Fringe, the 2016 Outstanding performing arts as an actor, production. She was in the Access Award at Melbourne singer and producer. London and Sydney seasons Fringe, and a 2015 Nominee of Working Title’s production for GLOBE LGBTI Artist of the Simon Corfield of Billy Elliot, for which she Year. Mama has worked with Kim received a Helpmann Award Brook Andrew, Phillip Adams Simon’s acting credits include: for Best Female Actor in a BalletLab, is a proud alumni of for Griffin: Motortown, Orestes Musical, the Sydney Theatre GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY IN ASSOCIATION Monash Uni Student Theatre, 2.0, Tattoo; for Belvoir: Bliss; for Critics Award for the Judith WITH MALTHOUSE THEATRE PRESENTS and a company member of Darlinghurst Theatre Company: Johnson Award for Best Finucane & Smith, with whom The Bee, Every Second, Torch Performance by an Actress in she was amongst the cast who Song Trilogy; for Melbourne a Musical and the Green Room THE HOMOSEXUALS received the Best International Theatre Company: The Goat Award for Best Female Artist OR ‘FAGGOTS’ Production Award at the or Who is Sylvia?, The Lonely in a Leading Role. Genevieve’s CHAMACO Awards, Cuba. Wolf; for Tamarama Rock TV credits include: After the BY DECLAN GREENE Surfers: Poster Girl, Trapture; Beep, Heartland, Neighbours, Simon Burke and for Vass Theatre Group: Prisoner, Rake, Redfern Now, 17 MARCH-29 APRIL Warren Bad Jews. He performed in The Secret River, Three Men Simon has appeared in over The One Eyed Man is King for and a Baby Grand and Top 130 stage productions in Schaubuhne Berlin. Simon was of the Lake, for which she Australia and the UK, including in the national tour of Critical received Equity Ensemble for Griffin: October, Satango; Stage’s multi-award winning Award for Oustanding Q for Belvoir: Snugglepot & musical cabaret, Songs For The Performance by an Ensemble Cuddlepie; for Black Swan Fallen. His TV and film credits in a Telemovie or Mini-Series. State Theatre Company: include: Blue Heelers, COPS: Her film credits include: Billy’s Clinton The Musical; for L.A.C., Crownies, Darwin’s Holiday, The Dressmaker, Ensemble Theatre: They’re Brave New World, Packed Holy Smoke, The Piano, Soft THE U Playing our Song; for To The Rafters. Simon is the Fruit, Suburban Mayhem, Kookaburra Theatre Company: co-creator of the web comedy and Sweetie, for which she Company; for Harvest Rain series The Birth of Creation received the Australian Film Theatre Co: Hairspray; for and a founding member of the Critics Award for Best Actress. IMG: Chicago The Musical; for award-winning performance Genevieve has an album of her A HOMOSEXUALS Melbourne Theatre Company: group SandS through the Sydney Opera House concert, Take Me Out; for Sydney hourglass. He is a graduate of Angels in the City. Theatre Company: A Little Night WAAPA (Acting). Music, Mr Kolpert, Mrs Warren’s Lincoln Younes Profession, She Stoops To Genevieve Lemon Lucacz S E Conquer, The Wharf Revue, Up Diana This is Lincoln’s first For Grabs; and for Performing Genevieve’s theatre credits production with Griffin. His Lines’ national tour of Three include: for Griffin: The Big credits for television include: Furies. In London’s West End Picture; for Belvoir: The City Homocide, Hiding, Home he has starred as Captain von Blind Giant Is Dancing, The & Away, Love Child, Tangle, Trapp in The Sound of Music, Cosmonaut’s Last Message, for which he won Most H N as Raoul in Phantom of the Death Of A Salesman, Outstanding Performance by Opera, in A Little Night Music Seventeen; for Ensemble an Actor. Lincoln’s film credits opposite Dame Judi Dench Theatre: Tribes, Broken include: Down Under, The and in the European premieres Glass; for Melbourne Theatre Wedding Party. of the Australian classics Company: Piaf, Summer Of T Holding the Man and When The Seventeenth Doll; for the Rain Stops Falling. Simon’s Sydney Theatre Company: television credits include: Deep The Girl Who Saw Everything, Water, Hustle, Miss Fisher’s The Hanging, Hanging Man, Murder Mysteries, Rake and Harbour, Hay Fever, The Madras PRODUCTION DONORS A South Pacific. For 25 years House, Merrily We Roll Along, Simon was one of ABC TV’s Play Miracle City, Morning Sacrifice, School’s best-loved presenters. Noises Off, Once In A Lifetime, Presenting Partner At age 13, Simon starred The Recruit, The Republic Rebel Penfold-Russell in Fred Schepisi’s feature of Myopia, The Seagull, YOU G film The Devil’s Playground, Summer Rain, Victory, The winning the AACTA Award for Wharf Revue; for Queensland Production Patrons Best Actor, the youngest-ever Theatre Company: And A Anonymous recipient of this honour. He Nightingale Sang, Brilliant Andrew Bell & THANK went on to reprise this role Lies, The Venetian Twins. Joanna Bird 40 years later in mini-series Genevieve also performed in Devil’s Playground for which he the Australian premieres of Robert Dick was also Executive Producer. Steaming, Steel Magnolias, & Erin Shiel In 2015 Simon received the Priscilla Queen of the Richard McHugh AO (Officer of the Order of Desert The Musical, and The & Kate Morgan th Australia) for his service to the Mousetrap 65 Anniversary Bruce Meagher & Greg Waters Penelope Wass Richard Weinstein & Richard Benedict Government Partners Production Partners Gil Appleton Rodney Cambridge Michael Hobbs Supported by our Production Partner program Tony Jones In association with Griffi n acknowledges the generosity of the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation Steve Riethoff in allowing it the use of the SBW Stables Theatre rent free, less outgoings, since 1986. Diana Simmonds The Farce is popular enough, when it comes to revivals. In This is where I’ve wound up setting my BIOGRAPHIES Darwin Festival: Highway of State Theatre Company and National Studio program; for the last few years in Australia we’ve seen plays like Noises farce: square in the cross-fire of a culture Declan Greene Lost Hearts; for the National Belvoir: The Sapphires, which Jetpack Theatre Collective: Off, A Flea In Her Ear, and One Man, Two Guvners hit stages war where outrage is currency, feelings are Playwright Institute of Dramatic Art: Big toured nationally,BIOGRAPHIES and to South How. Dare., co-written for Declan Greene is a theatre- Love, Shopping and Fucking, Korea and London’s Barbican Sydney Fringe Festival; to mass delight. But as far as new playwriting goes, over facts, sensitivities are ignored, atonement maker based in Melbourne. His After Dinner and The Winter’s Theatre; with Melbourne for Montague Basement: the last few decades the Farce has gone the way of the is impossible, and simplistic buzz- words previous works as a playwright Tale; and for the Western Theatre Company: National Kaleidoscope, Telescope; Passion Play, the Verse Drama, and Commedia dell’Arte... like ‘Cultural Marxism’, ‘Social Engineering’, include: for Griffin Theatre Australian Academy of Interest; with Queensland for Old Fitz Theatre: Are We All thoroughly—and in some cases, mercifully—extinct. and ‘Snowflake’ are used to stifle Company and Perth Theatre Performing Arts: As You Like It. Theatre Company: Other Awake?, written as part of the discourse in much the same manner as Company: Eight Gigabytes Desert Cities, Gasp!, Managing New Fitz Writers Program; for A couple of years ago I was speaking with another writer ‘Bigotry’, ‘Privilege’, and ‘Nazi’. As the Left of Hardcore Pornography, Marg Horwell Carmen. Other highlights: I Am Smoking Gum Theatre: Before about why farces are so rarely written these days. We both Eora at Sydney Festival and and Right slowly distil their values into pure which won the Max Afford Designer the Water Gets Cold. His credits agreed that the stakes necessary to manufacture this Playwright’s Award; for Marg is a multi award winning Waltzing The Wilarra at Perth for dramaturgy include: for black and white, I’ve tried to write a play of mechanical type of playwriting were, in general, absent Malthouse Theatre: I Am A designer and is the Designer International Arts Festival. leftofcentre: Transience; for muddy grey in-betweens. It’s a comic play from our contemporary lives. The plays of Feydeau— Miracle, which won the Green In Residence at Malthouse Trent is a recipient of the Mike Montague Basement: The Big about comedy. An offensive play about Room Award for Best Writing Theatre. Marg has won six Walsh Fellowship and WA Bruise. Charles is currently unquestionably the greatest farceur—were written during offence. A work which oscillates moment for the Australian Stage, Greenroom Awards and two Department of Culture and the directing drama students at the Belle Époque era, a time of tremendous moral upheaval to moment between Politically Correct and Pompeii and L.A; for Malthouse Sydney Theatre Awards for Arts Young People Fellowship. the Australian Institute of in France. Most of his farces feature highly-repressed Problematic (or its ‘fun’ alternative: Theatre & Arena Theatre her work. Her theatre credits A graduate of WAAPA Performing Arts in a play about married couples who, for one reason or another, are driven Company: Moth, which won include: for Griffin: Eight (Production & Design). trans youth. Probbo!); attempting to defy the lazy wild with the desire to cheat on their spouse—even though the AWGIE Award for Theatre Gigabytes of Hardcore categorisations we’ve taken to using in our to be discovered en flagrante would mean social death. for Young Audiences. As a Pornography; for Angus Cerini Steve Toulmin Rhianne Perrie knee-jerk summation of art, public director and dramaturg his Doubletap: Chapters From The Composer & Sound Designer Stage Manager When I decided to try my hand at writing a contemporary discourse, and the existence of certain credits include: for Griffin, La Pandemic, Resplendence, Save Steve’s credits as Composer This is Rhianne’s first farce, I hit my first obstacle in the creation of these stakes.