GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS GRIFFIN THEATRE THE COMPANY HAPPY PRINCE BY LITTLE ONES THEATRE 25 JUNE – 6 JULY Pia Johnson Image: An ode to the power From the company that brought Merciless Gods to the Griffin stage comes a queer re-telling of romance in a of one of Oscar Wilde’s most beloved and tender stories. Little Ones Theatre’s award-winning The Happy Prince is a playful and poetic visual fable torturous world. about the earth-shattering love that grows between a golden statue and a spritely swallow. Directed by Stephen Nicolazzo (Best Director, 2018 Green Room Awards) and brought to life by unforgettable performances from Catherine Davies and Janine Watson. Originally developed and presented by La Mama. Content Warning This show contains adult themes, nudity, smoking of herbal cigarettes, smoke and haze effects. Stephen Nicolazzo Eugyeene Teh for Melbourne Theatre Company: Abigail’s Director Set & Costume Designer Party; for Malthouse Theatre/Sydney Theatre Stephen is the Artistic Eugyeene has worked Company: Calpurnia Descending; and for Director and founder extensively with companies Sydney Chamber Opera: Exil, Oh Mensch. of Little Ones Theatre. including Back to Back, Daniel Nixon He has directed works CAAP, Griffin Theatre Composition & Sound extensively for mainstage Company, Little Ones Designer and independent companies, and arts Theatre, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre festivals across Australia including: for Griffin Company, and Sydney Chamber Opera, as well Daniel is a composer, Independent/Arts Centre Melbourne: Merciless as internationally. He has received a Green sound designer and multi- Room Award for Best Set and Costume Design Gods; for Malthouse Theatre: Meme Girls, instrumentalist. He has (The Happy Prince) and the Keith and Elisabeth Salome; for Melbourne Theatre Company: performed with MSO, Murdoch Travelling Fellowship. Eugyeene’s Abigail’s Party; for Red Stitch Actor’s Theatre: Orchestra Victoria, Sabine Meyer, Mikko Franck work will next be seen in Bell Shakespeare’s Suddenly Last Summer, The Moors; for Arts and many others. He has written and recorded Titus Andronicus, directed by Adena Jacobs, at multiple albums and has worked extensively House/Yirramboi Festival: Daddy; for Theatre Sydney Opera House. Works: Dracula, The Nightingale and the Rose, as a session player and programmer. He has The House of Yes; as well as touring productions Katie Sfetkidis scored and designed numerous films, games, including: for Brisbane Festival/Theatre Works: Lighting Designer ads and plays for various companies including: Psycho Beach Party; for Brisbane Powerhouse/ Arts Centre Melbourne, Little Ones Theatre, Katie Sfetkidis is an award- Darwin Festival/Melbourne Theatre Company; Melbourne Theatre Company, Red Stitch Actor’s winning lighting designer Dangerous Liaisons. Stephen has received Theatre and Sport for Jove. Daniel has been and contemporary artist, a Green Room Award for Best Direction (The nominated for two Green Room Awards for his who works across theatre, Happy Prince) and has been nominated for work with Little Ones Theatre, including The dance and experimental a further three (Dracula, The Moors, Psycho Happy Prince and Suddenly Last Summer. performance. Katie’s lighting design credits Beach Party). include: for Griffin Independent/Little Ones Theatre/Arts Centre Melbourne: Merciless Gods; for Little Ones Theatre: The Happy Prince, Dangerous Liaisons, Dracula, Psycho Beach Party, Salome; for Aphids: A Singular Phenomenon, The Director; for Arts House/Yirramboi: Daddy; for Belvoir: Kill the Messenger; for Darlinghurst Theatre Company: An Act of God; for Hayes Theatre/ One Eyed Man Productions: Spamalot; for La Boite: Lysa and the Freeborn Dames, Romeo and Juliet; for Malthouse Theatre: Meme Girls; Catherine Davies Janine Watson SPECIAL THANKS The Swallow The Happy Prince James Lew (Set Design Installation and Tour) Catherine graduated from Janine is an actor Ensemble Theatre QUT with a BFA (Acting) and director. She is a Sport for Jove in 2006 and trained at HB graduate of the National Studio, New York in 2010. Theatre Drama School in She has extensive experience Melbourne, and undertook in developing new Australian work, with a training with the SITI Company in New strong focus on giving a platform to Asian- York and Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre. Her Australian, queer and marginalised voices. most recent acting credits include: for Bell Her most recent theatre credits include: for Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, The Griffin: The Turquoise Elephant; for Griffin/ Dream; for Little Ones Theatre: Dangerous Bell Shakespeare: The Misanthrope; for Liaisons, Dracula; The Happy Prince; for KXT Apocalypse Theatre Company: Angels bAKEHOUSE: American Beauty Shop; for MKA in America; for Arthur Productions: Cut Melbourne: JATO, Triangle (Green Room Award Snake (national tour), Myth Project; for Bell nomination); for Red Line Productions at the Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice; for Old Fitz: A View from the Bridge, Dolores; and Belvoir: An Enemy of the People, Back at the for Sport for Jove: Antigone, Measure for Dojo, The Kiss; for Chunky Move: Complexity of Measure, Three Sisters. Janine won the GLUG Belonging; for Little Ones Theatre: Dangerous Award for Best Supporting Actress for A View Liaisons, Dracula, sex.violence.blood.gore; The from the Bridge, and was nominated for a Happy Prince; for Sydney Theatre Company/ Sydney Theatre Award for the same show. Malthouse Theatre: Going Down; and for US- Janine’s directing credits include: for Bell A-UM: Lord of the Flies (Malthouse Helium Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (2018 In- Season). Catherine is in the upcoming SBS/ Theatres Education Program); for Ensemble Matchbox series Hungry Ghosts and in 2019 will Theatre: Unqualified; for Red Line Productions appear in Adena Jacobs’ Titus Andronicus for at the Old Fitz: Crimes of the Heart, Dolores Bell Shakespeare. (co-directed with Kate Box), Fierce, Infinity Taster; for the Melbourne Fringe: Agatha; and as Assistant Director: for the Ensemble Theatre: Relatively Speaking, Tribes. Janine was the inaugural recipient of the Sandra Bates Directing Award. Griffin acknowledges the generosity of the GRIFFIN Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation in THEATRE allowing it the use of the SBW Stables Theatre COMPANY rent free, less outgoings, since 1986..