Roleplay

Hannah Reilly

Hannah Reilly is an award-winning Australian multi-hyphenate. She is a writer, director, songwriter and performer across film, television, and theatre. She is renowned for her “fresh, female-first approach” (Elle Magazine).

Hannah received the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) Rebel Wilson Comedy Commission, which led to the creation of her original musical comedy, The Deb. In 2022, she wrote and directed a stage adaptation of The Deb, which premiered at ATYP’s brand-new Rebel Theatre in Sydney to rave reviews and an extended season. The Guardian ranked it among the 15 greatest Australian musicals ever.

The success of The Deb resulted in a feature film adaptation with Hannah co-writing the screenplay and lyrics, and Rebel Wilson directing and starring. The film was announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. The Deb was called “A toe-tapping, dazzling, fun and young musical entertainment” – Deadline and “sharp satire…a joyous, truly crowd-pleasing film” – RogerEbert.com

She co-created, wrote, and starred in the primetime series Growing Up Gracefully for ABC1, which skewered the outrageous double standards placed on women through the lens of etiquette books. A musical number from the series, “Leave At 3.43,” addressing the gender pay gap, and other sketches have garnered over 16 million views on ABC socials. The Guardian praised the series as a “sharp, surreal satire on womanhood”.

In 2018, Hannah co-wrote, directed, and starred in the multi-platform series Sheilas, which highlighted the remarkable but forgotten women of Australian history. The series won an Australian Writers Guild Award, the Grand Jury Prize at Melbourne Web Fest, and the Gold Coast Film Festival, with FILM-INK calling it “brilliant…brutally, laugh-out-loud funny the whole time.” That same year, she co-wrote, directed, and performed in her first original comedy musical Yarramadoon: The Musical at Belvoir St Theatre. The show, which had a sold-out, extended season, was praised by Timeout as “Genuinely hilarious…charisma that leaps off the stage and turns every character, no matter how absurd, into someone loveable.”

In 2024, Hannah undertook a six month Screen Australia Enterprise placement at Invention Studios in Los Angeles as a creative producer, creator, and writer, gaining hands-on experience in the US market with the President of Invention Studios, Nicholas Weinstock (Bridesmaids, Severance). 

She is currenly expanding her creative portfolio as a writer and director, developing a varied slate of her work under her production banner, Most Improved Productions.

Paige Rattray

Paige Rattray is a stage and screen director.

Paige most recently directed an episode on Hoodlum Entertainment’s romantic drama Two Years Later for Paramount +. Prior to that she worked as Dramaturg and Shadow Director on Fremantle Media Australia/Netflix’s hit show Heartbreak High S3 and was the Dramaturg on S2. Paige is attached to direct two feature films, one for Goalpost Pictures and one for Fremantle Media Australia. She is developing her own original tv series with Dreamchaser Productions as Creator and Director.

Paige is a much-lauded dramaturg and director of new work having premiered landmark new Australian plays. She was the Director, New Work and Artistic Development for the Sydney Theatre Company from 2022 to 2024, an Associate Director from 2018 to 2022 and STC’s Richard Wherrett Fellow for 2015 and 2016. Paige was Associate Artistic Director at Queensland Theatre and Associate Artist at Griffin Theatre Company. She was co-founder of award-winning, independent theatre company ARTHUR, and a graduate of NIDA.

In 2024 Paige directed the UK premiere of the hit musical Fangirls at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre co-produced by Sonia Friedman Productions. Paige directed the world premiere season for Queensland Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre and ATYP in 2019 before touring nationally in 2021 and returning to the Sydney Opera House in 2022. It won the 2019 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Mainstage Musical and the Matilda Award for Best Musical or Cabaret, as well as Paige being nominated for Best Director.

For Sydney Theatre Company, Paige’s director credits include the world premiere of Into the Shimmering World by Angus Cerini, Do Not Go Gentle by Patricia Cornelius, Ella Hickson’s OIL, The Lifespan of a Fact, premiere production of Triple X (with QT), Blithe Spirit, Death of a Salesman, The Deep Blue Sea, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Sydney Theatre Award – Best Director), How To Rule The World, premiere production of Black is the New White (including 2018 and 2019 tours), Australian Graffiti, Power Plays and Boys Will Be Boys. Paige was Production Dramaturg on their critically acclaimed production The Picture of Dorian Gray which has since premiered on the West End and Broadway.

Other theatre credits include Bright World, Hedda, Scenes from a Marriage, Switzerland, This House Is Mine and her widely toured work Cut Snake.   .

Kelsey Lee

Kelsey is a lighting, set and costume designer for theatre, dance and events. Previously for Belvoir she was the Lighting Designer for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, A Room of One’s Own; and Associate Lighting Designer for Blue, At What Cost?. Other credits include Lighting Designer: Mutiara (Marrugeku); Gurr Era Op (Force Majeure); The Lewis Trilogy; Sex Magick; Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre Company), The Comedy Of Errors (Bell Shakespeare); Tell Me On A Sunday (Hayes Theatre); Masterclass; The Memory of Water; A Letter For Molly (Ensemble Theatre); Queen Fatima (NToP); Jali (Aya Productions, Griffin Theatre Company); Extinction of the Learned Response, Skyduck, Kasama Kita (Belvoir 25A); April Aardvark (ATYP); Good Dog; If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You (Greendoor Theatre Company). Set & Costume Designer Somos (Sydney Dance Company). Set Designer: Nothing; A Practical Guide To Self Defence (NTofP). Costume Designer: Silence and Rapture (Sydney Dance Company & ACO), Switzerland (Ensemble Theatre). Co-production Designer & Lighting Designer: Destroy, She Said (Belvoir’s 25A). Set & Lighting Designer: An Ox Stand On My Tongue (Belvoir 25A). Lighting, Set & Costume: Lulu: A Modern Sex Tragedy (NIDA), Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (ACO). Associate Lighting Designer Cut The Sky (Marrugeku). 

Clemence Williams

Clemence is an award-winning director, composer and sound designer for theatre and opera. Belvoir credits include: The Wolves. Other credits include: for Sydney Theatre Company, Dracula, Into the Shimmering World, Oil, The Tenant of Windfell Hall, Death of a Salesman, Grand Horizons, Blithe Spirit, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; for Melbourne Theatre Company, Torch the Place, Heisenberg, Arbus and West; for Bell Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet; for Ensemble Theatre, A View from the Bridge; for Griffin Theatre Company, Flat Earthers the Musical (musical dramaturg), Blaque Showgirls. Awards: Clemence has won the APRA AMCOS Art Music Award for Best Live Performance Commute which she directed for Sydney Chamber Opera.

Daniel Herten

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

Madee Osborn

Madelaine is a theatremaker living and working on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land. In 2015 she graduated from Charles Sturt University’s B. Communication: Theatre/Media course with Distinction and was the 2015 recipient of the Blair Milan Memorial Scholarship. 

Madelaine’s Stage Management credits:

For Belvoir: Assistant Stage Manager for Master and Margarita (dir. Eamon Flack 2023)

For Force Majeure: Gardener’s Apprentice (dir. Danielle Micich, 2025 Development) and Power (dir. Danielle Micich, 2024 Biennale)

For Ensemble Theatre: Assistant Stage Manager for The Queen’s Nanny by Melanie Tait (dir. Priscilla Jackman, 2024)

For Griffin Theatre Company: Jailbaby  by Suzie Miller (dir. Andrea James, 2023, 2024)

Ghosting the Party by Melissa Bubnic (dir. Andrea James 2022), Is There Something Wrong with that Lady? by Debra Oswald (dir. Lee Lewis 2021)

For Arts on Tour: Highway of Lost Hearts by Mary Anne Butler (dir. Adam Deusien 2024)

For Performing Lines: Sunshine Super Girl (dir. Andrea James, National Tour 2022)