AT WHAT COST?

Nathan Maynard

Nathan, is a Trawlwoolway, pakana man and writer & director from Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Nathan’s first play, The Season, featured in the 2015 Yellamundie Festival, produced by Moogahlin Arts. In November 2016, Nathan finished a 15-week writer’s attachment with Blue Rocket animation, where he helped produce and direct a palawa kani (a Tasmanian Aboriginal language) episode of the award winning animation series Little J & Big Cuz. Nathan wrote an episode for the second series. In 2017 Nathan co-directed, Jonathan Saunders’s, animation series, Zero Point, which featured a cast including Mark Cole-Smith and Steven Oliver. Nathan collaborated with acclaimed Maori writer, Jamie Mc Caskill on a children’s play titled, Hide the Dog, which like The Season, received Major Festivals Initiative and to be produced by, Tasmania Performs. Nathan was co-creator, dramaturge and director of Naz Dickenson’s debut play, CRUMBS, that had a successful season at ART PLAY for the Melbourne’s 2021 YirramboiFestival. Nathan is currently a working on the feature film project Mosquito Jack as a co-writer, alongside established writers, Raimondo Cortese (Holiday, 2007) and Jonathan Auf Der Heide (Van Diemen’s land, 2009).

Nathan has recently been commissioned to write new plays for Melbourne Theatre Company and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).

Nathan was selected for the 2017 & 19 PWA Aboriginal playwrights retreat at Bundanon, where he had the opportunity to learn from some of Australia’s leading first nations playwrights. He was also the recipient of the, Tasmanian Aboriginal Artist of the Year Award in 2006 and 2013 and the recipient of the 2018 Tasmania Aboriginal of the Year Award.

Nathan received the 2018 Errol (Tasmanian Theatre Awards) for best writing and the 2018 Green Room Award for, new writing for the Australian stage.

Nathan was selected by the, Australian Council Of The Arts, as the Australian delegate to attend the 2018 Dublin Theatre Festival as part of the Next Stage Program.

Isaac Drandic

Isaac is a Noongar man from the southwest of Western Australia. He is a highly sought-after dramaturg, actor, playwright, and director who specialises in new work by First Nations playwrights.

He has directed for some of Australia’s leading theatre and opera companies including Belvoir Street, Queensland Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, LaBoite, ILBIJERRI and the Victorian Opera. His shows have been seen at every major arts festival in Australia and toured internationally.

For Belvoir Isaac’s theatre credits include: At What Cost?, Coranderrk, (ILBJERRI Theatre Company/Belvoir St Theatre). Isaac’s other credits include As Director: The Visitors (Victoria Opera); From Campfire to Stage Light (JUTE Theatre); Hide the Dog, The Season (Performing Lines); From Darkness, Bigger and Blacker (La Boite Theatre); Blood on the Dance Floor (ILBIJERRI Theatre Company/Arts House); Into the Bloodstream (Archie Roach Foundation).

Positions: Head of First Nations Theatre (Current Position), Associate Artistic Director, Resident Dramaturg, Associate Artist, Queensland Theatre; Associate Director, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company; Resident Artist, Playwrighting Australia. Isaac is a Noongar man.

Awards: 2025 Matilda Awards – Best Direction and Best Mainstage Production 37; 2018 Green Room Awards – Best Direction and Best Mainstage Production The Season.

Luke Carroll

A descendant of the Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal peoples, Luke Carroll is a seasoned theatre, film and television performer. Previous shows for Belvoir include: At What Cost, The Cake Man, Capricornia, Conversations with the Dead and A Midsummer Night’s Dream . Previous credits include: Mother Courage and All Her Children; Black Diggers (QTC); Sunshine Super Girl (Performing Lines), Black Cockatoo (Ensemble Theatre); Black is the New White, The Harp in the South, The Hanging, The Battle of Waterloo and Cherry Pickers (STC), The Season (Performing Tasmania and Melbourne Festival), Wind in the Willows (La Boite); Riverland (Adelaide Festival), Eora Crossing (Sydney Festival), Purple Dreams and My Girragundji for Bell Shakespeare.

Other credits include Strangerland, Needle, Stone Bros, Subdivision, The Tender Hook and Children of the Revolution. 
Television includes Goolagong, Mystery Road: Origin, Maverix, Total Control, Preppers and Playschool (ABC) Upright (Foxtel), Scrublands – Silver (STAN) The Artful Dodger (Disney+). 

Carroll is currently nominated for a 2026 AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for Mystery Road: Origin.

Sandy Greenwood

Sandy is a First Nations Actor, Writer, Producer and Cultural Consultant from the Dunghutti, Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung tribes of New South Wales. She has a Bachelor of Theatre, (Honours) from the Queensland University of Technology and has trained at The Atlantic Acting School in New York City, and The Groundlings in Los Angeles.  

Sandy has performed in productions with a number of Australia’s leading theatre companies, including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Wayside Bride (Belvoir Theatre); Stolen and Taboo (Sydney Theatre Company); Taboo (Ilbijerri Theatre Company) and Dogged (Griffin Theatre Company). Sandy has also performed on the international stage at Seattle Children’s Theatre Company in Afternoon of the Elves.

In Australia, Sandy is perhaps best known for her critically-acclaimed one-woman show, Matriarch, which she wrote, produced and performed. She was recognised with a Green Room Award for Best Actor and nominated for Best Writing in Independent Theatre. 

Sandy will next be seen in the upcoming series The Messenger for ABC and the upcoming feature film The Appleton Ladies Potato Race for Paramount+.

Alex Malone

Alex’s theatre credits include Before the Meeting (Seymour Centre); The Caucasian Chalk Circle and The Lighthouse Girl (Black Swan State Theatre Company); Eurydice, Babes in The Woods and Threnody (The Old Fitz); Spring Awakening – The Musical (ATYP); A Little Piece of Ash, DNA and Youth and Destination (KXT) and Spectrum Now’s Orfeo Ed Euridice, directed by Shannon Murphy.

Alex is about to appear in Kitty Green‘s feature film The Royal Hotel for See Saw films. Her other film credits include Mercy Road, Transfusion, and Pulse and her television credits include the series Wanted, Colin from Accounts, Home & Away, RFDS, The Heights, Les Norton and A Place to Call Home. 

Ari Maza Long

Ari graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2021 and a month later was on stage in Belvoir’s production of At What Cost?

He has most recently appeared on stage in the Tracker tour (Australian Dance Theatre and Ilbijerri Theatre Company) and the Heart is a Wasteland tour (Ilbijerri Theatre Company).

Born and raised into the world of performing arts, Ari began learning from an early age about the power of storytelling on stage and screen.  He found himself in his first public production at the age of five in the performance of The Bridge (Torch Theatre Company) and the following year in Riverland (Windmill Theatre Company). After completing high school, he performed in Gonzo (Malthouse Theatre) with St Martin’s Youth Theatre Company.

Ari completed the Certificate IV of Aboriginal Performance at WAAPA and was then accepted into NIDA.  Whilst at NIDA, Ari performed in Perfect Stranger directed by Kate Champion and God’s Country, directed by Liza-Mare Syron.

Jacob Nash

Jacob’s a descendant of the Daly River people, West of Darwin and has spent the last 20 years living, working and creating across the Eora Nation.

He graduated from the NIDA Design Course in 2005. In 2010, he designed the set for OF EARTH AND SKY for Bangarra and received a Green Room Award for Best Design in Dance. He was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Bangarra the following year and now holds the position of Head of Design. Jacob has designed sets for Bangarra’s annual productions since 2010, including DARK EMU, BENNELONG, PATYEGARANG, LORE, OUR LAND PEOPLE STORIES, TERRAIN, BLACK and WARUMUK – IN THE DARK NIGHT. In 2018 Jacob was awarded a Helpmann Award for Best Scenic Design for his set design in BENNELONG.

For Belvoir Jacob has designed: RANDOM, RUBEN GUTHRIE, JESUS HOPPED THE ‘A’ TRAIN and YIBIYUNG.

His other theatre credits include; WONNANGATTA, THE LONG FORGOTTEN DREAM, THE REMOVALISTS, TUSK TUSK/LIKE A FISHBONE (Sydney Theatre Company); BLACK TIES (Ilbijerri); and MACBETH (Bell Shakespeare);  

In 2021 Jacob became Creative Artist in Residence at Sydney Festival. For Sydney Festival he has created the works ALWAYS and PROCLAMATION, large scale artwork that became backdrops for THE VIGIL and the WUGULORA CEREMONIES.

Jacob’s film and television credits include Production Designer and Co-Creature Designer on Goalpost Pictures CLEVERMAN Season 2 for the ABC; and Production Designer on Stephen Page’s 2015 feature film SPEAR for Arenamedia.

Jacob holds a position as a Board Director at Belvoir.

Keerthi Subramanyam

Keerthi is a Sydney based set and costume designer for live performance and film. Keerthi is a National Institute of Dramatic Art, BFA (Design for Performance, 2019) graduate, and a member of the Australian Production Design Guild.

Keerthi has designed set and costumes for Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, Chewing Gum Dreams at the Old Fitz, Chop Chef at Riverside Theatres, and designed the costumes and was a set realiser on Belvoir’s At What Cost.

Keerthi has been an associate designer on a wide range of theatre shows including Sydney Theatre Company’s Grand Horizons, Belvoir’s Jungle and the Sea, Wayside Bride, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Boomkak Panto, Cursed!, and Hayes Theatre Co’s Young Frankenstein. 

Keerthi has also worked as a props supervisor on Belvoir’s Into the Woods and Blessed Union. 

Keerthi’s film credits include working as a design assistant on Operation Buffalo, as production & costume designer on various short films and music videos and most recently as an art director on SBS’s mini series Appetite.  Keerthi is one of Belvoir’s Artistic Associates. She is currently working across theatre and art installation. 

Chloe Ogilvie

Chloe Ogilvie is a Yamatji Nanda woman from Western Australia, where she graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts Specializing in Lighting Design.  Chloe works mostly as a designer but has crossed over into other areas such as Production Management and Event Coordination. Chloe has been a resident Artist with Black Swan for three years and is currently co curating the Maali Festival. Chloe Ogilvie is also a member of the arts collective The Farm where she has designed and production managed a range of shows including Throttle, Cockfight (Drover Award Winner), Ninth Wave, Tide (Helpmann Award Winner) and Depthless. Other highlights of hers include, Spinifex Gum (LD/ALD), Bungul (ALD), The Visitors (LD), Winyan Boga Yurringa (Belvoir, ALD), Fever and The Fret (Yirra Yaakin, LD), Bayala (Sydney Festival, Event Coordinator) and Toast (Maiden Voyage Theater Company, LD).

Kelsey Lee

Kelsey is a lighting, set and costume designer for theatre, dance and events. Previously for Belvoir she was the Lighting Designer for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, A Room of One’s Own; and Associate Lighting Designer for Blue, At What Cost?. Other credits include Lighting Designer: Mutiara (Marrugeku); Gurr Era Op (Force Majeure); The Lewis Trilogy; Sex Magick; Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre Company), The Comedy Of Errors (Bell Shakespeare); Tell Me On A Sunday (Hayes Theatre); Masterclass; The Memory of Water; A Letter For Molly (Ensemble Theatre); Queen Fatima (NToP); Jali (Aya Productions, Griffin Theatre Company); Extinction of the Learned Response, Skyduck, Kasama Kita (Belvoir 25A); April Aardvark (ATYP); Good Dog; If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You (Greendoor Theatre Company). Set & Costume Designer Somos (Sydney Dance Company). Set Designer: Nothing; A Practical Guide To Self Defence (NTofP). Costume Designer: Silence and Rapture (Sydney Dance Company & ACO), Switzerland (Ensemble Theatre). Co-production Designer & Lighting Designer: Destroy, She Said (Belvoir’s 25A). Set & Lighting Designer: An Ox Stand On My Tongue (Belvoir 25A). Lighting, Set & Costume: Lulu: A Modern Sex Tragedy (NIDA), Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (ACO). Associate Lighting Designer Cut The Sky (Marrugeku). 

Brendon Boney

Belvoir St Theatre: At What Cost?, Winyanboga YurringaOther Theatre: As Composer & Sound Design: The Visitors (Sydney Theatre Company), Fences (Sydney Theatre Company), A Raisin in the Sun (Sydney Theatre Company), Riverside’s NToP: Choir Boy, Bangarra Dance Theatre: Dance Clan, Dubboo (Assistant), Illbijerri Theatre: Black Ties, Ensemble Theatre: A Letter For Molly, Hothouse Theatre: Unprecedented As Associate Composer/Sound Design: The Tempest, The Seven Stages of Grieving, Other Theatre: As Actor/Performer: Bangarra Dance Theatre: Wudjang: Not the Past, Baleen Moondjan: Adelaide Festival (Stephen Page) Film: As Lead Character Singing Voice: Bran New Dae (2009) TV: As Composer/ Musical Contributor: Gods of Wheat Street (ABC1), Offspring (Network 10), Winners & Losers (Seven Network), Underbelly Chopper (The Nine Network) Radio/Music: As Recording Artist/Writer Played on triple j, fbi radio, ABC radio, community radio nationwide, 150 000+ streams across platforms Spotify & Apple Music Music: As Performer: Bluesfest Byron Bay, Woodford Folk Festival, Sydney Festival, Adelaide Fringe festival, Brisbane Festival, Friendship Festival (Seoul, Sth Korea), The Aussie BBQ (UK) Awards: APRA Professional Development Award.

David Bergman

David is a video, music and sound designer for theatre, dance, opera, installation, and film.

Theatre credits include: composer and sound designer for Scenes from the Climate Era, sound designer for Into the Woods, video designer for Blue, co-sound designer for Packer and Sons (Belvoir); video designer for Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray, sound designer for Playing Beatie Bow, video and sound designer for A Cheery Soul and The Wharf Revue from 2009-2018 and video designer for Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical, The Hanging, The Effect, and The Long Way Home (Sydney Theatre Company); video and sound designer for The Gospel According to Paul (STCSA/Soft Tread); sound designer for The Lovers (Bell Shakespeare); video designer for Sandsong, Knowledge Ground and Spirited (Bangarra Dance Theatre); video designer for Breaking Glass (Sydney Chamber Opera); composer and sound designer for Superheroes, composer, video and sound designer for First Love is the Revolution and sound designer for Green Park (Griffin Theatre Company); sound designer for RENT (Sydney Opera House), sound designer for Dubbo Championship Wrestling, The Rise and Disguise Of Elizabeth R., Catch Me If You Can, and sound and video designer for Merrily We Roll Along (Hayes Theatre Co); video designer for Possum Magic and The Peasant Prince, and sound designer for Josephine Wants to Dance (Monkey Baa Theatre Company); composition, sound and video designer for Museum of Modern Love and Made To Measure (Seymour Centre); and sound designer for Spring Awakening (ATYP). 

David is a National Institute of Dramatic Art graduate and teaches at NIDA.  

Peter Matheson

Since becoming a freelance dramaturg in 2002, Peter Matheson has assessed scripts and/or worked dramaturgically with most of the major mainstage (as well as many smaller) theatre companies and all the assessment agencies in Australia. He has taught playwrighting, handled residencies, facilitated development programs and tutored in organizations from tertiary institutions through to enthusiastic amateurs.

His recent work has been with Mudlark, TasPerforms, Playlab’s Incubator series, Blue Cow’s Cowshed program, and Yirra Yaakin Theatre in Perth.

Nigel Poulton

Nigel is an award-winning fight, movement, and intimacy director, SAG-AFTRA stunt performer and actor with over 17 years of national and international experience. He is a Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors.

Belvoir credits include: THE SPARE ROOM, THE WRONG GODS, BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY,  THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, NEVER CLOSER, HOLDING THE MAN, COUNTING AND CRACKING, THE REP SEASON, THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, INTO THE WOODS, THE JUNGLE AND THE SEA, LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, WAYSIDE BRIDE, AT WHAT COST, CHERRY ORCHARD, MISS PEONY, MY BRILLIANT CAREER, CURSED!, PACKER AND SONS, THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE, COUNTING AND CRACKING, DANCE OF DEATH, SAMI IN PARADISE, THE SUGAR HOUSE, A TASTE OF HONEY, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, PRIZEFIGHTER.

Other credits include: for Sydney Theatre Company, OIL, THE VISITORS, CONSTELLATIONS, ON THE BEACH, DO NOT GO GENTLE, FENCES, HUBRIS AND HUMILIATION, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE, TOP COAT, THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL, GRAND HORIZONS, APPROPRIATE, PLAYING BEATIE BOW, RULES FOR LIVING, THE DEEP BLUE SEA, LORD OF THE FLIES, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, HOW TO RULE THE WORLD, MARY STUART, DINNER, THE HARP IN THE SOUTH PART ONE AND PART TWO, THE LONG FORGOTTEN DREAM, BLACKIE BLACKIE BROWN (WITH MALTHOUSE), ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST, THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI, SAINT JOAN, SPEED THE PLOW, THREE SISTERS, DINNER, MURIEL’S WEDDING THE MUSICAL, BLACK IS THE NEW WHITE, A CHEERY SOUL, THE GOLDEN AGE, THE PRESENT, SWITZERLAND, MACBETH, NOISES OFF, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, THE REMOVALISTS, ROMEO & JULIET, ROMEO & JULIET (EDUCATION); for Melbourne Theatre Company, THE REMOVALISTS, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, BERNHARDT/HAMLET, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, TWELFTH NIGHT, NOISES OFF, THREE LITTLE WORDS, JASPER JONES, QUEEN LEAR, HAMLET, REALISM, DON JUAN IN SOHO, MACBETH, THE GLASS SOLDIER, CYRANO DE BERGERAC; for Queensland Theatre, GASLIGHT, FIRST CASUALTY, BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE, TRIPLE X (WITH SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY), CITY OF GOLD (WITH GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY), SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, HYDRA, BLACK IS THE NEW WHITE, NOISES OFF! (WITH MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY), JASPER JONES, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, SWITZERLAND, MACBETH, FRACTIONS; for Bell Shakespeare, CORIOLANUS, IN A NUTSHELL: THE POETRY OF VIOLENCE, IN THE ROUND, KING LEAR, ROMEO AND JULIET (X4), HAMLET (X4), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (X3), TWELFTH NIGHT, (X2), THE LOVERS, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE MISER, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, RICHARD III, OTHELLO, THE DREAM, MACBETH, JULIUS CAESAR; AS YOU LIKE IT (X2), SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS; La Boite: ARTISTS COMPANY (2021-22), CLOSER, TIDDAS, IRL, CAPRICORN, MISS PEONY, THE POISON OF POLYGAMY, AN IDEAL HUSBAND, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, JULIUS CAESAR, ROMEO AND JULIET, BLACKROCK, PRIZEFIGHTER, RICHARD III, COSI, A HOAX, JULIUS CEASAR, HAMLET.

Ren Kenward

Natalie Moir

Natalie is a graduate of WAAPA. Belvoir: CURSED!; The Dance of Death; Mr Burns(with STCSA); The Events (with STCSA & Malthouse Theatre); Ruby’s Wish. Sydney Theatre Company: The Testament of Mary; The Father (with MTC); Lethal Indifference; Saint Joan; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Mosquitoes, Lord Of The Flies; Black Is The New White (2019 Tour). Griffin Theatre: Gloria. Ensemble Theatre: Black Cockatoo. Melbourne Theatre Company: The Beast; Top Girls; The Swimming Club (with BSSTC). Malthouse Theatre: Furious Mattress. Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Clean House (with QTC); The Glass Menagerie; Much Ado About Nothing; The Dark Room; Portraits of Modern Evil. Yirri Yaakin Theatre Company: Waltzing the Wilarra; Honey Spot. Barking Gecko Theatre Company: This Girl Laughs; This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing; Onefivezerseven. Other: Yes Prime Minister (Australian Tour); Commonwealth Games 2018 (Great Big Events). Music Theatre: Dirty Dancing (Australian Tour); The King & I (Australian Tour); Jersey Boys (Australian Tour); Strange Bedfellows (Instinct Entertainment); Anything Goes; Kismet; Sugar; The Boy from Oz; The King & I; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; The Boy Friend; Crazy For You (The Production Company).

Jen Jackson

Jen Jackson is a Korean-Australian stage manager, living and working on Gadigal land, with a particular passion for new Australian work and a commitment to diversity in theatre. After attending UNSW in a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Theatre & Performance, she continued her studies at NIDA with a degree in Technical Theatre & Stage Management.

As Stage Manager: Lose To Win (Belvoir), Koreaboo, Golden Blood黄金血液, Pony, End Of. (Griffin Theatre Company), How To Plot A Hit In Two Days, Master Class (Ensemble Theatre), Lost in Shanghai, The Bridal Lament, Double Delicious (Contemporary Asian Australian Performance), Nothing (National Theatre of Parramatta). As Assistant Stage Manager: Song of First Desire, At What Cost (Belvoir), Rinaldo (Pinchgut Opera).

Brooke Kiss

For Belvoir, Brooke has worked as an Assistant Stage Manager (ASM) on Barbara and the Camp Dogs 2019 Tour, Stage Manager on Bliss, ASM on Sami In Paradise, rehearsal Stage Manager on Barbara and the Camp Dogs and ASM cover on Mr Burns.

Brooke’s previous roles for other theatre companies include the following For Sydney Theatre Company; ASM on Playing Beatie Bow, Rules for Living, Banging Denmark, Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Testament of Mary. For Force Majeure; Stage Manager on The Last Season and You Animal, You. For Ensemble Theatre; Stage Manager on Crunch Time and Fully Committed. For Froudist & Cubby House Co Production Stage Manager on Ruby’s Wish (2018 Tour). Brooke graduated from NIDA’s Technical Theatre and Stage Management Course In 2016