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“A great season of theatre is like a great
album. It is a series of unique experiences
that form a meaningful whole and take
you on a journey. Welcome to the next
era of your Queensland Theatre”.
Sam Strong, Artistic Director
The journey across our nine shows in 2017 is deliberately varied, but
unified by our desire to share the very best with Brisbane. You can see
urgent new Australian stories, the finest international plays, the hottest
next generation of talent and the country’s most outstanding artists.
Each of the plays in Season 2017 achieves what theatre does best –
puts human experience under the microscope. We can see ourselves
reeling with chaos in the workplace, enraptured in new romance,
navigating the parent-child relationship, celebrating with family and
wrestling with a failing marriage.
Theatre is unique in its capacity to change how we feel – about
ourselves, about our lives, about our universe. Welcome to the next era
of your Queensland Theatre.
Ladies in Black
(28 Jan — 19 Feb)
(10 Feb — 5 Mar)
The Flick
Constellations
Our heart-warmingly joyous
musical back by popular demand
An exquisitely observed
meditation on love and change
A romance wrapped in
a science blanket
Once in Royal David’s City
Noises Off
(3 — 25 Jun)
(24 Jun — 16 Jul)
The great new Australian play by
one of our greatest writers
A shamelessly entertaining
farce that guarantees a fun night
An insightful story about the
personal side of globalisation
My Name is Jimi
An Octoroon
Scenes from a Marriage
An intimate audience with our
most charismatic storyteller
A provocatively hilarious
interrogation of identity
A riveting portrait of a marriage
performed by a real-life couple
(22 Apr — 14 May)
(22 Jul — 13 Aug)
(16 Sep — 8 Oct)
(9 Mar — 9 Apr)
Rice
(11 Nov — 3 Dec)
THE 2017 SEASON
QUEENSLAND THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE PRESENTS
BOOK BY CAROLYN BURNS, MUSIC AND LYRICS BY TIM FINN
BASED ON MADELEINE ST JOHN’S NOVEL, THE WOMEN IN BLACK
DIRECTED BY SIMON PHILLIPS
28 January – 19 February
Playhouse, QPAC
ATTENDANCE INFORMATION
Ladies in Black will run for approximately
2 hours and 30 minutes including a
20-minute interval.
Cast
Kate Cole....................................... Miss Cartwright/Joy
Carita Farrer Spencer......................................Mrs Miles
Warning: Contains smoke and haze. The use
of photographic or recording equipment is
not permitted inside the theatre.
Bobby Fox.................................................................. Rudi
Cover Photo: David Kelly
Madeleine Jones..................................................... Patty
Natalie Gamsu......................................................Magda
Tamlyn Henderson.................................................. Frank
Kathryn McIntyre........................................ Myra/Dawn
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Sarah Morrison........................................................... Lisa
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF
COUNTRY
Marian Heckenberg..................................................Bass
Queensland Theatre would like to
acknowledge the Jagera and Turrbal
people who are the Traditional
Custodians of this land. We would like to
pay our respects to their Elders both past
and present, and all Aboriginal peoples
whichever Aboriginal nation they may
come from.
Ladies in Black is proudly supported by:
Production Sponsor
Trisha Noble........................... Miss Jacobs/Mrs Crown
Ellen Simpson............................................................. Fay
Greg Stone............................................ Mr Miles/Stefan
Daniel Maher..........................................................Guitar
Andrew Maddick.................................................... Violin
Nathan Smith............................................................Cello
Dave George..................................... Drums/Percussion
Creatives
Carolyn Burns.................................................Playwright
Tim Finn........................................................... Composer
Simon Phillips......................................................Director
Guy Simpson........... Orchestrator/Musical Supervisor
David Young......................................... Musical Director
Gabriela Tylesova.............................................. Designer
David Walters.....................................Lighting Designer
Andrew Hallsworth............................... Choreographer
Michael Waters.....................................Sound Designer
Jessica Burns..................................... Assistant Director
Bobby Fox.............................................. Dance Captain
Eloise Grace................................... Company Manager
Will Lewis...............................................Stage Manager
78 Montague Road,
South Brisbane, Queensland, 4101
Dan Sinclair..............................Deputy Stage Manager
Margaret Burrows................Assistant Stage Manager
Tel: 07 3010 7600 Fax: 07 3010 7699
Ticketing: 1800 355 528
Additional lyrics by Simon Phillips and Carolyn Burns
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Pictured opposite L-R: Trisha Noble, Kate Cole, Kathryn McIntyre, Ellen Simpson, Natalie Gamsu, Sarah Morrison.
Ladies in Black represents everything we aspire to at Queensland Theatre.
It’s a world-class, original Australian work that combines the best local
talent with the country’s most acclaimed artists. It’s one of our stories,
brought to the stage with heart and flair. Most importantly, it’s a chance
for you, our audience, to step outside of the everyday and experience
something remarkable.
— Sue Donnelly
Sarah Morrison
Welcome
Sue Donnelly
Executive Director
A few years ago I read and loved Madeleine St
John’s delightful novel, The Women in Black,
never imagining that one day our Company would
bring this work to the stage. My first encounter
with the musical version of this story (so skilfully
and thoughtfully written by Carolyn Burns) was in
2013 when I was invited to see the results of the
first creative development for this project.
I was instantly captivated by the engaging
script as well as the beautiful, catchy
songs written by Tim Finn. I even cried at
the end. Upon returning to the Company
I passionately advocated that we should
produce this exciting new work. The
Board of Queensland Theatre boldly
embraced the idea, along with assistance
from the Queensland Government and
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, and
in late 2015 the dream became a reality
- Ladies in Black opened in Brisbane to
enraptured audiences and critical acclaim.
In 2016 Melbourne Theatre Company
began their season with this joyously
open-hearted musical that became a
sold-out sensation. A few months later
Tim Finn, Simon Phillips and Carolyn
Burns accepted the prestigious Helpmann
Award for Best New Australian work.
Now in 2017, the elegant ladies of
Goode’s cocktail frocks department
are back in Brisbane, with a new energy
and commitment to making this work
as fresh and delightful for audiences
today as it was upon its premiere. And it
isn’t just Brisbane who can share in the
magic – Ladies in Black is in the midst of
a national tour. Just back from an exciting
Sydney season and primed for audiences
in Canberra and a return season in
Melbourne, this quintessentially Australian
musical is deservedly reaching more and
more of its family across the country.
We can’t think of a better way to open
our 2017 Season, the first curated by our
Artistic Director, Sam Strong. Ladies in
Black represents everything we aspire to
at Queensland Theatre. It’s a world-class,
original Australian work that combines
the best local talent with the country’s
most acclaimed artists. It’s one of our
stories, brought to the stage with heart
and flair. Most importantly, it’s a chance
for you, our audience, to step outside of
the everyday and experience something
remarkable.
We’re grateful to the original cast
members who first brought this show
to life in 2015 and to our current cast
who have taken it to further heights,
perfectly directed by the ever-charming,
Simon Philips. We also thank the tireless
production crew and the very talented
creatives who have come up with inspired
ideas to solve difficult logistical problems.
We are thrilled to welcome you to the
theatre tonight. Thank you for being a part
of the next chapter in the life of Ladies in
Black and Queensland Theatre.
Best wishes
Sue
L-R: Ellen Simpson, Carita Farrer Spencer, Kate Cole, Sarah Morrison, Madeleine Jones, Trisha Noble.
The lives of the women (and men)
in this story who work the counter
at Goode's is as charming as it is
relevant for audiences today.
— John Kotzas
Bobby Fox
L-R: Madeleine Jones, Tamlyn Henderson.
Message from QPAC’s Chief Executive
It’s my great pleasure to welcome
Ladies in Black back to QPAC.
Ladies in Black a homegrown success story – based on
a novel by Madeleine St John and adapted for the stage
by Carolyn Burns, directed by Simon Phillips, with
the music of Tim Finn and a creative team including
Gabriela Tylesova and David Walters, Ladies in Black
demonstrates the strength of Australia’s artistic
prowess. Creating new works is a big undertaking and
is often risky; striking the right chord of what appeals to
audiences and what works artistically can be daunting
and so we celebrate the times when everything comes
together. Now, with a national tour already complete,
as well as the award for Best New Australian work at
last year’s Helpmann® Awards, this second national
tour and return season at QPAC has filled many of us
who worked on this production with pride.
The lives of the women (and men) in this story who
work the counter at Goode's is as charming as it
is relevant for audiences today. The messages of
tolerance, hope for the future, inclusion and finding a
sense of self in a rapidly changing world are messages
we need now more than ever. It is a testament to the
power of art that no matter the setting or the method
of delivery, art can connect us and help us to find
empathy and meaning.
I hope you enjoy this performance of Ladies in Black,
and look forward to welcoming you again to QPAC.
John Kotzas
Chief Executive
QPAC
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Playwright’s Note
Adapting a work of literature for the stage always brings its
own particular challenges. The comparative leisure with which
a novelist can unfold her ideas is not a luxury the playwright
can afford and the exposition of a character’s inner world has
to be distilled from paragraph to dialogue and circumstance.
It’s hard to say whether creating a
musical makes the job easier or harder.
Songs reduce the space for plot and
dialogue but increase the space for
interior monologue but, suffice it to say,
it was the tempting mix of Tim Finn’s
musical genius and Simon Phillips’
theatrical wisdom that gave me the
courage to give Madeleine St John’s
magical book a go. Set in Sydney in
the late 1950’s, St John’s novel, The
Women in Black, is a deceptively
light-hearted examination of a moment
and fashion, combined with some very
human frailties and insecurities, begin to
affect Lisa’s views on life. And just like
the city itself, she begins to grow up.
Tim’s and my challenge was to capture
this particular moment in time through
script and song and to interweave the
various individual stories into an exciting
and, hopefully, engaging narrative. One
of the book’s particular charms is its
refusal to be tempted into high drama. It
eschews death and devastation in favour
of more domestic crises. We have striven
in Australia’s adolescence. It was a
time when everything was closed on
Sundays, men were the breadwinners,
and young ladies were expected to
work for a relatively short time before
settling down and having a family. It
was a time when nothing much seemed
to be happening. We know now that
change was in the air, but Sydney
seemed blissfully unaware. Against
this backdrop, St John tells the story
of young Lisa Miles, an unworldly, shy
and bookish girl, employed to work as
a Christmas casual in the cocktail frock
to remain true to this, which makes for
an unusual theatrical experience but,
hopefully, one as curiously heartwarming
and rewarding as its source. It has been
a complete team effort, impossible to
do without the combination of Tim’s
extraordinary ability to create complex
characters via music and Simon’s
wonderful dramaturgical and visual
insights. I feel privileged to be part of
the endeavour, and welcome you all to
Ladies in Black!
Carolyn Burns
department of Sydney’s most prestigious
department store, while waiting for her
school leaving results. The women she
meets, with their genuine love of style
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L-R: Greg Stone, Natalie Gamsu, Bobby Fox.
One of the book’s particular charms is its refusal to be tempted into high drama.
It eschews death and devastation in favour of more domestic crises. We have
striven to remain true to this, which makes for an unusual theatrical experience
but, hopefully, one as curiously heartwarming and rewarding as its source.
— Carolyn Burns
L-R: Madeleine Jones, Ellen Simpson, Natalie Gamsu.
Composer's Note
A novel such as Madeleine St John's The Women in Black
is a gift for any songwriter looking for a narrative to explore.
Rich enough to provide satisfying themes, but delivered
with a lightness of touch that invites interpretation.
I found the book at Brisbane Airport
on my way up to Bougainville. At first
reading, songs came straight off the
page. After meeting with Madeleine's
literary executor, Bruce Beresford, and
receiving his blessing, there seemed
to be nothing between me and the
book's innermost secrets. The book is
set in 1959 but I knew from the start
that the songs wouldn't be overtly 50s
in flavour. I wrote from the heart and
followed the tunes. Somehow it wasn't
hard for me to put myself inside the
heads of these characters. I spent a few
months writing the first group of songs.
The titles included A Nice Australian
Girl, I Just Kissed A Continental and
Summer Afternoon. I sent them through
to director and friend, Simon Phillips,
for his appraisal. He and his wife, writer
Carolyn Burns, listened to the songs,
read the novel and said they'd love
to help. Several workshops later, and
generously funded by Queensland
went to see My Fair Lady with his
mum, leaping to his feet in exultation
as they sang I'm Getting Married In
The Morning. More recently, I was
inspired by seeing a Broadway On Tour
production of Sweeney Todd. Reading
Sondheim's book Finishing the Hat
helped me understand the form. But it
also reminded me that the bar has been
set very high. I would like to express my
heartfelt thanks to Simon and Carolyn for
their guidance and inspiration. They are
both brilliant people and dear friends. I
would also like to express my profound
gratitude to Queensland Theatre's
Executive Director Sue Donnelly and
Artistic Director Sam Strong, QPAC's
Artistic Director John Kotzas, and former
Queensland Theatre and current Sydney
Festival Artistic Director Wesley Enoch.
And all the many talented and tireless
people in their teams with whom it has
been my pleasure to work on this brand
new Australian musical. Finally, I want to
Theatre and QPAC, we are here with
our return season. I have long wanted
to write songs for a new musical. I can't
exactly explain why, but perhaps the
desire grew from that moment when
a nine-year-old boy from Te Awamutu
say a huge thank you to my wife, Marie
Azcona, who has always believed in this
project. You rock my world!
Tim Finn
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L-R: Greg Stone, Natalie Gamsu, Sarah Morrison, Bobby Fox.
The book is set in 1959 but I
knew from the start that the
songs wouldn't be overtly
50s in flavour. I wrote from
the heart and followed the
tunes. Somehow it wasn't
hard for me to put myself
inside the heads of these
characters.
— Tim Finn
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Tim Finn
I love the way all the different story lines interweave, creating a whole
so much bigger than the sum of its parts. The parts may be fragile and
sweetly suburban, but in combination they make for an euphoric effect.
If one of the designs of drama is to give real life a sense of cohesion and
meaning it generally lacks, then Ladies in Black ticks all the boxes.
— Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips
L-R: Kathryn McIntyre, Kate Cole, Madeleine Jones, Trisha Noble.
Director's Note
I’m trying to work out why I have such an overwhelming affection
for this piece. It defies so many of the rules of drama: its conflicts
are minimal, the barriers facing the characters are scarcely
life-threatening and large sections of it operate on a level of
domesticity I’d usually find anathema to my sense of theatricality.
But when Tim Finn gave me the book,
which he’d chanced on at Brisbane
Airport, I found myself turning the
pages like a thriller. I think perhaps
it’s the feeling that Merchant Ivory
turned their hand to Pulp Fiction that
I find so appealing. I love the way all
the different story lines interweave,
creating a whole so much bigger than
the sum of its parts. The parts may be
fragile and sweetly suburban, but in
combination they make for an euphoric
effect. If one of the designs of drama
is to give real life a sense of cohesion
and meaning it generally lacks, then
Ladies in Black ticks all the boxes. As
Magda weaves her spell on Lisa, subtly
introducing her to the world of style and
sensuality, Fay, Patty, Miss Jacobs, and
by implication their friends and families,
all get caught up in the web, so a single
summer seems to produce a lifetime’s
sense of fulfilment. The story’s plethora
of happy endings may defy the odds,
but I’d be surprised if they don’t spark
a little warmth in even the hardest of
hearts. There’s a sense of wit, a definite
knowingness on St John’s part that she’s
pushing the envelope of feel-goodism,
which saves the work from cloying
sentimentality. While at the same time
delivering an improbable number of
fulfilled wishes. I hope we’ve managed
to honour the joy of that in this stage
adaption. Personally, I don’t have any
problem with an audience leaving the
theatre feeling good – every so often
you deserve it! But notice also the
deft hand with which St John’s social
acuity inveigles its way into the story.
She sees nothing mutually exclusive
between feminism and femininity and
she demolishes xenophobia through
celebration rather than counterterrorism. The story sits firmly in its
place in time, but it has so much to offer
our 21st century world. All in all, there’s
so much wit and wisdom at the heart
of this novel and, armed with both in
their own particular fields, Tim Finn and
Carolyn Burns have brought it bristlingly
and buoyantly to life. To make it into a
musical seems to me the perfect way to
capture its essential qualities; the inner
yearnings of the characters get the most
eloquent and poetic expression and the
music plays a large part in convincing us
that they’re all somehow dancing to the
same interplanetary score. I hope you
enjoy it as much as I do. A huge thank
you to everyone who has helped bring it
to the stage.
Simon Phillips
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painfully ordinary people bond
the possibilities of their life
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embezzling and shared ennui.
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series of snapshots.
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YOUTHIES
Sydney, 1959 –
a city at the
crossroads
between the
stuffy repression
of the 1950s
and the glorious
liberation of the
1960s …
L-R: Ellen Simpson, Trisha
Noble, Kate Cole, Madeleine
Jones, Kathryn McIntyre,
Natalie Gamsu.
Carolyn Burns
Playwright
Carolyn Burns began her writing
career in New Zealand, first in print
journalism, then as a reporter for
TVNZ. She had already begun
writing for a children’s theatre
company in Auckland, before
creating and writing an 18-part
children's comedy-thriller, The Retrievers, for television.
Her first stage play for adults, Objection Overruled, was
published by Victoria Press and performed in all major
New Zealand theatres. After moving to Australia, she
worked as a journalist with SBS in Melbourne, before
attending the screenwriting course at AFTRS. She
continued to write for the stage, including a multi-media
anti-drink/driving musical, Smash Hit, for WAAPA
musical theatre students, which played to many WA
secondary schools. Its most recent revival was in 2014,
staged by Ballarat's Federation University's Performing
Arts students. Burns then moved to Adelaide, where
she worked for ABC children's TV as well as lecturing
in communications at the University of South Australia.
She wrote a number of stage plays, four of which were
performed at the Adelaide Festival Centre. These
included adaptations of Katharine Susannah Prichard's
novel Haxby's Circus and the musical High Society,
which subsequently toured throughout Australia and
the UK. Since returning to Victoria, Burns has combined
writing for the stage with script editing and dramaturgy.
In 2015 her stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s North
by Northwest was a major hit for the Melbourne Theatre
Company. Along with Simon Phillips and Tim Finn she
developed the award winning new Australian musical
Ladies in Black for Queensland Theatre. Ladies in Black
enjoyed successful seasons at both the Queensland and
the Melbourne Theatre Companies and won the 2016
Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work. It is
touring nationally in 2017. She is currently collaborating
on a number of new works, including the Bobby Darin
musical, Dream Lover, which recently had its world
premiere season playing at the Lyric Theatre in Sydney.
Simon Phillips
Music and Lyrics
Director
Regarded as one of the greatest
songwriters of his generation, New
Zealand native Tim Finn continues
to embrace the true definition of
a renaissance man while fueling
an all-inclusive, creative fire that
constantly drives him onwards and
upwards. Having established himself in the early 1970’s
as a founding member of art-pop-rock pioneers Split Enz
and later as a member of the internationally successful
band Crowded House (alongside brother Neil), Finn
has penned some of the most treasured songs in
contemporary music. The likes of I See Red, Poor Boy, My
Mistake, Dirty Creature, I Hope I Never, and Six Months
in a Leaky Boat immediately come to mind. His time in
Crowded House, established around the recording of the
acclaimed Woodface album, was mostly co-written with
his brother and included the timeless classics Weather
with You, It’s Only Natural, and Chocolate Cake. Add to
this, an incredibly successful solo career that continues
to mature and has delivered songs such as Fraction
Too Much Friction, Made My Day, Persuasion, and
Not Even Close. Finn has toured the world and worked
with some of the industry’s most accomplished artists
and producers. In recent years Finn has been helping
develop new work for theatre. Aside from the musical
Ladies in Black, which received a Helpmann Award for
Best New Australian Work, Finn, with NZ playwright Ken
Duncun and film-maker Sue Healey has co-written and
performed in the one-man show White Cloud, a poetic
examination of family and identity; The Fiery Maze, a raw
and provocative song cycle written with the late Dorothy
Porter, which had its premiere at Malthouse Theatre in
2016, and was picked up for inclusion in the 2017 Sydney
Festival. He is currently developing Star Navigator, an
ambitious work commissioned by West Australian Opera,
New Zealand Opera and Victorian Opera. Who knows
what is next for Tim Finn? One thing is for certain, he is
showing no signs of slowing and the desire to create,
write and perform is as strong as it ever was.
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2015/17), The Blue Room,
The Tempest, Amy’s View, Julius
Caesar, High Society. Other
Credits: Opera Australia: Mer de
Glace, Falstaff, L’elisir d’amore,
Lulu, Merry Widow, La bohème, Il
Turco in Italia; New Zealand Opera: Magic Flute, Don
Giovanni; Hamburg State Opera: Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Billy Budd; Cape Town Opera/West Australian
Opera/Opera Queensland/Opera of South Australia/
Victoria Opera/New Zealand Opera: Othello; Sydney
Theatre Company: A Flea in Her Ear, Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead, The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee, Urinetown the Musical; Melbourne Theatre
Company: The Beast, North by Northwest, Pennsylvania
Avenue, The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet,
Songs for Nobodies, All About My Mother, The Drowsy
Chaperone; Dainty Productions: Eat Pray Laugh! Barry
Humphries Farewell Tour (Australia, UK, USA); Nullarbor:
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the Musical (Australia, UK,
USA, various international); Really Useful Group: Love
Never Dies (Australia, Japan, Germany); The Gordon
Frost Organisation: Dream Lover – The Bobby Darin
Musical; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum. Positions: Associate Director, Melbourne Theatre
Company 1987-1989; Artistic Director, State Theatre of
South Australia, 1990-1993. Artistic Director, Melbourne
Theatre Company, 2000-2012. Awards: Green Room
Awards - Best Director: Company (2000), Bombshells
(2001), Proof (2002), Lulu (2003), August: Osage
County (2009), Richard III (2010). Helpmann Awards
- Best Director: Inheritance (2004), The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee (2006), Richard III (2010).
Training: NZ Drama School.
BIOGRAPHIES
Tim Finn
Guy Simpson
Orchestrations and
Musical Supervisor
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2015/17). Other Credits:
As Musical Supervisor: The Really
Useful Group; Cats, The Phantom
of the Opera, Love Never Dies;
Cameron Mackintosh; Miss
Saigon: The Gordon Frost Organisation; A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum; The Gordon
Frost Organisation: Dream Lover – The Bobby Darin
Musical; Opera Australia: My Fair Lady. As Musical
Director: IMG: Cabaret, Chicago; Queen Theatrical
Productions: We Will Rock You; The Production
Company/Orchestra Victoria: Funny Girl, Call Me
Madam, Mack and Mabel, The Music Man, They’re
Playing Our Song, Carousel, Oklahoma!, Camelot, Little
Me, Follies, Promises Promises, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls,
West Side Story; Life Like Company: Passion; Various
productions: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Company, Into the
Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Best Little Whorehouse in
Texas, Pirates of Penzance, Snoopy, Seesaw, Zorba. As
Orchestrator: The Gordon Frost Organisation: A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Dream Lover.
Awards: Several Green Room and Helpmann Awards
and Nominations. Positions: Judge for the Rob Guest
Endowment and the Musician Award.
David Young
Musical Director
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2016). Other Credits: As
Musical Director: MTC/Queensland
Theatre: Ladies In Black. Black Swan
State Theatre Company: Clinton
The Musical, Next To Normal.
The Gordon Frost Organisation:
Wicked (2010-2014) (in eleven seasons throughout
Australia, New Zealand, and Asia). As Associate Musical
Director: Dennis Smith - Dusty, Newtheatricals and
Dainty Consolidated Entertainment: Jersey Boys. Louise
Withers and Associates: Mamma Mia, Spamalot. Dainty
Consolidated Entertainment - Hairspray, Singing In The
Rain. Keyboards: Cameron MacIntosh - Les Miserables,
The Gordon Frost Organisation: The Sound Of Music,
Wicked. The Production Company: over six productions.
As Composer/Lyricist: The Beauty Spot, The Happy
Prince, Immaculate Deception.
Gabriela Tylesova
Designer
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2015/17). Other Credits:
Melbourne Theatre Company: The
Pillowman, Tomfoolery, Urinetown,
Cyrano De Bergerac; Opera
Australia: Il Turco in Italia, L’Elisir
D’Amore; Lyric Theatre, Chicago:
First Wives Club; The Gordon Frost Organisation: A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum;
Barking Gecko/Australian Opera: The Rabbits; The
Australian Ballet: Sleeping Beauty, Scheherazade;
Monkey Baa Productions/Siren Theatre Company:
Fox. As Costume Designer; Bangarra Dance Theatre:
Boomerang, Of Earth and Sky; Sydney Theatre
Company: This Little Piggy, Volpone, Macbeth, Fireface,
Attempts on Her Life; Company B Belvoir: King Ubu, Our
Lady of Sligo; Brink Productions/Windmill Performing
Arts/Adelaide Fringe/Sydney Theatre Compay:
Clockwork Forest; Eureka Productions: Eureka the
Musical; Kookaburra Theatre Company: Pippin; Carousel
Theater, Berlin: Low; Griffin Theatre Company: What a
Piece of Work; DV8 Physical Theatre: Can We Afford
This/The Cost of Living; ATYP: Kinderspiel; B Sharp: My
Head Was a Sledgehammer; Kitchen Sink Productions :
Kitchen Sink, Close Your Little Eyes. Awards: Helpmann
Awards – Best Scenic Design Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern, Love Never Dies; Best Costume Design
Love Never Dies, Cosi Fan Tutte; Best Presentation for
Children Clockwork Forest; Helpmann Award Nomination
– Best Costume Design L’Elisir D’Amore; Green Room
Award – Best Design Love Never Dies, The Visit; Best
Costume Design Sweeney Todd. Training: Bachelor of
Dramatic Arts (Design), NIDA.
David Walters
Lighting Designer
Queensland Theatre: The Wider
Earth, Quartet, Ladies in Black
(2015/17), Brisbane, Boston
Marriage, Gloria, Macbeth,
Australia Day, Venus in Fur, End
of the Rainbow, Romeo & Juliet,
Pygmalion, Grimm Tales, The
August Moon, Rabbit Hole, The Glass Menagerie, The
Memory of Water, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,
Molly Sweeney, Chilling and Killing My Annabel Lee,
The Skin of Our Teeth, Vertigo and the Virginia, Long
Day’s Journey into Night, Amy’s View, Master Class,
After the Ball, Summer Rain, Arcadia, The Hope of the
World, Money and Friends, Gilgamesh, The Man from
Mukinupin, A Different Drummer, Fuente Ovejuna,
Salonika, The Venetian Twins. Other Credits: Melbourne
Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, State
Theatre Company of South Australia, Bell Shakespeare
Company, QUT, QPAC, Jute, Handspan, Playbox, La Boite
Theatre Company, Rock‘n’Roll Circus, Nimrod, Company
B, Expressions Dance Company, Queensland Ballet,
Australian Ballet, Opera Queensland and Zen Zen Zo. In
Iceland he has lit for the National Theatre, the National
Opera and the Reykjavik City Theatre. Positions: Adjunct
Associate Professor in Drama at QUT. Awards: Matilda
Awards/Commendations in 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2001,
2002, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2012.
Choreographer
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2015/17). Other Credits:
As Choreographer: The Gordon
Frost Organisation: Dream Lover –
The Bobby Darin Musical; Opera
Australia: Sydney Opera House–
The Opera; Opera Australia John
Frost: Anything Goes, Helpmann Award winner for Best
Choreography; Luckiest Productions/ Tinderbox: Little
Shop of Horrors; Luckiest Productions/Neil Gooding/
Tinderbox: Sweet Charity, Helpmann Award winner
for Best Choreography; Daniel Sparrow Productions:
Rupert; The Production Company: La Cage Aux Folles,
Pirates of Penzance, Gypsy, The Producers (codirector/choreographer), Anything Goes (co-director/
choreographer), The Boy From Oz, The Boy Friend,
Mame, Carousel; Melbourne Theatre Company: Born
Yesterday, Egg, Private Lives, Hamlet, Next To Normal,
The Drowsy Chaperone; Arts Centre Melbourne &
Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Shane Warne The Musical;
The Gordon Frost Organisation: A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum, An Officer and A
Gentleman; Gary Ginivan Productions: Wombat Stew
The Musical; Sideshow Alley, Menopause the Musical;
Melbourne City Opera: The Merry Widow; Glynn
Nicholas Group: Eurobeat – Almost Eurovision (West End
and Edinburgh Festival); Crown and New Theatricals:
Leader of the Pack - The Ellie Greenwich Musical, Green
Room Award winner for Best Choreography. Cabarets:
Todd McKenney – Songs and Stories of Peter Allen;
BoldJack Productions: Doris Day - So Much More
Than The Girl Next Door; Adelaide Cabaret Festival:
Newly Discovered; Adelaide Festival Centre: Tegrity;
McPherson Touring. As Co-Choreographer: Broadway:
Priscilla Queen of the Desert; The Production Company:
Bye Bye Birdie, The Music Man. Television: So You Think
You Can Dance, We Can Be Heroes, Dead Gorgeous,
The Librarians, Mr and Mrs Murder.
Michael Waters
Sound Designer
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other
Credits: As Sound Designer: Opera
Australia: The Rabbits, My Fair
Lady, The King And I. The Gordon
Frost Organisation: Dream Lover the Bobby Darin Musical, Anything
Goes, A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum, An Officer And A Gentleman
(World Premiere), Doctor Zhivago (World Premiere). TML:
Fiddler On The Roof. Dainty Consolidated Entertainment:
Singin’ In The Rain, Hugh Jackman’s Broadway To Oz,
The Woman In Black, The Boy From Oz with Hugh
Jackman. Backrow Productions: Priscilla - Queen of
The Desert (World Premiere). Dennis Smith: Dusty – The
Original Pop Diva (World Premiere). Jacobsons: Dirty
Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage (World Premiere),
Saturday Night Fever. DAE: Singin’ In The Rain. As
Soundscape Designer: Ginges/ Foxman: ATOMIC – The
Musical (Australia, New York). Awards: Helpmann Award
- Best Sound Design The King and I; Dusty - the Original
Pop Diva; The Woman in Black. Helpmann Award - Best
Sound Design nomination - Fiddler on the Roof; Anything
Goes; Boy From Oz (with Hugh Jackman); Singin' In The
Rain. Green Room Award - Best Sound Design Dirty
Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage. Green Room
Award nomination - Best Sound Design The King and
I; A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum,
Saturday Night Fever.
Jessica Burns
Assistant Director
Queensland Theatre: As Stage
Manager: Ladies in Black (2015/16)
Other Credits: Ambassador Theatre
Group: The Beast; As Stage
Manager: Melbourne Theatre
Company: North by Northwest,
Jumpy, Pennsylvania Avenue,
Glengarry Glen Ross, The Crucible, Red, Constellations,
Queen Lear, Music, The Importance of Being Earnest,
Hamlet, Next to Normal, A Behanding in Spokane, All
About My Mother, The Grenade, Rockabye, Moonlight
and Magnolias, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hypocrite, Love
Song, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Ghost Writer, The
Female of the Species, Hitchcock Blonde, Two Brothers,
Coup d’Etat and Life x 3; Disney Productions: The Lion
King; The Gordon Frost Organisation: The Producers;
Malcolm C. Cooke & Associates: The Lion, The Witch
and The Wardrobe; Malthouse Theatre: Minefields and
Miniskirts, The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin.
Eloise Grace
Company Manager
Queensland Theatre: As Company
Manager: Debut. As Stage
Manager: The Odd Couple. As
Tour Manager and Stage Manager:
Kelly (National Tour). Other credits:
As General Manager/ Producer:
MultipleSpinifex for the Ruler
of Sharjah, UAE: Clusters of Light – An Oratorio; Cat
Stevens/Yusuf Islam: Moonshadow – A New Musical;
The Danger Ensemble: MACBETH. As Company
Manager: Blue Man Group, Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages,
The Addams Family Musical, Georgy Girl – the Seekers
Musical, FAME the Musical. As Logistics Manager:
2006 Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies,
Brisbane Festival, Queensland Music Festival. As Tour
Manager: Bonnie Tyler Live, Tony Hadley in Concert, The
Bangles, Song Trails, The Listies Make You LOL. As Stage
Manager: LaBoite Theatre Company: A Streetcar Named
Desire, A Doll’s House. Australian Labor Party: Campaign
Launch, City of Melbourne/ L’Oreal: Melbourne Fashion
Festival, Melbourne Spring Fashion Festival. As Guest
Lecturer: QUT, NIDA, Griffith University.
BIOGRAPHIES
Andrew Hallsworth
Will Lewis
Margaret Burrows
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other
Credits: As Stage Manager: Cirque
du Soleil: Dralion, Amaluna. The
Gordon Frost Organisation: Wicked
(Australian Premiere, National
Tour), Into the Woods. As Deputy
Stage Manager: Really Useful
Group: Cats (Taiwan, Korea, China, Thailand and Macau).
Seabiscuit Productions: Titanic – A New Musical. Dusty
Productions: Dusty – The Original Pop Diva. The Gordon
Frost Organisation: The Producers (Australian Premiere.
National Tour), The Wizard of Oz. The Production
Company: Hair. Jacobsen Entertainment: Sydney Mardi
Gras, 2007 FINA World Swimming Championships,
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening and Closing
Ceremonies, Sydney 2000 Paralympic Opening
Ceremony.
Queensland Theatre: The Odd
Couple. Other credits: As Stage
Manager: Queensland Performing
Arts Centre: Various. Queensland
Ballet: Dance Dialogues. As
Assistant Stage Manager:
Queensland Ballet: Strictly
Gershwin, La Sylphide, Peter Pan, Coppelia (National
Tour). Opera Queensland: Madame Butterfly. As Dresser:
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University: Hansel
and Gretel. Education and Training: QUT; Technical
Production and Management. Southbank Institute of
Technology: Scenery and Set Construction.
Daniel Sinclair
Deputy Stage Manager
Queensland Theatre: As Stage
Manager: St Mary’s In Exile,
Brisbane, Stradbroke Dreamtime,
Fractions (co-production with
HotHouse Theatre Company),
Macbeth, Fat Pig, A Property
of the Clan; As Deputy Stage
Manager: Ladies in Black (2016); As Stage Manager: The
Tragedy of King Richard III; As Assistant Stage Manager:
Managing Carmen, I Feel Awful, Betrayal, Anatomy Titus
– Fall of Rome (co-production with Bell Shakespeare
Company). Other Credits: Shake & Stir Theatre Co: As
Production Stage Manager/Tour Manager: 1984 (national
tour), Animal Farm (regional/national tour). As Production
Stage Manager: Wuthering Heights, 1984, Roald Dahl’s
Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts, Tequila Mockingbird,
Animal Farm, Out Damn Snot; La Boite Theatre
Company: As Stage Manager: A Hoax, Hamlet, Walking
By Apple Tree Creek (regional/national tour), Summer of
the Seventeenth Doll, plus many more since 2003. Show
Caller-Creative Generation: State Schools Onstage 2010,
2012-2016. As Production Stage Manager/Tour Manager:
Breast Wishes – An Uplifting Musical supporting
the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Positions:
Production Touring Coordinator, Queensland Theatre;
Tour Manager, La Boite Theatre; Stage Management:
QPAC, Brisbane Festival & Great Big Events for the Doha
Asian Games. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical
Production), Queensland University of Technology.
Awards: Drover Award Tour of the Year Animal Farm,
Shake & Stir Theatre Co.
Kate Cole
Miss Cartwright/Joy
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2015/17). Other Credits: Red
Stitch Actors Theatre: Grounded,
Out of the Water, Jumpers for
Goalposts, About Tommy, Day
One, A Hotel, Evening, The Laramie
Project: 10 Years Later, The Shape
of Things, Tejas Verdes, Hellbent, Harvest, Pugilist
Specialist, The Night Season, Loyal Women, The Night
Heron, Jesus Hopped the A Train, Where’s My Money?,
Push Up, Psychapathia Sexualis, Brilliant Traces,
Unidentified Human Remains, Extremities; Luckiest/
Neil Gooding/Tinderbox: Sweet Charity (tour); Victorian
State Opera/IMG: West Side Story, My Fair Lady; Helen
Montague Productions: 42nd Street; Melbourne Theatre
Company: His Girl Friday, Circle Mirror Transformation.
Television: Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Doctor Blake
Series, The Divorce, Frontier, Final Sale, Borderline
Murder, Endurance Island, Neighbours, Dog Woman – A
Grrl’s Best Friend, Blue Heelers, Stingers, Crashburn.
Awards: Green Room Award Nomination – Best Actress
Grounded, Sydney Theatre Award – Best Actress –
Grounded.
Carita Farrer Spencer
Mrs Miles
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2015/17), The Venetian
Twins, Proof, A Conversation.
Other Credits: Hothouse Theatre
Company: The Messiah, The
Fabulous Dame Farrar’s Dazzling
Display of Stupendous Acts for
the Stage!!!; Melbourne Theatre Company: Cyrano
de Bergerac; La Boite: A Paper House, The Popular
Mechanicals, Speaking in Tongues, The John Wayne
Principal; Downstairs Belvoir St/La Boite Theatre
Company; X Cess Baggage; The Grin and Tonic Troupe:
Monkey…and his magic journey to the west, Seasons;
Schnapper Head: Zoo-illogical; Matrix: 1347; Green
Theatre Co: The Vagina Monologues, Cheapside,
Jerusalem; La Mama/Metro Arts: Trampoline. As
Director: National Institute of Circus Arts: Pescado – a
Bobby Fox
Rudi
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2015/17). Other Credits:
Luckiest Productions: High Society;
Enda Markey Productions: Blood
Brothers; David Atkins: Hot Shoe
Shuffle; Atomic: Atomic; The
Production Company: Guys and
Dolls, Sweet Charity; Dodger/
Dainty: Jersey Boys the Musical; Dusty Productions:
Dusty the Musical; Louise Withers & Associates: We
Will Rock You, Mamma Mia, Spamalot the Musical,
Studio Recording: The Fantastic Mr Fox (Warner Music).
Film: The Cup. Television: It’s A Date, House Husbands,
Tricky Business. Awards: Sydney Theatre Critics Award,
Helpmann/Green Room Award nominations - Jersey
Boys; Green Room Nomination: Hot Shoe Shuffle.
Natalie Gamsu
Magda
Queensland Theatre: Debut.
Other Credits: Global Creatures:
Baz Luhrman’s Strictly Ballroom;
Disney/ Cameron MacIntosh:
Marry Poppins; Natal Performing
Arts: Candide; The Gordon
Frost Organisation: Dr Zhivago;
Q Theatre: Sunday in the Park with George; Big M
Productions: Putting It Together; Sydney Theatre
Company: Barrie Kosky’s Women of Troy; ICA (London):
Acts and Revelations; The Birmingham Repertory
Theatre (UK): Anger is Not a Place I Like to Be; Queer Up
North (UK): Masque of Water. Documentary: Showbiz
Is My Life. Film: Ali’s Wedding (Matchbox Films).
Television: Neighbours, The Big Time (South African TV).
CD Recordings: Weave, Misfit. Awards: Backstage Bistro
Award, MAC Award for Outstanding Female Vocalist,
MAC Nomination Best New Recording – Weave.
Tamlyn Henderson
Frank
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other
Credits: Neglected Musicals:
Calamity Jane; The Gordon
Frost Organisation: The Sound
of Music; Cameron Mackintosh:
Les Miserables. Darlinghurst
Theatre: Falsettos; IMG/Fran &
Barry Weissler: Cabaret; Louise
Withers: We Will Rock You; DTC: How to Act Around
Cops; Burley: The Importance of Being Earnest; ASC:
The Wind in the Willows; CDP/Tall Stories: The Gruffalo
AUS+UK Tours; Sydney Opera House: Circumspecto;
Griffin Theatre Company: Saint Theo. Comedy: Allsopp &
Henderson: A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished,
The Jinglists, Pork Stiletto; Online Comedy Series: As
Actors – Manila. Television: Careless Love, Cedar Boys,
Redfern Now, All Saints. Awards: Greenroom Award
for Best Ensemble Cabaret/Sydney Theatre Award –
Best Production for Children – The Gruffalo. Training:
Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre) - WAAPA.
Madeleine Jones
Patty
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other
Credits: Brilliant Adventures/
bakeHOUSE: Straight; Sport for
Jove: Love's Labour's Lost, Much
Ado About Nothing, Cyrano de
Bergerac; CDP: The Incredible
Book Eating Boy, Mr Stink; Griffin
Independent & Collide: Girl in Tan Boots; Sydney
Theatre Company/ATYP: M.Rock; Room 8/Australian
Shakespeare Co: Godspell; LCW Productions: Avenue Q;
The Gordon Frost Organisation/MTC: Once. Film: Devil’s
Dust, Waking Moon, The Filmmaker, On Hold, Fragments
of Friday. Awards: Green Room Award- Best Actress
in a Leading Role (Musical Theatre)/Helpmann Award
nomination - Once. Training: Actors Centre Australia.
Kathryn McIntyre
Myra/Dawn
Queensland Theatre: Ladies
in Black (2015/17), Much Ado
About Nothing, One in Seven
(QPDA Shortlist Play Reading).
Other Credits: Joymas Creative:
Recall, Handle with Care; An Old
Fashioned Production Company:
Bendigo to Broadway, Becoming Bill; Kathryn McIntyre/
Judith Wright Centre: Gimme Gimme - Tales of an
Eternal Optimist; Dianne Gough Productions: Macbeth
the Contemporary Rock Opera; Arts Centre Gold Coast:
Boy From Oz. Training: Bachelor of Music (Musical
Theatre), Queensland Conservatorium of Music.
BIOGRAPHIES
cabaret circus fusion; Metro Arts: Little Hitler’s Ode
to an Austrian Bentwood. As Cabaret Artist/Musician:
Larry Paradiseo & The Fabulous Dame Farrar, Women in
Voice, The Fabulous Dame Farrar Goes Brazilian Nuts,
Too Much is Never Enough, Diva De Janeiro, Mutha
of All Divas, There Was an Old Lady, The Flanelettes,
The Mint Patties, The Super Supremes, Todd McKenny
Live. Film: Cubby House. Television: Seven Types of
Ambiguity, Fat Cow Motel, Mortified, Medivac. As
Writer/Director: Australia by Numbers Documentary –
Rockhampton 4700 (SBS). Awards: Matilda Award – Best
Supporting Female Actor Proof, The Venetian Twins, Lord
Mayor’s Performing Arts Fellowship.
Sarah Morrison
Lisa
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2015/17). Other Credits:
Vass Productions/Alex Theatre:
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown;
Hubcap Productions: Dust; Pen 2
Stage Productions Company: Meet
the Nicktoons; Opera Queensland:
Hansel and Gretel, La Bohème; Company Eleven:
Third World Blues; Arts Centre Gold Coast: Pyjamas in
Paradise Launch. Television: The Doctor Blake Mysteries,
Making Dust. Training: Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre),
University of Ballarat. Awards: Nominee Matilda Award –
Bille Brown Award for the Best Emerging Artist.
Trisha Noble
Miss Jacobs/Mrs Crown
Queensland Theatre: Debut.
Other Credits: The Gordon Frost
Organisation: Doctor Zhivago,
Footloose, Dusty Promotions:
Dusty - the Original Pop Diva,
Jacobsen Entertainment: Shout
the Musical, Newtheatricals:
Leader of the Pack, Kookaburra: Pippin, Little Women,
Stables Theatre: Three Winters Green, Theatre Royal:
Jack and Jill, Independent Theatre: The Grotto, Phillip
Street Theatre: Alice in Wonderland, St George League’s
Club: Sweet Charity, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, UK: Night
is for Delight, Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow: Five Past
Eight Show, Newcastle Playhouse, UK: The Four Sided
Triangle, National Tour, UK: Roar Like a Dove, Olympia
Theatre, Paris: Olympia Variety with Cliff Richard and
The Shadows, Newcastle Playhouse, UK: The Four Sided
Triangle, USA World’s Fair: Australia’s Night of Stars,
Las Vegas Sands Hotel: The London Playgirl Revue.
Television: USA TV. Aaron Spelling Productions: Strike
Force (Series), TJ Hooker, The Love Boat, Matt Houston.
Universal TV: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Night
Gallery, Columbo, Mrs Columbo, McMillan, Big Shamus
Little Shamus, The Rockford Files, Stone, Baretta,
Testimony of Two Men (Miniseries), The Rhineman
Exchange (Miniseries), Columbia TV Telemovies: The
Courage and The Passion and Doctors Hospital, Hart to
Hart, Fantasy Island, Eischied, Executive Suite (Series),
David L Wolper Productions: Casablanca, MGM TV: The
Courtship of Eddie’s Father, MTM Productions: The Mary
Tyler Moore Show, 20th Century Fox: James at Sixteen,
Husbands and Wives, CBS TV: Matt Helm, Casey
Warner: Oh Madeline!, Lorimar Productions: Flamingo
Road, ABC: How the West Was Won (Miniseries),
UNITED KINGDOM TV: We Have Ways of Making
You Laugh (Series), The Dave King Show (Series), The
Dick Emery Show (Series), The Frank Ifield Show, The
Morecombe and Wise Show, The Benny Hill Show, The
Andy Stewart Show, The Arthur Haynes Show, The Des
O’Connor Show, The Jules Styne Special, The Engelbert
Humperdinck Special, The Liberace Special, Words
and Music, International Cabaret, Sunday Night at the
London Palladium, Talk of the Town, The Charlie Drake
Special, Stars on Sunday, Dream Song, Danger Man,
Up Pompeii, Iolanthe, Out of the Unknown, Callan, Z
Cars, Fraud Squad, Who Dun It, Play of the Wheel, Girls
About Town, AUSTRALIA TV: This Is Your Life (Feature),
Jumping with Joye, Top of the Town, The Mobil Limb
Show, Bandstand (Series), The Youth Show, Water Rats,
Blonde (Miniseries), All Saints, Deadline, Body Business.
Film: Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Star
Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Private
Eyes, Live It Up, Death is a Woman, Carry on Camping.
Awards: Logie Award, Helpman Award Nomination –
Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical
– Pippin, Green Room Nomination – Best Female Artist
in a Featured Role – Shout, Two consecutive Mo Award
Nominations – Best Female Musical Performer – Shout.
Qualifications: Diploma in Theatre Performance (IMEB)
and CVCA (High Distinction) from AMEB, Speech and
Drama Examiner (IMEB).
Ellen Simpson
Fay
Queensland Theatre: Debut.
Other Credits: Essential Theatre:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(National Tour), Really Useful
Group: Vernon God Little, Love
Never Dies, Capitol Theatre Studio:
Into the Woods; The Gordon
Frost Organisation: Wicked; PanPacific Productions:
Chicago; Auckland Theatre Company: The Crucible. As
Resident Director and Resident Choreographer: Luckiest
Productions/ Tinderbox Productions: Little Shop of
Horrors; The Gordon Frost Organisation: Dream Lover
– The Bobby Darin Musical. Television: Molly, Mr and
Mrs Murder, Doctor Blake Murder Mysteries. Awards:
Chapmann Tripp Theatre Awards – Most Promising
Female Newcomer Nomination - The Underwatermelon
Man.
Greg Stone
Mr Miles/Stefan
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2015/17). Other Credits: The
Gordon Frost Organisation: Once;
Melbourne Theatre Company: The
Weir, The Waiting Room, Glengarry
Glen Ross, The Crucible, Queen
Lear, Clybourne Park, Life Without
Me, Poor Boy, Blackbird, Love Song, The Madwoman
of Chaillot, The Pillowman, Cloud Nine, The Seagull, A
Little Night Music, Angels in America; Sydney Theatre
Company: The Beauty of Queen Leenane, Stones In
His Pockets, Merrily We Roll Along; Belvoir: Hamlet,
Babyteeth, Stuff Happens; Malthouse Theatre: The
Government Inspector (a co-production with Belvoir),
POMPEII LA, A Golem Story; State Theatre Company of
South Australia: Don’s Party; Playbox Theatre Company:
Julia 3, Myth Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany
and Contemporary America, Rapture, A Return to
the Brink, Miracles, Good Works; Black Swan Theatre
Company: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Life x 3;
Griffin Theatre: All The Black Dogs, McNeil; Hothouse
Theatre: The Berry Man. Film: L.A.D., The Sunset Six,
Daniel Maher
Guitar
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other
Credits: For Musicals: Jersey Boys,
Avenue Q, Last 5 Years, Miracle
City, Next To Normal, Cats, Dream
Lover. For Artists: Delta Goodrem,
Joel & Benji Madden (Good
Charlotte), Cody Simpson, Sutton
Foster, Shoshana Bean, Samantha Jade, Cyrus, Taylor
Henderson, Bonnie Anderson, Reece Mastin, Rick Price,
Todd McKenney, Rhonda Burchmore, Casey Donovan,
Joe Moore, Anja Nissen, Marcelo DLV, Rob Mills, Luke
Kennedy, Naomi Price. Television: The Voice, X-Factor,
AGT, Living Room, V-hits, Nickelodeon SlimeFest, Sunrise,
Morning Show, Today Extra. Touring: Pentatonix World
Tour (Aus/NZ, 2016, Chris Sebastian Support), Reza
Yazdani (Aus, 2014), MMG (Japan, 2014), Rick Price
(Aus, 2013), Todd McKenney (Aus, 2012), Michigan Crew
(Japan, 2010). Studio recordings: Van-Anh: TONALITA,
BROADWAY; Cath Alcorn: A Real Character; Cast
Recordings: Miracle City, Sing On Through Tomorrow.
Documentary: Lost Your Marbles. Commercial: Taste
Australia, Sunbeam, Samsung Galaxy S5.
Marian Heckenberg
Bass
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other
Credits: For Musicals: Les Miserable
(Brisbane and Asia), Into the Woods,
King and I, Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang, South Pacific, Dr Zhivago,
Westside Story (Australian tour),
Chicago the Musical, Phantom of
the Opera, Pirates of Penzance, Merry Widow, Porgy
and Bess. For Cabaret: Doris (Melinda Schneider),
X-Collective Cabaret Ensemble, Red Cap, The Possessed
(Chamber Made Opera). Live onstage: Expressions
Dance Company: When Time Stops, Queensland
Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Western Australian
Symphony, Adelaide Symphony Wagner’s Ring Cycle,
Tasmanian Symphony, Orchestra Victoria, Queensland
Ballet, Australian Ballet, Camerata of St John’s, The
Whitlams, Daniel Johns, Rob Guest, Andrea Boccelli,
Lior (Paris tour), Gurrumul, Sarah Blasko, Missy Higgins,
Human Nature, Qld Pops Orchestra, The Main Event
(John Farnham, Olivia Newton John, Anthony Warlow),
Sting, Rhonda Burchmore, David Hobson, Dudley Moore.
Training: University of Southern California (Masters of
Music -Performance), University of Qld (Bachelor of
Music- Performance).
Andrew Maddick
Violin
Queensland Theatre: Ladies in
Black (2015) Other Credits: As
Performer: Sting, Paolo Nutini,
Smokey Robinson, Missy Higgins,
Katie Noonan, George Benson,
Kathryn Jenkins, English Symphony
Orchestra, Orchestra of The Swan,
Bootleg Beatles. For Stage: Opera Australia: The King
& I; Old Vic, London The Cherry Orchard, NT, London:
Revengers Tragedy; Hofesh Shechter Dance Co. In Your
Rooms & Political Mother, Annie, Magic Flute, Erwin und
Elmire.
Nathan Smith
Cello
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other
Credits: For Companies: Ensemble
Instrumental de Nice, Ensemble
C’barré, Camerata - Queensland's
Chamber Orchestra, Queensland
Symphony Orchestra, Australian
International Opera Comany. For
Composers: Couperin, Bach, Schumann, Felix Ibarrando,
Phillipe Hersant, John Coltrane, Peter Sculthorpe,
Cameron Patrick. As Music Educator: John Paul
College, St John’s Anglican College. Training: Marseille
Conservatoire, Paris Conservatoire (Rue de Madrid).
Dave George
Drums/percussion
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other
Credits: As Orchestral Member:
Flower Children, Heathers the
Musical, Avenue Q. As drumkit/
percussion deputising musician:
Matilda the Musical. As session
player/ touring musician: California
Dreaming, Australian International Opera Company
Tour China, plus many national and international tours.
As Composer: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Snare
Drum Award: Choose Your Own Adventure. Australian
Percussion Eisteddfod: Awesomity for solo drum kit,
Interrobang! for solo drum kit. Positions: St Kevin’s
College: Coordinator of Percussion and Guitar. Training:
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.
BIOGRAPHIES
Swerve, Oranges and Sunshine, Van Diemen’s Land,
Boytown, The Bank, Is This the Real World. Television:
Neighbours, Secret City, The Ex-PM, Glitch, Offspring,
Better Man, Devil’s Dust, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries,
Lowdown, Underbelly Telemovie; Tell Them Lucifer Was
Here, Winners and Losers, City Homicide, Bed of Roses,
Librarians, Blue Heelers, MDA, Stingers, Marshall Law,
Shock Jock, Halifax FP, State Coroner, Seachange,
Good Guys Bad Guys, Janus, The Man From Snowy
River, A Country Practice, Boys From The Bush, Skirts,
SP, E Street, Country Practice. Awards: 2015 Green
Room Award - Best Ensemble Cast in a Musical Once;
2012 Indie Gems Film Festival Award - Best Male Actor
The Sunset Six; Helpmann Award - Best Male Actor in
a Play Stuff Happens; Green Room Award - Best Male
Performer Stuff Happens. Training: Bachelor of Drama,
NIDA.
Act 1
I Got It at Goode's
Lisette
Soon I Will Be Me
A Proper Family Man
Ladies in Black
Always Be Happy
Try Again
Whole Other World
Sales Talk
A Nice Australian Girl
Daddy Come On
Strange
Bastard Song
Lisa at Home
The Fountain
Bastard (Reprise)
Model Gowns
Tomorrow Becomes Today
L-R: Natalie Gamsu, Trisha Noble,
Madeleine Jones, Kate Cole,
Carita Farrer Spencer,
Ellen Simpson, Katherine McIntyre.
On a Summer Afternoon
You Did It
Lesley or Lisa
Make Something Out of This
The Party
Fay’s Soliloquy
Pandemonium
I Can’t Be the Man
I Just Kissed a Continental
Something to Hide
Sales Continued
Reconciliation
Lisette (Reprise)
Finale
BIOGRAPHIES
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We would like to thank the 2015 Cast and Creatives
Andrew Broadbent, Kate Cole, Carita Farrer Spencer,
Bobby Fox, Kathryn McIntyre, Lucy Maunder, Sarah
Morrison, Christen O’Leary, Naomi Price, Deidre
Rubenstein, Greg Stone, Andrew Johnson, Toby
Loveland, Kathryn McKee, Andrew Maddick, John
Parker, Simon Phillips, Tim Finn, Carolyn Burns,
Gabriela Tylesova, David Walters, Isaac Hayward,
Guy Simpson, Andrew Hallsworth, Tony Brumpton,
Hanna Sandgren, Matthew Erskine, Melissa Agnew,
Jessica Burns, Dan Sinclair, Pip Loth.
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Production
His Excellency the Honourable
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Paul de Jersey AC
Toni Glynn
Governor of Queensland
TECHNICAL COORDINATOR
Members of the Board
Daniel Maddison
Elizabeth Jameson (Chair)
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Richard Fotheringham (Deputy Chair)
Canada White
Rachel Crowley
TOURING COORDINATOR
Wayne Denning
Michael Rogerson
Peter Hudson
HEAD OF WORKSHOP
Susan Learmonth
Peter Sands
Andrea Moor
COMPANY CARPENTER/HEAD
David Williamson
MECHANIST
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
John Pierce
Sam Strong
COSTUME SUPERVISOR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Nathalie Ryner
Sue Donnelly
WARDROBE COORDINATOR
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Barbara Kerr
Tammy Sleeth
Programming
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PROGRAMMING MANAGER/
Paige Rattray
SENIOR PRODUCER
Development, Finance & Operations
Sophia Hall
DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ARTISTIC COORDINATOR
Amanda Jolly
Samantha French
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Nikki Porter
DEVELOPMENT)
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
Shari Irwin
Alana Tierney
PRODUCER (EDUCATION AND
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COORDINATOR
Heidi Irvine
Anja Homburg
PROGRAMMING PROJECT OFFICER
FINANCE MANAGER
Laurel Collins
Michael Cullinan
ASSOCIATE ARTIST (EDUCATION AND
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YOUTH PROGRAMS)
Georgia Knight
Travis Dowling
VENUE AND OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR Ticketing
Julian Messer
TICKETING SUPERVISOR
FINANCE OFFICER
Eloise Sowden
Sarra Lamb
SENIOR TICKETING OFFICER
Marketing
Donna Fields-Brown
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TICKETING OFFICER
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Madison Bell
Tracey Webster
SEASON TICKETING OFFICERS
HEAD OF CAMPAIGNS
Jessi Le Brocq
Jane Hunterland
Jazmin Ealden
MARKETING ASSISTANT
Annabelle Hazell
Louisa Sankey
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Steve Pirie
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Marcel Dorney, Christie Evangelisto,
Kat Henry, Nakkiah Lui, Renee Mulder,
Annette Madden, Lucas Stibbard
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Alan Edwards, AM, MBE (1925 – 2003)
LADIES IN BLACK PRODUCTION STAFF
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Jamie Bowman, Aleksis Waaralinna
SCENIC ARTIST
Leo Herreygers
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Leigh Buchanan, Michelle Wiki, Bianca
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HEAD ELECTRICIAN
Matt Golder
HEAD MECHANIST/AUTOMATIONS
Kane Ernst
HEAD OF SOUND
Anusha Matthews
PRODUCTION SOUND
Andrew Poppleton
RADIO MIC OPERATOR
Brady Watkins
FLOOR MECHANISTS
Adam Hanley, Chris Goeldner
DRESSER/SUPERVISOR
Jane Jericho
WIGGER/DRESSER
Michael Green
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