Alphabet Studio Alphabet (Indigenous Fabrics Designer) Fabrics (Indigenous DESIGN King Djordon Kamahi Scott, Khym Brett Boardman Brett THANKS PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Islander Strait Torres and Aboriginal all and present, and past Elders the to respect pay also We built. is Theatre St Belvoir which on land the of custodians traditional the are who nation Eora the of people Gadigal the acknowledge We Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir is supported by The Balnaves Foundation. Balnaves The by supported is Belvoir at Theatre Indigenous ’. Pieces ‘ to Contributed Shipstone Warwick James and ’ You to Chained ‘ to contributed Gillies Merenia , Sista’ Tick ‘ to music contributed also Gordon Vicki * Michelle Vincent Michelle Drums Drums Sorcha Albuquerqu Sorcha e Guitar Jessica Dunn Jessica Guitar Bass and Director Musical Musicians Shakira Clanton Clanton Shakira (Understudy) Ursula Yovich Ursula Elaine Crombie Elaine Brady Troy With Riley Spadaro Riley Assistant Director Director Assistant Kiss Brooke Assistant Stage Manager Manager Stage Assistant Nelson Cecilia Stage Manager Manager Stage Cox Matt Lighting Realiser Realiser Lighting Adm Ventoura Adm Director Rehearsal Musical Steve Toulmin Steve Designer Sound Norris Karen Designer Lighting Chloe Greaves Chloe Designer Costume Stephen Curtis Stephen Designer Set Wednesday 6 December 2017 and the return season opened Friday 5 April 2019. April 5 Friday opened season return the and 2017 December 6 Wednesday on Theatre St Belvoir at opened Dogs Camp the and Barbara of production This Songs by Alana Valentine, Ursula Yovich & Adm Ventoura* Adm & Yovich Ursula Valentine, Alana by Songs Cáceres Leticia Valentine Alana Yovich Ursula Director Director and By RILEY SPADARO SHAKIRA CLANTON ASSISTANT DIRECTOR BARBARA UNDERSTUDY Riley is a director with a practice in devised Shakira is a 2015 graduate of the National performance and new writing. He is a Institute of Dramatic Art, prior to which she graduate of both WAAPA (Performance trained in the Aboriginal Theatre Program Making, 2017) and NIDA (Directing, at WAAPA in Perth and the Aboriginal 2019). In 2017, Riley received a research Centre of the Performing Arts in Brisbane. grant from the Department of Foreign Theatre credits include the one woman Affairs and Trade to study cross-cultural show The Weekend (Sydney Festival / approaches to performer training at the Mooghalin Performing Arts Inc), Simone Intercultural Theatre Institute, Singapore. Tucker in The Long Forgotten Dream (STC), In the same year, Riley seconded on the The Narrator in Creature (Stalker Theatre original production of Barbara and the Company) and the Blacktown Angel in Camp Dogs at Belvoir, and interned with Home Country (Sydney Festival / Urban Performing LinesWA where he worked Theatre Projects). Film and TV credits on the national tours of Sensorium include: Alex in Diary of an Uber Driver Theatre’s Oddysea and Roslyn Oades’ (ABC TV), Jo in Doctor Doctor (Essential Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday. Media & Entertainment), Debs in Hyde and Recent directing credits include a reading Seek (Matchbox Pictures), Jodie in Scout of Lachlan Philpott’s Promiscuous Cities (Noble Savage Pictures) and herself in the (Seymour Centre/ Mardi Gras); the devised SBS documentary series Brainscience. work We Are Gods and VeronicaFlynn’s She Waits No Longer (NIDA); Essie Holt’s Distant Places (Triple JUnearthed/NIDA); Josephine Macken’s The Tent (Sydney Chamber Opera); Anna Barnes’ Minus One Sister (The Blue Room Theatre). Recent assistant directing credits include Anna Jordan’s Stay Happy, Keep Smiling (NIDA); and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti (Lost and Found Opera). Later this year, Riley will direct Antoinette Barbouttis’ Cool Pool Party in Sydney and Chris Edwards’ This Bitter Earth in Melbourne. 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Leticia 2017 run of Barbara and the Camp Queensland Music Festival (2013), 2017 run of Barbara and The Camp Seed, (Belvoir), Dubboo, One’s has received Screen Australia Dogs (Belvoir), and Composer’s touring North America, Canada and Dogs, Love Me Tender, and Uncle Country, OUR Land People Stories, funding to transition into film and Assistant for Harp in the South Hawaii (2014), and selling out the Vanya. Other credits include: for Blak, Belong (Bangarra Dance TV. Her debut short Wild won ‘Best (Sydney Theatre Company). She Hong Kong Concert Hall (2015). Moogahlin – Winyanboga Yurringa Theatre), Lake Disappointment First Time Film’ at the London Film has performed widely in Australia She was Associate Producer for and Broken Glass, for choreographer (Carriageworks), She Loves Me Awards and ‘Next-Gen Film Award’ and internationally with artists as Romaine Moreton’s One Billion Beats Narelle Benjamin – In Glass, KAAL, (Hayes Theatre Company), The at the 2018 Melbourne Women diverse as Shubha Mudgal (India), co-written with Alana Valentine Hiding In Plain Sight, Forseen and Trouble With Harry (Siren Theatre in Film Festival. Her second film Sandy Evans, Claire Daly (USA), (2016). She is currently Founding Cella (Colours Dance Festival 2017, Co), Diplomacy (Ensemble), The True History of Billie the Kid Satoko Fuji (Japan), Walter Martin Executive Director and Producer Stuttgart, Sydney Festival 2018, Reflections on Gallipoli (Australian premiered at the 2018 Melbourne (USA) and Ensemble Offspring. for Australian Women in Music Dance Massive 2019), for Bangarra – Chamber Orchestra), Burrbgaja International Film Festival. Leticia Awards and Producer for Black Skin, Terrain and Sheoak. Karen has Yalirra (Marrugeku), Goldner String won the Helpmann Award for Heart Black Stone with David Leha. also designed lighting for Barefoot Quartet (Musica Viva), The Miser, Best Direction of a Mainstage Divas (Sydney Festival 2015), Songs Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet (Bell URSULA YOVICH production for The Drover’s Wife by Not to Dance To, Champions (Sydney Shakespeare) Possum Magic, CO-WRITER / SONGWRITER Leah Purcell, for Belvoir in 2016. Festival 2017), Sue Healey’s On The Unknown Soldier, Diary of a / BARBARA View (Performance Space), KOTAHI Wombat (Monkey Baa), Wharf Ursula is a multi-award-winning (Atamira Dance Company), Blak Box Revue 2018, Ruby Moon (Sydney actor working for all our major (Urban Theatre Projects, Sydney Theatre Company), The Mousetrap, theatre companies; Barbara and The Festival 2019), and Sugarland (ATYP). A Murder is Announced (Louise Camp Dogs, The Governor’s Family, Her work for Skin was nominated Withers and Associates), Alice Capricornia (Belvoir); The Sapphires for the Helpmann Awards 2001, in Wonderland (Michael Sieders (MTC / Belvoir); Corrugation Road and for Sheoak was nominated for Presents), Symphony (Legs on (Black Swan); The Sunshine Club the Green Room Award 2015. the Wall), The Libertine, Othello, (STC / QT); The Resistible Rise Antigone, The River at the End of of Arturo Ui, Bloodland, Love and SORCHA ALBUQUERQUE the Road, The Tempest (Sport for Information, Power Plays, Romeo and LEAD GUITAR Jove), This Much is True, A View From Juliet, The Golden Age, The Secret Sorcha is a Sydney based jazz STEPHEN CURTIS the Bridge (Red Line Productions), River (STC); Mother Courage (QT); guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. SET DESIGNER His Music Burns (Sydney Chamber Heart is a Wasteland (Malthouse Originally hailing from Perth, Stephen has worked extensively Opera), and the Aurora Spiegeltent / Brown Cab Productions); The TROY JUNGAJI BRADY Sorcha began playing the cello as a Set and Costume Designer (2014) and The Famous Spiegeltent Magic Hour (Deckchair); Man with JOSEPH at the age of 8 and guitar at 14, for drama, film, opera, dance and (2015, 2016) for Sydney Festival. the Iron Neck, The Barefoot Divas Troy keeps cultural fires burning and graduated from the Western physical theatre. For Belvoir he has Matt currently tutors for the National (Sydney Festival); Diving for Pearls, through his lyrics and music, sharing Australian Academy of Performing designed Barbara and The Camp Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Nailed (Griffin); Waltzing The Wilarra these stories around the world. Arts with a Bachelor of Music Dogs, The Drover’s Wife, Twelfth (Yirra Yaakin); My Girragundji (Bell The Western GuGu Yelanji and (Jazz Performance) in 2013. Since Night, and Gwen in Purgatory; for Shakespeare). Film credits: Top Birri Gubba singer and songwriter relocating to Sydney in 2014, Sorcha Malthouse he has designed Away, End Wedding, Australia, Goldstone, shares his stories of country through has played with notable local and It Just Stopped and Picasso at the Jindabyne. Television: The Code, contemporary folk/roots music. He international artists such as Ingrid Lapin Agile. Other major credits STEVE TOULMIN Devil’s Dust, Redfern Now, The Gods also appeared in the original Belvoir Jenson (NYC), Silke Eberhart (GER), include: All About My Mother, The SOUND