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Tracy Letts

Eamon Flack

Eamon Flack is the Artistic Director of Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney. He is a director, writer, dramaturg and script developer for stage and screen.

 Eamon was born in Singapore and grew up in Singapore, Darwin, Cootamundra and Brisbane. He has a BA (English and History) from the University of Queensland, and trained as an actor at WAAPA from 2001 to 2003. He has worked around Australia and internationally, from the Tiwi Islands to Sri Lanka and the UK. He has led Belvoir’s new work development in various guises since 2006, and has commissioned and developed many of the company’s most acclaimed new works over the last 15 years.

His productions of The Glass Menagerie, Angels in America and Counting and Cracking won the Helpmann Awards for Best Play in 2015, 2016, and 2019. 

His key directing credits include: Counting and Cracking (with Associate Director S. Shakthidharan, winner of the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play and nominated for the Sydney Theatre Award Best Direction of the Mainstage Production), The Jungle and the Sea (co-directed with S. Shakthidharan, winner of Best New Work and Best Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards), Angels in America, The Glass Menagerie, Into the Woods, Tommy Murphy’s Packer & Sons, Rita Kalnejais’s Babyteeth, Alana Valentine’s Wayside Bride (co-directed with Hannah Goodwin), Tom Wright’s adaptation of Brecht’s Life of Galileo, Eamon’s own adaptations of Hendrik Ibsen’s Ghosts and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Ivanov (Sydney Theatre Awards Best Production and Best Director), as well as The Rover, The Blind Giant is Dancing, As You Like It, and Beckett’s The End. His other directing credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bob Presents/B Sharp) and Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui by Jason de Santis (Darwin Festival).

His writing and adaptation credits include: Associate Writer of S. Shakthidharan’s Counting and Cracking (winner of the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama, Helpmann for Best New Work), co-writer with S. Shakthidharan of The Jungle and the Sea (Winner, Best New Work, Sydney Theatre Awards 2022); a stage adaptation of Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children; Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Ivanov, Gorky’s Summerfolk, Sophocles’ Antigone and Ibsen’s Ghosts; co-adapter with Leah Purcell of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s memoir Don’t Take Your Love To Town; and co-deviser of Beautiful One Day with artists from ILBIJERRI, version 1.0, and the community of Palm Island.

For orchestral concert he has adapted and directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream alongside Mendelssohn’s score for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Belvoir St Theatre conducted by Simone Young, and directed and co-created Beethoven and Bridgetower with Anna Goldsworthy, Rita Dove and Richard Tognetti for the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Tamsin Carroll

Tamsin Carroll is a prolific theatre actor who was involved in Belvoir’s production of Three Penny Opera. Tamsin holds the record as one of the youngest people to join the Melbourne Theatre Company ensemble, doing so at only 18 for her role as ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in the acclaimed Sondheim musical Into The Woods. Tamsin has also been involved in A Little Night Music and Twelfth Night for MTC. Tamsin’s other theatre credits include The Listmaker and Measure For Measure directed by John Bell (Bell Shakespeare); Hair, Bye Bye Birdie, High Society (The Production Company); Grease – The Arena Spectacular (SEL/GFO); The Rocky Horror Show directed by Gale Edwards (New Theatricals); and Shout!, directed by Richard Wherrett. Since then, Tamsin has worked extensively internationally. Credits include Ragtime and A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Regents Park Open Air theatre); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on a UK National Tour (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Strictly Ballroom, the Leeds and Toronto seasons (Global Creatures); the original cast of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (The Crucible Theatre) and in London at the Apollo Theatre; Casa Valentina (Southwark Playhouse). For the National Theatre; original cast of Peter Gynt by David Hare, The Magistrate and Hex; 2:22 A Ghost Story (Criterion Theatre), and for Cameron Mackintosh; Barnum (Chichester Festival Theatre), Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and Miss Saigon (The Prince Edward Theatre). Tamsin’s film credits include Goddess directed by Mark Lamprell and Holy Smoke directed by Jane Campion. Her television credits include Eastenders; A Diffifcult Woman; All Saints for Channel 7; Heartbreak High; as well as Above The Law for Channel 10. Tamsin has won several awards including a Helpmann for Best Actress in Oliver (2003) and another for Best Actress as ‘Dusty’ in Dusty, The Original Pop Diva (2006).

Bee Cruse

Bert LaBonté

Amy Mathews

Johnny Nasser

Rohan Nichol

Will O’Mahony

Pamela Rabe

Pamela is one of Australia’s most prolific and highly awarded actors.

For her work in theatre and musicals, amongst numerous nominations, she has been awarded 3 Helpmann Awards for Best Actress for The Children, The Glass Menagerie and Grey Gardens, 8 Melbourne Green Room Awards, a Sydney Critics’ Circle Award and a “Mo” Award. Other notable credits include The Dance of Death, Ghosts, The Cherry Orchard, A Little Night Music, A Room of One’s Own, The Wizard of Oz, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and, while a founding member of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Actors’ Ensemble, several acclaimed productions including Mother Courage and Her Children, Benedict Andrews’ The War of the Roses and The Season at Sarsaparilla, and Barry Kosky’s The Lost Echo. Pamela has also directed plays for the Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company and the Malthouse Theatre.

Her work in television includes The Secret Life of Us, Mercury, The Bite and Stingers, and most recently Wentworth, for which she won a Silver Logie award for Most Outstanding Actress in 2018, and the AACTA award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama in 2015. The final scene of the 5th season, in which her character Joan “The Freak” Ferguson meets her apparent demise was nominated for TV Moment of the Decade in the 2020 AACTA Awards. Recent television roles include Principal De Rossi in the mini-series The Hunting and Maude in Fucking Adelaide. Pamela has appeared in several feature films including Sirens alongside Hugh Grant and Sam Neill, Paradise Road, Vacant Possession, Cosi, and The Well, for which she won the 1997 AFI, Stockholm Film Festival and Variety Club awards for Best Actress.

Anna Samson

A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Anna has gone on to perform extensively in theatre, film and television.

Her theatre credits include Bliss for Belvoir and Malthouse Theatre and Opening Night (Understudy for Leanna Walsman) for Belvoir; Skylight, Birdland, The Sublime and The Heretic for Melbourne Theatre Company; Pompeii L.A at Malthouse Theatre; LOVE for Darlinghurst Theatre; Anatomy of a Suicide for The Old Fitz and Seymour Centre; Consent at the Seymour Centre; A Hotel, Evening, Ruben Guthrie and Wet House for Red Stitch; Arden V Arden for The Hayloft Project; and The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant for Theatre Works.  

Anna’s film credits include Children of the Corn, Crime & Punishment and What if it Works?

Anna appeared in Wake in Fright, as well as Dead Lucky (SBS) and Jack Irish (ABC). Anna’s selected television credits include the HBO drama series The Leftovers, Hunters, Winners and Losers, Offspring, Home and Away and The Doctor Blake Murder Mysteries.

Anna was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Birdland. She was also nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Female Actor for Wet House. Anna received an Ozflicks Independent Film Award for Actress in a Leading Role for What if It Works? She has also received a Glug Award nomination for LOVE. Anna is a previous Australian Counsel for the Arts grant recipient. Anna was awarded the John Tallis award for excellence while at drama school and is currently a Masters student at the The University of Sydney.

Greg Stone

Helen Thomson

Esther Williams

Bob Cousins

Ella Butler

Ella is a Sydney-based designer for theatre, film and live performance.

In film, Ella has worked as the series Set Decorator on ‘Born To Spy’ (SBS, Aquarius), ‘While The Men Are Away’ (SBS, Arcadia) and Art Director on the experimental, operatic film ‘A Delicate Fire’ with Pinchgut Opera. In collaboration with CATSinAM, The Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Nurses and Midwives, Ella designed the Wardrobe and Production Design for ‘In Our Own Right; recounting Black Australian Nurses’ and Midwives Stories.  In theatre, Ella was nominated for Best Stage Design of A Mainstage Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards for her work as Set and Costume Designer on ‘First Love Is The Revolution’ (Griffin Theatre Company). 

Previously, Ella has worked with Belvoir in costume design for ‘Tell Me I’m Here’ Directed by Leticia Caceres and The Rep Season directed by Eamon Flack and Hannah Goodwin. Ella styled Tim Minchin and his band for his return to the stage with the National Tour of ‘BACK’, as well as Styling and Production Designing Minchin’s most recent album launch, a live recording of ‘Apart Together’. Ella’s work in theatre has been received internationally after designing ‘Enter the Underworld’ as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ella is a graduate from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design for Performance).

Morgan Moroney

Morgan Moroney (he/him) is a lighting and video designer working across theatre, opera, dance and installation.

Morgan’s work as Lighting Designer includes SHITTY (Belvoir 25A) Inferno (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra), Saplings and Shack (ATYP), Girls in Boys Cars (NTofP) Suddenly Last Summer and Clyde’s (Ensemble), The Barber of Seville (Opera Australia National Tour). His video design work includes A Letter for Molly and Still Unqualified (Ensemble). Lighting and Video Designer include: Collapsible, which he won the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards Best Lighting Design of an Independent Production, Camp (Siren Theatre & WorldPride) and A Practical Guide to Self-Defence (Merrigong & NTofP).

Morgan received the 2020 APDG Emerging Designer for Live Performance Award for his design on Ghosts (NIDA). He has been nominated three times for a Sydney Theatre Award in Best Independent Lighting Design, and won the 2023 APDG Award in Lighting Design for Cleansed (Redline Productions).

Morgan worked with Nick Schlieper as Assistant Lighting Designer for The Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour (Opera Australia). His upcoming productions for 2024 include The Queen’s Nanny (Ensemble) and The Turn of The Screw (Hayes Theatre).

Rachael Dease

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). 

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, Holding the Man, 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.

Guy Simon

Guy Simon is a proud Birripi, Worimi, Waddi Waddi and Walbunga man and is the 2024 Balnaves Fellowship recipient. His theatre credits include: My Brilliant Career (Belvoir), Jasper Jones (Belvoir- Return Season & NSW Tour,) The Visitors (STC), Jacky (MTC), The Tempest (STC), White Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre Company), The Return (Malthouse Theatre), Grand Horizons (STC),Playing Beatie Bow (STC), First Love is the Revolution (Griffin Theatre Company), Cloudstreet (Malthouse Theatre), The Harp in the South (STC), Strangers in Between (Cameron Lukey Presents), Bright World, (Theatre Works), Jasper Jones (MTC), Blaque Showgirls (Malthouse Theatre, The Battle of Waterloo (STC), The Myth Project: Twin (Arthur, A Theatre Company), Black Diggers (QLD Theatre Company), This Fella, My Memory (Mooghalin Performing Arts, Yellamundie (Mooghalin Performing Arts), Junction (Bakehouse Theatre),Stolen (STC),  Lucky (IPAN Productions).

Film: Undertow, Around the Block. TV: The Secret She Keeps S2, Wakefield, The Wrong Girl, Redfern Now 2. Other: Online Series: A Chance Affair. Training: NIDA. Pronouns: He/Him

Awards: 2017 Helpmann for best Male Actor in a Supporting role in a Play

Margaret Thanos

Margaret Thanos is an award-winning Cypriot-Australian director, writer and actor for theatre and film. She is also the owner of Queen Hades Productions, a production company that works to bring together activism and art.

Margaret’s directing credits include Not Now, Not Ever: A Parliament of Women (25A), the 5-star sell-out season of I Hate People; or Timon of Athens (Sport for Jove), A Very Expensive Poison (New Theatre), the Australian Premiere of Labyrinth (Dream Plane Productions) and world premiere of A Grain of Sand (KXT). In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Sandra Bates Director’s Award at Ensemble Theatre.

She has assistant directing credits on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Belvoir), Benefactors (Ensemble), Mr Bailey’s Minder (Ensemble), This Genuine Moment (Old 505), Animal Farm (New Theatre), Originate Project (Q Theatre), The Linden Solution (Ratcatch) and The Cherry Orchard (Chippen St). Her debut short Life Beyond Christine is currently in post-production.

Her acting credits include: Beautiful Things (Flickerfest Selection), Dear Australia (Spark Theatre), Screen Shot (Toronto Comedy Film Festival Selection), Twinemies (Australian Podcast Award Winner), Spider in My Soup (Shopfront Artslab and Bondi Feast), My Creatures (Tricky Feet), Intersection: Chrysalis (ATYP/Griffin). In 2020, Margaret was a part of Montague Basement’s Laboratory Program and in 2021 she was a part of ATYP’s Fresh Ink.