The Boomkak Panto

The Boomkak
Panto

by Virginia Gay
Directed by Richard Carroll and Virginia Gay

Venue Upstairs Theatre
Dates 20 Nov – 23 Dec 21
Duration 2 hours & 35 minutes (incl. 20 min interval)
Accessibility

Content warning
The Boomkak Panto uses strobe lighting effects, haze and includes strong language and sexual references. Not suitable for ages under 14.
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★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ TimeOut

A dry, dusty little Aussie town, somewhere in the back of beyond, with all the decency, diversity – and division – that you’d expect in a rural microcosm. But Boomkak is confronting some massive challenges now that the Big Developer has set his sights on the town, and this little community finds itself in a fight for survival. How can they possibly fight back?

By putting on a panto, of course.

From the creative minds behind Calamity Jane (a smash hit at Belvoir in 2018) comes a piece of utter joy – a love letter to theatre, to community, to the resilience of our Little Aussie Towns™ – lo-fi, big-hearted, and Belvoir to the back teeth. With new songs from Tony Award nominee Eddie Perfect, and a couple of Aussie rock classics, dance, and old-fashioned silliness, The Boomkak Panto promises to be a mad, sparkling jewel, a reward for getting through these dark and strange times.

There’s no-one like Virginia Gay – witty, clever, big of heart, and ridiculously talented. When she said she wanted (in her own way) to revive panto, how could we resist? And the team she’s assembling knows how to make a good night of theatre. This will be fun.
– Eamon Flack

Run, don’t walk peeps… a masterpiece.
The Sydney Morning Herald

The Boomkak Panto strikes the perfect balance of humility, relevance and all-singing, all-dancing ridiculous fun to see out the year that was 2021 and turn the campery of Christmas up to eleven.
TimeOut

The Boomkak Panto consistently entertains with the art form’s mad camp tyranny of the silly, the unexpected and the brazenly over the top
Limelight

It’s crafted with clever precision to be gloriously stupid. What an absolute treat.
The Guardian

TEAM

Virginia Gay
Writer and Director

Virginia Gay graduated WAAPA, then spent four years pretending to be a nurse on All Saints, six months pretending to be Julia Gillard in the STC’s Wharf Revue, and then five years on Winners & Losers, where she pretended to know a lot about high finance. That last one, particularly, was a stretch. She won […]
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Virginia Gay
Virginia Gay graduated WAAPA, then spent four years pretending to be a nurse on All Saints, six months pretending to be Julia Gillard in the STC’s Wharf Revue, and then five years on Winners & Losers, where she pretended to know a lot about high finance. That last one, particularly, was a stretch.
She won a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress for Calamity Jane, starred in the film Judy & Punch which premiered at Sundance, and wrote and directed her first short film Paper Cut, which made 2018 Tropfest finals. She’s also written a new adaptation of Cyrano for MTC.
She’s been an apocalyptic squid in Eddie Perfect’s Vivid White, a prize bitch in The Beast, every stop on the bogan-to-hipster spectrum in On The Production Of Monsters, and a heart-broken everywoman Minnie and Liraz, all for the MTC. She played pacifist, suffragist, and feminist Vida Goldstein in The War That Changed Us (ABC), a fast-talking 1930s photographer in High Society, and an even faster talking woman-about-town, Mame in Mame (Hayes Theatre Company). She had a sold-out season at the Opera House of Cautionary Tales for Children (Arena Theatre Company) where she played a mildly-psychotic nanny, and was Bea Miles, iconic (and homeless) Sydney eccentric in the immersive-theatre experience Hidden Sydney.
She has written two solo cabaret shows, Songs To Self-Destruct To and Dirty Pretty Songs, both of which sold out at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and which toured nationally and internationally, most notably headlining the Famous Spiegeltent at the Edinburgh Fringe. She also hosted La Clique in the Spiegeltent in Leicester Square Christmas 2019, when such things were possible.
She makes regular appearances on Adam Liaw’s The Cook Up (SBS) The Book Club (ABC), Q + A (ABC), Adam Hills’ In Gordon Street Tonight (ABC), Good News Week (Channel 10), Studio at The Memo (Foxtel), The Unbelievable Truth (Channel 7), and was team captain on CRAM (Channel 10).
Richard Carroll
Director

Richard Carroll is a director, writer and producer. His award-winning production of Calamity Jane began at Hayes Theatre Co, transferred to Belvoir, and toured to five other cities, culminating in a commercial run at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre. In 2020 he directed a new production of Oklahoma! for Black Swan State Theatre Company, and the new […]
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Richard Carroll
Richard Carroll is a director, writer and producer. His award-winning production of Calamity Jane began at Hayes Theatre Co, transferred to Belvoir, and toured to five other cities, culminating in a commercial run at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre. In 2020 he directed a new production of Oklahoma! for Black Swan State Theatre Company, and the new work The Boy, George, starring comedian Joel Creasey. In 2021 he re-mounted his 2019 production of Once for a return season at Darlinghurst Theatre Co, followed by an upcoming tour. Other directing work includes Monty Python’s Spamalot at Hayes Theatre Co and then on tour, Gypsy & Side Show at Hayes Theatre Co, An Act of God (co-director) at Darlinghurst Theatre Co, The Show Goes On, starring Bernadette Robinson, at Sydney Opera House & Arts Centre Melbourne, Rewired at Sydney Festival, A Night at the Speakeasy for Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and Mame, Meet Me In St Louis & Calamity Jane for Neglected Musicals. In addition to co-directing The Boomkak Panto, next year Richard will direct Curtains at Belvoir.
Cast
Deborah Galanos
Parnia

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 […]
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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.
Virginia Gay
Alison

Virginia Gay graduated WAAPA, then spent four years pretending to be a nurse on All Saints, six months pretending to be Julia Gillard in the STC’s Wharf Revue, and then five years on Winners & Losers, where she pretended to know a lot about high finance. That last one, particularly, was a stretch. She won […]
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Virginia Gay
Virginia Gay graduated WAAPA, then spent four years pretending to be a nurse on All Saints, six months pretending to be Julia Gillard in the STC’s Wharf Revue, and then five years on Winners & Losers, where she pretended to know a lot about high finance. That last one, particularly, was a stretch.
She won a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress for Calamity Jane, starred in the film Judy & Punch which premiered at Sundance, and wrote and directed her first short film Paper Cut, which made 2018 Tropfest finals. She’s also written a new adaptation of Cyrano for MTC.
She’s been an apocalyptic squid in Eddie Perfect’s Vivid White, a prize bitch in The Beast, every stop on the bogan-to-hipster spectrum in On The Production Of Monsters, and a heart-broken everywoman Minnie and Liraz, all for the MTC. She played pacifist, suffragist, and feminist Vida Goldstein in The War That Changed Us (ABC), a fast-talking 1930s photographer in High Society, and an even faster talking woman-about-town, Mame in Mame (Hayes Theatre Company). She had a sold-out season at the Opera House of Cautionary Tales for Children (Arena Theatre Company) where she played a mildly-psychotic nanny, and was Bea Miles, iconic (and homeless) Sydney eccentric in the immersive-theatre experience Hidden Sydney.
She has written two solo cabaret shows, Songs To Self-Destruct To and Dirty Pretty Songs, both of which sold out at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and which toured nationally and internationally, most notably headlining the Famous Spiegeltent at the Edinburgh Fringe. She also hosted La Clique in the Spiegeltent in Leicester Square Christmas 2019, when such things were possible.
She makes regular appearances on Adam Liaw’s The Cook Up (SBS) The Book Club (ABC), Q + A (ABC), Adam Hills’ In Gordon Street Tonight (ABC), Good News Week (Channel 10), Studio at The Memo (Foxtel), The Unbelievable Truth (Channel 7), and was team captain on CRAM (Channel 10).
Rob Johnson
Butch/BD

Rob Johnson is an actor, comedian and writer. Theatre credits [as performer]: Calamity Jane (Belvoir/ One Eyed Man); Spamalot (One Eyed Man); The Torrents (Sydney Theatre Company/Black Swan); Gypsy (Luckiest); The Detective’s Handbook (Hayes Theatre Co); Of Thee I Sing (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs); Exit the King, Bang Bang Rodeo, The Recidivists (Red Line); Babies’ Proms: […]
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Rob Johnson
Rob Johnson is an actor, comedian and writer. Theatre credits [as performer]: Calamity Jane (Belvoir/ One Eyed Man); Spamalot (One Eyed Man); The Torrents (Sydney Theatre Company/Black Swan); Gypsy (Luckiest); The Detective’s Handbook (Hayes Theatre Co); Of Thee I Sing (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs); Exit the King, Bang Bang Rodeo, The Recidivists (Red Line); Babies’ Proms: The Four Seasons (CDP/Sydney Opera House); Good Omens, Carrie: The Musical, Man of La Mancha, Sondheim on Sondheim, Triassic Parq (Squabbalogic); Fat On Purpose (Giant Dwarf); Nice Work If You Can Get It, Irene, Big River, Calamity Jane, Mame (Neglected Musicals); [as writer]: The Recidivists, Fat On Purpose. Screen credits: Rosehaven (Guesswork/ABC); Random and Whacky (Ambience/Network 10); Sheilas (Screen Australia).
For his performance as Francis Fryer in the national tour of Calamity Jane, Rob was nominated for the Green Room Award, Sydney Theatre Award and Glug Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical. He is a two-time NSW Theatresports Champion, and a founding member of Sydney improv groups Bang Bang Rodeo and Baker’s Eight. In 2020, he was a national finalist for the Equity/Second City Comedy Scholarship.
Rob’s short stories have been published by Overland, Aniko Press, Underground and Literatus, and his non-fiction by Audrey Journal and Switched On Media. Rob won the 2020 Albury City Short Story Award, the 2018 Hal Porter Short Story Prize and the 2012 Best of Times Short Story Competition, and was shortlisted for the 2015 John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers.
Billy McPherson
Darren

A Kamilaroi and Kooma man from south-west Queensland, Billy is an actor and playwright living in Sydney. He is also an accomplished didgeridoo player, not only playing professionally but specifically for HRH Prince William. Billy is also a mentor and boxing trainer with PCYC. Theatre productions include Gungies and I’m Your Man (Belvoir St Theatre), […]
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Billy McPherson
A Kamilaroi and Kooma man from south-west Queensland, Billy is an actor and playwright living in Sydney. He is also an accomplished didgeridoo player, not only playing professionally but specifically for HRH Prince William. Billy is also a mentor and boxing trainer with PCYC.
Theatre productions include Gungies and I’m Your Man (Belvoir St Theatre), most recently the Yellamundie Festival 2021 at Carriageworks, The Black Drop Effect (Sydney Festival 2020), Home Country (Sydney Festival 2019). Other theatre productions include Battle of Waterloo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and SKIN (Sydney Theatre Co), as well as a National Tour and additional Carriageworks season of I’m Your Man, The Cherry Pickers (Kooemba Jadarra/Metro Arts), and a European Tour of The Aboriginal Protestors, that was first performed for Sydney Festival in 1996.
Billy’s recent screen work includes guest roles in RFDS and Frayed. Other television roles include Thalu (NITV), Black Comedy, Redfern Now, My Place, Dead Heart and Heartland (ABC), feature films Around the Block and The Combination and short films Bluey and Ralph.
Hamed Sadeghi
Musician

Born 1983 in Iran, Hamed Sadeghi is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Sydney, Australia. He studied Persian classical music in Tehran and master of sound engineering in Malaysia before he moves to Australia in 2013. His recent professional highlights in theatre, dance and film include Sami in Paradise Belvoir 2018, Stop Girl Belvoir 2021, […]
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Hamed Sadeghi
Born 1983 in Iran, Hamed Sadeghi is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Sydney, Australia. He studied Persian classical music in Tehran and master of sound engineering in Malaysia before he moves to Australia in 2013.
His recent professional highlights in theatre, dance and film include Sami in Paradise Belvoir 2018, Stop Girl Belvoir 2021, The Boomkak Panto Belvoir 2021, Cloe Fournier’s Tout Ce Sa at Sydney Dance Company 2022, Opening Night Belvoir 2022, Ryuichi Fujimura’s How I Practice My Religion Riverside Theatre and Melbourne Dance House 2023, Amin Palangi’s Tennessine Sydney Film Festival 2023 and William Zappa’s The Iliad at Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival and Fourwinds festival 2019 – 2022.
As a composer Sadeghi has released 4 albums to critical acclaimed and has earned recognition through nominations for ARIA Awards 2021 for best world music album and best jazz album He has been a finalist at APRA Art Music Awards and have been nominated for best original score of mainstage production at Sydney Theatre Awards 2019.
Mary Soudi
Yazmin

Mary Soudi is a Persian-Australian actress, born in Zanjan, Iran, and raised in Perth, WA. She trained at Curtin University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Performance. Mary’s theatre credits include Bell Shakespeare’s “The Players”, JackRabbit Theatre’s “Front”, Twenty Seven Six’s “Blame Traffic”, Western Australian Youth Theatre Company’s “MINE”, West […]
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Mary Soudi
Mary Soudi is a Persian-Australian actress, born in Zanjan, Iran, and raised in Perth, WA. She trained at Curtin University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Performance.
Mary’s theatre credits include Bell Shakespeare’s “The Players”, JackRabbit Theatre’s “Front”, Twenty Seven Six’s “Blame Traffic”, Western Australian Youth Theatre Company’s “MINE”, West Australian Opera’s “The Pearl Fishers”, and several Hayman Theatre Company productions including “The Tempest“, “The Trojan Women“, “Dear Charlotte” and “Who’s Afraid Of The Working Class?“.
Mary’s television credits include the ABC drama series “The Heights”, where she plays series regular Helena Darvish, a young fiery politician-in-the-making. Her other film and television credits include the Amazon Prime series “Back To The Rafters”, ABC’s “Dafuq?”, and the feature film “An Ideal Host”.
As a singer and a musician, Mary is a front-woman and bassist in the popular Perth band “Boys Boys Boys!”.
Zoe Terakes
Zoe

Zoe is one of Australia’s most exciting new actors. Zoe’s stage credits include A View from the Bridge, A Doll’s House Part II (MTC), A View from the Bridge (Ensemble Theatre), and Metamorphoses, The Wolves, and A View From the Bridge (The Old Fitz). Zoe was most recently seen in highly anticipated series, Nine Perfect […]
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Zoe Terakes
Zoe is one of Australia’s most exciting new actors. Zoe’s stage credits include A View from the Bridge, A Doll’s House Part II (MTC), A View from the Bridge (Ensemble Theatre), and Metamorphoses, The Wolves, and A View From the Bridge (The Old Fitz).
Zoe was most recently seen in highly anticipated series, Nine Perfect Strangers, alongside Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy. Their other television credits including Foxtel’s Wentworth, Amazon’s The Moth Effect, ABC’s Janet King, and Foxtel’s The End. In 2020 they made their feature film debut in the coming of age hit, Ellie & Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt). Other screen credits include short films The Craft, and Sunburn.
For their work in A View from the Bridge at the Old Fitz, they received Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in an Independent Production, and as joint winner, the Best Newcomer Award. Zoe also received the Don Reid Memorial award at the GLUGS for this performance. Zoe was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for MTC’s production of A View from The Bridge.
Zoe identifies as nonbinary and trans masculine. They are a vocal advocate and activist for trans rights within the industry and on a global scale.
Toby Truslove
John

Toby Truslove has been a favourite on Australian stage and screen for over 15 years. Some of his theatre credits include Bliss, for Malthouse Theatre/Belvoir, Private Lives, and Strange Interlude for Belvoir Home, I’m Darling, The Speechmaker, The Last Man Standing, and The Cherry Orchard for MTC, Eddie Perfect’s The Beast, Children of the Sun […]
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Toby Truslove
Toby Truslove has been a favourite on Australian stage and screen for over 15 years.
Some of his theatre credits include Bliss, for Malthouse Theatre/Belvoir, Private Lives, and Strange Interlude for Belvoir Home, I’m Darling, The Speechmaker, The Last Man Standing, and The Cherry Orchard for MTC, Eddie Perfect’s The Beast, Children of the Sun for STC, 33 Variations alongside Ellen Burstyn and Troilus and Cressida for Bell Shakespeare.
Toby’s television credits include leads in NBC’s LaBrea, Utopia, Miss Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, Bad Mothers, Laid, The Strange Calls, Outland, The Wrong Kind of Black. Other roles include, True Story with Hamish and Andy, Randling, Molly, Offspring, Tangled, and Get Krack!n. Selected film credits include Koko: The Red Dog Story, Scumbus, I Love You Too, and Squid.
Creatives
Michael Hankin
Set and Costume Designer

Michael is a NIDA trained Set and Costume Designer for theatre, dance, opera and film. His credits for Belvoir include Hir, Ghosts, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, The Sugar House, Jasper Jones, My Urrwai, The Great Fire, Ivanov and The Glass Menagerie, Twelfth Night, The Dark Room, A Christmas Carol, Angels in America, The Boomkak Panto and Rep Season. Michael’s other theatre credits include designs for Ireland’s entry to Eurovison; Bourgeois and Maurice’s musical Insane Animals (Manchester’s Home Theatre, UK); Memorial (Barbican Centre/Adelaide Festival/Brisbane Festival/Brink […]
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Michael Hankin
Michael is a NIDA trained Set and Costume Designer for theatre, dance, opera and film. His credits for Belvoir include Hir, Ghosts, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, The Sugar House, Jasper Jones, My Urrwai, The Great Fire, Ivanov and The Glass Menagerie, Twelfth Night, The Dark Room, A Christmas Carol, Angels in America, The Boomkak Panto and Rep Season.
Michael’s other theatre credits include designs for Ireland’s entry to Eurovison; Bourgeois and Maurice’s musical Insane Animals (Manchester’s Home Theatre, UK); Memorial (Barbican Centre/Adelaide Festival/Brisbane Festival/Brink productions); The Aspirations of Daise Morrow (Adelaide, Edinburgh Festival, Brink Productions); Three Little Words (Melbourne Theatre Company), Jumpy (Melbourne Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company); The Merchant of Venice, Othello and As You Like It (Bell Shakespeare); Ich Nibber Dibber (Sydney Festival/Campbelltown Arts Centre); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Theatre Royal); 247 Days (Chunky Move/Malthouse /Netherlands tour); Tartuffe (State Theatre Company South Australia); Golden Blood (Griffin); Ugly Mugs (Malthouse/Griffin); Songs for the Fallen (Sydney Festival/New York Music Theatre Festival); Lake Disappointment (Carriageworks); You Animal You and Flock (Force Majeure); Fool for Love (Company B); Miracle City (Hayes Theatre); The Boat People (TRS/The Hayloft Project); The Lighthouse, In The Penal Colony (Sydney Chamber Opera); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Liberty Equality Fraternity, Great Falls (Ensemble); The Hypochondriac, Deathtrap, Miss Julie, The Paris Letter, Macbeth (Darlinghurst Theatre); The Peasant Prince (Monkey Baa); Rust and Bone, The Ugly One (Griffin). Film projects include Weapons Designer and Co-Ordinator for Three Thousand Years of Longing, Production Designer for National Geographic’s Limitless, ChallengeDesigner for Survivor Australia (S6), Production/Costume Designer for short films Julian and The Amber Amulet (both winners of the Crystal Bear, Berlin International Film Festival). Michael has been nominated for a number of Sydney Theatre Awards, winning Best Stage Design for Hir in 2018, BestIndependent Stage Design for Of Mice and Men (Sport For Jove) in 2015 and Truckstop (Q theatre/Seymour Centre) in 2012. He was the recipient of the 2018 Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship for Design in the Performing Arts and has worked as an Associate Lecturer of Design at NIDA.
Jasmine Rizk
Lighting Designer

Jasmine is an accomplished Sydney-based theatrical lighting designer and programmer, working with both the professional and independent theatre community. Jasmine is part of Belvoir’s ongoing Co Curious associates program. As Lighting Designer: ATYP – Mrock; Concertworks – Jekyll and Hyde 25th Anniversary Concerts; Kings of the Keys Tour; So Popera Production -Priscilla, Chicago, Jersey Boys; […]
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Jasmine Rizk
Jasmine is an accomplished Sydney-based theatrical lighting designer and programmer, working with both the professional and independent theatre community. Jasmine is part of Belvoir’s ongoing Co Curious associates program.
As Lighting Designer: ATYP – Mrock; Concertworks – Jekyll and Hyde 25th Anniversary Concerts; Kings of the Keys Tour; So Popera Production -Priscilla, Chicago, Jersey Boys; The Mitchell Old Company – Heathers; Belvoir St Theatre -The Boomkak Panto; NTofP – Zombie Thoughts; The Roxy Theatre – Henry V; Hayes Theatre Company – Well Behaved Women, Catch Me If You Can; Darlinghurst Theatre – Small Mouth Sounds; Merrigong Theatre CompanyLost Boys, Letters to Lindy (Remount) National Tour.
As Associate Lighting Designer: MonkeyBaa -Edward the Emu; Sydney Theatre Company and Black Swan State Theatre Co. – City of Gold; Belvoir St Theatre – Opening Night; Terrapin Productions – Scaredy Cat.
Nominations: APDG 2022 – creative crunchers for Zombie Thoughts
Awards: Sparrow Mentorship program for lighting design with Trudy Dalgleish
Cris Baldwin
Assistant Designer

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Keerthi Subramanyam
Assistant Designer

Keerthi is a Sydney based set and costume designer for live performance and film. Keerthi is a National Institute of Dramatic Art, BFA (Design for Performance, 2019) graduate, and a member of the Australian Production Design Guild. Keerthi has designed set and costumes for Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, Chewing Gum […]
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Keerthi Subramanyam
Keerthi is a Sydney based set and costume designer for live performance and film. Keerthi is a National Institute of Dramatic Art, BFA (Design for Performance, 2019) graduate, and a member of the Australian Production Design Guild.
Keerthi has designed set and costumes for Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, Chewing Gum Dreams at the Old Fitz, Chop Chef at Riverside Theatres, and designed the costumes and was a set realiser on Belvoir’s At What Cost.
Keerthi has been an associate designer on a wide range of theatre shows including Sydney Theatre Company’s Grand Horizons, Belvoir’s Jungle and the Sea, Wayside Bride, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Boomkak Panto, Cursed!, and Hayes Theatre Co’s Young Frankenstein.
Keerthi has also worked as a props supervisor on Belvoir’s Into the Woods and Blessed Union.
Keerthi’s film credits include working as a design assistant on Operation Buffalo, as production & costume designer on various short films and music videos and most recently as an art director on SBS’s mini series Appetite. Keerthi is one of Belvoir’s Artistic Associates. She is currently working across theatre and art installation.
Eddie Perfect
Composer

Eddie Perfect is one of Australia’s most diverse, respected and prolific writer/ composer/ performers. His most recent work as Composer of Beetlejuice The Musical on Broadway won him a nomination for Best Original Score at the 2019 Tony Awards. He has already made his mark in the fields of comedy, music theatre composition and book […]
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Eddie Perfect
Eddie Perfect is one of Australia’s most diverse, respected and prolific writer/ composer/ performers. His most recent work as Composer of Beetlejuice The Musical on Broadway won him a nomination for Best Original Score at the 2019 Tony Awards.
He has already made his mark in the fields of comedy, music theatre composition and book writing, playwrighting, screenwriting, classical music, jazz and acting for stage and screen. He has won multiple awards for his work both as a performer and writer and has worked with top creatives from Baz Luhrmann and Global Creatures (Strictly Ballroom the Musical, King Kong on Broadway), Simon Phillips and Neil Armfield (Shane Warne The Musical, Keating! The Musical), Richard Maltby and David Shire, Jason Robert Brown, Andrew Lippa (Adelaide Cabaret Festival) to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO Town Hall Proms), Victorian Opera (The Threepenny Opera), Opera Australia (South Pacific), the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (Symphony Under The Stars), Malthouse Theatre (Babes In The Wood, Drink Pepsi Bitch, The Big Con) the Australian National Academy Of Music, Iain Grandage and UK’s Brodsky Quartet (Songs From The Middle).
Eddie’s theatre performance credits include Shane Warne The Musical (Token), Misanthropology (Sydney Festival), Songs From The Middle (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), The Threepenny Opera (Malthouse), Bat Boy (Loudmouth/MTC), A Poor Student (The Storeroom), Take Flight, Babes in the Wood (Malthouse), The Big Con (Malthouse), and Keating! The Musical (Belvoir). His television credits include the series regular role of Mick in Ten’s Offspring, FOX8’s Ultimate School Musical, It’s A Date, Play School, Kath and Kim, Stingers, MDA, Spicks and Specks and as a judge on Australia’s Got Talent. He can currently be seen starring in Gristmill’s isolation rom-com web series Love In Lockdown, available to watch on YouTube.
Eddie has been a regular fixture on the Australian comedy circuit, including as the host of the 2014 Melbourne Comedy Festival Oxfam Gala. His solo music comedy shows (Angry Eddie, Drink Pepsi Bitch, Misanthropology, Songs From The Middle) have received Helpmann and Green Room Awards, touring Australia, New Zealand, Edinburgh and London. In 2013, Eddie wrote his first play for Melbourne Theatre Company, the black, satirical comedy The Beast, breaking box office records and garnering critical acclaim, including an Australian tour of the show in 2016.
Kellie-Anne Kimber
Sound Designer

Kellie-Anne’s sound Design/Composer credits include Animal Farm (The Bloomshed), Open For Business and Poopie Tum Tums (Hot Department), The Drill (Women’s Circus and Due West Fest), Batmania (The Very Good Looking Initiative), Sneakyville (Before Shot), Twink Ascending (Don’t Be Down), Wages Of Fear (Mechanics), Cuckoo’s Nest (ATC), and 2018 Tropfest finalist film, PaperCut, directed by […]
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Kellie-Anne Kimber

Kellie-Anne’s sound Design/Composer credits include Animal Farm (The Bloomshed), Open For Business and Poopie Tum Tums (Hot Department), The Drill (Women’s Circus and Due West Fest), Batmania (The Very Good Looking Initiative), Sneakyville (Before Shot), Twink Ascending (Don’t Be Down), Wages Of Fear (Mechanics), Cuckoo’s Nest (ATC), and 2018 Tropfest finalist film, PaperCut, directed by Virginia Gay. Observation credits include Vivid White (Melbourne Theatre Company) and Cloudstreet (Malthouse).
In 2017 Kellie-Anne was the recipient of the Women In Theatre Program presented by Melbourne Theatre Company, one of fourteen women from each department of production, she was selected as Sound Designer/Composer. She is also a recipient of the Besen Family Artist Program 2019 with Malthouse Theatre for Sound Design. Her other involvements in theatre include accompanist, orchestrator, and sound operator/technician. KAK is also the sound designer for the notorious dark humour comedy duo, Hot Department. KAK was nominated for Best Music Composition and Sound Design for the 2019 production of Batmania in the 37th Annual Green Room Awards.
Zara Stanton
Music Director

Zara (she/her) is an accomplished Music Director, Performer, Arranger and Composer with a Bachelor of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.Zara’s credits as Music Director include Bonnie & Clyde (JRP), Every Musical Ever (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), The Deb (ATYP), The Boomkak Panto (Belvoir), and Associate Music Director for A Chorus Line (DTC). Zara has […]
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Zara Stanton
Zara (she/her) is an accomplished Music Director, Performer, Arranger and Composer with a Bachelor of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Zara’s credits as Music Director include Bonnie & Clyde (JRP), Every Musical Ever (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), The Deb (ATYP), The Boomkak Panto (Belvoir), and Associate Music Director for A Chorus Line (DTC).
Zara has been Music Director for FANGIRLS since 2020, and her work on the show has yielded an ARIA award nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album, and a Green Room Award nomination for Best Music Direction. Zara also earned a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Best Music Direction for the Hayes Theatre Co. production of HMS Pinafore.
Zara is incredibly passionate about promoting representation in musical theatre, particularly for artists of Asian heritage and for female and non-binary musicians and creatives.
Elle Evangelista
Choreographer

Elle Evangelista loves dancing. Her BELVOIR choreography credits include Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Holding the Man, The Master and Margarita, The Cherry Orchard, The Boomkak Panto, The Rep Season and Furious Mattress (25a). Her other theatre choreography credits include Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare), A Very Expensive Poison (NIDA) and How To […]
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Elle Evangelista
Elle Evangelista loves dancing. Her BELVOIR choreography credits include Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Holding the Man, The Master and Margarita, The Cherry Orchard, The Boomkak Panto, The Rep Season and Furious Mattress (25a). Her other theatre choreography credits include Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare), A Very Expensive Poison (NIDA) and How To Catch A Star (Australian Chamber Orchestra).
As a dancer she has worked for Force Majeure, KAGE Physical Theatre, Opera Australia and she has been awarded residencies to create new work by Ausdance NSW, DirtyFeet, Critical Path, March Dance, Brand X and Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance. From 2019 – 2021, Elle was an Artist Representative on the Board of Critical Path and in 2022 a Belvoir Artistic Associate.
Elle has a Bachelor of Arts in English from UWA and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from WAAPA. She was raised on Boorloo/Perth by her Filipino and Burmese family and currently lives on Garigal Land in Sydney with her partner and their young son.
Chloë Dallimore
Intimacy Coordinator

Chloë is internationally trained and accredited as an Intimacy Coordinator by Ita O’Brien of Intimacy on Set (UK). She is currently working on “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” starring Sigourney Weaver, the Broadway musical “Jagged Little Pill”, as well as productions for Netflix, Warner Bros, Fremantle, Ch9 and Ch10. Recent credits include Netflix’s “Pieces […]
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Chloë Dallimore
Chloë is internationally trained and accredited as an Intimacy Coordinator by Ita O’Brien of Intimacy on Set (UK).
She is currently working on “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” starring Sigourney Weaver, the Broadway musical “Jagged Little Pill”, as well as productions for Netflix, Warner Bros, Fremantle, Ch9 and Ch10.
Recent credits include Netflix’s “Pieces of Her” starring Toni Collette, George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing”, Benjamin Millepied’s “Carmen”, ABC’s “Wakefield” and Ch9’s “Doctor, Doctor”.
With a life-long journey in professional dance, and as an award-winning musical theatre performer, Chloë’s career has seen her work as a Resident/ Associate Choreographer on main-stage productions such as Billy Elliot, Oliver!, and Annie, as well as perform lead roles in productions such as The Producers, Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Addams Family.
Chloë is honoured to work with the Belvoir team.
Russell Carey
Scenic Artist
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Luke McGettigan
Stage Manager

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 […]
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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).
Ayah Tayeh
Assistant Stage Manager

Born on Wurundjeri land and currently working on Gadigal land, Ayah is a theatre maker with a passion for new work and diverse storytelling. Her credits include: City of Gold (Sydney Theatre Company), The Boomkak Panto (Belvoir), A Room of One’s Own (Belvoir), seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Darlinghurst Theatre Company 2021/2022), My Brilliant […]
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Ayah Tayeh
Born on Wurundjeri land and currently working on Gadigal land, Ayah is a theatre maker with a passion for new work and diverse storytelling.
Her credits include: City of Gold (Sydney Theatre Company), The Boomkak Panto (Belvoir), A Room of One’s Own (Belvoir), seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Darlinghurst Theatre Company 2021/2022), My Brilliant Career (Belvoir), Breaking Glass (Sydney Chamber Opera), and Double Delicious (Contemporary Asian Australian Performance with Sydney Festival).
Bradley Barrack
Assistant Stage Manager

Bradley Barrack has worked across many alternating roles in the industry, and is excited to be joining the team in his first Belvoir production. Working primarily in both Company and Stage Management, Bradley enjoys every aspects of working with casts and companies on a daily basis, making Australian theatre a reality. Some of his recent […]
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Bradley Barrack
Bradley Barrack has worked across many alternating roles in the industry, and is excited to be joining the team in his first Belvoir production. Working primarily in both Company and Stage Management, Bradley enjoys every aspects of working with casts and companies on a daily basis, making Australian theatre a reality. Some of his recent credits include:
Producer American Psycho: The Musical (Australian Tour), Proof (New Theatre, Sydney 2016)
As a Company Manager and Deputy Company Manager Bradley has worked for Major performing arts companies and productions around Australia such as The Book of Mormon (Australian Tour), Saturday Night Fever (Sydney Season), VELVET (Australian and NZ Tour), as well as working for two years as the Deputy Company Manager for Opera Australia across a total of 16 productions, including The Ring Cycle (Arts Centre Melbourne).
Bradley’s most recent stage management shows were his time working with the Hayes Theatre Company as the Assistant Stage Manager for the original production of Miracle City and then Sweet Charity (Australian Tour).
He would like to thank his parents, and partner for all their support in his ongoing career.