ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Annie Byron – NESSA Queensland Theatre Company: Debut. Other Stage Credits: Riverside: RU4Me; Moira Blumenthal Productions: From Door to Door; CDP Productions: Biddies; Q Theatre: Dad and Dave On Stage, Zero Tolerance; : Before/After, Hedda Gabler, Embers (co-production with HotHouse Theatre), Bed, The Cripple of Inishman, Morning Sacrifice; MAKEbeLIVE: Boxing Day; Gordon Frost Organization: Calendar Girls; Force Majeure: The Age I’m In; Erth: The Nargun and the Stars; Company B: Yibiyung, The Small Things, Parramatta Girls; Griffin Theatre Company: Nailed; Jigsaw Theatre Company: The Blue Roof; Ensemble Theatre: A Conversation; HotHouse Theatre Company: Wonderlands; Sport for Jove: A Dolls House, The Crucible. Film Credits: Wolf Creek 2, EPK, The View from Greenhaven Drive, Doing Time for Patsy Cline, Muriel’s Wedding, Fran, My Mother Frank. Television Credits: All Saints, Postcard Bandit, Stingers, Backberner, The Potato Factory, Always Greener. Awards: AFI – Best Actress in Supporting Role Fran, AFI nomination – Best Actress in Supporting Role Doing Time for Patsy Cline.

Paula Delaney Nazarski – TILLY Queensland Theatre Company: Mother Courage and Her Children (co- production with QPAC), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (co-production with Black Swan State Theatre Company), An Oak Tree, The Crucible, The School of Arts (co- production with QPAC). Other Credits: Queensland Arts Council/Artslink: My Story, Your Story, Tales My Mother Told Me, Blow ‘Em; State Library of Queensland: A Night with Paula Nazarski, Yarnin Time, Yuletide Celebrations; QUT: Box the Pony; NAIDOC Week: This Woman’s Journey; Kooemba Jdarra: The Mack, Bitin’ Back, True; Canto Choir: 1975; Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts: Up the Road; Brisbane Festival: Are We There Yet? Film: Lucy, Deadline. Positions: Emerging Artist 2011 – Queensland Theatre Company, Australia Council for the Arts – Indigenous Artist Mentorship 2011. Training: Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts, ACPA; Cert IV in Training and Assessment.

Wesley Enoch – Director Queensland Theatre Company: Director: Elizabeth - Almost by Chance a Woman, Bombshells, Fountains Beyond, The Sunshine Club, Blacked Up, Radiance with Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts). Writer: The Sunshine Club. Actor: One Woman’s Song. Other Credits: As Director: Sydney Theatre Company: The 7 Stages of Grieving, Blacked Up, The Cherry Pickers. Company B: The Man From Mukinupin (with Melbourne Theatre Company), Yibiyung, Black Medea (with Malthouse Theatre), The Sapphires (with Melbourne Theatre Company, and remounted with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Parramatta Girls, Paul, Capricornia, Conversations With The Dead, The Dreamers, Stolen; Earth: Nargun & The Stars (co-direction, co-production with Sydney Festival), Gondwana (with Queensland Performing Arts Centre); Queensland Performing Arts Centre: Red Earth, Blue Water (Associate

Director), Nyurin Ga (Associate Director), Boat (for KITE Arts Education/Out of the Box Festival); Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts: The 7 Stages of Grieving, Bitin’ Back, The Dreamers (with Brisbane Festival), Murri Love, Little White Dress (with Queensland Performing Arts Centre & Out of the Box Festival), A Life of Grace and Piety (co-production with Just Us Theatre Ensemble), Changing Time (with Salamanca Theatre Company), Up the Ladder (with Melbourne Workers Theatre/Festival of the Dreaming); Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company: Waltzing The Wilarra; Performing Lines/Sydney Festival: I Am Eora; Browns Mart Theatre/Jute Theatre/Totem Theatre: Head Full of Love; Malthouse Theatre: One Night, the Moon; Iibijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Cooperative: Rainbow’s End, Shrunken Iris; Windmill Performing Arts/Adelaide Festival/Brisbane Festival/Sydney Festival/Perth International Festival: Riverland; Legs on the Wall: Eora Crossing; Playbox Theatre: Stolen; Bell Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet; Melbourne Workers’ Theatre: 1975. As Writer: The 7 Stages of Grieving (co-written with ), Little White Dress, A Life of Grace and Piety, Black Medea, The Sunshine Club, Grace, The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table. Positions: Artistic Director Queensland Theatre Company 2010 - present; Trustee Sydney Opera House 2006 - present; Associate Artistic Director, Company B 2007 - 2010; Artistic Director Australian Delegation, Festival of Pacific Arts 2008; Director, My Skin My Life, Opening Ceremony, Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006; Artistic Director, Ilbijerri ATSI Theatre Co- op 2003-2006; Resident Director, Sydney Theatre Company 2000-2001; Artistic Director, Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts, 1994-1997. Awards: Patrick White Award, The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table; Helpmann Award for Best Play and Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, The Sapphires; Helpmann Award for Best Presentation For Children, Riverland; Deadly Award for Best Direction, The Sunshine Club; Matilda Award for Best Direction, The Sunshine Club; Queensland Performing Arts Centre Award for Contribution to Theatre.

Alana Valentine – Writer Alana Valentine’s writing has been nominated for a 2011 Queensland Literary Award for Head Full of Love, 2007 Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, awarded the 2004 Queensland Premier’s Award for Best Drama Script, the 2003 NSW Writer’s Fellowship, the 2002 Rodney Seaborn Playwright’s Award and an International Writing Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. She also received a 2001 commendation for the Louis Esson Prize, a 1999 AWGIE Award, a residency at the Banff Playwrights’ Conference in Canada, the ANPC/New Dramatists Award in NYC and a Churchill Fellowship, the NSW Premier’s Award and a Centenary Medal. Alana is well known for her excellent use of research within the community she is writing about, evident in her popular 2004 play Run Rabbit Run about South Sydney Rugby League Club, and 2007’s sell-out Parramatta Girls at Belvoir Street Theatre about the infamous Girls Training School, Parramatta. Head Full of Love premiered at the Darwin Festival in 2010 and her play Grounded, a co-production between ATYP and Tantrum Theatre, was staged in 2012. Alana is currently under commission with Bell Shakespeare as part of their Mind’s Eye initiative. Her other stage plays include Singing the Lonely Heart, Love Potions, Butterfly Dandy, Covenant, The Prospectors, Titania’s Boy, Savage Grace, The Conjurers, Ozone, Spool Time, Swimming the Globe, Watermark, Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah, and M.P.

Catarina Hebbard – Assistant Director Queensland Theatre Company: As Director: The Pitch, That’s Not What Happened (QTC Youth Ensemble), Eight.As Assistant Director:Water Falling Down, Faustus. Other Credits: As Director: Ignations Musical Society: The Boy From Oz; Vena Cava Productions: Sweetest Things; Cienda McNamara Productions:

Nobody Does it Like me; MadCat Creative Connections: Machina, Catholic School Girls (with Three Sisters), Minefields and Miniskirts; 4MBS Classic FM: The Taming of the Shrew, Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo & Juliet; Harvest Rain Theatre Company: Chicago, Working, Between these Lines; Out of the Box: Critters. As Assistant Director: Brisbane Festival: King Hereafter; …and moor productions: Tender, 4MBS Classic FM: Amadeus, Three Sisters Productions: Bronte, Harvest Rain: Caucasian Chalk Circle, Theatre Anyplace: This Way Up. As Actor: 23rd Productions, KITE, TheatreANYPLACE, Harvest Rain, Emerge, Mixed Company, That Production Company, Crossbow productions, Starlight theatre Co-op & the Forward Movement. Films: Girl Clock, The Chronicles of Narnia; Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Reef ‘n’ Beef, Down Under Mystery Tour. Television: K9. Training: Bachelor of Education – Griffith University, Associate Diploma (Performing Arts) - JCU. Positions: Co-founder/Artistic Director: MadCat Creative Connections.

Simone Romaniuk – Designer Queensland Theatre Company: Elizabeth – Almost by Chance a Woman, Bombshells, Fractions, The Little Dog Laughed, An Oak Tree, Macbeth (co- production with Brisbane Festival); Education: The Removalists, Man Equals Man, Waiting for Godot, Ruby Moon, Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed, Beckett x 3. Other Credits: Opera Queensland: The Magic Flute, The Merry Widow, Space Encounters; Ensemble Theatre: Casanova; Sydney Theatre Company Education: The Crucible; Sydney Theatre Company Blueprints: Thyestes; Pacific Opera: Hansel and Gretel (Set Design), La Sonnambula; Expressions Dance Company: Fragments of Memory, Flight (Costume Design), If Only; Ride On Theatre & Griffin Stablemates: Way to Heaven, Family Stories: Belgrade; Ride On Theatre & B Sharp: The Merchant of Venice; Ride On Theatre: Bone, Weeping Women, The Girl on the Sofa; Inscription & Griffin Stablemates: The Distance from Here; Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Cosi Fan Tutte; Curtin University: Unidentified Human Remains; Sydney Dance Company & National Institute of Dramatic Art: Shifted: Random Play. As Art Director: Murder Under the Microscope 2008 – 2011 (web series); Jed, Celebrity Head, Goodbye Tim (short films). As Graphic Designer: Australia (Bazmark Feature), 2006 Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies. As Costume Buyer for television: Underbelly 2, Dangerous (Foxtel), East West 101 (SBS). As Assistant Costume Designer: My Place 2 (ABC TV). Training: Bachelor of Dramatic. Art (Design), NIDA; Bachelor of Arts (Design Studies), Queensland College of Art. Positions: Queensland Theatre Company Affiliate Artist 2011; Queensland Theatre Company Resident Designer 2012. Awards: Matilda Award best designer 2011, Matilda Gold award 2011

Brett Collery – Composer/Sound Designer Queensland Theatre Company: Fractions (co-production with Hothouse Theatre), Toy Symphony (co-production with State Theatre Company of South Australia), Betrayal, Stones in His Pockets, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome: A Shakespeare Commentary, The August Moon, The Woman Before, Away (co-production with Griffin Theatre Company), Hamlet (coproduction with State Theatre Company ofSouth Australia), Phedra, American Buffalo, Mano Nera, The Tragedy of King Richard III (co-production with Bell Shakespeare), Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed (co-production with Hothouse Theatre), Proof, The Messiah, God is a DJ, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia, The Tragedy Of King Richard II, The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, Molly Sweeney, The Woman Before, Ruby Moon, Top Dogs, Lily Can’t Sleep, The Forest, Bill and

Mary, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset, Shopping and F$$$ing. Other Credits: The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table (Tokyo and Sydney), Brisbane Powerhouse: Performance Anxiety, Monster, The Book of Revelations, Underbelly, Rodin’s Kiss, Electrosonic Interference; Queensland Performing Arts Centre: The Red Tree, Boat, Bear With Me, Pianissimo; La Boite Theatre Company: The Chairs, Speaking in Tongues; Additional works with Kooemba Jdarra, SBS Television, ABC Television,Education Queensland, Southbank Corporation, Triple J, Brisbane Cabaret Festival, Metro Arts and Queensland Pride Festival. Film/Television: Rubber Gloves, Elvis Lives In Parkes, The Truth About Dragonhall, Escape from the Planet of the Tapes, Two Roads to Helidon. He has also performed and recorded with the bands Isis, Gota Cola, Silver Sircus and Spiral I. Awards: 4MBS Award 2002, Matilda Award 2004, Helpmann Awards 2005, Gold Matilda 2006, Green Room Award 2007, Sydney Theatre Critics Awards 2009 and the Australian Screen Composer Awards for Sound Design.

Ben Hughes – Lighting Designer Queensland Theatre Company: Fractions (with Hothouse Theatre), Orphans, An Oak Tree, Sacre Bleu, Fat Pig, Let The Sunshine (with Melbourne Theatre Company), The Crucible, 25 Down, Stones in His Pockets, I Am My Own Wife, John Gabriel Borkman, The Estimator, Private Fears in Public Places, Man Equals Man, Waiting for Godot, Eating Icecream with Your Eyes Closed, The Exception and The Rule, Ruby Moon, An Exploration of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, A Property of The Clan. Other Credits: The Danger Ensemble: The Hamlet Apocalypse; shake & stir theatre co: Statespeare; La Boite Theatre Company: Kitchen Diva; Brisbane Powerhouse: The True Story of Butterfish; QUT: As You Like It, Essentially Dance 2011; Queensland Ballet: with Attitude, ...live Attitude; Metro Independents: Furious Angels; Stella Electrika: The New Dead, Medea Material; Kooemba Jdarra: Whispers of this Wik Woman; Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre: Hello Spaceboy, Vikram and the Vampire, Cabaret, Dracula, Zeitgeist, GAIA, Dante’s Inferno, My Sublime Shadow; JUTE Theatre: Intimacy, Studio Shorts, What Are The Odds, Macbeth; The Forward Movement: Magda’s Fascination with Wax Cats; Christine Johnstone / Queensland Performing Arts Centre: Fluff. As Associate Lighting Designer: Elision Ensemble / Brisbane Festival: The Navigator; Performing Lines / Meryl Tankard: The Oracle; Opera Queensland: Aida; Queensland Theatre Company: Toy Symphony, Heroes; Queensland Ballet: Don Quixote, Alice in Wonderland. Positions: Associate Artist, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre; Affiliate Artist, Queensland Theatre Company 2011, Emerging Artist, Queensland Theatre Company 2007. Awards: Groundling Award for Outstanding Contribution to Lighting Design 2011; Matilda Award Nomination for John Gabriel Borkman 2008; Matilda Award Nomination for The Crucible 2010.