OPENING NIGHT

John Cassavetes

Carissa Licciardello

Carissa graduated from NIDA’s MFA Directing Course in 2017. She was the inaugural Andrew Cameron Fellow at Belvoir in 2018-2019, supported by the Andrew Cameron Family Foundation. Credits include: for Belvoir – as Director, A Room of One’s Own; as Associate Director, Fangirls 2019; as Assistant Director, Counting & Cracking; Ghosts. For 25A Downstairs Belvoir: Extinction of the Learned Response; The Maids.

Caitlin Burley

Jing-Xuan Chan

Luke Mullins

Toni Scanlan

Toni trained at the Drama Centre, London. Her theatre credits include for Belvoir Ruben Guthrie; for Sydney Theatre Company Blood Wedding, Our Town, Troupers, King Lear, Cuckoo’s Countryand Madras House; for Black Swan Theatre Hir and Angels in America – Part One; for Ensemble Theatre Richard 111, Let the Sun Shine, A View From the Bridge, I’m Not Rappaport, All My Sons, The Price; for Sport for Jove/Riverside Theatre Hamlet; Studio Company/Riverside Theatre King Lear; for Darlinghurst Theatre Good Works; Eternity Playhouse Grand Opening Show: All My Sons; for Queensland Theatre Company Once in Royal David’s City, The Family, Too Young for Ghosts; for Q Theatre Daylight Saving, Kid Stakes; for TN Theatre Co Private Lives, Boy’s Own Macbeth, Cloud 9, The Conquests of Carmen Miranda; for Griffin Theatre King Tide, Back Beat, White Nancy; for Playhouse Theatre Fields of Heaven; for Her Majesty’s, Perth Annie; for Hole in the Wall Theatre In His Own Right, Under Milkwood.

Toni’s film credits include The Forest, Vacant Possession, Loveless, Homebrew, Breakaway, Tenderhooks, Contact, High Tide. Toni’s TV credits include Hearts & Bones, The Hiding, Crownies, Answered by Fire, MDA, Backberner, Crash Palace, Water Rats (Series Regular 6 years), Bordertown, Blue Heelers, GP.

Toni has received the 2014 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in an Independent Production for All My Sons at the Eternity Playhouse and in 2008 received the Sydney Theatre Award for King Tide, by Kath Thomson at Griffin Theatre.

Toni’s Directing credits include, The Seagull, Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters for QUT; A Cheery Soul for Waapa; and Switzerlandfor Drill Hall.

Leeanna Walsman

Matthew Zeremes

David Fleischer

David is a designer working across Australia with leading theatre, dance and opera companies. Previous designs for Belvoir include: A Room of Ones Own, Fangirls and Hedda Gabler. Other theatre credits include: The Deep Blue Sea, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, The Harp in the South, Saint Joan, Top Girls, Chimerica, Speed The Plow, The Golden Age, Children of The Sun, Travelling North, Romeo and Juliet, Australian Graffiti, Machinal among others for Sydney Theatre Company; Love and Information, Calpurnia Descending for Malthouse Theatre; Myth for Melbourne Theatre Company (NEON); The Brothers Size, Between Two Waves, The Sea Project for Griffin Theatre; Scenes from a Marriage and Hedda for Queensland Theatre; Boundary St (as associate designer) for Black Swan and Brisbane Festival; Der Gelbe Stern at the New York Musical Theatre Festival; and Kiss of The Spiderwoman and No Way to Treat a Lady for Darlinghurst Theatre. Other career highlights include The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera; Impermanence, Ab [Intra] and Orb for Sydney Dance Company and L’amant Jaloux for Pinchgut Opera. David was the co-resident designer at Sydney Theatre Company from 2012 – 2013.

Mel Page

Deborah was last at Belvoir in Company B’s Greek Tragedy. Other theatre credits include: Wicked Sisters (Griffin), Lady Tabouli (National Theatre Of

Mel is a set and costume designer.

Costume designs for Belvoir St Theatre include: Japser Jones, Ivanov, Kill The Messenger, Seventeen, Nora, The Glass Menagerie, A Christmas Carol, Elektra/Orestes, The Government Inspector, Hamlet, Angels In America, & Strange Interlude. Set & Costume designs include: Taste Of Honey, Enemy Of The People, Back At The Dojo, Medea and Small & Tired.

Opera designs include costumes for Lear & Médée for Salzburg Festival; Die Tote Stadt for Bayerisch Staatsoper & Theater Basel and Pelleas Et Melisande for Den Norske Opera & Ballet.

Other theatre credits include costumes for Engel In Amerika for Theater Basel; Drei Schwestern for Theater Basel & L’Odeon; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Mary Stuart Les Liasions Dangereuses and Baal for Sydney Theatre Company; La Pompeii for Malthouse Theatre and Complexity Of Belonging for Chunky Move. Set and costume designs include: Lethal Indifference for Sydney Theatre Company; Night Maybe for Theatreworks; Minnie & Liraz and The Apocalypse Bear Trilogy for Melbourne Theatre Company.

Mel was the proud recipient of the 2016 George Fairfax Memorial Award, and has won a Sydney Theatre Award.

Nick Schlieper

Max Lyandvert

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 moved to Australia in 2013.

His recent highlights in theatre include scoring and performing in productions Sami in Paradise 2018 at Belvoir Sydney Theatre, The Iliad Out-Loud at Sydney Festival 2019 and Adelaide Festival 2020, Adam and Eve at Kuala Lumpur Performing Art Centre Malaysia 2013.

He has collaborated with the Iranian TV to record musical productions and ABC TV’s kids program along with performances for the Iranian Film Festival in Australia in 2019.

His collaborative score with Michael Askill for the Iliad Out-loud was nominated for the Best Original Score at the Sydney Theatre Awards 2019.

Sadeghi’s well known project, Eishan Ensemble which is described as “Shock of the new colliding with the ancient, SMH” has been touring regularly nationally and internationally to present his original compositions since 2016.

Sadeghi is the Australian delegate chosen by the Australian Music Centre at Jazz-ahead festival in Germany 2021.

Tim Dashwood

Nicole Pingon

Luke McGettigan

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

Holly Fernanda