American Signs Digital Program

AMERICAN SIGNS BY ANCHULI FELICIA KING

THE CONSULTANT

Catherine Van-Davies

DIRECTOR

Kenneth Moraleda

DESIGNER

James Lew

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Benjamin Brockman

COMPOSER & SOUND

DESIGNER

Sam Cheng

DRAMATURG

Jules Orcullo

VOICE & ACCENT COACH

Paige Walker

VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE & DIALECT CONSULTANT

Ferdinand Hoang

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Joe Fletcher

STAGE MANAGER

Sean Proude

COSTUME COORDINATOR

Scott Fisher

COSTUME DAY MAINTENANCE

Nicole Artsetos

LIGHTING SUPERVISOR

Filip Wyker

LIGHTING OPERATOR

Cam Menzies

SOUND SUPERVISOR

Ben Lightowlers

STAGING SUPERVISOR

Chris Fleming

REHEARSAL PHOTOGRAPHER

Prudence Upton

70 MINS, NO INTERVAL

THIS PRODUCTION OPENED AT WHARF 2 THEATRE, SYDNEY ON 19 JUNE 2024

THIS PRODUCTION IS SUPPORTED BY THE STC ANGELS

Anchuli Felicia King is without doubt one of our most talented and in demand writers, not just here, but around the world. She has the unique ability to navigate the 21st century with a sensitivity, humour, daring and inventiveness that make her plays like rare jewels, mesmerising to behold and unique in the way they reflect back at you. It goes without saying that it has been one of the great pleasures of my time at STC to program three of her plays.

This production offers STC audiences the first opportunity since the Wharf renovation to witness a play up close, in the intimate setting of Wharf 2.

American Signs is her latest, a powder keg of a play that expertly grips the audience’s attention, questions our assumptions and provides a compelling human insight into corporate life.

A MESSAGE FROM KIP WILLIAMS

This world premiere production also offers an opportunity to see some of Sydney’s most exciting theatre-makers at work. STC Resident Director Kenneth Moraleda expertly leads an extraordinary creative team and crew, each bringing their unique and innovative visions to this play. At the centre of this piece is a breathtaking solo performance from Catherine Va ˘ n-Davies. Catherine has been outrageously funny in White Pearl and No Pay? No Way! (2020). She’s been tender and heart-breaking in Constellations and Playing Beatie Bow. In American Signs she once again proves her remarkable versatility.

This production offers STC audiences the first opportunity since the Wharf renovation to witness a play up close, in the intimate setting of Wharf 2. I can think of no more exciting a play, or more talented a team to welcome this venue back into operation.

Enjoy!

Kip Williams Artistic Director & Co-CEO

SYNOPSIS

A young Vietnamese American management consultant has found herself in a grad position at one of the industry’s most prestigious firms. She stands with the cream of the crop, best of breed, top picks from the Ivy Leagues. She and her cohort are making more money in their first year of employment than the average American worker makes in five.

But soon she ends up “on the beach”. That’s consultancy speak for back-benched, not assigned to a client. And if you’re on the beach during your first year at the firm, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll get fired.

Out of the blue, she’s thrown a lifeline in the form of a (seriously handsome, seriously married) senior consultant, Max, and the client pack he slaps down on her desk. An industrial lighting factory in Youngstown, Ohio – the American Dream all lit up – is the target and the consultant is champing at the bit to prove herself.

It should be a simple in-and-out procedure. But, in the process of “right-sizing” the factory, our protagonist begins to uncover the horrible truth about the career she’s flogging herself to build.

Catherine Va ˘ n-Davies

WRITER’S NOTE: ANCHULI FELICIA KING

As I often write for plays and TV shows set in the worlds of finance, law and tech, my research kept circling around one particularly opaque and intriguing industry: the consulting industry. I was especially interested in the sorts of people who end up working as management consultants: the fact that so many bright young graduates from prestigious colleges get snapped up by these firms as soon as they graduate. I wanted to know: what services were these “exceptional” twenty-year-old consultants actually providing to their clients? How had these firms seemingly snaked their tendrils into everything, across the private and public sector, becoming an outsourced talent pool for every white-collar industry in the world? Eventually, I went on a deep research dive into the history and practices of the Big Three consulting firms – and what I discovered made me so mad I wrote a play about it.

Centering on an unnamed protagonist navigating her first year at one of these firms, American Signs is a play that’s hugely interested in selective information; how we warp language, data and narratives for our own purposes, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive. This is my first time writing a one-performer play – a form that felt perfectly suited to this theme. With one actor performing multiple

characters, you can endlessly play with the audience’s sympathies and attention, challenging notions of subjectivity and your narrator’s reliability.

It also helped that I had a great actor in mind: this play was written for the extraordinary Catherine Va ˘ n-Davies , whose virtuosic talent I have been in awe of since she was in my first play White Pearl at STC in 2019. I’m equally thrilled to be collaborating for the first time with the wonderful Kenneth Moraleda, who has already been an extraordinary creative ally as we’ve developed this play.

While American Signs is a pointed critique of the consulting industry, it’s also a character study about a young Vietnamese American woman grappling with her own traumas, ambitions, and desires in a morally complicated universe. I’ve written this play as a corporate thriller and a 70-minute roller coaster, one which hurtles towards its climax and never lets its audience off the hook. I hope audiences come away from American Signs entertained, amused, titillated, possibly a little disturbed, and with a more nuanced understanding of what consulting really looks like in America today.

Anchuli Felicia King

DIRECTOR’S NOTE: KENNETH MORALEDA

From my first read, I was taken by the detail and complexity of this compact play. It is disciplined yet subversive, wicked in its humour, and incisive in its observations of humanity. I have admired Anchuli Felicia King’s canon over years of watching and reading her plays. To be able to truly steep in her words and ideas though this production is a special moment for me. I thank Kip Williams for championing and guiding this work my way.

A one-person play is a special animal. Anchuli’s version is a memory play but relentless in its immediacy. We get to play with the elasticity of time and place and to present multiple characters, but what excited me most was her use of the rules of language to demarcate psychological spaces for our protagonist and the impact of the weaponisation of language.

Before I even knew this was written for the powerhouse Catherine Va ˘ n-Davies, she materialised a few pages into reading the play. She is a brilliant actor, a friend, and a vigorous collaborator with the tenacity and sharp intelligence to grasp the many layers of this work.

To have the space and capacity to continue building theatrical language with past collaborators is a wonderful thing. I get to work with Benjamin Brockman again in a tonally different show and I am in awe of their range. I also build upon a previous

collaboration with Sam Cheng, an active vibrant artist in the independent theatre community making her STC debut. In a new relationship, I get to learn from James Lew’s sharp dramaturgical design practice and lay the foundations of a collaborative methodology. Add to mix Jules Orcullo’s keen eye as Dramaturg and we are well placed to tackle the world of The Consultant.

As the first show to open the doors of Wharf 2, it is an exciting time to celebrate its joys and negotiate with its unique demands. Sean Proude our Stage Manager, guides us through rehearsals and into the space, supported by the Production team. We get to start this chapter of Wharf 2’s life, continuing its legacy as a space for forging new work, a crucible for experimentation, and a landing pad for new exciting artists into the company. We are proud to be a part of a wonderfully creative and productive period for the company, with a multitude of shows being built at this time.

In tackling a work about capitalism blurring our ethics, forming systems to justify inhumane behaviour, and the human cost of corporate practice, having a baby in the room daily was a great leveller, a reminder of the wonder of humanity. Special thanks to baby Ayah for being necessarily there every day to fuel the importance of this play.

Kenneth Moraleda

ANCHULI FELICIA KING

Playwright

Anchuli Felicia King is a playwright, screenwriter and multidisciplinary artist of Thai-Australian descent.

As a playwright, King is interested in macrocosmic issues of international urgency, particularly around digital cultures and globalization. Her plays have been produced by the Royal Court Theatre (London), Studio Theatre (Washington D.C.), American Shakespeare Center (Staunton), Melbourne Theatre Company (Melbourne), Sydney Theatre Company, National Theatre of Parramatta and Belvoir Theatre (Sydney). Her play Golden Shield made its Off-Broadway debut at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2022.

King has worked as a screenwriter on HBO’s The Baby, a dark horror comedy produced by Sister Pictures, HBO’s The Sympathizer, the TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer winning novel starring Robert Downey Jr and Sandra Oh, and AMC’s Mary and George starring Julianne Moore. She also has writing credits on Australian shows including The Twelve, Deadloch, and Class of 07.

Awards, Commissions & Residencies: Sydney Theatre Company Patrick White Fellowship, 2020; Mona Brand Emerging

Writer Award, 2020; Royal Court Theatre Commission, 2019; Manhattan Theatre Club Commission. 2019; Melbourne Theatre Company Next Stage Commission, 2019; Ars Nova Play Group 2018/19; Ensemble Studio Theatre Youngblood Member 2017-2024 ; Roundabout Theater, Space Jam Program (ongoing); Space on Ryder Farm Finalist, 2018 ; Playwriting Australia National Play Initiative Winner, 2017 ; Yellow Earth Typhoon Reading Series, 2017 Liberation Video Commission, B.W. Powe Poetry Project, 2017; Roundabout Columbia Initiative Winner, 2017; Bridge Initiative Playwriting Award Finalist, 2016; Red Bull Theatre Short Play Finalist, 2016.

KENNETH MORALEDA Director

Kenneth Moraleda is a director, actor and writer of Filipino descent. He is currently Resident Director at STC, after being part of the STC/CAAP Directors Initiative in 2018-20. For STC, he was Director for A Fool in Love and Rough Draft #48: Hubris and Humiliation He was Assistant Director for Playing Beatie Bow, The Deep Blue Sea, How to Rule the World.

He co-founded the company kwento, producing three shows in their 2022 slate, and directing Ate Lovia (Old Fitz) and The Marriage Agency (KXT) followed by cowriting and directing One Hour No Oil (KXT) which garnered him a Best Director in an Independent Production nomination at the 2022 Sydney Theatre Awards.

Other directing credits include They Say She’s Different (Melbourne Fringe/Adelaide Cabaret Festival), Eat Me: Blowback (NIDA), co-directing the opera Chop Chef (Blush Opera/Riverside Theatres), developments of Diwa (Create NSW) Malacañang Made Us (QPDA) Lola! A New Musical (Hayes), Na’s Marriage Agency (Next In Line), The Grocer (PWA/Belvoir) and readings of Gamers for Life (Martin Lysicrates Prize), Daddy by Jeremy O. Harris and Office Hour by Julia Cho (kxteethcutting).

He was a collaborating artist in the works This Here. Land.(Liveworks) and Within and Without (PSpace/Blacktown Arts).

As an actor his credits include Muriel’s Wedding The Musical, Talk, Australian Graffiti, Cyrano de Bergerac and A Man with Five Children (STC), Three Sisters (Sport for Jove) Australia Day (National Tour - HIT), August: Osage County (Repertory Philippines), White Divers of Broome (Black Swan), The Lion King (Australian/Asian tour), War Horse (Australian tour), Cruise Control (Ensemble), An Enemy of the People (Belvoir Street) Kasama Kita (Belvoir 25a). Films include Lucky Miles (Best Actor - Cinemanila Film Festival), Banana Boy, Legacy, The Fence, Locusts and Christmess

Television credits include Janet King S3, Bureau of Magical Things, Strife, Wolf Like Me, Schapelle, East West 101, City Homicide, Stingers, City Life, Water Rats, Wildside, White Collar Blue, Comedy Inc, Playhouse Disney, Jay’s Jungle, and most recently Tommy Murphy’s Significant Others (ABC/iView)

Kenneth was also a teacher and facilitator for Playwriting Australia, a participant writer in Performance 4a/PWA Lotus First Draft Program, faciltated Artist Lab NSW (CAAP) and Making A Musical (CAAP/ Hayes) programs.

CATHERINE VĂN-DAVIES

The Consultant

Sydney Theatre Company: Constellations, Playing Beatie Bow, No Pay? No Way!, White Pearl (with Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta), Going Down (with Malthouse). Other Theatre: Red Line: A Streetcar Named Desire Griffin Theatre Company: Sex Magick, Turquoise Elephant. Bell Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, The Misanthrope, The Merchant of Venice. Chunky Move: Complexity of Belonging (with Falk Richter), Belvoir: An Enemy of The People, Back at the Dojo, The Kiss. Apocalypse Theatre Company: Angels in America. Little Ones Theatre: The Happy Prince, Dracula, Dangerous Liaisons

Arthur: The Myth Project: Twin, Cut Snake, Superhero Training Academy, Waltzing Woolloomooloo: The Tale of Frankie Jones. MKA: sex. violence. blood.gore. Milk Crate Theatre: Various productions. TV: Home and Away, Mother and Son, Wolf Like Me, The Claremont Murders, The Twelve, I’m Fine It’s Fine, Barons, Amazing Grace, Hungry Ghosts, The Letdown, Pet Killer Positions: (previous)

Co-Artistic Director of Red Line Productions. Awards: 2023 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in an Independent Production (A Streetcar Named Desire), 2023 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Leading Role in a Mainstage Production (Constellations), 2020 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor in an Independent Production (Angels in America), 2020 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Ensemble (White Pearl), 2021 Equity Ensemble Award (Hungry Ghosts). Training: QUT, HB Studio (NYC). Proud member of Actors’ Equity.

JAMES LEW Designer

Sydney Theatre Company: The Poison of Polygamy (with La Boite Theatre), Top Coat

As Associate Designer: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest Other Theatre: Sydney Chamber Opera: earth.voice.body Yirramboi & Liveworks: Daddy Double Water Sign: HYDRA. VIMH: I sat and waited but you were gone too long, my sister feather, let bleeding girls lie, The View From Up Here MICF: Romeo is Not the Only Fruit

As Associate Designer: Little Ones Theatre: Merciless Gods, The Happy Prince, Suddenly Last Summer Fraught Outfit: Book of Exodus – Part II Positions: 2021/2022 Sydney Theatre Company Design Associates Program. Training: VCA.

BENJAMIN BROCKMAN

Lighting Designer

Sydney Theatre Company: Constellations, A Fool in Love. Other Theatre: Queensland Theatre Company: Family Values. 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, Mother Fucker With A Hat, Tinder Box. Hayes Theatre Company: Ride the Cyclone, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 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: Part 1 and 2. bAKEHOUSE: Coram Boy, Dresden, Visiting Hours, The Laden Table, Jatinga. Squabbalogic: Day of the Triffids (development), Good Omens (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, Wolverine Awards: APDG Award for best lighting design for a Live Performance or Event (Cleansed), Best Lighting Design for a Mainstage Production 2023 (Constellations), Best Lighting Design for an Independent Production 2019 (Metamorphoses), Best Lighting Design for an Independent Production 2021 (Symphonie Fantastique). Pronouns: They/Them.

SAM CHENG

Composer & Sound Designer

Sydney Theatre Company: Debut. Other Theatre: Belvoir 25A: Saturday Girls. New Ghosts Theatre Company: Albion, Frame Narrative, For the Grace of You Go I. Slanted Theatre: Boom, Ching Chong Chinaman Purple Tape Productions: Maa

Ki Rasoi. Kwento: The Marriage Agency. Eye Contact Theatre: Breathing Corpses. Dream Plane Productions: Labyrinth. New Theatre: A Very Expensive Poison, The Park. As Sound Designer: Hayes Theatre Co: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, New Ghosts Theatre Company: Girl Band, Outhouse Theatre Company: How to Defend Yourself As Sound Associate: Griffin Theatre: Mother May We. Film: As Composer: KARIWA (2022) (dir. Kiara Rodriguez-Hextall), Celestial Transits (2023) (dir. Arthur Neves), Abjection (2022) (dir. Ayah Darwich). Training: Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Pronouns: She/He/They.

JULES ORCULLO Dramaturg

Sydney Theatre Company: Debut. Other Theatre: As Writer and Performer: Belvoir 25a: Forgetting Tim Minchin, UK Festival Tour: phroot sahlad, Theatre Absolute: May Utang As Writer and Director: KXT Step Up: Aussie Kids Are WeetBix Kids. Positions: Dramaturg at Sydney Theatre Company (current), Dramaturg at BlackWrights, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company (current), Founder and steward, The Joy Offensive, Founding member, Kallective. Other: Writer, Acqua Profonda: Part II Sea Monster (M Kennedy/Bondi Festival). Awards: 2023 BWW Award for Best Play (Forgetting Tim Minchin). Pronouns: She/They.

PAIGE WALKER

Voice & Accent Coach

Sydney Theatre Company: The Testament of Mary, Disgraced Other Theatre: Belvoir: Glass Menagerie, Atlantis, HIR, Mr. Burns, Angels in America. Michael Cassel Group: Beautiful. Hayes Theatre Company: In the Heights, Violet Eternity Playhouse: Venus in Fur, Detroit. The Old Fitz: Streetcar Named Desire, Shadow Box, The Whale, Hand of God, Orphans, Doubt. TV: Netflix: Pieces of Her. Sony/ Stan: Preacher. As Tango Dancer & Creator: Low 302: The Agony of Tango. As Resident Aerialist: Slide: El Circo. Training: Edith Skinner Method, Jacksonville UniversityBachelor of Fine Arts (theatre, voice, dance), School for Creative and Performing Arts (vocal music, music theatre).

FERDINAND HOANG

Vietnamese Language & Dialect Consultant

Sydney Theatre Company: Debut. Film: As Actor: includes The Quiet American, Mao’s Last Dancer, Little Fish, Jasper Jones. Short Film: As Language/ Dialect Consultant: Wonder Boy. TV: Hungry Ghosts, Rush. Other: Ferdinand speaks fluent Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin and French.

Jules Orcullo

Catherine Va ˘ n-Davies, James Lew and Anchuli Felicia King

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Development Paige Rattray

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Customer Service Representatives

Amy, Chloe, Chris, Georgie, Kate, Lisa, Mary, Quinn, Tara, Tom

House Services Manager

Edward Whitmarsh-Knight

Deputy House Services Manager

Milan Monk

House Manager Callum Bright

Casual House Managers Andrea

Beaumont, Erin Bruce, Jen Batman, Jessie Lancaster, Alison Lee Rubie, Estevan Martin, Rafael Barroso, Myles Horton

Philanthropy

Director, External Relations & Private Giving Danielle Heidbrink

Head of Partnerships Miranda Purnell

Head of Philanthropy Tom Tansey

Senior Manager, Major & Planned Giving

Rebecca Warren

Individual Giving Manager Sally Crawford

Donor Communications and Campaign

Manager Lina Stein

Donor Engagement Manager

Christina Blanco

Major Gifts & SoulMates Coordinator

Mitchell Bourke

Annual Giving Executive Richard Cox

Philanthropy Administrator Tamika Paul

Operations & Public Programs

Chief Operating Officer Caroline Spence

Venue Manager Ben Stern

Venue & Events Specialist

Kendra Murphy

Head of Public Programs & Engagement

Tory Loudon

Creative Learning Program Manager

Kaylee Hazell

School Drama Program Associates

Professor Robyn Ewing AM , John Nicholas Saunders

Teaching Artists Michelle Robin Anderson, Tegan Arazny, Bronwyn Batchelor, Neville Williams Boney, Margie Breen, Victoria Campbell, Branden

Christine, Katrina Douglas, Robyn Ewing, Kaylee Hazell, Estevan Martin, Suzannah McDonald, Vaishanavi Suryaprakash, Jennifer White, Linden Wilkinson, Kate Worsley, Kelly Young

Building Facilities Manager Barry Carr

Stage Door Attendant Errol Robertson

Casual Stage Door Attendants

Geoffrey Murray, Maurice Zancanaro

Technical and Production

Director, Technical and Production

James Wheeler

Head of Technical Operations

Andrew Richards

Head of Production Joe Fletcher

Technical & Production Administrator

Hannah Waters

Workshop Manager Mark Rowley

Production Managers Elizabeth Jenkins, Ryan Garreffa, Alexandra Moon

Deputy Production Manager

Julia Orlando

Head of Stage Management Roxzan Bowes

Resident Stage Manager Sarah Smith

Lighting Manager Andrew Tompkins

Lighting Supervisors Jesse Greig, Tim McNaught, Amy Robertson

Lighting Workshop Technician

Filip Wyker

Sound & Video Manager Ben Lightowlers

Sound & Video Supervisors Ben Andrews, Hayley Forward, Luke Davis, Michael Hedges

Sound & Video Technician Peter Hunt

Staging Manager Chris Fleming

Staging/Fly Supervisor Zachary White

Set Construction Manager Boaz Shemesh

Deputy Head of Set Construction

Ashley Watts

Senior Set Constructor Joseph Gleeson

Set Constructors Alex Casalini, Tim Hill

Draftspeople Andrew Powell, Dallas Winspear

Logistics Manager Julian Duxson

Logistics Supervisor Hamish Bell

MR Driver Michael Apoifis

Props Manager Emily Adinolfi

Deputy Head of Props Jason Lowe

Props Supervisor Leandro Sanchez

Scenic Art Manager Neil Mallard

Deputy Head of Scenic Art Ron Thiessen

Scenic Artist Emily Borghi

Driver/Buyer Ashley Trotter

Costume Manager Scott Fisher

Costume Coordinator Sam Perkins

Costumier Mary Anne Lawler

Costume Stores Coordinator

Hazel Fisher

Wig, Make-Up & Wardrobe Supervisor

Lauren A. Proietti

Wig Makers Carla D’Annunzio, Stefanie Paglialonga

Program

Program Editors Patrick Carey, Rebecca Duke

Production Acknowledgements

Movement & Safety Consultant Tim Dashwood

STC Casual and Seasonal Staff

Costume Charlie Aplin, Kristi Archer, Nicole Artsetos, Patricia Barker, Alicia Brown, Nyok Kim Chang, Simone Edwards, Diane Kanara, Roslyn Keam, Catriona McCabe, Phoebe Mitchell, Mathilde Montredon, Marie-Lyne Morant,

Kia Snell, Ellen Parrett, Catherine Rennie.

Front of House Lucy Bassant, Andrea Beaumont, Aimee Bosco, Annie Brockenhuus-Schack, Kate Bubalo, Stephen Byrnes, Talia Clements-Oliveiro, Lesley Colborne, Margaret Collinson, Amelia Robertson-Cuninghame, Sonia Fabbro, Annabel Fraser, Larry Fazzalari, Alexandra Gooley, Harry Harvey, Nic Hiatt, Lily Horton, Shannon Johnson, Ondine Karpinellison, Kirsty Kiloh, Grainne King, Jessie Lancaster, Crawford Lees, Michael Medcalf, Levi Meltzer, Aarthi Muvva, Ezara Norton, Esther Randles, Marianna Rahn Martinez, Anthony Sandler, Hanna Sandler, Alexandra Simpson, Anna Summerhayes, Christine Suter, Finn Stewart, Tyran Stig, Adriane White, Samuel Carr, Harrison Mills, Jacqueline Nagy, Harrison O’Shanesy

Lighting McClane Catterall, Corinne Fish, Jemima Flett, Annabel Fraser, Ethan Hamill, Travis Kecek, Jesse Kooraram, Cameron Menzies, Anastasia Mowen, Matthew Quince, Mali Tauro-Cesca, Sam Scott, Andrew Williams

Logistics Daniel Body, Thomas Carrol, Chris Colla, Eric Dole, Jack Gordon, Chris Hearn, Rory Hill, David Lee, Jai MorrisSmith, Jaccamo Mullen, Jack RobertsField, Aiden Stone

Props Isabell de Laurentis, Melita Tickle Scenic Chris Hearn, James Jones, Gawaa Lundaa

Set Construction Reuben Alexander, Kallan Crosbie, David Drake-Brockman, Jack Gordon, Scott Marcus, Darren Tilley Sound & Video Oliver Beard, Thomas Bensley, Steven Coyle, Zoe Davis, Tahira Donohoe-Bales, Zoltan Jonas, Charlie Kember, Chloe Langdon, Patrick Middleton, Rose Mulcare, Zac Saric, Benjamin Sheen, Cameron Smith, Samuel Steinle, Solomon Thomas, David Trumpmanis, Annika Unsen, Joshua Vellis, Corey Wiles

Staging Anthony Arnold, Oscar Broadhead, Samuel Carr, Grant Finlay, Jhet Finlay, Ashley Lyons, Maite Masch Marchiori, Stephen Mason, Scott Marcus, Scott Milander, Kane Mott, Tarn Mott, Andrew Murray, Ulisses Palla, Nathan Seymour, John Shedden, David Tongs, Nathan Williams

Stage Management Tim Burns, Katie Hankin, Brooke Kiss, Stephanie Storr, Zoe Davis, Jaymii Knierum, Sean Proude, Sybilla Wajon, Chloe Langdon, Tanya Leach, Edwina Guinness

Oral Historian for STC Archives’ Oral History Project Dr Margaret Leask

STC is a member of Live Performance Australia and the Confederation of Australian State Theatres.

Auditors KPMG

Legal Representatives Allens

STC Overseas Representatives

Thompson Turner Productions (New York)

STC Doctors Holdsworth House

OUR PARTNERS

Sydney Theatre Company celebrates the support of our valued Partners.

For further information on partnership opportunities please contact Miranda Purnell, mpurnell@sydneytheatre.com.au

Sydney Theatre Company is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body

Sydney Theatre Company is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW

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