OPENING NIGHT

John Cassavetes

Carissa Licciardello

Carissa Licciardello is a Resident Director at Belvoir. She was previously an Artistic Associate for the company and its inaugural Andrew Cameron Fellow. She graduated from NIDA’s Directing course in 2017.

Her credits include: for Belvoir – as Director/Co-Adaptor, A Room of One’s Own; as Associate Director, Fangirls 2019; as Assistant Director, Counting & Cracking; Ghosts. For Sydney Theatre Company, as Assistant Director, Rules for Living. For 25A Downstairs Belvoir: Extinction of the Learned Response; The Maids.

Carissa is also a recipient of the 2020 Glorias Fellowship.

Caitlin Burley

Opening Night marks Caitlin’s debut with Belvoir Street Theatre.

Her other theatre credits include: for Bell Shakespeare, Juliet in their MainStage Education Production of Romeo and Juliet, and Bell Players 2020-2021; Frankie Parker in A Happy New Year(NIDA); Chrysalis: Intersection and Oedipus Doesn’t’ Live Here Anymore (ATYP); and Everybody(Cross Pollinate Productions), A girl in a school uniform (walks into a bar) (futura films) and American Beauty Shop (Some Company) at KXTheatre.

On screen Caitlin has hadguest roles onTricky Business and At Home with Julia, and has appeared in numerous short films and music videos, including the lead in ‘Fruity’, a short film which has recently been selected for Flickerfest 2022. She was also the lead in a viral YouTube series by Neel Kolhatkur that has been viewed by millions internationally.

Caitlin is a proud member of MEAA.

Jing-Xuan Chan

Jing-Xuan Chan graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2006. During her studies she received the Irene Mitchell Award for outstanding performance, the Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship for outstanding commitment to training, and the Friends of the VCA New Emerging Talent Award. She has since worked for various theatre companies including Melbourne Theatre Company (Hungry Ghosts, Golden Shield), Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre (Oil, Incognito), La Boite (Single Asian Female), Malthouse Theatre (Criminology) and at 45 Downstairs (Wit, Fallen, The Merry Wives of Windsor – Green Room Award nominated for Best Ensemble). Jing-Xuan was nominated for Green Room Awards for her work in the productions Golden Shield and Wit. Her television and film credits include City Homicide, Glitch, The Family Law, Dirt Game, Winners & Losers, Harrow, Frayed and The Letdown. Jing-Xuan has also attained her A.T.C.L Associate Diploma in Speech and Drama and aside from acting, enjoys lending her voice to narrating audio books and audio plays.

Luke Mullins

Luke is an actor, performance maker and director across theatre, film and television.

At Belvoir, Luke has appeared in The Glass Menagerie, Back At The Dojo, Angels in America, Small & Tired, Death of Salesman, The Power of Yes, Thom Paine (Based on Nothing) and The Eisteddfod.

In the UK, Luke has worked extensively in theatre, his credits include The Stones, And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens at Kings Head Theatre, The Maids at Home Manchester, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at the Old Vic and Waiting For Godot at The Barbican.

He has worked throughout  Australia including for Sydney Theatre Company: Waiting for Godot, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, War of the Roses, The Season at Sarsaparilla, Little Mercy, The Duel, Gallipoli, The Serpents Teeth, Tales From the Vienna Woods. Melbourne Theatre Company: Endgame, Cloud Nine, The History Boys, Oedipus. Malthouse Theatre: Night on Bald Mountain,  Autobiography of Red as well as working with independent companies including Stuck Pigs Squealing: The Eisteddfod, Apocalypse Bear Trilogy, 4xBeckett and directed Night Maybe. Uninvited Guests: I Heart John Mcenroe, The Man with the September Face. For Theatreworks/Griffin Independent: Mercury Fur. His work as a performance maker has been supported by The Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, Bell Shakespeare, Playwriting Australia and presented at Theatre Works, Performance Space, Carriageworks and Arts House. He co-wrote and Performed the solo piece Lake Disappointment and co-created and performed Irony is Not Enough: Essay on My Life as Catherine Deneuve.

Luke’s film and television career includes Holding the Man and RIOT, and he recently appeared in the hit series The Spanish Princess.  Luke also appeared in Darby and Joan, Joe vs Carole and BBC One’s Life and New Blood.

He has received a Helpmann Award, Sydney Theatre Award, Green Room Award and the George Fairfax Memorial Award.

Toni Scanlan

Toni trained at the Drama Centre, London. Her theatre credits include for Belvoir Ruben Guthrie and Stop Girl; for Sydney Theatre Company Blood Wedding, Our Town, Troupers, King Lear, Cuckoo’s Country and 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 Switzerland for Drill Hall.

Leeanna Walsman

Leeanna Walsman has enjoyed an extensive career in film, theatre and television. Leeanna previously performed at Belvoir in the production of Peribanez. Selected stage productions include Solaris, Melancholia (Malthouse Theatre),Stockholm, Saturn’s Return, The Shape of Things and La Dispute (Sydney Theatre Company), Speaking in Tongues (State Theatre Company of South Australia), Othello (Bell Shakespeare), A Streetcar Named Desire (Queensland Theatre Company) Leeanna’s feature films include Don’t Tell, 2076, Single Rider, Manny Lewis, Dawn, Caught Inside, Bitter and Twisted, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Looking for Alibrandi, Blackrock andthe upcoming Bosch & Rockit. In television, Leeanna has appeared in Eden, Preppers, Safe Harbour, Seven Types of Ambiguity, Janet King Series 2, Cleverman, Catching Milat, Wentworth, Underbelly: Badness, The Pacific, The Starter Wife and many more. Leeanna has been nominated for several FCCA, If, AFI and Logie Awards and won Best Actress Award at the Auckland International Film Festival.

Matthew Zeremes

Matthew Zeremes graduated from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2002. He co-created and co-wrote the Emmy award-winning kids comedy series Hardball on ABCME. He is known for his work across television, theatre and film roles.

He starred as John Caleo in the original stage version of Holding the Man for Griffin Theatre Company and reprised this role at MTC, Company B, Sydney Opera House, Brisbane Powerhouse and Trafalgar Theatre in London’s West End.

Matthew’s other theatre credits include Betrayal, Becky Shaw and Seminar (Ensemble Theatre), 10,000 Beers (Darlinghurst Theatre Co), Saturn’s Return (STC) and Embers (STC), The Bull, The Moon and The Coronet of Stars (Griffin Theatre Company). He has produced and staged many theatre productions at Sydney’s Old Fitz and Griffin including This is our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan, Ninja, Tiny Dynamite and Little Malcolm.

Matthew co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the feature film Burke & Wills which premiered at TriBeCa film festival and Super-Awesome which premiered at the Inside Out Festival in Toronto. Other film credits as an actor include All My Friends are Leaving Brisbane, Solo, Strangers Lovers Killers, Circle of Lies and Aim High In Creation.

Television credits include Hardball, Friday on my Mind, Fatal Honeymoon, Secret City, Hoges, Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting, Dr Feelgood, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Chandon Pictures, Home & Away, Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away, All Saints, Small Claims and The Surgeon.

Matt, is the co-writer of two kids book series Zoo Crew (Scholastic) and Zombie Diaries (Hardie Grant).

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.

Anthony Harkin

Anthony Harkin’s extensive theatre credits include Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel), Neighbourhood Watch (Melbourne Theatre Company), The Sound Of Music (Gordon Frost), Next to Normal (Hayes Theatre), Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages (New Theatricals), Twelfth Night (MTC), Packer and Sons (Belvoir), Gypsy (Hayes Theatre), Shane Warne the Musical (Token Events), Miss Saigon (Miss Saigon Australia), Cabaret (IMG and Japan & Korea Network Tours) and A Month in the Country (Sydney Theatre Company).

On screen Anthony has appeared in Young Rock, The Alice, All Saints and in the feature films The Bet and Right Here Right Now.  Anthony also co-wrote and directed Dedications which toured nationally to critical acclaim.

Fiona Press

During her career of nearly 40 years, Fiona has performed extensively in film, television and theatre across the country.

Theatre credits include Kendall Feaver’s recent Wherever She Wanders for Griffin; playing Dot to Mark Little’s Alf in Wayne Harrison’s production of The One Day of the Year at the Finborough Theatre, London; Sydney Theatre Award winning productions of Antigone for Sport for Jove and Is This Thing On? for Belvoir; Neighbourhood Watch and Navigating Flinders for the Ensemble Theatre alongside The Department Store at the Old Fitz, Wild Honey for State Theatre Co. in Adelaide, Shadowlands for STC, A Fortunate Life for MTC and touring Australia and to Auckland and Singapore in the West End stage adaptation of Orwell’s 1984.

Her big screen appearances include a plethora of shorts and, among many features, I Am Woman, Tracks, San Andreas, Disgrace – opposite John Malkovich – and Waiting, for which she won the 1991 AFI award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was joint winner of the San Sebastian Film Festival award for Best Actress.

Fiona’s television credits include RFDS for Seven Network, Pieces of Her for Netflix, Joe vs Carol the NBC/Matchbox dramatisation of Tiger King, Upright, The Other Guy, Diary of an Uber Driver, Secret City: Under the Eagle, Doctor Doctor, Mary: The Making of a Princess, The Moodys, Rake, Crownies and – amidst an award-winning ensemble cast – she created the central role of Hazel in the acclaimed ABC/Matchbox series The Heights.

Anna Samson

After graduating drama school Anna has gone on to perform extensively in theatre, film and television. 

Her theatre credits include Bliss for Belvoir St Theatre and Malthouse Theatre, Pompeii LA for Malthouse Theatre. Birdland (for which she received a 2016 Helpmann Nomination), Skylight, The Sublime and The Heretic for The Melbourne Theatre Company, Ruben Guthrie, Day One, A Hotel and Wet House (for which she received a 2016 Green Room nomination) for Red Stitch, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, the critically acclaimed Love, for the Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Anatomy of a Suicide for Red Line Productions at the Old Fitz.  

Selected TV and film credits include, Wake In Fright, Jack Irish, Halifax, Dead Lucky, The Leftovers (HBO), Dr Blake, Offspring, Winners and Losers, the feature film Children of the Corn and What If It Works (for which she received Best Actress in the 2018 Oz Flicks Awards).

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

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

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 six Sydney Critics Awards (two for set design and 4 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 and in 2016 a Nomination for Best Lighting and Best Set (with Simon Phillips) for North by Northwest.

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

His many productions for Sydney Theatre Co include Playing Beatie Bow (which recently re-opened the Wharf), Dorian Gray, Wonnangatta,The  Harp In The South, Chimerica, Macbeth, Mosquitoes, 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 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 Hostage for the Royal Shakespeare Company; The Government Inspector for Theatr Clwyd in Wales; Waiting for Godot (at The Barbican, London),  Armut, Reichtum, Mensch und Tier and The Ginger Man for Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg; Kasimir und Karoline and Lea’s Hochzeit for Theater in der Josefstadt, in Vienna; U.F.A. Revue in Berlin and the Kennedy Centre Washington; Michael Kramer and Ein Florentinerhut for Schillertheater 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; Tales of Hoffman in Wiesbaden; 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.

Jasmine Rizk

Jasmine is an accomplished Sydney based theatrical lighting designer and programmer, working with both the professional and independent theatre community. Recognised for her creative expertise and producing inspiring lighting designs, Jasmine was thrilled to be the lighting designer for the Jekyll & Hyde 25th Anniversary Concerts starring Australia’s best, Anthony Warlow and Jemma Rix in 2019.

Jasmine’s musical background has influenced her programming style to compliment and highlight a range of musical styles and genres. Her latest works include Zombie Thoughts (Lennox Theatre, Riverside), Jersey Boys (Win Entertainment Centre), Henry V (The Roxy Theatre, Leeton), the inspiring song cycle Well Behaved Women (Hayes Theatre), Catch Me If You Can (Hayes Theatre), Grease The Musical (So Popera Productions), Small Mouth Sounds (Eternity Playhouse), the 2018 national tour of Letters To Lindy directed by Darren Yap. In 2020 she was delighted to win the Sparrow Mentorship program for lighting design with Trudy Dalgleish. She is thrilled to be back designing post lockdown with an incredible team. 

Max Lyandvert

Max is a multi-award winning composer, sound designer and stage director.

In 2021 Max was the Composer along with Justin Stanley on the Stan series Eden produced by Every Cloud. Max’s other composing screen credits include the miniseries – The Kettering Incident (Porchlight for Foxtel) and The Devils Playground (Matchbox Pictures for Foxtel), feature documentaries- Gayby Baby (Feature doco for Gayby Baby Productions), After the Wave (Feature Doco for Supernova), choir arrangements for feature Hey Hey it’s Esther Blueburger (EB Productions) and composing on the shorts The Sense Of It (Sydney Festival with Kate Champion) and Two Wheeled Time Machine (AFTRS).

For theatre, his Composer and Sound Designer credits includes – for Sydney Theatre Company Mary Stuart, Saint Joan, Top Girls, Dinner, Australian Graffiti, Testament of Mary, Hay Fever, The Golden Age, Endgame, Children of the Sun, Macbeth, Perplex, Waiting for Godot (Sound Design) Fury, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Gross Und Klein, True West, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Oresteia, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Elling, The Crucile, King Lear, War of the Roses, The Vertical Hour, Doubt, Festen Pentecost, The Recruit, La Dispute, Life after George, Fireface, Three Sisters, Lady in the Van and Life is A Dream; for Bell Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, The Miser, Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice and Othello; for Queensland Theatre The Winter’s Tale; for Belvoir Street Theatre The Wizard of Oz, Oedipus Rex, The Business, The Ham Funeral, UBU (Composed only), Gulls, Macbeth, The Idiot, Kafka Dances, Courtyard of Miracles, Closer, The Rose Tattoo and Twelfth Night; for STCSA Art and Soul and Design for Living; for Ensemble Theatre Marjorie Prime (Composer); For Theatre Works Dubbuk and for MTC El Dorado, The Ham Funeral and Diary of a Plague Year.

Some of Max’s international work includes sound designing for New York’s Ontological Theatre’s The Four Twins.  Max composed music for About Face, Kate Champion’s solo dance work. Max directed and composed the soundtrack for the Australian premiere of Richard Forman’s My Head Was A Sledgehammer for B Sharp. For 2003 Sydney Festival Max directed his own premiere work Close Your Little Eyes.

Max has won the Helpmann Award for Best Sound Design twice (War of the Roses and The Ham Funeral/Journal of the Plague Year) and been nominated for Three Sisters. He won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Sound Design for a Mainstage Production for Titus Andronicus and was nominated for Mary Stuart, Saint Joan, The Testament of Mary, The Age I’m In, The Art of War, The Lost Echo, Now that Communism, Festen and Julius Caesar.

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

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.

Nicole Pingon

Nicole Pingon is a multidisciplinary artist, director and theatre maker, working across live performance, installation and digital mediums. In 2021, she co-directed the world premiere of Blush Opera’s new Australian opera, Chop Chef for Riverside Theatres Parramatta. She is a member and collaborator of the Little Eggs Collective and Ninefold Ensemble, and was part of CAAP’s inaugural Artist Lab, and the Wheeler Centre’s Signal Boost programme in 2020. Nicole has created audio works for The Wheeler Centre and Constellations, and is currently working as the sound designer on a new SBS podcast. In 2022, Nicole’s participatory performance score, an invitation to play will be presented as part of Temporary Position’s De-Choiring series at Phoenix Central Park. 

Luke McGettigan

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

Holly Fernanda

Originally from Sydney, Holly entered the arts industry as a young performer and was introduced to stage management while completing her Certificate III in Live Production (2017–18), igniting a keen interest in theatre, film, television, and event work. While studying at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Holly’s credits include Stage Manager for ‘Earthquakes in London’ (2021) and ‘Gaban’ (2021), and Costume Manager for ‘Baccarat‘ (2020). Holly is very excited to begin her professional career with Belvoir on ‘Opening Night’.