THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING LEAR & HIS THREE DAUGHTERS

William Shakespeare

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. 

Ahunim Abebe

Ahunim graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 2022 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting).

King Lear will be Ahunim’s Belvoir debut. Other theatre credits include Sydney Theatre Company’s Circle Mirror Transformation, State Theatre Company South Australia’s The Puzzle, and Jack Maggs, Bell Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream and Embellishment for Voices of Women Inc.

Ahunim can also be seen in short film Consume.

Peter Carroll

Peter’s distinguished career has spanned over 100 productions and 50 years. He has worked with the major theatre companies and commercial managements in Australia. Peter was a founding member of Nimrod Theatre Company in the 1970s and has been with Sydney Theatre Company from its Opera House beginnings and was a member of their actor’s company more recently.

Peter has appeared in notable works at Belvoir such as Oedipus Rex, Happy Days, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, The Chairs, Life of Galileo, An Enemy of the People, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, Seventeen, Christmas Carol, Old Man and Into The Woods.

His recent plays include Girl from the North Country (GWB), Little Women (Hayes Theatre), The Dismissal (Squabbalogic), The Player Kings (Sport for Jove), The Tempest, Do Not Go Gentle (Sydney Theatre Company) and Menenius in Coriolanus (Bell Shakespeare).

Peter’s film and television career has been extensive here in Australia and internationally. Select TV credits include Playing Gracie Darling, Aftertaste, Optics, Colin from Accounts, Melba, Five Mile Creek, Bump, The Letdown, Bloom, and Rake. Film credits include The Power of the Dog, Sleeping Beauty, Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Crazy Rich Asians.

Peter has received Green Room, Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle, Helpmann awards and an Honorary Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong. Peter is the inaugural recipient of the Media Arts & Entertainment Alliance’s Lifetime Achievement Award; and he continues to be a proud supporter of the union. Peter was awarded an AM for his services to the theatre in 2021.

Tom Conroy

For Belvoir, Tom’s credits include Holding the Man, The Master and Margarita, Tell Me I’m Here, My Brilliant Career, Ghosts, Jasper Jones, Mortido, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Small and Tired. Tom’s other theatre credits include 1984, Hay Fever, Spring Awakening (Sydney Theatre Company); The Mousetrap (John Frost/Crossroads Live national tour); The Wider Earth (Queensland Theatre Company/Sydney Festival and 2022 Tour); Cock (Melbourne Theatre Company/La Boite); Romeo and Juliet (State Theatre Company of South Australia); Moth (Malthouse Theatre/Arena Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet (Bell Shakespeare); Land & Sea (Brink Productions).

His screen work includes Bump on Stan and Hamlet for Bell Shakespeare/ABC Splash Content.

Tom’s performance in Something Natural But Very Childish (La Mama) garnered him a Green Room Award for Best Male Performer in Independent Theatre. He is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts.

James Fraser

ames Fraser made his acting debut opposite Daniel Radcliffe in December Boys and has been a
regular presence on Australian screens ever since. His other film credits include Evicted: A
Modern Romance, Unsound, Pirates Of The Carribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, The Water
Diviner, The Turning, The Wolverine and Sleeping Beauty. He is a multi-award-winning writer and
director, and his films have received acclaim at international festivals including SXSW and
Tribeca.

James’ theatre credits include; Sweat and Appropriate for Sydney Theatre Company; DNA for
Bakehouse Theatre Company; Master And Pupil for The Marais Project; DNA for Last One
Standing Theatre Company; Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar for Cry Havoc Productions; Posh
for Queen Hades Productions; and Macbeth for Darlinghurst Theatre.

James’ television credits include The Wilds, Black Comedy, Deadline Gallipoli, The Killing Field,
ANZAC Girls, Devil’s Playground, Rescue Special Ops, Double Take, All Saints, Out Of The Blue,
Blackjack: At The Gates and Double Trouble. He has appeared in numerous short films
including, Siblings, Laura, Snare, Foreclosure, The Virgin, Turn, Nineteen, The Hand That Feeds,
Kettle, A Song For Nina, Moving, I’m The One, Cinderella Boy, Gavin, Shadow Valley, The Boys
and Legacy.

Charlotte Friels

Charlotte graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2019, and she has since gone on to work in theatre, film and television.

Charlotte’s Belvoir debut will be King Lear. Other theatre credits include Oil for Sydney Theatre Company, Robyn Nevin’s touring production of The Mousetrap for XRoads Live, and Colder Than Here at Ensemble Theatre.

Charlotte was first seen in The Dressmaker, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. Her other film credits include Nitram directed by Justin Kurzel, animated film My Freaky Family, and Cruel Hand and popular short film, Respect The Kink. Charlotte’s television credits After The Verdict on the Nine Network, and The PM’s Daughter on ABC, Channel 7’s Home and Away, Plum, and she can next be seen in Stan’s upcoming series He Had it Coming.

Colin Friels

One of Australia’s best-known actors, Colin Friels has worked extensively across theatre, film and television. His Belvoir credits include Life of Galileo, Dance of Death, Faith Healer, and Mortido. Colins other select theatre credits include Company B’s production of Death of a Salesman (for which he received the 2013 Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play), the Sydney Theatre Company 2002 production of Copenhagen (for which he received the 2003 Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play), The School For Scandal, Macbeth, The Temple and Zebra and most recently Into The Shimmering World. Other theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, and Endgame.

Colin’s film credits include the crime comedy Malcolm, a role that earned him the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Actor, A Heartbeat Away, Tomorrow When The War Began, Matching Jack, The Informant, The Nothing Men, Tom White, for which he was nominated for IF and AFI Awards, The Man Who Sued God, Dark City, Angel Baby, Cosi, Dingo, High Tide, Ground Zero, Kangaroo and Grip, and The Eye of the Storm. Colin’s international films include A Good Man in Africa, A Class Action, Darkman and Prisoners.

On television, Colin spent several years in the popular series Water Rats. Colin can also be seen in Blackjack, Killing Time, Schapelle, Wild Boys and the ABC telemovie Jack Irish: Bad Debts, The Secret Daughter and ABC’s Mystery Road opposite Aaron Pedersen and Judy Davis, ABC’s Wakefield, and Netflix’s Pieces of Her. Other memorable television appearances include Halifax f.p. (for which he received the 1995 AFI Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama), ABC miniseries The Farm, Stark and My Husband My Killer.

Colin has also worked extensively as a voice over artist, narrating three series of the award winning SBS documentary Go Back to Where You Came From, Blackfella Films’ DNA Nation and First Contact Series 2, ‘Terry’ in the Australian animated television series Bubble Bath Bay and The Turning.

Raj Labade

Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Raj Labade began his professional career at the age of 17 in
the 2019 Australian feature film, Back of The Net. At 18, Raj was Accepted into the ‘Bachelor of
Fine Arts (Acting)’ course at the ‘The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts’
(WAAPA). While At WAAPA, Raj was the recipient of multiple prestigious awards. The 2020
Speech and Drama Teachers Association Poetry Prize, the 2021 Vice Chancellor’s Shakespeare
award of ‘Best Production’ for his performance of Hamlet and The 2021 Leslie Anderson Award
for ‘Most Outstanding Graduating Actor’ in his final Showcase performance, graduating at the
age of 21.

Raj’s stage credits include; Tell Me I’m Here and Never Closer for Belvoir; Perth Festival’s
production of Mary Stuart; Sex Magick for Griffin Theatre Company; The Talented Mr
Ripley and Dictionary of Lost Words for Sydney Theatre Company; and the musical adaptation
of My Brilliant Career for Melbourne Theatre Company, for which Raj received a 2025 Green
Room nomination for ‘Best Supporting Actor in a Musical’.
Raj’s recent Television Credits include Appetite (SBS) and The Office (Australian Version –
Amazon Prime).

In 2023, Raj was one of 12 recipients of the CGA ‘Rising Stars’ award “have the potential to break
out on the world stage”.

Brandon McClelland

Brandon graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2012. Brandon’s theatre
credits include: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Wayside Bride, Scenes From
The Climate Era, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, and Packer & Sons with Belvoir; The
Importance of Being Earnest, The Deep Blue Sea, A Cheery Soul, Saint Joan, Three Sisters, The
Present (Broadway Season), A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, The Golden Age, The
Present, and Suddenly Last Summer, with Sydney Theatre Company; Girl in the Machine,
and Flight Paths, with National Theatre of Parramatta; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, with
Ensemble; Little Borders, with Old 505; Fracture, with New Ghosts Theatre Company; and A
Town Named Warboy, with ATYP. Brandon was twice nominated for Best Supporting Actor in
a Mainstage Production from the Sydney Theatre Awards for Packer & Sons and Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf.

Brandon’s film credits include Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, Roger Pulver’s Star Sand, and
James Vanderbilt’s Truth. His television credits include Home & Away, Totally Completely Fine,
CAUGH*T, The Artful Dodger, Gold Diggers, Significant Others, The Moth Effect, Doctor
Doctor, The Other Guy, Black Comedy, Operation Buffalo, Here Comes the Habibs!, Love Child,
Anzac Girls, and Devil’s Playground and most recently in Stan’s original series, Ten Pound
Poms.

Conor Merrigan-Turner

Conor graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) from WAAPA in 2020.

Conor can next be seen as Mick in Toby Morris’s upcoming Feature Film, COOEE. Most notably, Conor can be seen opposite Annette Benning, Sam Neil, Alison Brie and Jake Lacey as one of the lead series regular cast, Logan Delaney, in the Peacock series, APPLES NEVER FALL, as well as the Netflix adventure/drama series, TERRITORY. In 2022, he starred as Luke Cole in the Netflix limited series, THAI CAVE RESCUE, produced by Jon Chu’s SK Global that has reached number one in territories around the world. 

Conor graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) from WAAPA in 2020.

Sukhbir (Sunny) Singh Walia

Sukhbir Singh Walia (known professionally as Sunny S Walia) is an Indian–Australian actor
based in Melbourne.

His Belvoir Street Theatre credits include Counting & Cracking, performed in both the 2024
Melbourne/Sydney/New York City tour and the 2022 United Kingdom tour. Other theatre credits
include Never Have I Ever at Melbourne Theatre Company earlier this year.

Sunny’s feature film credits include Together directed by Michael Shanks, which premiered at
the Sundance Film Festival in 2025; Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism; Blacklight; and the most
recent Ice Road : Vengeance.

His television credits include Apple TV/Paramount’s
Shantaram; Amazon Studios’ remount of Neighbours, Swift Street (ABC), Bad Behaviour (Stan),
and Preacher (AMC/Sony).

In recognition of his work, Sunny received the 2020 Australian Academy of Cinema and
Television Arts (AACTA) Pitch Award

Alison Whyte

Alison Whyte is one of Australia’s most accomplished and celebrated actors, with an outstanding reputation in theatre, film and television.

For Belvoir, Alison’s credits include Faith Healer, as well as Summer of the Seventeenth Doll with Melbourne Theatre Company.

Alison’s other theatre credits include: Death of a Salesman (5 Minute Call), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Michael Cassel Group), The Testament of Mary, Travelling North (Sydney Theatre Company), Jacky, All About My Mother, Richard lll (Melbourne Theatre Company), Macbeth, Hamlet (ASC) and Monsters, Cloudstreet,, The Bloody Chamber, Optimism (Malthouse Theatre), Peter and the Starcatcher (Dead Puppet Society) and Groundhog Day The Musical (GWB Entertainment).

Film: Below, The Dressmaker, Centreplace

Television: Scrublands, Fisk, Jack Irish, Harrow, The Kettering Incident, Glitch, Playing For Keeps, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Tangle, Satisfaction, Frontline.

Alison is the recipient of multiple industry awards including Green Room, Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Awards for her work on stage, as well as Logie and ASTRA Awards for her work onscreen.

Charles Wu

Charles Wu is one of Australia’s most exciting actors of stage and screen.

Charles’ theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard alongside Pamela Rabe, An Enemy of the People, Jasper Jones, Scenes from the Climate Era, Ms. Peony, Samson, The Overcoat: A Musical (Belvoir), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside Hugo Weaving, The Lifespan of a Fact, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mosquitoes, Three Sisters, Chimerica (Sydney Theatre Company), Golden Blood (Griffin Theatre), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Darlinghurst Theatre), The Questions (State Theatre Company South Australia), Bernhardt/Hamlet and Torch the Place for which he won a Green Room award for Best Actor (Melbourne Theatre Company).

Charles is well known for his work on the popular series Doctor Doctor. His other television credits include Summer Love, The Letdown, Harrow, Here Come the Habibs, and Secret City. Charles can also be seen in the feature film Australia Day alongside Bryan Brown, and the web series Liberty Street.

Charles is the lead singer/songwriter of Sydney indie rock band Earthquake Magnificent. He is currently co-writing his first feature film and was a 2024 Heath Ledger Scholarship Finalist.

Jana Zvedeniuk

A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts in 2020, Jana has since worked across Australian theatre and TV. 

Her Belvoir theatre credits include Master and Margarita by Eamon Flack, and Tell Me I’m Here by Leticia Cáceres. Jana also performed in the Australian premiere of Yentl at Arts Centre Melbourne, for which she won a Greenroom Award for Best Performance in the role of Yentl. 

Jana leads in the AACTA nominated TV series, While the Men Are Away, directed by award-winning filmmaker, Elissa Down. She made her TV debut in Netflix’s Glitch by Emma Freeman, and has also featured in the Stan series; Bump.

Jana is an Australian actor of Ukrainian heritage. 

Hilary Geddes

Hilary Geddes is a guitarist, improviser and composer based in Eora/Sydney on Gadigal Land. She is the 2021 Freedman Jazz Fellow, a 2021 ABC Jazz Scholarship recipient, and the 2019 recipient of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. Hilary is the bandleader of the Hilary Geddes Quartet, and released her AIR-nominated debut album ‘Parkside’ (ABC Jazz) in 2021. Hilary works as an in-demand guitarist in the Australian jazz and improvised music scenes, performing alongside jazz luminaries such as Mike Nock, Lakecia Benjamin (USA), Laurence Pike and Jonathan Zwartz. She is also a member of the rock band, The Buoys. 

Jess Green

Jess Green is an Australian guitarist, and vocalist, established as a genre-defying performer and composer. She has toured with jazz & blues luminaries including The catholics, The Vampires, Sandy Evans, Jim Conway and Renee Geyer as well as contemporary artists; Laura Jean, Katie Noonan, Georgia Mooney and Alyx Dennison. She has recorded two instrumental jazz albums ‘The Singing Fish’ and “Tinkly Tinkly’,  released art-pop music under the pseudonym Pheno and appeared on Playschool. Recent projects include Strange Attractors spontaneous improvisations with drummer Dylan van der Schyff, and Indian/Jazz fusion project Shakti Spirit led by Sandy Evans. In 2024 Jess was a key creative and performer for the premiere of new children’s music theatre work The Girl Who Glows (touring Sydney in 2026). Recent commissions include The Australian Art Orchestra,  Patricia Piccinini (Every Heart Sings for NGA, and A Miracle Constantly Repeated for Melbourne Rising)  and Luminescence Chamber Singers.  Jess currently teaches at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is Program Leader Equity in Jazz (Gender). In 2025 Jess was invited to program the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival. Upcoming, Jess is working on a full length theatre work for The Street Theatre with writer Emile Collyer and a second commission for Luminescence chamber singers.

Arjunan Puveendran

Arjunan’s work focuses on the intersection of music, dance, rhythm and dialogue.  As a vocalist, percussionist and speaker, he has co-presented and performed in various arts projects including: Atma: Music and Movement (2017), Bhakti: Art and Devotion (2018), Bhoomi: Woman and Earth (2019), Re-imagining Dance: Brown Bodies on the Global Stage (2020) along with Bhoomi: Our Country for Sydney Festival 2021. He was Composer and Musician on the critically acclaimed mainstage play The Jungle and the Sea (2022) by Belvoir St Theatre and Lingalayam Dance Company for which he won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Original Score.  He also featured in the multi-award-winning play Counting and Cracking (2019) by Belvoir and Co-Curious. He lent his voice to short film Anthi (2021) by Iqbal Barkat and ABC’s first Tik-Tok series The Disposables (2023), and performed dramatic monologue and vocals for Idam: Place (2022). Arjunan was named by the Australia Council as one of its cohort of 25 Arts Leaders in 2020.  He currently serves on the Board of Company B Limited (Belvoir St Theatre).

Now based in Sydney, Arjunan trained in Carnatic vocal music from Sivaganga OAM and percussion under Balasri Rasiah, both under the auspices of Chandrabhanu Bharatalaya Academy in Melbourne. He has undergone further training with leading Carnatic musicians based in Chennai including mridangist T R Sundaresan.

Arjunan’s body of work also comprises music and rhythmic composition, particularly for dancers including the internationally acclaimed Christopher Gurusamy such as collaborations for his works Ananda: Dance of Joy (2024) and 5 Arrows (2025), along with other leading dance practitioners in Australia including Dr Chandrabhanu OAM and Anandavalli. He has produced and performed works as part ofTaste of India, a long running project supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria with performances for the Darebin Music Feast, Piers Festival and Castlemaine Festival. He widely performs Carnatic music for recitals and dance productions including Navagraha: Planets of Destiny (2014), Sringaram (2022) and Asura Natyam (2024).

Bob Cousins

Theatre design includes Cloudstreet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Strange Interlude,  Waiting for Godot , Babyteeth, Mother Courage, and Mortido for Belvoir;  Season at Sarsaparilla, War of the Roses, King Lear, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui  for Sydney Theatre Company;  Moving Target for Malthouse Theatre;  Medea , Husbands and Wives and Flight 49 for Toneelgroep/International Theater Amsterdam; Medea for Burgtheater, Vienna; Eine Griechische Trilogie for Berliner Ensemble and Peer Gynt for Schauspielhaus, Hamburg;  Medea for BAM, New york.

Opera includes Lear and  Médée for Salzburg Festspiele and Polish national Opera; La Traviata for Opera National Paris and Wiener Staatsoper and The Ring for Opera Australia.

Dance includes Weather, Conversation Piece and Motion Picture for Lucy Guerin Inc Dance Company; Complexity of Belonging for Chunky Move Dance Company;

Film designs include Candy, Romulus My Father, Balibo and Ruben Guthrie.

James Stibilj

James Stibilj is an emerging set and costume designer based between Sydney and London, working across theatre, opera and film. James received a BFA in Design For Live Performance from NIDA. His work on NIDA productions Sweeney Todd (costume design, 2023) and Sandaime Richard (set design, 2023) were both nominated for the 2024 APDG Emerging Designer Award, with the latter winning. Since graduating, he has been working as a design assistant for theatre companies including Sydney Theatre Company, Opera Australia, Griffin Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre and Sydney Festival. Supported by the Leslie Walford AM Award, James has undertaken design and assistant directing secondments with theatres including Toneelhuis Antwerpen, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro dell’Opera Di Roma and Polish National Opera. He is a recipient of the 2025 Linbury Prize for emerging stage designers.

Steve Francis

Steve has worked extensively in theatre, dance and screen. His Belvoir credits include The Wrong Gods, The Weekend, Jungle and the Sea, Tell me I’m Here, Cursed, My Brilliant Career, Packer & Sons, Things I Know To Be True, Winyanboga Yurringa, Every Brilliant Thing, The Sugar House, The Book of Everything, The Power of Yes, Ruben Guthrie, Baghdad Wedding, and Capricornia.

His other theatre credits include The Sound Inside, The Children, The Weir, The Sublime (MTC); Julia, No Pay No Way, Appropriate, Beauty Queen of Leanne, Still Point Turning, The Father, The Hanging, Disgraced, Battle of Waterloo, Switzerland, The Long Way Home, The Secret River, Machinal and Bloodland (STC); Boy Swallows Universe (QT); Love Stories (Brisbane Festival); Hamlet, Henry V (Bell Shakespeare); and Between Two Waves, This Year’s Ashes, Speaking in Tongues (Griffin).

For dance, Steve has composed music for Baleen (Adelaide Festival), Horizon, Wudjang, Sandsong, Dark Emu, Bennelong, Belong, True Stories, Skin, Walkabout, Bush (Bangarra Dance).

His awards include Helpmann Awards for Best Original Score in 2012 and 2003 and Best New Australian Work in 2003 and Sydney Theatre Awards in 2011 and 2014.

Arjunan Puveendran

Arjunan’s work focuses on the intersection of music, dance, rhythm and dialogue.  As a vocalist, percussionist and speaker, he has co-presented and performed in various arts projects including: Atma: Music and Movement (2017), Bhakti: Art and Devotion (2018), Bhoomi: Woman and Earth (2019), Re-imagining Dance: Brown Bodies on the Global Stage (2020) along with Bhoomi: Our Country for Sydney Festival 2021. He was Composer and Musician on the critically acclaimed mainstage play The Jungle and the Sea (2022) by Belvoir St Theatre and Lingalayam Dance Company for which he won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Original Score.  He also featured in the multi-award-winning play Counting and Cracking (2019) by Belvoir and Co-Curious. He lent his voice to short film Anthi (2021) by Iqbal Barkat and ABC’s first Tik-Tok series The Disposables (2023), and performed dramatic monologue and vocals for Idam: Place (2022). Arjunan was named by the Australia Council as one of its cohort of 25 Arts Leaders in 2020.  He currently serves on the Board of Company B Limited (Belvoir St Theatre).

Now based in Sydney, Arjunan trained in Carnatic vocal music from Sivaganga OAM and percussion under Balasri Rasiah, both under the auspices of Chandrabhanu Bharatalaya Academy in Melbourne. He has undergone further training with leading Carnatic musicians based in Chennai including mridangist T R Sundaresan.

Arjunan’s body of work also comprises music and rhythmic composition, particularly for dancers including the internationally acclaimed Christopher Gurusamy such as collaborations for his works Ananda: Dance of Joy (2024) and 5 Arrows (2025), along with other leading dance practitioners in Australia including Dr Chandrabhanu OAM and Anandavalli. He has produced and performed works as part ofTaste of India, a long running project supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria with performances for the Darebin Music Feast, Piers Festival and Castlemaine Festival. He widely performs Carnatic music for recitals and dance productions including Navagraha: Planets of Destiny (2014), Sringaram (2022) and Asura Natyam (2024).

Morgan Moroney

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). 

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 Furious Mattress, 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.

Nigel Poulton

Nigel is an award-winning fight, movement, and intimacy director, SAG-AFTRA stunt performer and actor with over 17 years of national and international experience. He is a Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors.

Belvoir credits include: THE SPARE ROOM, THE WRONG GODS, BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY,  THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, NEVER CLOSER, HOLDING THE MAN, COUNTING AND CRACKING, THE REP SEASON, THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, INTO THE WOODS, THE JUNGLE AND THE SEA, LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, WAYSIDE BRIDE, AT WHAT COST, CHERRY ORCHARD, MISS PEONY, MY BRILLIANT CAREER, CURSED!, PACKER AND SONS, THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE, COUNTING AND CRACKING, DANCE OF DEATH, SAMI IN PARADISE, THE SUGAR HOUSE, A TASTE OF HONEY, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, PRIZEFIGHTER.

Other credits include: for Sydney Theatre Company, OIL, THE VISITORS, CONSTELLATIONS, ON THE BEACH, DO NOT GO GENTLE, FENCES, HUBRIS AND HUMILIATION, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE, TOP COAT, THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL, GRAND HORIZONS, APPROPRIATE, PLAYING BEATIE BOW, RULES FOR LIVING, THE DEEP BLUE SEA, LORD OF THE FLIES, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, HOW TO RULE THE WORLD, MARY STUART, DINNER, THE HARP IN THE SOUTH PART ONE AND PART TWO, THE LONG FORGOTTEN DREAM, BLACKIE BLACKIE BROWN (WITH MALTHOUSE), ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST, THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI, SAINT JOAN, SPEED THE PLOW, THREE SISTERS, DINNER, MURIEL’S WEDDING THE MUSICAL, BLACK IS THE NEW WHITE, A CHEERY SOUL, THE GOLDEN AGE, THE PRESENT, SWITZERLAND, MACBETH, NOISES OFF, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, THE REMOVALISTS, ROMEO & JULIET, ROMEO & JULIET (EDUCATION); for Melbourne Theatre Company, THE REMOVALISTS, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, BERNHARDT/HAMLET, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, TWELFTH NIGHT, NOISES OFF, THREE LITTLE WORDS, JASPER JONES, QUEEN LEAR, HAMLET, REALISM, DON JUAN IN SOHO, MACBETH, THE GLASS SOLDIER, CYRANO DE BERGERAC; for Queensland Theatre, GASLIGHT, FIRST CASUALTY, BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE, TRIPLE X (WITH SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY), CITY OF GOLD (WITH GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY), SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, HYDRA, BLACK IS THE NEW WHITE, NOISES OFF! (WITH MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY), JASPER JONES, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, SWITZERLAND, MACBETH, FRACTIONS; for Bell Shakespeare, CORIOLANUS, IN A NUTSHELL: THE POETRY OF VIOLENCE, IN THE ROUND, KING LEAR, ROMEO AND JULIET (X4), HAMLET (X4), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (X3), TWELFTH NIGHT, (X2), THE LOVERS, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE MISER, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, RICHARD III, OTHELLO, THE DREAM, MACBETH, JULIUS CAESAR; AS YOU LIKE IT (X2), SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS; La Boite: ARTISTS COMPANY (2021-22), CLOSER, TIDDAS, IRL, CAPRICORN, MISS PEONY, THE POISON OF POLYGAMY, AN IDEAL HUSBAND, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, JULIUS CAESAR, ROMEO AND JULIET, BLACKROCK, PRIZEFIGHTER, RICHARD III, COSI, A HOAX, JULIUS CEASAR, HAMLET.

Charmene Yap

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.

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 Counting and Cracking directed by Eamon Flack (2024), Never Closer directed by Hannah Goodwin (2024), Lose to Win directed by Jess Arthur (2024), Holding the Man directed by Eamon Flack (2024), At What Cost? directed by Isaac Drandic, Miss Peony directed by Courtney Stewart (2023), The Master & Margarita, Into The Woods, directed by Eamon Flack (2023), Blue, directed by Deborah Brown (2023), The 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).  

Patrick Klavins

Patrick is an educator and coach specialising in voice, text, and dialect, with an expertise in Shakespeare. He is a graduate of NIDA and holds an MFA in Voice. In 2024, after apprenticing with Patsy Rodenburg OBE, he was designated a Patsy Rodenburg Associate (PRA) teacher. He regularly tutors at Actors Centre Australia, JMC Academy, and NIDA.

His recent coaching credits include NIDA BFA productions of Mary Stuart (dir. Marion Potts), Photograph 51 (dir. David Berthold), Spring Awakening (dir. Claudia Osborne), and Frankenstein (dir. Benjamin Schostakowski). At JMC Academy, he worked on graduating productions of Brontë and Jane Eyre (dir. Sandie Eldridge). He has also coached KXT productions of Port (dir. Nigel Turner-Carroll), Babyteeth (dir. Kim Hardwick), IRL and The Pigeons (dir. Eugene Lynch); The Taming of the Shrew for The Playwrought Project (dir. Tasha O’Brien); and Flying Penguin Productions’ American Song and Glengarry Glen Ross (dir. David Mealor).

Patrick is a past recipient of the Mike Walsh Fellowship.

The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear & His Three Daughters (dir. Eamon Flack) marks Patrick’s first coaching credit for Belvoir St Theatre.

Luke McGettigan

Luke is Belvoir’s Resident Stage Manager. For Belvoir, he has stage managed Orlando, The Spare Room, Song of First Desire, August Osage County, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Never Closer, Holding the Man, Master and Margarita, The Weekend, Scenes from the Climate Era, Blessed Union, The Jungle and the Sea, Tell Me I’m Here, Opening Night, The Boomkak Panto, Stop Girl, My Brilliant Career, A Room of One’s Own, Packer & Sons, Things I Know To, Be True, Counting and Cracking, The Dance of Death, A Taste of Honey, Sami in Paradise, Barbara and the Camp Dogs, Ghosts, The Rover, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, Faith Healer, Twelfth Night or What You Will, The Great Fire, Mortido, Seventeen, Elektra/Orestes, Radiance, The Glass Menagerie, Brothers Wreck, Once in Royal David’s City, Miss Julie, Forget Me Not, Peter Pan (including New York tour), Private Lives, Death of a Salesman, Babyteeth, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Neighbourhood Watch, The Wild Duck (including UK and Europe tours), Namatjira (Belvoir/Big hART), Page 8, The End, That Face, The Promise, Scorched, Antigone, Keating!, The Little Cherry Orchard and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. His other credits include The Pig Iron People, The Give and Take, Bed, La Dispute (Sydney Theatre Company); Like a Fishbone (STC / Griffin); The Government Inspector, The Tempest, The Servant of Two Masters, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew (Bell Shakespeare); Paradise City, Through the Wire (Performing Lines); and Alive at Williamstown Pier (Griffin).

Rebecca Dilley

Hailing from Donnybrook, Western Australia, Bec Dilley is a freelance stage manager excited to be returning to Belvoir St Theatre for ‘King Lear’.

With a BPA in Stage Management from WAAPA, Bec graduated in 2023 as the inaugural winner of the Peter Hurford Award for Excellence. Since then, she has worked on a variety of productions varying in genre, style and scale.

Her recent ASM credits include: ‘August Osage County’ (Belvoir 2024 & Black Swan 2025), ‘La Bohème’ (OA National Tour 2024), ‘Death of a Salesman’ (GWB – Sydney Season 2024), ‘West Side Story’ (Handa Opera on the Sydney Harbour 2024), ‘GURR ERA OP’ (Force Majeure – Premiere Season 2024) & ‘The Barber of Seville’ (OA National Tour 2023).

Passionate about the live entertainment industry, Bec has also maintained steady work in the festival circuit, working casually for Sydney Festival (2024), as Production Assistant for Perth Festival (2023 – 2025) and as Site Manager for Perth Festival Special Project’s ‘High Voltage’ (2023).

Bec is thrilled to be working at Belvoir in such an illustrious company and hopes to continue to build a broad, distinguished career.