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 Opening Night, Stop Girl, Ruben Guthrie; 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 Heart & Bones, The Forest, Vacant Possession, Loveless, Homebrew, Breakaway, Tenderhooks, Contact, High Tide.

Toni’s TV credits include Ten Pound Poms, 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.

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.

David Fleischer

David (he/him) is a designer working with leading theatre, dance and opera companies across Australia. His work has been hosted by prominent arts festivals, and has toured extensively both nationally and abroad. His most recent credits include Impermanence, Ab Intra and Ocho for Sydney Dance Company; Opening Night and A Room Of One’s Own for Belvoir St Theatre; L’amant Jaloux and Griselda for Pinchgut Opera; Sydney Theatre Company’s Blithe Spirit, Death of A Salesman, Playing Beatie Bow, 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, Romeo and Juliet and Fury. David is currently designing a work for Queensland Ballet.

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 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.

Jasmine Rizk

Jasmine is an accomplished Sydney-based theatrical lighting designer and programmer, working with both the professional and independent theatre community. Jasmine is part of Belvoir’s ongoing Co Curious associates program.

As Lighting Designer: ATYP – Mrock; Concertworks – Jekyll and Hyde 25th Anniversary Concerts; Kings of the Keys Tour; So Popera Production -Priscilla, Chicago, Jersey Boys; The Mitchell Old Company – Heathers; Belvoir St Theatre -The Boomkak Panto; NTofP – Zombie Thoughts; The Roxy Theatre – Henry V; Hayes Theatre Company – Well Behaved Women, Catch Me If You Can; Darlinghurst Theatre – Small Mouth Sounds; Merrigong Theatre CompanyLost Boys, Letters to Lindy (Remount) National Tour.

As Associate Lighting Designer: MonkeyBaa -Edward the Emu; Sydney Theatre Company and Black Swan State Theatre Co. – City of Gold; Belvoir St Theatre – Opening Night; Terrapin Productions – Scaredy Cat.

Nominations: APDG 2022 – creative crunchers for Zombie Thoughts

Awards: Sparrow Mentorship program for lighting design with Trudy Dalgleish

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 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.

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 (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, theatre maker, and artist facilitator working across live performance, installation and digital mediums. Expanding across and between mediums, Nicole’s practice tends to be collaborative, curiosity-led, and process-driven.

Most recently, Nicole directed Little Eggs Collective’s Moon Rabbit Rising for Belvoir 25A, which won three Sydney Theatre Awards. Other directing credits include: Blush Opera’s new Australian opera, Chop Chef for Riverside Theatres Parramatta (co-directed with Kenneth Moraleda), Shopfront Junior Ensemble’s Mums Tell Dad Jokes Too (co-directed with Tasha O’Brien), and Blush Opera’s forthcoming Songs of the Sirens, an ocean-side operatic experience for Bondi Festival. As assistant director: Opening Night (Belvoir, dir. Carissa Licciardello), Ate Lovia (kwento/Red Line, dir. Kenneth Moraleda), The Lies We Were Told (Shopfront/Monkey Baa, dir. Natalie Rose). Nicole has created audio works for The Wheeler Centre, Constellations and is the sound designer on Bad Taste, an SBS podcast. In 2022, they presented a participatory performance score as part of Temporary Position’s De-Choiring series at Phoenix Central Park. Nicole is a member and collaborator of the Little Eggs Collective and Ninefold Ensemble, and a passionate teaching artist.

Luke McGettigan

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

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. Since graduating the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2021, her theatre credits include “Opening Night” (2022) adapted by Carissa Licciardello, and “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes” (2022) directed by Petra Kalive.