ORLANDO
- 6-21 Sep 25 Upstairs Theatre
Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf
Adapted by Carissa Licciardello & Elsie Yager
Directed by Carissa Licciardello
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Virginia Woolf’s most beloved and brilliant novel takes to the stage in a joyous new adaptation.
Orlando is young, rich and handsome. A courtier in the time of Elizabeth, he sets out in search of love, life, and a fabulous destiny – but he has to travel through 400 years to find it. He dashes through time, from wars and revolutions, to the decadence of the Restoration and the rise of industrial capitalism under Queen Victoria, to modernity – and as the world changes, so does Orlando. Who are they – woman? man? or something which defies all the old orders?
This is a bold new version of Woolf’s cheekiest, most brilliant creation from creators Elsie Yager and Carissa Licciardello (A Room of One’s Own, Scenes from the Climate Era). It’s a visionary text, a century old, pinging with ideas about very present themes – gender, imperialism, nature, technology – and this fresh team of game-changing artists are, in some ways, the very people Woolf and her Orlando dreamed of: Shannen Alyce Quan (Holding the Man, Fangirls), Nyx Calder (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and Janet Anderson (Overflow, Mercury Fur). One for those who like their theatre theatrical and want to see the world through a new lens. – Eamon
Except 2 Sep at 7:30pm
No 1pm performance on 4 Sep & 11 Sep
No 2pm performance on 30 Aug
Except 31 Aug at 6:30pm
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Virginia Woolf was born into a privileged family in 1882, grew up surrounded by books and literary conversation, and is now acknowledged as one of the key writers of the modernist movement. Her works Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and To the Lighthouse redefined the novel, but she was as versatile as she was prolific, producing […]
Virginia Woolf was born into a privileged family in 1882, grew up surrounded by books and literary conversation, and is now acknowledged as one of the key writers of the modernist movement. Her works Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and To the Lighthouse redefined the novel, but she was as versatile as she was prolific, producing biographies, diaries, essays and volumes of letters. In style and ideas, her work captures a rapidly-changing era, with gender, sexuality and class interrogated at the same time as language and form. Her ‘stream of consciousness’ technique opened a window into her themes – the city, the elasticity of time, the shifting sense of self, the marginal and overlooked in daily life – and has had a profound impact over the last century. A key personality in what came to be known as The Bloomsbury Group, her role as a radical re-thinker brought her status and admiration. However, she suffered from poor mental health for much of her life, and died by suicide in 1941 by placing a large stone in her pocket and wading into a river.
Carissa Licciardello is a director based on Gadigal Land. She was Resident Director at Belvoir St Theatre from 2022 to 2024, following her position as Associate Artist in 2021 and the company’s inaugural Andrew Cameron Fellow in 2018 and 2019. Recent work as Director includes – for Belvoir, Scenes from the Climate Era (2023), as Director/Adaptor, Opening Night (2022) […]
Carissa Licciardello is a director based on Gadigal Land. She was Resident Director at Belvoir St Theatre from 2022 to 2024, following her position as Associate Artist in 2021 and the company’s inaugural Andrew Cameron Fellow in 2018 and 2019.
Recent work as Director includes – for Belvoir, Scenes from the Climate Era (2023), as Director/Adaptor, Opening Night (2022) and A Room of One’s Own (2020/2021); as Associate Director, Fangirls (2019/2021),Counting & Cracking (2019); as Production Dramaturg, Nayika: A Dancing Girl (2024), Miss Peony (2023). Other work as Director includes – for Malthouse, Anna K (2022); for National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Machinal (2022).
Carissa is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts’ Directing course, and was a recipient of NIDA’s Glorias Fellowship in 2020.
Elsie Yager is a director and writer working between London and Australia. Orlando is Elsie’s Belvoir debut. Recent work as Director/Adaptor includes IPHIGENIA; or the sacrifices of a young woman in nine movements (2023) and Colonus (2022). Elsie was a JMK Award finalist in 2022, and winner of the Projekt Europa Elevate award. Elsie is […]
Elsie Yager is a director and writer working between London and Australia.
Orlando is Elsie’s Belvoir debut. Recent work as Director/Adaptor includes IPHIGENIA; or the sacrifices of a young woman in nine movements (2023) and Colonus (2022).
Elsie was a JMK Award finalist in 2022, and winner of the Projekt Europa Elevate award. Elsie is a graduate of University of London’s MA Theatre Directing course where she studied under Katie Mitchell and received the inaugural Alison Hodge Prize for Excellence in Theatre Directing. She has a background in devised physical theatre and arts and disability facilitation. She is also a graduate of Actors Centre Australia.
Janet Anderson graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 2022, having previously studying at Newtown High School of Performing Arts. Her theatre credits include: Orlando (Belvoir), Sistren (Old Fitz Theatre), All the Fraudulent Horse Girls (Old Fitz Theatre), Collapsible (Red Line Productions), Overflow (Darlinghurst Theatre), Mercury Fur (Kings Cross Theatre). TV: Plum, Last King of the […]
Janet Anderson graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 2022, having previously studying at Newtown High School of Performing Arts. Her theatre credits include: Orlando (Belvoir), Sistren (Old Fitz Theatre), All the Fraudulent Horse Girls (Old Fitz Theatre), Collapsible (Red Line Productions), Overflow (Darlinghurst Theatre), Mercury Fur (Kings Cross Theatre).
TV: Plum, Last King of the Cross (Season 1 & 2), Reef break.
Awards: Sydney Theatre Awards (Nomination): Best Performance in a supporting role in an independent production: All the Fraudulent Horse Girls, Time Out Sydney Arts & Culture Awards Critics’ Choice and Peoples Choice Award for Best Performance in a Play: Overflow, Sydney Theatre Awards (Nomination): for Best Performance in a Leading Role in an Independent Production: Collapsible, Greenroom Awards 2025 (Nomination): for Outstanding Performance for Overflow.
Janet is also a changemaker and vocal advocate for transgender rights, she has written op-eds for Vogue and been interviewed for the ABC.
Originally hailing from Melbourne, Nyx (they/them) is a non-binary artist driven by a love for language and live performance, and has recently returned to Sydney after completing an almost four year tenure as a principal actor in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Australia. A graduate of NIDA (2018), Nyx is also known for their […]
Originally hailing from Melbourne, Nyx (they/them) is a non-binary artist driven by a love for language and live performance, and has recently returned to Sydney after completing an almost four year tenure as a principal actor in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Australia.
A graduate of NIDA (2018), Nyx is also known for their performances in Sugary Rum’s Jess & Joe Forever and STC’s Lord of the Flies in 2019, and is eager to return to their roots in exploring gender diverse stories and characters.
Emily Havea is a Tongan Australian actor, singer, dancer, and drag performer who graduated NIDA in 2014. Orlando marks her debut at Belvoir. Theatre credits include Truth (Malthouse), Curly McLain in Oklahoma! (Black Swan State Theatre Company), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hayes), Wherever She Wanders (Griffin Theatre Company), Fun Home (Sydney Theatre Company & Melbourne Theatre […]
Emily Havea is a Tongan Australian actor, singer, dancer, and drag performer who graduated NIDA in 2014.
Orlando marks her debut at Belvoir.
Theatre credits include Truth (Malthouse), Curly McLain in Oklahoma! (Black Swan State Theatre Company), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hayes), Wherever She Wanders (Griffin Theatre Company), Fun Home (Sydney Theatre Company & Melbourne Theatre Company), Caroline, or Change (Hayes Theatre), Grounded (Riverside), Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare), Kill Climate Deniers (Griffin), and Brown Skin Girl, which she co-wrote and performed in (Griffin & Old Fitz Theatre).
Film work includes The Fall Guy (Universal Pictures), A Perfect Pairing (Netflix), Upgrade, and the web series Resting Pitch Face.
Television credits include Erotic Stories, The Deluge (SBS, AACTA Nomination), Mother and Son (ABC), Home and Away (Seven Network), Latecomers (SBS), Darby & Joan (Acorn TV), The Secrets She Keeps (Network 10), Harrow (ABC), Wentworth Seasons 6 & 7 (Foxtel/Showcase), Sisters (Network 10), and Growing Up Gracefully (ABC).
In 2020, Emily created her drag king alter ego, Texas Gold. As Texas, they have regularly performed alongside industry icon and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Star Kween Kong, including appearances at Adelaide Fringe and the Hordern Pavilion. In 2022, Texas choreographed and performed in STAN’s RuPaul’s Drag Race float for the Mardi Gras Parade.
Amber trained at Flinders University Drama Centre, the Stella Adler Company and SITI Company in New York. Amber’s theatre credits include Orlando, Master & Margarita, Stop Girl, Dance Nation, Bliss, Atlantis, Twelfth Night, Angels in America, and The Power of Yes for Belvoir, Bananaland for Brisbane and Sydney Festival, A Model Murder for Sydney Festival LPD Productions, 44 Sex Acts in One Week for Clubhouse Productions, North by North West for […]
Amber trained at Flinders University Drama Centre, the Stella Adler Company and SITI Company in New York.
Amber’s theatre credits include Orlando, Master & Margarita, Stop Girl, Dance Nation, Bliss, Atlantis, Twelfth Night, Angels in America, and The Power of Yes for Belvoir, Bananaland for Brisbane and Sydney Festival, A Model Murder for Sydney Festival LPD Productions, 44 Sex Acts in One Week for Clubhouse Productions, North by North West for MTC/ Kay McLean Productions, Top Coat, Banging Denmark, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Popular Mechanicals, War of the Roses, The Season at Sarsaparilla, The Lost Echo, Gallipoli, The Art of War, Mother Courage and Her Children for Sydney Theatre Company, Mama Does Derby, Girl Asleep and School Dance for Windmill, Photograph 51, A Broadcast Coup, The Appleton Ladies Potato Race, Tribes for Ensemble, and Picnic at Hanging Rock and Optimism for Malthouse/ Edinburgh Royal Lyceum/ Barbican London.
Amber’s screen credits include the feature film Girl Asleep, and the SBS mini-series The Hunting, the ‘Phillia’ Episode of Erotic Stories and Home and Away.
She has received two Helpmann Awards for Best Female in a Supporting Role for Girl Asleep (Belvoir/Windmill) and School Dance (Windmill).
Belvoir St Theatre: Tiny Beautiful Things Other credits: Queensland Theatre: Tiny Beautiful Things; Dead Puppet Society: Holding Achilles; Gob Squad: Creation (Pictures for Dorian); CalArts: Oedipus, Antigone, Hamlet, Our Iliad, And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens; Fleshmarket Co: Well That’s Oz, You Are Frogs. Television: In Our Blood. Training: Bachelor of Fine […]
Belvoir St Theatre: Tiny Beautiful Things Other credits: Queensland Theatre: Tiny Beautiful Things; Dead Puppet Society: Holding Achilles; Gob Squad: Creation (Pictures for Dorian); CalArts: Oedipus, Antigone, Hamlet, Our Iliad, And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens; Fleshmarket Co: Well That’s Oz, You Are Frogs. Television: In Our Blood. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), California Institute of the Arts.
Shannen Alyce Quan (they/she) graduated from WAAPA in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre). Shannen is excited to return to Belvoir this year, after previously performing in Holding The Man (2024) Fangirls (2021). Other theatre credits include The Dictionary of Lost Words (STC and STC), The Dismissal (Squabbalogic), Flat Earthers (Griffin Theatre Company and […]
Shannen Alyce Quan (they/she) graduated from WAAPA in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre).
Shannen is excited to return to Belvoir this year, after previously performing in Holding The Man (2024) Fangirls (2021). Other theatre credits include The Dictionary of Lost Words (STC and STC), The Dismissal (Squabbalogic), Flat Earthers (Griffin Theatre Company and Hayes Theatre Company), Metropolis (Hayes Theatre Company), Little Women, City of Angels (Joshua Robson Productions), Six The Musical (Sydney Opera House), Spring Awakening (CPCA) and Priscilla Queen of the Desert – The Musical (Michael Cassel Group), The Gathering (Vic Theatre Company), Post: A New Musical (Something Blue Productions), Boat People and Tejas Verdes (Theatre 451) and Romeo and Juliet (Australian Shakespeare Company).
Shannen appeared recently in the highly anticipated 6-part limited Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar, based on the true story of Belle Gibson.
Shannen won two Performing Arts WA Awards: Best Actor and Best Newcomer in Next to Normal (Black Swan State Theatre Company). They were also nominated for Best Performance in a Leading Role at the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards for their portrayal of Jo March in Little Women. Prior to this, Shannen also received a nomination for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical at the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards for their performance in Metropolis.
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 […]
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.
David is a designer working across Australia with leading theatre, dance and opera companies. Previous designs for Belvoir include: Fangirls, A Room of One’s Own, Opening Night and Hedda Gabler. Other theatre credits include: RBG; Of Many One Into the Shimmering World, Oil, The Seagull, Death of A Salesman, Blithe Spirit, The Deep Blue Sea, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, The Harp in the South, Saint […]
David is a designer working across Australia with leading theatre, dance and opera companies. Previous designs for Belvoir include: Fangirls, A Room of One’s Own, Opening Night and Hedda Gabler. Other theatre credits include: RBG; Of Many One Into the Shimmering World, Oil, The Seagull, Death of A Salesman, Blithe Spirit, 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 Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) for Ballet Zürich, My Brilliant Career for Queensland Ballet, Gilgamesh and The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera; Impermanence, Ab [Intra] and Orb for Sydney Dance Company as well as Griselda and L’amant Jaloux for Pinchgut Opera. David was the co-resident designer at Sydney Theatre Company from 2012 – 2013.
Nick Schlieper has designed for all of the major performing arts companies in Australia and works regularly internationally. Recent productions for Belvoir include Master and Margarita, Opening Night, Packer & Sons, Ghosts and set and lighting for Scenes From The Climate Era and Once In Royal David’s City. His many productions for STC include Dracula, […]
Nick Schlieper has designed for all of the major performing arts companies in Australia and works regularly internationally.
Recent productions for Belvoir include Master and Margarita, Opening Night, Packer & Sons, Ghosts and set and lighting for Scenes From The Climate Era and Once In Royal David’s City.
His many productions for STC include Dracula, The Tempest, Jekyll & Hyde and The War of the Roses as well as set and lighting designs for Happy Days, Endgame, Face To Face and Baal.
For MTC, his work includes As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Richard III, Hamlet and The Tempest as well as set and lighting for North By Northwest (with Simon Phillips) and Photograph 51.
Nick’s international work includes productions for The Salzburg Festival, Hamburg and Bavarian State Operas, Royal Shakespeare Company, and The London Barbican as well as productions in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Oslo. Hedda Gabler, Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya and The Maids, also played in New York. His lighting designs for Dorian Gray, The Present and Priscilla, 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 Schlieper has received seven Sydney Theatre Awards (two for set design and 5 for lighting design), six Melbourne Green Room Awards, and 5 Helpmann Awards. He recently received a Tony Award nomination for Dorian Gray on Broadway.
Ella is a Sydney-based Production and Costume Designer for theatre, film and live performance. Informed by her beginnings in theatre, Ella’s work has evolved through contrived spaces, searching for the extraordinary found in the everyday. Ella’s work as Costume Designer at Belvoir includes August: Osage County, Tell Me I’m Here, The Weekend and Scenes From […]
Ella is a Sydney-based Production and Costume Designer for theatre, film and live performance. Informed by her beginnings in theatre, Ella’s work has evolved through contrived spaces, searching for the extraordinary found in the everyday.
Ella’s work as Costume Designer at Belvoir includes August: Osage County, Tell Me I’m Here, The Weekend and Scenes From the Climate Era. Her costumes examine character with an urban melancholy. Currently, her work can be seen in the national tour of RENT; The Musical, directed by Shaun Rennie coming to Opera Australia in 2025.
Productions where Ella has worked as both Set and Costume Designer include The Comeuppance (Red Stitch), Dubbo Championship Wrestling (The Hayes), LOVE (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), First Love Is The Revolution and Wherever She Wanders (Griffin Theatre Company).
In film, Ella worked as the Costume and Production Designer for CATSinAM, The Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Nurses and Midwives, for In Our Own Right; recounting Black Australian Nurses’ and Midwives Stories.
In commercial as Production Designer, her clients include Google, Woolworths, Officeworks and James Squire.
Ella is a graduate from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design for Performance).
Hailley is an emerging Set and Costume Designer, whose credits include: Set and Costume Designer for Forgetting Tim Minchin (2023) (Nominated for APDG Emerging Designer Award), Aurat Raj (2024) and Feminazi (2023), and Set Designer for Shitty (2024), for Belvoir’s 25A program. Outside of Belvoir, she has Set and Costume Designed for Amber (2025), Sitting, Screaming (2024), Anomalies (2024), The Changelings (2024), Scab (2024) and How to Win a Plebiscite (and Tennis) (2022). She has […]
Hailley is an emerging Set and Costume Designer, whose credits include: Set and Costume Designer for Forgetting Tim Minchin (2023) (Nominated for APDG Emerging Designer Award), Aurat Raj (2024) and Feminazi (2023), and Set Designer for Shitty (2024), for Belvoir’s 25A program.
Outside of Belvoir, she has Set and Costume Designed for Amber (2025), Sitting, Screaming (2024), Anomalies (2024), The Changelings (2024), Scab (2024) and How to Win a Plebiscite (and Tennis) (2022).
She has also Set Designed for Catch Me if You Can (2025) at Newington College, Picnic at Hanging Rock (2022) at NIDA, and Associate Set Designed for The Hello Girls (2024).
Alan is one of Australia’s most prolific composers for theatre, opera, television and film. Theatre credits include Packer And Sons, Things I Know To Be True, Twelth Night, Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll, Stuff Happens, Once In Royal David’s City, The Judas Kiss (Belvoir); A German Life (Adelaide Festival), I’m Not Running(National Theatre London); That […]
Alan is one of Australia’s most prolific composers for theatre, opera, television and film. Theatre credits include Packer And Sons, Things I Know To Be True, Twelth Night, Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll, Stuff Happens, Once In Royal David’s City, The Judas Kiss (Belvoir); A German Life (Adelaide Festival), I’m Not Running(National Theatre London); That Eye The Sky, A Doll’s House, (State Theatre Company of South Australia). Machu Picchu, Orlando, The Season At Sarsaparilla, Mother Courage, Hedda Gabler (Sydney Theatre Company); Hamlet, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing (Bell Shakespeare).
Opera credits include The Eighth Wonder (Opera Australia), How To Kill Your Husband, Through The Looking Glass (Victorian Opera/Malthouse Theatre).
Musical Theatre credits include The Adventures Of Snugglepot And Cuddlepie, Jonah Jones, Frankie – An Opera For Young People, Can You Hear Colour?
Film credits include Holding The Man, Looking For Alibrandi, The Bank, and the recent Storm Boy, and TV credits include The Shark Net, The Farm, Love My Way, The Beautiful Lie.
Awards include 2002 APRA Award for Best Score Feature Film for The Bank, APRA Award for Best Music Mini Series for The Shark Net (2004) and The Beautiful Lie (2016); 2010 Sydney Theatre Award and Helpmann awards for Best Music for Diary Of A Madman, Sydney Theatre Award for The White Guard.
Kelly is an award-winning composer, musician and sound designer for theatre, dance and film. Belvoir credits: ORLANDO, TITLE AND DEED, NORA, HEDDA GABLER, CINDERELLA, KILL THE MESSENGER, LOVE ME TENDER. Other credits include: for Melbourne Theatre Company, DESTINY, MOTHER PLAY, THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES, MY SISTER JILL, CYRANO, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, WORKING WITH CHILDREN, […]
Kelly is an award-winning composer, musician and sound designer for theatre, dance and film.
Belvoir credits: ORLANDO, TITLE AND DEED, NORA, HEDDA GABLER, CINDERELLA, KILL THE MESSENGER, LOVE ME TENDER.
Other credits include: for Melbourne Theatre Company, DESTINY, MOTHER PLAY, THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES, MY SISTER JILL, CYRANO, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, WORKING WITH CHILDREN, DI VIV AND ROSE, HAY FEVER, THREE LITTLE WORDS, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, PEDDLING, RUPERT (which toured to Sydney’s Theatre Royal and The Kennedy Centre in Washington DC), THE CRUCIBLE, ON THE PRODUCTION OF MONSTERS, RETURN TO EARTH; TRIPLE X (with Queensland Theatre) BOYS WILL BE BOYS, THE TRIAL (with Malthouse) (Sydney Theatre Company); for Bell Shakespeare, ROMEO AND JULIET, AS YOU LIKE IT, TARTUFFE, PHEDRE, HENRY IV, MACBETH, JULIUS CAESAR, THE SCHOOL FORWIVES; for Queensland Theatre, HEDDA, SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE; for Malthouse, TRUTH, NOSFERATU, BROTHERS WRECK (with State Theatre Company of South Australia), EDWARD II, THE SHADOW KING (toured to Barbican), DANCE OF DEATH, ONE NIGHT THE MOON, DIE WINTERREISSE (with Thin Ice and Brisbane Festival); for Ensemble Theatre, SWITZERLAND, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER; for Griffin Theatre Company, THE BOYS (with Sydney Festival), AND NO MORE SHALL WE PART.
Sam Cheng (she/he/they) is an Asian-Australian composer, sound designer, instrumentalist, and graduate from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Recent theatre credits include: Composer and Sound designer for Sydney Theatre Company (American Signs), Belvoir 25A (Saturday Girls), New Ghosts Theatre Company (Cut Chilli, Albion, Sitting Screaming, Frame Narrative, For the Grace of You Go I), Slanted […]
Sam Cheng (she/he/they) is an Asian-Australian composer, sound designer, instrumentalist, and graduate from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Recent theatre credits include: Composer and Sound designer for Sydney Theatre Company (American Signs), Belvoir 25A (Saturday Girls), New Ghosts Theatre Company (Cut Chilli, Albion, Sitting Screaming, Frame Narrative, For the Grace of You Go I), Slanted Theatre (Boom, Ching Chong Chinaman), Kwento (The Marriage Agency), Purple Tape Productions (Maa Ki Rasoi), Makhazzi Productions (Yalla to Lebanon), Fruitbox Theatre (French Letters & Leather Cleaner), and more. They’ve also been Sound Designer for Hayes Theatre (25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), New Ghosts Theatre Company (Girl Band), and Outhouse Theatre Company (How to Defend Yourself), as well Sound Associate for Griffin Theatre Company (Mother May We).
Shannon Burns is a leading Australian creative, specialising in choreography and movement direction across theatre, opera, film, and major events. Her recent theatre credits include Dear Evan Hansen (2024/2025), a co-production between Sydney Theatre Company and The Michael Cassel Group, and The Producers (2025) for Joshua Robson Productions. A frequent collaborator with Hayes Theatre Co, […]
Shannon Burns is a leading Australian creative, specialising in choreography and movement direction across theatre, opera, film, and major events.
Her recent theatre credits include Dear Evan Hansen (2024/2025), a co-production between Sydney Theatre Company and The Michael Cassel Group, and The Producers (2025) for Joshua Robson Productions. A frequent collaborator with Hayes Theatre Co, Shannon has contributed to acclaimed productions such as A Little Night Music (2023), Ride the Cyclone (2024), and Murder for Two (2023). She has also created work for Redline Productions, Sydney Festival, CDP Theatre Producers, and Sport for Jove.
In opera, Shannon has choreographed major outdoor productions for Opera Australia, including La Traviata on Sydney Harbour (2021) and Carmen on Cockatoo Island (2022). She also choreographed the company’s brand new production of Carmen (2025) which opened at Sydney
Opera House and will later tour to Melbourne. Internationally, she choreographed Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (2024) for the Berlin Philharmonic. Her collaborations with Victorian Opera include multiple productions, most recently Abduction (2025). Shannon has worked extensively with Pinchgut Opera in various capacities including choreography, movement direction, direction, and assistant direction. Her additional credits include work for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Musica Viva.
A former professional dancer, Shannon trained at the Queensland Dance School of Excellence and ED5INTERNATIONAL.
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 […]
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 Counting and Cracking directed by Eamon Flack (2024), Never Closer directed by Hannah Goodwin (2024), Lose to Win directed by Jess Arthur (2024), Holding the Man directed by Eamon Flack (2024), At What Cost? directed by Isaac Drandic, Miss Peony directed by Courtney Stewart (2023), The Master & Margarita, Into The Woods, directed by Eamon Flack (2023), Blue, directed by Deborah Brown (2023), The 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).
P. Tucker Worley is a roller-skate instructor/performer based here in Sydney. Belvoir credits include Orlando. Australian credits including skating for Cadbury, Channel 7, Madame Tussaud’s Dua Lipa unveiling, SXSW, FIFA, Canon, Queer Sporting Alliance, World Pride, Granny Apple Smith Festival, The Cahill Expressway NYE Party and many more. Outside of teaching with Rollerfit and performing as […]
P. Tucker Worley is a roller-skate instructor/performer based here in Sydney.
Belvoir credits include Orlando. Australian credits including skating for Cadbury, Channel 7, Madame Tussaud’s Dua Lipa unveiling, SXSW, FIFA, Canon, Queer Sporting Alliance, World Pride, Granny Apple Smith Festival, The Cahill Expressway NYE Party and many more.
Outside of teaching with Rollerfit and performing as a roller skater, Tucker is also an actor whose Australian credits include Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour’s West Side Story and the Australian Premiere of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. Favorite US credits include West Side Story (HGO), Mamma Mia! (International Tour), A Chorus Line (Arvada Center), Million Dollar Quartet (RMRT) and Comedy of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare) to name a few. A big thank you to Carissa and Emma. To my incredible wife Kira, thank you for all your support and for being my champion every day. Be Brave.
Supported by Australian Plays Transform’s Developing the Dramaturg program with Create NSW. Brooke Lee (they/them) is an Australian-Chinese actor, artist, and dramaturg. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (BFA Acting), Brooke has performed and toured with a range of national and international companies, including Belvoir 25A, Malthouse Theatre, Darlinghurst Theatre, Theatre Royal […]
Supported by Australian Plays Transform’s Developing the Dramaturg program with Create NSW.
Brooke Lee (they/them) is an Australian-Chinese actor, artist, and dramaturg. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (BFA Acting), Brooke has performed and toured with a range of national and international companies, including Belvoir 25A, Malthouse Theatre, Darlinghurst Theatre, Theatre Royal Sydney, National Theatre of Parramatta, Brisbane Powerhouse, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, Teatro de los Sentidos, and over 70 venues across the United States.
As an assistant director, Brooke has worked with Dom Mercer on A Practical Guide to Self Defence (National Theatre of Parramatta) and with Tasnim Hossain on Yellow Face (KXT), which received the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Direction in Independent Theatre.
Brooke’s animation work for the digital play 落叶归根 (Getting Home) by Cheryl Ho was awarded the Green Room Award for Best Design in Independent Theatre.
Luke is Belvoir’s Resident Stage Manager. For Belvoir, he has stage managed The Spare Room, Song of First Desire, August Osage County, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Never Closer, Holding the Man, Master and Margarita, The Weekend, Scenes from the Climate Era, Blessed Union, The Jungle and the Sea, Tell Me […]
Luke is Belvoir’s Resident Stage Manager. For Belvoir, he has stage managed The Spare Room, Song of First Desire, August Osage County, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Never Closer, 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).
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Deborah was last at Belvoir in Company B’s Greek Tragedy. Other theatre credits include: Wicked Sisters (Griffin), Lady Tabouli (National Theatre Of Parramatta/Sydney Festival), Gods Of Strangers (State Theatre Company South Australia), The God Committee, Heartbreak Kid (Ensemble/tours), The Shearston Shift (Sydney Theatre Company/Australian People’s Theatre/tours), I’m With Her, The Mystery of Love & Sex (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Metamorphoses (Apocalypse/Old Fitz), Unfinished Works, Homesick (Bontom), Seagull (Secret House), Mum’s The Word (Burberry Productions/Australian tours/SOH Playhouse/Glen Street), Dropped (The Goods Theatre Company/Old Fitz), House of Ramon Iglesia (MopHead/Old Fitz), A Kind of Alaska, Suddenly Last Summer, Hotel Hibiscus (NIDA company), Antigone (Sport For Jove), Boswell for the Defence (Sydney Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (theatrongroup). Television credits: Children’s Hospital, My Place, Police Rescue, G.P., Pulse, Rake, Redfern Now (ABC), Camp (NBC/Matchbox), Murder Call (Nine Network), A Country Practice, All Saints, Home and Away (Seven Network). Film credits: Chasing Comets, Balls, Boys From The Bush, Cavity, Inside Out, No Worries, The Premonition, and Razzle Dazzle. A NIDA, Trinity College London, and Sydney University graduate, Deborah’s been nominated for several Sydney Theatre Awards, and is a proud MEAA Member since 1990.
Deborah was last at Belvoir in Company B’s Greek Tragedy. Other theatre credits include: Wicked Sisters (Griffin), Lady Tabouli (National Theatre Of Parramatta/Sydney Festival), Gods Of Strangers (State Theatre Company South Australia), The God Committee, Heartbreak Kid (Ensemble/tours), The Shearston Shift (Sydney Theatre Company/Australian People’s Theatre/tours), I’m With Her, The Mystery of Love & Sex (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Metamorphoses (Apocalypse/Old Fitz), Unfinished Works, Homesick (Bontom), Seagull (Secret House), Mum’s The Word (Burberry Productions/Australian tours/SOH Playhouse/Glen Street), Dropped (The Goods Theatre Company/Old Fitz), House of Ramon Iglesia (MopHead/Old Fitz), A Kind of Alaska, Suddenly Last Summer, Hotel Hibiscus (NIDA company), Antigone (Sport For Jove), Boswell for the Defence (Sydney Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (theatrongroup). Television credits: Children’s Hospital, My Place, Police Rescue, G.P., Pulse, Rake, Redfern Now (ABC), Camp (NBC/Matchbox), Murder Call (Nine Network), A Country Practice, All Saints, Home and Away (Seven Network). Film credits: Chasing Comets, Balls, Boys From The Bush, Cavity, Inside Out, No Worries, The Premonition, and Razzle Dazzle. A NIDA, Trinity College London, and Sydney University graduate, Deborah’s been nominated for several Sydney Theatre Awards, and is a proud MEAA Member since 1990.
Deborah was last at Belvoir in Company B’s Greek Tragedy. Other theatre credits include: Wicked Sisters (Griffin), Lady Tabouli (National Theatre Of Parramatta/Sydney Festival), Gods Of Strangers (State Theatre Company South Australia), The God Committee, Heartbreak Kid (Ensemble/tours), The Shearston Shift (Sydney Theatre Company/Australian People’s Theatre/tours), I’m With Her, The Mystery of Love & Sex (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Metamorphoses (Apocalypse/Old Fitz), Unfinished Works, Homesick (Bontom), Seagull (Secret House), Mum’s The Word (Burberry Productions/Australian tours/SOH Playhouse/Glen Street), Dropped (The Goods Theatre Company/Old Fitz), House of Ramon Iglesia (MopHead/Old Fitz), A Kind of Alaska, Suddenly Last Summer, Hotel Hibiscus (NIDA company), Antigone (Sport For Jove), Boswell for the Defence (Sydney Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (theatrongroup). Television credits: Children’s Hospital, My Place, Police Rescue, G.P., Pulse, Rake, Redfern Now (ABC), Camp (NBC/Matchbox), Murder Call (Nine Network), A Country Practice, All Saints, Home and Away (Seven Network). Film credits: Chasing Comets, Balls, Boys From The Bush, Cavity, Inside Out, No Worries, The Premonition, and Razzle Dazzle. A NIDA, Trinity College London, and Sydney University graduate, Deborah’s been nominated for several Sydney Theatre Awards, and is a proud MEAA Member since 1990.
Deborah was last at Belvoir in Company B’s Greek Tragedy. Other theatre credits include: Wicked Sisters (Griffin), Lady Tabouli (National Theatre Of Parramatta/Sydney Festival), Gods Of Strangers (State Theatre Company South Australia), The God Committee, Heartbreak Kid (Ensemble/tours), The Shearston Shift (Sydney Theatre Company/Australian People’s Theatre/tours), I’m With Her, The Mystery of Love & Sex (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Metamorphoses (Apocalypse/Old Fitz), Unfinished Works, Homesick (Bontom), Seagull (Secret House), Mum’s The Word (Burberry Productions/Australian tours/SOH Playhouse/Glen Street), Dropped (The Goods Theatre Company/Old Fitz), House of Ramon Iglesia (MopHead/Old Fitz), A Kind of Alaska, Suddenly Last Summer, Hotel Hibiscus (NIDA company), Antigone (Sport For Jove), Boswell for the Defence (Sydney Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (theatrongroup). Television credits: Children’s Hospital, My Place, Police Rescue, G.P., Pulse, Rake, Redfern Now (ABC), Camp (NBC/Matchbox), Murder Call (Nine Network), A Country Practice, All Saints, Home and Away (Seven Network). Film credits: Chasing Comets, Balls, Boys From The Bush, Cavity, Inside Out, No Worries, The Premonition, and Razzle Dazzle. A NIDA, Trinity College London, and Sydney University graduate, Deborah’s been nominated for several Sydney Theatre Awards, and is a proud MEAA Member since 1990.