SOUND SWING | REGENT THEATRE | 2021
Enter a world of splendour and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Pop the champagne and prepare for the spectacular spectacular…
Welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical!
Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. A theatrical celebration of truth, beauty, freedom, and — above all — love, Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical; it is a state of mind.
STAGE MANAGER | | HEARTSTRING THEATRE | JULY 2021
In this poetic, frequently hilarious and sometimes absurd rumination on motherhood, three women are drawn together by an unlikely catalyst. Morgan (Joanne Booth) has recently given birth, assisted by a midwife (Elisa Armstrong), and at the same time young Dolores (Sara Bolch) finds herself connected to the women in a way she cannot fully understand.
Written by one of the hottest young playwrights from New York City, Jen Silverman’s (The Moors, Tales of the City) award-winning play will make you laugh, cry and reflect, often all at the same time.
Cast: Elisa Armstrong, Sara Bolch, Joanne Booth, Joey Lai
Director: Sarah Vickery
Publicity: Eleanor Howlett at Sassy Red PR
Stage Manager: Brooke Simmonds
Lighting Design: Gabriel Bethune
Sound Design: Jan Wong
Set and Costume Design: Bethany J Fellows
STAGE MANAGER | LA MAMA | MAY 2021
This is a song for Garcia Lorca
Who; like many who looked
For a future but were
Murdered by the past
On Tuesday night 18th August 1936 Frederico del Sagrado Corazon Jesus Garcia Lorca better known as Garcia Lorca was taken by a Francoist death squad from the house of a friend in Granada; driven to a field near the farm called Cortijo de Gazpacho and shot dead. His remains are still await exhumation; like 114,266 other Republicans dead. GAZPACHO takes up an oral history story from later in the Civil War of four Republican prisoners awaiting their last dawn.
Written by Peter Green
Director/Composer Dramaturg Faye Bendrups
Research/additional dramaturgy Guillermo Anad
Cast: Jim Daly, Julie Dawson, Peter Green, Dion Mills, Louisa Williamson.
STAGE MANAGER | LA MAMA | APRIL 2021
A coven of transcendent, time-travelling witches wage war to restore forgotten queer histories. Yet having recently lost two of their own, and in dire need of replacements, questions begin to rise about the privilege of their power, and the power of history.
Existing outside of time and space, the coven trade the memories of their own lives on earth for power, immortality, and safety. Their role is to archive the lives and deaths of all ‘witches’ across time; to remember their names and their stories. This role, archivist, is their anchor, and they are explicitly forbidden from actively interfering with the timeline. But as the coven desperately seeks to maintain balance within their ranks and focus on the larger task at hand, tempers flare, threatening to destroy the delicate fabric of their existence and the histories they’ve curated.
An epic lyrical and theatrical exploration of these forgotten histories, Guerilla Sabbath is a fantastical reimagining of what they might have looked and sounded like. It is both a reclamation of the narrative that’s been lost and an aggressive exposé on the fallacy of the one we’ve been given.
Written by William Hinz
Directed by George Lazaris
Assistant Direction/Dramaturgy by Meta Cohen
Performed by Domenica Garrett, Milo Hartill, Henry Kelly, Erin Pattison, Michelle Perera, and Nikki Viveca
Stage Management by Brooke Simmonds
Costume/Set Design by Thomas Bevans
Sound Design by Daniella Esposito
Lighting Design by Aedan Gale
Video design by Marcus Matthews
Lighting Tech by Ikshvak Sobti
Produced by Ryan Stewart
Image by Phoebe Taylor
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER | IRENE MITCHELL | APRIL 2021
A revolutionist cell working out of a shipping container in the Port of London, Ezra, Jaq, Milo, Scout and Fawn, live in a world where data is more expensive than oil. Oculus has taken over and implemented a data dictatorship where the public live at the mercy of the information they so willing signed away. In a moment where the political becomes personal, these young idealists are faced with the reality that perhaps all is not as it seems and that betrayal may be closer to home than they ever realised.
Three Fates Theatre Company returns to the stage in 2021 with the Australian premiere of ANALOG, a cinematic play by QPAS-nominated playwright, Thalia Dudek. In this darkly humorous drama, a group of young anarchists count down their final minutes of anonymity before the revolution begins.
Cast: Ellie Barkla, Sarah Fitzgerald, Zoe Hawkins, Laurence Young, Thalia Dudek
Director: Thalia Dudek
Set Designer: Freya Allen
Lighting Designer: Harrie Hogan
Sound Designer: Jan Wong
Costume Designer: Laura - Jean Hawkins
Dramaturg: Ryan Murphy
Stage Manager: Ashleigh Walwyn
STAGE MANAGER | LA MAMA | FEBRUARY 2021
I love you. I love New Year’s Eve. I love Romeo. I love the house you built me. I love Paris. I love the top of the Empire State Building. I love summer. I love my brother. I love dogs. I love Frida Kahlo. I love Ryan Gosling. I love mid-century architecture. I love Adidas. I love banana bread. I love my Macbook Pro. I love you.
Using verbatim romcom texts as a starting point and everything in the universe as an ending point, Grand Gesture is a take down of the one-true-love bullshit we have all been eating since birth. A verbatim pop Frankenstein monster created by theatre company The People, who brought you the sell-out season of The Bachelor s17e05 and the award nominated A Disorganised Zoom Reading of the Script from Contagion.
“…real-ness but with a dryness and an unapologetic anti-beauty-idealist aesthetic. It really delivers. It is a joyous and deliciously funny take down of a silly TV show, but the underbelly is real. Real lives and hearts, and real expectations from real bullshit that we are all fed, that many cling to…” – The Melbourne Critique (on The Bachelor S17E05)
Co-created and Directed by: Katrina Cornwell and Morgan Rose (The People)
Co-created and Performed by: Joel Beasley, Eamon Dunphy, Matilda Gibbs, Joe Kenny, Michelle McCowage, Finn McGrath, Ruby Rawlings and Katie Rowe
Co-producer: Natasha Phillips
Lighting Designer: Lisa Mibus
Sound Designer: Byron Scullin
Stage Manager: Brooke Simmonds
Image by Sarah Walker
STAGE MANAGER | LA MAMA | FEBRUARY 2021
Moby Dick. It’s a love story right? Between a person and whale. Battling the elements and each other. Grappling skin to blubbery skin. Wet, hot and sweaty.
Clown extraordinaire Jofus recounts Melville’s epic tale of obsession as you’ve never seen it before.
Jofus and the Whale is a new physical comedy by award winning theatre company Fish and Twiner’s Bait Shop (winner ‘Best Solo’ New Zealand Fringe, winner ‘Best Physical Theatre’ Fringe at the Edge).
Lily Fish is a phenomenon. She is astonishing. She is a comedienne, a mime, an acrobat and a chameleon. -Stage Whispers
“Physical theatre at its best.” – Australian Stage
“Basking in the joyous and ludicrous has never felt so good.” -Gutter Culture
Created and performed by: Lily Fish
Co-written and co-devised by: Ell Sachs
Director: Kimberley Twiner
Lighting Designer: Lisa Mibus
Stage Manager: Brooke Simmonds
Image by Theresa Harrison
AUDIO PROGRAMMER & OPERATOR | VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | DECEMBER 2020
Winner of the 2003 Olivier Award for best musical, this 'sliding doors' musical follows two separate stories and investigates the consequences of making choices in life. The show is set in 1980's London with a book by Tim Firth and a score of all the pop hits of the hugely popular ska band, 'Madness'.
Director: Tyran Parke
Musical Director: Lyndall Dawson
Choreographer: Michael Ralph
Set Designer: Arielle Vlahiotis
Costume Designer: Samantha Hastings
Lighting Designer: Grady Xanthos
Sound Designer: PJ Reed
Cast: Sam Richardson, Tiegan Denina, Jackson Howe, Sophie Guidolin, Brandon Stoddart, Giovanni Young, Sherry-Lee Watson, Monique Vergara, Noah Missell, Caity Plummer, Alanna Baschera, Asha Khamis, Chloe Crick, Claire Warrillow, Grace Phillips, James Colbourne-Keogh, Lachlan Blair, Obed Wallis, Phillip Humphrey, Scout Hook
STAGE MANAGER | VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | NOVEMBER 2020
Collect your ration pack, take off your gas mask, and tune into the world’s last radio broadcast.
In 2035, a normal transmission is interrupted by the end of the world, and we hear the station’s crew as they respond to the news. Cycling through anger, despair, hilarity and surprise dance sequences, listen to these people say goodbye to The World That Was.
Created by: Devon Campbell, Eloise McCreedy, Ruby Rawlings, Clare Taylor
Set Design: Sasha Vulling
Costume Design: Angus Donald
Lighting Design: Sidney Younger
Sound Design: Hex Robinson
Stage Manager: Brooke Simmonds
Assistant Stage Managers: Sammy Tian & Annie Gleisner
Photos by: Drew Echberg
STAGE MANAGER | THEATRE WORKS | MARCH 2020
It’s just a job interview. There’s nothing to be afraid of…
Job hunting can be a real bitch, huh? Hours spent updating your resume with blatant lies about your employment history, days spent waiting to hear back from potential employers, months spent hoping the perfect job will fall onto your lap without having to really work for it.
And then you score the job interview! But this isn’t just any job interview. This one is a real killer…
THE HITMEN follows six unemployed hopefuls as they take part in a group interview with the hope of obtaining the job of their dreams – a Hitman at K.O.C, Australia’s largest professional agency of contract killers and assassins.
Hilariously disturbing and humorously unhinged, THE HITMEN churns the stomach and tickles the funny bone as it propels the audience through the dark spectrum of human behaviour and corporate governance.
Written by Mish Wittrup
Directed by: Blake Banard
Assistant Director: Rhys James
Stage Manager: Brooke Simmonds
Assistant Stage Manager: Max Woods
Set Designer: Thomas Mitton
Sound Designer: Zachary Camm
Lighting Designer: Harrie Hogan
Costume Designer: Louise Parsons
Stage Combat: Joey Lai
Photos by Matt Hofmann & Justine McArthur
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER | THEATRE WORKS | FEBRUARY 2020
Australia, 1930. As the Great Depression tightens its grip on a hungry, fledgling nation, Harold Bell Lasseter charms everyone with his story of a fabulously wealthy “reef” of gold hidden in the vast Interior. Brave adventurers set off in search of riches and salvation… but the expedition descends into a nightmare.
Australia, 2020. Relentless funding cuts have left the arts community weary and desperate. Kim Ho persuades Theatre Works that he can fashion the next great Australian play from the legend of Lasseter’s Reef. He conjures five characters and sends them into the desert to retrace the expedition’s footsteps. But for these unlucky souls, trapped inside Kim’s masterpiece, the real nightmare is yet to begin.
An ingenious new satire from Patrick White Award-winning playwright Kim Ho, The Great Australian Play is a psychedelic romp through the myths of our glorious nation’s past, present and imagined future. Featuring vanishing conmen, Nazi German dingo scalpers and an ancient evil force, this is the dazzling epic we’ve been waiting for.
Written by Kim Ho
Directed by Sara Lusty-Cavallari
Dramaturgy by Carissa Lee
Performed by Tamara Lee Bailey, Sermsah Bin Saad, Daniel Fischer, Sarah Fitzgerald and Jesse Koncic
Producer: Imogen Gardam
Set Design: Claudia Mirabello
Costume Design:Carmody Nicol
Lighting Design: Nick Moloney
Stage Manager: Max Woods
Assistant Stage Manager: Brooke Simmonds
Images by Jack Dixon-Gunn
Publicity by Eleanor Howlett (Sassy Red PR)
STAGE MANAGEMENT SECONDMENT | THE FAIRFAX | FEBRUARY - MARCH 2020
Teresa’s mum finds it impossible to let anything go – from grudges to household objects. She thinks of her home as a museum full of irreplaceable treasures. But she’s not really a curator – she’s a hoarder – and her house is enough to give Marie Kondo heart palpitations. When her kids return home to celebrate her 60th birthday, she’s over the moon to have the family back together. This isn’t a reunion. It’s an intervention.
Celebrated TV writer, Benjamin Law (The Family Law) is one of this country’s brightest literary stars. For his hysterically funny and moving stage premiere, Law employs his effortless self-deprecating wit to spark joy in the clutter and find truth in those chaotic moments that bring families closer together.
Written by Benjamin Law
Directed by Dean Bryant
Cast: Fiona Choi, Michelle Lim-Davidson, Diana Lin, Charles Wu, Max Brown
Associate Director: Margot Morales Tanjutco
Set Designer: Isabel Hudson
Costume Designer: Kat Chan
Lighting Designer: Amelia Lever-Davidson
Composer & Sound Designer: Clemence Williams
Stage Manager: Julia Smith
Deputy Stage Manager: Millie Mullinar
Assistant Stage Managers: Brittany Coombs & Lisette Drew
Stage Management Secondment: Brooke Simmonds
Photos by Jeff Busby
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER | FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS | DECEMBER 2019
Intelligent. Articulate. F***ed. Tucked away in a grammar school library, the dreaded exam period looming, seven students on the cusp of adulthood humiliate and lustfully toy with each other, their latent fury skirting dangerously close to the surface.
From British power-house playwright, Simon Stephens, Punk Rock is a violent and urgent examination of contemporary adolescence. Stephens defies expectation and unpacks puberty with an unparalleled authenticity. Punk Rock grounds itself in an unsettling honesty and exposes the extreme behaviour displayed on the stage as only a degree removed from what we consider normal in our everyday.
Cast: Laurence Boxhall, Ruby Duncan, Ben Walter, Karl Richmond, Annie Shapero, Flynn Smeaton, Zoe Hawkins, Jessica Clarke
Director: Ruby Rees
Designer: Freya Allen
Lighting Designer: Richard Vabre
Sound Designers: Daniella Esposito & Finnian Langham
Stage Manager: Ashleigh Walwyn
Assistant Stage Manager: Brooke Simmonds
Photos by Craig Fuller
DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER | VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | NOVEMBER 2019
Part of the Four Directions dance season at the VCA.
Choreographer: Michelle Heaven
Dancers: Lauren Doyle, Ella Sibel, Janelle Tan Yung Huey, Natalie Koch, Olivia Smith, Katie Whitaker, Brittany Capill, Sarah Kinch, Gabrielle Fallon, Tara Quirligen, Molly McMillan
Set & Costume Designer: Samara Tyrrell
Lighting Designer: Oliver Pool
Sound Designer: Olivia McKenna
Deputy Stage Manager: Brooke Simmonds
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER | VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | SEPTEMBER 2019
After a sharp and bloody conflict and the summary execution of a dictator, the people of Romania suddenly found themselves ‘free’. Caryl Churchill’s scorching examination of the events leading up to the populist uprising in 1989, and the devastating consequences in the aftermath, speaks urgently to us now. With ironic wit and her trademark theatrical flair, Churchill unpacks the helplessness of the truth when a great lie is told. Mad Forest tells an epic story about oppression; of very ordinary people who become unwittingly complicit in a grand deception.
Directed by Sean Mee
Cast: Anthony Yangoyan, Romaine McSweeney, Shawnee Jones, Leela Bishop, Benjamin Olds, Abdul Mahaimin, James Reiser, Isabella Perversi, Indey Salvestro, Lachlan Clarke, Senuri Wagaarachchi, Esther Randles, Roseangela Fasano, Rose Adams, Ayesha Harris-Westerman, Myfanwy Hocking, Molly Roberts, Sunny Youngsmith, Ben Goss, Audrey Zenith, Jessa Koncic, Jonah Winkler, Mark Nannup, Lucas Vandali, Meg Dunn, Amy Gilbett, Tamara Bailey
Set Designer: Chantal Marks
Costume Designer: Bianca Pardo
Lighting Designer: Harrie Hogan
Sound Designer: Emmanuel Cundasamy
Vision Designer: Marcus Peters
Stage Manager: Claudia Howarth
Assistant Stage Managers: Brooke Simmonds & Miranda Larsson
Images by Drew Echberg
SOUND PROGRAMMER & OPERATOR | VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | APRIL 2019
”F***ing A” by Suzan-Lori Parks is dangerous and soul wrenching epic theatre with songs. The protege of James Baldwin, Parks' play riffs on Hawthorne’s "The Scarlet Letter" while harking back to "Mother Courage" and "Medea". The survival of black womanhood sits at the centre of Parks' dystopic world. Directed by Candy Bowers and set in the current day, the production enlists commentary from Childish Gambino’s “This is America”, Cardi B’s “Money” and Beyoncé’s “Formation.”
The work pivots on Hester, a woman who fights for a reunion with her son in impossible circumstances. Not quite the bottom of the food chain she is marked with the letter A for abortionist. “F***ing A” subverts the morality tale combining it with Greek tragedy to deliver a searing, urgent message... “Freedom ain’t free!”
Not unlike the “The Handmaids Tale” television series, Bowers' production sheds light on dark and uncomfortable places. She tells Parks' otherworldly tale with humanity, humour and depth in the hope that greater consciousness and understanding will follow.
“F***ing A” will rattle you no matter where you sit. Parks' voice is potent and illuminating.
Written by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Candy Bowers
Set Designer: Bianca Pardo
Costume Designer: Dinda Gardner
Lighting Designer: Harrie Hogan
Composer and Audio Designer: Nathan Santamaria
Associate Audio Designer: Olivia McKenna
Stage Manager: Geetanjali Mishra
Images by Drew Echberg
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER | VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | SEPTEMBER 2018
Director: Dean Bryant
Cast: Lucy Ansell, Oliver Bailey, Hayley Browne, Bronte Carmichael, Noah Casey, Nic Davey-Greene, Alex Donnelly, Ian Ferrington, Sarah Fitzgerald, Cameron Grant, Joanna Halliday, Cheryl Ho, Andy Song, Sarah Jackson, Callum Mackay, Abel Kollie, Edward McCullough,Annabelle Mitchell, Lachlan Pringle, Brooke Rayner, Louisa Reid, Karl Richmond, Samuel Rowe, Aquilla Sorensen, Lauren Steiner, Alexander Tomisich
Set Designer: Bridget Milesi
Costume Designer: Bethany J Fellows
Lighting Designer: Nicholas Moloney
Sound Designer: Henry Paulet
Stage Manager: Ashleigh Walwyn
Assistant Stage Managers: Hannah Ribbons & Brooke Simmonds
Images by Drew Echberg
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER | THEATRE WORKS | MARCH 2018
Experience Theatre Works through new eyes in this intimate live art experience.
Through personal experiences, reflections and cultural perspectives, five performers from Melbourne and Seoul will create connections to the homes, streets and ambience in the area surrounding Theatre Works, linking the theatre to the social and cultural environment in which it sits.
Part of the 2018 Festival of Live Art (FOLA), UNKNOWN NEIGHBOURS begins inside local residences before moving through the streets and into Theatre Works exploring the poetry of the home and the neighbourhood as it seeks to break down and overcome the limitations of traditional theatre.
Known for uncovering the strange personal details that lie beneath the skin of social convention, Melbourne’s Ranters Theatre in collaboration with one of Korea’s most acclaimed performance groups, Creative VaQi promise to lead audiences on a journey, engaging them with their surroundings until the ordinary becomes something else that both reflects what it emerged from and transcends it.
Director: Adriano Cortese
Director: Kyung-Sung Lee
Co-production: Ranters Theatre & Creative Vaqi
