A Room With A View

E. M. Forster

Grace Chapple

Grace Chapple is a playwright and screenwriter based on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia.

Grace completed her MFA in Writing for Performance at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 2020. Her major work, NEVER CLOSER, was produced as part of Belvoir St Theatre’s 25A program in 2022, for which it received an AWGIE nomination for Best Stage Play (Original). The production will be remounted for Belvoir’s mainstage season in May 2024. NEVER CLOSER has also been shortlisted for the Griffin Award, the Rodney Seaborn Award, the Shane & Catherine Brennan Playwriting Award, and longlisted for Theatre503’s International Playwriting Award.

In 2023 Grace was selected to participate in Sydney Theatre Company’s Watershed: Writers group, a professional development program for emerging playwrights. In 2022, she was a participant in the AWG’s First Break program for emerging screenwriters. Grace is currently represented by HLA Management.

Hannah Goodwin

Hannah Goodwin (she/her) is a director who lives and works on Gadigal land. She is currently Resident Director at Belvoir Street Theatre. Her work includes Wayside Bride by Alana Valentine (Belvoir), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill (Belvoir), The Sorry Mum Project by Pippa Ellams (National Theatre of Parramatta, Bondi Feast), A Girl in School Uniform (Walks into a Bar) by Lulu Raczka (Kings Cross Theatre), and The Carousel by Pippa Ellams (Shopfront Arts Co-op, Downstairs Belvoir, Merrigong X, Kings Cross Theatre). As assistant director: Black Brass by Mararo Wangai (Belvoir), Stop Girl by Sally Sara (Belvoir), My Brilliant Career by Kendall Feaver (Belvoir), Packer and Sons by Tommy Murphy (Belvoir), and Love by Patricia Cornelius (Darlinghurst Theatre Company).

Hannah was the 2020-2022 Andrew Cameron Fellow at Belvoir and the 2019 recipient of the ATYP Rose Byrne Leadership Scholarship.

Tom Conroy

For Belvoir, Tom’s credits include Holding the Man, The Master and Margarita, Tell Me I’m Here, My Brilliant Career, Ghosts, Jasper Jones, Mortido, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Small and Tired. Tom’s other theatre credits include 1984, Hay Fever, Spring Awakening (Sydney Theatre Company); The Mousetrap (John Frost/Crossroads Live national tour); The Wider Earth (Queensland Theatre Company/Sydney Festival and 2022 Tour); Cock (Melbourne Theatre Company/La Boite); Romeo and Juliet (State Theatre Company of South Australia); Moth (Malthouse Theatre/Arena Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet (Bell Shakespeare); Land & Sea (Brink Productions).

His screen work includes Bump on Stan and Hamlet for Bell Shakespeare/ABC Splash Content.

Tom’s performance in Something Natural But Very Childish (La Mama) garnered him a Green Room Award for Best Male Performer in Independent Theatre. He is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts.

Tomáš Kantor

Tomáš (they/he) is a Melbourne-based actor performing across music theatre, cabaret, stage and screen.

They trained at RADA before completing their Bachelor of Fine Arts at the VCA in 2019, starring as ‘Gabey’ in their graduating production of On The Town (VCA). In 2021, Tomáš made their professional debut in FANGIRLS (Belvoir) and went on that year to perform as ‘Chino’ in the national tour of West Side Story (Opera Australia/GWB). Further recent credits include Brigadoon (Neglected Musicals/Hayes), Meow Meow’s Pandemonium (MSO/Arts Centre), Next to Normal (James Terry Collective), The Gruffalo (CDP), and Morning Melodies 2018 & 2019 (Arts Centre).

Tomáš is ecstatic to return to FANGIRLS for its Sydney Opera House season with this glorious cast. Catch them next back at the Opera House understudying Lysander and Demetrius in The Lovers (Bell Shakespeare). 

Tomáš is proudly represented by the superstar team at Ian White Management.

Hayley McElhinney

Nathalie Morris

Bert LaBonté

One of Australia’s leading men, Bert LaBonté recently captivated audiences as Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Other musical theatre credits include: The Book of Mormon (Watchtower Productions), Helpmann Award Winner An Officer and a Gentleman (Gordon Frost Organisation), Chess (The Production Company), Grey Gardens (The Production Company), and others. His Melbourne Theatre Company credits include: The Truth, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Lungs, Rupert, Birdland, The Mountaintop, Elling and others. For Sydney Theatre Company, he has performed in Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, All My Sons, The Grenade and Spelling Bee, and his Malthouse Theatre credits include: Cloudstreet, I am A Miracle, Time Share. 

Screen credits include Colin From Accounts (Binge), Erotic Stories (SBS), Five Bedrooms (Networks Ten), Pieces of Her (Netflix), Lie With Me (Fremantle), FISK (ABC), The Newsreader (ABC), Surviving Summer (Netflix/Werner Film Productions), More Than This (Baby Banksia), Jack Irish (ABC), Wentworth (Foxtel), Playing for Keeps (Network Ten), Upper Middle Bogan (ABC), Tomorrow When The War Began (ABC), Lowdown (ABC), Wilfred (ABC), The Let Down (ABC/Netflix), and Squinters (SBS). Film credits including Animal Kingdom (Porchlight Films) and The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (Kathy Morgan International).  Bert had also just made is Directorial debut with Melbourne Theatre Company’s Topdog Underdog.

Zoë Atkinson

Zoë Atkinson studied Scenography at The Prague Academy of The Performing Arts, The International Institute of Figurative Theatre (Czech Republic), and at the Institute International de la Marionette in France, under Josef Svoboda. Since returning to Australia in 1997 she has designed for theatre, dance, puppetry, opera and museums. Most recent works include Cloudstreet and The Return (Malthouse Theatre), Perth International Arts Festival’s The Museum of Water with English Artist Amy Sharrocks, Ghost in My Suitcase (Barking Gecko Theatre), Xenides: the Musical, The Chery Orchard and York (Black Swan State Theatre Company), Hecate (Yirra Yaakin Theatre). Zoe was Artistic Associate and Designer for PIAF’s 2017 opening event Booma Waanginy which was presented again in 2019.

Amelia Lever-Davidson

Amelia Lever-Davidson is an award-winning lighting designer for theatre, dance, live art, installation and events. Belvoir credits: BLESSED UNION, MY BRILLIANT CAREER, EVERY BRILLIANT THING. Other credits include: for Sydney Theatre Company: THE SEAGULL, JULIUS CEASAR; for Melbourne Theatre Company: THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES, MEET ME AT DAWN, BLOOM, BERNHARDT/HAMLET, GIRLS & BOYS, SLAP. BANG. KISS, ADMISSIONS, TORCH THE PLACE, THE VIOLENT OUTBURST THAT DREW ME TO YOU; for Malthouse Theatre: MACBETH, AN UNDOING, HOUR OF THE WOLF, K-BOX, BECAUSE THE NIGHT, AUSTRALIAN REALNESS, TRUSTEES, TURBINE; for Chunky Move: NEXT MOVE 11; for Circa: LEVIATHAN; for Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy: HYDRA, MORAL PANIC, CONTEST, NICHE, CONVICTION, DREAM HOME; for Belvoir 25A: THEY DIVIDED THE SKY; for fortyfivedownstairs: LOOKING GLASS, TRIUMPH; for Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre: YOUR NAME MEANS DREAM, MONUMENT, A SIMPLE ACT OF KINDNESS, DESERT 6.29PM, JURASSICA AND FOXFINDER; for Sydney Chamber Opera: GILGAMESH.

Awards: Green Room Awards: 2020 Best Visual Design for DIASPORA, 2018 best Light Design for CONTEST, 2017 best lighting design for LOOKING GLASS, 2015 Body of Work. Australia Council ArtStart and JUMP Mentorship recipient.

Grace Ferguson

Madeleine Picard

Madeleine is a sound designer & composer working on Gadigal land. Combining her backgrounds in technical theatre and music, she is interested in storytelling through sound and in being part of the creation of new Australian theatrical works. Recent select credits include: The Weekend (Belvoir); Life is a Dream, The Edit, Hot Tub, Shitty (Belvoir 25A); Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare); Dial M for Murder, Emerald City (Ensemble); Amber, All the Fraudulent Horse Girls (Old Fitz); Scab (ATYP). She has also recently worked as associate sound designer and/or realiser for a number of productions including The Wrong Gods, Song of First Desire (Belvoir); The Talented Mr Ripley, Julia (Sydney Theatre Company); Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin); and Ride the Cyclone (Hayes). She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Theatre and Stage Management) from NIDA.

Hailley Hunt

Hailley is an emerging Set and Costume Designer, whose credits include: Set and Costume Designer for Forgetting Tim Minchin (2023) (Nominated for APDG Emerging Designer Award), Aurat Raj (2024) and Feminazi (2023), and Set Designer for Shitty (2024), for Belvoir’s 25A program.

Outside of Belvoir, she has Set and Costume Designed for Amber (2025), Sitting, Screaming (2024), Anomalies (2024), The Changelings (2024), Scab (2024) and How to Win a Plebiscite (and Tennis) (2022).

She has also Set Designed for Catch Me if You Can (2025) at Newington College, Picnic at Hanging Rock (2022) at NIDA, and Associate Set Designed for The Hello Girls (2024). 

Elle Evangelista

Elle Evangelista loves dancing. Her BELVOIR choreography credits include Big Girls Don’t Cry, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Holding the Man, The Master and Margarita, The Cherry Orchard, The Boomkak Panto, The Rep Season and Furious Mattress (25a). Her other theatre choreography credits include Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare), A Very Expensive Poison (NIDA) and How To Catch A Star (Australian Chamber Orchestra).

As a dancer she has worked for Force Majeure, KAGE Physical Theatre, Opera Australia and she has been awarded residencies to create new work by Ausdance NSW, DirtyFeet, Critical Path, March Dance, Brand X and Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance. From 2019 – 2021, Elle was an Artist Representative on the Board of Critical Path and in 2022 a Belvoir Artistic Associate.

Elle has a Bachelor of Arts in English from UWA and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from WAAPA. She was raised on Boorloo/Perth by her Filipino and Burmese family and currently lives on Garigal Land in Sydney with her partner and their young son.

Laura Farrell

Laura Farrell (she/her) is a Voice and Dialect Coach living and working on Gadigal land. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Voice from NIDA; a Post Graduate Diploma in Voice from the Victorian College of the Arts; and a Bachelor of Music Theatre from the Victorian College of the Arts. A current lecturer for NIDA’s BFA, Laura has also taught on multiple Sydney actor training programs, including NIDA’s Diploma of Stage and Screen and Diploma of Music Theatre, Actors Pulse, Sydney Acting Studio, Actors Centre Australia and The University of Wollongong.

For Belvoir, Laura’s coaching credits include Counting and Cracking directed by Eamon Flack (2024), Never Closer directed by Hannah Goodwin (2024), Lose to Win directed by Jess Arthur (2024), Holding the Man directed by Eamon Flack (2024), At What Cost? directed by Isaac Drandic, Miss Peony directed by Courtney Stewart (2023), The Master & Margarita, Into The Woods, directed by Eamon Flack (2023), Blue, directed by Deborah Brown (2023), The Jungle And The Sea, directed by Eamon Flack (2022), Tell Me I’m Here, directed by Leticia Caceres (2022), Fangirls, directed by Paige Rattray (2022) and Counting And Cracking, directed by Eamon Flack (2022).  

Other credits include Pear Shaped, directed by Miranda Middleton (Rogue Projects, 2023), F*** It Bucket, directed by Alyssa McClelland (LeftBank Productions UK, 2022),  Reluctant Sea Shanty for UNHCR, directed by Kyra Bartley (FINCH, 2022), Picnic At Hanging Rock, directed by Claudia Osbourne (NIDA, 2022), Paper Stars, directed by Miranda Middleton (Salty Theatre, 2021) and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., directed by Heather Fairbairn (NIDA, Sydney 2021).  

Mehhma Malhi

Mehhma Malhi is an up-and-coming director. She has experience in philosophy, bioethics, and journalism and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Politics from New York University and a Master of Science in Bioethics from Columbia University.  

At NIDA she held the Animal Logic Entertainment scholarship. Her directorial work includes Ephemera By Anchuli Felicia King ‘23, Poof! By Lynn Nottage (Actors Centre Australia and NIDA ‘23), Dragonfly – Peach Fur Music Video (Triple J ‘24),  ALL BOYS by Xavier Hazard (KXT Storytellers Festival), The Mountain Remembers by Daley Rangi (Lysicrates Prize ‘24), Kufa the Hero by James Elazzi (Martin Lysicrates ‘24), ALL BOYS (KXT -Full Season ‘24), Amber by Nikita Waldron (Old Fitz ‘25), Fitz Happens by Melanie Tait, Mary Rachel Brown, Louis Nowra, Kate Mulvany, and Nicholas Brown (Old Fitz ‘25) and she acted as assistant director for Jessica Arthur in Kindness by Matthew Whittet.  

ALL BOYS (KXT – full season 2024) was nominated for best ensemble at the STA awards, and Mehhma won for best emerging director at the 2025 KXT awards. Dragonfly won Best Music Video in the Prague Music Awards, Best Director in the LA Music Awards, and was officially selected in the 2024 London Music Video Festival.

In between directing, Mehhma undertakes producing, note-taking, director’s attachments, and production roles for film and theatre companies across Sydney.

She is currently in development for two tv shows  with Screen Australia and is a director’s attach on a STAN documentary. Further she is Belvoir St Theatre’s Andrew Cameron Fellow. 

Mehhma is passionate about sharing everyday stories that often go unheard, inspiring empathy through the narratives she presents, and bringing ethical dilemmas to the forefront. Mehhma hopes her work will draw together all elements of community and excite audiences who otherwise would not engage with the theatre.