Opera XS Program

6 - 11 JUNE

OPERA XS

Malthouse Theatre presents

ANOTHER LAMENTProduced by Chamber Made Opera & Rawcus

Director Kate Sulan Composition & Musical Performance Ida Duelund Hansen (Voice, Double Bass) Assistant Director Nilgun Guven Costume & Set Design Emily Barrie Lighting Design Richard Vabre Sound Design Jethro Woodward

Performed by Rawcus ensemble members

Clem Baade, Rachel Edward, Nilgun Guven, Mike McEvoy & Ryan New

Stage Manager Lisa Osborn

BECKETT THEATRE 6 – 10 JUNE, 2012

Another Lament was first performed in Deidre and Naham Warhaft’s living room as part of Chamber Made Opera’s Living Room Opera series.

ANOTHER LAMENT

MERLYN QUAIFE: ONE ON ONE

REDFERN

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD

CLEM BAADEPERFORMER

Clem began his career in 1991 when he joined a theatre group called Just Us at St Martins Youth

Theatre. He has performed with Rawcus, Victorian College for the Arts and for the Next Wave Festival. He is currently working as a Peer Facilitator for Fog Theatre.

EMILY BARRIECOSTUME & SET DESIGN

Emily has designed set and costume for: Melbourne Theatre Company, Full Tilt, Arena Theatre Company,

Rawcus, Back to Back, Melbourne Worker’s Theatre, Ilbijerri Theatre Company, The Women’s Circus, Restless Dance Theatre, NICA, Union House Theatre, Red Stitch, Melbourne Fringe, The Spaghetti Western Orchestra, Moomba, Die Roten Punkte, Federation Square, Mushroom Records, and The Melbourne Museum. Recent designs include Veritas, We All Fall Down, and CODA for NICA, Jack Charles Vs. The Crown, Foley and Coranderrk for Ilbijerri Theatre Company, and Small Odysseys for Rawcus/Arts House. Currently, Emily is designing for NICA, Back to Back/Arts House, and remounting Coranderrk for Sydney. She has received three Green Room nominations.

NILGUN GUVENASSISTANT DIRECTOR/PERFORMER

Nilgun is a director, community artist, project manager and performer working with diverse

communities, arts companies and organisations, health service providers and local government since 1999. She is the Artistic Director of SPARC Theatre and has been with Rawcus since 2001.

IDA DUELUND HANSEN COMPOSITION & MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

Ida is a Danish bass player, vocalist and composer currently based in Melbourne. She is active in the

jazz, experimental and chamber music scenes and performs regularly with Chamber Made Opera, Malthouse Theatre and Rawcus. She also performs in several pop and improvised music bands including Adrian Sherriff Trio, True Strength and Lisa Salvo. In June 2012, Ida will release her first album, Another Lament, composed and produced in collaboration with Jethro Woodward.

RACHEL EDWARDPERFORMER

Rachel is a performer, director, writer and singer. She entered the world of theatre in 1994 when she

co-wrote and performed in A SingleSpace at Mietta’s as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Rachel has since written two short plays, To Sleep into Silence and Bun in the Oven, has performed in various roles and is currently working as an inclusive theatre practitioner, community artist and director; devising original work with and for people of all abilities and diverse backgrounds in locations across Melbourne. She is a co-devisor and performer in Short Pants No Holes (Barking Spider Visual Theatre) that was originally created for La Mama for Kids. Rachel has been performing with Rawcus for ten years.

MIKE MCEVOYPERFORMER

Mike has been an ensemble member with Rawcus since 2007, having helped

create Small Odysseys, The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest and Hunger. He is also an ensemble member and Co-Artistic Director of Melbourne Playback Theatre Company, performing regularly throughout Australia within the corporate,

community and education sectors. Other credits as a performer and theatremaker include Salonika Bound, She’s Not Performing, The Time is Not Yet Ripe, Tyranny (La Mama), White With Wire Wheels (UHT), I Start Again (A is for Atlas), Ivanov (fortyfivedownstairs) and a new work in development, Two Mortals. Screen credits include roles in Neighbours, Vessel, White Out, Cat_nip, Beatrice Her Beast and the Man from the City and Albatross. Mike is an Honours Graduate from the School of Creative Arts, VCA.

RYAN NEWPERFORMER

Ryan is an actor with Autism who has worked with Platform Youth Theatre, Weave, Arts Access Victoria,

Ignition Theatre Training and Rawcus.

LISA OSBORNSTAGE MANAGER

Lisa works as a freelance Stage Manager and Production Manager in theatre and on arts events.

Her recent Production/Stage Management credits include The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself for Ride On Theatre/Performing Lines; The Trilogy Presentation (Amplification, Miracle and Above) for BalletLab at MONA FOMA. Her Stage Management credits for Malthouse Theatre include The Wild Duck (with Belvoir St Theatre), The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself, Baal (with Sydney Theatre Company) and Sappho…in 9 Fragments. Other credits include: When The Rain Stops Falling (Brink Productions); Me and My Shadow (Patch Theatre Company); Man Covets Bird (Slingsby Theatre Company); G, Devolution and Ignition (Australian Dance Theatre); Three Sisters, Metro Street, Attempts on Her Life, The Female of the Species, Triple Threat, Noises Off and The Government Inspector (State Theatre Company SA); Cake (Ladykillers); Boom Bah!, Afternoon of the Elves, Two Weeks with the Queen and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Windmill Performing Arts); Beautiful Words

(Oddbodies Theatre Company). Lisa has also worked in a range of roles on events including WOMADelaide, The Helpmann Awards and the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 Cultural Festival.

KATE SULANDIRECTOR

Kate is the founding Artistic Director of Rawcus, an award winning theatre company of performers

with and without disabilities. Most recently Kate has directed Small Odysseys (Rawcus), Happiness (Malthouse Theatre) and was a devisor on Ganesh versus the Third Reich (Back to Back Theatre). Kate has worked as a director and dramaturge with companies such as Restless Dance Theatre, Stuck Pigs Squealing, The Women’s Circus, Theatre of Speed (Back to Back) and Full Tilt at Arts Centre Melbourne. In 2010 Kate created a work in Ahmedabad, India as part of an Asialink Performing Arts Residency. The work involved performers from Apang Manav Madal, an institution for girls with physical disabilities. Kate has been a board member of the Next Wave Festival since 2006.

RICHARD VABRELIGHTING DESIGN

Richard is a freelance lighting designer who has lit productions for Melbourne Theatre Company,

Malthouse Theatre, Victorian Opera, Windmill Theatre, Arena Theatre Company, NICA, The Darwin Festival, Stuck Pigs Squealing, Chambermade, Rawcus, Hit Productions, Red Stitch, Polyglot, Melbourne Worker’s Theatre and Aphids. Richard has won four Green Room Awards including the Association’s John Truscott Prize for Excellence in Design (2004). He has also been nominated for four other Green Room Awards.

JETHRO WOODWARD SOUND DESIGN

Credits for Malthouse Theatre: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Human Interest Story (with Lucy Guerin Inc), Look

Right Through Me (with KAGE), Furious Mattress, The Eisteddfod, Black Swan of Trespass (with Stuck Pigs Squealing), A Quarrelling Pair, Apples and Ladders (with Aphids), Black Medea (with Company B Belvoir), Malthouse Theatre/Arena Theatre: Moth, Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd, and Criminology. Other Theatre: Arena: Star Chaser, Melbourne Theatre Co: The Heretic, The Seed, Clybourne Park, Life Without Me. Fragment 31: Irony Is Not Enough. fortyfivedownstairs: Bare Witness. Encyclopaedia of Animals: Urchin. Company B Belvoir: Antigone, Pillowman. Stuck Pigs Squealing: The Apocalypse Bear Trilogy, Windmill: The Wizard Of Oz & Pinocchio. Rawcus: Small Odysseys, The Heart Of Another Is A Dark Forest, Hunger (in collaboration with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) and Another Lament (with Chamber Made). Dance: Lucy Guerin: Human Interest Story. Australia Dance Theatre: Zero Sum, Slack. Film: Van Dieman’s Land, Hell’s Gates, The Heartbreak Tour (for SBS). Music: Cordrazine, SFC. Jethro has received Green Room Award for his work on Say Goodbye To Vaudeville Charlie Mudd, Moth & Irony is Not Enough.


MERLYN QUAIFE: ONE ON ONE

Director Matthew Lutton

Lighting Design Lucy Birkinshaw

Performed by Merlyn Quaife & Caroline Almonte (Piano)


of Music with cellist Pieter Wispelwey. She also featured in Musica Viva’s Huntington Estate Music Festival in November, performing with cellist Guy Johnston and baritone Thomas Meglioranza. She has won numerous awards including winner of the keyboard section of the ABC Young Performer’s Awards, the Frances Quinn Arts Encouragement Award, the Hepzibah Menuhin Award, and 1st prize at the international chamber music competition in Trieste, Italy, Trio di Trieste.

LUCY BIRKINSHAWLIGHTING DESIGNER

Lucy graduated from WAAPA (Advanced Diploma of Lighting Design for Production and Performance)

and Curtin University (Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts) and is a co-founder of the Filament Design Group. Lucy’s design work spans theatre, music theatre, concert lighting, opera, dance, film and television. Lucy’s designs include Happiness, Africa (Malthouse Theatre) The Seizure, Delectable Shelter, Spring Awakening (The Hayloft Project), flowerchildren, The Hatpin, A Jerry Herman Triptych (Magnormos) Becks Music Box 2009 - 2011 (Perth International Arts Festival), The Pride, Taking Liberty, Matchmaker, Baby Boomer Blues, Dealers Choice (Perth Theatre Company) The Messiah, Woyzeck, Falling Petals (Black Swan Theatre Company). In 2009, she was nominated for a Green Room Award for her design for Life’s a Circus (Magnormos) in the Musical Theatre Category. Lucy is the resident lighting designer for Magnormos, an independent producer of musical theatre in Melbourne.

MERLYN QUAIFEPERFORMER

A performer of great versatility, Merlyn has performed opera, oratorio, lieder, chamber music and

contemporary music to great acclaim throughout Australia and Europe. She has also performed with the Singapore Symphony and the Voronesz Philharmonic in Russia. Merlyn has appeared with Opera Australia and the state opera companies in roles ranging from the bel canto Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor to the minimalist Chiang Ch’ing in Nixon in China. With the major Australian symphony orchestras, she has featured in repertoire of every conceivable style from Handel to Ligeti. Merlyn has recorded a number of CDs (Naxos, Move, Tall Poppies, ABC Classics), including Aria for John Edward Eyre by David Lumsdaine, which won her a Sounds Australia Award. In 2010, Merlyn created the role of Betty in Brett Dean’s Bliss for Opera Australia in Sydney, Melbourne and at the Edinburgh Festival. 2011 included First Lady (The Magic Flute) for Victorian Opera and a performance of Brett Dean’s Wolf Lieder and Webern’s Four Lieder Op. 13 with the MSO. In 2012, her engagements include the Overseer (Elektra) for West Australian Opera, Les Noces with WASO, appearances at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville, and concerts with vocal ensemble Songmakers Australia.

CAROLINE ALMONTEPERFORMER

Widely acknowledged as one of Australia’s foremost pianists, Caroline has a reputation as

a gifted, versatile and sensitive artist. She completed her postgraduate studies at the Juilliard School in New York and since then, Caroline has developed a wide-ranging career of solo and chamber music performances that has taken her across Australia and around the world. 2011 was a busy year for Caroline, which saw her taking part in performances at the Adelaide International Cello Festival and the Dunkeld Weekend

MATTHEW LUTTONDIRECTOR

Matthew is an Associate Artist (Direction) for the Malthouse Theatre. Past works for Malthouse include

Die Winterreise, The Trial and Tartuffe. For Sydney Theatre Company Matthew has directed The Duel and The Mysteries: Genesis, for Belvoir Street Theatre Tom Holloway’s Love Me Tender, and for Griffin Theatre Company Don’t Say the Words. In 2011, he directed the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka’s new opera, Make No Noise, for the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and in 2012 Richard Strauss’s Elektra for West Australian Opera, Opera Australia and the Perth International Arts Festival.


REDFERNProduced by Short Black Opera Company

Director Cameron Menzies

Composition Deborah Cheetham (Soprano)

Musical Director Toni Lalich (Piano)

Performed by Deborah Cheetham, Toni Lalich, Stephen Grant & Tiriki Onus

Stage Manager Tia Clark


DEBORAH CHEETHAMCOMPOSITION

Deborah, Yorta Yorta woman, Soprano, composer and author, has established her place as an artist in

great demand. Since her international debut in 1997, she has performed in the theatre and concert halls of the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and throughout Australia. In April 2007, Deborah was awarded a two-year Fellowship from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. This fellowship allowed her to create Australia’s first Indigenous opera, Pecan Summer. In 2010, she brought together Australia’s first classically trained Indigenous ensemble to present the world premiere of Pecan Summer. In the same year she was a finalist for Australian of the year in Victoria. The success of Pecan Summer has led Deborah to create Short Black Opera, a national not-for-profit opera company devoted to the development of Indigenous opera singers. In September 2011, she was appointed as Head of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts at the Faculty of the VCA and MCM of the University of Melbourne.

STEPHEN GRANTPERFORMER

Stephen, a bass-baritone, was born in Montreal, Canada. He studied organ and voice in

Canada before moving to Germany in 1987 to begin singing professionally. There he established working relationships with some of Europe’s best-known early music ensembles — among them Sequentia, the Ferrara Ensemble, Ensemble Organum de Paris, the Huelgas Ensemble and others, performing widely and making over 20 CD recordings. His interest in varied repertoires has led him to perform a broad range of music including opera (Cosi fan tutte, Orfeo, La Serva Padrona, Pimpinone, The Emperor of Atlantis), premieres of contemporary works

by Saariaho (Paris), Fritsch (Bonn), Staub (Göteborg and Saarbrücken), as well as lied and oratorio repertoire. He is part of the original cast of the Deborah Cheetham opera, Pecan Summer, which premiered in Australia 2010. Stephen is the founder/director of the Melbourne-based vocal ensemble e21 and is currently Convenor of Voice and Convenor for Early Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne.

TONI LALICHPERFORMER

Toni has worked as an accompanist in Melbourne for the past 18 years, performing with professional

singers and instrumentalists. After completing undergraduate studies in Western Australia, Toni studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. On her return to Australia she completed her Post Graduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts. Toni has made recordings for the ABC and 3MBS and regularly performs in recital with Deborah Cheetham. Recent performances have included recitals in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, New York and Europe. In 2011, Toni accepted the position of Company Manager for Short Black Opera and continues with her role as company vocal coach.

CAMERON MENZIESDIRECTOR

Cameron has worked in opera, music theatre and theatre with Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, The

Opera Studio Melbourne, Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Australian National Academy of Music, Oper Köln and the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Cameron is the recipient of the 2011 Berlin New Music Opera Award from Opera Foundation Australia and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, the 2008 Bayreuth Opera Award from Opera Foundation Australia; The Besen Family Artist Program (Direction), Malthouse Theatre

and currently holds the position of Artistic Director for Opera in the Park for City of Stonnington and Head of Direction at The Opera Studio, Melbourne. Cameron has recently been appointed to the Opera Panel for the prestigious Green Room Awards. 2012 sees Cameron direct the full version of the new Australian opera CONTACT! – A Netball Opera for Arts Centre Melbourne and Regional Tour, La Cenerentola for Victorian Opera, The Magic Flute for Schools Company OZOpera, Opera Australia, and assistant direct Le Nozze di Figaro for Victorian Opera, and Eugene Onegin for The Opera Studio Melbourne at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Cameron is also in the creative process creating and directing a new series of works for Malcolm Cooke and Associates

TIRIKI ONUSPERFORMER

Tiriki began his Bachelor of Music Performance (Voice) at VCA in 2009. In 2011, Tiriki received

the Grace Durling Encouragement Award from the Friends of the VCA, and the Harold Blair Opera Scholarship from the Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust. While working part-time as the community engagement coordinator for the Wilin Centre, Tiriki is also pursuing his art through continued vocal coaching and tuitions and regular performances with Short Black Opera Company. His next major performance is the Perth opening of Pecan Summer in August 2012, followed by an artist-in-residence choral performance with Kwaya in Uganda.

Malthouse Theatre & Victorian Opera presents

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD

Musical Director Richard Gill Director of Improvisation Casey Bennetto Tenor Carlos Bárcenas Tenor Timothy Reynolds Bass Jeremy Kleeman


CASEY BENNETTODIRECTOR OF IMPROVISATION

Casey has been writing for and performing in many projects over the last decade, from 2002’s

Northcote Country Soul to his recent score for the ABC series Lowdown. He is probably most well-known for composing the 2005 country soul opera KEATING! Other works include Australia On $400 A Fortnight, A Largely Fanciful History Of The Spiegeltent and the cabaret Evening. Casey has worked as a dramaturg (on Eddie Perfect’s Shane Warne The Musical), as a theatrical sound designer (on Ross Mueller’s Construction Of The Human Heart, among others), as a sound and lighting operator (on Jane Bodie’s Ride, among others) and, recently, as Santa Claus and the Devil (on the ABC’s Spicks And Specks). Often found nowadays fronting the Half-Arsed Three, he has also had the privilege of performing with Kamahl, Meow Meow, Tripod, Tim Minchin, Spontaneous Broadway and many more. For Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera he appeared in The Threepenny Opera as Tiger Brown.

CARLOS BÁRCENASTENOR

Carlos was born in Colombia and has a Bachelor Degree in Marine Biology to go with his Bachelor

of Music Performance (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne). His Victorian Opera repertoire includes Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola for Education Program, Moomba Opening Night Concert and Master of Music (Opera Performance) student recital. He has been a member of the Victorian Opera Chorus since 2008, and in 2011 was part of regional concert From Opera to Broadway touring around Victoria. In August will sing the title role in Master Peter’s Puppet Show. For other companies: King Alexander, in Il Re Pastore with Melbourne Lyric Opera (2008) and Don Jose in Carmen with In Good Company (2010). Michael in Deborah Cheetham’s new opera Pecan Summer with Short Black Opera (2010 & 2011).

Sigmund & Siegfried in MTO’s production of THE RING - Wagner Animated conducted and arrange by David Kram. Carlos has been awarded the Keith G Chapman Memorial Scholarship and the Sleath Lowrey Award.

TIA CLARKSTAGE MANAGER

Credits for Malthouse Theatre: A Golem Story, Baal (with Sydney Theatre Company). Other credits

include: Belvoir: Every Breath. Victorian Opera: The Rake’s Progress. Entertainment Store Group: Scooby Doo Live 2011 Tour. The Production Company: The King and I, The Boy From Oz, Sugar (Some Like It Hot), Anything Goes, Kismet, Grey Gardens. Victorian Arts Centre: The Marriage of Figaro, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Buzz Dance Theatre: At The Beach, Behind The Veneer. Spontaneous Insanity: The Hidden Forest. Shakespeare WA: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. WA Ballet: The Nutcracker. Events: VicMoves 2010, Pipe Organ Plus Concerts, WA Youth Week Launch 2008, Northbridge Festival 2007. Education: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Stage Management).

RICHARD GILLMUSICAL DIRECTOR

Richard is one of Australia’s pre-eminent and most admired conductors specialising in opera, musical

theatre and vocal and choral training and is internationally respected as a music educator. He is Music Director of Victorian Opera and also Artistic Director of the Education Program for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He has been Artistic Director of OzOpera, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and the Adviser for the Musica Viva In Schools program. He has received numerous accolades, including the Bernard Heinze Award. Victorian Opera repertoire: Opera: The Rake’s Progress, The Magic Flute, How to Kill Your Husband, the double bill The Bear/Angelique, Julius Caesar,

Don Giovanni, Ariadne auf Naxos, Cosi fan Tutte, Threepenny Opera, The Parrot Factory, The Cockatoos, the world premiere of Rembrandt’s wife, Cinderella: a pantomime, Noyes Fludde, The Snow Queen, Metamorphosis. Concert: Viva Verdi Gala concerts, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Damnation of Faust, Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Requiem, St John Passion, Les Noces/Oedipus Rex, and Sing Your Own Opera. Other Companies: All the major Australian opera companies and orchestras as well as Sydney Philharmonia, Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Australian, Sydney, and Western Australian Youth Orchestras. Recordings: Discovery with Sydney Symphony (ABC Classics, 2007).

JEREMY KLEEMANBASS

Jeremy is a Graduate of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne,

2011. His Victorian Opera repertoire includes Soloist for Sing Your Own Opera, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola for Education Program, Moomba Opening Night Concert and Master of Music (Opera Performance) student recital, and Soloist in Assembly. For other companies: Concerts with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic and Australian Boys Choir. Concert repertoire includes Bass soloist: Fauré Requiem, Schubert Mass in G. Jeremy has been a recipient of the Victor Fox Award, Lady Turner Exhibition in Music, Cassidy Bequest, Harold Fisher Opera Scholarship B’Nai B’rith, Lady Turner Exhibition in Music, Muriel Cheek Memorial Scholarship and was an Awardee of the Acclaim Sleath Lowrey Scholarship 2012.

TIMOTHY REYNOLDSTENOR

Timothy graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University

of Melbourne) in 2007 and a Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching from University of Melbourne in 2009. Member of The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne from 2002-2008. His Victorian Opera repertoire includes Soloist: Sing Your Own Opera, Prince’s Messager in La Cenerentola for Education Program, Moomba Opening Night Concert and Master of Music (Opera Performance) student recital; Narrator: Coffee Cantata – Baroque Triple Bill; Soloist: Sing Your Own Messiah; Chorus: Oedipus Rex, Puccini: The Sacred and the Profane, Seven Last Words From The Cross, Carmina Burana, The Damnation of Faust. For other companies: Chorus: Fledermaus, Tosca, Rigoletto, Les pêcheurs de perles, Macbeth, La bohème; (Opera Australia); Gaston: La traviata; Chorus: Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Tosca; (Melbourne Opera). Concert repertoire includes: Bach’s St Johannes Passion (arias); La Recitant: Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ; Bach’s B Minor Mass; Handel’s Messiah; Mozart Mass in C minor, Requiem; Soloist for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Ludovico’s Band, the Consort of Melbourne, the National Boys Choir, Gloriana and The Choir of St James King St.

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Anonymous (1) THALIA (MUSE OF COMEDY)

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Tom Wright, Anonymous (1)EUTERPE (MUSE OF MUSIC)

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Simon Westcott (Chair), Frankie Airey, John Daley, Michele Levine, Ian McRae, Thea Snow, Sigrid Thornton, Kerri Turner, Leonard Vary.

Artistic Director Marion PottsExecutive Producer Jo Porter

Associate Artist – Design Paul JacksonAssociate Artist – Direction Matthew LuttonAssociate Artist – Writing Van BadhamDirector in Residence Adena Jacobs

Company Managers Nina Bonacci Lucy Birkinshaw Sioban Tuke Associate Producer Josh WrightAdministrator Narda ShanleyFinance Manager Mario AgostinoniFinance Administrator Liz White Finance Assistant Connie StellaMarketing and Communications Manager Lisa SciclunaPhilanthropy Manager Tamara HarrisonDigital Strategy & Marketing Coordinator Carl Nilsson-PoliasDevelopment Manager Jaclyn BirtchnellMedia Manager Maria O’DwyerTicketing Manager Emma HowardTicketing Assistant Lauren WhiteYouth and Education Program Clare WatsonExecutive Assistant Emily FioriAudience DevelopmentConsultant Jason TamiruBuilding Manager Peter ManderslootBar Manager Cherry RiversFront of House Managers Tristan Watson & Sean Ladhams

Production Manager David MillerTechnical Manager Baird McKennaOperations Manager Dexter VarleyProduction Coordinator Lucy BirkinshawHead Electricians Michele Bauer & Stewart Birkinshaw CampbellHead Mechanist Andy MooreHead of Wardrobe Amanda CarrWardrobe Assistant Chloe GreavesWorkshop Supervisor David CraigSteel Fabricator Goffredo MameliScenic Artist Patrick JonesProps Master Ross Murray (lifetime recognition)

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Malthouse Theatre would like to acknowledge the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this work is being presented.

Vale Marc Psaila, our Company Manager, much loved and greatly missed.

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