris; Windmill Performing Arts/Adelaide Festival/ Brisbane Festival/Sydney Festival/Perth International Festival: Riverland; Legs on the Wall: Eora Crossing; Playbox Theatre: Stolen; Bell Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet; The Melbourne Workers’ Theatre; 1975. As Writer: The 7 Stages of Grieving (co-written with Deborah Mailman), Little White Dress, A Life of Grace and Piety, Black Medea, The Sunshine Club, Grace, The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table. Positions: Artistic Director, Queensland Theatre Company 2010 - present, Trustee, Sydney Opera House 2006-2013, Associate Artistic Director, Company B 2007 - 2010, Artistic Director Australian Delegation, Festival of Pacific Arts 2008, Director, My Skin My Life, Opening Ceremony, Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006, Artistic Director, Ilbijerri ATSI Theatre Co-op 2003-2006, Resident Director, Sydney Theatre Company 2000-2001, Artistic Director, Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts, 1994-1997. Awards: The Patrick White Award – The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table, Helpmann Awards – Best Play and Best New Australian Work The Sapphires, Helpmann Award – Best Presentation For Children Riverland, Deadly Award – Best Direction The Sunshine Club, Matilda Award - Best Direction The Sunshine Club, Queensland Performing Arts Centre Award - Contribution to Theatre.
Christina Smith DESIGNER
Queensland Theatre Company: Gasp! (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Other Desert Cities (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Mother Courage and Her Children, The Female of the Species. Other Credits: As Designer: Black Swan State Theatre Company: As You Like It, A Streetcar Named Desire, Rising Water, Much Ado About Nothing, The Year of Magical Thinking ; Melbourne Theatre Company: Elling, National Interest (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), The Seed, Clybourne Park, A Behanding in Spokane, Boston Marriage, The Swimming Club (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Blackbird, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, The Clean House, Dumb Show, Things We Do For Love, The Daylight Atheist, Honour, Cloud Nine; Sydney Theatre Company: Troupers ; Victorian Opera: The Turn of the Screw, Cosi Fan Tutte; New Zealand Opera: La Traviata, Madame Butterfly; Malthouse Theatre: Porn.Cake, Black Medea; La Mama: The Babe, Believe Me Oscar Wilde, 18
She; Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games: Opening and Closing Ceremony (Design Team member); Bell Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona; Ilbijerri Theatre Company: Rainbow’s End; Playbox: Julia 3, Ruby Moon, Svetlana in Slingbacks, Post Felicity, Inside 01; Neonheart Theatre: Eskimo Calling; Red Stitch: Jesus Hopped The A-Train. As Costume Designer: Melbourne Theatre Company: Realism, Humble Boy, Proof, Sweet Bird of Youth, Three Days of Rain; Black Swan State Theatre Company: Black Rock; Victorian Opera: The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni; WA Ballet: Nutcracker. As Set Designer: Victorian Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Melbourne Theatre Company: Boy Gets Girl; Black Swan State Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night. Awards: Matilda Awards Nomination – Female of the Species, Green Room Awards – Julia 3, Honour, The Daylight Atheist. Green Room Nominations – Cosi Fan Tutte, Clean House, Things We Do For Love, The Eskimo; Town and County Scholarship (WAAPA). Training: Diploma of Production and Design, WAAPA.
Matt Scott LIGHTING DESIGNER
Queensland Theatre Company: Red, Betrayal, The School of Arts, The Alchemist, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome, Heroes, The Woman Before, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset, A Streetcar Named Desire, Oedipus the King, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, A Christmas Carol, Mano Nera, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, Proof, The Conversation, The Venetian Twins, Cooking with Elvis, We Were Dancing, The Lonesome West, Phaedra, The Messiah, The Tragedy of Richard III, The Tragedy of Richard II, Buried Child, The Forest, Fred, Fountains Beyond, Shopping & F***ing, The Sunshine Club, Antigone, Sweet Panic, Radiance, Lovechild, Simpatico, Blithe Spirit, The Last Yankee and LovePuke. Other Credits: Opera Australia/GFO: Anything Goes; Opera Australia: Aida (Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour), Rigoletto, Don Pasquale, La Sonnambula, La Boheme; OzOpera: The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Madame Butterfly; Victorian Opera: The Flying Dutchman, Nixon in China, The Rake’s Progress, Turn of the Screw, Xerxes, Orphee et Eurydice; NZ Opera/Opera Q/ SOSA: La Traviata; NZ Opera: Madame Butterfly; TML Enterprises: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; GFO: An Officer & A Gentleman; Dainty Group: Eat Pray Laugh – Barry Humphries Farewell Tour; Melbourne Theatre Company: The Weir, Jumpy, The Mountaintop, Elling, Red, The Seed, Tribes, The Importance of Being Earnest, Clybourne Park, The Joy of Text, Next to Normal, A Behanding in Spokane, Don Parties On, Life Without Me, All About My Mother, Boston Marriage, The Ugly One, 19
The Grenade, The Swimming Club, The Drowsy Chaperone, Godzone, God of Carnage, The Birthday Party, August: Osage County, Realism, Grace, The Hypocrite, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Blackbird, Scarlett O’Hara at the Crimson Parrot, Frost/Nixon, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Don Juan in Soho, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Pillowman, Don’s Party, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Tomfoolery, The Female of the Species, Festen, Doubt, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dumb Show, Hitchcock Blonde, King Lear, The Sapphires, Urinetown, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Blithe Spirit, The Blue Room, The Woman in the Window; Sydney Theatre Company: Jumpy, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Urinetown, Doubt, The Glass Menagerie, Morning Sacrifice, The Sunshine Club; Matrix Theatre: A Beautiful Life; Kooemba Jdarra: The 7 Stages of Grieving; Playbox/Ilbijerri: Stolen. Bell Shakespeare: Henry 4, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Richard 3; Black Swan State Theatre Company: As You Like It, A Streetcar Named Desire, Rising Water, The Swimming Club, The Year of Magical Thinking; Company B Belvoir: Paul, The Sapphires; Queensland Ballet: Elegance; Expressions Dance Company: The Red Shoes, Where the Heart is. Awards: Helpmann Award – Best Lighting The Blue Room (2003) & Urinetown (2005).
Tony Brumpton SOUND DESIGNER
Queensland Theatre Company: As Sound Designer: Grounded, Gasp!, The Mountaintop, Australia Day, Black Diggers (co-production with Sydney Festival), Design For Living, Other Desert Cities (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Managing Carmen (coproduction with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Pygmalion, No Man’s Land (co-production with Sydney Theatre Company), Sacre Bleu!, Macbeth (co-production with Brisbane Festival), Fat Pig, The Little Dog Laughed, The Crucible, God of Carnage (co-production 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 (co-production with deBase Theatre Company), Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed, Beckett x3, Maxine Mellor’s Mystery Project (co-production with State Library of Queensland). As Co-Sound Designer: The August Moon, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome: A Shakespeare Commentary (co-production with Bell Shakespeare Company), Stones in his Pockets. Other Credits: Composer/Sound Designer: White Rabbit Theatre Company: The Grand; Centenary of Canberra Festival: Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters Songlines); Brisbane festival: Freeze Frame, King Here After; Dead Puppet Society: 20
The Harbinger, The Timely Death of Victor Blott; I-Pin Lin’s productions: Bamboo, Harmony, 4orces and 1984-2005; QUT Dance: Current, Fade Away, Accented Bodies, Altered States. As Director: Vena Cava: RABBAR. Positions: Associate Artist/Head of Audio, Queensland Theatre Company (2011), Emerging Artist, Queensland Theatre Company (2010), Tone Black Productions (Company Owner), Lecturer - QUT.
Daniel Anderson ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER
Queensland Theatre Company: As Lighting Designer: Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore, The 7 Stages of Grieving (co-production with The Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe), Bombshells, I Am Here (co-production with Two Thumbs Up and Multicultural Development Association), Face It, Seeding Bed 2012, Treasure Island (coproduction with Matrix Theatre), The Landline Is Me, This Hollow Crown, Saison de L’amour. As Assistant Lighting Designer: Boston Marriage, Head Full of Love. Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: Tender Napalm; Black Honey Company: Hot Brown Honey Burlesque, Twelve, Australian Booty, Who’s That Chik; JUTE Theatre Company: Like A Fishbone, Propelled, Sentinel Chickens; Brisbane Festival: Sunsuper Riverfire (2013); Imaginary Theatre: Circle; Elbow Room: Prehistoric; Motherboard Productions: Or Forever Hold Your Peace (coproduction with La Boite Indie), 지하 Underground; Brisbane Marketing: Story Bridge Christmas Light Show (2013-2014), Story Bridge New Year’s Eve Light Show (2013-2014); Next Wave Festival: Tukre' (co-production with Raghav Handa), White Face (co-production with Carly Sheppard); Oscar Theatre Company: Spring Awakening; Fixate Productions: Haven; The Good Room: Rabbit; Brisbane Powerhouse: A Tender Thing (co-production with Full Circle Theatre); Metro Arts: He’s Seeing Other People Now. As Associate/ Assistant Lighting Designer: Opera Queensland: Cinderella or Goodness Triumphant; Brisbane Festival: Freeze Frame, Santos GLNG City of Lights (2012-2013), Santos City of Lights (2011); Legs on the Wall/Raw Dance Company: Beautiful Noise; Expressions Dance Company: Launch Pad. Positions: Artistic Associate – Black Honey Company. Awards: ArtStart Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts; Matilda Award Nomination - Bille Brown Award for Best Emerging Artist (2012). Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT; Bite the Big Apple Arts & Culture Management Tour, Kape Communications; Broadway Lighting Master Class, Live Design. Daniel is a professional member of the Association of lighting Designers.
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Melissa Agnew VOICE AND ACCENT CONSULTANT
Tim Dashwood ROY
Queensland Theatre Company: Around 50 productions including Boston Marriage, Black Diggers, The Mountaintop, Venus in Fur, The Glass Menagerie, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Other Credits: Black Swan State Theatre Company: A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (co-production with QTC). Film: The Proposition. Television: The Pacific, voice coaching for TV and radio news presenters across Australia. Qualifications: PhD from the University of Sydney. Teaching Positions: Voice, Speech and Dialect teacher/coach; Queensland Conservatorium (Musical Theatre). Queensland Theatre Company: Macbeth, Managing Carmen, Romeo & Juliet, The Importance of Being Earnest, Rabbit Hole, The Exception & The Rule. Other Credits: Kay + McLean Productions: The Graduate; shake & stir theatre co: Dracula, Animal Farm; Darlinghurst Theatre Company: Deathtrap; The Escapists: Packed; La Boite Theatre Company: The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay; Gordon Frost Organisation: Fame the Musical; Ignations: The Last 5 Years; Metro Arts Independents: Dead Cargo, The Reunion, Love Song Dedications, Donna’s Party; Queensland Arts Council: Zooillogical, idotluvdotu, Hermes & The Naked Flame; Harvest Rain Theatre Company: The Awfully Big Adventures of Peter Pan; 4MBS: Much Ado About Nothing. Film: Dartworth. Positions: Queensland Theatre Company Emerging Artist 2008, Actors’ and Entertainers’ Benevolent Fund of Qld Committee 2008-2012, Industry Ambassador 2013-2015, Society of Australian Fight Directors Inc - Treasurer 20062009, Secretary 2012-2015. Awards: Short & Sweet Festival Best Actor Mandragora; Queensland New Filmmakers’ Awards - Best Actor Tunnel Vision; 48hr Film Festival - Best Actor Myles West; The Lord Mayor’s Fellowship Grant 2012. Training: Bachelor of Theatre Arts (Acting), USQ.
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Amy Ingram CECILY PIGEON
Lauren Jackson GWENDOLYN PIGEON
Queensland Theatre Company: The Seagull, I Want to Know What Love Is (co-production with The Good Room and Brisbane Festival), Trollop, Seeding Bed, An Oak Tree, Fat Pig. Other Credits: As Actor – Elbow Room/NEON: We Get It; The Good Room: I Should Have Drunk More Champagne, Rabbit, Where We Begin, Single Admissions (co-production with Lazy, Young and Talented), Holy Guacamole; La Boite Theatre Company: Cosi; La Boite/shake & stir theatre co: Out Damned Snot; Adelaide Fringe Festival: Tracksuit Girl; Switchboard Arts: Tripping, Getting Betterer, 10x10. As Director: Griffith University: Wolf Lullaby, Trojan Women; USQ: Ivy Shambit and The Sound Machine; Brisbane Girls Grammar: Trojan Women. Film: Hot Chaps (QPIX); Television: Gods of Wheat Street, Camp, Mabo. Positions: Co-Artistic Director – The Good Room, The Lame Academy Co; Director – National Young Writers Festival (2008, 2009); Chair – USQ Theatre Alumni (2011/2012). Awards: Matilda Award – Best Emerging Artist (2010). 2013 Arts Queensland Independent Fund Recipient (Amy travelled to New York in 2014 where she studied at The Lee Strasberg Institute and completed an Internship with Elevator Repair Service Theatre Company). Training: Bachelor of Theatre Arts (Acting), USQ. Queensland Theatre Company: Macbeth. Other Credits: Imprint Theatricals: Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche; Zen Zen Zo: Medea: The River Runs Backwards, Vikram and the Vampire, Bolshoi Ballet: La Corsaire, La Boite Theatre Company: Holding The Man, Mixed Company: Secret Bridesmaids’ Business, Opera Queensland: Carmen. Film: E-Motion Documentary, The Hunters Club, God I Love You, Million Dollar Toes, Forever, Winkman P.I, Change in Fortune, After the Fall, Douglas Adams Eat Your Heart Out, Ruby. Television: Illusion Five, The W.A.S.P.S Nest (pilot), Schadenfreude (pilot). Awards: Matilda Nomination – Best Emerging Artists Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (2011). Training: Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, London; Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance), QUT.
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Jason Klarwein OSCAR MADDISON
Tama Matheson FELIX UNGAR
Queensland Theatre Company: As Actor: The Seagull, Macbeth, Design For Living, Elizabeth - Almost By Chance a Woman, Fractions (coproduction with HotHouse Theatre), Faustus (co-production 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. As Director: Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, The 7 Stages of Grieving (co-production with The Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe), Youth Ensemble productions. Other Credits: 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; As Director: The Arts Centre Gold Coast: Oh the Humanity and Other Exclamations; The Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe: LIVID, The 7 Stages of Grieving, I Am Macbeth, Sunburn, Island Home, Revolt, Inferno, VS, Super/Natural, Romeo and Juliet, The Zoo Story, The Trial, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Television: The Devil’s Playground, Illusion5, Slide, Sea Patrol, Australia Remembers, Cybergirl. Positions: Resident Director: Queensland Theatre Company 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: Logie Award – Most Outstanding Miniseries The Devil’s Playground. Queensland Theatre Company: Macbeth, Design For Living. Other Credits: Shock Therapy Productions: The Pillowman, Camerata of St John’s: Johann Sebastien, Ben; Queensland Shakespeare Festival: Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Classic Arts: Amadeus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Australian Shakespeare Festival: Comedy of Errors; Classic Productions: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Prometheus Unbound, Amadeus, The Tempest; Trocadero Productions: The Duchess of Malfi; Middle Ground 24
Theatre, UK: Far From the Madding Crowd; 4MBS: A Christmas Carol; British Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Triangle Productions, UK: Antigone. As Director: Queensland Shakespeare Festival: Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V; Opera Australia: La Forza Del Destino, The Love of the Nightingale; Oper Graz: Falstaff; Classic Productions: Amadeus, The Tempest, Prometheus Unbound; Garnet Productions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Film: 7 Points of View About Love, The Wreck of the Pandora, The Acting Lesson, Fresh. Television: Heartbeat, Eastenders. Training: Bachelor of Arts (English), Oxford University; Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama/ Literature), QUT.
Bryan Probets VINNIE
Queensland Theatre Company: Australia Day, Design For Living, Pygmalion, Waiting for Godot, The Alchemist (co-production with Bell Shakespeare Company), The Importance of Being Earnest, Private Fears in Public Places, A Christmas Carol, The Venetian Twins, Scapin, The Lonesome West, Mano Nera, The Cherry Orchard, Road to SheDevil’s Salon. Other Credits: Opera Queensland: Candide; shake & stir theatre company: Tequila Mockingbird, 1984, Animal Farm; La Boite Theatre Company: Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (co-production with Sydney Theatre Company), As You Like It, The Wishing Well, The Danger Age, The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay, Operator, Creche and Burn, Way Out West, Milo’s Wake, Hermes and the Naked Flame (co-production with Queensland Arts Council) ; Zen Zen Zo: Vikram and the Vampire; Queensland Music Festival: Credo the Innocence of God; Queensland Ballet: The Amazing Magician Goes Troppo; Harvest Rain: The Woman in Black; Hot House Theatre Company: Australia: The Show. Film: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, The Railway Man, Tracks, The Great Gatsby, Singularity, Punishment, Daybreakers, Subdivision, Triangle, Hildegarde, The Proposition, Nim’s Island, A Heartbeat Away and The Horseman. Television: Monarch Cove, Starter Wife, Fat Cow Motel, Pyjama Girl, Love Weights. Positions: Queensland Theatre Company: Emerging Artist (2003), Artistic Associate (2004-2006). Awards: Matilda Commendation; The Lonesome West, Road to the She-Devil’s Salon, Matilda Award; Best Supporting Actor As You Like It (2012), and Gold Award for Body of Work (2012).
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Steven Rooke SPEED
Colin Smith MURRAY
Queensland Theatre Company: Gasp! (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), 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, No Man’s Land (co-production with Sydney Theatre Company). Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Company: Julius Caesar, 48 Shades of Brown. QPAC Out of the Box: Boat, 23rd Productions: The Pillowman. Film: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Blurred, Footy Legends. Short Film: Quiet, You’ll Wake Up The War. Television: Schapelle, Always Greener, Home and Away, Beastmaster, All Saints, Comedy Inc. 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. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts, QUT. Queensland Theatre Company: Black Diggers (co-production with Sydney Festival; Brisbane season and national tour). Other Credits: Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble: The Tempest, Mary Stuart, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare’s Shorts: Express Macbeth, Instant Romeo and Juliet, The Half-Hour Hamlet, Midsummer’s Mechanicals, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, As You Like It, Food of Love: A Shakespeare Cabaret, Twelfth Night, Metamorphoses, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s Briefs or Let’s Kill All the Lawyers; Brisbane Arts Theatre: Monstrous Regiment, Night Watch, The Fifth Elephant, Men At Arms; Queensland Ballet: Vis-à-vis: Moving Stories. Short Film: The Last Aussie Hero 3: The Search for Kip, Episode 1.5: Lord of the Philosophers Stone. Television: Secrets & Lies, Sea Patrol (Season 5), Sea Patrol (Season 3), Mortified.
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Eloise Grace STAGE MANAGER
Queensland Theatre Company: As Stage Manager/Tour Manager: Kelly (national tour) Other credits: As General Manager/Associate Producer: Multiple & Spinifex for the Ruler of Sharjah, UAE: Clusters of Light; Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam: Moonshadow – A New Musical. As Company Manager: Blue Man Group, Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages, The Addams Family Musical, FAME the Musical. As Logistics Manager: David Atkins Enterprises: 2006 Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies; Brisbane Festival, Queensland Music Festival. As Tour Manager: Queensland Music Festival: Bonnie Tyler Live, Tony Hadley in Concert, The Bangles, Song Trails; Regional Arts Victoria/Dirty Work: The Listies Make You LOL. As Stage Manager: La Boite Theatre Company/Brisbane Festival: A Doll’s House; ALP election campaign launch, L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. As Guest Lecturer: QUT and NIDA.
Margaret Burrows
Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other credits: As Stage Manager: Queensland Performing Arts Centre; Queensland Ballet: Dance Dialogues. As Assistant Stage Manager: Queensland Ballet: La Sylphide, Peter Pan, Coppelia (regional Queensland tour). As Dresser: Griffith Conservatorium: Hansel and Gretel. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT; Scenery and Set Construction, Southbank Institute of Technology.
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PATRON His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC Governor of Queensland MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Richard Fotheringham (Chair) Elizabeth Jameson (Deputy Chair) Julieanne Alroe Kirstin Ferguson Erin Feros Simon Gallaher Peter Hudson Nathan Jarro ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Wesley Enoch EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Sue Donnelly Executive Assistant: Tammy Sleeth Artistic Associate: Andrea Moor Resident Director: Jason Klarwein Programming Manager/ Senior Producer: Sophia Hall Artistic Coordinator: Samantha French Producer (New Work and Development): Shari Irwin Touring and Regional Program Coordinator: Christine Johnstone Producer (Education and Youth Programs): Heidi Irvine Programming Project Officer: Laurel Collins Chief Financial Officer: Michael Cullinan Systems Accountant: Roxane Eden Assistant Accountant: Jolene Wright Venue and Operations Supervisor: Julian Messer Front of House and Events Officer: Leisha Du Bois
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Who murdered Nellie Duffy?
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