TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS

Cheryl Strayed

Nia Vardalos

Marshall Heyman

Thomas Kail

Lee Lewis

Lee is the Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company and one of Australia’s leading Directors. For Belvoir she has directed That Face, This Heaven, Half and Half, A Number, 7 Blowjobs, Ladybird. Her other theatre credits include don’t ask what the bird look like, Tiny Beautiful Things,Family Values,First Casualty, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Return to the Dirt, Prima Facie, Our Town, Mouthpiece, Rice (Queensland Theatre); Prima Facie, Family Values, First Love is the Revolution, Is There Something Wrong With That Lady?, The Almighty Sometimes, Kill Climate Deniers, Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography, The Homosexuals or ‘Faggots’, Rice, Masquerade, Gloria, The Bleeding Tree, Emerald City, A Rabbit for Kim Jong-il, The Serpent’s Table, Replay, Silent Disco, Smurf In Wanderland, The Bull, The Moon and the Coronet of Stars, The Call, A Hoax, The Nightwatchman (Griffin Theatre Company); The Literati, The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare); Mary Stuart, Honour, Love-Lies-Bleeding, ZEBRA! (Sydney Theatre Company); Gloria, Hayfever, Rupert (Melbourne Theatre Company); Battlegrounds, Citizenship (Australian Theatre for Young People); Highway of Lost Hearts (Darwin Festival); Darlinghurst Nights (The Hayes Theatre Company).

For her work in The Bleeding Tree, Lee won both the Helpmann Award and Green Room Award for Best Director.

Stephen Geronimos

Theatre: Queensland Theatre: Tiny Beautiful Things, Diving for Pearls (Playclub); Belloo Creative: Boy, Lost; PIP Theatre: The Boys; Metro Arts: Anatomy of a Suicide; La Boite: Angel Gear; QUT: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Three Sisters, The Crucible, Edward II, As You Like It, What It Feels Like; Ausdance: Qinkan; Kooemba Jdarra: The Mack. Film: The Beehive, The Queen & I, Scrub. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), QUT. Positions: Acting Facilitator (2023), Voices of The Valley Film Festival. Awards: Matilda Award – Lord Mayor’s Award for Best New Australian Work – Boy, Lost

Mandy McElhinney

Mandy is one of Australia’s most beloved actresses, having been seen most recently in popular series
Wakefield. Mandy’s numerous other television credits include The Exhibitionists, Love Child, Bad
Mothers, Squinters, House of Hancock, Hyde & Seek, Paper Giants, Comedy Inc, Bed Of Roses, and
MDA. Mandy’s feature film credits including Ned Kelly and The Bank.
Mandy’s stage credits include: Cinderella, Forget Me Not (Belvoir Theatre); The Glass Menagerie,
Dirty Birds which she co-wrote and co-starred in with her sister Hayley McElhinney (Black Swan); Tiny
Beautiful Things, (Queensland Theatre), Appropriate, Mosquitos, In The Next Room (Or The Vibrator
Play), The Beauty Of Queen Lenane, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Great
And Don’s Party (Sydney Theatre Company); Dreams In White (Griffin Theatre Co); When The Rain
Stops Falling (Brink); Di Viv And Rose, The Hypocrite, Life After George and Pride And Prejudice
(Melbourne Theatre Company); This Way Up, Holy Day, Twilight Series, Inside 2000 (Playbox).
Mandy received the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for her role in
Howzat: Kerry Packer’s War.

Nic Prior

Belvoir St Theatre: Debut. Other credits: Queensland Theatre: Tiny Beautiful Things; Dead Puppet Society: Holding Achilles; Gob Squad: Creation (Pictures for Dorian); CalArts: Oedipus, Antigone, Hamlet, Our Iliad, And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens; Fleshmarket Co: Well That’s Oz, You Are Frogs. Television:  In Our Blood. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), California Institute of the Arts. 

Angela Nica Sullen

Angela can be seen as series regular, Robbie, in the ABC television series, MOTHER AND SON, opposite Matt Okine and Denise Scott. Last year she starred as recurring guest star, Sarah Baker, in NBC’s LA BREA. She is an actor that has equal success across stage and screen having starred in Griffin Theatre’s ORANGE THROWER, STC’s A RAISIN IN THE SUN, STC’s MOSQUITOES and Redline’s recent production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. On screen she will be seen in the upcoming Universal film, THE FALL GUY and also had supporting roles in Goalpost’s I AM WOMAN, Paramount+’s ONE NIGHT, Seven’s HOME & AWAY, NBC’s PIECES OF YOU and Stan’s BUMP. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) from NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) in 2016.

Daniel Evans

Daniel Evans is an award-winning writer, director and producer who has worked internationally in theatre, festivals, print and television. He currently lives in Meanjin and works on the lands of the Turrbal and Jagera people as Artistic Associate for Queensland Theatre.

In 2023 he won a Matilda Award for Best Director for his work on The Almighty Sometimes by Kendall Feaver (Queensland Theatre) and in 2020 for Cinderella by Matthew Whittet (QPAC & Myths Made Here). 

As a director, his work includes Vietgone (Queensland Theatre), Drizzle Boy (Queensland Theatre), Away (La Boite Theatre Company) and The Tragedy of King Richard The Third (La Boite Theatre Company).

As a writer, he has written numerous works for the stage including Joan Must Die* (*I Never Liked Her Anyway) (QUT), Algorithm (QUT), 600 Ways To Filter A Sunset (Queensland Theatre’s Scene Project) and was the winner of the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award for his play Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Queensland Theatre/ ATYP). 

Together with Amy Ingram, he founded critically acclaimed performance collective, The Good Room, whose works include Let’s Be Friends Furever (Brisbane Festival), I Want To Know What Love Is (Queensland Theatre and Brisbane Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Critical Stages National Tour),  I Just Came To Say Goodbye (Brisbane Festival), I’ve Been Meaning To Ask You (Brisbane Festival & Riverside Theatres, Sydney/  Sydney Theatre Award 2021 Winner, Best Production for Young People),That’s What She Said (Metro Arts) and I Should Have Drunk More Champagne (Metro Arts).

He has previously worked as a senior writer for Frankie magazine, SMITH Journal and SPACES and as a producer for Endemol Shine Australia, iTV, Network Nine, Network Ten and SBS.

Simone Romaniuk

Simone Romaniuk is a live performance designer for theatre, opera and festivals.

Theatre set and costume designs include: for Brisbane Festival/Sydney Festival: Bananaland; for Queensland Theatre: The Almighty Sometimes, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Macbeth, Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman, Venus in Fur, Bombshells, Kelly, Head Full of Love, Fractions, The Little Dog Laughed, Australia Day, The Pitch, The China Incident, The Removalists, An Oak Tree, Man Equals Man, Waiting for Godot, Eating Ice Cream, Beckett x 3, Ruby Moon; for Sydney Theatre Company: The Crucible, Seneca’s Thyestes; for Unicorn Theatre, London: The Hunting Lodge; for Brisbane Festival: Macbeth, The Wizard of Oz; for Ensemble Theatre: Suddenly Last Summer, Clyde’s, Honour, Kenny, The Last Wife, Luna Gale, Shirley Valentine, Frankenstein, Casanova.

Opera set and costume designs include: for Pinchgut Opera: Rinaldo; for State Opera South Australia: La boheme, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Love Burns, Boojum!; for Queensland Conservatorium: Iolanthe; for RNCM, Manchester: La Vie Parisienne; for Pacific Opera: La Sonnambula, Hansel and Gretel; for Opera Queensland: The Mikado, The Merry Widow, Space Encounters, The Magic Flute.

Simone was Creative Director of Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival and Moon Lantern Parade from 2015 – 2019, which was shortlisted twice in the APDG awards and won Best Major Festival at the South Australian Tourism Awards 2019. She was Festival Designer for Brisbane Festival in 2013 and designed the Southbank and Theatre Republic precincts.

In 2012 Simone was Resident Designer with Queensland Theatre and prior to that was an affiliate artist with the company. She has won two Matilda awards for Best Design for Macbeth and Kelly and two Matilda Gold awards for Body of Work for Queensland Theatre productions.

Simone holds a Bachelor of 3D Design from Queensland College of Art and a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Design) from NIDA.

Bernie Tan-Hayes

Bernie Has and long and distinguished career in Theatre and Architectural lighting design and is grateful to be returning to the Queensland Theatre stage after recently repatriating to Queensland.

For Queensland Theatre, God of Carnage.

Other Credits:

Opera Queensland: The Marriage of Figaro, The Human Voice, The Call, Festival of Outback Opera Griffin Theatre Company: Quack, Strange Attractor, Modern International Dead, Tiger Country, October, King Tide. Sydney Theatre Company: Travesties, Macbeth. Ensemble Theatre Company: The little Dog Laughed, Nintey, Brooklyn Boy, Are you there, Derrida in Love, The Busy World is hushed. La Boite Theatre Company: Amigos. NORPA: Mr BBQ, The Flood, Queensland Music Festival: Bob Cats Dancing, Charters Towers the Musical. Erth Visual and Physical; Gondwana, Nargen and the Stars. New Zealand Opera: La Boheme and Eugene Onegin. Pinch Gut Opera: Semele, The Fairy Queen, Orfeo, Dardenus, Idomeneo, Juditha Triumphans, David and Jonathan, Lormindo and Orpheus + Eurydice. Brisbane Festival: Miracle in Brisbane. Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Die Fledermaus, Dialogue of The Carmelites, Priates of Penzance. Opera Australia: Opera In the Bowl, Meet in Beijing Festival and the Yarrabah Community Opera.

Bernie has also previously served as touring technical manager and lighting designer for: Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company and Belvoir and as Associate lighting designer to Nick Schlieper.

He is currently Technology and Content Principal for FPOV a large international design consultancy. 

Brady Watkins

Queensland Theatre: The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, Tiny Beautiful Things, First Casualty, A Dream Play, Othello, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Metamorphoses, Moth, Wisdom, The Trial. Other Credits: Offside Theatre Company: Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes; La Boite: The Last Five Years, Away, Bigger and Blacker, The Neighbourhood; Dead Puppet Society: SWARM, The Wider Earth (2022 National Tour); THAT Production Company: Sea Wall; Refraction Theatre: The Revisionist; Rocket Boy Ensemble: Reagan Kelly. As Sound Operator: Queensland Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf(with STCSA), Triple X, Our Town, Antigone; Woodward Productions: Sweet Charity, Edges: A Song Cycle; Underground Broadway: Spring Awakening, Don’t Call Me Ishmael; La Boite: Neon Tiger.  As Sound Consultant: Queensland Theatre: As You Like It, Drizzle Boy, Family Values, The Almighty Sometimes, Robyn Archer: An Australian Songbook, White Pearl, Taming of The Shrew. Training: Bachelor of Music Technology, Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Positions: Composer/Sound Designer, Artist Company, La Boite (2021-22). Awards: Matilda Award Nomination — Best Sound Design Sea Wall; Queensland Reconciliation Award — Partnerships Othello.

Maddison Penglis

Queensland Theatre: Tiny Beautiful Things. Other Credits: As Stage Manager: Woodward Productions: The Mystery of the Valkyrie; shake & stir theatre co: Animal Farm (2021 National Tour), QLD Youth Shakespeare Festival (2020); The Naughty Corner Collective: Maze; Brisbane Powerhouse; QPAC. As Assistant Stage Manager: shake & stir theatre co: Fantastic Mr Fox (2019-2024), Frankenstein, Tae Tae In The Land Of Yaaas!, A Christmas Carol (2018-2022), The Twits, Jane Eyre (2019, 2022 national tour), Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts (2019 national tour), George’s Marvellous Medicine (2018 national tour), QLD Youth Shakespeare Festival (2018); Bleach Festival: Chez Nous on Chevron; Sydney Festival 2019 (Carriageworks); Sydney Festival 2018 (Sydney Opera House). Positions: Event Coordinator, Sydney Festival 2022-23 (Sydney Opera House); Assistant Event Coordinator, Sydney Festival 2021 (Town Hall). Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production), QUT.

Christopher Starnawski

Christopher Starnawski graduated Sydney University, having studied a B.Music & B.Arts, with a
passion for Stage Management & Photography. Recent notable shows include Amadeus (Red Line
Productions & Sydney Opera House); The Lovers (Bell Shakespeare); Losing It (Megan Bennetts); La
Traviata (Opera Australia); Macbeth (Sport For Jove); Jekyll & Hyde (Hayes Theatre); The 7 Deadly
Sins & Mahagonny Songspiel, Hand To God & Happy Days (Red Line Productions); Chef (2022 &
2023), Twelfth Night & The Cherry Orchard (Virginia Plain Productions); Chop Chef (Blush Opera).
Chris also venue manages KXT on Broadway. Previous years productions of note include Symphonie
Fantastique & Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Little Eggs Collective); Herringbone, The Dismissal &
NINE (Squabbalogic); Angels In America (Apocalypse Theatre Company); Sensitive Guys (Cross
Pollinate Productions); Cyprus Avenue (Empress Theatre); The Van De Maar Papers (Ratcatch); Switch
Witchetty’s Almanac Of Everything (Pinwheel Productions, toured to Edinburgh Fringe); An
Intervention (Last One Standing Theatre Company); KXTeethcutting 2.0 Readings (Legit Theatre Co.);
The Underpants (Sugary Rum Productions in Nov) and 2019-2020 Summer Season (Sport For Jove);
YEN (New Ghosts, 2018); August Osage County (New Theatre, 2018); Brothers Karamazov &
Constellations (Arrive. Devise. Repeat, 2017); Sunday In the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along,
A Little Cabaret, The Wild Party & NINE (Little Triangle, 2017-2019); Sex Object & HIJACKED RABBIT
(JackRabbit Theatre, 2017). Alongside theatre, Christopher works in film, in the camera and art
department, with notable features such as Head Above Water; Kairos; Ritual; Staying The Night; I’m
Here Too; 17 Minutes; Life After Man; Pseudomonas and Vector. Short films include Disarmed, Deep
Pockets Empty Hearts, An Eight Letter Word Starting With A, This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both
Of Us, and most recently music videos for the bands In Hearts Wake, Amalia and Rayn.