WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN

Carmel Dean

Miriam Laube

Lynne Shankel

Blazey Best

Stefanie Caccamo

Stefanie graduated in 2016 from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with a Bachelor of Music Theatre. This is her Belvoir Debut. Theatre credits include Oklahoma!, Once the Musical (Black Swan State Theatre Company); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Michael Cassel Group); Once the Musical (Darlinghurst Theatre Company); Hair the Musical 50^th Anniversary Tour (Sydney Opera House/Peace Productions); Godspell, Lizzie the Musical, Well Behaved Women, Irene, Applause, Meet Me in St Louis (Hayes Theatre Company:); Christmas Actually, From Johnny to Jack (The Little Red Co). Film and TV credits include Three Summers, Woolworths Carols in The Domain 2021, Fighting Season, Making Muriel. Stefanie’s awards include 2014 Effie Crump Award, 2016 Leslie Anderson Showcase Award, 2017 Rob Guest Endowment Melbourne East End Theatre District Award.   

Zahra Newman

A graduate of VCA, Zahra has built an extensive list of theatre, television and film credits.

In 2016 she was awarded an AACTA for Best New Talent and received a 2017 Sydney Theatre Award for her performance as Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon. Other industry recognitions include a Green Room Award, CGA Award and multiple Helpmann nominations.

Theatre credits include Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, Julius Caesar, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Love and Information (Sydney Theatre Company); Random, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Ivanov, The Government Inspector, Private Lives (Belvoir); Miss Julie, The Effect, The Mountain Top, The Cherry Orchard, Menagerie, Clybourne Park, The Drowsy Chaperone and Richard III (Melbourne Theatre Company); Well Behaved Women (Hayes Theatre Company); Girl from the North Country (GWB) and the critically acclaimed Wake in Fright for Malthouse/Sydney Opera House, which she also co-created.

Zahra’s film credits include Truth, I Met A Girl, Long Story Short and Thirteen Lives. Her television credits include Netflix’s Pieces of Her, Spreadsheet, Diary of an Uber Driver, Sisters, Foxtel’s Wentworth, Neighbours, Rosehaven, Childhood’s End and Rush.

Elenoa Rokobaro

At the age of 16 Elenoa was plucked from the Australian International Performing Arts High School (AIPAH) to star in Respect: The Musical in 2007.

Elenoa’s credits includeJoanne in Rent (Sydney Opera House); Susan in Tick, Tick…BOOM! (Storeyboard Entertainment); Fay Apple in Anyone Can Whistle and Well Behaved Women (Hayes Theatre); The Wife in The Things I Could Never Tell Steven (NToP); Betty Blokk-Buster Follies Reimagined (Redline Productions); The Book of Mormon (GFO); Reno in Dusty (TPC); The Fortune Teller in Side Show (One Eyed Man Productions); Ghost (ATG); Violet (Blue Saint Productions); Legally Blonde (GFO); Hairspray (DCE/David Atkins); Fame (GFO); Taylor in High School Musical Onstage (Disney) and Chanteuse (Adelaide Cabaret Festival). Elenoa was also featured in the Baz Luhrmann film The Great Gatsby.

In 2019 Elenoa was seen as Caroline Thibodeaux in the acclaimed Caroline, Or Change (Hayes Theatre Company) for which she was awarded Best Female Actor in a Leading Role for both the Sydney Theatre Awards and the GLUG Awards.

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Sarah Murr

Fresh from closing the Australian tour of &Juliet as Lady Capulet, Sarah is thrilled to be standing by for this powerhouse lineup of Well Behaved Women at Belvoir St. Some of her credits include Les Misèrables, Candide, Shrek the Musical, NINE, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, HOSH Phantom of the Opera, Lizzie!, Bonnie & Clyde, Jekyll & Hyde, The Lovers, and most recently with Sydney Cabaret hosting Sunday Service. 

Seb Bartels

Sarah Homeh

David Gardos

Originally from Sydney, David worked as a music director and pianist in New York for 15 years. He originated five Broadway musicals: Chaplin, Big Fish, Side Show (Revival), Finding Neverland, and Falsettos (Revival), featuring on all five Broadway cast recordings. David was a substitute musician and/or conductor on numerous other Broadway and off-Broadway shows including Hamilton, In the Heights, Matilda, and Peter and the Starcatcher.
David has been involved in the development of many new musicals. US Production highlights include Ever After (Papermill Playhouse), My Paris (Goodspeed Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre), Darling Grenadine (Goodspeed Theatre, Roundabout Underground), Kiss My Aztec (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage).
Since returning to Sydney, David has taking up teaching positions in musical theatre programs at NIDA and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He is also active in the Sydney theatre industry working as a musician on many of the major musicals and recently as music director for A Little Night Music and Tell Me on a Sunday at the Hayes Theatre Co.
David has a Bachelor of Music (Music Education) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and a Master of Music (Orchestral Conducting) from the University of Cincinnati.

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David Gardos

Originally from Sydney, David worked as a music director and pianist in New York for 15 years. He originated five Broadway musicals: Chaplin, Big Fish, Side Show (Revival), Finding Neverland, and Falsettos (Revival), featuring on all five Broadway cast recordings. David was a substitute musician and/or conductor on numerous other Broadway and off-Broadway shows including Hamilton, In the Heights, Matilda, and Peter and the Starcatcher.
David has been involved in the development of many new musicals. US Production highlights include Ever After (Papermill Playhouse), My Paris (Goodspeed Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre), Darling Grenadine (Goodspeed Theatre, Roundabout Underground), Kiss My Aztec (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage).
Since returning to Sydney, David has taking up teaching positions in musical theatre programs at NIDA and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He is also active in the Sydney theatre industry working as a musician on many of the major musicals and recently as music director for A Little Night Music and Tell Me on a Sunday at the Hayes Theatre Co.
David has a Bachelor of Music (Music Education) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and a Master of Music (Orchestral Conducting) from the University of Cincinnati.

Kelsey Lee

Kelsey is a lighting, set and costume designer for theatre, dance and events. Previously for Belvoir she was the Lighting Designer for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, A Room of One’s Own; and Associate Lighting Designer for Blue, At What Cost?. Other credits include Lighting Designer: Mutiara (Marrugeku); Gurr Era Op (Force Majeure); The Lewis Trilogy; Sex Magick; Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre Company), The Comedy Of Errors (Bell Shakespeare); Tell Me On A Sunday (Hayes Theatre); Masterclass; The Memory of Water; A Letter For Molly (Ensemble Theatre); Queen Fatima (NToP); Jali (Aya Productions, Griffin Theatre Company); Extinction of the Learned Response, Skyduck, Kasama Kita (Belvoir 25A); April Aardvark (ATYP); Good Dog; If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You (Greendoor Theatre Company). Set & Costume Designer Somos (Sydney Dance Company). Set Designer: Nothing; A Practical Guide To Self Defence (NTofP). Costume Designer: Silence and Rapture (Sydney Dance Company & ACO), Switzerland (Ensemble Theatre). Co-production Designer & Lighting Designer: Destroy, She Said (Belvoir’s 25A). Set & Lighting Designer: An Ox Stand On My Tongue (Belvoir 25A). Lighting, Set & Costume: Lulu: A Modern Sex Tragedy (NIDA), Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (ACO). Associate Lighting Designer Cut The Sky (Marrugeku). 

Grace Deacon

Grace is a production and costume designer working across stage, film and screen. Grace’s practice is based heavily on creative collaboration and exploration, with a love of developing new works. Grace’s recent design credits include:  AN OX STOOF ON MY TOUNGE (25A BELVOIR), NEVER CLOSER (25A BELVOIR), THE ITALIANS (25A BELVOIR), WHO’S AFRAID (25A BELVOIR), DESTRY, SHE SAID (25A BELVOIR), LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE), SENSER (THEATRE WORKS), T NOT TODAY (MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL). TV credits: MASKED SINGER AUSTRALIA (2021-23), GLADIATORS (2023) Grace has been awarded the Best Stage Design for an Independant production 2023, the William Fletcher Foundation Scholarship and Peter Ivan Scholarship for Excellence in Design.

Susie Henderson

Tom Brickhill

Tom is a sound designer based in Sydney. By day he is a senior consultant managing a team of theatre planning and audio-visual consultants for the global design firm Arup, where he is fortunate enough to work on some of the largest arts and cultural projects in the world. His sound design credits span over 10 years on shows performed from Australia and the UK to South Korea and Philippines. Credits include The Sapphires (2010-2012), Do You Hear the People Sing (2014-2024), Tell Me On a Sunday (2024) and Carousel (2024).

Margaret Thanos

Margaret Thanos is an award-winning Cypriot-Australian director, writer and actor for theatre and film. She is also the owner of Queen Hades Productions, a production company that works to bring together activism and art.

Margaret’s directing credits include Not Now, Not Ever: A Parliament of Women (25A), the 5-star sell-out season of I Hate People; or Timon of Athens (Sport for Jove), A Very Expensive Poison (New Theatre), the Australian Premiere of Labyrinth (Dream Plane Productions) and world premiere of A Grain of Sand (KXT). In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Sandra Bates Director’s Award at Ensemble Theatre.

She has assistant directing credits on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Belvoir), Benefactors (Ensemble), 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). Her debut short Life Beyond Christine is currently in post-production.

Her acting credits include: Beautiful Things (Flickerfest Selection), Dear Australia (Spark Theatre), Screen Shot (Toronto Comedy Film Festival Selection), Twinemies (Australian Podcast Award Winner), Spider in My Soup (Shopfront Artslab and Bondi Feast), My Creatures (Tricky Feet), Intersection: Chrysalis (ATYP/Griffin). In 2020, Margaret was a part of Montague Basement’s Laboratory Program and in 2021 she was a part of ATYP’s Fresh Ink.

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Krystelle Quartermain

Graduating with a BFA from NIDA in 2021, Krystelle is a freelance stage manager. She has worked on various productions including The Deb with ATYP (2022), School of Rock: The Arena Musical with GBE (2022), James Galea’s BEST TRICK EVER at the Sydney Opera House (2021), and has worked with the Coogee Christmas Carols the last two years. 

Krystelle currently works within the live music events for the City Recital Hall and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, additionally having worked as a radio microphone technician for Sydney Theatre Company. More recently, Krystelle has been a Stage and Company Manager for the last two Neglected Musicals at the Hayes Theatre (IF/THEN 2023, They’re Playing Our Song 2024) and Tell Me On A Sunday (Hayes Theatre 2024), and was the SM for Force Majeure’s GURR ERA OP (RISING Festival Melbourne 2024). 

Having a full circle moment from its first staging back in 2021, Krystelle is excited to be back working with the Well-Behaved Women team.