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Sheridan Harbridge

Sheridan is an actor, playwright, singer and comedienne, graduating from NIDA in 2006. She penned the musical Songs for the Fallen, which won Best Musical and Outstanding Actress at the New York Music Theatre Festival in 2015, and has toured in Sydney and Brisbane Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne, and New Zealand major arts festivals. In 2016, she was a member of the Griffin Studio, which culminated in her developing and directing Nosferatutu, or Bleeding at the Ballet as part of the Griffin Independent Season.

She collaborated with UK cult band The Tiger Lillies on Cockatoo Island for the Biennale of Sydney, and appeared with John Cleese in the Just for Laughs Festival, Sydney Opera House. Her theatre credits include The Sugar House, Girl Asleep, The Dog/The Cat (Belvoir St Theatre), Queen Fatima (Sydney Festival), Prima Facie(Griffin Theatre Company), Frida Lyngstad in Muriel’s Wedding the Musical (Sydney Theatre Company) North by Northwest, The Beast,and The Speechmaker (Melbourne Theatre Company), Gaybies(Darlinghurst Theatre), Kill Climate Deniers, Jump for Jordan(Griffin Theatre Company), 80 Minutes No Interval (Old Fitz), Hip Bone Sticking Out, Blue Angel (Big hArt), Detective’s Handbook, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Hayes Theatre) Fiddler on the Roof, Carmen and My Fair Lady (Opera Australia), An Officer & a Gentleman (GFO), I Love The Frog (Arts Centre Melbourne)

She played Valerie Solanas and Judy Garland in Jim Sharman’s online film Andy X. TV credits include Rake, All Saints and Wild Boys, Doctor Blake Murder Mysteries, and The Justine Clarke Show.

Sarah Goodes

Sarah commenced 2023 with a sell-out production of SUNDAY by Anthony Weigh, opening the season for the Melbourne Theatre Company starring Nikki Shiels. She also directed the recent production of Virginia Gay’s CYRANO for the MTC which toured to the Perth Festival, and STC’s critically acclaimed production of Joanna Murray-Smith’s new play JULIA which sold out Sydney and Canberra seasons.

From 2012 – 2016 Sarah was the Resident Director at the Sydney Theatre Company and from 2016 – 2020 she was the Associate Artistic Director at the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Sarah directed the world premiere of SWITZERLAND by Joanna Murray-Smith for STC in 2014 which was nominated for many awards including a Helpmann for Best Direction. In 2018 her production of THE CHILDREN won three Helpmann Awards including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Production. Her production of GOLDEN SHIELD by Anchuli Felicia King was nominated for 7 Greenroom Awards winning for Best Design.

For Belvoir Sarah has directed THE SUGAR HOUSE; THE SWEETEST THING; THE SMALL THINGS; ELLING and BLACK MILK (B Sharp Belvoir). At Melbourne Theatre Company, Sarah’s work includes: SUNDAY; CYRANO; THE SOUND INSIDE; HOME, I’M DARLING; COSI (with the Sydney Theatre Company); GOLDEN SHIELD; ARBUS & WEST; ASTROMAN; A DOLL’S HOUSE: PART 2; THE CHILDREN (with Sydney Theatre Company); THREE LITTLE WORDS and JOHN. As Resident Director at Sydney Theatre Company Sarah directed THE HANGING; DISGRACED; ORLANDO; BATTLE OF WATERLOO; SWITZERLAND; THE EFFECT; VERE (FAITH); THE SPLINTER and EDWARD GANT’S AMAZING FEATS OF LONELINESS. Sarah’s other directing credits include GRACE (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); VERTIGO AND THE VIRGINIA, THE SHELLING POINT; HILT and WHAT HAPPENED WAS… (Old Fitzroy Theatre). SCORCED at NIDA and EARTHQUAKES in London at VCA.

In 2014 Sarah was the recipient of the Gloria Payten Fellowship. She studied English Literature and Theatre at the University of NSW and the University of California San Diego and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Theatre Directing from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Sarah will next direct SWITZERLAND at the Auckland Theatre Company. She is currently enrolled in Masters of Screen Business at ATFRS.

Glenn Moorhouse

Ben Cripps

Sheridan Harbridge

Sheridan is an actor, playwright, singer and comedienne, graduating from NIDA in 2006. She penned the musical Songs for the Fallen, which won Best Musical and Outstanding Actress at the New York Music Theatre Festival in 2015, and has toured in Sydney and Brisbane Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne, and New Zealand major arts festivals. In 2016, she was a member of the Griffin Studio, which culminated in her developing and directing Nosferatutu, or Bleeding at the Ballet as part of the Griffin Independent Season.

She collaborated with UK cult band The Tiger Lillies on Cockatoo Island for the Biennale of Sydney, and appeared with John Cleese in the Just for Laughs Festival, Sydney Opera House. Her theatre credits include The Sugar House, Girl Asleep, The Dog/The Cat (Belvoir St Theatre), Queen Fatima (Sydney Festival), Prima Facie(Griffin Theatre Company), Frida Lyngstad in Muriel’s Wedding the Musical (Sydney Theatre Company) North by Northwest, The Beast,and The Speechmaker (Melbourne Theatre Company), Gaybies(Darlinghurst Theatre), Kill Climate Deniers, Jump for Jordan(Griffin Theatre Company), 80 Minutes No Interval (Old Fitz), Hip Bone Sticking Out, Blue Angel (Big hArt), Detective’s Handbook, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Hayes Theatre) Fiddler on the Roof, Carmen and My Fair Lady (Opera Australia), An Officer & a Gentleman (GFO), I Love The Frog (Arts Centre Melbourne)

She played Valerie Solanas and Judy Garland in Jim Sharman’s online film Andy X. TV credits include Rake, All Saints and Wild Boys, Doctor Blake Murder Mysteries, and The Justine Clarke Show.

Dave Hatch

Clarabell Limonata

Glenn Moorhouse

Paul Jackson

Paul is a multi-award-winning designer who has worked with Australia’s leading arts organisations and internationally. For Belvoir, credits include Life of Galileo, Seventeen, Nora, Oedipus Rex, Happy Days, It Just Stopped. Other work includes: Solaris, Cloud Street, Blasted, Melancholia, Bliss (with Belvoir), The Testament of Mary, The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man, Black Rider, Away, I am a Miracle, Blaque Showgirls, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid, Edward II, Night on Bald Mountain, Antigone, Timeshare, Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday, Little Match Girl, Die Winterreise, The Threepenny Opera, Vamp, The Tell–Tale Heart, Sleeping Beauty (also co-creator), The Odyssey (Malthouse Theatre); Love and Information, The Histrionic, The Trial (Sydney Theatre Company/Malthouse); The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Mary Stuart, True West, The Mysteries: Genesis (Sydney Theatre Company); The Merchant of Venice, Othello, As You Like It, Phedre, Tartuffe, Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare); Home, I’m Darling, Arbus and West, Gloria, Three Little Words, Hay Fever, Di, Viv and Rose, Private Lives, Miss Julie, Endgame, Ghosts, The Crucible (Melbourne Theatre Company); Echo and Narcissus, Cassandra, Lorelei (Victorian Opera). He has won a Helpmann Award, seven Green Room Awards, two Sydney Theatre Award and three APDG awards. He is both a Churchill and an Australia Council Fellow. Paul has lectured in design and associated studies at the University of Melbourne, RMIT and VCA.

Michael Hankin

Michael is a NIDA trained Set and Costume Designer for theatre, dance, opera and film. His credits for Belvoir include Hir, Ghosts, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, The Sugar House, Jasper Jones, My Urrwai, The Great Fire, Ivanov and The Glass Menagerie, Twelfth Night, The Dark Room, A Christmas Carol, Angels in America, The Boomkak Panto and Rep Season. 

Michael’s other theatre credits include designs for Ireland’s entry to Eurovison; Bourgeois and Maurice’s musical Insane Animals (Manchester’s Home Theatre, UK);  Memorial (Barbican Centre/Adelaide Festival/Brisbane Festival/Brink productions);  The Aspirations of Daise Morrow (Adelaide, Edinburgh Festival, Brink Productions); Three Little Words (Melbourne Theatre Company), Jumpy (Melbourne Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company); The Merchant of Venice, Othello  and As You Like It (Bell Shakespeare); Ich Nibber Dibber (Sydney Festival/Campbelltown Arts Centre); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Theatre Royal); 247 Days (Chunky Move/Malthouse /Netherlands tour); Tartuffe (State Theatre Company South Australia); Golden Blood (Griffin);  Ugly Mugs (Malthouse/Griffin); Songs for the Fallen (Sydney Festival/New York Music Theatre Festival); Lake Disappointment (Carriageworks); You Animal You and Flock (Force Majeure); Fool for Love (Company B); Miracle City (Hayes Theatre); The Boat People (TRS/The Hayloft Project); The Lighthouse, In The Penal Colony (Sydney Chamber Opera); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Liberty Equality Fraternity, Great Falls (Ensemble); The Hypochondriac, Deathtrap, Miss Julie, The Paris Letter, Macbeth (Darlinghurst Theatre); The Peasant Prince (Monkey Baa); Rust and Bone, The Ugly One (Griffin). Film projects include Weapons Designer and Co-Ordinator for Three Thousand Years of Longing, Production Designer for National Geographic’s Limitless,  ChallengeDesigner for Survivor Australia (S6), Production/Costume Designer for short films Julian and The Amber Amulet (both winners of the Crystal Bear, Berlin International Film Festival). Michael has been nominated for a number of Sydney Theatre Awards, winning Best Stage Design for Hir in 2018,  BestIndependent Stage Design for Of Mice and Men (Sport For Jove) in 2015 and Truckstop (Q theatre/Seymour Centre) in 2012.  He was the recipient of the 2018 Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship for Design in the Performing Arts and has worked as an Associate Lecturer of Design at NIDA. 

Michael Waters

(He/him) Original sound designs include: Hairspray, Cinderella, The Woman In Black, Muriel’s Wedding, My Fair Lady, Hugh Jackman’s Broadway to Oz and The Boy From Oz, Doctor Zhivago, The King And I, The Tap Pack (USA tour 2020), Bran Nue Dae, Dream Lover, Mamma Mia!, Chess, Atomic (Sydney & Off Broadway), Priscilla Queen Of The Desert and Dirty Dancing. Operas include: The Rabbits, Dead Man Walking, Orpheus In The Underworld, and Plácido Domingo & Katherine Jenkins in Concert.

Michael’s awards include: Helpmann for Best Sound Design; Muriel’s Wedding; The King And I; The Woman In Black; Dusty – The Original Pop Diva; Green Room Awards for Best Sound Design; My Fair Lady; Dirty Dancing; Italy’s DAPA Award for Best Sound Design: Priscilla Queen Of The Desert.

Spencer Herd

Diana Glenn

Sophia Morgan

Sophia Morgan is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), with a Bachelor of Arts in Stage Management. Sophia most recently was the Deputy Stage Manager on The Talented Mr. Ripley for Sydney Theatre Company. In 2024, Sophia was the Stage Manager Swing for STC, working on over a dozen productions in a variety of roles. She also recently was the Stage Manager for Logue Lake at the 2024 Perth Festival, winning Best Mainstage Production at the 2025 Performing Arts WA Awards.  

In Perth, Sophia has worked with Black Swan State Theatre Company as the Stage Manager for Blue and The Bleeding Tree and previously worked as Assistant Stage Manager on Dirty Birds, Once, and York. Sophia has also stage managed for The Last Great Hunt, Barking Gecko Theatre, and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Beyond theatre, Sophia works annually with Tennis Australia as a Floor Manager during the United Cup, and she regularly works in various production roles with Perth Festival.