THE MASTER & MARGARITA

Eamon Flack

Eamon Flack is the Artistic Director of Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney. He is a director, writer, dramaturg and script developer for stage and screen.

 Eamon was born in Singapore and grew up in Singapore, Darwin, Cootamundra and Brisbane. He has a BA (English and History) from the University of Queensland, and trained as an actor at WAAPA from 2001 to 2003. He has worked around Australia and internationally, from the Tiwi Islands to Sri Lanka and the UK. He has led Belvoir’s new work development in various guises since 2006, and has commissioned and developed many of the company’s most acclaimed new works over the last 15 years.

His productions of The Glass Menagerie, Angels in America and Counting and Cracking won the Helpmann Awards for Best Play in 2015, 2016, and 2019. 

His key directing credits include: Counting and Cracking (with Associate Director S. Shakthidharan, winner of the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play and nominated for the Sydney Theatre Award Best Direction of the Mainstage Production), The Jungle and the Sea (co-directed with S. Shakthidharan, winner of Best New Work and Best Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards), Angels in America, The Glass Menagerie, Into the Woods, 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 Hendrik Ibsen’s Ghosts and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Ivanov (Sydney Theatre Awards Best Production and Best Director), as well as The Rover, The Blind Giant is Dancing, As You Like It, and Beckett’s The End. His 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 (winner of the 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 (Winner, Best New Work, Sydney Theatre Awards 2022); 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.

Mikhail Bulgakov

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.

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.

Gary Daley

Gary Daley is a highly respected Australian composer, pianist, accordionist and teacher from Springwood in NSW. Best known as a musician playing in some of the elite bands of Australian jazz; most notably, The catholics. He leads the quartet, Bungarribee, which features his own compositions along with interpretations from the classical repertoire. 

Gary’s projects have received many glowing reviews and his music has been presented at major venues and festivals throughout Australia. He appears on many recordings featuring renowned Australian contemporary artists. 

He has toured nationally and internationally, most recently with Australian multi award winning world music ensemble, The Mara Big band & Eishan ensemble. 

He is the recipient of two Australia council for the arts grants ie New work and recording. 

Another side to Gary is his appearances on the ABC TV children’s channel in the ARIA nominated pre-school show Lah Lah’s Adventures and the Stripy Sock Club. 

In addition to performing, recording and touring Gary is the artistic director for the highly regarded concert series, Live at the the Village in the NSW Blue Mountains. In addition to presenting many renowned Australian and international artists over the last decade, he curated the inaugural Live the Village music festival, presented in August 2022. 

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.

Amber McMahon

Amber trained at Flinders University Drama Centre, the Stella Adler Company and SITI Company in New York. Best known for her work in theatre, Amber boasts an extensive list of credits.

Belvoir credits include; Stop Girl, Dance Nation, Bliss, Atlantis, Twelfth Night, Angels in America, and The Power of Yes. Other selected theatre credits include; Top Coat, Rules for Living, Banging Denmark, Accidental Death of an Anarchist and The Popular Mechanicals for Sydney Theatre Company; Girl Asleep and School Dance for Windmill; A Broadcast Coup, Photograph 51, Tribes and The Appleton Ladies Potato Race for Ensemble, Small Mouth Sounds for Darlinghurst; North by Northwest for Kay & McLean Productions and Optimism and Picnic at Hanging Rock for Malthouse, which included two seasons at Royal Lyceum Edinburgh and Barbican London.

Amber was also a member of the Sydney Theatre Company Actors Ensemble, appearing in War of the Roses, The Season at Sarsaparilla, The Lost Echo, Gallipoli, and The Art of War.

Amber’s screen credits include the feature film Girl Asleep and the series Erotic Stories and The Hunting for SBS.

She has received two Helpmann Awards for Best Female in a Supporting Role one for Girl Asleep for Belvoir/Windmill and School Dance one for Windmill.

Josh Price

Josh graduated from VCA in Acting in 2008 and quickly established himself in Melbourne theatre regularly performing for MTC, Malthouse and Chunky Move. Since moving to Sydney he has performed in A Streetcar Named Desire (Red Line/Old Fitz), Let The Right One In (Darlinghurst) The Cherry Orchard (Belvoir), Titus Andronicus (Bell Shakespeare) and Going Down (STC/Malthouse). During 2020 Josh was part of Belvoir’s Artists at Work program.  Other theatre includes The Violent Outburst That Drew Me to You (MTC), Complexity Of Belonging (MTC/Chunky Move), An Ideal Husband (MTC), Looking Glass (Fortyfive Downstairs), Antigone (Malthouse). The Good Person Of Szechuan (Malthouse/National Theatre of China), M+M (Melbourne Festival), The Histrionic (Malthouse/STC) and Elektra (Fraught Outfit/The Dog Theatre. Musical Theatre: Blue Angel (Big Hart), Margaret Fulton Queen Of The Desert (Theatreworks) and The Love Birds (Melbourne Festival). TV: Latecomers (SBS), After The Verdict (Nine Network), Molly (Seven Network) Australia On Trial (ABC), Underbelly: Infiltration (Nine Network) and City Homicide (Seven Network). Feature Films: You Can Say Vagina and John Doe: Vigilante.

Matilda Ridgway

Matilda is an award-winning actor, director, theatre maker and arts educator. She is a proud member
of MEAA.

Matilda’s credits at Belvoir include Master and Margarita (2023), Rep Season (2022), Artists at
Work (2020), and Jasper Jones (2016). Her other theatre credits include Notre Dame (Brandenburg
Orchestra); Just Romeo and Juliet!, Just Macbeth!, Hamlet, Henry IV, and The Players (Bell
Shakespeare); The Norman Conquests Trilogy, Proof, Seminar, My Wonderful Day, Rain Man,
Brooklyn Boy, Ruby Sunrise (Ensemble Theatre); Platonov, and Sweet Nothings (ATYP); The
Merchant of Venice, A Doll’s House, The Crucible, A Midsummer Nights Dream and Much Ado
About Nothing (Sport for Jove) The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Kayak, Cock and Sprout (Old
Fitzroy Theatre).

Her film credits include the TV series Hiding (ABC), Bump (Stan) and the films June Again, Book
Week, Disclosure, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, The Guests and Memorabilia.
The Guests was nominated for the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film festival. Disclosure was
nominated for the ‘Best Indie Film’ at the 2021 AACTA Awards. Matilda won ‘Best Performance in
an Australian Short Film’ at the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival for her role in
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. She has been nominated for three Sydney Theatre
Awards and won for her performance of Nora in A Dolls House.

Anna Samson

A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Anna has gone on to perform extensively in theatre, film and television.

Anna’s theatre credits include THE MASTER AND MARGARITA for Belvoir and BLISS for Belvoir and Malthouse Theatre. SKYLIGHT, BIRDLAND, THE SUBLIME and THE HERETIC for Melbourne Theatre Company, POMPEII L.A at Malthouse Theatre, LOVE for Darlinghurst Theatre, ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE for The Old Fitz and Seymour Centre, CONSENT at the Seymour Centre, DAY ONE, A HOTEL, EVENING, RUBEN GUTHRIE and WET HOUSE for Red Stitch, ARDEN V ARDEN for The Hayloft Project, and THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT for Theatre Works.

Anna can most recently be seen in the leading role on the television series RETURN TO PARADISE for the ABC and BBC. Other select television
credits include WAKE IN FRIGHT, DEAD LUCKY, JACK IRISH, THE LEFTOVERS, HUNTERS, WINNERS AND LOSERS, OFFSPRING, HALIFAX, HOME AND AWAY and THE DOCTOR BLAKE MURDER MYSTERIES.

Film credits include CHILDREN OF THE CORN, CRIME & PUNISHMENT and WHAT IF IT WORKS?, for which she received an Ozflicks Independent Film Award. Anna has been nominated for Helpmann, Green Room and Sydney Theatre awards. Anna is a previous Australian Counsel for the Arts grant recipient and a Master’s student at Sydney University.

Mark Leonard Winter

Mark is a graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Mark starred in the 2012 production of Thyestes at Belvoir, which he co-wrote. Other selected theatre credits as an actor include: Miss Julie and Birdland (Melbourne Theatre Company); Three Sisters, King Lear, Chimerica, Suddenly Last Summer and The Effect (Sydney Theatre Company).
Mark’s feature film credits include: Escape from Pretoria; Measure for Measure; Little Tornadoes; Disclosure; The Dressmaker; Healing; Balibo and Van Dieman’s Land.

Mark also wrote and directed his feature film debut The Rooster starring Hugo Weaving and Phoenix Raei which recently screened at The Melbourne International Film Festival where it was selected for the Bright Horizons competition. It also screened in competition at Cinefest Oz and has been selected for multiple festivals over the coming months before it’s release in early 2024.

His television credits include: Fires, The Newsreader, Cleverman (Series 2) (ABC); Eden (STAN); Pine Gap (Netflix); Top of the Lake: China Girl (Foxtel, BBC Two); Pacific (HBO) and Killing Time (TV1).

Mark has received two Helpmann awards for his work, and in 2017 he was a recipient of the prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship which recognises outstanding talent and exceptional courage in mid-career artists.

Jana Zvedeniuk

Recent theatre credits include Tell Me I’m Here at Belvoir St Theatre, directed by Leticia Cáceres, and the Australian premiere of Yentl at Arts Centre Melbourne, for which Jana won the 2023 Greenroom Award for Best Performance in the role of Yentl. Accoladed five stars by Time Out and Spectator, reviews described: “Jana Zvedeniuk is a marvel. The finest exhibition of the highest kind of histrionic skills.”

Jana Zvedeniuk can currently be seen in SBS’s television series, While the Men Are Away, in the leading role of Esther. The dramaedy that recently aired was directed by award-winning Australian filmmaker, Elissa Down. She made her TV debut in Netflix’s Glitch, as Young Vicky, and has also featured in the Stan/BBC Series, Bump, as Katarina.

Jana is an Australian actor of Ukrainian Jewish heritage. She has undertaken a BFA in Fine Arts (Acting) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).

Tom Wright

Tom has written a number of award-winning plays and adaptations, including The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The War of the Roses, The Lost Echo, Lorilei, Medea, Babes in the Wood, Baal, Optimism, On the Misconception of Oedipus, The Histrionic, and Black Diggers. He was Associate Director of Sydney Theatre Company from 2004 to 2012. He is currently Artistic Associate at Belvoir, for whom he adapted Life of Galileo in 2019 and Bliss in 2018, and has worked as an actor and director at Playbox (now Malthouse Theatre), Melbourne Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, La Mama, Company B, Anthill, Gilgul, Mene Mene, Bell Shakespeare, Chunky Move, Black Swan and Chamber Made Opera.

Romanie Harper

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).

Nick Schlieper

Nick Schlieper has designed for all of the major performing arts companies in Australia, and works regularly in Europe and the USA. He is one of Australia’s most highly awarded designers having received seven Sydney Critics Awards (two for set design and 5 for lighting design), six Melbourne Green Room Awards, the inaugural 2013 Australian Production Designers Guild Best Lighting Design Award, as well as 5 Helpmann Awards for best lighting and a 2016 Nomination for Best Lighting and Best Set (with Simon Phillips) for North by Northwest.

Recent productions for Belvoir include Opening Night, Packer & Sons, Ghosts, Twelfth Night and set and lightingfor Once In Royal David’s City.

His many productions for Sydney Theatre Co include The Tempest, Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde, Playing Beatie Bow (which recently re-opened the Wharf), Dorian Gray, Wonnangatta,The  Harp In The South, Chimerica, Macbeth,  St Joan, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The War of the Roses, The Season At Sarsaparilla, The Maids and Gross und Klein, as well as set and lightingfor Endgame, Face To Face and Baal. For Melbourne Theatre Co, his work includes As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Richard III, Hamlet, The Tempest and The Visit, as well as set and lighting for North By Northwest (with Simon Phillips), Photograph 51 and Death and The Maiden.

His international work includesproductions of Lear and Medeé for the Salzburg Festival, Billy Budd and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Hamburg State Opera; The Devils of Loudun at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; The Hostage for the Royal Shakespeare Company; The Government Inspector for Theatr Clwyd; Waiting for Godot at The Barbican, London;   Armut, Reichtum, and The Ginger Man for Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg; Kasimir und Karoline and Lea’s Hochzeit in Vienna; U.F.A. Revue in Berlin and the Kennedy Centre Washington; Michael Kramer and Ein Florentinerhut in Berlin; Michael Bogdanov’s productions of Macbeth and Peer Gynt for the State Theatre of Bavaria; Uncle Vanya and Private Confessions (both directed by Liv Ullman for The National Theatre of Norway)  Aristokraten in Stuttgart; Away and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll at the Summerfare Festival in New York and Hedda Gabler, Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya and The Maids, allwith Cate Blanchett, also in New York. His lighting designs for The Present and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert have been seen on Broadway and Gross und Klein also travelled to Paris, London and Vienna.

He has lit many productions for Opera Australia and was lighting and associate set designer for the first Australian production of The Ring Cycle in Adelaide.

Nick’swork in Music Theatre includes Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Musical in Australia, on Broadway, the West End, Toronto, Sao Paolo and throughout Europe; Love Never Dies in Hamburg, Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne and a US national tour for The Really Useful Company.

His designs for Bangarra Dance Theatre includes their acclaimed productions of Bennelong, Patyegarang and Bush.

Stefan Gregory

Stefan Gregory is an Australian composer and sound designer for theatre, dance and film. His recent productions include: Medea (Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY), Yerma (The Young Vic, London), Medea, Ibsen Huis, Husbands And Wives (Toneelgroep Amsterdam), Drei Schwestern, Engel In Amerika, Medea (Theatre Basel), Trilogie de Vengeance, Les Trois Soeurs (L’Odeon, Paris), Avalanche (Barbican, London), There Is Definitely A Prince Involved (Australian Ballet, Melbourne), L’Chaim (Sydney Dance Company), Wonangatta, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company), The Present (Broadway, NY), Counting And Cracking, The Wild Duck, Thyestes (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney), The Dig (Netflix). He has worked with many esteemed directors and choreographers, including Simon Stone, John Crowley, Neil Armfield, Benedict Andrews, Anne-Louise Sarks, Eamon Flack, Kip WIlliams, Gideon Obarzanek, Matthew Lutton, Ralph Myers, Angelica Mesiti.

Stefan has won two Sydney Theatre awards, and OBIE, was nominated for a drama desk award, has received a Sidney Myer Fellowship and has won a Helpmann award.

Stefan was a band member of Faker from 2004-2009, which achieved a platinum release with This Heart Attack and was nominated for several ARIA awards (Australian Recording Industry Association).

Stefan has a degree in pure mathematics (Hons. 1st) from the University of Sydney and also studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but did not finish his diploma.

The son of science teachers and amateur folk musicians, Stefan grew up in a steel agricultural shed on a bushland property in the hinterland of Sydney with no electricty and a pet wallaby called Basil, where he nearly died from a red back spider bite at the age of nine.

Based in: Sydney, Australia

Jess Dunn

Jessica is a composer, sound designer, and performing musician. Recent theatre credits include: as sound designer for On The Beach (STC); as composer for Beetle, The Lovers (Legs on the Wall); as composer and sound designer for CAMP (Siren Theatre Co.), Chalkface (Sydney Theatre Company/State Theatre SA), Is There Something Wrong With That Lady?, Photograph 51 (Ensemble Theatre) Blaque Showgirls, A is for Apple (Griffin), Trestle (Legs on the Wall), and The Mares (Tasmanian Theatre Company); as sound programmer for Julius Caesar, The Tempest (Sydney Theatre Company); as associate sound designer for Wonnangatta (Sydney Theatre Company), Random (Belvoir) and Counting and Cracking (Belvoir); as Composer’s Assistant for Harp in the South Parts I & II (Sydney Theatre Company); as Performing Musical Director for the 2017 and 2019 seasons of Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Belvoir); as bassist for SIX The Musical (LWA). Jessica is Artistic Director of Sirens Big Band, who was awarded the 2020 APRA Arts Music Award for Best Performance for their work on Bridge of Dreams.

Hamed Sadeghi

Born 1983 in Iran, Hamed Sadeghi is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Sydney, Australia. He studied Persian classical music in Tehran and master of sound engineering in Malaysia before he moves to Australia in 2013.

His recent professional highlights in theatre, dance and film include Sami in Paradise Belvoir 2018, Stop Girl Belvoir 2021, The Boomkak Panto Belvoir 2021, Cloe Fournier’s Tout Ce Sa at Sydney Dance Company 2022, Opening Night Belvoir 2022, Ryuichi Fujimura’s How I Practice My Religion Riverside Theatre and Melbourne Dance House 2023, Amin Palangi’s Tennessine Sydney Film Festival 2023 and William Zappa’s The Iliad at Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival and Fourwinds festival 2019 – 2022.

As a composer Sadeghi has released 4 albums to critical acclaimed and has earned recognition through nominations for ARIA Awards 2021 for best world music album and best jazz album He has been a finalist at APRA Art Music Awards and have been nominated for best original score of mainstage production at Sydney Theatre Awards 2019.

Elle Evangelista

Elle Evangelista loves dancing. Her BELVOIR choreography credits include Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Holding the Man, The Master and Margarita, The Cherry Orchard, The Boomkak Panto, The Rep Season and Furious Mattress (25a). Her other theatre choreography credits include Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare), A Very Expensive Poison (NIDA) and How To Catch A Star (Australian Chamber Orchestra).

As a dancer she has worked for Force Majeure, KAGE Physical Theatre, Opera Australia and she has been awarded residencies to create new work by Ausdance NSW, DirtyFeet, Critical Path, March Dance, Brand X and Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance. From 2019 – 2021, Elle was an Artist Representative on the Board of Critical Path and in 2022 a Belvoir Artistic Associate.

Elle has a Bachelor of Arts in English from UWA and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from WAAPA. She was raised on Boorloo/Perth by her Filipino and Burmese family and currently lives on Garigal Land in Sydney with her partner and their young son.

Chloë Dallimore

Chloë is internationally trained and accredited as an Intimacy Coordinator by Ita O’Brien of Intimacy on Set (UK). 

She is currently working on “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” starring Sigourney Weaver, the Broadway musical “Jagged Little Pill”, as well as productions for Netflix, Warner Bros, Fremantle, Ch9 and Ch10. 

Recent credits include Netflix’s “Pieces of Her” starring Toni Collette, George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing”, Benjamin Millepied’s “Carmen”, ABC’s “Wakefield” and Ch9’s “Doctor, Doctor”.

With a life-long journey in professional dance, and as an award-winning musical theatre performer, Chloë’s career has seen her work as a Resident/ Associate Choreographer on main-stage productions such as Billy Elliot, Oliver!, and Annie, as well as perform lead roles in productions such as The Producers, Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Addams Family. 

Chloë is honoured to work with the Belvoir team.

Nigel Poulton

Nigel is an award-winning movement director, fight and intimacy coordinator, SAG-AFTRA/MEAA stunt performer and actor, with over 25 years of professional experience. Selected theatre credits include: for Belvoir St Theatre, Holding the Man, The Master and Margarita, Miss Peony, Packer and Sons, Things I Know To Be True, Stop Girl, Blessed Union, At What Cost?, The Jungle and the Sea; for Sydney Theatre Company, Oil, On The Beach, Do Not Go Gentle, Fences; for Bell Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth; for Melbourne Theatre Company, Bernhardt/Hamlet; for Ensemble Theatre, Memory of Water, Mr Bailey’s Minder, Suddenly Last Summer. Nigel’s film and television work includes: Deadloch, Nautilus, Poker Face, Thor: Love and Thunder, Spiderhead, Ding Dong I’m Gay, Occupation 2, Pirates of the Caribbean V, Deadline Gallipoli, The Water Diviner, The Bourne Legacy, Vikingdom and Winter’s Tale.

In 2021, Nigel was awarded the status of Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors, as one of only two recipients outside the US with this accolade. He has also won a Green Room Award for outstanding contribution to the stage.

Tim Dashwood

Belvoir: The Life of Galileo. Other Theatre: Sydney Theatre Company:Julius Caesar, Death of a Salesman, No Pay? No Way!, Lord of the Flies. Opera Australia: Whiteley, West Side Story on Sydney Harbour, Krol Roger, Faust. shake & stir theatre co.: Fantastic Mr Fox, Jane Eyre, George’s Marvellous Medicine. New Theatre: The Removalists. Outhouse Theatre Co: Ulster American. Empress Theatre: Cyprus Avenue. Packemin Productions: Les Miserables. Sport for Jove: Rose Riot, Servant of Two Masters, Measure for Measure, Fallen. ATYP: Intersections: Arrival, War Crimes. NSW Public Schools: Macbeth. Red Line Productions: Fierce. As Actor: Kay & McLean Productions: The Graduate. Bell Shakespeare: Richard III. shake & stir theatre co.: Fantastic Mr Fox, Animal Farm, Dracula, Wuthering Heights, George’s Marvellous Medicine. Darlinghurst Theatre Company: A Chorus Line (understudy), Deathtrap. Gordon Frost Organisation: Fame: the Musical. Queensland Theatre Company: Managing Carmen, The Odd Couple, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Rabbithole, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Exception and the Rule. The Escapists: Packed. La Boite Theatre Company: The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay. Other: President of the Society of Australian Fight Directors incorporated. Training: Bachelor of Theatre Arts: university of Southern Queensland, Certified by the Society of Australian Fight Directors incorporated.

Emma Maye Gibson

Emma Maye Gibson (AKA Betty Grumble) is a Warrane/Sydney based performance artist. Largely through the avatar/war mask/love letter/critter of Grumble she engages her body as a hopeful and medicinal site for catharsis and pleasure. Often moving in a genre smash of ritual theatre, autobiography, cabaret, performance art and multi-media, she is a proud ecosexual and believes in art as an action of her spirituality. She has her Masters in Fine Arts/Arse and has presented work at The Sydney Opera House, Glastonbury, Edinburgh Fringe, Perth & Adelaide Fringes, The Melbourne Comedy Festival, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Griffin Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre, The Bearded Tit, Red Rattler Theatre, OUTsider Festival (Austin, Texas), MoMA (NYC), Joe’s Pub (NYC), The Glory (London), LiveWorks, The Old Fitz, AsiaTOPA, Dark Mofo, Mona Foma, Sydney World Pride, Ted X, AGNSW, MCA, Berlin Fringe and beyond. She believes in the flesh riot, leads Grumble Boogie ‘Thank You Body’ aerobic psychic love energy dance classes and is currently engaged in developing a new work under the guidance of mentors Dr Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Burton and Victoria Spence. Major works include: Sex Clown Saves The World, Love & Anger, The Unshame Machine, GRUMBLISM, Grumble Boogie, Goddess – The Elizabeth Burton Story, Mini Beast Disco, A Composting Cabaret, 24HR Grumble Boogie & Enemies of Grooviness Eat Shit. 

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 Into The Woods, directed by Eamon Flack (2023), Blue, directed by Deborah Brown (2023), 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). 

Adam Mada

Adam Mada is a magician and magic / illusion / special effects consultant, designer and director for theatre, film, literature and live events. Adam is currently the head of magic for the N.I.D.A, Australia’s Got Talent and The Metaverse Of Magic.

Theatre consultancy and illusion design credits include; The Metaverse Of Magic – (Jones Theatrical),  The Tales Of Hoffman – (Opera Australia), Possum Magic National tour 2023 (Monkey Baa Theatre Co.), The Tempest (Sydney Theatre Company), Ghost Stories (Realscape Productions), Blithe Spirit (Sydney Theatre Company),  Harry Potter and The Cursed Child – Parts 1 and 2 (Michael Cassel Group), Wicked The Musical (Hamburg), Perfect Stranger (N.I.D.A), Digital Theatre Festival (N.I.D.A), Mada’s Magic Marvels (Sydney Opera House), Seamless (Merrigong Theatre Reboot Grant), Possum Magic 2018 National Tour (Monkey Baa Theatre), POOF! – (James Galea, Sydney Festival) The Seasonal Warriors (private production),  Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Sydney Theatre Company); The Chamber of Secrets (National Drama Centre Singapore); Marco Panzic’s Dream Dance (National tour); The Outside Man (Merrigong Theatre Company) and The Threepenny Opera (WAAPA). 

Literary/Film/TV consultancy credits include; Australia’s Got Talent (2021 /2022), Magic Mayhem (Channel 10 Shake), The Extraordinaries (ABC ME), The Gentlemen’s Guide To knife Fighting (ABC), Sleeping Beauty (2011), Tips,Tricks,TikTok & Good Vibes (Ash Magic, Penguin Australia), Empire of Enchantment (John Zubrzycki, Hurst) and  Siren (Tara Moss, Harper Collins) 

Adam is the founder and director of Magic Inc. a company that fosters emerging magic talent as well as creating custom magic and illusion design and props for advertising activations and special events.

Harry Milas

Harry Milas is Australia’s leading sleight of hand specialist, based in Sydney. He has designed impossible stage illusions with theatre companies around Australia and he has been featured in the Guardian, Telegraph and enjoyed many TV appearances. He currently performs his award winning close up a show in a residency at the South-East pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Luke McGettigan

Luke is Belvoir’s Resident Stage Manager. For Belvoir, he has stage managed 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).

Madelaine Osborn

Madelaine is a theatremaker living and working on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land. In 2015 she graduated from Charles Sturt University’s B. Communication: Theatre/Media course with Distinction and was the 2015 recipient of the Blair Milan Memorial Scholarship.  

Madelaine’s Stage Management credits include Jailbaby by Suzie Miller (Griffin Theatre Company, dir. Andrea James 2023),  Air Time (Branch Nebula, dir. Lee Wilson and Mirabelle Wouters, 2023) GRLZ by Victoria Haralabidou (dir. Nell Ranney, Development 2023), Sunshine Super Girl (dir. Andrea James, 2022 National Tour) Ghosting the Party by Melissa Bubnic(Griffin Theatre Company, dir. Andrea James 2022), and Is There Something Wrong With that Lady? by Debra Oswald (Griffin Theatre Company, dir. Lee Lewis 2021).

As Assistant Stage Manager she has worked with Pinchgut Opera on Giustino (dir. Dean Bryant, 2023), Medée (dir. Justin Way, 2022) and The Loves of Daphne and Apollo (dir. Mitchell Butel, Pinchgut Opera, 2021).

Madelaine is passionate about art that is accessible. She is delighted to be working at Belvoir for the first time alongside an incredible creative team.

Grace Sackman