Dirty Diamonds

Abbie-lee Lewis

Abbie-lee Lewis is a Kalkadoon actress who trained on the Aboriginal Theatre and Acting courses at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth.

Her credits include David Finnigan’s Scenes from the Climate Era, for Belvoir St Theatre, Seanna Van Helten’s Fallen, directed by Penny Harpham, for Sport for Jove; Our Town, directed by Clare Watson, for the Black Swan State Theatre Company of Western Australia; a national tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as Hermia) for Bell Shakespeare; and Angus Cerini’s The Bleeding Tree, directed by Ian Michael at the Blue Room Theatre, Perth.

Her television credits include Black Comedy for ABC.

In recent years she has also worked as an assistant director, collaborating with Peter Evans on Hamlet for Bell Shakespeare and with Jena Prince on Charlie Pilgrim for the Australian Theatre for Young People. Last year she made her directing debut with Bruce Pascoe’s Cutter and Coot for Moogahlin Performing Arts and has since directed Jane Montgomery Griffiths’ an ox stand on my tongue, for Belvoir’s 25A and Hannah Belanszky’s Saplings for ATYP which won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Production for Young People..

Based in: Kalkatungu Country, Australia

Ruby Henaway

Lila McGuire

Ian Michael

Eamon Flack

Eamon Flack is the Artistic Director of Belvoir St Theatre. He was born in Singapore and grew up in Singapore, Darwin, Cootamundra and Brisbane. He trained as an actor at WAAPA from 2001 to 2003 and has since worked as a director and writer around Australia and internationally, from the Tiwi Islands to Sri Lanka, London and New York. 

His directing credits for Belvoir include: Counting and Cracking (with Associate Director S. Shakthidharan, Helpmann Award for Best Play and Best Direction of a Play), The Jungle and the Sea (co-directed with S. Shakthidharan, Sydney Theatre Award for Best Play), The Master and Margarita, Angels in America (Helpmann Award for Best Play), August: Osage County (Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Director and Best Show), The Glass Menagerie (Helpmann Award for Best Play), 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 Helen Garner’s The Spare Room, Hendrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Ivanov (Sydney Theatre Awards Best Production and Best Director), as well as Into the Woods, The Rover, The Blind Giant is Dancing, As You Like It, and Beckett’s The End. 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 (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 (Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama, Sydney Theatre Awards for Best New Work); Helen Garner’s The Spare Room; 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. 

Bobbi Henry

Romanie Harper

Romanie Harper is a designer from Naarm/Melbourne working across theatre, dance and experimental performance. Some design credits include The Master & Margarita, The Cherry Orchard and Packer and Sons (Belvoir St Theatre), The Black Woman of Gippsland, Meet Me at Dawn and Sunshine Super Girl (Melbourne Theatre Company), Swim (Griffin Theatre Company), Fu*ck Christmas, Nosferatu, K-BOX, Australian Realness, Trustees, Good Muslim Boy and Little Emperors (Malthouse), 8/8/8: REST and 8/8/8:WORK (Rising Festival), The Crying Room; Exhumed (The Substation),, Shhh and Desert 6.29pm (Red Stitch Actors Theatre), Hercules, Die! Old People Die! and We All Know Whats Happening (Arts House), What Am I Supposed to Do? (Deep Souful Sweats), Slip, Contest and Moral Panic (Darebin Speakeasy), Bad Boy, Runt and This Is Eden (Fortyfive Downstairs).

Susie Henderson

Living on Gadigal and Bidjigal Country, Susie (she/her) is a Video Designer working across live performance. Collaboration is at the forefront of Susie’s practice, and she is happiest when she is making good work with good people. Susie’s recent credits include: as Video Designer: for Belvoir Street Theatre: The Weekend, for Sydney Theatre Company: Julia, Lifespan of a Fact, for Griffin Theatre Company: Wherever She Wanders; for Legs On The Wall: Beetle; for Critical Stages, Black Sun Blood Moon; as Video Editor: for Michael Cassel Group/Sydney Theatre Company: The Picture of Dorian Gray (London, 2024), for Sydney Theatre Company: Dracula, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, for as Video Systems & Content Designer: for Belvoir Street Theatre: Stop Girl; and for Sydney Theatre Company: The Wharf Revue 2020: Good Night & Good Luck; as Lighting Realiser; for Contemporary Asian Australian Performance; The Bridal Lament. In 2024 Susie won the APDG award for Video Design for Live Performance or an Event for her work on Julia.