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Michele Lee's L-R: Hsiao-Ling Tang, Kristy Best. Rice by Michele Lee

Cast VENUE Kristy Best ...... Nisha 24 June — 16 July Bille Brown Studio, Hsiao-Ling Tang ...... Yvette Queensland Theatre Creatives ATTENDANCE INFORMATION Lee Lewis ...... Director Rice will run for approximately Renée Mulder ...... Designer 90 minutes, with no interval. Jason Glenwright ...... Lighting Designer WARNINGS Wil Hughes ...... Composer /AV Designer Contains adult themes Tony Brumpton ...... Associate Sound Designer and coarse language.

Kathryn O’Halloran ...... Stage Manager For the safety and comfort of Rebecca Minuti ...... Assistant Stage Manager all patrons, we only allow cold beverages in plastic cups or bottles Jennifer White ...... Dialect Coach inside the theatre. Glass, food and Gabrielle Rogers ...... Dialect Coach hot beverages are not permitted.

Sally Lattin ...... Direct Observation The use of photographic or recording equipment is not permitted inside the theatre.

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Dear Friends As you know, our company aspires to lead the country in the creation of new Australian stories and in the nurturing of new talent. The world premiere production of Queensland Premier’s Drama Award winning play Rice by Michele Lee achieves both.

Sam Strong Artistic Director

Rice is a highly accomplished work that run the only playwriting competition in confidently performs new playwriting’s the country that results in a guaranteed distinctive function of reflecting mainstage production. Second, we contemporary society back to itself. are proud to co-produce with Griffin And this is not just any society, it is Theatre Company, and benefit from Australian society right now: globalised, the extraordinary directorial talent of multicultural, unequal in circumstance their Artistic Director, Lee Lewis. Finally, but united by humanity. Michele Lee has Brisbane’s own Playlab has published the a knack for flipping effortlessly between text, giving it the best possible chance of the macro and the micro, the global and becoming the classic it deserves to be. the local, the universal human truth and The Queensland Premier’s Drama Award the recognisable specific detail of time or has ushered a generation of plays and place. It also expertly invokes the talents playwrights onto the mainstage. We look of its two actors, the astonishing Kristy forward to Rice joining that distinguished Best and Hsiao-Ling Tang, to transport canon of works and to this premiere and transform us. production delighting audiences in None of this would be possible without Brisbane, and Albury-Wodonga. our partners. First, the investment of the Enjoy Queensland Government enables us to Sam

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Message from The Premier of Queensland

It is with great pleasure that I introduce Rice by playwright Michele Lee, winner of the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2016-17.

Annastacia Palaszczuk Premier of Queensland

Established in 2002, the Queensland I would like to acknowledge the great Premier’s Drama Award is the only work done by Queensland Theatre over award of its kind in . It provides the Awards’ 15-year history. I commend the winner with a unique opportunity their commitment to nurturing Australian to see their work transformed, over a talent and to providing the public with period of two years, from a concept to a many powerful and memorable theatrical professionally staged performance. experiences. As Premier and Minister for the Arts I am Thank you for supporting Queensland a great supporter of creating pathways theatre and I hope that you enjoy the to promote the development of talented performance. artists, and to help ensure their work is shared and enjoyed with the wider community. Since its inception, Queensland Theatre has developed 27 plays as part of the ANNASTACIA PALASZCZUK MP Award, employing more than 200 actors, PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND writers and directors and introducing MINISTER FOR THE ARTS audiences of more than 26,000 to new Australian plays. Set against the backdrop of an Australian rice company, Ms Lee’s award-winning play explores the role of two multicultural women from vastly different vantage points, highlighting issues of identity and accountability.

7 Writer's Note

In the rehearsal room, as we moved through the script, we talked about the faint theme of fairytales and time within the play. That certain events in the past can start to feel mythical and magically distant, in that realm of ‘once upon a time’, even if they occurred recently.

Michele Lee June 2017

In recent times, I participated in Griffin geographically close to any of my Dad’s Theatre’s Storylab program, a week-long family, and she had eventually settled workshop of master classes and concept in America. Most of my life my Dad development (I think I was the one of the had talked frequently about moving to oldest ‘emerging artists’ in the program). America, somehow winning the green The concept I brought to Storylab card lottery, to be closer to his big and about Chinese women and the Country ever-expanding family. He was the only Women's Association (CWA) then gave one in Australia. I had only met my way to something new, an image of two grandmother a handful of times when I women, one Indian and one Chinese. travelled to America. The last time I saw The beginnings of this play, Rice. This her, it was on one of these trips, and she was 2012 or so, only five years ago and was biting back tears, waving me off. She yet it feels so tucked away in the past. knew her days were growing limited and In recent times, my paternal that we may never see each other again. grandmother died. I was at work when Initially I said Rice was about a plethora my Dad called. “Mummy’s died,” he of ‘big’ contemporary issues. As if I said, in English. He was talking about was some Michael Moore of theatre. his own mother, and he sounded like a Mass agriculture. Super economies. little boy, like a forlorn son. Unnerved, I Mercenary corporations. Women in walked back into the work planning day, business. Rice is about these things. thinking of this woman I barely knew. I But it’s probably, primarily, about two felt forlorn too, longing for something women searching for new friendships I’d never really had, and I bit back and new intimacies, new versions of tears. I had grown up in Australia, never family, however fleeting.

Acknowledgements Thank you to The Street Theatre for supporting an initial development, including actors Gowrie Varma and Annette Shun Wah; Playwriting Australia for supporting subsequent developments, including actors Kristy Best and Meme Thorne; and to Queensland Theatre for development support through the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, and again including actors Kristy Best and Meme Thorne. Thank you to the directors and dramaturgs who’ve supported the various developments: Kat Henry, Peter Matheson, Jane Bodie, Christie Evangelisto, Tanya Dickson and Bridget Boyle. Thank you to the Australia Council for an initial research and writing grant. And thank you to the various people who shared their life experiences and expertise with me as part of my research. Mass agriculture. Super economies. Mercenary corporations. Women in business. Rice is about these things. But it’s probably, primarily, about two women searching for new friendships and new intimacies, new versions of family, however fleeting.

L-R: Kristy Best, Hsiao-Ling Tang. Kristy Best Hsiao-Ling Tang

Lee Lewis Director’s Note

This play is about extraordinary partnerships. Two philanthropists, Thomas and Ingeborg Girgensohn, partnered with Griffin Theatre Company to fund a playwright development program. It was called Storylab, and over three years emerging writers were invited to participate in a week long workshop with senior practitioners to develop existing ideas and to Lee Lewis provoke new ideas for plays. Director

In the first year of Storylab I met Michele it must be good enough to produce. New Lee. One of the new ideas she was plays are always a risk, but with this award, interested in was global food technology. Queensland Theatre looks playwrights Interesting, I thought, and wow can she in the eye and steps up to the challenge. write dialogue… I hope she writes that AND, it is thrilling for Griffin Theatre play. Over four years later, as a judge in Company to partner with Queensland the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award Theatre in this enterprise. 2016-17, I finally got to read that play. But enough about the award – what about And the wow continued. The play won the play I hear you ask! the award. The amazing thing about this This play is a deceptively simple story award is the guarantee that the playwright of two women working in the city: one will see their play on the stage. a struggling cleaner, one a high flying The partnership between this state manager; one a migrant from China, government and this theatre company one a second generation Brisbane girl is as unique as it is extraordinary. This whose grandmother moved here from commitment to producing the winning West Bengal. It is a story of mothers, play does not happen anywhere else in daughters and grandmothers. It is filled the country. This is the award that will with ambition and love and loss and bad let Michele Lee see her first mainstage decisions… sounds like life right? And production. This production of Rice will it is. Because not only can Michele Lee introduce Michele Lee as a playwright to write dialogue, she can write beautiful, the whole country. A long path from an flawed, recognisable human characters. idea in a playwriting workshop, I know, but She has an ear and an eye for a story that an exciting one. is happening every day in this city, and It is always an honour to direct the first the courage of her convictions to shape production of a new play. It is even more those instincts into a brand new play. For of an honour to do so within the context of you. The very first audience. Thank you the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award. for your courage in being the first to be It is an incredibly inspiring award because here, for joining us in making a new story it is all about having the courage of your for Australia, for being part of the story of convictions – if it is good enough to win extraordinary partnerships. 11 Proud sponsors of Queensland Arts

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13 Michele Lee Hypochondriac, La Dispute. As Costume Design: : Chimerica, Endgame, Children of the WRITER Sun, Vere (Faith), Mariage Blanc. As Associate Designer: Michele is an Asian-Australian Sydney Theatre Company: Cyrano De Bergerac; As Design playwright and theatre-maker working Assistant: Sydney Theatre Company: The Mysteries; Token across stage and audio. Her works Events: Good Evening. As Part of Costume Art Department: are about female identity, otherness, Bell Shakespeare: Pericles. Film: As Designer: A Parachute intimacy and chaotic worlds, usually Falling in Siberia (short). As part of Art Department: The through a non-white perspective. She Distance Between (short). As part of Art Department Armour: has been commissioned by Radio Narnia – Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Positions: Resident National, Next Wave Festival, Darwin Festival, Platform Designer, Sydney Theatre Company (2012-2014). Training: Youth Theatre, St Martins Youth Arts Centre, Westside NIDA, Queensland College of Art. Circus, Platform Youth Theatre, Arts House, Griffin Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company Jason Glenwright and Malthouse Theatre. She is a previous recipient of an LIGHTING DESIGNER AWGIE, the Malcolm Robertson Prize and the Betty Burstall Commission. She is the 2017 co-writer in residence at Union Queensland Theatre: As Lighting House Theatre, and currently working on new plays about Designer: Rumour Has It (with The single women and about female security guards. Michele’s Little Red Company), Country Song, memoir, Banana Girl, was published by Transit Lounge. Argus (with Dead Puppet Society), I Want to Know What Love Is (with The Lee Lewis Good Room), A Tribute of Sorts (with Monsters Appear), The Removalists, DIRECTOR Faustus (with Bell Shakespeare),Water Falling Down, The Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Little Dog Laughed, Thom Pain (based on nothing). Other Credits: Griffin Theatre Company: The Credits: Griffin Theatre Company: A Hoax (with La Bleeding Tree, The Homosexuals or Boite Theatre Company); Opera Queensland: Kiss Me, ‘Faggots’, Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Kate; La Boite Theatre Company: Lady Beatle (with The Pornography, Masquerade (co-directed Little Red Company), The Tragedy of King Richard III, A with ), Gloria, Emerald City, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pale Blue Dot, Ruben Guthrie, A Rabbit for Kim Jong-il, The Serpent’s Julius Caesar, The Kursk; shake & stir theatre co: George’s Table (co-directed by Darren Yap), Replay, Silent Disco, The Marvellous Medicine, Endgame, Dracula, Romeo and Bull, The Moon and the Coronet of Stars, The Call, A Hoax, Juliet, Wuthering Heights, The Tempest, Roald Dahl’s The Nightwatchman, The Literati (with Bell Shakespeare); Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts, Tequila Mockingbird, Bell Shakespeare: The School for Wives and ; Out Damn Snot, 1984, Animal Farm; Harvest Rain Theatre Belvoir: That Face, This Heaven, Half and Half, A Number, Company: Cats (Arena Spectacular), Guys and Dolls, 7 Blowjobs and Ladybird; Melbourne Theatre Company: Blood Brothers, Oklahoma!, The Wizard of Oz, Hairspray, Rupert (including tour to Washington DC as part of the Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, Songs For A New World, World Stages International Arts Festival and to Sydney’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Theatre Royal in 2014); Sydney Theatre Company: Honour, Little Red Company: Rumour Has It, Wrecking Ball, How Love-Lies-Bleeding and ZEBRA!; Darwin Festival: Highway to Make Snow; JUTE Theatre Company: Joh for PM, of Lost Hearts; National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA): Big Paradise is Singing, The Salt Remains, Is My Lipstick on Love, Shopping and Fucking, After Dinner and The Winter’s Straight, Stewed, Delirium, Soph and the Real World, Tale; Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts At Sea Staring Up, The Shining Path, Cake; Expressions (WAAPA): As You Like It. Positions: Artistic Director, Griffin Dance Company: While Others Sleep; Belloo Creative: Theatre Company. Awards: 2016 Helpmann Awards - Best Hanako; Brisbane Powerhouse/TAM Productions: True Director for The Bleeding Tree. West, Sex with Strangers; Zen Zen Zo: Therese Raquin, The Tempest; Queensland Conservatorium: Val Machin Opera Renée Mulder Scenes 2017, Hansel & Gretel the Opera, Rent, Working the Musical, Into the Woods, Hair, Miss Saigon, Carousel, DESIGNER Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens, Fiddler on the Queensland Theatre: The Effect (with Roof; Queensland Music Festival: Drag QueensLand; Goat Sydney Theatre Company), Sacre Track Theatre: The Moth & The Moon, Aletheia, The Icarus Bleu, Fat Pig. Other Credits: As Chronicles, Crash; Debase: Concerto for Harmony & Presto, Designer: Griffin Theatre Company: Chasing The Lollyman; Oscar Theatre Company: Boy & Girl The Bleeding Tree, A Hoax, The Boys; (1,2&3), Next to Normal, [title of show], The 25th Annual Griffin Independent: The Pigeons; Putnam County Spelling Bee. Awards: Gold Matilda – Body Bell Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet of Work (Lighting Designer) – 2013, Matilda Award 2015 (Education); Sydney Theatre Company: Orlando, Battle (Best Technical Design), Matilda Award 2016 (Best Lighting of Waterloo, Perplex, The Long Way Home, Dance Better Design). Groundling Awards - Best Lighting Design 2010, At Parties, Mrs Warren’s Profession, The Splinter, Edward 2012 and 2013. Del Arte Awards – Best Lighting 2009, Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness, In A Heart Beat, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. Training: Bachelor of Actor on a Box - The Luck Child, Rough Draft #14 and Fine Arts (Technical Production), Queensland University of #9; La Boite Theatre Company: As You Like It, Ruben Technology. Guthrie, I Love You Bro; Theatre Forward: The Sneeze; New Theatre: The Herbal Bed; Sydney Young Actors Studio: The Wil Hughes All Begins With Love; Brisbane Powerhouse; QPAC; Out Of The Box; State Library of Queensland; National Play Festival. COMPOSER/AV DESIGNER As Event Co-ordinator: Sydney Festival; Seymour Centre; Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Carriageworks; AAMI Ferrython; Festival First Night. As Credits: Griffin Theatre Company: Assistant Stage Manager: SpoonTree Productions: The Man Debut; La Boite Theatre Company: The Sea Saw; Sydney Festival: Domain Concert Series; The Village, Single Asian Female, A Queensland Ballet: Don Quixote, Alice in Wonderland, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Wind in Swan Lake, King Arthur and The Tales Of Camelot, The the Willows; Queensland Ballet: Lest We Little Mermaid, Carmen, Fonteyn Remembered, Romeo & Forget; Expressions Dance Company: Juliet, The Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Propel; The Danger Ensemble: Caligula; Metro Arts: Dust Positions: Technical Coordinator - Brisbane Festival. Covered Butterfly, Exquisite, The Theory of Everything; Arts Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production), Centre Gold Coast: Allen, Unnatural Selection; Pentimento Queensland University of Technology. Productions: Tiptoe; Aboriginal Centre of Performing Arts: Blak Electric; Anywhere Theatre Festival: Sweet Meniscus; Rebecca Minuti Melbourne Theatre Company: The Carer (with Bay Street ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Productions); Storyshare International: Legends. Films: VIRAL. Queensland Theatre: As Assistant Stage Manager: Constellations, For the Tony Brumpton Moment, Where in the World is Frank Sparrow?, Switzerland. Other Credits: ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER As Assistant Stage Manager: Now Look Queensland Theatre: As Sound Here Theatre: The Lover and A Slight Designer: Tartuffe (with Black Swan Ache. Training: B.A. Fine Arts (Technical State Theatre Company), The Wider Production), Queensland University of Technology. Earth (with Dead Puppet Society). As Sound Designer/ Composer: Quartet, Kristy Best Grounded, Black Diggers (with Sydney NISHA Festival), The Mountaintop, Australia Day, Design For Living, Pygmalion, Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other No Man’s Land (with Sydney Theatre Company), Gasp! Credits: Griffin Theatre Company: (with Black Swan), Other Desert Cities (with Black Swan), Gloria; ATYP’s Under the Wharf Managing Carmen (with Black Swan), God of Carnage (with program and Raw Hide: Alaska; Black Swan), Sacre Bleu!, Macbeth (with Brisbane Festival), Newtown Theatre: Nothing Like Old Fat Pig, The Little Dog Laughed, The Crucible, I Am My Own Times; Powerhouse Theatre: She Loves Wife, Private Fears in Public Places, Absurd Person Singular, Me, She Loves Me Not; Q Theatre The Removalists, Waiting for Godot, Hurry Up and Wait (with Company: Truck Stop. Film: SFV1, Dance Academy, Teenage deBase Theatre Company), Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Kicks. Television: Channel host of Nickelodeon, Sunday Closed, Beckett x3, Maxine Mellor’s Mystery Project (with Best, Here Come the Habibs, Neighbours, Fat Pizza, Legally State Library of Queensland). As Co-Sound Designer: The Brown, Home and Away, Airlock. August Moon, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome: A Shakespeare Commentary (with Bell Shakespeare), Stones in his Pockets. Hsiao-Ling Tang Other Credits: White Rabbit Theatre Company: The Grand; Centenary of Canberra Festival: Kungkarangkalpa (Seven YVETTE Sisters Songlines); Brisbane Festival: Freeze Frame, King Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Here After; Dead Puppet Society: The Harbinger, The Timely Credits: Griffin Theatre Company: Death of Victor Blott; I-Pin Lin’s productions: Bamboo, Debut; LaBoite Theatre Company: Harmony, 4orces; QUT Dance: Current, Accented Bodies, Single Asian Female (including Altered States; As Director: Vena Cava: RABBAR. Positions: development through HWY series), Queensland Theatre: Affiliate Artist (2014), Associate Artist First Asylum; Queensland Musical (2011), Emerging Artist (2010). Dead Puppet Society: Theatre: Cabaret; St Ignatians: Rent; Resident Artist (2016). Lecturer at Queensland University of QLD Arts Council: Professor Burton’s Travelling Federation Technology. Show (including tour); Belvoir St Theatre: After China; Seymour Centre: Shattered Jade; Queensland University of Kathryn O’Halloran Technology: West Side Story; Development: PlayLab: Squint STAGE MANAGER Witch Film: Postcard Bandit, Tempted. Television: All Saints, H20 Just Add Water, and Sea Patrol. Training: BA Drama, Queensland Theatre: As Stage Queensland University of Technology. Manager: Once in Royal David’s City (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Switzerland, Happy Days, Treasure Island, An Oak Tree, Hurry Up and Wait! As Assistant Stage Manager: Tartuffe (with Black Swan State Theatre Company), Quartet, The Seagull, God Of Carnage, Rabbit Hole. Other Credits: Griffin Theatre Company: Debut; As Stage Manager: Creative Regions: It Thanks to our Sponsors

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17 PATRON MARKETING PROGRAMMING FRONT OF HOUSE His Excellency the Honourable MARKETING & AUDIENCE PROGRAMMING MANAGER / (QUEENSLAND THEATRE) Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of DEVELOPMENT MANAGER SENIOR PRODUCER Laura Bamford Queensland Tracey Webster Sophia Hall Isaac Buckland MEMBERS OF THE BOARD HEAD OF CAMPAIGNS ARTISTIC COORDINATOR Ben Davidson Elizabeth Jameson (Chair) Jane Hunterland Samantha French Roxane Eden Rachel Crowley MARKETING ASSISTANT PRODUCER (NEW WORK AND James Gatling Wayne Denning Louisa Sankey DEVELOPMENT) Anita Hughes Professor Richard Fotheringham MARKETING ASSISTANT Shari Irwin Cillian McDonald (Deputy Chair) (DIGITAL MARKETING) RESIDENT DESIGNER Laura Richardson Peter Hudson Thomas Manton–Williams Vilma Mattila Ellen Tuffley Susan Learmonth DIGITAL MARKETING OFFICER ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR Michael Veal Dr Andrea Moor David D’Arcy Hana Tow Keziah Young David Williamson GRAPHIC DESIGNER EDUCATION AND YOUTH FOUNDING DIRECTOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Aleesha Cuffe PROGRAMS Ian Edwards, AM, MBE Sam Strong PUBLICIST PRODUCER (EDUCATION & (1925-2003) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Kath Rose and Associates YOUTH PROGRAMS) Sue Donnelly QUEENSLAND THEATRE TICKETING Heidi Irvine ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRODUCTION STAFF TICKETING SUPERVISOR PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR Paige Rattray CARPENTER Eloise Sowden Laurel Collins EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Jamie Bowman SENIOR TICKETING OFFICER ASSOCIATE ARTIST (EDUCATION Jacki Micola PROPS MAKER Donna Fields-Brown AND YOUTH) Aleksis Waaralinna DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE & TICKETING OFFICERS Travis Dowling SCENIC ARTIST OPERATIONS Madison Bell, Annabelle Hazell INDIGENOUS REFERENCE Leo Herreygers DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DATABASE TRAINER / GROUP PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN Amanda Jolly SUPERVISOR Wayne Denning (Chair) Mat Allan CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS Rory Killen Jimi Bani LIGHTING OPERATOR MANAGER PRODUCTION Dr Valerie Cooms Michael Hedges Nikki Porter PRODUCTION MANAGER Nathan Jarro SOUND CONSULTANT DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Toni Glynn Andrew Lye Alana Tierney NATIONAL ARTISTIC TEAM TECHNICAL COORDINATOR COMMUNICATIONS & GRANT Jimi Bani ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Daniel Maddison COORDINATOR Wayne Blair PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNICAL COORDINATOR Anja Homburg Margi Brown Ash Stephen Henry Sam Maher FINANCE MANAGER Marcel Dorney REHEARSAL PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNICAL COORDINATOR Valerie Cole Christie Evangelisto Brett Boardman Photography Lachlan Cross ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT Kat Henry QPDA Creative Developments PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Georgia Knight Nakkiah Lui Kristy Best, Meme Thorne, Canada White FINANCE OFFICER Annette Madden Hsiao-Ling Tang, Kat Henry, TOURING COORDINATOR Sarra Lamb Renée Mulder Lee Lewis Michael Rogerson VENUE & OPERATIONS Lucas Stibbard QPDA Reading HEAD OF WORKSHOP SUPERVISOR Kristy Best, Meme Thorne, Peter Sands Julian Messer Bridget Boyle COMPANY CARPENTER/HEAD FRONT OF HOUSE QPDA Judging Panel MECHANIST COORDINATOR Dr Kate Foy, Ian Lawson, John Pierce Kate Hardy Lee Lewis, Louise Litchfield, COSTUME SUPERVISOR Sam Strong Nathalie Ryner Queensland Theatre WARDROBE COORDINATOR is a member of the Barbara Kerr Australian Major Performing Arts Group.

QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Queensland Performing ARTS CENTRE Arts Trust is a statutory body of the State of Queensland PO Box 3567, South Bank, and is partially funded by the Queensland Government Queensland 4101 The Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk MP Premier and T: (07) 3840 7444 Minister for the Arts Director-General, Department of the W: qpac.com.au Premier and Cabinet: David Stewart Chair Chris Freeman AM Executive Staff Executive Director – Development: Deputy Chair Simon Gallaher Chief Executive: John Kotzas Megan Kair Trust Members Executive Director – Stakeholder Executive Director – Business Kylie Blucher Engagement Strategy: Jackie Branch Performance: Kieron Roost Professor Peter Coaldrake AO Executive Director – Curatorial: Sophie Mitchell Ross Cunningham Professor Chris Sarra Executive Director – Visitation: Leanne de Souza Roxanne Hopkins Information correct at time of printing ABOUT

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