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

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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. 

Peter Carroll

Peter’s distinguished career has spanned over 90 productions. He continues to work in musical theatre, new Australian texts and the classics. For Belvoir, Peter has appeared in The Cherry Orchard, Life of Galileo, An Enemy of The People, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, Twelfth Night, The Great Fire, Seventeen, A Christmas Carol, Oedipus Rex, Old Man, The Book of Everything, Happy Days, Hamlet, The Blind Giant is Dancing, The Tempest, The Chairs and Stuff Happens. His other theatre credits include The Tempest, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mary Stuart, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company); Krapp’s Last Tape (State Theatre Company of South Australia/MONA FOMO tour); Girl from the North Country (GWB Entertainment), Last Man Standing, Into The Woods, Sweeney Todd (Melbourne Theatre Company), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (TML Enterprises); Night on Bald Mountain (Malthouse Theatre); and No Man’s Land (Queensland Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company). Peter’s film credits include The Power of Dog, Sleeping Beauty, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Crazy Rich Asians, Happy Feet, Black and White. His various television credits includeThe Moth Effect, Aftertaste, The Letdown, Bloom, Rake, Grass Roots, Diamond of Jeru, Changi, The Farm, Farscape. Peter has won many awards including Green Room Awards, a Helpmann Award, a Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle Award, an Honorary Doctorate of Creative Arts and a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Performer in a Supporting Role (2022). Peter is the recipient of the Media Arts & Entertainment Alliance’s Lifetime Achievement Award; and he continues to be a proud supporter of the union.

Tom Conroy

For Belvoir, Tom’s credits include The Master & 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.

Charlotte Friels

Charlotte is a recent NIDA graduate, who has since gone on to work in theatre and film. Her theatre credits include playing Drury in Goldilocks, Lady Anne in Richard III and Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard for NIDA, and her film credits include The Dressmaker by Jocelyn Moorhouse, Nitram by Justin Kurzel and Respect the Kink.

Colin Friels

Raj Labade

Raj Labade will star as ‘Sebastian’ in the highly anticipated Amazon Prime series, The Office: Australia. In 2023, Raj worked in the STC/State Theatre production Dictionary of Lost Words, and Griffin Theatre production Sex Magick, as well as the SBS series Appetite. In 2022, Raj starred in the Belvoir production Tell Me I’m Here, the acclaimed Belvoir 25a production Never Closer and Performing Lines’ Mary Stuart.. At 17, Raj began his professional career as ‘Lewis’ in the Netflix feature film Back of the Net and, at 18, was accepted into the illustrious Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Whilst 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 Best Graduating Actor in his final showcase performance.  In 2023, Raj was named one of the Casting Guild of Australia’s Rising Stars.

Brandon McClelland

Brandon graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2012. Brandon’s theatre credits include: Wayside Bride, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, and Packer & Sons, with Belvoir; The Deep Blue Sea, A Cheery Soul, Saint Joan, Three Sisters, The Present (Broadway Season), A Midsummers Night’s Dream, The Golden Age, The Present, Suddenly Last Summer, and M.Rock, 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’s film credits include, Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, Roger Pulvers’ Star Sand, James Vanderbilt’s Truth, and Darby Deck’s short films Waking Moon and Walk Right In. His television credits include Significant Others, The Moth Effect, Doctor Doctor, The Other Guy, Black Comedy, Operation: Buffalo, Here Come the Habibs!, Love Child, Anzac Girls,and Devil’s Playground. Brandon can most recently be seen in Fremantle Media’s Totally Completely Fine as ‘Hendrix’. He is also a founding member and performer with comedy troupe ‘The United States of Kensington’. 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. He also received a 2015 Logie Award nomination for Most Outstanding Newcomer, was shortlisted for the 2015 Heath Ledger scholarship, and won The Equity Award for an Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, both for Anzac Girls.

Charles Wu

Charles Wu is one of Australia’s most exciting actors of stage and screen. Charles graduated from NIDA in 2014 and is well known for his work on popular series Doctor Doctor. Charles’ other television credits include Summer Love, The Letdown, Harrow, Here Come the Habibs, and Secret City. He was also seen in feature film Australia Day, and web series Liberty Street.

Charles’s theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard alongside Pamela Rabe, An Enemy of the People, Jasper Jones, Samson, The Overcoat: A Musical (Belvoir), The Lifespan of a Fact, Mosquitoes, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Three Sisters, Chimerica (Sydney Theatre Company), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Darlinghurst Theatre), Golden Blood (Griffin Theatre), and Torch the Place for which he won a Green Room award for Best Actor(Melbourne Theatre Company). Charles was most recently seen on stage in Bernhardt/Hamlet as ‘Edmond Rostand’ for the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Alison Whyte

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).