Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

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. 

Paula Arundell

Theatre: Belvoir; Sami In Paradise, Atlantis, Mr Burns, Mother Courage, Angels in America, Peter Pan, Gethsemane, Scorched, Snuggle Pot and Cuddlepie, Paul, Peribanez, The Three Penny Opera, Michael Cassel Group; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Sydney Theatre Company; Top Girls, The Bleeding Tree, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Disgraced, Suddenly Last Summer, Macbeth, Under Milk Wood, Honour, Black Bird, Love Lies Bleeding, Julius Caeser, Life is a Dream, Three Sisters, Attempts On Her Life, The White Devil, Love For Love, The Mirage, Melbourne Theatre Company; Company, Measure for Measure, Griffin Theatre; The Bleeding Tree, Clark in Sarajevo, Malthouse Theatre; The Real And Imagined History of the Elephant Man, Ensemble Theatre; Clybourne Park, Are You There, Interactive World Theatre, Sydney Festival; Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms, Three Furies, South Australia Theatre Company;  Night Letters, The Torrens, Bell Shakespeare; Servant of Two Masters, Hippolytus, Antony and Cleopatra, Henry V, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Stc New York; The White Devil, Australia Museum; SPIDERS FROM MARS, Mardi Gras; ELEGIES FOR PUNKS, ANGELS AND RAGING QUEENS. Film: Late Night With The Devil, Sleeping Dogs, Harmony, Gods Of Egypt, Disgrace, Bad Eggs, Sample People, Diana And Me. Television: The Newsreader, Surviving Summer, Neighbours, Clickbait, Reckoning, Top Of The Lake: China Girl, Hunters, Time Of Our Lives, Slide, Me And My Monsters, All Saints, Home And Away, Out Of The Blue, The Alice, Love My Way, All Saints, Farscape, Murder Call, Children’s Hospital, Water Rats.

Paula received a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Female Actor for her work in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. She won a Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor, received a Green Room Award nomination and a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for her performance in The Bleeding Tree. She received a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Three Furies; a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Female Actor in a Musical for Three Penny Opera; a Green Room Award nomination for Female Actor in a lead role and a Sydney Morning Herald Award for Best Actress for her performance in Antony And Cleopatra; a Green Room Award for Female Actor in a Featured Role and a Glugg Award for Best Up and Coming Actor for Henry V; and the Green Room Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role for The Tempest.

Marco Chiappi

Marco is a very accomplished theatre performer with many credits to his name across Australia.

Previous Belvoir Theatre credits include The Rep Season, Bliss (a Belvoir co-production with Malthouse). Other theatre credits include Bernhardt /Hamlet, The Father; His Girl Friday; Grapes of Wrath; Macbeth; The Rover; Dealer’s Choice; A Doll’s House; Closer; Death of a Salesman; Duchess of Malfi; Tempest (for Melbourne Theatre Company). Away, Love & Information (co-productions between STC and Malthouse); Pygmalion; Jerusalem (Sydney Theatre Company). Edward II; Woyzeck; A Pacific Union; Jerusalem (Malthouse). Phedre; Hamlet; Merchant of Venice; Richard III (Bell Shakespeare). The Lower Depths; Ninth Moon; Funniest Man in the World; Scissors; Paper; Rock (Keene/Taylor), Popcorn (Black Swan). Torrez (Griffin Theatre). The Misanthrope; The Real Thing; Noises Off; The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (STCSA). Dreamers; The Lower Depths (Fortyfive Downstairs). Reckless (Theatreworks). Television: Wentworth, Deadline Gallipoli; Parer’s War; Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries; Upper Middle Bogan; The Mystery of the Hansom Cab. Film: Holding the Man; The Boy Castaways; Amy; Mr Reliable.

Marco is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Gareth Davies

Belvoir: The Rover, Peter Pan, As You Like It, The Government Inspector (with Malthouse Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Seagull, And They Called Him Mr Glamour, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sydney Theatre Company: The Importance of Being Ernest, Home, I’m Darling, The Torrents, How to Rule the World, Saint Joan. Melbourne Theatre Company: Hay Fever, The Cherry Orchard. Queensland Theatre: Bernhardt/hamlet. Griffin Theatre Company: The Literati, Feather in the Web. Bell Shakespeare: As You Like It.  Ensemble Theatre: The Benefactors, Nearer the Gods. The Hayloft Project: The Only Child, The Suicide, 3xSisters. Black Lung: Rubeville, Avast I & II, Doku Rai, I Feel Awful. Redline: Masterclass, Masterclass 2: Flames of the Forget. Film: Elvis, Peter Rabbit, Little Monsters, The Daughter, I am Woman. TV: Wolf Like Me, Rosehaven, Frayed, The Letdown, Hunters, The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting.

Emma Diaz

Emma Diaz is an actor and producer based in Sydney. A graduate of WAAPA Acting, her theatre credits include Blessed Union (Belvoir), The Great Divide (Ensemble), On The Beach (Sydney Theatre Company), The Crucible (Sport for Jove), Hamlet (Bell Shakespeare), Nautilus (Monkey Baa Theatre Company), and Hitler’s Daughter (Monkey Baa Theatre Company).

Emma’s notable TV/film credits include After the Verdict (Nine Network), Bump (Stan), Pieces of Her (Netflix), Isaac’s Dream (Triangle Films), Diary of an Uber Driver (ABC) and Friends and Strangers, which was selected in the British Film Institute’s Top 50 Films of 2021 and is streaming on MUBI and SBS.

Notable short film credits include Smoko Porno and Water – for which she was nominated ‘Best Performance by an Actress’ at the WA Screen Awards. Emma is also production management graduate of AFTRS, and as a producer has worked with Belvoir St Theatre, Projector Films, Goalpost Pictures, Acuity Films and Co-curious. In 2017 Emma created Aya Productions and has presented independent work at ATYP, Belvoir 25A, Kings X Theatre and the Old Fitz Theatre. Emma is represented by Linsten Management.

Pamela Rabe

Pamela’s most recent Belvoir credits include THE CHERRY ORCHARD, DANCE OF DEATH, GHOSTS and THE GLASS MENAGERIE. From over 100 productions, other theatre highlights include THE CHILDREN, LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, GREY GARDENS, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, PRIVATE LIVES, A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE WIZARD OF OZ 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, THE SEASON AT SARSAPARILLA, and Barry Kosky’s THE LOST ECHO. She has recently returned from
performing in the National Theatre UK/Alexander Zeldin Company’s production of THE CONFESSIONS in London and throughout Europe. 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, FUCKING ADELAIDE, ROSEHAVEN, DEADLOCH, BAY OF FIRES and WENTWORTH. She has appeared in several feature films including SIRENS, PARADISE ROAD, VACANT POSSESSION, COSI, and THE WELL.

Pamela has received many accolades for her theatre, film and television work, including Helpmann, Green Room, Logie, Variety Club, Stockholm Film Festival and AFI/AACTRA awards and she was recently recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her distinguished services to the Arts.

Ella Butler

Ella is a Sydney-based Production and Costume Designer for theatre, film and live performance. Informed by her beginnings in theatre, Ella’s work has evolved through contrived spaces, searching for the extraordinary found in the everyday.

Ella’s work as Costume Designer at Belvoir includes August: Osage County, Tell Me I’m Here, The Weekend and Scenes From the Climate Era. Her costumes examine character with an urban melancholy. Currently, her work can be seen in the national tour of RENT; The Musical, directed by Shaun Rennie coming to Opera Australia in 2025.

Productions where Ella has worked as both Set and Costume Designer include The Comeuppance (Red Stitch), Dubbo Championship Wrestling (The Hayes), LOVE (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), First Love Is The Revolution and Wherever She Wanders (Griffin Theatre Company).


In film, Ella worked as the Costume and Production Designer for CATSinAM, The Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Nurses and Midwives, for In Our Own Right; recounting Black Australian Nurses’ and Midwives Stories.

In commercial as Production Designer, her clients include Google, Woolworths, Officeworks and James Squire.

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: NAYIKA: A DANCING GIRL (Belvoir), SHITTY (Belvoir 25A), DIDO & AENEAS (Pinchgut Opera), THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Hayes Theatre), THE QUEEN’S NANNY, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLYDE’S, MR. BAILEY’S MINDER, COLDER THAN HERE (Ensemble), CLEANSED (Redline), GIRLS IN BOYS’ CARS (NTofP), THE WET, THE DRY (Circa Cairns), INFERNO (Australian Brandenberg Orchestra), THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Opera Australia National Tour), ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE (Sugary Rum), JALI (Jubilee Street), SAPLINGS and SHACK (ATYP). Work as Lighting and Video Designer includes: COLLAPSIBLE (essential workers), A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SELF-DEFENCE (NTofP & Merrigong) and CAMP (Siren & WorldPride). Assistant and Associate Designer work includes: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ON SYDNEY HARBOUR (Opera Australia) and DRACULA (Sydney Theatre Company).

Awards include the Michael Northen Award for Emerging Lighting Designers (ALPD UK 2024), Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Lighting Design (COLLAPSIBLE 2023) APDG Lighting Design for Live Performance Award (CLEANSED 2022), APDG Emerging Designer for Live Performance Award (GHOSTS 2020).