MUM CLUB

Jorjia Gillis

Ian Michael

Alex Malone

Alex’s theatre credits include Before the Meeting (Seymour Centre); The Caucasian Chalk Circle and The Lighthouse Girl (Black Swan State Theatre Company); Eurydice, Babes in The Woods and Threnody (The Old Fitz); Spring Awakening – The Musical (ATYP); A Little Piece of Ash, DNA and Youth and Destination (KXT) and Spectrum Now’s Orfeo Ed Euridice, directed by Shannon Murphy.

Alex is about to appear in Kitty Green‘s feature film The Royal Hotel for See Saw films. Her other film credits include Mercy Road, Transfusion, and Pulse and her television credits include the series Wanted, Colin from Accounts, Home & Away, RFDS, The Heights, Les Norton and A Place to Call Home. 

Stephanie Somerville

Stephanie is a proud Martu woman. A graduate from the Aboriginal Theatre course and the Acting BA at WAAPA, in her final year she was awarded the Sally Burton Award for Best Female Performance of a Shakespearean Text.

Big Girls Don’t Cry with be Stephanie’s first main stage Belvoir Production. Her stage productions include Minus One Sister, Quokkapocalypse (The Blue Room Theatre); Lysistrata (Subiaco Arts Centre); A Little Piece of Ash (KXT); Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare Company); Slaughterhouse (Belvoir 25A); Julius Caesar, Blithe Spirit, Chalkface, Stolen (Sydney Theatre Company); The Bleeding Tree (Black Swan Theatre Company), Blaque Showgirls (Griffin Theatre Company).

Stephanie won Outstanding Performer in a supporting role in the Performing Arts WA Awards for The Bleeding Tree, Blackswan Theatre Company.

Ruby Teys

Megan Wilding

Megan Wilding is a proud Gamilaroi person and and a graduate from WAAPA. She has performed in many theatre productions, including The Rover at Belvoir Street Theatre, Stolen, The Seagull, Blithe Spirit, Banging Denmark and Blackie Blackie Brown at Sydney Theatre Company, Animal Farm at Black Swan Theatre and A Little Piece Of Ash, which she wrote, directed and performed in for Jack Rabbit Theatre at KXT.

Megan appeared in feature film We Are Still Here which opened the 2022 Sydney Film Festival and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. She has been seen in numerous television productions including Mystery Road: Origin, The Moth Effect and Gold Diggers. She is the recipient of the Balnaves Indigenous Playwright’s Award and the Griffin Award as well as a Casting Guild of Australia Rising Star Award. Megan will next be seen in Stan series Sunny Nights.

Zarif

Zarif is an Egyptian/Sudanese performer based in Sydney.

Zarif has worked on productions with various theatre companies across the East Coast, with Orlando being their first main stage production with Belvoir. Zarif previously worked with Belvoir in the creative development of Fangirls.

Their theatre credits include: Flat Earthers: The Musical (Hayes Theatre Co & Griffin Theatre Co), Choir Boy (National Theatre of Parramatta), Burn Witch Burn (Old Fitz Theatre), Two Weeks with the Queen (Queensland Theatre Company), and The Zap (Darlinghurst Theatre Company).

Zarif has starred in the feature films Carnage for Christmas (Dir: Alice Mackay), Satranic Panic (Dir: Alice Mackay), Lonesome (Dir: Craig Boreham), and Bloody Hell (Dir: Alister Grierson).

Their television credits include Wellmania (Netflix) and The Other Guy S2 (STAN).

Zarif has also appeared in various short films, including Cut (Dir: Samuel Lucas Allen), In The Witching Hour (Dir: Alister Griersen), Right Here (Dir: Claudia Bailey), Brace (Dir: Nicholas Burton), This Must Be The Place (Dir: Rebecca Sawyer), and Killer in the Woods (Dir: Jack Voegt). They also starred in the web series Touch and The Formal for Slag Productions.

Zarif was nominated at the 2023 Septimius Awards for ‘Best Oceanian Actor’ for their role in the feature film, Lonesome. The film went on to win the Septimius Awards ‘Best Oceanian Film’ that year.

Dylan Van Den Berg

Cris Baldwin

Verity Hampson

Brendon Boney

Belvoir St Theatre: At What Cost?, Winyanboga YurringaOther Theatre: As Composer & Sound Design: The Visitors (Sydney Theatre Company), Fences (Sydney Theatre Company), A Raisin in the Sun (Sydney Theatre Company), Riverside’s NToP: Choir Boy, Bangarra Dance Theatre: Dance Clan, Dubboo (Assistant), Illbijerri Theatre: Black Ties, Ensemble Theatre: A Letter For Molly, Hothouse Theatre: Unprecedented As Associate Composer/Sound Design: The Tempest, The Seven Stages of Grieving, Other Theatre: As Actor/Performer: Bangarra Dance Theatre: Wudjang: Not the Past, Baleen Moondjan: Adelaide Festival (Stephen Page) Film: As Lead Character Singing Voice: Bran New Dae (2009) TV: As Composer/ Musical Contributor: Gods of Wheat Street (ABC1), Offspring (Network 10), Winners & Losers (Seven Network), Underbelly Chopper (The Nine Network) Radio/Music: As Recording Artist/Writer Played on triple j, fbi radio, ABC radio, community radio nationwide, 150 000+ streams across platforms Spotify & Apple Music Music: As Performer: Bluesfest Byron Bay, Woodford Folk Festival, Sydney Festival, Adelaide Fringe festival, Brisbane Festival, Friendship Festival (Seoul, Sth Korea), The Aussie BBQ (UK) Awards: APRA Professional Development Award.

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.

Chloë Dallimore

Chloë Dallimore is an internationally trained and accredited Intimacy Coordinator and Director working across stage and screen. At Belvoir, she has worked on At What Cost?, Miss Peony, The Cherry Orchard, The Master & Margarita, and Big Girls Don’t Cry. Her other theatre credits include; Flat Earthers, Naturism, and Sex Magick with Griffin Theatre Company; Chicago, The Rocky Horror Show and Wicked with Crossroads Live; Alone It Stands, Uncle Vanya, ARIA, and The Glass Menagerie with Ensemble Theatre Company; Ride The Cyclone, Zombie! and The Pirates of Penzance with Hayes Theatre Company; Amadeus, RENT, 2025 Winter and 2026 Summer Seasons with Opera Australia; and Circle Mirror Transformation, Dear Evan Hansen, The Shiralee, The Talented Mr Ripley, 4000 Miles, and The Tempest for Sydney Theatre Company.

Chloë’s film credits include Send Help, Play Dirty, Bump Christmas and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Her television work includes Heartbreak High, Bump, Colin From Accounts, NCIS: Sydney, Strife, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, The Twelve, Last King of the Cross, The Artful Dodger, North Shore, Playing Gracie Darling, The Last Anniversary and Return To Paradise.

She received the Australian Entertainment Mo Award for Female Musical Theatre Performer in 2004, the Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Musical in 2005, the Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 2005, and the Victorian Green Room Association Awards for Best Leading Female Artist in Music Theatre in 2005.

Angela Sullen

Abbie-lee Lewis

Abbie-lee Lewis is a Kalkadoon actress who trained on the Aboriginal Theatre and Acting courses at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth.

Her credits include David Finnigan’s Scenes from the Climate Era, for Belvoir St Theatre, Seanna Van Helten’s Fallen, directed by Penny Harpham, for Sport for Jove; Our Town, directed by Clare Watson, for the Black Swan State Theatre Company of Western Australia; a national tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as Hermia) for Bell Shakespeare; and Angus Cerini’s The Bleeding Tree, directed by Ian Michael at the Blue Room Theatre, Perth.

Her television credits include Black Comedy for ABC.

In recent years she has also worked as an assistant director, collaborating with Peter Evans on Hamlet for Bell Shakespeare and with Jena Prince on Charlie Pilgrim for the Australian Theatre for Young People. Last year she made her directing debut with Bruce Pascoe’s Cutter and Coot for Moogahlin Performing Arts and has since directed Jane Montgomery Griffiths’ an ox stand on my tongue, for Belvoir’s 25A and Hannah Belanszky’s Saplings for ATYP which won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Production for Young People..

Based in: Kalkatungu Country, Australia

Daniel Herten

Daniel Herten (they/them) is a Sound Designer, Composer, Video Designer and Creative Technologist working across live performance and interactive media. Belvoir credits include: A Mirror; for Belvoir 25A, Furious Mattress composer. Daniel’s other credits include: for Sydney Theatre Company, The Picture of Dorian Gray Australian sound associate (with Michael Cassel Group), Circle Mirror Transformation associate sound designer; for Griffin Theatre Co, The Lewis Trilogy, Sistren, Whitefella Yella Tree associate composer and sound designer; for Hayes Theatre Co, Murder For Two: Christmas Edition sound designer, Ride The Cyclone video and sound designer, Flat Earthers: The Musical sound designer and associate video designer and animator; for Ensemble Theatre, Fly Girl; for One Eyed Man Productions, Calamity Jane sound designer (with Hayes Theatre Co); for Essential Workers, Collapsible composer and sound designer and co-video designer; for Clockfire Theatre Co, Plenty of Fish in the Sea, for RISING Festival, Set Piece sound designer; for Tinderbox Productions, Black Box the Musical sound designer. Daniel won a 2025 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Sound Design and Composition of a Mainstage Production for Grief is the Thing with Feathers (with Freya Schack-Arnott) and was nominated in the same category for The Lewis Trilogy in 2024.  Daniel was the Australian sound associate for The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway (Michael Cassell Group) where the production received a total of six Tony Award® nominations, including Best Sound Design of a Play.

Taylah Crouch