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WRITER/PRODUCER:  Meg McNena is an eager, collaborative writer, and facilitator with multiform writing credits. She gained RMITs Dip Arts in Professional Writing and in Advanced Screenwriting. Migrating by boat gave a global view of belonging. Advocacy for people with disabilities, Ulster cross-border prejudice reduction, winning an Amnesty International  Freedom Writer Award, being an  FAW literary judge, reviewing and editing for Irish magazines, producing four of her six staged plays  -  a life connecting.

 

DIRECTOR: Lynda Fleming, a Dublin-born director, teacher, and performer, has worked extensively in theatre and arts education in the UK and Australia. She holds a BA (Hons) in Drama from John Moore’s University Liverpool and a Masters in Directing for Performance from VCA with a secondment at Melbourne Theatre Company. She co-conceived and directed Solas, a play about Lucia Joyce (daughter of James Joyce). She has performed with Bench Theatre Company and received The News Guide Award for her work in Ridley’s Ghosts from a Perfect Place. Lynda has led specialist arts workshops and creative developments for schools, colleges, and theatre programs; and acted as Internal Verifier for BTEC performing arts courses. Since moving to Melbourne, Lynda has worked with director Pip Mushin as Education Manager of Drama Time.

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SOUND DESIGNER/ STAGE-MANAGER: Millie Levakis-Lucas has 17 years theatre and events work, two certificates in Theatre Arts: technical production & arts admin (stage management & production management). A double Bachelor degree in Audio Engineering (post-production and studio production), currently studying Electronic Engineering. She has assisted GRADA (Regional Academy of Dramatic Arts) teaching and assessment in technical production, three years as Acting Technical Manager in a regional theatre/cinema/convention centre, many credits in theatre, film, circus, exhibition, gallery, music, children’s theatre, dance, festivals, events, & other forms of live and recorded performing arts.

 

LIGHTING DESIGNER: Shane Grant - an “Absolute Genius” said Theatre People, (30/7/16) for lighting design of Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis. His 500th show since graduating VCA BArts (Performing Arts) approaches. He has: toured the world; operated venues (Gasworks, Mechanics Institute Brunswick, St Martins); written, performed & produced shows, sold drinks & tickets, built sets. Many shows with his input won group Green Room Awards. Recent notable shows he designed are: Samah Sabawi’s Tales of a City by the Sea (La Mama & tour), Scream Bloody Murder (Abbotsford Convent) Underground (Gasworks), The Omission of the Coleman Family (Metanoia Theatre), Toorak Rules (St Martins), Last Words (Kadimah Cultural Centre), Hotel Sorrento (national tour). Making art with all forms of live performance, Shane is fiercely committed to independent theatre.

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EMMA WOOD  Moved to Melbourne in 2020 and is thrilled to be back on stage after – well, you know! In 2019 playing the batty Madame Arcati in Newcastle Theatre Company’s Blithe Spirit, she won Best Supporting Actress at the City of Newcastle Drama Awards.  In Canberra she played Mrs Marshall in Pigeonhole Theatre’s multi award-winning production of Playhouse Creatures at The Q, which toured to Mondial Theatre Festival of Monaco. Other highlights include performing for Canberra Rep in Blithe Spirit and Witness for the Prosecution, for Newcastle Theatre Company in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Pygmalion, The Accused, Water Child, Speaking in Tongues, When the Rain Stops Falling, working with Stooged Theatre in The Removalists, and A Property of the Clan for Seated Ovation. Performing in Water Child at the Adelaide Fringe 2013 was also a thrill.

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CHERYL WALSH is a Melbourne-based actor originally from Cork, Ireland. Her love of performance began while training as a youth at the Gaiety School of Acting Summer programme in Dublin. In 2018 she trained in the Professional Actors Programme at 16th Street Actors Studio with Iain Sinclair (Melbourne Theatre Company), Julia Grace (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) and Bethany Caputo (Michael Chekhov Association). Cheryl has also audited the masterclasses of world-renowned teachers such as Larry Moss and Patsy Rodenburg. 

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STEPHEN MITCHELL is an actor, director and award-winning screenwriter. A drama graduate from the University of Tasmania in the 80s, Stephen worked as an actor, stage manager, lighting designer and operator in Hobart and Adelaide. In the 90s he wrote plays independently staged in Melbourne & Sydney and a radio drama produced by ABC Radio National. In 2001, he won an Australian Writers’ Guild Award for his SBS teleplay ‘Wee Jimmy’. Returning to the stage in 2010, he directed and acted in ‘The Local Stigmatic’ in 2012, and began regular work with Castlemaine Theatre Company, appearing in their 2016 production of ‘The Ghost Train’ and 2018’s ‘As You Like It’, and directing the acclaimed ‘Frankenstein’s Children’ in 2019. He performed in Moonlight Theatre Company’s 2018 hit ‘The Wrong Box’ and appeared in 2019 film ‘Downstream’.

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MARK TREGONNING has worked as an actor, improvisor, devisor and producer in New Zealand &Australia for over 25 years. He has a BA (Theatre & Film) from Victoria University of Wellington & a BA (Acting) from Victorian College of the Arts. Theatre acting credits include Gilgamesh (Uncle Semolina & Friends) as Enkidu, Savages (45 Downstairs) as Craze and The Lonesome West (Theatreworks) as Father Welsh, which he also produced.   He was an Artistic Associate for independent Melbourne company Feat In Space.  In 2018 he appeared in the promenade piece in the Melbourne Fringe Do You Know Me.  In 2019 he played the lead part of Eddie in Heidelberg Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge. Screen credits includes 7 series of the webseries Being Brendo / Queer as Fxxk across several years and the 2020 short film Unspoken.

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