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BY THORNTON WILDER DIRECTED by LEE LEWIS Jimi Bani, Colin Smith Welcome to 2021

BY THORNTON WILDER DIRECTED by LEE LEWIS Jimi Bani, Colin Smith Welcome to 2021

BY DIRECTED BY LEE LEWIS Jimi Bani, Colin Smith Welcome to 2021. It is so exciting to be back embarking on a season of theatre, with some much-loved plays and others unknown.

Amanda Jolly Executive Director And what better work massive. Like reaching out to return with than this to a neighbour. Taking a great American classic moment for a colleague — directed by our own who’s struggling. Calling Artistic Director, Lee Lewis a distant friend. And and featuring a cast of 16 above all, spending time outstanding with family. We craved actors. You’ll find some togetherness, and meaning, familiar faces and discover and hope. some rising stars of Our Town celebrates all tomorrow — a village of of this and more. With its artists. simplicity and heart, it When the coronavirus reminds us of the power of pandemic forced us all theatre and how much we indoors last year, we have all been missing this eventually came to realise shared experience. Enjoy. what has been most — Best wishes, important all along. It turned Amanda out to be the little things, the things we had been too busy for, the things so tiny that they’re actually

Queensland Theatre would like to acknowledge the Jagera and Turrbal people who are the Traditional Custodians of this land. We pay our respects to their Elders both past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

QUEENSLAND THEATRE IS ASSISTED BY THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT THROUGH THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL, ITS ARTS FUNDING AND ADVISORY BODY. QUEENSLAND THEATRE IS SUPPORTED BY THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT THROUGH ARTS QUEENSLAND. 3 Life Community Joy our town DIRECTED BY LEE LEWIS BY LEE DIRECTED WILDER THORNTON BY QUEENSLAND THEATRE PRESENTS QUEENSLAND down a job, and grow old. old. grow and ajob, down hold married, get love, in fall up, grow People dream. and play and to school, go Children born. are Babies town. small a in Life that is precious in life. all celebrates classic this warm, so aheart and simple so astory With – Thornton Wilder to us.’ means life what to know passion the and boarding, of feet square five only needs play this of climax ‘The rich the into woven gently are lives everyday their of threads the how see we town, this in people the to know come we As joys. triumphant are inevitable and tragedies but the faces change. There years, the through down last surnames same The

people we love. love. we people the to cherish and world everyday the in beauty the to see hope, with future the to to look us play. reminds It America’s most performed Town Our Pulitzer Prize-winning gone. it’s until got you’ve what know You don’t of existence. moment every in are value startling and meaning deep heart: its at truth a great reveals play this simplicity, its all for And community. is that fabric heartbreaking and funny complex, and has long been been long has CREATIVES Playwright Thornton Wilder 30 JAN – 20 FEB 2021 Director Lee Lewis BILLE BROWN THEATRE Costume Designer Nathalie Ryner Lighting Designer Paul Jackson Composer/Sound Designer THE SWEATS LOCATION Stage Manager Pete Sutherland Bille Brown Theatre Assistant Stage Manager 78 Montague Road, South Margaret Burrows DURATION CAST 2 hours 45 minutes, including intervals Stage Manager Jimi Bani Professor Willard/Sam Craig WARNINGS Andrew Buchanan This play contains mature themes, Mia Foley Rebecca Gibbs including a reference to suicide, theatrical Angus Freer Wally Webb haze and lighting blackouts. The use of Lucy Heathcote Emily Webb photographic or recording equipment is Luca Klarwein Wally Webb not permitted inside the theatre. Mrs Webb Amy Lehpamer Mrs Soames/Jo Crowell/Si Crowell OUR TOWN © 1938, 1957 Roxanne McDonald The Wilder Family LLC Libby Munro Mrs Gibbs Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Hugh Parker Mr Webb Representation Ltd George Gibbs Jayden Popik www.alanbrodie.com Constable Warren Silvan Rus Rebecca Gibbs Ava Ryan Dr Gibbs Colin Smith Simon Stimson Anthony Standish Howie Newsome Egan Sun-Bin

5 Colin Smith, Hugh Parker Libby Munro, Lee Lewis

Lee Lewis, Lucy Heathcote Jayden Popik I am writing this note for the Our Town program on the night before Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America. Lee Lewis Director

The ‘united’ states… the last 20 years have beautiful group of actors together in the seen the disintegration of that state of days after a difficult Christmas, his words unity, accelerating towards an attack on started to work their magic on all of us. the Capitol in the final days of Donald His scenes and sentences remind us to Trump’s term in office. The America of cherish every moment we have with those Thornton Wilder’s Our Town may be lost, we love. This was a voice coming to us but strangely I have always found the from another difficult time — that we humanity he details more strongly here in have survived difficult times before and Australia than I ever did in my years over will again. This playwright lived through there. a World War, the Spanish Flu pandemic and the Depression. He gathered bits of Tucked in a freezing cold pocket of the wisdom and distilled them into a play we Southern Highlands is the little town can use over 80 years later, on the other I grew up in, Goulburn, my Grover’s side of the planet, when we need to hear Corners. Funnily enough, in the first those thoughts again. I am always in awe week of rehearsal we spent a lot of time of the power of the playwright! talking about where we find our own Grover’s Corners: Ipswich, Grafton, We are hearing his words in our Tewantin, Thursday Island are just a few own voice — I hope you don’t mind. communities we recognised through Sometimes we want to travel through a Thornton Wilder's lens. He wasn’t writing play and sometimes we want to find the for America — he was writing for a play in us. Maybe because the geography sense of humanity. He was writing for of Goulburn is so like the geography of people who need to take a moment Grover’s Corners, I have always heard and recognise the importance of family, this play in Australian voices. And what community and the familiar. He was a collection of voices it is. I want to writing for times like the one he found thank each and every one of the actors himself in – 1938 – when the world knew for all the life they have poured into the it was heading towards another global making of this play. It has been such a joy conflict, and fear, anxiety and denial drove being back in a rehearsal room and I feel all conversations. incredibly grateful to them all for the leap of faith they have taken in making this play So back in June last year, when we were with me. They are our artists. They are our trying to imagine what stories people town. Please join me in cherishing what could possibly want to see in a seemingly they have created. impossible 2021, my heart reached out to — Lee Thornton Wilder’s story. And gathering this

7 Libby Munro, Roxanne McDonald, Amy Lehpamer Creatives Thornton Wilder Lee Lewis As Costume Supervisor: La Boite Theatre Company: A Doll’s House, Playwright Director Wizard of Oz, Holding the Man, Born in Madison, Queensland Cosi; Bangarra: Blak; Polytoxic: Wisconsin, and Theatre: The Rat Trap; QPAC: The Flying educated at Mouthpiece, Orchestra, Cabaret. As Costumier: Oberlin, Yale Rice. Other Bazmark Productions: La Boheme; (B.A. 1920) and Credits: Griffin Australia: Orpheus of the Princeton (M.A. Theatre Company: Underworld, The Pearl Fishers, 1925), Thornton First Love is Lucia di Lammermoor, Mikado. Niven Wilder was the Revolution, Film: As Costumier: Star Wars: an accomplished Prima Facie, The Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, novelist and playwright whose Almighty Sometimes, Kill Climate The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix works, exploring the connection Deniers, The Homosexuals or Revolutions, Dynasty: The Making between the commonplace and Faggots, Gloria, The Bleeding of a Guilty Pleasure, The Frontier. the cosmic dimensions of human Tree, 8 Gigabytes of Hardcore Television: Hi-5. Training: Fashion experience, continue to be read and Pornography, Masquerade, Emerald Design Diploma, Ecole Jeoffrin produced around the world. Wilder City, A Rabbit for Kim Jong-il, The Byrs International Paris; Diploma is the only writer to win Pulitzer Serpent’s Table, Silent Disco, The in Theatre Costume, Sydney Prizes for both fiction and drama – Bull, The Moon and The Coronet Institute TAFE. Positions: Costume for his novel The Bridge of San Luis of Stars, The Call, A Hoax, The Supervisor (Current), Queensland Rey (1927) and two plays, Our Town Nightwatchman, The Literati; Theatre. Awards: Matilda Award (1938) and : Mary nomination – Co-Design Caligula. (1942). His other novels include The Stuart, Honour, Love Lies Bleeding, Cabala, , ZEBRA!; Melbourne Theatre Paul Jackson Heaven’s My Destination, The Ides Company: Gloria, Hayfever, Rupert; Lighting Designer of March, and Belvoir: That Face, This Heaven, Queensland . His other major 2000 Feet Away, Half and Half, A Theatre: Debut. dramas include Number, Ladybird; : Other Credits: As (adapted as the musical Hello, The School for Wives, ; Lighting Designer: Dolly!) and The Alcestiad. The Australian Theatre for Young People: The Australian Happy Journey to Trenton and Battlegrounds, Citizenship; Darwin Ballet, Royal Camden and The Long Christmas Festival: Highway of Lost Hearts; New Zealand Dinner are among his celebrated Western Australian Academy of Ballet, shorter plays. Wilder also enjoyed Performing Arts (WAAPA): As You Staatsballett, West success as an essayist, translator, Like It; NIDA: After Dinner, Big Australian Ballet, Victorian Opera, research scholar, teacher, lecturer, Love, The Winter’s Tale; The Hayes West Australian Opera, Sydney actor, librettist and screenwriter. His Theatre Company: Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Melbourne screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s Nights. Artistic Director Positions: Theatre Company, Gordon Frost Shadow of a Doubt (1943) remains (Current), Queensland Theatre; Organization, TML, The Production a classic psycho-thriller to this day. Artistic Director and CEO, Griffin Company, Bell Shakespeare, Wilder’s many honours include Theatre Company; Richard Wherrett Playbox, Malthouse, Belvoir, Ballet the Gold Medal for Fiction from Fellow, Sydney Theatre Company. Lab, Lucy Guerin, Chunky Move, the American Academy of Arts Helpmann Awards – Best Awards: World of Wearable Art New Zealand, and Letters, the Presidential Medal Play, Best Director The Bleeding Kage, Australian Art Orchestra, of Freedom, the National Book Tree; Green Room Awards – Best La Mama, not yet it’s difficult Committee’s Medal for Literature, Ensemble, Best Production, Best performance group, Chamber The Order of Merit (Peru), and the Director . Made Opera and many others. As Goethe-Plakette (Germany). In Designer and Co-Designer: Belvoir, 1930, with royalties received from Malthouse, Berlin Staatsballett, La The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Wilder Natalie Ryner Mama, Melbourne Workers’ Theatre, built a home for himself and his Costume Designer Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin, Ranters, family in Hamden, CT. Although not yet it’s difficult, Melbourne often away from it for as many as Queensland Museum and Griffin Theatre 250 days a year, restlessly seeking Theatre: As Company. Training: University of quiet places in which to write, Costume Designer: Melbourne; RMIT. Positions: Artistic Thornton Wilder always returned to City of Gold. Associate (2007–13), Malthouse “the house the Bridge built”. He died As Costume Theatre; Founding Member, not here of a heart attack on December Consultant: yet it’s difficult performance group. 7th, 1975. Antigone. Awards: Helpmann Award – Best Other Credits: More information on Thornton Lighting Design Little Match Girl; As Costume Wilder and his family is available Sydney Theatre Awards – Best Designer: La Boite Theatre in Penelope Niven’s definitive Lighting Design The Beauty Queen Company: From Darkness, Medea; biography, Thornton Wilder: A Life of Leenane, Love and Information; Dance North: Surge; The Danger as well as on the Wilder Family Green Room Awards – Best Set Ensemble: Caligula; Briefs: The website, thorntonwilder.com Design I Am A Miracle, Best Lighting Second Coming; Circa: Furioso. Design It Just Stopped, Body of 9 Creatives

Work, Recital, Away, Testament of Postgraduate Diploma of Education, His Pockets, Barrymore; Griffin Mary, Melancholia, Best Cabaret UQ; Bachelor of Arts (Music/ Theatre Company: Wicked Sisters; Design – Gotharama; Gilbert English), UQ. Positions: Composer Marion St Theatre: Brief Lives, Tom Spottiswood Churchill Fellow in Residence (2014), Melbourne and Clem; Melbourne Theatre (2007); Australia Council Fellow Theatre Company. Awards: Sydney Company: Dumb Show, The Herbal (2017); Australian Production Theatre Awards nomination – Best Bed, ; Legs Design Guild Awards – Best Lighting Score (2018) Harp In The South on the Wall: Eora Crossing, Flying Design Love and Information, Away, (Part I & II); Sydney Theatre Awards Blind; Sydney Conservatorium of The Testament of Mary; Critics winner – Best Sound Design (2017) Music: The Beggar’s Opera; Darwin Award for Theatre in Scotland – Chimerica; Sydney Theatre Awards Theatre Company: The Winter’s Best Lighting Design Solaris; an winner – Best Score/Sound Design Tale, Cosi, Diving For Pearls, Emma; additional four Helpmann Award (2016) The Drover’s Wife; Green Queensland Conservatorium of Nominations and 32 Green Room Room Awards nomination – Best Music: Orpheus in the Underworld. Award Nominations. Sound Design/Composition (2016) Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Arts Miss Julie; Sydney Theatre Awards (Technical Production), NIDA. winner – Best Score/Sound Design THE SWEATS (2015) Love and Information; Green Composer/Sound Designer Room Awards winner – Best Sound Margaret Burrows Design/Composition (2014) Yellow Assistant Stage Manager Queensland Moon. The Theatre: Queensland Memory Of Water, Theatre: As Children Of The Pete Sutherland Assistant Stage Black Skirt, Far Stage Manager Manager: Away, The Cherry Mouthpiece, Orchard, The Queensland Noises Off, Real Inspector Theatre: Ladies in Black Hound/Black Mouthpiece, (2017 tour), The Comedy, The Orphanage Project L’Appartement, Odd Couple. (including live performance), A Nearer the Gods, Other Credits: As Stage Manager: Conversation, The Fortunes Of An Octoroon, Queensland Ballet: Dance Richard Mahony (with Malthouse), Oedipus Dialogues,Tutus on Tour (regional Cooking With Elvis, Bag O’ Marbles. Doesn’t Live tour); Brisbane Festival (2020), Other Credits: La Boite Theatre Here Anymore, Site Design Crew (2015–17, 2020). Company: The Motion Of Light Black Diggers, Venus in Fur, Kelly, As Assistant Stage Manager: In Water, Cock, Kingswood Kids; Elizabeth – Almost by Chance Lord Mayor’s Christmas Carols Sydney Theatre Company: The Harp a Woman, Summer of the (2020); Queensland Ballet: The in the South (Part 1 & 2), Going Seventeenth Doll (with Belvoir), No Nutcracker, Peter Pan, Strictly Down (with Malthouse), Three Man’s Land, Grimm Tales, Betrayal, Gershwin, A Midsummer Nights Sisters, Chimerica, Death and the The Crucible, The School of Arts Dream, Lest we Forget, Coppelia Maiden (with Melbourne Theatre (with QPAC), The Female of the (regional Queensland tour); Company), Love and Information Species, , The August Opera Queensland: Madame (with Malthouse); Belvoir: Random, Moon, The Fortunes of Richard Butterfly, Kiss Me Kate; Gordon The Drover’s Wife, Mortido, Miss Mahony (with Playbox), Molly Frost Organisation: EVITA (2019 Julie, The Dark Room; Melbourne Sweeney, , Dirt, Fred, tour), Charlie and the Chocolate Theatre Company: Lilith, Egg Fountains Beyond, The Skin of Our Factory (2019–20 tour); Jack (with Terrapin Puppet Theatre), Teeth and Bell Shakespeare co- Morton Worldwide: GC2018 Miss Julie, The Distance, Buyer productions Faustus, The Alchemist, Commonwealth Games Opening And Cellar, The Effect, Cock (with The Tragedy of Richard III, Anatomy and Closing Ceremonies. As Missy Higgins), Yellow Moon, Titus Fall of Rome: A Shakespeare Deputy Stage Manager: Gordon Constellations, Helicopter, Random; Commentary. Other Credits: La Frost Organisation: Wizard of Oz Malthouse Theatre: Meme Girls, Boite Theatre Company: Lysa and (Melbourne 2018–19). Training: The Good Person Of Szechuan the Freeborn Dames, Blackrock, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical (with The National Theatre of China The Village, Single Asian Female; Production), QUT; Diploma of – including live performance); La Bell Shakespeare: The Tempest, Scenery and Set Construction, Mama: Tall Man, Status Update, Henry V, King Lear, The Government Southbank Institute of Technology. Crossed; Real TV: Hoods, The Inspector, Macbeth, The Merchant Suitcase, War Crimes. Film: The of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, True History Of Billie The Kid, Measure for Measure, The Wars Wild, Drowning, She Loves Me of the Roses, Hamlet; Black Swan She Loves Me Not, Stray, And State Theatre Company: Angels Everything Nice, Transient, Booth. in America, The Caucasian Chalk Television: Saved. Training: Cert Circle, Tartuffe, A Streetcar Named IV Music Industry (Technical Desire, The Seagull, As You Like Production), RMIT; Cert IV Small It, The Sapphires; Sydney Theatre Business Management, RMIT; Company: Blacked Up, Stones In

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Silvan Rus Anthony Standish Cast Jimi Bani Other Credits: Ethel Barrymore Angus Freer Stage Manager Theatre on Broadway New York Wally Webb / Sydney Theatre Company: The Queensland Present; La Boite Theatre Company: Queensland Theatre: Hedda, The Wishing Well (Matrix Theatre), Theatre: DNA, My Name is Jimi. Secret Bridesmaids Business, Moth. Television: Other Credits: Clark in Sarajevo, Sex Diary Of An Terranova. Black Swan Infidel, Cosi, Bouncers, Hamlet, The Training: Young Theatre Company: Taming of the Shrew; Metaluna Artists’ Ensemble The Sapphires, Theatre Company: Summer of (2019–present), Jandamarra; the Aliens; QPAC: Armistice, Over Queensland Belvoir: Title the Top with Jim; Harvest Rain: Theatre; St and Deed, Peter Pan, Yibiyung, Love’s Labour Lost, As You Like It, Joseph's Gregory Terrace. The Sapphires; Barbican Theatre Much Ado About Nothing; Grin London: Shadow King; Sydney and Tonic Theatre Troupe: Hamlet, Theatre Company: Storm Boy, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Lucy Heathcote Romeo and Juliet; Malthouse King Lear; ACT Industrial Theatre: Emily Webb Theatre: Shadow King, The Dragon; Cry Wolf, Deepwater. Film: Love Jute Theatre Company: Half & and Monsters, Don’t Tell, Australia Queensland Half (with Lone Star Productions); Day, Fatal Honeymoon, Iron Sky, Theatre: Debut. Deckchair Theatre: Krakouer! Film: The Condemned, The Crocodile Other Credits: A Thin Black Line. Television: Mabo, Hunter: Collision Course, Scooby QUT: Dinner, Three The Straits, Blue Water Empire, Doo, Hildegard, Paperback Hero. Sisters, Incognito, Ready for This, Redfern Now, Black Television: Young Rock, The End, Richard III. Comedy, R.A.N (Remote Area Rosehaven, Grace Beside Me, Safe Voiceover: QUT: Nurse). Training: WAAPA. Awards: Harbour, The Family Law, Harrow, Scratch That. Queensland Reconciliation Award Hoges, Wanted, Peter Allen: Not Training: Bachelor – My Name is Jimi; The National the Boy Next Door, The Gods of of Fine Arts (Acting), QUT. Dreamtime Awards nomination Wheat Street, Reef Doctors, Sisters – Best Male Actor Shadow King; of War, SLiDE, Sea Patrol, Monarch Helpmann Awards nominations – Cove, RAN (Remote Area Nurse), Luca Klarwein Best Male Actor Shadow King, Best Mortified, Farmkids, Answered By Wally Webb Supporting Actor Yibiyung; Logies Fire, Through My Eyes, Chameleon Queensland nomination – Best Lead Actor in II, Beastmaster, Murder Call, Flipper, Theatre: a Television Drama Mabo; Equity Big Sky, Medivac, Roar, Pacific Impending Ensemble Awards – Outstanding Drive. Awards: Everyone. Other performance by an ensemble in – Best Actor The Female of the Credits: 4MBS a telemovie or mini-series Mabo; Species, Christmas at Turkey Beach, Shakespeare AACTA Awards nomination – Best Hamlet, Cymbeline, The Taming of Festival: Richard Lead Actor in a Television Drama the Shrew, Summer of the Aliens; the Third. Mabo; BOFA Awards – Best Actor Best Director – Love’s Labour Lost, Training: Young Mabo, The Straits; Deadly Awards Caucasian Chalk Circle. – Male Actor of the Year Mabo, The Artists’ Ensemble (2020–present), Straits. Queensland Theatre; Ferny Grove Mia Foley State High School. Rebecca Gibbs Andrew Buchanan Amy Lehpamer Professor Willard/ Queensland Theatre: Mrs Webb Sam Craig Moth, . Queensland Other Credits: Queensland Theatre: Debut. Australian Acting Theatre: Other Credits: Academy: DNA, L’Appartement, QPAC: The Spirit The Island; No Man’s Land of Christmas, Live Indooroopilly (with Sydney @ The Lyrebird; State High Theatre Company), Malthouse School: Freaky Friday, Night at Macbeth, Water Theatre/Victorian the PDT. Training: Young Artists’ Falling Down, The Opera: The Ensemble (2020–present), Crucible, God of Threepenny Opera; Adelaide Queensland Theatre; Indooroopilly Carnage (with Black Swan State Cabaret Festival/Token: Shane State High School. Theatre Company), The Female of Warne – The Musical; GWB the Species, Christmas at Turkey Entertainment: School of Rock Beach, Antigone, The Marriage of – The Musical; Michael Cassel: Figaro, Composing Venus, Peter Beautiful – The Carole King Pan, Romeo & Juliet, The Beaux Musical; The Production Company: Stratagem, Essington Lewis: I Am Dusty, Follies; Gordon Frost Work, The Cherry Orchard. Organisation: The Sound of Music, 12 The Rocky Horror Show, Once; Radio, Grace Beside Me, The End, (with Black Swan State Theatre James Anthony Productions: Dirty Harrow, Deadlock. Awards: Matilda Company), 25 Down. Other Credits: Rotten Scoundrels; Awards – Special Commendation for La Boite Theatre Company: Lysa Company: High Society; Present performances in Romeo and Juliet, and the Freeborn Dames, Straight Tense Theatreworks: Margaret Goin’ to the Island, The Sunshine White Men (with State Theatre Fulton - Queen of the Dessert. Club. Company of South Australia), A Television: Get Krack!n, Utopia, Doll’s House, Pale Blue Dot, Julius Molly, The Time of Our Lives, Caesar; HOTA: Fame, The Musical, Winners & Losers, House Husbands, Libby Munro The Hotel Beche de Mer; shake The Pacific. Short Film: Vis a Vis. Mrs Gibbs & stir theatre co: 1984; Ride On Webseries: Donnatelegrams. Theatre: The Blind Date Project; The Training: Bachelor of English Queensland Byre Theatre St Andrews (UK): The Literature and Japanese, University Theatre: Thirty Nine Steps; Teenage Cancer of Melbourne; Associate Diploma in Noises Off (with Charity Trust: Cream of British Music (violin), Australia. Melbourne Comedy; The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company), Company: A Midsummer Night’s (with Dream. Film: The Hobby Shop, Roxanne McDonald Melbourne In A Cane Field, Space/Time, Theatre Company), Mrs Soames/Jo Crowell/ Bullets for the Dead, My Mistress, Grounded, Venus Fatal Honeymoon, Crooked Si Crowell in Fur. Other Credits: Ensemble Business, Sinbad and the Minotaur. Theatre: Dream Home; Louise Queensland Television: Harrow, Rosehaven, The Whithers & Associates: A Murder is Theatre: Mother Family Law, Gallipoli, Secrets and Courage and Announced; NIDA: The Collection; Lies, The Killing Field, The Strip, Sea Her Children, Sydney Theatre Company: Gallipoli. Patrol, Vincent, Casualty, Doctors, Head Full of Love, Film: The Hunted, Wild Woman, Monarch of the Glen II, EastEnders, The Tragedy of Mommy Would Never Hurt You, Smoke, Jonathan Creek, Broken King Richard the The Unsettling, Broken Dolls, Eight, News, 2 Pints of Lager and a Packet Second, Fountains Bullets for the Dead, The Bind. of Crisps, The World According to All Saints: MRU, Hiding, Beyond (with Television: Bex, Wild West, 15 Storeys High, SLiDE, Review with Myles Barlow Brisbane Festival), The Skin of our . Doctors and Nurses, The Office, Teeth, The Sunshine Club, Radiance Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Art People Like Us, Beast, The Peter (with Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous (Acting), NIDA; Advanced Diploma Principle, I’m Alan Partridge, Black in Screenwriting (Feature Film), Theatre Company). Other Credits: Books, Lucky Jim. As Writer: BBC: La Boite Theatre Company: From AFTRS. Positions: ARFF Paris Bruiser, The Fast Show. Training: Darkness, Lysa and the Freeborn Finalist Judge 2020; Founding Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Dames, Oodgeroo Bloodline to Member, Women in Theatre and London. Awards: Matilda Awards Country (with Kooemba Jdarra), Screen (WITS). Awards: Matilda nominations – Betrayal, A Doll’s Romeo & Juliet (with Kooemba Awards – Best Female Actor in a House; Equity Award Ensemble Grounded Venus in Jdarra), The Taming of the Shrew; Leading Role , Cast, The Family Law. Proud Equity Fur Creative Regions: It All Begins ; Matilda Award nomination – member since 1995. Disgraced with Love; Belvoir: Winyanboga Best Supporting Actor ; Yurringa, Windmill Baby, Yibiyung, Gold Movie Award – Best Actress The Hunted The Man from Mukinupin (with ; St Kilda International Jayden Popik Melbourne Theatre Company), Film Festival nomination – Best The Hunted George Gibbs Parramatta Girls; Belloo Creative: Australian Short Film . Rovers; Sydney Theatre Company: Queensland The Battle of Waterloo; Griffin Theatre: Mouthpiece Theatre: The Story of the Miracles Hugh Parker . at Cookie’s Table (with Bungaburra Mr Webb Other Credits: The Productions and Hothouse); TheatreiNQ: Queensland Shape of Things, Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Theatre Theatre: Hydra Macbeth, X-Stacy, Company: The Cherry Pickers, (with STCSA), Yarnin Up, Bethel and Maude, A King Lear; The Nearer the Gods, Life of Grace and Piety (with Jute Owl & Cat Theatre: The 39 Steps, Erasers, Red Boots & Half Smoked Theatre), Black Shorts, Skin Deep, Scenes from Seems Like Yesterday, Goin’ to the Cigarettes, Between the Sheets, a Marriage, Island, Luck of the Draw, Njunjul the A Very Modern Marriage; Chapel Noises Off (with Sun, Whispers Of This Wik Woman, off Chapel: Ghosted; EbbFlow Melbourne Theatre Blackrock Bitin’ Back (with QPAC); Kite Theatre Company: . Company), Tartuffe (with Black Occupation, Liquor Theatre: Murri Time; Queensland Short Film: Swan State Theatre Company), Slick Dreamland, Hansel’s Gretel, Museum: You Came To My Country Much Ado About Nothing, The The Bed, Flight, Level Up, Blood & You Didn’t Turn Black. Film: Seagull, Brisbane, The Pitch, Kelly, Grace, My Country, Welcome Ties. Training: The Bridge Project, Fractions (with Hothouse Theatre), To Country, B.Old, Blackbuster, TheatreiNQ; Film & Television Studio (with Black International; Melbourne Actor’s Australia Day. Television: Mabo, Swan State Theatre Company), Reef Doctors, 8mmm Aboriginal Lab. Betrayal, The Clean House 13 Angus Freer Pete Sutherland

Roxanne Mia Foley, Ava Ryan, McDonald Lee Lewis Cast Silvan Rus Colin Smith Buffalo, The Woman Before, Puss Constable Warren Dr Gibbs in Boots, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, A Property of the Clan, Queensland Queensland The Exception and The Rule, Man Theatre: Debut. Theatre: Nearer Equals Man. Other Credits: Dead Other Credits: the Gods, Twelfth Puppet Society: Megafauna; Queensland Night, An shake & stir: Jane Eyre; Sydney Shakespeare Octoroon, The Festival/Opera House/Dead Puppet Ensemble: Henry Odd Couple, Black Society: The Wider Earth; QPAC/ IV Part I, The Blood Diggers. Other shake & stir: Wuthering Heights; Votes, Hamlet, Credits: La La Boite Theatre Company: Cosi; Rosencrantz & Boite Theatre ELBOW Room: Prehistoric; Hot Guildenstern are Dead, The Winter’s Company: From Darkness, Romeo House Theatre/Merrigong Theatre/ Tale, Twelfth Night, Titus, The & Juliet, A Streetcar Named Glen St Theatre: Australia! The Tempest, The Bomb-itty of Errors, Desire; Queensland Ballet: Vis-à- Show!; QPAC/Forward Movement: Mary Stuart, A Midsummer Night’s Vis: Moving Stories; Queensland Zoo-Illogical; Metro Arts/Forward Dream; Brisbane Powerhouse: Shakespeare Ensemble: Rosencrantz Movement: Magda’s Fascination Nineteen (with Wax Lyrical & Guildenstern Are Dead, The with Wax Cats, Little Hitler’s Ode Productions); La Boite Theatre Tempest, The Bomb-itty of to an Austrian Bentwood; 4MBS: Company: Morsels from the Heart Errors, Mary Stuart, A Midsummer The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s (BrisAsia Festival); Small Crown Night’s Dream, The Two Gentlemen Dream; the Restaged Histories Productions: 1066: The Bayeux of Verona, The Merchant of project: Omon Ra; Markwell Tapestry Brought to Life; The Venice, Richard III, As You Like Presents: What Simon Said. Film: Earthcrosser Company/NIDA: It, Food of Love: A Shakespeare Aquaman, Drive Hard, A Grey Cold. Training: Apprenticeship, Cabaret, Metamorphoses, Much Eulogy, Girl Clock, Don’t Tell, Reef Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble; Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s ‘n’ Beef, Emma. Television: The Bachelor of Arts (Chinese and Briefs or Let’s Kill All The Bureau of Magical Things, The Philosophy, Honours – 1st Class), Lawyers; 4MBS Shakespeare End, Harrow, Reef Break, Hoges, UQ. Awards: Matilda Awards Festival: Hamlet; THAT Production Wanted, Mabo, Lightning Point, nominations – Best Male Actor in a Company: Così; Ad Astra: Kelly; Heartbeat, Space Chickens in Supporting Role Twelfth Night, Titus, Room to Play: One Was Nude Space, Sea Patrol. Positions: Best Sound Design/Composition And One Wore Tails; Redcliffe Emerging Artist (2006), Queensland Twelfth Night; Del Arte Charts : Noises Off; Theatre. Awards: Matilda Award – nomination – Best Male Actor in QUT: Jesus Christ Superstar, One Best Supporting Actor An Octoroon. a Leading Role The Bomb-itty of For The Road, Sherwoodstock, The Anthony dedicates his performance Errors. Bald Prima Donna, The Drought; to his brother Russell. Ensemble Theatre: Black Cockatoo; Elbow Room Productions: What Ava Ryan I’m Here For. Television: Sea Egan Sun-Bin Rebecca Gibbs Patrol, Mortified. Training: Bachelor Howie Newsome of Creative Industries (Drama), Queensland QUT. Positions: Core Ensemble Queensland Theatre: (2007–19), Queensland Shakespeare Theatre: 600 Impending Ensemble; Equity Diversity Ways To Filter Everyone. Other Committee member (2016–present), A Sunset, Credits: Curious Media, Entertainment & Arts Constellations, Directive: Alliance. Awards: Matilda Award For The Moment, Frogman; – Best Male Actor in a Leading H is For Hamlet. various roles Role An Octoroon, Matilda Award Other Credits: with children’s Nomination – Best Male Actor in a QUT: Dinner, theatre company Pure Imagination. Supporting Role The Odd Couple. Three Sisters, Incognito, Richard Training: Young Artists’ Ensemble III, Pygmalion; shake & stir: Dags; (2020–present), Queensland Shock Therapy Productions: Theatre; All Hallows School. Anthony Standish Welcome to Sameville; Simon Stimson Underground Productions: Food. Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts Queensland (Acting), QUT. Theatre: City of Gold (with Griffin Theatre Company), An Octoroon, The Wider Earth (with Dead Puppet Society) Trollop, End of the Rainbow, Kelly, The Seeding Bed, The Removalists, American

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Benefactors 2 Anonymous Michael & Dr Geoffrey Hirst AM David & Jennifer Lynas Roslyn Atkinson AO & Anne-Maree Byrne PCF & Dr Sally Wilde The Nicklin Family Richard Fotheringham AM Barbara Duhig Kim & Michael Hodge PCF Greg & Wendy O'Meara Christopher & Margot Blue Ian & Ruth Gough David & Katrina King Nigel & Liz Prior Sue Brown & Lisa Worner Dr Anita Green Dr Joan M Lawrence AM Stack Family Foundation Andrew & Kate Lister

Collaborators 2 Anonymous Alan Galwey Amanda Jolly & Charles & Catherine Miller Tracey Barker William Glasson AO Peter Knights Karl & Louise Morris Andrew & Trudi Bofinger & Claire Glasson Stephen & Terry Leach John Reid AO & Lynn Dr John H Casey Justus & Tamara Homburg Susan Learmonth & Rainbow-Reid AM Rachel Crowley Geoff & Michele James Bernard Curran Bruce & Helen Cowley David & Erica Lee

Patrons 4 Anonymous John Graham & Katrina Low & Blayne & Helen Pitts J M Alroe Craig Syphers Ilan Klevansky PCF Tina Previtera Michael & Anne Back PCF Sue & Mike Gowan Dr James Mackean George & Jan Psaltis Noela Bartlett John & Lois Griffin PCF Marina Marangos Catherine Quinn Jennifer Batts Alexandra Grove & In memory of Jann McCabe Angela Ramsay Virginia Bishop Peter Dawson Bill McCarthy John Richardson & Robert Bond Sophia Hall Sandra McCullagh Kirsty Taylor Sarah Bradley Andrew Harding John & Julienne McKenna Crispin Scott Lisa & William Bruce Prof Lawrence Hirst & Mark Menhinnitt Dr Josephine Sundin Phillip Carruthers & Mrs Jill Osborne Andrea Moor Courtney Talbot Sharni Cockburn Kevin & Joanne Holyoak Richard & Denise Morton PCF Barbara & Nick Tate Rodd & Wendy Chignell Barbara Houlihan PCF Debra & Patrick Mullins PCF Damien Thomson & Ross & Tina Claxton Marc James R & B Murray Glenise C. Berry Zoë Connolly Tempe Keune Kartini Oei Cornelia Van Zyl & Ian Reid Fabienne Cooke Fleur Kingham PCF Shay O'Hara-Smith Peter G Williams PCF Sheryl Cornack Karen & Peter Lane Leanne O'Shea & Margaret Williams Kerry & Greg Cowderoy Fred & Margaret Leditschke Peter Gilroy Suzanne & Bo Williams Andrew & Leonie Douglas Lee Lewis & Brett Boardman Kim Parascos Dr Catherine Yelland H G Fryberg Barbara Lloyd Joanna Peters Ian Yeo & Sylvia Alexander Dr Sara Gollschewski John & Janice Logan PCF Katharine Philp Tony & Linda Young Louise M Gourlay OAM G. Pincus SUPPORTING CAST 8 Anonymous Susan Kiefel Philip Ainsworth Mark Leary Anne & Peter Allen Bill & Maria Lindsay LANDMARK Philip Anthony & Gerard Mcdonald Kalina Pyra Georgia Miles Sheryl & Neil Ballesty Philip & Fran Morrison Geoffrey Beames Marianne Mortimore PRODUCTIONS Charles Beatty Jim Murphy PSM John Bews & Denise O'Boyle Bernadette Wright Tanya Oliver & Prof Aidan Byrne Peter Leslie Bob Cleland Diane & Robert Parcell FUND Debra Cunningham Don & Isobel Russell & Joan Dart Perry-Keene M.Davidson Glenda Powell Suzanne & Peter Kathryn Panaretto Davies Libby & Tony Roberts Christopher Dean Desleigh Rose Thank you to the Visionaries Amanda Dines & Peter & Linda Sheedy Graham Hook Jodie Siganto who generously support our Dr Paul Eliadis AM Nicholas Smith & Gregory & Michele Maureen Owen Landmark Productions Fund, Endicott Michael Stewart Michael Farrington Lucinda Swindle cementing Queensland Theatre Sheila Follent Kevin Vedelago & Lisa Forbes Karen Renton as a national leader in the Sandra & Malcolm Gay Jacqui Walters Hugh & Mary Melinda Warland development and staging of Gehrmann Richard Whittington Claire Grebert OAM productions of significant scale. Catherine & Nanda Peter & Mary Wilson Gulhane Sue Wilson & Daryl & Trish Hanly David Colahan In 2021, Trent Dalton’s Boy David Hardidge Tracey Wood Stephen & Yvonne Gail Wright Swallows Universe, adapted for Henry Mark & Jaine Holmes the stage by Tim McGarry, will Sally Irwin & Peter Isaacs amaze audiences as it catapults the blockbuster Brisbane novel TRUST AND FOUNDATION PARTNERS Australian Communities Foundation into real life. - Davie Family Fund Australian Communities Foundation - Keith & Jeannette Ince Fund Copyright Agency Cultural Fund Tim Fairfax AC & Gina Fairfax Gambling Community Benefit Fund Tim Fairfax Family Foundation Cass & Ian George William Angliss (Queensland) Charitable Fund Elizabeth Jameson AM & Abbe Anderson

BEQUESTORS The Mather Foundation Realised Bequests Notified Bequests Peggy Given 1 Anonymous Liz Pidgeon & Graeme Wikman

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19 PATRON MARKETING AND TICKETING PROGRAMMING His Excellency the Honourable Paul de DIRECTOR OF MARKETING DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING Jersey AC, Governor of Queensland Laura Oliver Sophia Hall DIRECTOR OF MARKETING (ACTING) ARTISTIC COORDINATOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Amanda Lawson Samantha French Elizabeth Jameson (Chair) Rachel Crowley (Deputy Chair) SENIOR MARKETING COORDINATOR PRODUCER, NEW WORK Maneka Singh Shari Irwin Tracey Barker Susan Learmonth MARKETING COORDINATOR ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR Hana Tow Dr Andrea Moor (DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT) Cinnamon Smith David Williamson AO YOUTH, EDUCATION AND MARKETING ASSISTANT REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT) DIRECTOR, YOUTH, EDUCATION AND Lee Lewis Thomas Manton–Williams REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Laurel Collins Amanda Jolly Aleesha Cuffe ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ASSOCIATE ARTIST DATABASE TRAINER (ACTING) Travis Dowling Isaac Drandic Yanni Dubler EDUCATION COORDINATOR ASSOCIATE ARTIST TICKETING SUPERVISOR Emma Funnell Daniel Evans Madison Bell PROJECT OFFICER DESIGN DIRECTOR TICKETING OFFICER Alana Dunn Renée Mulder Rosie Hazell EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT BOX OFFICE INDIGENOUS REFERENCE GROUP Donna Maher Alana Dunn, Ashley Webster Nathan Jarro (Chair) FOUNDING DIRECTOR DEVELOPMENT SEASON TICKETING AIan Edwards, AM, MBE (1925–2003) DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Matthew Filkins, Ngaire Lock, Zoë Connolly Louisa Sankey, Daniel Sinclair QUEENSLAND THEATRE SPECIAL PROJECTS PRODUCTION PRODUCTION STAFF PROPS MAKER Aleksis Waaralinna Liz Prior DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL AND SCENIC ARTIST Leo Herreygers PHILANTHROPY COORDINATOR PRODUCTION CUTTER/COSTUME MAKER Kiara Bulley Georgia Lynas Toni Glynn COSTUME MAKER/MAINTENANCE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR TECHNICAL MANAGER Jackqueline Parry Hannah Barr Daniel Maddison ART FINISHER/CUTTER/COSTUME FINANCE AND OPERATIONS TECHNICAL COORDINATOR MAKER Bianca Bulley CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Lachlan Cross HAIR STYLIST Rebecca Anthony Valerie Tam HEAD OF WORKSHOP PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT Peter Sands Harry Provins Georgia Knight COMPANY CARPENTER / SOUND CONSULTANT/FOH OPERATOR FINANCE OFFICER HEAD MECHANIST Brady Watkins Sarra Lamb John Pierce FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS MANAGER COSTUME SUPERVISOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Shaun Kelly Nathalie Ryner HERO PHOTOGRAPHY Brett Boardman VENUE AND BAR MANAGER WARDROBE COORDINATOR REHEARSAL PHOTOGRAPHY Dylan Evans Kimberley Mogg Barbara Kerr A heartfelt thank you to the parents of the four Young Artists' Ensemble actors.

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Keep the good conversations going on the trip home! Hosted by our Artistic Director Lee Lewis, Queensland Theatre’s Quality Time podcast turns the house lights up and invites you to get to know the people who helped bring Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the stage.

Available on iTunes, Spotify and anywhere good podcasts can be found. Our town is your town

Your immense generosity in 2020 has played no small part in starting this year with our biggest cast yet on the Bille Brown Theatre stage.

Even more significant,Our Town marks the mainstage debuts for seven of the sixteen-strong, all- Queensland cast, including four members of our Young Artists Ensemble.

Including a donation with any ticket purchase in 2021, will help us continue transforming possibilities into realities for the next generation of artists in our town.

Thank you for your continued support

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