Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

Eamon Flack

Eamon Flack is the Artistic Director of Belvoir St Theatre. He was born in Singapore and grew up in Singapore, Darwin, Cootamundra and Brisbane. He trained as an actor at WAAPA from 2001 to 2003 and has since worked as a director and writer around Australia and internationally, from the Tiwi Islands to Sri Lanka, London and New York. 

His directing credits for Belvoir include: Counting and Cracking (with Associate Director S. Shakthidharan, Helpmann Award for Best Play and Best Direction of a Play), The Jungle and the Sea (co-directed with S. Shakthidharan, Sydney Theatre Award for Best Play), The Master and Margarita, Angels in America (Helpmann Award for Best Play), August: Osage County (Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Director and Best Show), The Glass Menagerie (Helpmann Award for Best Play), Tommy Murphy’s Packer & Sons, Rita Kalnejais’s Babyteeth, Alana Valentine’s Wayside Bride (co-directed with Hannah Goodwin), Tom Wright’s adaptation of Brecht’s Life of Galileo, Eamon’s own adaptations of Helen Garner’s The Spare Room, Hendrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Ivanov (Sydney Theatre Awards Best Production and Best Director), as well as Into the Woods, The Rover, The Blind Giant is Dancing, As You Like It, and Beckett’s The End. Other directing credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bob Presents/B Sharp) and Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui by Jason de Santis (Darwin Festival). 

His writing and adaptation credits include: Associate Writer of S. Shakthidharan’s Counting and Cracking (Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Victorian Literary Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama, Helpmann for Best New Work), co-writer with S. Shakthidharan of The Jungle and the Sea (Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama, Sydney Theatre Awards for Best New Work); Helen Garner’s The Spare Room; a stage adaptation of Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children; Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Ivanov, Gorky’s Summerfolk, Sophocles’ Antigone and Ibsen’s Ghosts; co-adapter with Leah Purcell of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s memoir Don’t Take Your Love To Town; and co-deviser of Beautiful One Day with artists from ILBIJERRI, version 1.0, and the community of Palm Island. 

 For orchestral concert he has adapted and directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream alongside Mendelssohn’s score for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Belvoir St Theatre conducted by Simone Young, and directed and co-created Beethoven and Bridgetower with Anna Goldsworthy, Rita Dove and Richard Tognetti for the Australian Chamber Orchestra. 

Paula Arundell

Theatre: Belvoir; Sami In Paradise, Atlantis, Mr Burns, Mother Courage, Angels in America, Peter Pan, Gethsemane, Scorched, Snuggle Pot and Cuddlepie, Paul, Peribanez, The Three Penny Opera, Michael Cassel Group; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Sydney Theatre Company; Top Girls, The Bleeding Tree, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Disgraced, Suddenly Last Summer, Macbeth, Under Milk Wood, Honour, Black Bird, Love Lies Bleeding, Julius Caeser, Life is a Dream, Three Sisters, Attempts On Her Life, The White Devil, Love For Love, The Mirage, Melbourne Theatre Company; Company, Measure for Measure, Griffin Theatre; The Bleeding Tree, Clark in Sarajevo, Malthouse Theatre; The Real And Imagined History of the Elephant Man, Ensemble Theatre; Clybourne Park, Are You There, Interactive World Theatre, Sydney Festival; Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms, Three Furies, South Australia Theatre Company;  Night Letters, The Torrens, Bell Shakespeare; Servant of Two Masters, Hippolytus, Antony and Cleopatra, Henry V, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Stc New York; The White Devil, Australia Museum; SPIDERS FROM MARS, Mardi Gras; ELEGIES FOR PUNKS, ANGELS AND RAGING QUEENS. Film: Late Night With The Devil, Sleeping Dogs, Harmony, Gods Of Egypt, Disgrace, Bad Eggs, Sample People, Diana And Me. Television: The Newsreader, Surviving Summer, Neighbours, Clickbait, Reckoning, Top Of The Lake: China Girl, Hunters, Time Of Our Lives, Slide, Me And My Monsters, All Saints, Home And Away, Out Of The Blue, The Alice, Love My Way, All Saints, Farscape, Murder Call, Children’s Hospital, Water Rats.

Paula received a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Female Actor for her work in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. She won a Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor, received a Green Room Award nomination and a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for her performance in The Bleeding Tree. She received a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Three Furies; a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Female Actor in a Musical for Three Penny Opera; a Green Room Award nomination for Female Actor in a lead role and a Sydney Morning Herald Award for Best Actress for her performance in Antony And Cleopatra; a Green Room Award for Female Actor in a Featured Role and a Glugg Award for Best Up and Coming Actor for Henry V; and the Green Room Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role for The Tempest.

Marco Chiappi

Marco is an accomplished theatre performer with many credits to his name across Australia.

Previous Belvoir Theatre credits include The Master and Margarita, Wayside Bridge/Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Bliss (a Belvoir co-production with Malthouse). Other theatre credits include A Model Murder (Sydney Festival), an Australian tour of Death of a Salesman (5 Minute Call), A View from the Bridge, The Father; His Girl Friday; Grapes of Wrath; Macbeth; The Rover; Dealer’s Choice; A Doll’s House; Closer; Death of a Salesman; Duchess of Malfi; Tempest (for Melbourne Theatre Company). Away, Love & Information (co-productions between STC and Malthouse); Pygmalion; Jerusalem (Sydney Theatre Company). Edward II; Woyzeck; A Pacific Union; Jerusalem (Malthouse). Phedre; Hamlet; Merchant of Venice; Richard III (Bell Shakespeare). The Lower Depths; Ninth Moon; Funniest Man in the World; Scissors; Paper; Rock (Keene/Taylor), Popcorn (Black Swan). Torrez (Griffin Theatre). The Misanthrope; The Real Thing; Noises Off; The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (STCSA). Dreamers; The Lower Depths (Fortyfive Downstairs). Reckless (Theatreworks).

Television: Wentworth, Deadline Gallipoli; Parer’s War; Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries; Upper Middle Bogan; The Mystery of the Hansom Cab. Film: Holding the Man; The Boy Castaways; Amy; Mr Reliable.
Marco is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Gareth Davies

Belvoir: The Rover, Peter Pan, As You Like It, The Government Inspector (with Malthouse Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Seagull, And They Called Him Mr Glamour, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sydney Theatre Company: The Importance of Being Ernest, Home, I’m Darling, The Torrents, How to Rule the World, Saint Joan. Melbourne Theatre Company: Hay Fever, The Cherry Orchard. Queensland Theatre: Bernhardt/hamlet. Griffin Theatre Company: The Literati, Feather in the Web. Bell Shakespeare: As You Like It.  Ensemble Theatre: The Benefactors, Nearer the Gods. The Hayloft Project: The Only Child, The Suicide, 3xSisters. Black Lung: Rubeville, Avast I & II, Doku Rai, I Feel Awful. Redline: Masterclass, Masterclass 2: Flames of the Forget. Film: Elvis, Peter Rabbit, Little Monsters, The Daughter, I am Woman. TV: Wolf Like Me, Rosehaven, Frayed, The Letdown, Hunters, The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting.

Emma Diaz

Emma Diaz is an actor and producer based in Sydney. A graduate of WAAPA Acting, her theatre credits include Blessed Union (Belvoir), The
Great Divide (Ensemble), On The Beach (Sydney Theatre Company), The Crucible (Sport for Jove), Hamlet (Bell Shakespeare), Nautilus (Monkey Baa Theatre Company), and Hitler’s Daughter (Monkey Baa Theatre Company). Emma’s notable TV/film credits include After the Verdict (Nine Network), Bump (Stan), Pieces of Her (Netflix), Isaac’s Dream (Triangle Films), Diary of an Uber Driver (ABC) and Friends and Strangers, which was selected in the British Film Institute’s Top 50 Films of 2021 and is streaming on MUBI and SBS. Notable short film credits include Smoko Porno and Water – for which she was nominated ‘Best Performance by an Actress’ at the WA Screen Awards. Emma is also production management graduate of AFTRS, and as a producer has worked with Belvoir St Theatre, Projector Films, Goalpost Pictures, Acuity Films and Co-curious. In 2017 Emma created Aya Productions and has presented independent work at ATYP, Belvoir 25A, Kings X Theatre and the Old Fitz Theatre. Emma is represented by Linsten Management.

Alan Dukes

For theatre, Alan has appeared in THE PRESIDENT, HAY FEVER, KING LEAR, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, NOISES OFF, THE WHITE GUARD, TRUE WEST, THE GREAT, DEAD CAESAR, THE UNLIKELY PROSPECT OF HAPPINESS (Sydney Theatre Company), THIS MUCH IS TRUE, MERCY THIEVES (Redline Productions / Old Fitz), AS YOU LIKE IT (Bell Shakespeare), CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Company B), CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION, MARY STUART (Ensemble Theatre), SHINING CITY, ALIVE AT WILLIAMSTOWN PIER (Griffin Theatre Company), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), BRILLIANT MONKEY, RUBY’S LAST DOLLAR and LAST CAB TO DARWIN (Pork Chop Productions).

Film credits include Thomas M. Wright’s THE STRANGER,  HEARTS AND BONES, LAST CAB TO DARWIN,  BOOK WEEK, THE LITTLE DEATH and BENEATH HILL 60. Alan was also the voice of Brett in the acclaimed documentary WHITELEY.

Alan’s television credits include RETURN TO PARADISE (BBC Studios), BUMP (Roadshow), FIVE BEDROOMS (Paramount Plus), LAST KING OF THE CROSS (Paramount Plus), SIGNIFICANT OTHERS (ABC), WOLF LIKE ME (Peacock), OPERATION BUFFALO (ABC), THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS(DCD), DOCTOR DOCTOR (Channel Nine), NO ACTIVITY (Stan), and JACK IRISH (ABC)

Meg Hyeronimus

Meg Hyeronimus is a graduate of the Academy of Film, Theatre and Television and the Stella Adler Academy of Acting, Hollywood. Meg’s recent theatre credits include Scenes from the Climate Era (Belvoir), SHITTY, (Essential Workers, Belvoir 25a), GRAVY, (MERAK), Mortel (MERAK), Cherry Smoke (CrissCross Productions), The Dazzle (Corvus Arts Theatre), Arthur and Marilyn (Dinosaurus Productions), Doing (Puddle or Pond). Meg was the recipient of ‘Best Actress’ at the 2017 Short and Sweet Festival for Arthur and Marilyn, in Sydney and Hollywood.

Nadie Kammallaweera

Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Nadie Kammallaweera is a theatre, film, and television actor. She has acted in stage plays, movies, and television dramas. Nadie’s recent work as an actor in Australia includes The Wrong Gods (2025), Counting and Cracking (2024), Jungle and the Sea (2022), Counting and Cracking (2019), Cherry Orchard (2021) by Belvoir Street Theatre, Wakefield (ABC TV Series), and Bump (Stan Australia TV Series). Her theatre credits elsewhere include Kalumali for the Stage Theatre Group Colombo; The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Mother Courage and Her Children for Somalatha Subasinghe Play House Colombo. Her television credits overseas include The Young Pope for HBO, The New Pope for HBO, and Bedde Kulawamiya for SLRC (Sri Lanka). Nadie’s feature films include Asoka Handagama’s This is My Moon, Prasanna Vithanage’s August Sun, Visakesa Chandrasekaram’s Pangshu, Malith Hegoda’s Strange Familiar, and Fabrizio Costa’s Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Nadie won the Green Room Award for Outstanding Performance for Counting and Cracking (2025). Some of the awards Nadie has won in Sri Lanka are Best Supporting Actress in a Movie (2021), Best Actress in a Series (2018), Presidential Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role (2005), Best Upcoming Actress (Movie) (2004 and 2003), and the BUNKA Award of Recognition for Valuable Contribution to Sri Lankan Theatre.

Nadie is currently based in Sydney.

Colin Moody

Colin Moody is a professional actor and NIDA graduate with three decades of experience, working extensively in theatre across the continent, as well as many television and film projects.

Feature film credits include PETER RABBIT 2: THE RUNAWAY, BROTHERS BY BLOOD, PETER RABBIT 1 & 2, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, THE FEDS: TERROR, KANSAS and NO ESCAPE. 

TV series credits include SUMMER OF ROCKETS (BBC), THE ALIENIST (TNT), MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES (AMG), DEADLINE GALLIPOLI (Nine Network) and GALLIPOLI (Foxtel), PARTY TRICKS (Southern Star), SMALLTIME GANGSTER (Movie Network), WICKED SCIENCE (Disney Channel), STINGERS (AXN), PIRATE ISLANDS (FOX BOX),MARSHALL LAW (Seven Network), MDA (ABC), SOMETHING IN THE AIR (ABC), WILDSIDE (ABC), BIG SKY (Southern Star), RETURN TO JUPITER, SNOWY RIVER: THE MCGREGOR SAGA (Family Channel), G.P. (ABC), THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL (ABC), THE FLYING DOCTORS (Nine Network), MIMI GOES TO THE ANALYST and A COUNTRY PRACTICE (Seven Network).

For theatre, Colin’s credits include THE SECRET RIVER (Sydney Theatre Company / Edinburgh/London), RESISTABLE RISE OF ARTURO UI, KING LEAR, ROMEO & JULIET, THE CITY, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, THE ART OF WAR, MACBETH (Sydney Theatre Company), GHOSTS, FORGET ME NOT (Belvoir Street Theatre), MEASURE FOR MEASURE, 2000 FEET AWAY (Company B), ANTIGONE (Thin Ice), KING LEAR and GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Melbourne Theatre Company). 

Not so long ago, Colin gave the definitive ‘Jacob’ in JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at the Oylegate Community Hall in Eire.

Daniel R. Nixon

Daniel is recognized for his work in the lead role of Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime at Belvoir; a portrayal that won him Best Newcomer at the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards.  He is also known for originating the title role of “Drizzle Boy” in Queensland Theatre Company’s premiere production of Drizzle Boy in 2023, a role that he reprised for a national tour in 2024. 

A proud neurodivergent actor, Daniel is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre. Since immigrating to Perth from Bournemouth (England), Daniel studied a Certificate IV in Music Theatre at WAAPA in 2016 before relocating in 2017 to Melbourne to commence his BFA training at the VCA.

Whilst training, his credits include “Willy”/”Harry” (Understudy) in Flora: The Red Menace (dir. Jason Langley), “Tommy”/Ensemble in A Chorus Line (dir. Tyran Parke), “Miss Turnstiles MC”/ Ensemble in On The Town (dir. Adam Mitchell) and was also a featured soloist for the Arts Centre Melbourne’s Morning Melodies at Hamer Hall in 2018 (dir. Margot Fenley) and 2019 (dir. Jayde Kirchert).

Following his graduation Daniel has also appeared as “Mr.McQueen” in Urinetown (dir. Mark Taylor) at Melbourne’s premiere independent theatre venue, Chapel Off Chapel and also as “Oliver” in As You Like It (dir. Jennifer Sarah Dean)with the Melbourne Shakespeare Company.

Onscreen he can be seen in the role of Albert Barton for ABC’s Goolagong, and in ABC’s Newsreader S3 as Jack.  He has also narrated a number of audiobooks including the popular My Nanna Is A Ninja.

Daniel is the grateful recipient of the 2018 Cassidy Bequest Scholarship for excellence in Music Theatre at the VCA and is also an active MEAA diversity and disability Equity member.

Pamela Rabe

Pamela’s most recent Belvoir credits include THE CHERRY ORCHARD, DANCE OF DEATH, GHOSTS and THE GLASS MENAGERIE. From over 100 productions, other theatre highlights include THE CHILDREN, LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, GREY GARDENS, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, PRIVATE LIVES, A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE WIZARD OF OZ and, while a founding member of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Actors’ Ensemble, several acclaimed productions including MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, Benedict Andrews’ THE WAR OF THE ROSES, THE SEASON AT SARSAPARILLA, and Barry Kosky’s THE LOST ECHO. She has recently returned from
performing in the National Theatre UK/Alexander Zeldin Company’s production of THE CONFESSIONS in London and throughout Europe. Pamela has also directed plays for the Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company and the Malthouse Theatre.

Her work in television includes THE SECRET LIFE OF US, FUCKING ADELAIDE, ROSEHAVEN, DEADLOCH, BAY OF FIRES and WENTWORTH. She has appeared in several feature films including SIRENS, PARADISE ROAD, VACANT POSSESSION, COSI, and THE WELL.

Pamela has received many accolades for her theatre, film and television work, including Helpmann, Green Room, Logie, Variety Club, Stockholm Film Festival and AFI/AACTRA awards and she was recently recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her distinguished services to the Arts.

Ziggy Resnick 

Belvoir: Feminazi, Gary Gary Gary Gary. STC: The Shiralee. Bell Shakespeare: Henry 5, The Bell Players. Fortyfivedownstairs: Rumbleskin. Sport for Jove: Much Ado About Nothing. Red Line Productions: Bugalugs Bum Thief. The Old Fitz: Probe, The Eisteddford. National Theatre of Parramatta: Girls in Boys’ Cars. Theatreworks: Pear Shaped. Griffin Theatre Company: A is for Apple. Outhouse Theatre Co: How To Defend Yourself. Midsumma Festival: Trash Pop Butterflies Dance Dance Paradise. Opera Australia: Ermani. Short Film: Billie and Jesse (Thousand Mile Productions), Oi (CIMP Productions), Real Bright Hand (Bree-Anne Sykes)

Bruce Spence

Bruce Spence began acting in 1969 as an inaugural member of the revolutionary Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory Theatre in Melbourne. Sydney Theatre Co: includes; Into The Shimmering World, The Importance of Being Ernest, Death of a Salesman, Rules for Living, A Cheery Soul, The Harp in the South, Dinner, The Secret River, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Endgame, Cyrano De Bergerac, Under Milkwood, Push 10 Kittenbone Bridge, The White Devil, As You Like It, Mixed Doubles, Macbeth. Stables Theatre Co: The Marvellous Boy. Melbourne Theatre Co: includes; Twelfth Night, Sunday Lunch, The Servant of Two Masters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Film: includes; Children of the Corn, The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, Love and Monsters, The Dry, Winchester, Occupation, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Backtrack, Gods of Egypt, I Frankenstein, Mystery Road, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Aquamarine, Solo, Peter Pan, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Inspector Gadget 2, The Matrix Revolutions, The Lord of the Rings, Queen of the Damned, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max II: The Road Warrior, The Cars That Ate Paris. Television: includes; The Twelve S3, Ten Pound Poms, The Tourist, Back to the Rafters, True Story with Hamish & Andy, Rake, Legend of the Seeker S1 & S2, City Homicide, All Saints, Double the Fist, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, The Murray Whelan Series. Awards: Equity Lifetime Achievement Award 2024.

Romanie Harper

Romanie Is a set and costume designer based in Melbourne. Her recent design credits include The Cherry Orchard, Packer and Sons (Belvoir Street Theatre), Sunshine Super Girl (Sydney Festival and Performing Lines), Runt (fortyfive downstairs), What Am I Supposed to Do? and Equinox (Deep Souful Sweats), Australian Realness, Trustees, Good Muslim Boy, Little Emperors and Turbine (Malthouse), The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You (MTC), Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!, We All Know Whats Happening and Never Trust A Creative City (Arts House), Contest and Moral Panic (Darebin Speakeasy), Bottomless, This Is Eden, Resident Alien and Triumph (fortyfive downstairs), Conviction (ZLMD Shakespeare), M+M (Daniel Schlusser Ensemble), The Sovereign Wife (Sisters Grimm, NEON), META (Malthouse Helium), The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and Bright World (Theatre Works), and Madonna Arms (Next Wave). In New York she has worked with The Wooster Group, and co-designed Radiohole’s Inflatable Frankenstein (The Kitchen).

Morgan Moroney

Morgan Moroney is an award-winning lighting and video designer for theatre, opera, dance and installation. Growing up on Kaurna land, he currently lives and works primarily on Gadigal land.

Morgan’s work includes: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, KING LEAR, SONG OF FIRST DESIRE and NAYIKA: A DANCING GIRL (Belvoir), SHITTY (Belvoir 25A), APHRODITE (Sydney Chamber Opera), DIDO & AENEAS, LA SERVA PADRONA (Pinchgut Opera), FLY GIRL, THE QUEEN’S NANNY, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER and CLYDE’S (Ensemble), THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Opera Australia National Tour), TURN OF THE SCREW (Hayes Theatre Co),CLEANSED (Redline),  INFERNO (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra),CAMP (Siren Theatre Co), ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE (Sugary Rum), THE DRY and THE WET (Circa Cairns), SAPLINGS and SHACK (ATYP) and COLLAPSIBLE (essential workers), which he also co-directed.


Morgan is a NIDA graduate. In 2025, he was awarded the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Artist Grant and Freddie J Gibson Fellowship to travel to London with Nick Schlieper alongside Kip Williams’ DRACULA on the West End.  Morgan’s Associate Designer work includes PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ON SYDNEY HARBOUR (Opera Australia) and MAUREEN: HARBINGER OF DEATH (Soft Tread).

Morgan has received the 2024 Michael Northen Award for emerging Lighting Designers, administered by the Association for Lighting Production and Design in the UK, 2023 Sydney Theatre Award in Best Independent Lighting Design, NIDA X Storytelling Futures Grant and APDG Award in Lighting Design, and 2020 APDG Emerging Designer for Live Performance.

Ella Butler

Ella is a Sydney-based Production and Costume Designer for theatre, film and live performance. Informed by her beginnings in theatre, Ella’s work has evolved through contrived spaces, searching for the extraordinary found in the everyday.

Ella’s work as Costume Designer at Belvoir includes August: Osage County, Tell Me I’m Here, The Weekend and Scenes From the Climate Era. Her costumes examine character with an urban melancholy. Currently, her work can be seen in the national tour of RENT; The Musical, directed by Shaun Rennie coming to Opera Australia in 2025.

Productions where Ella has worked as both Set and Costume Designer include The Comeuppance (Red Stitch), Dubbo Championship Wrestling (The Hayes), LOVE (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), First Love Is The Revolution and Wherever She Wanders (Griffin Theatre Company).


In film, Ella worked as the Costume and Production Designer for CATSinAM, The Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Nurses and Midwives, for In Our Own Right; recounting Black Australian Nurses’ and Midwives Stories.

In commercial as Production Designer, her clients include Google, Woolworths, Officeworks and James Squire.

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

Alyx Dennison

Alyx Dennison is a singer, composer and sound designer living and working on Gadigal Land. She is a fierce advocate for equality in education and the arts, with a particular interest in work which illuminates (and works to dissolve) systems of class, power and hierarchy.

She cut her teeth on experimental pop duo kyü, who toured extensively and released two critically acclaimed albums (Popfrenzy/Inertia) before disbanding in 2012. She continued her study of classical and experimental vocal traditions abroad as well as some studies in Interactive Composition at the VCA before joining Nick Wales’ ensemble for Shaun Parker Company’s Am I (as vocalist and multi-instrumentalist) which toured internationally. In 2015, she released and toured her self-titled solo LP (Popfrenzy/Caroline) which was lauded as an evolution from her previous work. 

She has performed at Meredith Music Festival, Mona Foma, Carriageworks, The State Theatre and played with acts such as LAMB (UK), Sarah Blasko, Juana Molina (Argentina), Xiu Xiu (US) and Deradoorian of The Dirty Projectors (US).

Alyx’s composition and sound design credits for stage include; Grey Rhino by Charmene Yap and Cass Mortimer Eipper for Sydney Festival/Carriageworks 2022, Limbic by Cass Mortimer Eipper for Australasian Dance Collective 2022; The Mother Project a multi-disciplinary work directed by Clemence Williams 2022; for Agatha Gothe-Snape; The Outcome is Certain 2020 and Wet Matter 2020 (lead by Evelyn Morris) for MUMA, Double Beat by Sara Black for Form Dance Projects 2019-2022; for Griffin Theatre Company: Splinter by Hilary Bell and directed by Lee Lewis 2019 and Superheroes by Mark Rogers and directed by Shari Sebbens 2020 (associate to Dave Bergman); for Karul Projects: Mi:wi by Taree Sansbury for Next Wave Festival 2018, WOLLUMBIN / / WARNING 2017 and CO_EX_EN by Thomas E.S. Kelly for Dance Massive 2019, Story Club Solo by Zoe Norton-Lodge for Sydney Opera House 2017. Film credits include; Nataptedi by Yolanda Lowatta for Art_Apart 2022; Liminal for Australasian Dance Collective 2020 and ID for Transit Dance Company 2020 – both choreographed and directed by Cass Mortimer Eipper; a series of short films born of Liverpool Girls’ Highschool’s Refugee Art Project, and Outbreak Generation by Brooke Goldfinch which premiered at Sydney Film Festival in 2017.

She has performed in works by internationally renowned artists such as Agatha Gothe-Snape, Oliver Beer (UK), Patricia Piccinini, Lauren Brincat; and has performed alongside legendary new music vocalist Joan La Barbara (NY), and has appeared in works presented at The Art Gallery of NSW, The Bienale of Sydney, Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, National Gallery of Australia, MONA and Opéra National de Paris.  She has cultivated a practice that enables her love (and compulsion for) experimentation, connection and collaboration, and is honoured to be joining the Belvoir family for Rep Season.

Madeleine Picard

Madeleine is a sound designer & composer working on Gadigal land. Combining her backgrounds in technical theatre and music, she is interested in storytelling through sound and in being part of the creation of new Australian theatrical works. Recent select credits include: The Weekend (Belvoir); Life is a Dream, The Edit, Hot Tub, Shitty (Belvoir 25A); Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare); Dial M for Murder, Emerald City (Ensemble); Amber, All the Fraudulent Horse Girls (Old Fitz); Scab (ATYP). She has also recently worked as associate sound designer and/or realiser for a number of productions including The Wrong Gods, Song of First Desire (Belvoir); The Talented Mr Ripley, Julia (Sydney Theatre Company); Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin); and Ride the Cyclone (Hayes). She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Theatre and Stage Management) from NIDA.

Charmene Yap

Charmene Yap is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, movement director,

rehearsal director and educator. A graduate of WAAPA and Purchase College, New York, she has built a two-decade career performing, choreographing and collaborating with many of Australia’s leading performing arts companies. This includes Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Opera Australia, Sydney Dance Company – where she is currently Rehearsal Associate – as well as Chunky Move, Dancenorth, Lucy Guerin Inc, Tasdance, and Armitage Gone! Dance Company in New York.

Her Belvoir credits include Tell Me I’m Here, The Weekend, The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. Other choreography and movement direction credits include The Talented Mr Ripley (Sydney Theatre Company), Turandot (Opera Australia) and SydneyDance Company’s New Breed seasons and Pre-Professional Year. She was Co-choreographer of Grey Rhino (Sydney Festival 2022) with Cass Mortimer Eipper,Assistant Choreographer to Gideon Obarzanek on Us 50, and has created works for Co3 ContemporaryDance and other institutions across Australia.

Charmene’s practice extends into film, fashion and music, including Red (Del Kathryn Barton), Think of Yourself as Plural (David Rosetzky), and music videos for Katie Noonan and Kate Miller-Heidke.

She is the recipient two Helpmann Awards (2012, 2014) and an Australian Dance Award (2013) and was nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.

Ayah Tayeh

Ayah Tayeh is a Sydney-based theatre maker and dramaturg and is currently the Literary Associate at Belvoir. She has worked with Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Darlinghurst Theatre Co, CAAP productions as a producer, stage manager, and dramaturg. 

Ayah was a participant of Australian Plays Transform’s inaugural Developing the Dramaturg program, as well as ATYP’s Cultivate program. 

Her Belvoir credits include: Lose to Win (Dramaturgical Consultant, 2024), Counting and Cracking (2022, 2024), The Jungle and The Sea (2022), The Boomkak Panto (2021), A Room of One’s Own (2021) and My Brilliant Career (2020). Other credits include: The President (STC), Constellations, 7 Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Breaking Glass (Sydney Chamber Opera), and Double Delicious (Contemporary Asian Australian Performance with Sydney Festival).

Luke McGettigan

Luke is Belvoir’s Resident Stage Manager. For Belvoir, he has stage managed

King Lear, The Spare Room, Song of First Desire, August Osage County, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Never Closer, 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).

Jasmine Power

Jasmine is an emerging stage and event manager working on Gadigal land. A recent graduate of NIDA, she completed the Bachelor of Fine Arts: Technical Theatre and Stage Management.

Recent credits include Assistant Event Coordinator for WAKE (Sydney Festival in partnership with THISISPOPBABY), Stage Manager on Port (KXT) and NIDA productions, such as Raise the Curtain (2025), Peter Pan (2025), Frankenstein (2024), and Kindness (2023).