Dear Son

Thomas Mayo

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.

At What Cost? is Isaac’s fourth collaboration with playwright Nathan Maynard after directing critically acclaimed productions Hide the Dog, The Season (Maynard’s first play) and most recently 37 at the Victorian College of the Arts.

He is a recipient of the Victorian Indigenous Performing Arts Award (VIPAA) – Uncle Jack Charles Award. His productions have earned numerous Green Room Awards including Blood on the Dance Floor which won Most Outstanding Independent Theatre Production and The Season, which won Best New Writing, an individual award for Best Direction, and the coveted award for Best Production in the Theatre Companies category. His highly acclaimed production, City of Gold won several Sydney Theatre Awards including a nomination for Best New Australian Work.

Isaac has held the positions of Associate Director of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Resident Artist at Playwriting Australia, and Resident Dramaturg at Queensland Theatre among others. He is a member of Queensland Theatre’s Indigenous Reference Group, Australian Plays Transforms National Advisory Panel and is currently Associate Artist at Queensland Theatre.

John Harvey

Jimi Bani

Waangenga Blanco

Trevor Jamieson

Kirk Page

Aaron Pedersen

Tibian Wyles

Kevin O’Brien

Delvene Cockatoo-Collins

David Walters

Craig Wilkinson

Craig Wilkinson is an award-winning live performance video designer and the creative director of optikal bloc. His video design work has toured extensively across Australia and internationally to Hong Kong, UK, North America, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.

Video design credits include: GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS (Belvoir St Theatre); DRACULA (Sydney Theatre Company); LOVE STORIES, BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE (Brisbane Festival, QPAC); ROUND THE TWIST, DEAR SON (with State Theatre Company of South Australia), FIRST CASUALTY, THE MOUNTAINTOP, GASP! (Queensland Theatre); ILLUME (Bangarra); CINDERELLA, THE LITTLE MERMAID, MY BRILLIANT CAREER (Queensland Ballet); FRANKENSTEIN, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, ROALD DAHL’S FANTASTIC MR FOX, FOURTHCOMING, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, GREEN DAY’S AMERICAN IDIOT, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, 1984 (Shake & Stir Theatre Co); SHAUN THE SHEEP’S CIRCUS SHOW (Circa, QPAC); ANNIE, GREASE THE MUSICAL (Crossroads Live).

Awards: Australian Production Design Guild Award – Video Design for a Live Performance or Event for BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE, AVOIDABLE PERILS, and FIRST CASUALTY; Matilda Award – Video Design for BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE, ROALD DAHL’S FANTASTIC MR FOX and A CHRISTMAS CAROL; Matilda Award ─ Gold Matilda, Body of Work PALE BLUE DOT, THE MOUNTAINTOP, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, GASP!, 1984; Adelaide Fringe’s John Chataway Innovation Award TERROR AUSTRALIS.

Wil Hughes

Wil’s credits as a composer, songwriter and sound designer for theatre have ranged from contemporary ballet to musicals, and include Blue (Belvoir St); Tiddas, Single Asian Female, The Dead Devils of Cockle Creek, The Village, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Wind in the Willows (La Boite Theatre Company); Face to Face (Playlab); Lucie In The Sky, Arc, Still Life (Australasian Dance Collective); Propel (Expressions Dance Company); Mind Your Head, From Within, Sonder, B- Sides (Queensland Ballet); Kill Climate Deniers (That Production Company); Elizabeth I (Monsters Appear/Wonderland Festival); Rice, The Scene Project 2018 (Queensland Theatre); Day After Terrible Day, We Will Not Kiss/ Touch/Frighten You in the Dark, Caligula (The Danger Ensemble); The Theory of Everything (Brisbane Festival/Metro Arts); Dust Covered Butterfly (Metro Arts); and Sweet Meniscus (Anywhere Theatre Festival). Wil is also an internationally acclaimed composer for film, television and other media, awarded Composer of the Year in 2018 by the California Independent Film Festival and most recently winning Best Music for a Short Film at the 2022 Australian Screen Music Awards.

Waangenga Blanco

Eben Love

Patrick Mau

Tibian Wyles

Liam Maza

Marcus Oborn