THE WEEKEND

Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood is the author of ten books. She has won several prestigious awards including the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and her works have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, Christina Stead, the ALS Gold Medal and many other prizes. Her novel The Weekend was an international bestseller, and The Natural Way of Things featured in ABC Television’s 2021 series The Books That Made Us. In 2019 Charlotte was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and named one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence. Her features and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Saturday Paper among others. Belvoir’s The Weekend is the first stage adaptation of her work. Her new novel, Stone Yard Devotional, will be published in October 2023.

Sue Smith

THE WEEKEND is Sue Smith’s Belvoir debut. Her theatre credits include Hydra (Queensland Theatre & State Theatre Company of South Australia), Machu Picchu and Kryptonite (State Theatre Company of South Australia and the Sydney Theatre Company), The Kreutzer Sonata (State Theatre Company of South Australia), Strange Attractor (Griffin Theatre/Riverside Productions), Rembrandt’s Wife (Victorian Opera), and Thrall (Tamarama Rock Surfers). Sue wrote the feature films Saving Mr Banks (co-writer), and Peaches. Sue’s extensive credits for television include Significant Others, Mabo, Bastard Boys, The Cooks, RAN, Temptation, The Road from Coorain, My Brother Jack, Bordertown, The Leaving of Liverpool, and Brides of Christ. In 2018 Sue was the recipient of the Australian Writers’ Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Sydney Theatre Company Patrick White Playwrights Fellowship. She was also the recipient of the Foxtel Fellowship in 2010. Sue’s other notable awards include: Rembrandt’s Wife AWGIE for Music Theatre; Mabo AWGIE for Telemovie Original, Queensland Literary Award for Best Television Script; Bastard Boys AWGIE Television Mini Series Original, AFI Best Screenplay in Television, Queensland Premier’s Award; RAN AFI Best Television Screenplay, Queensland Premier’s Literary Screenplay Award; The Road from Coorain AWGIE Television-Telemovie Adaptation; The Leaving of Liverpool AFI Best Screenplay in Television Drama, AWGIE Best Mini-Series; Brides of Christ AFI Best Screenplay in a Television Drama, AWGIE Best Television Original.

Sarah Goodes

Sarah commenced 2023 with a sell-out production of SUNDAY by Anthony Weigh, opening the season for the Melbourne Theatre Company starring Nikki Shiels. She also directed the recent production of Virginia Gay’s CYRANO for the MTC which toured to the Perth Festival, and STC’s critically acclaimed production of Joanna Murray-Smith’s new play JULIA which sold out Sydney and Canberra seasons.

From 2012 – 2016 Sarah was the Resident Director at the Sydney Theatre Company and from 2016 – 2020 she was the Associate Artistic Director at the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Sarah directed the world premiere of SWITZERLAND by Joanna Murray-Smith for STC in 2014 which was nominated for many awards including a Helpmann for Best Direction. In 2018 her production of THE CHILDREN won three Helpmann Awards including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Production. Her production of GOLDEN SHIELD by Anchuli Felicia King was nominated for 7 Greenroom Awards winning for Best Design.

For Belvoir Sarah has directed THE SUGAR HOUSE; THE SWEETEST THING; THE SMALL THINGS; ELLING and BLACK MILK (B Sharp Belvoir). At Melbourne Theatre Company, Sarah’s work includes: SUNDAY; CYRANO; THE SOUND INSIDE; HOME, I’M DARLING; COSI (with the Sydney Theatre Company); GOLDEN SHIELD; ARBUS & WEST; ASTROMAN; A DOLL’S HOUSE: PART 2; THE CHILDREN (with Sydney Theatre Company); THREE LITTLE WORDS and JOHN. As Resident Director at Sydney Theatre Company Sarah directed THE HANGING; DISGRACED; ORLANDO; BATTLE OF WATERLOO; SWITZERLAND; THE EFFECT; VERE (FAITH); THE SPLINTER and EDWARD GANT’S AMAZING FEATS OF LONELINESS. Sarah’s other directing credits include GRACE (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); VERTIGO AND THE VIRGINIA, THE SHELLING POINT; HILT and WHAT HAPPENED WAS… (Old Fitzroy Theatre). SCORCED at NIDA and EARTHQUAKES in London at VCA.

In 2014 Sarah was the recipient of the Gloria Payten Fellowship. She studied English Literature and Theatre at the University of NSW and the University of California San Diego and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Theatre Directing from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Sarah will next direct SWITZERLAND at the Auckland Theatre Company. She is currently enrolled in Masters of Screen Business at ATFRS.

Roman Delo

Roman Delo is a 2019 graduate of NIDA’s BFA Acting course. The Weekend marks his Belvoir debut.

Having recently made his mainstage debut leading Hubris and Humiliation at the Sydney Theatre Company (dir. Dean Bryant), Roman’s other theatre credits include God of Carnage (NIDA, dir. Judy Davis) and Roberto Zucco (NIDA, dir. Robert Schuster).

Upon graduating, Roman made his television debut as a main cast member in Seasons 1-3 of the STAN Original Series Bump. He has also appeared in the BBC1/STAN series Ten Pound Poms, and will soon be seen in the upcoming SBS series Erotic Stories.

Belinda Giblin

Belinda Giblin is one of Australia’s most distinguished stage and screen actors. Her most recent theatre credits include Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days (Redline Theatre Co at the Old Fitz Theatre); John (Outhouse Theatre Company); Doubt (The Old Fitz); Blonde Poison (Strange Duck productions, The Old Fitz, Sydney Opera House and MTC at the Lawler), for all of which she was nominated for Best Actress in an Independent production by the Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle Awards, 2015-21.

Other plays include Scam, (Christine Dunstan Productions for Company B, Belvoir St); Tennessee Williams’ SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (Ensemble); Peter Shaffer’s award-winning masterpiece Amadeus (Redline); Ghosting The Party (Griffin); Family Values (Griffin Theatre); The Turquoise Elephant (Griffin Theatre); Daylight Saving (Eternity Playhouse) 2014; Ear To The Edge Of Time (Sport for Jove); Dark Voyager (Ensemble Theatre) 2014; Absurd Person Singular (Ensemble Theatre); Dinner (SBW Stables); two sell-out national tours of The Shoehorn Sonata with Maggie Kirkpatrick (Christine Dunstan Productions); Love Child, which she also produced (Griffin Theatre); Wicked Sisters (Griffin Theatre); Noises Off (Ensemble at the Sydney Opera House); Away (Sydney Theatre Company); Blithe Spirit (Queensland Theatre Co); Same Time Another Year (Perth Theatre Co); three national tours of Steaming (Gary Penny Productions); Things We Do For Love, Social Climbers, Henceforward, How The Other Half Loves, and Canaries Sometimes Sing (Marian St Theatre).

On television Belinda has played regular roles in the series Home And Away; Sons And Daughters; Heartbreak High; Skyways; The Sullivans; A Country Practise and The Box.

Film credits include On The Edge Of The Bed; Peterson; Demolition; Endplay; The Empty Beach; Say You Want Me for which she won a Sammy award, and an award winning short film Stille Nacht. Most recently she has featured in an Independent feature film, A Stitch In Time (Sasha Hadden Productions) which won the ACCTA Award for Best Indie Film in 2022. In 2021 she featured as Elizabeth 1 in the Sport for Jove film Venus And Adonis (Soap Productions).

Melita Jurisic

Melita has worked for many leading & alternative theatre companies in over 100 productions in Australia & Europe. Some of these include: The Wizard of Oz, Capricornia (Belvoir St), Poppea (Sydney Opera House), Women of Troy (STC/Malthouse), The Lost Breath (Melbourne International festival), Titus Andronicus, King Lear (Bell Shakespeare), Suddenly Last Summer, Macbeth, Mourning Becomes Electra, Tartuffe, The Three Sisters, Solitary Animals (STC), I Am A Miracle, Night on Bald Mountain (Malthouse), Arbus & West, The House of Bernarda Alba, John, The Collection/The Lover, Faust, A Cheery Soul, Bali Adat, Uncle Vanya, Mad Forest, Once A Catholic (MTC), Falling Petals, The Language of the Gods, The Dogs Play/A Few Roos Loose in the Top Paddock, Chilling & Killing My Annabelle Lee, On the North Diversion Road, King Lear, Quartet, Nice Girls, A Spring Song, The Golden Age (Playbox), Woyzeck, Agamemnon, The Blue Hour (I.R.R.A) Life is a Dream, Mother Courage, The Crimson Island (Anthill) The Golden Age, Les Liasons Dangereuses, Women of March the First (Nimrod), A Doll’s House (Ensemble), My Sister in this House (Seymour Centre), Danny & the Deep Blue Sea, Picnic with Fatima (Wintercourt), Hedda Gabler, Sunrise, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Pal Joey, The Marriage of Figaro, Netherwood, Blood Wedding, Twelfth Night, Royal Show, Prince of Homburg, Silver Lining, Mother Courage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (STCSA) The Idiot (Theatreworks) This Hospital is my Country (Deckchair) 1975 (Melbourne Workers Theatre).

In Europe: Medea, Dafke, Macbeth, Poppea, Tales of Hoffmann, Das Schloss,The Ubu Komplex (Vienna Schauspielhaus), Lysistrata, Kasimir & Karoline (Perchtoldsdorf), In the Jungle of the Cities (Landestheater Linz),The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Grand Theatre Luxembourgh), Purimspil (Linz:European Capital of Culture), Poppea (Berliner Ensemble/Edinburgh festival), The Family Table (Vienna festival), Middentity (Nitra festival,Slovakia), Wiener Laecheln (Komische Opera,Berlin), Das Tortenstueck (Donau festival,Austria),Yes Move/No Move/Moved? (Manchester,Ljubljana,Prague,Sibiu)

Film: Max Max: Fury Road, Murer: Anatomy of a Trial, Kotlovina,Transatlantic, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, The Tale of Ruby Rose (for which she won the International Critic’s prize for Best Actress at the Venice film festival).

Television: Something in the Air, Mercury, Bordertown, Hunger, The Petrov Affair, Land of Hope, Pokerface, The Fast Lane, The Flying Doctors, Einstein’s Wife.

Awards: Inaugural Cladan award(Sydney) for Nora (A Doll’s House), Green Room Awards for “I Am A Miracle”, “Night on Bald Mountain”, “Danny & the Deep Blue Sea” and for her portrayal of a 100 year old Balinese noblewoman in “Bali Adat”. Nominations for “Picnic with Fatima”, “Mother Courage”, “King Lear”, “The Trojan Women”. Helpmann award nominations for “John” and for her role as the legendary Mae West in “Arbus & West”.

She has performed as a singer and recorded with Austrian musician/composers Peter Szely and Bernhard Loibner.

She is the singer/songwriter of Viennese band METALYCÉE whose album “IT IS NOT” was voted one of the top ten best Austrian albums of the decade.

Toni Scanlan

Toni trained at the Drama Centre, London. Her theatre credits include for Belvoir Opening Night, Stop Girl, Ruben Guthrie; for Sydney Theatre Company Blood Wedding, Our Town, Troupers, King Lear, Cuckoo’s Country and Madras House; for Black Swan Theatre Hir and Angels In America – Part One; for Ensemble Theatre Richard 111, Let The Sun Shine, A View From The Bridge, I’m Not Rappaport, All My Sons, The Price; for Sport for Jove/Riverside Theatre Hamlet; Studio Company/Riverside Theatre King Lear; for Darlinghurst Theatre Good Works; Eternity Playhouse Grand Opening Show: All My Sons; for Queensland Theatre Company Once In Royal David’s City, The Family, Too Young For Ghosts; for Q Theatre Daylight Saving, Kid Stakes; for TN Theatre Co Private Lives, Boy’s Own Macbeth, Cloud 9, The Conquests Of Carmen Miranda; for Griffin Theatre King Tide, Back Beat, White Nancy; for Playhouse Theatre Fields Of Heaven; for Her Majesty’s, Perth Annie; for Hole in the Wall Theatre In His Own Right, Under Milkwood.

Toni’s film credits include Heart & Bones, The Forest, Vacant Possession, Loveless, Homebrew, Breakaway, Tenderhooks, Contact, High Tide.

Toni’s TV credits include Ten Pound Poms, The Hiding, Crownies, Answered By Fire, Mda, Backberner, Crash Palace, Water Rats (Series Regular 6 years), Bordertown, Blue Heelers, GP.

Toni has received the 2014 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in an Independent Production for All My Sons at the Eternity Playhouse and in 2008 received the Sydney Theatre Award for King Tide, by Kath Thomson at Griffin Theatre.

Toni’s Directing credits include The Seagull, Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters for Qut; A Cheery Soul for Waapa.

Keila Terencio

Keila is a performance artist born and raised in Brazil. Her artistic practice intertwines physical theatre and visual arts through the mediums of aerial dance, puppetry, and movement. Keila’s creations are multi-dimensional, incorporating objects, installations, and audience engagement.

Her works have been programmed for a number of festivals and events across Australia and abroad. Recently, she has been involved in creative projects with the Centre for Creativity at the Sydney Opera House, Erth Visual & Physical, and Strings Attached, as well as working as an arts facilitator for a number of arts organisations running and supporting workshops for people living with disability and underprivileged youth.

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 Cursed!, Things I Know To Be True, Barbara And The Camp Dogs, The Drover’s Wife, Twelth 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 Platee for Pinchgut Opera; The Secret River for Sydney Theatre Company/London/Edinburgh Festival; I Am Eora for 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.

Ella Butler

Ella is a Sydney-based designer for theatre, film and live performance.

In film, Ella has worked as the series Set Decorator on ‘Born To Spy’ (SBS, Aquarius), ‘While The Men Are Away’ (SBS, Arcadia) and Art Director on the experimental, operatic film ‘A Delicate Fire’ with Pinchgut Opera. In collaboration with CATSinAM, The Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Nurses and Midwives, Ella designed the Wardrobe and Production Design for ‘In Our Own Right; recounting Black Australian Nurses’ and Midwives Stories.  In theatre, Ella was nominated for Best Stage Design of A Mainstage Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards for her work as Set and Costume Designer on ‘First Love Is The Revolution’ (Griffin Theatre Company). 

Previously, Ella has worked with Belvoir in costume design for ‘Tell Me I’m Here’ Directed by Leticia Caceres and The Rep Season directed by Eamon Flack and Hannah Goodwin. Ella styled Tim Minchin and his band for his return to the stage with the National Tour of ‘BACK’, as well as Styling and Production Designing Minchin’s most recent album launch, a live recording of ‘Apart Together’. Ella’s work in theatre has been received internationally after designing ‘Enter the Underworld’ as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ella is a graduate from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design for Performance).

Damien Cooper

Damien Cooper is a lighting designer for Dance, Theatre, Opera and Film.

Belvoir designs include The Weekend, Into the Woods, Light Shining In Buckinghamshire, Wayside Bride, Things I Know To Be True, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, The Dog/The Cat, Radiance, The Glass Menagerie, Miss Julie, Stories I Want to Tell You in Person, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Peter Pan, Strange Interlude, Neighbourhood Watch, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Seagull, Gethsemane, Keating!, Toy Symphony, Peribanez, Stuff Happens, The Chairs, The Spook, In Our Name, The Underpants, The Sugar House, A Taste of Honey, The Ham Funeral, Exit the King.

STC designs include On the Beach, White Pearl, Top Girls, Dinner, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Disgraced, Arcadia, Orlando, The Golden Age, Suddenly Last Summer, The Women of Troy, The Lost Echo, Riflemind, Tot Mom, The Shape of Things, Far Away, Bed, Julius Caesar, Summer Rain, Boy Gets Girl, The Metamorphosis, The Cherry Orchard, A Walk With the Goons, The Art of War, The Great, Honour, Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness, Blood Wedding, Bloodland, Under Milk Wood, The Splinter, Storm Boy, The Long Way Home, Children of the Sun, Cyrano de Bergerac.

Damien has been awarded Three Sydney Theatre Awards – Best Lighting; Three Green Room Awards – Best Lighting; Two Australian Production Designers Guild Awards – Award for Best Lighting Design Der Ring des Nibelungen; Award for Best Lighting Design The Glass Menagerie.

Based in: Sydney, Australia

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

Madeleine Picard

Madeleine is a sound designer & technical theatre practitioner. Credits include: As sound designer & composer: How to Win a Plebiscite (and tennis) (NIDA); Picnic at Hanging Rock (NIDA); Promethia (NIDA). As sound design & composition secondment: Julia (Sydney Theatre Company). As lighting & video designer: The Writer (NIDA). As stage & production manager: New Balance (Redline); Othering (Sydney Festival); Twelfth Night (Virginia Plain); Neighbourhood Watch (New Theatre).

Alice Osborne

ALICE OSBORNE is a theatre maker, director and puppeteer. For Belvoir, she was Puppetry Director for RUBY’S WISH. For Sydney Opera House, she co-wrote and directed WHAT THE OCEAN SAID and multiple productions for the Creative Leadership in Learning program. Alice was Puppetry and Movement Director for the Australian production of WAR HORSE (National Theatre of Great Britain), THE SPLINTER (Sydney Theatre Company), DIARY OF A WOMBAT, POSSUM MAGIC and EDWARD THE EMU (Monkey Baa), ALPHABETICAL SYDNEY and BLACK SUN/BLOOD MOON (Critical Stages), and Justine Clarke’s LOOK LOOK IT’S A GOBBLEDYGOOK. As Performer, Alice was a member of Compagnie Philippe Genty (Paris), and My Darling Patricia (Sydney). She co-created and performed FALLING WOMAN (Performance Space). Her television credits as Puppeteer include DIDI & B (Nickelodean), ME & MY MONSTERS, FIVE MINUTES MORE, FARSCAPE (The Jim Henson Company), and THE UPSIDE DOWN SHOW (Sesame Workshop). Alice holds a Bachelor of Theatre/Media from Charles Sturt University, Bathurst. She also holds a Master of Occupational Therapy from The University of Sydney and is a registered Occupational Therapist working in inpatient mental health.

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Philip Millar

Susie Henderson

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.

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). 

Abbie-lee Lewis

Abbie-lee Lewis is a Kalkadoon actress who trained on the Aboriginal Theatre and Acting courses at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth.

Her credits include David Finnigan’s Scenes from the Climate Era, for Belvoir St Theatre, Seanna Van Helten’s Fallen, directed by Penny Harpham, for Sport for Jove; Our Town, directed by Clare Watson, for the Black Swan State Theatre Company of Western Australia; a national tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as Hermia) for Bell Shakespeare; and Angus Cerini’s The Bleeding Tree, directed by Ian Michael at the Blue Room Theatre, Perth.

Her television credits include Black Comedy for ABC.

In recent years she has also worked as an assistant director, collaborating with Peter Evans on Hamlet for Bell Shakespeare and with Jena Prince on Charlie Pilgrim for the Australian Theatre for Young People. Last year she made her directing debut with Bruce Pascoe’s Cutter and Coot for Moogahlin Performing Arts and has since directed Jane Montgomery Griffiths’ an ox stand on my tongue, for Belvoir’s 25A and Hannah Belanszky’s Saplings for ATYP.

Based in: Kalkatungu Country, Australia

Amelia Fell

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).

Mia Kanzaki

Mia Kanzaki is a Sydney based stage manager who is passionate about diverse stories and inclusive practices in the arts. She is a graduate of WAAPA’s Bachelor of Performing Arts (Stage Management). As Stage Manager, her credits include Tiddas (Belvoir) and The Face of Jizo (Red Line Productions). As Assistant Stage Manager, her credits include Holding the Man, Blessed Union, the At What Cost? National Tour, The Weekend (Belvoir), and Summer of Harold (Ensemble Theatre).