COST OF LIVING BY MARTYNA MAJOK
JOHN
Dan Daw
ANI
Kate Hood
JESS
Zoe de Plevitz
EDDIE
Philip Quast
THEATRE ACCESS
ASSISTANT TO KATE HOOD
Madeleine Lewis
Shelise Vandal (cover)
PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO DAN DAW
Lauren Smeaton
CO-DIRECTORS
Priscilla Jackman
Dan Daw
DESIGNER
Michael Scott-Mitchell
LIGHTING DESIGNER
John Rayment
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER
Guy Webster
INTIMACY & FIGHT DIRECTOR
NJ Price
DIALECT COACH
Gabrielle Rogers
90 MINS, NO INTERVAL
THIS SEASON OPENED AT BILLE BROWN THEATRE, BRISBANE ON 20 JUNE 2024
THIS PRODUCTION IS SUPPORTED BY THE STC ANGELS
World premiere produced July 2016 by the Williamstown Theatre Festival Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Director, Michael Sag, General Manager.
Produced in New York City by the Manhattan Theatre Club
Lynn Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer on June 7th, 2017.
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Ryan Garreffa
STAGE MANAGER
Grant Gravener
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS
Yanni Dubler
Brooke Kiss
COSTUME COORDINATOR
Scott Fisher
BACKSTAGE WARDROBE
SUPERVISOR
Alicia Brown
LIGHTING SUPERVISOR
Tim McNaught
LIGHTING PROGRAMMER
Ethan Hamill
LIGHTING OPERATOR
Cam Menzies
SOUND SUPERVISOR
Ben Andrews
STAGING SUPERVISOR
Chris Fleming
MECHANIST
Nathan Williams
AUTOMATION OPERATOR
Co Arnold
PRODUCTION
PHOTOGRAPHER
Morgan Roberts
CO-PRODUCER
Martyna Majok is one of the most exciting playwrights to recently emerge from the American theatre, and we’re incredibly excited to stage the Australian premiere of Cost of Living, the play that won her the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2018. It’s among the most powerful new works I’ve encountered for a long time. It’s about connection and interdependence, about honouring other perspectives, and the gap in experience between people with and without lived experience of disability – subjects that are powerfully resonant in this moment in time but, also, thanks to Majok’s expert writing, have a timeless quality.
The multiple sides and perspectives woven into this story gave us the opportunity to bring together an exciting co-directing team for this historic production, Dan Daw and Priscilla Jackman. Dan is an incredible polymath of a performance-maker. His career as a dancer, performer and director is a global one, and I’m thrilled that he’s making his Australian mainstage debut, as Co-Director and Performer, with us and Queensland Theatre (our co-producers on this project). If you haven’t seen his work before, you’re in for a treat.
We’re also very blessed to have Priscilla Jackman joining Dan at the helm of this new
A MESSAGE FROM KIP WILLIAMS
"It’s among the most powerful new works I’ve encountered for a long time."
production, after she wowed STC audiences with a return season of RBG: Of Many, One earlier this year. Priscilla’s collaboration with the company is longstanding and her forensic approach to text allows her to consistently find the core of emotion powering the story, and the beautiful images that bring it to life.
On stage, Dan is joined by an incredible cast of fellow actors: Kate Hood, Philip Quast and Zoe de Plevitz. Cost of Living sometimes feels like a two-hander, or parallel twohanders, and these four actors are riveting as they mine the fluctuating tension and power dynamics between these characters; people with and without lived experience of disability, caregivers and receivers of many different types. The cast is wonderfully supported by a spectacular creative team who have built the world of this play with care and innovation. This is an astonishing work of contemporary theatre, and one that doesn’t supply easy answers or pat solutions, and I’m thrilled to be welcoming you to its Sydney premiere.
Thank you,
Kip Williams Artistic Director & Co-CEO
SYNOPSIS
Ani is a fiercely independent and sharpwitted woman with an acquired disability who requires round-the-clock care. When her nurse quits unexpectedly, her ex-husband, Eddie, a retired truck-driver, steps in to help her. Old grievances quickly bubble to the surface and Ani battles feelings of frustration, helplessness, and fear.
Despite their complicated history, there is a lingering affection between them that makes their new reality both tense and tender, painful and beautiful.
Meanwhile, John, a wealthy, Harvardeducated man with cerebral palsy hires Jess, a struggling bartender with a Princeton education, to be his caregiver. Initially, their relationship is strictly professional. Jess takes the job out of financial necessity, but as she spends more time with John, she begins to care for him deeply. John starts to rely on Jess not just for physical assistance but also for companionship.
DIRECTORS’ INTERVIEW: PRISCILLA JACKMAN AND DAN DAW
CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT HOW THIS SHOW CAME TO BE?
Priscilla: I first met Dan when I saw his incredible show Beast at Sydney Festival in 2018. I was so moved by his performance that I tracked him down and asked if he wanted to meet for a coffee before he flew back out to the UK, where he was living. We stayed in loose contact, and eventually in 2019 I came across Cost of Living by Martyna Majok. I could not believe it because the character of John felt like it was created for Dan to play. I sent Dan the script and he wrote straight back to me. I will never forget his email, he said “I f***ing heart this. I want in – let’s do it!!”
CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FOUR CHARACTERS AND THEIR INTERTWINING STORIES?
Dan: At its core, this extraordinary piece of writing highlights the importance of interdependence in the disabled lived experience. The world is as beautiful as it is harsh and the characters are all, in their own ways, doing everything in their power to find shelter in each other. The thing I keep coming back to, particularly looking at the
relationship between Ani and Eddie, is Ani’s longing as a disabled person to be alone, to be away from her husband, after years of being with him, but that solace coming at a cost, because she needs him for her day-today care.
At the same time, on the other side of town, we meet John who has found himself alone for the first time and is recruiting a personal assistant to help him with his daily care. Jess has “lived a lot of life” after working the night shift at bars around town. She first meets John in his apartment in the hope she can be of help to him, and in the hope that he can be of help to her.
As much as this is a play about the help disabled people need to live in the world, it is also a play about the help non-disabled people need. Disabled people are generally categorised as having little worth in society and it’s a beautiful thing to be with Eddie and Jess as the two non-disabled characters, to see how much they actually need and want Ani and John to be part of their worlds. Without Ani, life for Eddie was tough and before meeting John, life for Jess was survival.
WHAT MAKES THIS SHOW DIFFERENT TO ANY OTHER SHOW YOU’VE WORKED ON?
Dan: It’s quite a monumental thing, as a disabled artist, to be even working on a play for an Australian state theatre company. It feels like a total gamechanger to be working alongside this extraordinary team of artists to bring a story like this to Australian audiences. A real strength of this collaboration has been the time we have been able to take in bringing this work to life. We’ve left no stone unturned in the five years it’s taken us, with many careful conversations and considerations around accessibility, inclusion, and care along the way. It’s a very rare thing to be afforded the luxury of time in today’s day and age, which is why it’s distinctively different from any other show I’ve worked on.
HOW HAS THIS INFORMED THE REHEARSAL PROCESS?
Priscilla: As artists, we always talk about how collaborative theatre-making is. But for me, never have I been involved in a process that is as intricately, and supremely collaborative at every single stage, as this production has been. This is not only because we are the first mainstage production in the country to have a 50/50 ratio of disabled/non-disabled actors on stage and almost this same ratio represented amongst our creative team. It requires a design which must be entirely accessible, that must transition effortlessly between the intimacy of bathroom spaces to busy Jersey City streetscapes. And a text that necessitates a heartbreakingly beautiful sound score with stunning, sophisticated lighting. We are so grateful to the creative team, including Michael Scott-Mitchell, Guy Webster, John Rayment, our stage management and production teams led by Grant Gravener and Dan Maddison, as well as the Queensland Theatre programming team led by Helen Hillman and Pip Boyce, who have collaborated with absolute dedication, flexibility, and skill in order for us to achieve our collective vision for the work.
CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE AND PROCESS OF CO-DIRECTING A SHOW WITH ANOTHER PERSON?
Priscilla: I think all of us on this project are acutely aware of how extraordinary our rehearsal room and process has been. We are all aware that as a company we collectively represent a range of spheres of experience on this production and it is our differences – coming together, working, listening, responding to one another – that inform a deeper and richer work. Dan and I as co-directors are testament to that, and this is partly why we chose to codirect the work. We celebrate the different perspectives we bring from our different lived experience, from our different artistic practice, from our differing bodies of creative work.
WHAT MESSAGE ARE YOU HOPING THE AUDIENCE WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THIS SHOW? WHY IS THIS AN IMPORTANT STORY TO SEE ON THE STAGE?
Priscilla: We are aware that there is an advocacy element to this work, and we are so proud to be supported in a co-production by Queensland Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company. This is a work that invites conversation around the complexities of who we are as humans, and how we co-exist. This is not a play that allows audiences to position themselves at arm’s length from the world of the characters. To somehow think “well that’s about disability – that is not me.” Because actually, Majok is saying the reverse – this play says, “this is all of us.” In this way the notion of ‘disability’ as ‘otherness’ is completely turned on its head. Our goal has always been to make an astonishing theatrical experience for our audiences that celebrates our human connection.
Zoe de Plevitz and Dan Daw
MARTYNA MAJOK Writer
Martyna Majok was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in New Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her Broadway debut play, Cost of Living, which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and international stages. Other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Steinberg Playwright Award, Arthur Miller Foundation Legacy Award, The Obie Award for Playwriting, The Hull-Warriner Award, The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play, The Hermitage Greenfield Prize, as the first female recipient in drama, and The Champions of Change Award from the NYC Mayor’s Office. Martyna studied at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, and New Jersey public schools. Gatsby, a new musical for which Martyna wrote the libretto with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett, will premiere this spring at A.R.T. Martyna has developed TV projects for HBO and is writing feature films for Plan B/Pastel/MGM/Orion, MRC/T-Street, and Participant/Killer Films.
PRISCILLA JACKMAN
Co-Director
Priscilla is a multidisciplinary director working across theatre, opera and screen, with an impressive track record for creating innovative new work in landmark productions across the Australian arts landscape.
For the Sydney Theatre Company Priscilla directed the award winning RBG: Of Many, One by Suzie Miller, starring Heather Mitchell to sell-out audiences across Australia (2022/24). She directed the Australian premiere of White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King, which opened the Oz Asia Festival, toured nationally and won Best Ensemble at Sydney Theatre Awards (2019). Also for the STC, she wrote and directed Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story (2018).
For Ensemble Theatre, Priscilla directed The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race by Melanie Tait in its world premiere, with a later season at Queensland Theatre (2023). She was the winner of Ensemble Theatre's inaugural Sandra Bates Directing Award in 2016. Priscilla is the writer and director of Girls In Boys' Cars which premiered at National Theatre of Parramatta (2023) based on the award winning novel by Felicity Castagna.
Her critically acclaimed productions for Opera Australia include: the national tour of The Barber Of Seville (2021/22), Bluebeard’s Castle (associate director) and Ernani (assistant director), a co-production with La Scala Italy, as well as several schools’ tours.
Priscilla’s international work includes an internship at the Komische Oper under Barrie Kosky, as winner of the Berlin Opera Award from The Opera Foundation for Young Australians (2017) and working with Complicité, in collaboration with their Creative Learning Team (London, 2013/14). She represented the Southbank Centre London for Sydney Writers' Festival at WOW Festival in 2014. Priscilla holds a Masters of Directing (NIDA).
DAN DAW Co-Director
Dan is the Artistic Director/CEO of Dan Daw Creative Projects. Dan Daw Creative Projects is a disabled-led company who are leading the way in creating accessible international touring work that blurs the lines between theatre, dance and activism.
Dan has presented his work at British Dance Edition (UK), Swedish Performing Arts Biennale (Sweden), Sydney Festival, Sydney World Pride, Rising Festival and APAM (Australia), Kampnagel, Sophiensaele and Radikal Jung (Germany), Trafo (Hungary), Auawirleben Theatre Festival (Switzerland), Teatro Municipal do Porto and Culturgest (Portugal), Onassis Stegi (Greece), SoHo Playhouse (USA).
Although Cost of Living is Dan’s Australian mainstage theatre debut, he began working as a performer with Restless Dance Theatre (Australia) in 2002, and since then has gone on to work with Australian Dance Theatre and Force Majeure (Australia), FRONTLINEdance, Scottish Dance Theatre, balletLORENT, Candoco Dance Company and National Theatre Scotland (UK) and Skånes Dansteater (Sweden).
Throughout his performance career spanning almost twenty years, Dan has worked with Kat Worth, Garry Stewart, Kate Champion, Janet Smith, Adam Benjamin, Wendy Houstoun, Sarah Michelson, Rachid Ouramdane, Nigel Charnock, Matthias Sperling, Marc Brew, Claire Cunningham, Martin Forsberg, Carl Olof Berg, Charlotte Spencer, Javier de Frutos and Priscilla Jackman.
Dan’s critically acclaimed performance work has toured to over twenty venues around the world. He was nominated for a UK National Dance Award in 2022 and more recently was awarded a Green Room Award for Best Contemporary and Experimental Performance during his season at Rising Festival and APAM last year.
A Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist and working as Internationale Tanzmesse NRW Associate Curator (2021 – 2024), Associate Artistic Director of Candoco Dance Company (2021), Sadler’s Wells Summer University Artist (2015 – 2018) and Associate Director of Murmuration (2015 – 2022), Dan continues to work at the forefront of disability-led performance making and international performance programming.
KATE HOOD
Ani
Sydney Theatre Company: Debut. Other Theatre: Melbourne Theatre Company: Escaped Alone and What If If Only, Diving for Pearls; Mercury Theatre Auckland: Pygmalion, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Steaming, Armageddon Revisited, Summer, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Objection Overruled, Setting the Table, Multiple Choice, Chicago, Oliver, Sweet Charity, On Our Selection, King of Hearts, The King and I, Footrot Flats, Snoopy, Dracula, Aladdin, Pack of Women, Tomfoolery, Fresh Revolving Pleasures; Opera Australia: Romeo and Juliet; State Theatre Company of South Australia: Marat/Sade; Hit Productions: Hotel Sorrento Film: Dancing in the Dust, Hindsight, The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children, Mesmerized, Constance. TV: Neighbours, Blue Heelers, Prisoner: Cell Block H. Positions: Artistic Director, Raspberry Ripple Productions (2016–Present); Artistic Associate, Melbourne Theatre Company (2022–Present); Founding Member and Deputy Chair Diversity Committee (2013–20), Founding Member and Co-Chair Performers with Disabilities Committee (2013–20), Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance; Keynote Speaker, Arts and Disability International Conference (2018). Awards: Audiophile Earphone Award – Queen Kat, Carmel, St Jude Get a Life; Audiophile Earphone Award – Tears of the Moon
ZOE DE PLEVITZ
Jess
Sydney Theatre Company: Debut. Other Theatre: Small Crown Productions: Adventures of Peter Rabbit; 4MBS Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It; Fort Lytton: St Helena Stories, Carry On Fort Lytton, Fort Lytton at Night, Immigration, Returned, Frontline; Newstead House: Connect with Heritage, The War Years; Fractal: My Love had a Black Speed Stripe, Frankenstein, Under Milkwood; Antix: Speaking in Tongues; Brisbane Festival: The Tale of Monkey; Out of the Box Festival: The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party; Grin & Tonic: Macbeth, As You Like It, Franz Kafka’s The Trial, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Black Box Theatre: Body Chapters (Singapore). Film: Swinging Safari, The Suicide Theory TV: Boy Swallows Universe Training: Bachelor of Arts (Theatre), QUT; Atlantic Acting School, New York (Summer Intensive). Awards: Matilda Award Nomination – Best Performance in a Supporting Role Independent Production Adventures of Peter Rabbit
PHILIP QUAST
Eddie
Sydney Theatre Company: Do not go gentle..., Death of a Salesman, The Cherry Orchard, Into the Woods, Coriolanus, Democracy, Waiting for Godot, The White Devil (with Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival). Other Theatre: Melbourne Theatre Company: His Girl Friday, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia; Ensemble Theatre: Is This All Then; The Royal Shakespeare Company: The White Devil, Love's Labour's Lost, The Secret Garden, Macbeth, Troilus & Cressida; National Theatre (London): Follies (filmed for NT Live), Sunday in the Park with George, Stuff Happens, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, South Pacific; Donmar Warehouse: The Fix; Philip Quast Live at the Donmar; English National Opera London Coliseum: Sweeney Todd; London West End: Les Miserables. The Lincoln Centre New York: Sweeney Todd. BBC Symphony Orchestra: Tsunami. Film: Hacksaw Ridge, Truth, The Devil’s Double, Clubland, The Fall. TV: Ultraviolet, Between Two Worlds, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Janet King, Silent Witness, Midsummer Murders, Corridors of Power, Cleopatra, Inspector Morse, Playschool, The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, Brides of Christ Recordings: over 12 cast recordings including “Live at The Donmar” for Divas at The Donmar. Training: Diploma of Acting, NIDA (1979). Positions: Teaching: NIDA, New York School of the Arts, The Julliard School (NYC), Royal Academy of Music (London), Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (London), Guildford School of Acting (London), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Awards: Green Room Award – Best Male Artist Mary Poppins; Olivier Award –Best Actor in a Musical South Pacific,
Best Actor in a Musical The Fix, Best Actor in a Musical Sunday in the Park with George; Sydney Theatre Award – Best Cabaret Is This All Then; Sydney Theatre Critics Award – Best Actor Into the Woods, Best Actor of the Year Les Miserables; Mo Award – Male Musical Theatre Performer Les Miserables
MADELEINE LEWIS
Theatre Access Assistant to Kate Hood
Sydney Theatre Company: Debut. Other Theatre: Omnibus Theatre
London: Murder Ballad, Toxic Crazy Lucky Stronger; La Boite Theatre: Utopia; The Yard London: Don’t Talk to Strangers; The Bussey Building: Don’t Talk to Strangers, bodies of water; Prague Quadrennial: MiMeme; GET ON THE INTERNET: Toxic Crazy Lucky Stronger; VAULT Festival: Toxic Crazy Lucky Stronger, Don’t Talk to Strangers; Death Fest: Exquisite; Fringe World: Super Awesome Best Friends Forever, Alice is Drowning Positions: Performance Artist (1/4 of arts collective Hot Cousin), Community Engagement Lead, Lived Experience Educator, Teaching Artist. Training: Master of Arts (Advanced Theatre Practice), Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; Bachelor of Performing Arts (Performance Making), WAAPA; Advanced Diploma of Arts (Acting), Southbank Institute of Technology.
LAUREN SMEATON
Personal Assistant to
Dan Daw
Sydney Theatre Company: Debut. Film: As Additional Crew: Gods of Egypt, Storm Boy. TV: As Casting Producer: Warner Brothers: The Bachelor, The Bachelorette; Endemol Shine Australia: The Voice Australia As Finance and Administration: Home and Away, Packed to the Rafters, A Place to Call Home, Secret Daughter, Love Child, The Voice, Survivor Australia, Crikey it’s the Irwins, Tipping Point Positions: Ensemble Member, Workshop Manager, Assistant, Artist & Ensemble Support, Restless Dance Theatre, South Australia; Ensemble Artist Support, Jumbuck Youth Theatre, South Australia. Training: Diploma of Youthwork, TAFE SA; Bachelor of Visual Art Adelaide
MICHAEL SCOTT-MITCHELL Designer
Sydney Theatre Company: 40 productions including Arcadia, Arms and the Man, Storm Boy (with Barking Gecko Theatre), Switzerland, Long Day’s Journey into Night (with Artists’ Repertory Theatre), Honour, Travesties, Ying Tong – A Walk with The Goons, Amigos, Major Barbara, Still Point Turning Other Theatre: Queensland Theatre: The Appleton
Ladies’ Potato Race, Gift to the Gorgon, The Tempest, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Navigating, Amigos, Ying Tong – A Walk With The Goons, Boundary Street Other Credits: Highlights include: Opera Australia: Madame Butterfly, The Merry Widow, Tosca, L’elisir D’amore, Tannhauser. Ensemble Theatre: Diplomacy, The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, The Last Five Years State Opera of South Australia: Wagner’s Ring Cycle (2004). Broadway/US: Doctor Zhivago, Freeze Frame. Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Cauldron. UAE 48 National Day, 2010. 15th Asian Games Doha 2006. Training: Architecture, Sydney University, Bachelor of Dramatic Art – Design, NIDA. Positions: Professor of Practice – Art and Design, University of New South Wales; Head of Design, Director, Deputy Director/ CEO, NIDA. Awards: Helpmann Award – Best Scenic Design Wagner’s Ring Cycle, 6 Production Design Guild Awards, 2 Greenroom Awards, 1 Theatre Critics Award, 1 Adelaide Critics Award, Sydney Olympic Cauldron – Heritage Listing.
JOHN RAYMENT
Lighting Designer
Sydney Theatre Company: includes The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Chinchilla, As You Desire Me, Extremities, The Cherry Orchid, The Way of the World, The Fields of Heaven, Merrily We Roll Along, The Madras House, The Conquest of Carmen Miranda, The Portage to San Christobel of A.H., Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Secret Rapture, The Doll Trilogy, The Stripper, The Cobra, Harold in Italy, The Perfectionist, Emerald City, Up For Grabs, Soulmates Other Theatre: Queensland Theatre: The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, POTUS; Other Credits: Opera
Australia, includes: Norma, The Mikado, Aida, The Trojans Parts 1 & 2, Orpheus in the Underworld, Lulu, La Bohème, Salome, Parsifal, Aida, Metamorphosis; Anna Bolena, Whiteley, Ghost Sonata, La Juive, Lohengrin, Il Trovatore; Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: La Traviata, Carmen, West Side Story; Carmen on Cockatoo Island (2022); Brisbane Festival: Winners, Surrogate Cities, City of Lights (2011–13), Freeze Frame, Legs on the Wall, Turangalila (with QSO), Salome (with QSO); Queensland Music Festival: Tristan & Isolde (with QSO); He has created multiple designs for Belvoir St Theatre; State Theatre Company South Australia; Sydney Dance Company; The Australian Ballet; Royal New Zealand Ballet; English National Ballet; Australian Brandenburg Orchestra; State Opera South Australia; Victorian State Opera; Shanghai City Entertainment Group. Other: Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games: Opening & Closing Ceremony; Sydney 2000 Olympic Games: Opening & Closing Ceremony; Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games: Opening & Closing Ceremony; Deaflympics 2009 Taipei: Opening Ceremony; Singapore National Day Parade; Hong Kong’s Symphony of Lights; Global Creatures: Walking with Dinosaurs (Arena Spectacular).
GUY WEBSTER
Composer & Sound Designer
Sydney Theatre Company: Fantastic Mr Fox (shake & stir theatre co), The Poison of Polygamy (with La Boite Theatre), The Effect (with Queensland Theatre). As Sound Designer: The Poison of Polygamy. Other Theatre: Queensland Theatre: The Effect (with Sydney Theatre Company), Drizzle Boy, L’Appartement, Constellations, The
Button Event, The Seagull, Brisbane, Venus In Fur, Kelly, Orphans. La Boite Theatre: The Poison of Polygamy, An Ideal Husband, Naked & Screaming, From Darkness, Lysa & The Freeborn Dames, Blackrock, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Tragedy of King Richard III, As You Like It, Ruben Guthrie, I Love You Bro, The White Earth, Kitchen Diva, Summer Wonderland, The Narcissist, Last Drinks, Urban Dingoes; shake & stir theatre co: James and the Giant Peach, Frankenstein, Tae Tae in the Land of YAAAS, Fourteen, The Twits, Jane Eyre, A Christmas Carol, Fourthcoming, Fantastic Mr Fox, Dracula, George’s Marvelous Medicine, Wuthering Heights, Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts, Tequila Mockingbird, 1984, Animal Farm, Out Damn Snot; Belloo Creative: Boy Lost; Playlab Theatre: White China, Brutal Utopias, Blue Bones, Horizon, Magpie; Brisbane Festival: Neeirgoo – Spirit of the Whale, Riverfire Soundtrack, Art Boat Stories Of Country; Shock Therapy Arts: Locked In, Medea, Viral, Welcome to Sameville; Lisa Wilson & Nathan Sibthorpe: Bunker; Homunculus Theatre: High Tea With Booff, The Knock Em Downs; Circus Corridor: The Rising; Tammy Zarb & Co: Inside Out; Bleach Festival: Follow The Bias, Hotelling, Shifting Sands, Quiet By Nature (Gogi Dance), Fish Out Of Water; Brisbane Writers Festival: Angel’s Palace; Jute Theatre Company: La Bella Figura, To Kill A Cassowary, Here We Are All Assembled, The Salt Remains, Bastard Territory; The Farm: Depthless; State Library of Queensland: Teacup Sonata, I Cherish This..., The Unexpectedly Mind Boggling Adventure; National Gallery Singapore: Closer; Institute Of Contemporary Art London: Shifting Intimacies; National Art Museum of China/ University of California/BIOS Athens, Ars Electronica Festival, Austria/ Australian Centre for the Moving Image: Intimate Transactions Awards: Matilda Award, Best Design – Sound or Composition Bunker; Prix Ars Electronica – Interactive Art Honorable Mention.
NJ PRICE
Intimacy & Fight Director
Sydney Theatre Company: Debut. Other Theatre: Queensland Theatre: Medea, Vietgone, The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, As You Like It, Drizzle Boy, The Almighty Sometimes, The Sunshine Club, Bernhardt/ Hamlet, L’Appartement, Death of a Salesman, The Longest Minute, Twelfth Night, Hedda, An Octoroon, Constellations, Happy Days, Ladies in Black, Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Australia Day, The Mountain Top, The Effect, The Seagull, Black Diggers, Gasp!, I Want To Know What Love Is, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Pitch, End of The Rainbow, Venus in Fur, Fat Pig, Kelly, Head Full of Love, Seeding Bed, Pygmalion, The Removalists, No Man’s Land, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Man Equals Man, Water Falling Down, Waiting For Godot, Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed, Thom Pain, The Female of the Species, That Face, The Little Dog Laughed, The Orphanage Project. Other Credits: Various credits for Queensland Theatre’s Youth Ensemble/The Scene Project, deBase, Opera Queensland, La Boite Theatre, Harvest Rain, Backbone Youth, 4MBS, Grin & Tonic, Blacklight, Vena Cava, Ignations, Griffith Conservatorium, Starlight, The Good Room, That Theatre, Pretend Productions, University of Queensland, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts, Brisbane Grammar, Citipointe Christian College, Savoyards, Woodward Productions, JMC Academy, Assembly of Elephants, Emmanuel College, Brisbane Festival, Queensland Academies of Creative Industries, Hit Productions, Playlab Theatre. Training: Coleg Powys, Wales; Mountview Academy of Theatre
Arts, London. Positions: Accredited Teacher, British Academy of Dramatic Combat; Fight Director, Society of Australian Fight Directors; Teacher, Indelability Arts. Awards: British Academy of Dramatic Combat – Advanced with Recommendation; British Academy of Fencing – 5-Star Foile, 4-Star Sabre; National All Styles Martial Arts Tournament (2018) – Australian Champion, Women’s Advanced, Australian Champion, Veterans Division.
GABRIELLE ROGERS
Dialect Coach
Sydney Theatre Company: Debut. Other Theatre: Queensland Theatre: Medea, Gaslight, Vietgone, don’t ask what the bird look like, Tiny Beautiful Things, Drizzle Boy, Rice. Opera Australia: My Fair Lady Film: Eden, Thirteen Lives, Reminiscence, The Nightingale, Ticket to Paradise, Love and Monsters, Godzilla vs Kong, Extraction 2 TV: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. Positions: Member, Performing Arts Medical Association; Member, Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare; Member, Voice and Speech Teachers Association; Member, MEAA; Practitioner, Feldenkrais Method; Founder, Andrew Jack Foundation.
Priscilla Jackman and Dan Daw
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James & Hayley Baillie, Deb & John Balderstone, Anita Belgiorno-Nettis AM & Luca Belgiorno-Nettis AM , Mark Coulter & Dr Adam Bayes, Ian Darling AO & Min Darling, Denton Family Foundation, W & A Johnson, The Kerridge Foundation, Maple-Brown Family Foundation Ltd, The Neilson Foundation, Mark & Louise Nelson, Gretel Packer AM , David Paradice AO, James Pegum, The Petre Foundation, Rebel PenfoldRussell OAM , Sally & Geoffrey White
CHAIR’S COUNCIL
Ann Johnson (Chair) & Warwick Johnson, Frances Allan & Ian Narev, Jillian Broadbent AC , Mark Burrows AO, Andrew Cameron AM & Cathy Cameron, Robert Cameron AO & Paula Cameron, Bella & Tim Church, Anne & David Craig, Ian Darling AO & Min Darling, Heather Doig & Rob Koczkar, David Gonski AC & Orli Wargon OAM , Sandra Levy AO, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Peter Mason AM & Kate Mason, Gretel Packer AM , Paul Robertson AO & Lenore
Robertson AM , Anne & John Rumpler, Richard Shemesian, Greg Schneider & Gabbi Phillips, Tony Scotford, Antony Spanbrook & Chris Yeo, Vaux Family Education & Learning Foundation
Thank you to our donors at all levels. You support a bright future for STC.
$10,000-$19,999
Colin & Richard Adams, Phil & Beverley Birnbaum, Heather & Malcolm Crompton, Dr Michelle Deaker, Edward Federman, Wendy, Gavin, Megan Grace & Brighton Grace, David & Fee Hancock Foundation, The Hilmer Family Endowment, Victoria Holthouse, The Knights Family Jabula Foundation, Peter Mason AM & Kate Mason, Mountain Air Foundation, Jonquil Ritter, Paul Robertson AO and Lenore Robertson AM , The Dick & Pip Smith Foundation, Louise Taggart & Peter Homel, The Late Shirley Warland, Ivan & Karel Wheen, James & Clytie Williams, Kim Williams AM & Catherine Dovey, Yim Family Foundation, Anonymous (2)
$5,000-$9,999
Wayne Adams in memory of Liz O'Neill OAM Baker & Bevan Bequest, Walter Barda, Andrew & Natalie Best, Sandra Bourke, Jillian Broadbent AC , Michele Brooks, Dr Sharron Brown, Dr Andrew Buchanan, Mitchell Butel, Nerida Caesar, Wayne Cahill, Cathy Cameron, Denbigh Foundation, Doherty Swinhoe Family Foundation, Donus Australia Foundation Ltd, Camilla Drover, Anne Dunn & Pat Buick, Sandra Forbes, The Australian Children's Trust, Richard & Jane Freudenstein, Deborah & David Friedlander, Anne Galbraith, Jinnie & Ross Gavin, Michelle Guthrie, Meredith Hellicar, Sally Herman OAM , I Kallinikos, Anna Katzmann, Zach Kitschke, Sheridan Lee, Virginia Leitch, Mrs Paula & Mr Andrew Liveris, Robyn Martin-Weber, Sara McKerihan, Sam Meers AO, Susie Moore, John & Maureen Murray, Natasha Nankivell, Amy Payten, Caroline Perkins, Gabbi Phillips, Tony & Kaye Purnell, Dr Judy Ranka, Sally & Jonathan Rourke, Anne Schofield AM , Rita Thakur, Susan & Ian Thomas, Christine Thomson, Annie & Graham Williams, Prof John Yiannikas, Anonymous (7)
$2,000-$4,999
Philip Bacon AO, Berg Family Foundation, Ellen Borda,
FirstAct
Eleanor Ansley & Ash Mills, Fokschaner Family, Kirsty Hinner, Alexandra Humphrey Cifuentes, Katherine Magnus, Edward McMahon, Joel Watkins, Anonymous
LIFE PATRONS
Frances Allan & Ian Narev, Mr Giorgio Armani, Anita Belgiorno-Nettis AM & Luca Belgiorno-Nettis AM , The Caledonia Foundation, Crown Resorts Foundation, Ian Darling AO & Min Darling, Catherine Dovey & Kim Williams AM , Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, David Fite, Stephen Fitzgerald AO & Julie Fitzgerald, Girgensohn Foundation, David Gonski AC & Orli Wargon OAM , John & Frances Ingham Foundation, W & A Johnson, Mark & Anne Lazberger, Danita R. Lowes, Minderoo Foundation, Simon Mordant AO & Catriona Mordant AM , Cameron & Ilse O’Reilly, Origin Foundation, Packer Family Foundation, Gretel Packer AM , Mrs Roslyn Packer AC , The Paradice Family Foundation, The Petre Foundation, Anne Schofield AM , Shi’s Family Foundation, Mr Andrew Stuart, Upton Blanchett Family, Carla Zampatti AC , Anonymous
Gerard Byrne & Donna O'Sullivan, Hon J C Campbell KC & Mrs Campbell, JT Clark, Dr Bishnu Dutta & Ms Jayati Dutta, Terry Fahy, Hon Ben Franklin MLC , Liz Gibson, Ginny & Leslie Green, Marguerite Gregan & Billy Bennett, Priscilla Guest, Louise Hamshere, Cheryl Hatch, Linda Herd, Andrew Korda AM & Susan Pearson, John Lewis, Alexandra Martin, The McBriarty Family, Andrew Rosenberg, John & Christina Stitt, Georgie Stromland, Sydney Theatre Company Pier Group, Wendy TrevorJones, Julia Wokes, Boh Yeng & Peter Hunt, Anonymous (7)
$1,000-$1,999
Margaret Andrews, Pam Anson, Lillian & Peter Armitage, Victor Baskir, Susan Bennett, Noel Bignell, Phil Breaden, Anne Bruning, Annabelle & Stephen Burley, T&C Carroll, Joseph Catanzariti AM , Clegg Foundation, Simone Clow, Angela Compton, Christopher Cosier & Christopher Webber, Nick & Carol Dettmann, Eve Draper, Lou & Peter Duerden, Diane & John Dunlop, Dana Dupere, Peter Fogarty, Freilich Prescribed Private Fund, Judy Friend, Frances Garrick, Anthony Gill, Sharon Goldschmidt, Geoffrey Graham, Dr Anna Gray, Chris & Gina Grubb, Sophie Guest, Lisa Hamilton & Rob White, Margaret R Hawkins, Donald Hector & Sandra Ollington, Jennifer Hershon, M. Horne, Theresa Jacques, Julia Jane Pty Limited, Benjamin Law, Lesro Pty Ltd, Cheryl Lo, Michele Marquet, Ruth McColl AO SC , Rob & Rosemary McCullough, In Memory of Helen McFadyen, Dr Stephen McNamara, Phillip Mitchelhill, Cynthia Nadai, Marion Nicholas, Sandy Nightingale, Sue O'Keefe in memory of Lynda Shearer, Ruth Olip, Greg Peirce, Christina Pender, Raffi Qasabian & John Wynter, Anne Rein & Rod Gilmour, Robin Rodgers, Diana Semmonds, Emine Sermet, Mr Andrew Stuart, Josie & Graeme Thompson, Sue Thomson, Dr David Throsby AO & Dr Robin Hughes, Daniela Torsh, Suzanne & Ross Tzannes AM , Victoria Waldock, Marvin West, Anthony & Annie Whealy, Antony
SOULMATES
Colin & Richard Adams, Andrew Benson, Mitchell Bourke, Rob Brookman AM , The Late Stephen Center, Sarah Cruickshank, Jayati Dutta, Terry M Fahy, The Late Nancy Fairfax OBE , The Late Denise Robyn Fairservice, The Late Ronald Falk, Jennifer Fulton, Ros Gestier, Girgensohn Foundation, The Late Diane Patricia Hague, Louise Hamshere, Dorothy Hoddinott AO, The Late Isabelle Joseph, Iphygenia Kallinikos, The Late Denis Stanley Klein, Wolf Krueger, Peter Louw, The McBriarty Family, DiAnne McDonald, Justin Miller AM , Christopher John Nicolosi, Mr Mark Neilsen & Mr Tim Trollip, Jonquil & John Ritter, Trudie Anne Rogers, Emine Sermet, Lynette Shelley, William Turbet, The Late Shirley Warland, Boh Yeng & Peter Hunt, Anonymous (16)
Donations to the STC Foundation are recognised for 12 months from the date of donation. Donations of $100 and above are recognised on our website. This listing is current as at 10 July 2024
To join our donor community, please make a donation online at sydneytheatre.com.au/donate For further information, please contact the STC Philanthropy team on (02) 9250 1976 or foundation@sydneytheatre.com.au
Board of Directors
Ann Johnson (Chair), Anita BelgiornoNettis AM, Brooke Boney, Sarah Constable, Mark Coulter, David Craig, Anne Dunn, Heather Mitchell AM, David Paradice AO, Annette Shun Wah, Kip Williams
Executive
Artistic Director & Co-CEO Kip Williams
Executive Director & Co-CEO Anne Dunn
Executive Assistants
Batsheva Abrahams, Poppy Tidswell
Artistic
Director, New Work & Artistic
Development Paige Rattray
Casting Director Michael Topple
Casting Associate Jocelyn O’Brien
Senior Producer Ben White
Associate Producers
Zoe O’Flanagan, Alice Hatton
Company Manager Sarah Stait
Acting Company Manager Minka Stevens
Artistic Administrator/Assistant
Company Manager Nicola Stavar
New Work Development Producer
Jonathan Ware
Resident Directors
Kenneth Moraleda, Ian Michael
Patrick White Playwrights Fellow
Joanna Murray-Smith
Dramaturg Jules Orcullo
STC Writers Under Commission
Andrew Bovell, Glace Chase, Wesley Enoch, Jane Harrison, Kim Ho, Tom Holloway, Emme Hoy, Nakkiah Lui, Nathan Maynard, Joanna Murray Smith, Kate Mulvany, Eryn Jean Norvill & Emma Valente, S. Shakthidharan, Meyne Wyatt
Watershed Writers Grace Chapple, Abbie-lee Lewis, Emmanuelle Mattana, Gary Paramanathan, Daley Rangi
Finance & Administration
Director, Finance & Governance
Penny Scaiff
Human Resources Manager
Bettina Sammut
Human Resources Coordinator
Amelia Engel
People & Safety Advisor Mary Moon
Acting Accountant Helen Ban
Acting Assistant Accountant
Klara Harvey
Payroll Assistant Carina Mision
Archivist Judith Seeff
Receptionist Elisabeth Tuilekutu
Marketing
Director, Marketing Sophie Withers
Marketing Manager, Strategy
Meera Gooley
Acting Marketing Manager, Strategy
Stephanie Maxwell
Marketing Manager, Content
Patrick Carey
Marketing Coordinator, Content
Rebecca Duke
Marketing Specialist, Paid
Rebecca Warrand
Marketing Specialist, CRM & Audience
Fiona Moody
Marketing Assistant Courtney Henson
Graphic Designer Joanna Shuen
PR & Media Relations
Public Relations Manager Helene Fox
Senior Publicist Georgia Fox
Customer Experience
Director, Digital Innovation
Heath Wilder
Ticketing Manager Bonnie Pares-Carr
Ticketing Specialists Tomoko Tamura
Public Programs & Ticketing
Specialist Jess Zlotnick
Insights & Analytics Manager Louise Davidson
Application and Database
Administrator Aista Adhikari
Business Data Analyst Dominic Ball
Customer Services Manager
Alison Cooper
Wharf Theatre Box Office Manager
Jo Jenkins
Roslyn Packer Theatre Box Office
Manager Dominic Scarf
Customer Service Supervisors
Jodie, Jonathan, Lauren, Lily, Lisa, Lucy, Nancy, Sheanna
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
Stage Manager, Swing Sophia Morgan
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, David Lee
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
Program
Program Editors Patrick Carey, Rebecca Duke, Harry Windsor
STC Casual and Seasonal Staff
Costume Charlie Aplin, Nicole Artsetos, Patricia Barker, Alicia Brown, Nyok Kim Chang, Simone Edwards, Roslyn Keam, Catriona McCabe, 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 ClementsOliveiro, Lesley Colborne, Margaret Collinson, Sonia Fabbro, Annabel Fraser, Larry Fazzalari, Alexandra Gooley, Harry Harvey, Nic Hiatt, Lily Horton, Shannon Johnson, Ondine Karpinellison, Grainne King, Jessie Lancaster, Crawford Lees, Michael Medcalf, Ezara Norton, Marianna Rahn Martinez, Anthony Sandler, Hanna Sandler, Alexandra Simpson, 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, Cameron Menzies, Anastasia Mowen, Matthew Quince, Mali Tauro-Cesca, Sam Scott, Andrew Williams
Logistics Chris Colla, Eric Dole, Jack Gordon, Chris Hearn, Rory Hill, David Lee, Jaccamo Mullen, Jack RobertsField
Props Isabell de Laurentis
Scenic Chris Hearn, James Jones, Gawaa Lundaa
Set Construction Reuben Alexander, Kallan Crosbie, Jack Gordon, Darren Tilley
Sound & Video Oliver Beard, Thomas Bensley, Steven Coyle, Zoe Davis, Charlie Kember, Chloe Langdon, Patrick Middleton, Rose Mulcare, Stephen Potter, Zac Saric, Benjamin Sheen, Cameron Smith, Samuel Steinle, David Trumpmanis, Joshua Vellis
Staging Anthony Arnold, Samuel Carr, Grant Finlay, Jhet Finlay, Ashley Lyons, Scott Milander, Kane Mott, Andrew Murray, Ulisses Palla, 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
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
City
PATRON
Her Excellency the Honourable
Dr Jeannette Young PSM, Governor of Queensland
FOUNDING DIRECTOR
AIan Edwards, AM, MBE (1925–2003)
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
Dean Gibson (Chair)
Tracey Barker
Liz Burcham
Associate Professor Stephen Carleton
Christine Castley
Rachel Crowley
Michael Dart
Susan Learmonth
Stephanie Parkin
INDIGENOUS
REFERENCE GROUP
Dean Gibson (Chair)
Hannah Belanszky
Judge Nathan Jarro
Roxanne McDonald
Lydia Miller
Charles Passi
Michael Tuahine
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Criena Gehrke
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Kate Holloway
HUMAN RESOURCES AND GOVERNANCE MANAGER
Donna Maher
ARTISTIC
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (EDUCATION & YOUTH)
Fiona MacDonald
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (FIRST NATIONS)
Isaac Drandic
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (PROGRAMMING)
Daniel Evans
ARTISTIC ELDER
Roxanne McDonald
LITERARY ADVISOR
Dr Julian Meyrick
DEVELOPMENT
PHILANTHROPY MANAGER
Lyn Moorfoot
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER
Anna Welch
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
Jade Rodrigo
FINANCE AND OPERATIONS
HEAD OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS
Shane Burke
FINANCE OFFICER
Sarra Lamb
ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT
Lien Mai
FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS MANAGER
Jake Cook
VENUE AND BAR MANAGER
Peter Carroll
MARKETING AND TICKETING
MARKETING DIRECTOR
David Graham
MARKETING MANAGER
Maneka Singh
MARKETING COORDINATOR (DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT)
Cinnamon Smith
MARKETING COORDINATOR
Hannah Wilson
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Sarah Gannon
PUBLICIST
IVY PR
DATABASE SUPERVISOR
Jeffrey Guiborat
TICKETING SUPERVISOR
Madison Bell
TICKETING COORDINATOR
Dan Sinclair
TICKETING OFFICER
Milena Barraclough-Nesic, Myk Brown, Ngaire Lock, Rebecca Schoch, Cal Silberstein
PRODUCTION
DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL AND PRODUCTION
Daniel Maddison
TECHNICAL MANAGER
Chris Goeldner
DEPUTY PRODUCTION MANAGER
Lachlan Cross
TECHNICAL COORDINATOR
Israel Leslie
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Mia McGavin
SOUND ASSOCIATE
Brady Watkins
HEAD OF WORKSHOP
Peter Sands
COMPANY CARPENTER/
HEAD MECHANIST
John Pierce
COSTUME MANAGER
Nathalie Ryner
COSTUME COORDINATOR
Tracey Leino
PROGRAMMING
SENIOR PRODUCER
Helen Hillman
PRODUCER
Pip Boyce
PRODUCER
Ari Palani
ARTISTIC COORDINATOR
Jane Youngs
EDUCATION, YOUTH AND REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT
PRODUCER
Madeline Römcke
YOUTH PROGRAM COORDINATOR
Nicky Haeusler
ADMINISTRATION COORDINATOR
Emma Joslin, Sam Morris
QUEENSLAND THEATRE
PRODUCTION STAFF
METAL FABRICATOR/MECHANIST
Terron Titus
CARPENTER
Chris Maddison, Justine Nicolson, Tim Pierce
SCENIC ARTIST
Leo Herreygers
PROPS MAKER
Adrian Davis
COSTUME MAKER/MAINTENANCE
Cody Newnham
ART FINISHER
Aislynn Maczyszyn
COSTUME MAINTENANCE
Kasey Turner
HAIR STYLIST
Michael Green
PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN/ LIGHTING OPERATOR
Lauren Sallaway
SOUND CONSULTANT
Derek Wilson
AUTOMATION OPERATOR
Leo Fitzgerald
CAPTIONS OPERATOR
Brooklyn Pace
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PHOTOGRAPHY
Morgan Roberts
Kate Hood and Philip Quast
Zoe de Plevitz and Dan Daw
