TELL ME I’M HERE

Veronica Nadine Gleeson

Tell Me I’m Here is Veronica’s first play for Belvoir Street Theatre. Other works for the stage include 360 Positions In a One Night Stand (Sydney Festival), Words and Pictures (Griffin Theatre Company) and All This Beautiful Life (The Production Company, New York). During a fifteen year hiatus from writing, Veronica worked as a creative executive on countless Australian films. Recent screenwriting credits include feature documentary Spookers and indie comedy Nude Tuesday. Veronica has just completed a feature film version of Stella prize-winning The Museum of Modern Love, and is currently adapting graphic novel Eve Stranger for BBC Studios. She is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Blake-Beckett Trust Award.

Anne Deveson

Leticia Cáceres

Leticia is one of the most in-demand directors for new writing in Australia. Leticia won the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Mainstage production for The Drover’s Wife by Leah Purcell, for Belvoir in 2016, as well as Best Direction Sydney Theatre Awards. Leticia directed  the world premiere of Barbara and the Camp Dogs by Alana Valentine and Ursula Yovich which won the Helpmann for Best Musical. Other Belvoir credits include Random by debbie tucker green, Mortido, Miss Julie, and The Dark Room. Other credits include: premiere production of Kate Mulvany’s The Mares (2019 winner Tasmanian Theatre Award for Outstanding Direction), The Space In Between by Steve Vizard and Paul Grabowsky at Arts Centre Melbourne, Going Down by Michele Lee for Malthouse/STC, and The House of Bernada Alba by Patricia Cornelius, Egg, The Distance, Death and the Maiden, Birdland (Winner Greenroom Awards, Best Direction), The Effect, Yellow Moon, Cock and Constellations, all at the MTC. Leticia’s debut short Wild won ‘Best First Time Film’ at the London Film Awards and ‘Next-Gen Film Award’ at the 2018 Melbourne Women in Film Festival. Her second film The True History of Billie the Kid premiered at the 2018 Melbourne International Film Festival. She has since directed on Series 1 and 2 of Bump (Roadshow Rough Diamond/Stan).

Tom Conroy

For Belvoir, Tom’s credits include The Master & Margarita, Tell Me I’m Here, My Brilliant Career, Ghosts, Jasper Jones, Mortido, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Small and Tired. Tom’s other theatre credits include 1984, Hay Fever, Spring Awakening (Sydney Theatre Company); The Mousetrap (John Frost/Crossroads Live national tour); The Wider Earth (Queensland Theatre Company/Sydney Festival and 2022 Tour); Cock (Melbourne Theatre Company/La Boite); Romeo and Juliet (State Theatre Company of South Australia); Moth (Malthouse Theatre/Arena Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet (Bell Shakespeare); Land & Sea (Brink Productions). His screen work includes Bump on Stan and Hamlet for Bell Shakespeare/ABC Splash Content. Tom’s performance in Something Natural But Very Childish (La Mama) garnered him a Green Room Award for Best Male Performer in Independent Theatre. He is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts.

Deborah Galanos

For Belvoir, Deborah was seen in Stop Girl, The Boomkak Panto and 25A’s Son of Byblos. Other theatre credits: Greek Tragedy (Belvoir Company B), 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), I’m With Her, The Mystery of Love & Sex (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Antigone (Sport For Jove), Metamorphoses (Apocalypse/Old Fitz), Unfinished Works, Homesick (Bontom/Seymour/505), Seagull (Secret House), Dropped (The Goods Theatre Company/Old Fitz), House of Ramon Iglesia (MopHead/Old Fitz), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (theatrongroup), Mum’s The Word (Burberry Productions/Australian tours/SOH Playhouse/Glen Street), A Kind of Alaska, Suddenly Last Summer, Hotel Hibiscus (NIDA company), Boswell for the Defence (Sydney Festival), The Shearston Shift (STC/Australian People’s Theatre). 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 & 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.

Nadine Garner

One of Australia’s most respected actors, Nadine Garner’s career has spanned film, television and theatre for more than 30 years.

Nadine has worked for many of Australia’s theatre companies performing both contemporary and classical pieces, Tell Me I’m Here will be her debut performance at Belvoir. Her theatre credits include; The Lifespan Of A Fact, Emerald City (co-production with QT), Photograph 51, Di And Viv And Rose, The Distance, The Weir, Private Lives, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard for MTC; A Little Night Music for Watch This National Theatre; Zebra! and Life After George for STC; Miss Julie for Perth Theatre Company; Romeo And Juliet and Taming Of The Shrew for The Australian Shakespeare Company. She starred in Sam Mendes’ production of Cabaret and received a Helpmann Award and Green Room Award for her performance as Fraulein Kost.

She will next star in Scott Major’s debut feature film Darklands, her other feature film credits include Ben Hackworth’s debut feature Celeste which premiered at the 2018 Melbourne International Film Festival, Ana Kokkinos’ The Book Of Revelation, Darren Ashton’s Razzle Dazzle and Amanda Jane’s The Wedding Party, which earned her a New York City International Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress

Nadine was most recently seen in the Network 10/Channel 5 (UK) series Lie With Me and will next be seen in the upcoming ABC crime drama series Savage River. Her other television credits include the Stan original series Bloom, My Life Is Murder and Mr Black for Network 10, The Blake Mysteries: Ghost Stories Telemovie for the Seven Network, ABC’s THE DOCTOR BLAKE MYSTERIES, the Seven Network drama CITY HOMICIDE, ABC comedy It’s A Date, Blue Water High, The Henderson Kids, G.P, The Flying Doctors, Boys From The Bush, and Raw Fm for which she was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama.

In 2011, Nadine wrote and directed the short film Afterglow which was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Screenplay.

In 1988, Nadine received an AFI Award for Best Actress for her role in Mull and in 1995, she received a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actress and an AFI Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in Metal Skin.

Raj Labade

Raj Labade will star as ‘Sebastian’ in the highly anticipated Amazon Prime series, The Office: Australia. In 2023, Raj worked in the STC/State Theatre production Dictionary of Lost Words, and Griffin Theatre production Sex Magick, as well as the SBS series Appetite. In 2022, Raj starred in the Belvoir production Tell Me I’m Here, the acclaimed Belvoir 25a production Never Closer and Performing Lines’ Mary Stuart.. At 17, Raj began his professional career as ‘Lewis’ in the Netflix feature film Back of the Net and, at 18, was accepted into the illustrious Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Whilst at WAAPA, Raj was the recipient of multiple prestigious awards; the 2020 Speech and Drama Teachers Association Poetry Prize, the 2021 Vice Chancellor’s Shakespeare Award of ‘Best Production’ for his performance of Hamlet and the 2021 Leslie Anderson Award for Best Graduating Actor in his final showcase performance.  In 2023, Raj was named one of the Casting Guild of Australia’s Rising Stars.

Sean O’Shea

Sean O’Shea has worked extensively in theatre for many years. He has appeared in over twenty productions for Bell Shakespeare including the title role in Macbeth and their tour to the U.K. of Comedy of Errors. He played Rupert Murdoch in Rupert for Melbourne Theatre Company and at the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C. Most recently he appeared in Nearer the Gods for Ensemble Theatre and appeared in their productions of Tribes, Sweet Road, Cavalcaders and Rasputin Affair. His extensive theatre work includes Saint Joan, Dinner, A Flea in her Ear, Mariage Blanc, The Crucible, Way of the World, Scenes from a Separation for Sydney Theatre Company; Darlinghurst Nights for Hayes Theatre, as well as productions for Griffin, South Australia Theatre Company, Darlinghurst Theatre, Western Australia Theatre Company. Recent television includes Operation Buffalo and Doctor Doctor. He trained at WAAPA and has taught and directed at WAAPA, University of Western Sydney and NIDA.

Jana Zvedeniuk

Recent theatre credits include Tell Me I’m Here at Belvoir St Theatre, directed by Leticia Cáceres, and the Australian premiere of Yentl at Arts Centre Melbourne, for which Jana won the 2023 Greenroom Award for Best Performance in the role of Yentl. Accoladed five stars by Time Out and Spectator, reviews described: “Jana Zvedeniuk is a marvel. The finest exhibition of the highest kind of histrionic skills.”

Jana Zvedeniuk can currently be seen in SBS’s television series, While the Men Are Away, in the leading role of Esther. The dramaedy that recently aired was directed by award-winning Australian filmmaker, Elissa Down. She made her TV debut in Netflix’s Glitch, as Young Vicky, and has also featured in the Stan/BBC Series, Bump, as Katarina.

Jana is an Australian actor of Ukrainian Jewish heritage. She has undertaken a BFA in Fine Arts (Acting) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).

Stephen Curtis

Stephen’s extensive design career spans four decades and embraces set and costume design for features, short films, dance, drama, opera, physical theatre and musicals, including major collaborations with Australia’s leading directors, choreographers, festivals and performance companies. He designed the sets for Company B Belvoir’s first production Signal Driver and has subsequently designed sets and or costumes for Holding the Man, The Weekend, Cursed!, Things I Know To Be True, Barbara And The Camp Dogs, The Drover’s Wife, Twelfth Night, The Business, Gwen In Purgatory, Scorched, The Adventures Of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie And Little Ragged Blossom, The Cake Man, It Just Stopped, In Our Name, The Underpants, Svetlana In Slingbacks, Emma’s Nose, The Small Poppies, Cosi, Popular Mechanicals 1 & 2, The Headbutt, Picasso At The Lapine Agile, The Alchemist and The Blind Giant Is Dancing. Other theatre credits include Platée for Pinchgut Opera; The Secret River for Sydney Theatre Company/London/Edinburgh Festival; I Am Eorafor Sydney Festival; Lulu, The Cunning Little Vixen and La Boheme for Opera Australia; Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) for State Opera of South Australia; The Hypocrite, Two Brothers and The Blue Room  for Melbourne Theatre Company; The Winter’s Tale and Henry Iv  for Bell Shakespeare Company; Once In Royal David’s City, Black Diggers and Pygmalion for Queensland Theatre Company. As a production designer Stephen’s film credits include Looking For Alibrandi, Bedevil and Night Cries. Stephen has published two books, Staging Ideas: Set And Costume Design For Theatre as a guide to the art of theatre design, and The Designer: Decorator Or Dramaturg? as a Platform Paper interrogating the contemporary role of the performance designer.

Veronique Benett

Veronique is a lighting, set and costume designer.  In 2019, Veronique completed a Master of Fine Art (Design for Performance) majoring in lighting. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Technical Theatre and Stage Management) from NIDA.

As a lighting designer, Veronique’s credits include: Wolves (Belvoir); Burn Witch Burn (Old Fitz); Happy Days (Red Line Productions); Sacre (Circa); Banging Denmark (Sydney Theatre Company); The Smallest Hour (Griffin Theatre); John (Outhouse Theatre Co.); The Life Of Us (Hayes Theatre); Nosferatu (Old 505); Stupid Fucking Bird (New Theatre); Happy Days, Chorus, Anatomy Of A Suicide, Permission To Spin, Howie The Rookie (Old Fitz); A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing (KXT).

Veronique designed set and costumes for A DOLL’S HOUSE at Ensemble: costumes For MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE (Seymour Centre/Sydney Festival); set and lighting design for Exit The King (Red Line Productions) and Ulster American (Outhouse Theatre Co); costume design for As You Like It (Sport for Jove); set and costume design for Our Blood Runs In The Street (Red Line Productions); set and lighting for Venus In Fur, costume and lighting design for Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (NIDA). 

Veronique’s associate lighting designer credits include: Cursed! designed by Chloe Oglvie (Belvoir); No Pay? No Way! designed by Paul Jackson (Sydney Theatre Company); Prima Facie designed by Trent Suidgeest (Griffin Theatre); Cry-Baby directed and designed by Alexander Berlage (Hayes Theatre Co); and Macbeth, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Sport for Jove. 

She has received four Sydney Theatre Award nominations: for Best Stage Design of an Independent Production for Exit The King and Ulster American; Best Lighting Design of an Independent Production for Happy Days; and Best Lighting Design of an Independent Production for John.

Steve Francis

Steve has worked extensively in theatre, dance and screen.

His Belvoir credits include Cursed!, My Brilliant Career, Packer & Sons, Things I Know To Be True, Winyanboga Yurringa, Every Brilliant Thing, The Sugar House, The Book of Everything, The Power of Yes, Ruben Guthrie, Baghdad Wedding, and Capricornia.

His other theatre credits include The Children, The Weir, The Sublime (MTC); No Pay No Way, Appropriate, Still Point Turning, The Father, The Hanging, Disgraced, Battle of Waterloo, Switzerland, The Long Way Home, The Secret River, Machinal and Bloodland (STC); Hamlet, Henry V (Bell Shakespeare); and Between Two Waves, This Year’s Ashes, Speaking in Tongues (Griffin).

For dance, Steve has composed music for Wudjang, Sandsong, Dark Emu, Bennelong, Belong, True Stories, Skin, Walkabout, Bush (Bangarra Dance).

His awards include Helpmann Awards for Best Original Score in 2012 and 2003 and Best New Australian Work in 2003 and Sydney Theatre Awards in 2011 and 2014.

Based in: Sydney, Australia

Alyx Dennison

Alyx Dennison is a singer, composer and sound designer living and working on Gadigal Land. She is a fierce advocate for equality in education and the arts, with a particular interest in work which illuminates (and works to dissolve) systems of class, power and hierarchy.

She cut her teeth on experimental pop duo kyü, who toured extensively and released two critically acclaimed albums (Popfrenzy/Inertia) before disbanding in 2012. She continued her study of classical and experimental vocal traditions abroad as well as some studies in Interactive Composition at the VCA before joining Nick Wales’ ensemble for Shaun Parker Company’s Am I (as vocalist and multi-instrumentalist) which toured internationally. In 2015, she released and toured her self-titled solo LP (Popfrenzy/Caroline) which was lauded as an evolution from her previous work. 

She has performed at Meredith Music Festival, Mona Foma, Carriageworks, The State Theatre and played with acts such as LAMB (UK), Sarah Blasko, Juana Molina (Argentina), Xiu Xiu (US) and Deradoorian of The Dirty Projectors (US).

Alyx’s composition and sound design credits for stage include; Grey Rhino by Charmene Yap and Cass Mortimer Eipper for Sydney Festival/Carriageworks 2022, Limbic by Cass Mortimer Eipper for Australasian Dance Collective 2022; The Mother Project a multi-disciplinary work directed by Clemence Williams 2022; for Agatha Gothe-Snape; The Outcome is Certain 2020 and Wet Matter 2020 (lead by Evelyn Morris) for MUMA, Double Beat by Sara Black for Form Dance Projects 2019-2022; for Griffin Theatre Company: Splinter by Hilary Bell and directed by Lee Lewis 2019 and Superheroes by Mark Rogers and directed by Shari Sebbens 2020 (associate to Dave Bergman); for Karul Projects: Mi:wi by Taree Sansbury for Next Wave Festival 2018, WOLLUMBIN / / WARNING 2017 and CO_EX_EN by Thomas E.S. Kelly for Dance Massive 2019, Story Club Solo by Zoe Norton-Lodge for Sydney Opera House 2017. Film credits include; Nataptedi by Yolanda Lowatta for Art_Apart 2022; Liminal for Australasian Dance Collective 2020 and ID for Transit Dance Company 2020 – both choreographed and directed by Cass Mortimer Eipper; a series of short films born of Liverpool Girls’ Highschool’s Refugee Art Project, and Outbreak Generation by Brooke Goldfinch which premiered at Sydney Film Festival in 2017.

She has performed in works by internationally renowned artists such as Agatha Gothe-Snape, Oliver Beer (UK), Patricia Piccinini, Lauren Brincat; and has performed alongside legendary new music vocalist Joan La Barbara (NY), and has appeared in works presented at The Art Gallery of NSW, The Bienale of Sydney, Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, National Gallery of Australia, MONA and Opéra National de Paris.  She has cultivated a practice that enables her love (and compulsion for) experimentation, connection and collaboration, and is honoured to be joining the Belvoir family for Rep Season.

Ella Butler

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 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 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).

Ruth Little

Ruth Little is a theatre and dance dramaturg, a teacher and writer. She lectured in English literature at the University of Sydney, was literary manager at Griffin Theatre Company, Out of Joint, Soho Theatre, Royal Court, and artistic associate at the Young Vic (London). She was dramaturg for Akram Khan Company from 2010-2021. Previously associate director Cape Farewell, co-director Archipelago Folkschool and trustee of Actors Touring Company and Cove Park, Dramaturgy for Dance programme leader Banff Centre, festival navigator Perth Festival, dramaturg Shell Shock (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Nick Cave: la Monnaie/de Munt), Dust, Giselle, Creature (Akram Khan: English National Ballet); South (Garry Stewart: Australian Dance Theatre); Vertical Influences, Threshold (Le Patin Libre), Frontera, Creation/Destruction (Dana Gingras/UVA: Animals of Distinction). 

Charmene Yap

Charmene is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, rehearsal director and dance educator. She graduated from WAAPA and has trained at Purchase College in New York. She has danced for Chunky Move, Tasdance, Dancenorth and Lucy Guerin Inc. and performed with Sydney Dance Company for ten years, where she is now the Rehearsal Associate.

Her stage works include Grey Rhino with co-choreographer Cass Mortimer Eipper, which premiered in Sydney Festival 2022. She was also assistant choreographer to Gideon Obarzanek for Us 50; and choreographed Do We for Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed Season, which was also performed by Co3 Contemporary Dance in Perth.

She has toured internationally and more recently returned to Paris, to the Paris Opéra Ballet, to work as a repetiteur for a piece created on her by Rafael Bonachela. In demand as a creative collaborator, Charmene has featured in the films Red by Del Kathryn Barton and Think of Yourself as Plural by David Rosetzky; and in music clips Quicksand by Katie Noonan and This is Not Forever by Kate Miller-Heidke.

She was nominated for numerous awards, including the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, has won Helpmann Awards for Best Female Dancer in 2012 and 2014, and an Australian Dance Award in 2013 for her roles in Sydney Dance Company productions, 2 One Another and 2 in D Minor.

Claudia Osborne

Claudia is a Sydney-based theatre director, and the co-director of independent theatre company, FERVOUR. She has a Masters in directing for performance from NIDA. Her directing credits include BURN WITCH BURN (FERVOUR/Old Fitz), Picnic At Hanging Rock (NIDA), Destroy, She Said (FERVOUR/25A), Delilah By The Hour (FERVOUR/Brand X Flying Nun), Homesick (Bontom, Old 505), The Lady or the Tiger (FERVOUR), LULU: A Modern Sex Tragedy (NIDA), The Library of Babel (FERVOUR), and HeySorryGottaGoBye (FERVOUR). As an assistant director; Love and Information (NIDA dir. Anthea Williams), The Cherry Orchard (Belvoir dir. Eamon Flack), The Real Thing (Sydney Theatre Company dir. Simon Phillips), and Titus Andronicus (Bell Shakespeare dir. Adena Jacobs). In 2020, Claudia was one of four emerging practitioners who completed a three-month theatre residency as part of the Create NSW and Griffin Theatre Company Incubator Fellowship.

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.

Laura Farrell

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 Into The Woods, directed by Eamon Flack (2023), Blue, directed by Deborah Brown (2023), 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). 

Luke McGettigan

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

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.