Drive Your Plow Over
the Bones of the Dead
- 28 Mar – 3 May 26 Upstairs Theatre
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This is Olga Tokarczuk’s masterpiece, now a theatrical tour-de-force led by the great Pamela Rabe.
Janina Duszejko, a woman of retiring age, lives quietly in a remote village. But one winter, men start being murdered in her district, and nobody seems to have an answer. Like a Polish Miss Marple, Mrs Duszejko takes it upon herself to work out exactly what’s going on. The problem is, the more she looks, the more she realises everything is intertwined – destinies foretold in the stars, secrets in the poems of William Blake, and, most vitally, clues found in the kingdom of animals.
A whodunnit which takes astonishing turns, a provocative story of animals, humans and the spaces in between, and one of the most memorable characters of modern literature.
If you already know the great Olga Tokarczuk’s brilliant eco-feminist-anti-authoritarian whodunnit I’m sure you’ll be excited to see it at Belvoir. If you don’t know it, this is your chance. This is one of those mad and fabulous stories that Belvoir does best: riveting, full of striking ideas about the world, bloody entertaining. From Angels in America to The Master and Margarita to August: Osage County, I’ve always loved a ridiculous undertaking – a show that seems impossible to do at Belvoir, when in fact Belvoir may well be the perfect place for it. Like those other shows it takes an ensemble of daring theatrical adventurers to pull this off – led this time by the formidable Pamela Rabe. – Eamon
Except 31 Mar at 7.30pm
No 1pm show on 2 Apr
No performance 3 Apr
No 2pm performance 28 Mar
Except 29 Mar at 6.30pm
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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, […]
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.

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 […]

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 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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 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 […]

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.

For theatre, Alan has appeared in THE PRESIDENT, HAY FEVER, KING LEAR, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, NOISES OFF, THE WHITE GUARD, TRUE WEST, THE GREAT, DEAD CAESAR, THE UNLIKELY PROSPECT OF HAPPINESS (Sydney Theatre Company), THIS MUCH IS TRUE, MERCY THIEVES (Redline Productions / Old Fitz), AS YOU LIKE IT (Bell Shakespeare), CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Company B), CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION, MARY STUART (Ensemble Theatre), SHINING CITY, ALIVE AT WILLIAMSTOWN PIER (Griffin Theatre […]

For theatre, Alan has appeared in THE PRESIDENT, HAY FEVER, KING LEAR, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, NOISES OFF, THE WHITE GUARD, TRUE WEST, THE GREAT, DEAD CAESAR, THE UNLIKELY PROSPECT OF HAPPINESS (Sydney Theatre Company), THIS MUCH IS TRUE, MERCY THIEVES (Redline Productions / Old Fitz), AS YOU LIKE IT (Bell Shakespeare), CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Company B), CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION, MARY STUART (Ensemble Theatre), SHINING CITY, ALIVE AT WILLIAMSTOWN PIER (Griffin Theatre Company), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), BRILLIANT MONKEY, RUBY’S LAST DOLLAR and LAST CAB TO DARWIN (Pork Chop Productions).
Film credits include Thomas M. Wright’s THE STRANGER, HEARTS AND BONES, LAST CAB TO DARWIN, BOOK WEEK, THE LITTLE DEATH and BENEATH HILL 60. Alan was also the voice of Brett in the acclaimed documentary WHITELEY.
Alan’s television credits include RETURN TO PARADISE (BBC Studios), BUMP (Roadshow), FIVE BEDROOMS (Paramount Plus), LAST KING OF THE CROSS (Paramount Plus), SIGNIFICANT OTHERS (ABC), WOLF LIKE ME (Peacock), OPERATION BUFFALO (ABC), THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS(DCD), DOCTOR DOCTOR (Channel Nine), NO ACTIVITY (Stan), and JACK IRISH (ABC)

Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Nadie Kammallaweera is a theatre, film, and television actor, writer, and translator. She has acted in stage plays, movies, and television dramas. Nadie’s recent work as an actor in Australia includes Counting and Cracking (2024), Jungle and the Sea (2022), Counting and Cracking (2019), Cherry Orchard (2021) by Belvoir Street […]

Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Nadie Kammallaweera is a theatre, film, and television actor, writer, and translator. She has acted in stage plays, movies, and television dramas. Nadie’s recent work as an actor in Australia includes Counting and Cracking (2024), Jungle and the Sea (2022), Counting and Cracking (2019), Cherry Orchard (2021) by Belvoir Street Theatre, Wakefield (ABC TV Series), and Bump (Stan Australia TV Series). Her theatre credits elsewhere include Kalumali for the Stage Theatre Group Colombo; The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Mother Courage and Her Children for Somalatha Subasinghe Play House Colombo. Her television credits overseas include The Young Pope for HBO, The New Pope for HBO, Bedde Kulawamiya for SLRC (Sri Lanka), and Sansasre Piyasatahan for ITN (Sri Lanka). Nadie’s feature films include Asoka Handagama’s This is My Moon, Prasanna Vithanage’s August Sun, Visakesa Chandrasekaram’s Pangshu, Malith Hegoda’s Strange Familiar, and Fabrizio Costa’s Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Some of the national-level awards Nadie has won in Sri Lanka are Best Supporting Actress in a Movie (2021), Best Actress in a Series (2018), Best Translation (Drama) of the Year (2005), Presidential Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role (2005), Best Upcoming Actress (Movie) (2004 and 2003), and the BUNKA Award of Recognition for Valuable Contribution to Sri Lankan Theatre. Nadie has co-written the screenplay Thaala (Sri Lankan Children’s Movie), and she is currently co-writing a screenplay with director Anura de Silva for Ashram Productions (Sri Lanka).
Nadie is currently based in Sydney.

Daniel is a composer, sound designer and multi instrumentalist. He has performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, John Farnham, Yothu Yindi, Sebine Meyer, Mikko Frank and many others. He has written and recorded multiple albums and worked extensively as a session player, programmer and producer. He has scored and designed numerous films, plays […]

Daniel is a composer, sound designer and multi instrumentalist. He has performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, John Farnham, Yothu Yindi, Sebine Meyer, Mikko Frank and many others. He has written and recorded multiple albums and worked extensively as a session player, programmer and producer. He has scored and designed numerous films, plays and dance works, including work with Flashgun Films, Cascade Films, Little Ones Theatre, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, American Girl, Universal Television, Disney Pictures, Al Jazeera, The National Gallery Australia, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre, Malthouse Theatre, Chunky Move, Dirty Pretty Theatre, Griffin Theatre Company, Ensemble Theatre, Madman Entertainment, NBCU, ABC, Netflix, Arts House, HBO, Films by Jove and many others. In 2020 he won the Greenroom award for Malthouse Theatre’s Production of Loaded.

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 […]

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.

Romanie Is a set and costume designer based in Melbourne. Her recent design credits include The Cherry Orchard, Packer and Sons (Belvoir Street Theatre), Sunshine Super Girl (Sydney Festival and Performing Lines), Runt (fortyfive downstairs), What Am I Supposed to Do? and Equinox (Deep Souful Sweats), Australian Realness, Trustees, Good Muslim Boy, Little Emperors and […]

Romanie Is a set and costume designer based in Melbourne. Her recent design credits include The Cherry Orchard, Packer and Sons (Belvoir Street Theatre), Sunshine Super Girl (Sydney Festival and Performing Lines), Runt (fortyfive downstairs), What Am I Supposed to Do? and Equinox (Deep Souful Sweats), Australian Realness, Trustees, Good Muslim Boy, Little Emperors and Turbine (Malthouse), The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You (MTC), Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!, We All Know Whats Happening and Never Trust A Creative City (Arts House), Contest and Moral Panic (Darebin Speakeasy), Bottomless, This Is Eden, Resident Alien and Triumph (fortyfive downstairs), Conviction (ZLMD Shakespeare), M+M (Daniel Schlusser Ensemble), The Sovereign Wife (Sisters Grimm, NEON), META (Malthouse Helium), The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and Bright World (Theatre Works), and Madonna Arms (Next Wave). In New York she has worked with The Wooster Group, and co-designed Radiohole’s Inflatable Frankenstein (The Kitchen).

Morgan’s work as Lighting Designer includes: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, SONG OF FIRST DESIRE, NAYIKA: A DANCING GIRL (Belvoir), SHITTY (Belvoir 25A), DIDO & AENEAS, LA SERVA PADRONA (Pinchgut Opera), THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Hayes Theatre), FLY GIRL, EMERALD CITY, THE QUEEN’S NANNY, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLYDE’S (Ensemble), CLEANSED (Redline), GIRLS IN BOYS’ CARS (NTofP), THE WET, THE DRY (Circa Cairns), INFERNO (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra), THE BARBER OF […]

Morgan’s work as Lighting Designer includes: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, SONG OF FIRST DESIRE, NAYIKA: A DANCING GIRL (Belvoir), SHITTY (Belvoir 25A), DIDO & AENEAS, LA SERVA PADRONA (Pinchgut Opera), THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Hayes Theatre), FLY GIRL, EMERALD CITY, THE QUEEN’S NANNY, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLYDE’S (Ensemble), CLEANSED (Redline), GIRLS IN BOYS’ CARS (NTofP), THE WET, THE DRY (Circa Cairns), INFERNO (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra), THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Opera Australia National Tour), ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE (Sugary Rum), JALI (Jubilee Street), SAPLINGS, SHACK (ATYP).
Work as Video Designer includes: APHRODITE (Sydney Chamber Opera), PAIA by NGAIIRE (WOMAD & VIVID).
Work as Lighting and Video Designer includes: COLLAPSIBLE (Essential Workers), which he also co-directed.
Assistant and Associate Designer work includes: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ON SYDNEY HARBOUR (Opera Australia), DRACULA (Sydney Theatre Company), ORLANDO (Belvoir).
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).

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 […]

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).

Alyx Dennison is a singer, composer and sound designer living and working on Gadigal Land. She is a fierce advocate for equality in education and the arts, with a particular interest in work which illuminates (and works to dissolve) systems of class, power and hierarchy. She cut her teeth on experimental pop duo kyü, who toured […]

Alyx Dennison is a singer, composer and sound designer living and working on Gadigal Land. She is a fierce advocate for equality in education and the arts, with a particular interest in work which illuminates (and works to dissolve) systems of class, power and hierarchy.
She cut her teeth on experimental pop duo kyü, who toured extensively and released two critically acclaimed albums (Popfrenzy/Inertia) before disbanding in 2012. She continued her study of classical and experimental vocal traditions abroad as well as some studies in Interactive Composition at the VCA before joining Nick Wales’ ensemble for Shaun Parker Company’s Am I (as vocalist and multi-instrumentalist) which toured internationally. In 2015, she released and toured her self-titled solo LP (Popfrenzy/Caroline) which was lauded as an evolution from her previous work.
She has performed at Meredith Music Festival, Mona Foma, Carriageworks, The State Theatre and played with acts such as LAMB (UK), Sarah Blasko, Juana Molina (Argentina), Xiu Xiu (US) and Deradoorian of The Dirty Projectors (US).
Alyx’s composition and sound design credits for stage include; Grey Rhino by Charmene Yap and Cass Mortimer Eipper for Sydney Festival/Carriageworks 2022, Limbic by Cass Mortimer Eipper for Australasian Dance Collective 2022; The Mother Project a multi-disciplinary work directed by Clemence Williams 2022; for Agatha Gothe-Snape; The Outcome is Certain 2020 and Wet Matter 2020 (lead by Evelyn Morris) for MUMA, Double Beat by Sara Black for Form Dance Projects 2019-2022; for Griffin Theatre Company: Splinter by Hilary Bell and directed by Lee Lewis 2019 and Superheroes by Mark Rogers and directed by Shari Sebbens 2020 (associate to Dave Bergman); for Karul Projects: Mi:wi by Taree Sansbury for Next Wave Festival 2018, WOLLUMBIN / / WARNING 2017 and CO_EX_EN by Thomas E.S. Kelly for Dance Massive 2019, Story Club Solo by Zoe Norton-Lodge for Sydney Opera House 2017. Film credits include; Nataptedi by Yolanda Lowatta for Art_Apart 2022; Liminal for Australasian Dance Collective 2020 and ID for Transit Dance Company 2020 – both choreographed and directed by Cass Mortimer Eipper; a series of short films born of Liverpool Girls’ Highschool’s Refugee Art Project, and Outbreak Generation by Brooke Goldfinch which premiered at Sydney Film Festival in 2017.
She has performed in works by internationally renowned artists such as Agatha Gothe-Snape, Oliver Beer (UK), Patricia Piccinini, Lauren Brincat; and has performed alongside legendary new music vocalist Joan La Barbara (NY), and has appeared in works presented at The Art Gallery of NSW, The Bienale of Sydney, Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, National Gallery of Australia, MONA and Opéra National de Paris. She has cultivated a practice that enables her love (and compulsion for) experimentation, connection and collaboration, and is honoured to be joining the Belvoir family for Rep Season.

Madeleine is a sound designer & composer working on Gadigal land. Combining her backgrounds in technical theatre and music, she is interested in storytelling through sound and in being part of the creation of new Australian theatrical works. Recent select credits include: Hot Tub (Belvoir 25A); Scab (ATYP); All the Fraudulent Horse Girls (Old Fitz); Shitty (Belvoir 25A); The Weekend (Belvoir). She has also recently […]

Madeleine is a sound designer & composer working on Gadigal land. Combining her backgrounds in technical theatre and music, she is interested in storytelling through sound and in being part of the creation of new Australian theatrical works. Recent select credits include: Hot Tub (Belvoir 25A); Scab (ATYP); All the Fraudulent Horse Girls (Old Fitz); Shitty (Belvoir 25A); The Weekend (Belvoir). She has also recently worked as associate sound designer and/or realiser for a number of productions including Song of First Desire (Belvoir), Ride the Cyclone (Hayes), Zombie! The Musical (Hayes), and Julia (Sydney Theatre Company). Her work on Shitty was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Sound Design/Composition of an Independent Production. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Theatre and Stage Management) from NIDA.

Charmene Yap is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, movement director, rehearsal director and educator. A graduate of WAAPA and Purchase College New York, her two-decade career includes performing with leading companies such as Sydney Dance Company, where she is now Rehearsal Associate, as well as Chunky Move, Dancenorth, Lucy Guerin Inc, Tasdance and Armitage Gone! Dance […]

Charmene Yap is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, movement director, rehearsal director and educator. A graduate of WAAPA and Purchase College New York, her two-decade career includes performing with leading companies such as Sydney Dance Company, where she is now Rehearsal Associate, as well as Chunky Move, Dancenorth, Lucy Guerin Inc, Tasdance and Armitage Gone! Dance Company.
Her choreography and movement direction credits include Tell Me I’m Here and The Weekend (Belvoir), The Talented Mr Ripley (Sydney Theatre Company), and Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed seasons and Pre-Professional Year. She co-choreographed Grey Rhino (Sydney Festival 2022) with Cass Mortimer Eipper, assisted Gideon Obarzanek on Us 50, and has created works for Co3 Contemporary Dance and other institutions across Australia.
Her work extends into film, fashion and music, including Red (Del Kathryn Barton), Think of Yourself as Plural (David Rosetzky), and music videos for Katie Noonan and Kate Miller-Heidke.
She has received two Helpmann Awards (2012, 2014) and an Australian Dance Award (2013), and was nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.

Ayah Tayeh is a Sydney-based theatre maker and dramaturg and is currently the Literary Associate at Belvoir. She has worked with Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Darlinghurst Theatre Co, CAAP productions as a producer, stage manager, and dramaturg. Ayah was a participant of Australian Plays Transform’s inaugural Developing the Dramaturg program, as well as ATYP’s Cultivate program. Her […]

Ayah Tayeh is a Sydney-based theatre maker and dramaturg and is currently the Literary Associate at Belvoir. She has worked with Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Darlinghurst Theatre Co, CAAP productions as a producer, stage manager, and dramaturg.
Ayah was a participant of Australian Plays Transform’s inaugural Developing the Dramaturg program, as well as ATYP’s Cultivate program.
Her Belvoir credits include: Lose to Win (Dramaturgical Consultant, 2024), Counting and Cracking (2022, 2024), The Jungle and The Sea (2022), The Boomkak Panto (2021), A Room of One’s Own (2021) and My Brilliant Career (2020). Other credits include: The President (STC), Constellations, 7 Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Breaking Glass (Sydney Chamber Opera), and Double Delicious (Contemporary Asian Australian Performance with Sydney Festival).
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Deborah was last at Belvoir in Company B’s Greek Tragedy. Other theatre credits include: Wicked Sisters (Griffin), Lady Tabouli (National Theatre Of Parramatta/Sydney Festival), Gods Of Strangers (State Theatre Company South Australia), The God Committee, Heartbreak Kid (Ensemble/tours), The Shearston Shift (Sydney Theatre Company/Australian People’s Theatre/tours), I’m With Her, The Mystery of Love & Sex (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Metamorphoses (Apocalypse/Old Fitz), Unfinished Works, Homesick (Bontom), Seagull (Secret House), Mum’s The Word (Burberry Productions/Australian tours/SOH Playhouse/Glen Street), Dropped (The Goods Theatre Company/Old Fitz), House of Ramon Iglesia (MopHead/Old Fitz), A Kind of Alaska, Suddenly Last Summer, Hotel Hibiscus (NIDA company), Antigone (Sport For Jove), Boswell for the Defence (Sydney Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (theatrongroup). Television credits: Children’s Hospital, My Place, Police Rescue, G.P., Pulse, Rake, Redfern Now (ABC), Camp (NBC/Matchbox), Murder Call (Nine Network), A Country Practice, All Saints, Home and Away (Seven Network). Film credits: Chasing Comets, Balls, Boys From The Bush, Cavity, Inside Out, No Worries, The Premonition, and Razzle Dazzle. A NIDA, Trinity College London, and Sydney University graduate, Deborah’s been nominated for several Sydney Theatre Awards, and is a proud MEAA Member since 1990.

Deborah was last at Belvoir in Company B’s Greek Tragedy. Other theatre credits include: Wicked Sisters (Griffin), Lady Tabouli (National Theatre Of Parramatta/Sydney Festival), Gods Of Strangers (State Theatre Company South Australia), The God Committee, Heartbreak Kid (Ensemble/tours), The Shearston Shift (Sydney Theatre Company/Australian People’s Theatre/tours), I’m With Her, The Mystery of Love & Sex (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Metamorphoses (Apocalypse/Old Fitz), Unfinished Works, Homesick (Bontom), Seagull (Secret House), Mum’s The Word (Burberry Productions/Australian tours/SOH Playhouse/Glen Street), Dropped (The Goods Theatre Company/Old Fitz), House of Ramon Iglesia (MopHead/Old Fitz), A Kind of Alaska, Suddenly Last Summer, Hotel Hibiscus (NIDA company), Antigone (Sport For Jove), Boswell for the Defence (Sydney Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (theatrongroup). Television credits: Children’s Hospital, My Place, Police Rescue, G.P., Pulse, Rake, Redfern Now (ABC), Camp (NBC/Matchbox), Murder Call (Nine Network), A Country Practice, All Saints, Home and Away (Seven Network). Film credits: Chasing Comets, Balls, Boys From The Bush, Cavity, Inside Out, No Worries, The Premonition, and Razzle Dazzle. A NIDA, Trinity College London, and Sydney University graduate, Deborah’s been nominated for several Sydney Theatre Awards, and is a proud MEAA Member since 1990.

Deborah was last at Belvoir in Company B’s Greek Tragedy. Other theatre credits include: Wicked Sisters (Griffin), Lady Tabouli (National Theatre Of Parramatta/Sydney Festival), Gods Of Strangers (State Theatre Company South Australia), The God Committee, Heartbreak Kid (Ensemble/tours), The Shearston Shift (Sydney Theatre Company/Australian People’s Theatre/tours), I’m With Her, The Mystery of Love & Sex (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Metamorphoses (Apocalypse/Old Fitz), Unfinished Works, Homesick (Bontom), Seagull (Secret House), Mum’s The Word (Burberry Productions/Australian tours/SOH Playhouse/Glen Street), Dropped (The Goods Theatre Company/Old Fitz), House of Ramon Iglesia (MopHead/Old Fitz), A Kind of Alaska, Suddenly Last Summer, Hotel Hibiscus (NIDA company), Antigone (Sport For Jove), Boswell for the Defence (Sydney Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (theatrongroup). Television credits: Children’s Hospital, My Place, Police Rescue, G.P., Pulse, Rake, Redfern Now (ABC), Camp (NBC/Matchbox), Murder Call (Nine Network), A Country Practice, All Saints, Home and Away (Seven Network). Film credits: Chasing Comets, Balls, Boys From The Bush, Cavity, Inside Out, No Worries, The Premonition, and Razzle Dazzle. A NIDA, Trinity College London, and Sydney University graduate, Deborah’s been nominated for several Sydney Theatre Awards, and is a proud MEAA Member since 1990.

Deborah was last at Belvoir in Company B’s Greek Tragedy. Other theatre credits include: Wicked Sisters (Griffin), Lady Tabouli (National Theatre Of Parramatta/Sydney Festival), Gods Of Strangers (State Theatre Company South Australia), The God Committee, Heartbreak Kid (Ensemble/tours), The Shearston Shift (Sydney Theatre Company/Australian People’s Theatre/tours), I’m With Her, The Mystery of Love & Sex (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Metamorphoses (Apocalypse/Old Fitz), Unfinished Works, Homesick (Bontom), Seagull (Secret House), Mum’s The Word (Burberry Productions/Australian tours/SOH Playhouse/Glen Street), Dropped (The Goods Theatre Company/Old Fitz), House of Ramon Iglesia (MopHead/Old Fitz), A Kind of Alaska, Suddenly Last Summer, Hotel Hibiscus (NIDA company), Antigone (Sport For Jove), Boswell for the Defence (Sydney Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (theatrongroup). Television credits: Children’s Hospital, My Place, Police Rescue, G.P., Pulse, Rake, Redfern Now (ABC), Camp (NBC/Matchbox), Murder Call (Nine Network), A Country Practice, All Saints, Home and Away (Seven Network). Film credits: Chasing Comets, Balls, Boys From The Bush, Cavity, Inside Out, No Worries, The Premonition, and Razzle Dazzle. A NIDA, Trinity College London, and Sydney University graduate, Deborah’s been nominated for several Sydney Theatre Awards, and is a proud MEAA Member since 1990.