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Craig Silvey

John Leary

Neil Armfield

Neil Armfield AO is a leading Australian director of theatre, opera and film. He was Co-Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival (2017 – 2022) and Artistic Director of Belvoir St Theatre for 17 years, which he also co-founded. Having directed well over 100 stage productions, including many world premieres, Neil’s Belvoir credits include Things I Know To Be True, The Diary of a Madman, The Book of Everything, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Toy Symphony, Exit the King, Keating!, Cloudstreet, Aliwa, The Judas Kiss, Up the Road, Hamlet, The Blind Giant is Dancing, No Sugar, The Tempest and Signal Driver. Other highlights include Handel’s Julius Caesar, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Brett Dean’s Hamlet, Watershed: the Death of Dr Duncan, A German Life, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Secret River and Angels in America.

Neil has directed for many of the world’s major opera companies and in addition to classics, has directed the new operas Frankie and The Eighth Wonder by Alan John, Love Burns by Graeme Koehne and Bliss by Brett Dean.
Neil’s screen credits are Candy and Holding The Man (features) and Edens Lost, The Fisherman’s Wake and Coral Island (television).
Over his distinguished career, Neil has received 2 AFI Awards, 12 Helpmann Awards and several Sydney Theatre, Victorian Green Room and Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Awards. In 2007 Neil was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia.

Peter Carroll

Peter’s distinguished career has spanned over 90 productions. He continues to work in musical theatre, new Australian texts and the classics. For Belvoir, Peter has appeared in The Cherry Orchard, Life of Galileo, An Enemy of The People, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, Twelfth Night, The Great Fire, Seventeen, A Christmas Carol, Oedipus Rex, Old Man, The Book of Everything, Happy Days, Hamlet, The Blind Giant is Dancing, The Tempest, The Chairs and Stuff Happens. His other theatre credits include The Tempest, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mary Stuart, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company); Krapp’s Last Tape (State Theatre Company of South Australia/MONA FOMO tour); Girl from the North Country (GWB Entertainment), Last Man Standing, Into The Woods, Sweeney Todd (Melbourne Theatre Company), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (TML Enterprises); Night on Bald Mountain (Malthouse Theatre); and No Man’s Land (Queensland Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company). Peter’s film credits include The Power of Dog, Sleeping Beauty, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Crazy Rich Asians, Happy Feet, Black and White. His various television credits includeThe Moth Effect, Aftertaste, The Letdown, Bloom, Rake, Grass Roots, Diamond of Jeru, Changi, The Farm, Farscape. Peter has won many awards including Green Room Awards, a Helpmann Award, a Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle Award, an Honorary Doctorate of Creative Arts and a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Performer in a Supporting Role (2022). Peter is the recipient of the Media Arts & Entertainment Alliance’s Lifetime Achievement Award; and he continues to be a proud supporter of the union.

Julie Forsyth

Rebecca Massey

Rebecca Massey is considered one of Australia’s most versatile and accomplished film, television and theatre actresses. She’s been nominated and won numerous awards including a Green Room Award for Best Actress, and two Helpmann nominations.

Rebecca has appeared in starring roles for flagship theatre companies all over Australia. Her company Club House Productions produced 44 Sex Acts in One Week, as part of this year’s Sydney Festival. She performed Dance Nation for the State Theatre Company of South Australia, The Misanthrope for The Bell Shakespeare Company, Kill Climate Deniers for Griffin Theatre Company, and Chimerica, Dinner, After Dinner, Perplex and Travesties for the Sydney Theatre Company. Belvoir credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The Book of Everything, Exit the King, It Just Stopped, Stuff Happens, The Underpants, Macbeth, Cloudstreet, The Small Poppies amongst others.

Rebecca has a string of both comic and drama television credits in award winning shows including, Metro Sexual (Seasons 1 & 2), Deep Water, Total Control, Upright, The Principal, Chandon Pictures (Seasons 1 & 2), Lowdown, (Seasons 1 & 2) and Utopia (Seasons 2 – 4). Her film work includes Bad Girl, Accidents Happen, The Black Balloon and Backyard Ashes. She is soon to be seen in ABC’s yet to be released Barons and Del Kathryn Barton’s feature, Blaze.

She is the voice of ‘Mary’ in the Kate’s serial podcast Slushy and ‘Special Agent Maddie Rigs’ for Working Dogs’ adult animation, Pacific Heat.

Steve Rodgers

Morgan Moroney

MORGAN MORONEY (he/him) is a lighting and video designer working across theatre, opera, dance and installation.

Morgan’s work as Lighting Designer includes: NAYIKA: A DANCING GIRL (Belvoir), SHITTY (Belvoir 25A), DIDO & AENEAS (Pinchgut Opera), THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Hayes Theatre), THE QUEEN’S NANNY, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLYDE’S, MR. BAILEY’S MINDER, COLDER THAN HERE (Ensemble), CLEANSED (Redline), GIRLS IN BOYS’ CARS (NTofP), THE WET, THE DRY (Circa Cairns), INFERNO (Australian Brandenberg Orchestra), THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Opera Australia National Tour), ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE (Sugary Rum), JALI (Jubilee Street), SAPLINGS and SHACK (ATYP). Work as Lighting and Video Designer includes: COLLAPSIBLE (essential workers), A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SELF-DEFENCE (NTofP & Merrigong) and CAMP (Siren & WorldPride). Assistant and Associate Designer work includes: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ON SYDNEY HARBOUR (Opera Australia) and DRACULA (Sydney Theatre Company).

Awards include the Michael Northen Award for Emerging Lighting Designers (ALPD UK 2024), Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Lighting Design (COLLAPSIBLE 2023) APDG Lighting Design for Live Performance Award (CLEANSED 2022), APDG Emerging Designer for Live Performance Award (GHOSTS 2020).