The Book Of Everything

Richard Tulloch

For over fifty years Richard has been writing plays, books and television, primarily for young people.

His association with Belvoir St goes back to the 1980s when Nimrod Theatre performed his family shows The Cocky of Bungaree and The Mystery of Mulligan’s Gold on Clark Island. He has since collaborated with Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image on productions including Hansel and Gretel: A Tale of Our Times, The Happy Prince, Lulie the Iceberg and The Book of Everything. For CDP Theatre Producers he has adapted five books from Andy Griffiths’ and Terry Denton’s immensely popular 13-Storey Treehouse series and the currently touring production You and Me and the Land of Lost Things. The second of hisGrandparents Club musicals, written for and about grandparents, with music composed by John Field, will tour Queensland and NSW for a Christmas season this year.

Richard has often been nominated for Australian Writers’ Guild awards and has won AWGIES for his adaptation of Robin Klein’s Hating Alison Ashley, Talking to Grandma While the World Goes By, Body and Soul, Stella and the Moonman and Snow on Mars.

His many scripts for numerous children’s television series include over 150 episodes of Bananas in Pyjamas. His script for the animated film FernGully II was nominated in America for a Hollywood Annie award for best original screenplay.   

Since 2001, Richard has lived part of each year in Amsterdam, his wife’s home town. He was able to translate and adapt The Book of Everything from the original Dutch in Guus Kuijer’s novel Het boek van alle dingen.

Guus Kuijer

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 Song of first Desire, 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.

Kim Carpenter

Kim Carpenter AM was the founder and Artistic Director of Theatre of Image, Australia’s premier visual theatre company.  He is an established Creator/Director/Designer having created productions for major drama, dance and opera companies in Australia.  His designs have embraced puppetry and digital arts as well as conceptual sets, props and costumes. His art works and designs are represented in collections and exhibitions around the world.  Kim was a Co- Artistic Director of Nimrod Theatre and Head of Design, NIDA.  He makes distinctive visual theatre often in collaboration with other companies including Belvoir, the Australian Youth Orchestra, Opera Australia, Kageboushi Theatre Company (Tokyo), Manitoba Theatre For Young People (Canada) and Sydney Theatre Company. Most memorable productions for Theatre of Image include The Happy Prince (national/international tours) and Monkey…journey to the west (national tour). Kim adapted and designed The Happy Prince for The Australian ballet.

He is a member of The Order of Australia, Churchill Fellow, recipient of 2 Helpmann Awards, holder of a Centenary Medal, 4 Sydney Theatre Critics Awards and 3 AWGIEs.

FOOTNOTE: You may like to use this in some way like publicity

I designed costumes for the first production at Nimrod now Belvoir

I thought I’d mention it as Aaron mentioned the building’s (50 years) birthday this year?

Very funny stories surround that night – not funny at the time when the stage flooded with water during the show as there was torrential rain and Barry Humphries opened the show (The Bacchoi – a rock musical) standing in his cream shoes and two-tone suit in inches of water….

Peter Carroll

Peter’s distinguished career has spanned over 100 productions and 50 years. He has worked with the major theatre companies and commercial managements in Australia. Peter was a founding member of Nimrod Theatre Company in the 1970s and has been with Sydney Theatre Company from its Opera House beginnings and was a member of their actor’s company more recently.

Peter has appeared in notable works at Belvoir such as Oedipus Rex, Happy Days, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, The Chairs, Life of Galileo, An Enemy of the People, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, Seventeen, Christmas Carol, Old Man and Into The Woods and most recently King Lear.

His recent plays include Girl from the North Country (GWB), Little Women (Hayes Theatre), The Dismissal (Squabbalogic), The Player Kings (Sport for Jove), The Tempest, Do Not Go Gentle (Sydney Theatre Company), Coriolanus and Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare) and The Dapto Chaser (Ensemble Theatre).

Peter’s film and television career has been extensive here in Australia and internationally. Select TV credits include Playing Gracie Darling, Aftertaste, Optics, Colin from Accounts, Melba, Five Mile Creek, Bump, The Letdown, Bloom, and Rake. Film credits include The Power of the Dog, Sleeping Beauty, Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Crazy Rich Asians.

Peter has won many awards including Green Room Awards, Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle, Helpmann, and an Honorary Doctorate of Creative Arts from Wollongong. Peter is the inaugural recipient of the Media Arts & Entertainment Alliance’s Lifetime Achievement Award; and he continues to be a proud supporter of the union. Peter was awarded an AM for his services to the theatre in 2021.

Julie Forsyth

Julie’s previous performances with Company B Belvoir include The Book of Everything, Exit the King, The Ham Funeral, The Small Poppies, Cloudstreet, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, as well as Belvoir co-presentations of Happy Days from Malthouse Theatre and Kids’ Stuff from Anthill Theatre.

She has an extensive list of theatre credits, most recently appearing in Much Ado About Nothing for the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) and The President for the Gate Theatre, Dublin, and the Sydney Theatre Company (STC). Other STC performances include Accidental Death of AnAnarchist, Romeo and Juliet, The Metamorphosis, and The Miser. Additional stage highlights include Escaped Alone (Red Stitch); The Comedy of Errors, A Cheery Soul, The Visit, The Tempest, The House of Bernarda Alba and Endgame (MTC); Night onBald Mountain, Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman, Babes in the Wood, The Ham Funeral, Happy Days, and Moving Target (Malthouse Theatre); Phèdre and The Dream (Bell Shakespeare).

Julie was a core member of Australian Nouveau Theatre (Anthill, Melbourne 1980 -1994), performing in more than thirty productions, exploring the works of Molière, Beckett, Brecht and Chekov, in particular.

Her most recent screen credits include The Dispatcher (Werner Film Productions/60Forty Films), The Twelve (S 3), Joe vs. Carole (UCP), and Holding the Man (Screen Australia). Her voice work in film includes Harvie Krumpet and Mary and Max (Melodrama Pictures), and Babe (Universal Pictures).

Julie’s performances have been celebrated with numerous nominations and awards, including Helpmann Awards for Best Female Actor in a Play (Happy Days) and Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Exit the King) and a Green Room Award for Best Actress (Kids’ Stuff). Best Ensemble awards include Cloudstreet, Moving Target, Exit the King, and The Book of Everything.

In 2009, Julie was honoured with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award’s Individual Award, recognising her contribution to Australian theatre.

Claire Jones

Claire Jones is an Australian actor and corporate presenter.

Born and raised in the USA to Australian parents, Claire grew up in Minnesota and then her family moved to Sydney for her high school years. After graduating Claire moved to Adelaide and attended the Centre for the Performing Arts where she graduated in 1989 and immediately entered the theatre industry. Claire worked full time for the next 3 years for the State Theatre Company of South Australia under directors such as John Gaden (Lost Weekend), Simon Phillips (School for Scandal, Under Milkwood, Cosi), and Angela Chaplin (White Paper Flowers, The Arbor, Long Time…No See).

Claire then lived and worked in Perth for 4 years working with Deckchair Theatre and Black Swan Theatre and performed one of the lead roles in the iconic production of Cloudstreet directed by Neil Armfield which toured Australia and the world (New York, Washington DC, Dublin, London, Zurich) to critical acclaim.  

Claire moved home to Sydney and worked further with Neil Armfield on productions A Cheery Soul (Belvoir & STC), Gethsemane (Belvoir), The Book of Everything (Belvoir/Theatre of Image) which also toured Australia and New York and will have a return season at Belvoir Theatre in 2026.

Claire’s TV credits include in All Saints (2004), Water Rats (2000), Sweat (1996), Cul de Sac (2017) and Through the Teeth (2025).

She appeared in Jennifer Kent’s feature film The Nightingale (2018) which won multiple awards at Venice, Seattle and Miami Film Festivals. Other films include Grace (2018) winner of Best Short Film in Dublin Independent Film Festival.

Claire has been living between the Blue Mountains and Indonesia since 2003 and is fluent in Indonesian.

In the Blue Mountains she founded The Green Room, a network of Blue Mountains professional writers, actors, directors, and producers supporting local scriptwriters by providing readings and workshops of their new work. She also co-owns Blue Mountains Drama which runs dozens of drama classes throughout the Blue Mountains. 

Since 2005 Claire has been very involved in writing, producing, directing and acting in corporate theatre and workshops. She has worked for over 50 Australian and International organisations and travels all over Australia and the world delivering these programs.

John Leary

John is a graduate of Theatre Nepean and proud member of MEAA. His first professional theatre gig was in the original production of Belvoir’s Cloudstreet. Since then, his Belvoir credits include: The Book Of Everything, Peter Pan, The Business, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Marriage of Figaro. Other theatre includes Sydney Theatre Company: All My Sons, White Guard, The Taming of the Shrew, Dead Caesar, and Julius Caesar. For Melbourne Theatre Company, John has performed in Bernhardt/Hamlet, Shakespeare in Love, North by Northwest, Private Lives, His Girl Friday, and Realism. Recently, John played the role of Barney in Red Stitch Actors Theatre’s marathon production of all three plays of Ray Lawler’s Doll Trilogy: Kid Stakes, Other Times, and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. John has featured in multiple film and television productions including: Spaceballs 2: The New One, Late Night with the Devil, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Holding The Man, Oddball, Red Dog, Where The Wild Things Are, Dear Life, The Spooky Files, The Newsreader, Five Bedrooms, Upright, The Letdown, The Good Place, True Story with Hamish and Andy, Get Krack!n, Offspring, and Glitch.

Rebecca Massey

Rebecca Massey is considered one of Australia’s most versatile and accomplished film, television and theatre actresses. Previous performances with Belvoir include Holding The Man, Wayside Bride and Light Shining in B’shire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Vere, The Book of Everything, Exit the King, It Just Stopped, Stuff Happens, The Underpants, Macbeth, Cloudstreet, The Small Poppies, The Alechemist, Macbeth, Caucasian Chalk Circle amongst others. Other theatre credits include Dinner, Chimerica, After Dinner, Perplex and Travesties (Sydney Theatre Company), The Half Life of Marie Curie (Ensemble Theatre), The Misanthrope (Bell Shakespeare), First Love is a Revolution, Kill Climate Deniers (Griffin Theatre Company). Her company Club House Productions produced 44 Sex Acts in One Week, as part of the Sydney Festival in 2022.

Rebecca has a string of both comic and drama television credits in award winning shows including, Utopia (Seasons 2 – 5), Metro Sexual (Seasons 1 & 2), Deep Water, Total Control, Upright, The Principal, Chandon Pictures (Seasons 1 & 2) and Lowdown (Seasons 1 & 2). Rebecca was most recently seen in Erotic Stories, While The Men Are Away, The Messenger and Barons. Coming up next will be Shakedown playing Kathryn Campbell.

Her work in film includes Blaze, Bad Girl, Accidents Happen, The Black Balloon amongst others and she will soon be seen in the Tilda Cobham-Hervey directed feature It’s All Going Very Well No Problems At All.

She has been nominated and won numerous awards including a Green Room Award for Best Actress, and two Helpmann nominations.

Bridie McKim

Belvoir 25A: Tuesday. Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Cherry Orchard. Ensemble Theatre: The Glass Menagerie. National Institute of Dramatic Art: Stay Happy Keep Smiling, The Country Wife, Salem. Queensland Theatre: Saison De L’amour, Face It, Not Our Story, This Hollow Crown. Queensland University of Technology: Love and Information. Film: Christmas Ransom. Television: Miss Sultanah, Irreverent, Joe VS. Carole, Dive Club, Bump, The Heights. Training: NIDA Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), Queensland Theatre Youth Ensemble.

Pamela Rabe

Pamela’s most recent Belvoir credits include DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, DANCE OF DEATH, GHOSTS, and THE GLASS MENAGERIE. From over 100 productions, other theatre highlights include REBECCA, HAPPY DAYS, THE CONFESSIONS (National Theatre UK and European tour), THE CHILDREN, LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES,GREY GARDENS, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC,PRIVATE LIVES, A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE WIZARD OF OZ and, while a founding member of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Actors’ Ensemble, several acclaimed productions includingMOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, Benedict Andrews’ THE WAR OF THE ROSES, THE SEASON AT SARSAPARILLA, and Barry Kosky’s THE LOST ECHO. Pamela has also directed plays for Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre. Her recent work in television includes DEADLOCH,BAY OF FIRES and WENTWORTH. Pamela has appeared in several feature films including SIRENS, PARADISE ROAD, VACANT POSSESSION,COSI, andTHE WELL. She has received many accolades for her theatre, film and television work, including Helpmann, Green Room, Logie, Variety Club, Stockholm Film Festival and AFI/AACTRA awards. In 2023 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her distinguished services to the Arts.

Matthew Whittet

Theatre: Belvoir: Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam, Atlantis, Cinderella, The Book Of Everything (2009, 2011, 2013), Conversation Piece, Silver, The Underpants, The Threepenny Opera, King Ubu; Sydney Theatre Company: Mary Stuart, The Wonderful World Of Dissocia, Metamorphosis, This Little Piggy, Endgame, Fireface, Oedipus;  Windmill Theatre Company: Girl Asleep, School Dance, Fugitive (2014, 2010);  Darlinghurst Theatre Company: Let The Right One In;  Malthouse:  Moving Target, Journal Of The Plague Year/The Ham Funeral;  Griffin Theatre Company:  First Love Is The Revolution;  Bell Shakespeare:  Hamlet;  Other Theatre:  Black Sun/Blood Moon (Critical Stages), The Dismissal (Squabbalogic).Film:  Nightingale (Nightingale Pictures P/L), Girl Asleep (Girl Asleep P/L), The Great Gatsby (Bazmark Films), Sleeping Beauty (Magic Films), Australia (Bazmark Films), You Can’t Stop The Murders (Big Mo Film), Moulin Rouge (Bazmark Films).  TV:  Caper Crew (Easy Tiger), Optics (Easy Tiger), Faraway Downs (20th Television), Upright (Lingo Pictures), Born To Spy (Aquarius Films), The Secret She Keeps (Lingo Pictures), The Letdown (ABC), Return To Devil’s Paradise (Matchbox Pictures), Devil’s Playground (Matchbox Pictures), Mabo (Blackfella Films), My Place (ABC), Banana’s In Pyjamas (Southern Star), Sea Princess (Southern Star), Sea Patrol (Sea Patrol Productions), Changi (ABC TV Drama).  

Jack Ward

Sydney based cellist Jack Ward maintains a full time performance career, working with the major performing arts organisations throughout Australia. He enjoys a versatile roster of performances with the Australian and Melbourne Chamber Orchestras, the symphony and opera/ballet orchestras, alongside period and chamber music ensembles.

He performs regularly at concert halls including The Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Recital Centre, Angel Place City Recital Hall, QPac, Adelaide Town Hall, Perth Concert Hall and Hamer Hall in various contexts, often as a chamber musician through Musica Viva and as a member of Penny Quartet.

Recent festival appearances include Sydney, Melbourne/Rising, Vivid, Adelaide, Woodford, Perth and Canberra International Festivals, as a collaborative artist and soloist.

Alongside his classical practice Jack records, performs and tours with international artists including Missy Higgins, Lauryn Hill, Teeks, Archie Roach, LilNasX, Wu-Tang Clan, at major commercial venues and recording studios throughout Australia.

Jack currently lectures Collaborative Music and cello at the Australian Institute of Music.

Iain Grandage

Iain Grandage AM has spent a lifetime creating and curating musical experiences, having composed for theatre, dance, opera, film and the concert hall stage. He thrives in collaborative environments, most notably alongside First Nations artists, and has been recognised with many awards, including 7 Helpmanns and 4 Green Room Awards for both composition and music direction, APRA/AMC Dramatic Work of the Year for his opera The Riders, the prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, an honorary Doctorate from the University of Western Australia, the 2023 West Australian of the Year for Culture & the Arts and an Order of Australia for services to the arts. He has previously held positions as the Artistic Director of the Perth Festival (2020-2024), and the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival (2016-2018) and served on the Board of Tourism WA (2023-2025). He currently serves on the Board of the WA Symphony Orchestra and was recently appointed Artistic Director of Spare Parts Puppet Theatre. He also holds the role of Chief Curator at the Melbourne Recital Centre, where he continues to champion the role of music in fostering community cohesion and understanding.

Nigel Levings

Belvoir Street Theatre Company: DRUMS OF THUNDER, THE MASTER BUILDER, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN, WASP, THE SEAGULL, THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, THE LITTLE CHERRY ORCHARD, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER. TWELFTH NIGHT, MACBETH, WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, OUR LADY OF SLIGO, THE ADVENTURES OF SNUGGLEPOT AND CUDDLEPIE AND LITTLE RAGGED BLOSSOM, SCORCHED, THE BOOK OF EVERYTHING, NAMATJIRA.

 Other theatre: Sydney Theatre Company: AMADEUS, THE MAN FROM MUKINUPIN, THE BLIND GIANT IS DANCING, DANCE OF DEATH, HEARTBREAK HOUSE, THE SEAGULL, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, COMPANY,  AN IDEAL HUSBAND, THE HAM FUNERAL, ROMEO AND JULIET, THE CRUCIBLE, THE TRACKERS OF OXYRHYNCHUS, UNCLE VANYA, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, THE HOMECOMING, SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, CORIOLANUS, ARCADIA, SAINT JOAN, TARTUFFE, THE HERBAL BED, AFTER THE BALL, THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, NAVIGATING, LYREBIRD, MACBETH, A CHEERY SOUL, OLD MASTERS, COPENHAGEN, HARBOUR, OLD TIMES, DEMOCRACY, TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS, MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION, NOISES OFF, THE NORMAL HEART. Melbourne Theatre Company: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, THE OTHER PLACE, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, DISGRACED, MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS, APOLOGIA. Bregenz Festival : THE DEMON. Broadway and West End: THE KING AND I. Welsh National Opera, Houston Grand Opera and Canadian Opera: BILLY BUDD, DON CARLOS. Mariinsky Theatre: LA BOHEME, DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER. Théâtre du Châtelet: FALSTAFF. Deutsche Staatsoper: ORFEO. Dallas Opera: THE QUEEN OF SPADES. Houston Grand Opera: BARBER OF SEVILLE and TURN OF THE SCREW. Lyric Opera of Chicago: ROMEO ET JULIETTE. English National Opera: SIR JOHN IN LOVE.Broadway: Baz Luhrmann production of LA BOHEME. Baden Baden Festspielhaus: DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER. Royal Opera House: SIMON BOCCANEGRA. Opera Australia: BLISS, OF MICE AND MEN, LAKME, MACBETH, THE LOVE OF THE NIGHTINGALE and DIE TOTE STADT. State Opera of South Australia: CENERENTOLA. Victorian Opera: MIDNIGHT SON, MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES. Awards: Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society. Helpmann Award 2010, Green Room Award 2011, Ovation Award Los Angeles 2004, Dora Mava Moore Toronto 2001, Outer Circle Critics Award New York 1996 and 2003, Drama Desk Award New York 2003, Tony Award 2003, Ruby Award for lifetime achievement  2023.

Steve Francis

Steve has worked extensively in theatre, dance and screen. His Belvoir credits include The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear and his Three Daughters, The Wrong Gods, The Weekend, Jungle and the Sea, Tell me I’m Here, 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 Sound Inside, The Children, The Weir, The Sublime (MTC); Julia, No Pay No Way, Appropriate, Beauty Queen of Leanne, Still Point Turning, The Father, The Hanging, Disgraced, Battle of Waterloo, Switzerland, The Long Way Home, The Secret River, Machinal and Bloodland (STC); Boy Swallows Universe (QT); Love Stories (Brisbane Festival); Hamlet, Henry V (Bell Shakespeare); and Between Two Waves, This Year’s Ashes, Speaking in Tongues (Griffin).

For dance, Steve has composed music for Baleen (Adelaide Festival), Horizon, 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.

Julia Cotton

Julia began her career as a dancer, first with The Australian Ballet and then with Australian Dance Theatre. As a choreographer she previously worked with Company B Belvoir on The Frogs and The Book of Everything, as well as with Sydney Theatre Company, Theatre of Image, Darlinghurst Theatre, Sport for Jove, The Australian Ballet and Australian Dance Theatre. She was a founding member and co-director of visual theatre group Etcetera, presenting For Example and Etcetera Incorporated at the Downstairs Theatre Belvoir.

Julia taught at NIDA for 15 years, initially with the legendary Keith Bain and then as Head of Movement for the Acting course and for the post-graduate Movement Studies course. She was also acting Head of Movement at WAAPA 2012-13, and from 2015-21 Head of Movement at Actors Centre Australia.

In 2016 Julia completed a Masters of Creative Arts-Research degree at the University of Wollongong. She currently teaches for the NIDA Corporate Performance Program and continues to teach part-time for the NIDA BFA Acting Course.

Eamon Flack

Eamon Flack is the Artistic Director of Belvoir St Theatre. He was born in Singapore and grew up in Singapore, Darwin, Cootamundra and Brisbane. He trained as an actor at WAAPA from 2001 to 2003 and has since worked as a director and writer around Australia and internationally, from the Tiwi Islands to Sri Lanka, London and New York. 

His directing credits for Belvoir include: Counting and Cracking (with Associate Director S. Shakthidharan, Helpmann Award for Best Play and Best Direction of a Play), The Jungle and the Sea (co-directed with S. Shakthidharan, Sydney Theatre Award for Best Play), The Master and Margarita, Angels in America (Helpmann Award for Best Play), August: Osage County (Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Director and Best Show), The Glass Menagerie (Helpmann Award for Best Play), Tommy Murphy’s Packer & Sons, Rita Kalnejais’s Babyteeth, Alana Valentine’s Wayside Bride (co-directed with Hannah Goodwin), Tom Wright’s adaptation of Brecht’s Life of Galileo, Eamon’s own adaptations of Helen Garner’s The Spare Room, Hendrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Ivanov (Sydney Theatre Awards Best Production and Best Director), as well as Into the Woods, The Rover, The Blind Giant is Dancing, As You Like It, and Beckett’s The End. Other directing credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bob Presents/B Sharp) and Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui by Jason de Santis (Darwin Festival). 

His writing and adaptation credits include: Associate Writer of S. Shakthidharan’s Counting and Cracking (Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama, Helpmann for Best New Work), co-writer with S. Shakthidharan of The Jungle and the Sea (Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama, Sydney Theatre Awards for Best New Work); Helen Garner’s The Spare Room; a stage adaptation of Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children; Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Ivanov, Gorky’s Summerfolk, Sophocles’ Antigone and Ibsen’s Ghosts; co-adapter with Leah Purcell of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s memoir Don’t Take Your Love To Town; and co-deviser of Beautiful One Day with artists from ILBIJERRI, version 1.0, and the community of Palm Island. 

 For orchestral concert he has adapted and directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream alongside Mendelssohn’s score for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Belvoir St Theatre conducted by Simone Young, and directed and co-created Beethoven and Bridgetower with Anna Goldsworthy, Rita Dove and Richard Tognetti for the Australian Chamber Orchestra. 

Margaret Thanos

Margaret Thanos is an award-winning Cypriot-Australian director for the stage and screen, and a resident artist at BELVOIR ST. Margaret’s directing credits include the 5-star sell-out seasons of FURIOUS MATTRESS (25A), POSH (Old Fitz), I HATE PEOPLE; OR TIMON OF ATHENS (Sport for Jove), NOT NOW, NOT EVER: A PARLIAMENT OF WOMEN (25A), A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON(New Theatre), LABYRINTH(Dream Plane Productions) and A GRAIN OF SAND (KXT). 

She also has assistant directing credits on GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME and WELL BEHAVED WOMEN (Belvoir), BENEFACTORS, MR BAILEY’S MINDER(Ensemble), THIS GENUINE MOMENT(Old 505), ANIMAL FARM(New Theatre), ORIGINATE PROJECT(Q Theatre), THE LINDEN SOLUTION(Ratcatch) and THE CHERRY ORCHARD(Chippen St). In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious SANDRA BATES DIRECTOR’S AWARD at Ensemble Theatre. 

Margaret is also an activist, with a particular focus on gender equality and climate awareness. She is one of PLAN INTERNATIONAL‘s Advocates and has done extensive interviews and public appearances. 

Coming up later this year, Margaret is directing The River at Sydney Theatre Company starring Miranda Otto.

Luke McGettigan

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

King Lear, 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).

Claire Edmonds-Wilson

Claire (she/her) is an emerging stage manager. She graduated NIDA in 2025 with a BFA in Technical Theatre and Stage Management. 

Recent credits as Stage Manager include The First Murder, Maid Made Boss (Pinchgut Opera), Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare (Adelaide Festival) and for Australian Chamber Orchestra. 

As Assistant Stage Manager: Turandot, Madama Butterfly (Opera Australia), Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Belvoir St Theatre), The Fairy Queen (Pinchgut Opera), Sister Act the Musical (Crossroads Live Australia), and Innocence (Adelaide Festival).