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Alana Valentine

Eamon Flack

Belvoir’s Artistic Director.

Eamon Flack finished his BA at the University of Queensland in 2000 and trained as an actor at WAAPA from 2001 to 2003. He has since worked as a director, writer, actor and dramaturg around Australia and internationally, from Milikapiti on the Tiwi Islands to London.

For Belvoir, Eamon’s directing credits include Counting and Cracking (with Associate Director S. Shakthidharan), Angels in America, The Glass Menagerie, Packer and Sons, Ghosts, Ivanov, Babyteeth, Life of Galileo, As You Like It, The Rover, Twelfth Night, The Blind Giant is Dancing and The End. He was Associate Writer with S. Shakthidharan on Counting and Cracking.

He co-adapted Ruby Langford Ginibi’s memoir Don’t Take Your Love to Town with Leah Purcell, and co-devised Beautiful One Day with artists from ILBIJERRI, version 1.0 and Palm Island.

His adaptations include Chekhov’s Ivanov, Gorky’s Summerfolk, Sophocles’ Antigone and Ibsen’s Ghosts. Ivanov won four Sydney Theatre Awards including Best Mainstage Production and Best Direction. The Glass Menagerie and Angels in America both won Best Play at the Helpmann Awards. Counting and Cracking won Best Play, Best Direction and Best New Work at the Helpmann Awards, the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Victorian Literary Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama.

Hannah Goodwin

Hannah is a director based in Sydney. For Belvoir, she was assistant director on Stop Girl by Sally Sara (dir. Anna-Louise Sarks), Packer and Sons by Tommy Murphy (dir. Eamon Flack), My Brilliant Career adapted by Kendall Feaver (dir. Kate Champion) and she was the 2021 Andrew Cameron Fellow. Hannah’s work as a director includes The Carousel by Pippa Ellams (Shopfront Arts Co-op, Downstairs Belvoir, Merrigong X and Kings Cross Theatre), A Girl in School Uniform (Walks into a Bar) by Lulu Raczka (Kings Cross Theatre) and The Sorry Mum Project by Pippa Ellams (Bondi Feast, Adelaide Fringe and National Theatre of Parramatta). Hannah’s other prior work as an assistant director includes Love by Patricia Cornelius (dir. Rachel Chant, Darlinghurst Theatre Company) and Dresden by Justin Fleming (dir. Suzanne Miller, Kings Cross Theatre). In 2019 Hannah was awarded the ATYP Rose Byrne Leadership Scholarship, recognising her as an emerging arts leader.

Arkia Ashraf

Maggie Blinco

Marco Chiappi

Emily Goddard

Sandy Greenwood

Sandy is a First Nations actor and playwright from the Dunghutti, Gumbaynggirr and Bundjulung tribes of Australia.  She has a Bachelor of Creative Industries from the Queensland University of Technology (Honours) as well as having trained at Atlantic Acting School in New York City, and The Groundlings in Los Angeles.  

Sandy has performed with a number of Australia’s leading theatre companies, including the Sydney Theatre Company, playing leading roles in Stolen and Taboo, Melbourne Theatre Company’s First Stage and Ilbijerri Indigenous Theatre Company.  Most recently Sandy starred in Dogged for Griffin Theatre Company. Sandy has also performed on the international stage at Seattle Children’s Theatre Company in Afternoon of the Elves.  On screen she has appeared in the US blockbuster Killer Elite alongside Robert de Niro, for which she received a Deadly Award nomination for Outstanding Actress, she was also the lead in the feature film Little Black Dress.  Other short film credits include: Candy Cravings, Blind Date, Crossing, All is Forgiven, The Shoe Whisperer, Flame of the West, Love Crossed,  A Metamorphosis Engineered. Sandy’s television appearances include Home and Away, and Takoyaki City. Sandy was also a Producer’s attachment on Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries S2.

In Australia Sandy is perhaps best known for her critically-acclaimed one-woman show, Matriarch, for which she was recognised with a Green Room Award in 2019:  Best Performer, Independent Theatre.

Sacha Horler

Rebecca Massey

Brandon McClelland

Angeline Penrith

Ella Butler

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 and Angels in America.

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); Admin (Vault Festival London/Dublin Fringe); 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); 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, Challenge Designer 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, Best Independent 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.

Nell Ferguson

Damien Cooper

Alyx Dennison

Elle Evangelista

Elle loves dancing. Elle recently choreographed for Belvoir’s The Cherry Orchard. She was the Youth Company Rehearsal Director for The Last Season by Force Majeure, Sydney Festival 2021. Her performance credits include GIF of Dance by Matt Cornell, FLOCK by Force Majeure, Out of Earshot by KAGE Physical Theatre, Days Like These by Murmuration, the national tour of The King and I by Opera Australia, Keir Choreographic Award 2016 with choreographer Ghenoa Gela and MURA BUAI also by Ghenoa. Elle was Performer and Rehearsal Director for KAGE Physical Theatre’s international tour of Caught in the Middle. She has been awarded residencies to create new work by Ausdance NSW, Critical Path, March Dance, Brand X and Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance.

Elle is a WAAPA Dance graduate and UWA English graduate. She was raised in Perth by her Filipino and Burmese family.

Cecilia Nelson

Cecilia Nelson graduated from NIDA’s BFA (Technical Theatre and Stage Management) in 2017 after completing a BSc./BA. at The University of Sydney. This year, she was the assistant stage manager Pippin, Australia’s first commercial musical to open after the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, she was half-way through the national tour of Billy Elliot (LWAA) when our theatre doors closed for lockdown.  Cecilia toured the award-winning Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Belvoir)as stage manager and was the assistant stage manager in the original Belvoir season. Cecilia stage managed In The Heights (Blue Saint Productions) which toured regionally before opening in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, the intimate but ground-breaking The Howling Girls (Sydney Chamber Opera) and was the assistant stage manager for The Rape of Lucretia (Sydney Chamber Opera). Cecilia has a passion for opera and has stage and assistant stage managed Artaserse (Pinchgut), Candide (Sydney Philharmonia), New Year’s Eve Opera Gala (Opera Australia), and was surtitle operator for Carmen (Opera Australia/HOSH). She is passionate about music in theatre and the power of art to make sense of life.

Erin Shaw

Danielle Roffe