ALEX THEW - CAST

Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2016, Alex Thew is a Melbourne based Actor and Artist. Alex’s recent theatre credits include Love You Bitch (Theatreworks), Truly Madly Britney (Theatreworks); Two sellout seasons of Lou Wall’s Drag Race (Melbourne Fringe/The Griffin Theatre); Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (VCA) and HOLT! Who goes there? (Melbourne Fringe). In 2018 they were nominated for Best Performance and won Best Emerging Artist (Melbourne Fringe). Alex also performs drag under the name Copper Feel.

@copper_feel

BEN NOBLE - CAST & CREATIVE PRODUCER

He is the founder and creative producer of Fairly Lucid Productions.  

Ben received his Masters from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and studied at RADA, Atlantic Theater Company Acting School, Brave Studios & 16th Street. 

Theatre highlights include: Playlist 21 (Red Stitch Actors Theatre) The Campaign (Gavin Roach), Doctor Faustus, Little Light (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), As You like It (Shakespeare’s Globe) Two Gentlemen of Verona (RADA), MEMBER, Raton Laveur, Something From Nothing, interrogation (Fairly Lucid Productions), Wind in the Willows (Australian Shakespeare Company), The Subtle Art of Falling (Tunks Productions) Scrooge (Stage West Canada), Phaedra’s Love (Abstract Chaos), One Last (SummerWorks).  Film & TV highlights: Underbelly (Channel 9), Quiz (Nobull Productions), BJ Fletcher Private Eye (Bee Charmer Productions). 

As the writer, Ben received the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Playwrighting Award for MEMBER and St Martins Best Play Award (Short Trip - Winner, Pick A Card – 3rd Prize, Go, Fish - Finalist).  

@bennobleofficial 

MARK CRAWFORD - PLAYWRIGHT

Mark Crawford is one of Canada’s most popular playwrights. His work has been produced across Canada and internationally. He is the author of Stag and Doe; Bed and Breakfast; The Birds and the Bees; Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures; The New Canadian Curling Club; and a solo show, Chase the Ace, which premiered and toured in 2021. Also an actor, Mark has performed at theatres from coast to coast, and is currently appearing in the Canadian premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. He has been short-listed for the Tom Hendry Awards, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award. Mark grew up on his family’s beef farm, studied at University of Toronto and Sheridan College, and now lives with his partner in Stratford, Ontario.

TOM HEALEY - DIRECTOR

Tom graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1989. Over the last thirty years he has worked as a director, a dramaturg and an actor for theatre companies around the nation. His previous productions include: American Song - national tour-, Jumpers for Goalposts and The Shape of Things - national tour - (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); Heisenberg (MTC); The Kid (Griffin); The Spook (Malthouse Theatre); Elegy, The Sign of the Seahorse, Ancient Enmity, Insouciance, The Fat Boy and Falling Petals (Playbox); Let’s Get it On (Room 8); Doris Day – So Much More Than the Girl Next Door (Boldjack); Disarming Rosetta and Inside Out (Hothouse Theatre); Good Evening (Token) with Sean Micallef and Stephen Curry; The Man In Black (Folsom Prison Productions); Eddie Perfect’s solo shows, Drink Pepsi, Bitch (Malthouse Theatre and tour); and Angry Eddie (Chapel Off Chapel). Tom is currently the Associate Dramaturg at Red Stitch. Previous positions include Head of Acting and Directing at Flinders Drama Centre, Literary Manager at the Australian Script Centre, Artistic Director of the Australian National Playwrights’ Conference and Artistic Associate at Playbox. He has been a proud member of the MEAA since 1989.

SAM DIAMOND - PRODUCTION DESIGN

Raised in Boorloo/Perth, Sam is a Naarm/Melbourne based set, costume and lighting designer. He is a graduate of the Master of Design for Performance (VCA) and holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design (Architecture) from the University of Western Australia. Sam is the 2022 Graduate Designer for Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre and was the recipient of the 2019 Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship for excellence in production. Projects include Caught – Assistant lighting design (Red Stitch 2022), Darling Boy – Lighting design (The Butterfly Club 2022), PASH - Set Design (Seemingly Wholesome Productions / MICF 2022), Sowing Seeds – Set & costume design (Gasworks 2022), Earthquakes in London – Set Design (VCA Acting Company 2020/21), HYDRA – Lighting intern (Double Water Sign / Darebin Arts, 2021), Abyss – Set, costume, lighting design (Independent Directors Project, VCA 2020), SWAG – Co-designer (2019 Prague Quadrennial – Australian Students Exhibit), On The Town – Associate lighting designer (VCA Music Theatre Company, 2019).

BROWNYN PRINGLE - LIGHTING DESIGN

Bronwyn Pringle is a lighting designer and theatre maker who has spent the past 25+ years lighting everything from large festivals to strange theatrical experiments in venues that include The Princess Theatre, a London West End Nightclub, a warehouse in Buenos Aires, the Federation Square air-conditioning ducts and a wool-shed in Glencoe. Bronwyn received the 2020 Green Room Award for technical achievement, as well as Green Room Awards for alias Grace (Malthouse Theatre) and Letters from Animals (Here Theatre/SRWT) and two Melbourne Fringe Festival Design Collaboration awards.

LEE MCCLENAGHAN - STAGE MANAGER

Lee has been a production runner and chaperone for the ABC, hosted an interview based program Behind The Words (C31) and played Helene McKenzie in the drama/comedy series Under The Milky Way (C31), which earned her an award for ‘Best Actor in a Narrative Drama, Comedy or Sketch’ for the 2019 Antenna Awards. She has studied under Wendy Ward, performing as part of the Ward Theatre Company and at The Melbourne Actor’s Lab. With Choo Choo Productions she co-produced, co-directed and featured in a trilogy of short films. The first in the trilogy Half of Me had its premiere screening at the 2019 St Kilda Film Festival, made official selection into the Rome Film Awards, Moscow Shorts and London Independent Film Awards, where it won Lee a ‘Best Actress’ Award. All of Me, the third in the trilogy, which she directed, premiered at Lorne Film 2019 and all three films were selected to screen together in the online programming of the Geelong International Film Festival 2020 and Sydney World Film Festival 2021. Lee has been an ensemble member of Girls Act Good since 2014. She co-produced and directed their immersive theatre and short feature The Association which was a part of the AACTA Social Shorts and wrote and performed her own episode in their web series Last Breath.