AT WHAT COST?

AT WHAT
COST?
Back by popular demand

Writer and Associate Director Nathan Maynard
Directed by Isaac Drandic

Venue Upstairs Theatre
Dates 4 May – 21 May 23
Duration 1 hour and 45 minutes (No Interval)

Content warning
At What Cost? discusses strong themes such as genocide and Aboriginal trauma, and mentions the names of Indigenous people who have died. The production also contains adult themes, suicide and the use of strong language, haze and natural fibres on stage.

Indigenous theatre at Belvoir supported by
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The provocative hit of Belvoir’s 2022 returns for a limited season.

Tasmania, now.

Boyd has been walking a tightrope for years – balancing responsibilities to Land and People with the simple business of making a living.

But there’s something happening, he can sniff it in the wind. Every year more and more folk are showing up claiming to be palawa too. No one’s heard of them until now… Where has this missing mob been all these years? Are they legit? Or are they ‘tick-a-box’? Who decides? And how?

If Boyd’s going to take everyone forward together, they’re going to have to go back, old mob or new, into the island’s knotty past. And they might not like what they find there.

We’re proud of At What Cost? and pleased to bring it back with the original cast before it goes on a national tour – if you missed out here’s your second chance. Nathan Maynard’s story of Country and competing histories opened some eyes and set off a few arguments. We loved its oomph, and how it asked us all to think about a very contemporary Australian issue. – Eamon

Luke Carroll is superb as his own one man mob
Aboriginal Art Directory

A GREAT POLITICAL TRAGEDY GROWS OUT OF COMIC DOMESTIC BEGINNINGS IN THIS SLOW-BURNING PLAY BY NATHAN MAYNARD… LIKE ALL GREAT TRAGEDIES, IT BUILDS TOWARDS PITY AND TERROR IN ITS ENDING.
The Australian

DIRECTED WITH A FLAWLESSLY CONTROLLED INTENSITY BY NOONGAR MAN ISAAC DRANDIC, THE FURY OF IRREPARABLE INJUSTICE BURNS IN THE BELLY OF THIS MADE-FOR-RIGHT-NOW TRAGEDY, WHICH BUILDS INEXORABLY TOWARDS A DEVASTATING AND DEFIANT END.
Limelight

sculpted from muscle and bone and filled in from the gut
The Sydney Morning Herald

TEAM

Nathan Maynard
Writer and Associate Director

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 […]
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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
Director

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 […]
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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.
Cast
Luke Carroll
Boyd

Luke Carroll is a seasoned theatre, film and television performer. Stage credits include Capricornia, Conversations with the Dead, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Dreamers, No Sugar and The Cake Man, for which he was nominated for a Helpmann Award (Belvoir); Sunshine Super Girl (Performing Lines); Black Cockatoo (Ensemble Theatre); Appropriate, Black is the New White, The Harp in the South, […]
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Luke Carroll
Luke Carroll is a seasoned theatre, film and television performer.
Stage credits include Capricornia, Conversations with the Dead, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Dreamers, No Sugar and The Cake Man, for which he was nominated for a Helpmann Award (Belvoir); Sunshine Super Girl (Performing Lines); Black Cockatoo (Ensemble Theatre); Appropriate, Black is the New White, The Harp in the South, The Hanging, The Battle of Waterloo and Cherry Pickers (Sydney Theatre Company); The Torrents (Sydney Theatre Company and Black Swan State Theatre Company); Black Diggers and Mother Courage and her Children (Queensland Theatre); The Season (Performing Lines/Tasmania and Melbourne Festivals); Wind in the Willows (La Boite Theatre Company); Riverland (Adelaide Festival); Eora Crossing (Sydney Festival); Purple Dreams and My Girragundji (Bell Shakespeare).
Luke was a nominee for the 2012 AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a TV Drama for his work on Redfern Now, nominated twice for AFI Awards for Best Supporting Actor for Australian Rules and Best Supporting Actor in a TV series for R.A.N.
Luke’s other film credits include Strangerland, Needle, Stone Bros, Subdivision, The Tender Hook and Children of the Revolution.
His recent television projects include Upright (Foxtel) and the first season of Total Control (ABC). Luke was recently the director’s attachment on the second series with Wayne Blair. His other TV credits include Preppers, Black Comedy, The Gods of Wheat Street, Redfern Now, Heartbeat for UK TV, Home and Away, R.A.N, The Alice, Stingers, All Saints, Water Rats, Heartbreak High, Man from Snowy River, The Flying Doctors and Lift Off.
Luke has been a very proud member of the Play School team for 12 years and is part of the presenting team of Seven’s Sydney Weekender.
Sandy Greenwood
Nala

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 […]
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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
Gracie

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. […]
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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
Daniel

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 […]
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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.
Creatives
Jacob Nash
Set Designer

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 […]
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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
Costume Designer and Set Realiser

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 […]
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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
Lighting Designer

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 […]
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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
Associate Lighting Designer

Kelsey is a lighting, set and costume designer for theatre and film. Lighting design credits include Blue (Belvoir), as associate lighting designer, A Room of One’s Own (Belvoir); Extinction of The Learned Response, Skyduck, Kasama Kita (Belvoir 25A); Sex Magick and Whitefella Yella Tree as co-designer(Griffin Theatre Company); Comedy of Errors (Bell Shakespeare); Unqualified 2: Still Unqualified, A Letter for Molly, Killing Katie and Outdated (Ensemble Theatre); Queen Fatima (NTofP with Sydney Festival); April Aardvark (ATYP); Good Dog, If We […]
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Kelsey Lee
Kelsey is a lighting, set and costume designer for theatre and film. Lighting design credits include Blue (Belvoir), as associate lighting designer, A Room of One’s Own (Belvoir); Extinction of The Learned Response, Skyduck, Kasama Kita (Belvoir 25A); Sex Magick and Whitefella Yella Tree as co-designer(Griffin Theatre Company); Comedy of Errors (Bell Shakespeare); Unqualified 2: Still Unqualified, A Letter for Molly, Killing Katie and Outdated (Ensemble Theatre); Queen Fatima (NTofP with Sydney Festival); April Aardvark (ATYP); Good Dog, If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You (Greendoor Theatre Company); I’m With Her (Darlinghurst Theatre Company). Kelsey designed the lighting, set and costumes for Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge, There’s A Sea In My Bedroom (ACO); Jali (Aya Productions and Griffin Theatre Company); Lulu: A Modern Sex Tragedy (NIDA), Destroy, She Said (Belvoir 25A) which won a Sydney Theatre Award for Design.
Her other credits include Set design for A Practical Guide to Self Defence and Nothing (National Theatre of Parramatta), Catch Me If You Can (Hayes Theatre).
Brendon Boney
Composer

Brendon’s work includes At What Cost?, Belvior Theatre, The 7 Stages of Grieving, The Sydney Theatre Company- (Design Associate), Black Ties, Illbijerri Theatre- Musical Director & Composer, Winyanboga Yurringa, Black Cockatoo, Dubboo, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Gods of Wheat Street (ABC1), Redfern Now (SBS), Offspring (Network 10), Winners & Losers (Seven Network), Underbelly Chopper (The Nine […]
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Brendon Boney
Brendon’s work includes At What Cost?, Belvior Theatre, The 7 Stages of Grieving, The Sydney Theatre Company- (Design Associate), Black Ties, Illbijerri Theatre- Musical Director & Composer, Winyanboga Yurringa, Black Cockatoo, Dubboo, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Gods of Wheat Street (ABC1), Redfern Now (SBS), Offspring (Network 10), Winners & Losers (Seven Network), Underbelly Chopper (The Nine Network) & Musical Contributor plus providing lead character Willie’s singing voice in Bran New Dae (2009).
Brendon Boney is a Wiradjuri/ Gamilaroi man who grew up in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and is now based in Ettalong Beach on the Central Coast of New South Wales. He’s been a recording and performing artist touring the world for the past decade and is an APRA PDA winner. He’s performed Bluesfest Byron Bay, Woodford Folk Festival, Sydney Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Brisbane Festival, Friendship Festival (Seoul, Sth Korea) & The Aussie BBQ (UK). Brendon’s written for and collaborated with artists such as PJ Harding, Jaguar Jonze, Becca Hatch, MXWLL, Tessa Thames, Xavier Dunn & Tasman Keith and his work has over 80 000 Spotify streams.
David Bergman
Sound Designer

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 […]
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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.
Chloë Dallimore
Intimacy Director

Chloë is internationally trained and accredited as an Intimacy Coordinator by Ita O’Brien of Intimacy on Set (UK). She is currently working on “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” starring Sigourney Weaver, the Broadway musical “Jagged Little Pill”, as well as productions for Netflix, Warner Bros, Fremantle, Ch9 and Ch10. Recent credits include Netflix’s “Pieces […]
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Chloë Dallimore
Chloë is internationally trained and accredited as an Intimacy Coordinator by Ita O’Brien of Intimacy on Set (UK).
She is currently working on “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” starring Sigourney Weaver, the Broadway musical “Jagged Little Pill”, as well as productions for Netflix, Warner Bros, Fremantle, Ch9 and Ch10.
Recent credits include Netflix’s “Pieces of Her” starring Toni Collette, George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing”, Benjamin Millepied’s “Carmen”, ABC’s “Wakefield” and Ch9’s “Doctor, Doctor”.
With a life-long journey in professional dance, and as an award-winning musical theatre performer, Chloë’s career has seen her work as a Resident/ Associate Choreographer on main-stage productions such as Billy Elliot, Oliver!, and Annie, as well as perform lead roles in productions such as The Producers, Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Addams Family.
Chloë is honoured to work with the Belvoir team.
Nigel Poulton
Fight and Movement Director

Nigel is an award-winning movement director, fight and intimacy coordinator, SAG-AFTRA/MEAA stunt performer and actor, with over 25 years of professional experience. Selected theatre credits include: for Belvoir St Theatre, The Master and Margarita, Miss Peony, Packer and Sons, Things I Know To Be True, Stop Girl, Blessed Union, At What Cost?, The Jungle and […]
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Nigel Poulton
Nigel is an award-winning movement director, fight and intimacy coordinator, SAG-AFTRA/MEAA stunt performer and actor, with over 25 years of professional experience. Selected theatre credits include: for Belvoir St Theatre, The Master and Margarita, Miss Peony, Packer and Sons, Things I Know To Be True, Stop Girl, Blessed Union, At What Cost?, The Jungle and the Sea; for Sydney Theatre Company, Oil, On The Beach, Do Not Go Gentle, Fences; for Bell Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth; for Melbourne Theatre Company, Bernhardt/Hamlet; for Ensemble Theatre, Memory of Water, Mr Bailey’s Minder, Suddenly Last Summer. Nigel’s film and television work includes: Deadloch, Nautilus, Poker Face, Thor: Love and Thunder, Spiderhead, Ding Dong I’m Gay, Occupation 2, Pirates of the Caribbean V, Deadline Gallipoli, The Water Diviner, The Bourne Legacy, Vikingdom and Winter’s Tale.
In 2021, Nigel was awarded the status of Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors, as one of only two recipients outside the US with this accolade. He has also won a Green Room Award for outstanding contribution to the stage.
Laura Farrell
Vocal Coach

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 […]
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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 Into The Woods, directed by Eamon Flack (2023), Blue, directed by Deborah Brown (2023), 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).
Peter Matheson
Dramaturgical Consultant

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. […]
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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.
Dom Mercer
Dramaturg

Dom Mercer (he/him) is a director and dramaturg, and currently the Head of New Work at Belvoir. Recent Belvoir dramaturgy credits include: Blue, At What Cost and Looking for Alibrandi and he has worked closely across Belvoir’s new work over the past few years. Recent directing credits include: A Practical Guide to Self Defence (National […]
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Dom Mercer
Dom Mercer (he/him) is a director and dramaturg, and currently the Head of New Work at Belvoir. Recent Belvoir dramaturgy credits include: Blue, At What Cost and Looking for Alibrandi and he has worked closely across Belvoir’s new work over the past few years. Recent directing credits include: A Practical Guide to Self Defence (National Theatre of Parramatta, Merrigong Theatre Company), Grounded (National Theatre of Parramatta), On The Face of Things (WAYTCO), Little Borders (Old 505 Theatre), The Block Universe: or so it goes (Old 505 Theatre), Hilt (Old 505 Theatre) Attempts on her Life (Dancehouse), Silent Theatre (Sydney Fringe), In The Blood (NIDA), Songs for a New World (NIDA) Thirst (NIDA). As assistant director: Sex with Strangers (STC), The Testament of Mary (STC), Straight White Men (MTC), Hollywood Ending (Griffin Theatre Company).

As a dramaturg he has also worked with Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney Chamber Opera, Malthouse, NToP, Merrigong, The Joan, Little Room Theatre and Barking Gecko.

In his role at Belvoir, Dom also curates the 25A program in the Downstairs Theatre.
Steph Storr
Stage Manager

Stephanie is a proud Biripi woman from Newcastle, New South Wales living and working on Gadigal land. Stephanie has worked in all aspects of Stage Management across dance, theatre, film, corporate events and live performance, with a strong focus on Indigenous storytelling. Stephanie started her career as the Indigenous Production Trainee at Bangarra Dance theatre […]
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Steph Storr
Stephanie is a proud Biripi woman from Newcastle, New South Wales living and working on Gadigal land. Stephanie has worked in all aspects of Stage Management across dance, theatre, film, corporate events and live performance, with a strong focus on Indigenous storytelling.
Stephanie started her career as the Indigenous Production Trainee at Bangarra Dance theatre in 2018, making her way through the ranks as Production Assistant, Assistant Stage Manager and most recently in 2021 became the first Indigenous Resident Stage Manager of Bangarra Dance Theatre.
Stephanie’s credits include Sand Song: Stories of the Great Sandy Desert; Terrain; Wudjang: Not the Past (Sydney Theatre Company); Brolga Spirit (Sydney Festival, North American Tour) ; Bennelong; 30 Years of 65,000; Dubboo: Life of a Songman; Ochres; Macq; Nyapanyapa; Dark Emu. (Bangarra Dance.Theatre). Spamalot (One Eyed Man Productions, Hayes Theatre Co), Black Drop Effect (Bankstown Theatre Company).
Mia Kanzaki
Assistant Stage Manager

Mia Kanzaki is a Sydney based stage manager who is passionate about diverse stories and inclusive practices in the arts. She is a graduate of WAAPA’s Bachelor of Performing Arts (Stage Management). As Stage Manager, her credits include Tiddas (Belvoir) and The Face of Jizo (Red Line Productions). As Assistant Stage Manager, her credits include Blessed Union, the At What Cost? National […]
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Mia Kanzaki
Mia Kanzaki is a Sydney based stage manager who is passionate about diverse stories and inclusive practices in the arts. She is a graduate of WAAPA’s Bachelor of Performing Arts (Stage Management). As Stage Manager, her credits include Tiddas (Belvoir) and The Face of Jizo (Red Line Productions). As Assistant Stage Manager, her credits include Blessed Union, the At What Cost? National Tour, The Weekend (Belvoir), and Summer of Harold (Ensemble Theatre).