Antipodes Theatre Company

In Association with Hayes Theatre Co

presents the Australian Premiere Production of

GHOST QUARTET

Music, Lyrics and Text by DAVE MALLOY

Ghost Quartet is produced by special arrangement with Paradigm Talent Agency. Originally Developed and Arranged by Ghost Quartet (Brent Arnold, Brittain Ashford, Gelsey Bell, Dave Malloy), Annie Tippe, and Christoper Bowser.

From January 8th 2025

Hayes Theatre Co, Potts Point NSW

Antipodes Theatre Company is thrilled to make their Sydney debut with Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet – an intoxicating musical odyssey about love, death and whiskey.

A camera breaks and four friends conjure spirits (both spectral and alcoholic) as they unravel four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries: a warped fairy tale about two sisters and a treehouse astronomer; a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher; a purgatorial intermezzo about Scheherazade and the ghost of Thelonious Monk; and a contemporary fable about a subway murder.

Inspired by source material as diverse as Arabian Nights and The Twilight Zone, Ghost Quartet is about the stories we choose to pass on, the versions of ourselves we choose to inhabit, and the healing power of music.

Featuring a cast of singer-musicians that includes CAMERON BAJRAKTAREVIC-HAYWARD (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812) DAVID BUTLER (Love That For You), HANY LEE (Hamilton) and WILLOW SIZER (Guys and Dolls). This production of GHOST QUARTET previously had sold out seasons at Meat Market Stables (2021) and Gasworks Arts Park (2019).

Runtime: 90 minutes, no interval

Recommended for audiences: 14+, parental discretion is advised.

Warnings: Coarse language and references to death, murder and childhood trauma. Contains flashing lights, theatrical haze and a 15-minute blackout sequence.

Latecomers: Can only be admitted into the theatre at a suitable break in the performance. A lockout period of 8-10 minutes will apply.  The timing of the suitable breaks is carefully coordinated for minimal disruption between Front of House staff and the director, performers and stage manager.

COMMUNITY NIGHTS

Wed 15th: Queer Night Show your pride alongside other members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, featuring live music in the lobby before the show by ROSE KNOWLES (she/her)

Sun 19th: Q&A Join us after the performance for a Q&A with the director and cast

Mon 20th & 27th: Industry Nights Connect with other artists from the performing arts community

Wed 22nd: Folk Night Bringing together local musos and technicians from the live music community, featuring live music in the lobby before the show by ZOE CONOLAN-GLEN (she/her)

★★★★.5 “The incredible vocals...slot together like a glove and each of their different vocal timbres washed over you like an eerie wave'‘ - Stage Door

"An intoxicating alchemy of sight, sound and style...strums the soul strings and excites the senses. A fab four forming an effervescent ensemble of thrilling virtuosity. Don’t miss it." - Sydney Arts Guide

"An astonishing quartet...all the elements of a production come together to create something truly magical. Amidst all the Sydney Festival frenzy this is a gem that deserves audiences eyes and ears. A truly stunning start to the Hayes’ 2025 season..." - Theatre Thoughts Australia

"An extremely talented cast...bring both musical virtuosity and passion to the performance. A feast both visually and aurally...enticing, experimental, exciting" - Theatre Now

"Brilliant! Thoroughly engaging...expect a high level of musicianship from an incredibly talented cast. A wonderfully satisfying production from Antipodes Theatre Company" - East Side Radio

‘‘Overflows with atmosphere [and] rich, complex songwriting. Do not come to Ghost Quartet expecting a conventional piece of musical theatre. Instead, let this living-room-gig-cum-séance wash over you and just go for the ride. It’s worth it." - Cultural Binge

"Undeniably enjoyable...memorable for the warmth with which it showcases the cast of four... brilliant sound...Sumptuous lighting" - Suzy Goes See

"Vivid and engaging...textured with lively wit" - Stage Whispers

PREVIOUSLY NOMINATED IN 2019 FOR TWO GREEN ROOM AWARDS

DAVID BUTLER - Musical Theatre, Best Musical Direction

GHOST QUARTET - Musical Theatre, Best Ensemble

Performer: CAMERON BAJRAKTAREVIC-HAYWARD (he/they)

Performer and Musical Director: DAVID BUTLER (he/him)

Performer: HANY LEE (she/her)

Performer: WILLOW SIZER (they/them)

Covers: SAM HAMILTON (he/him), CHARLOTTE KERR (she/her) & FELIX STAR (they/them)

Music, Lyrics and Text: DAVE MALLOY (he/him)

Director: BRANDON PAPE (he/him)

Production Designer: JODI HOPE (she/her)

Lighting Designer: SIDNEY YOUNGER (he/him)

Sound Designer: EVAN DRILL (he/him)

Gadigal (Sydney) Associate Producer & Production Manager: LAURA CAMPBELL (she/her)

Naarm (Melbourne) Associate Producer & Marketing: CAMERON STEENS (they/them)

Gadigal (Sydney) Stage Manager: JEMMA SPROUL (she/her)

Assistant Stage Manager: ADELAIDE TUSTIAN (she/her)

Naarm (Melbourne) Stage Manager: ASHLEIGH WALWYN (she/her)

Biographies are available below.

Sound Technician & Operator: EM-JAY DWYER (they/she)

Photo & Videographer: ANGEL LEGGAS (he/him) 3 FATES MEDIA

Poster Design: KENNEY DESIGNS

Antipodes Branding: ROB CHIVERS

Publicist: ROGUE PROJECTS

Lobby Performers: ZOE CONOLAN-GLEN (she/her) & ROSE KNOWLES (she/her)

Launch Graphic Designer: JULIAN LEON (he/him)

Invitation to Engagement Facilitator: FLICK (they/them)

Crew: CAITLAIN COWAN (she/her), CALLUM HADDOW (he/him) & LARA KYRIAZIS (she/her)

Meet the Cast

  • Cameron Bajraktarevic-Hayward

    He/They

    PERFORMER

    Cameron is a Melbourne (Naarm) based performer. Following their time at The Victorian College of the Arts, Cameron has had the pleasure of being a part of A Christmas Carol (GWB Entertainment), Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), The Grinning Man (Salty Theatre), Little Women (Joshua Robson Productions) and My Brilliant Career (Melbourne Theatre Company). They are extremely excited to be back at Hayes for this season of Ghost Quartet. Cameron is represented by Ian White Management and is a MEAA member.

  • David Butler

    He/Him

    PERFORMER AND MUSICAL DIRECTOR

    David is a multi-nominated, and Green Room Award winning musical director, freelance performer and vocal coach based in Naarm (Melbourne). David performs and musically directs with Antipodes Theatre Company, regularly appears as drag alter-ego Peppy Smears, and tours with Tash York in their award-winning shows Happy Hour, It’s Up To You: Tash York, Task York and the all-original show Love That For You as well as numerous other projects in cabaret and independent theatre. As a vocal coach David works on a consulting basis with actors and singers, and is a referred voice teacher of Gary May and the Melbourne Voice Analysis Centre.

  • Hany Lee

    She/Her

    PERFORMER

    Hany is a multi-hyphenate, Australian-born Korean artist credited for her dual talent in the music and acting industry. Theatre credits include My Brilliant Career (Melbourne Theatre Company), Hamilton (International Tour, Michael Cassel Group), Ghost Quartet (Antipodes), BARE (Stage Art). TV credits include Neighbours (Channel Ten/Fremantle Media); The Newsreader (ABC/Werner Film Productions), Harrow (ABC/Hoodlum Entertainment) and Wentworth (Fremantle). Lee made her solo debut in Seoul, South Korea as a K-Pop artist under one of Korea's biggest music companies MBC Music Korea. Her music can be heard on all music platforms across the world.

  • Willow Sizer

    They/Them

    PERFORMER

    Willow is an actor/writer/creative and a graduate of the VCA Music Theatre BFA. Performance credits: Guys and Dolls (Miss Adelaide), Ghost Quartet (Pearl, Antipodes), Legally Blonde, RENT (James Terry Collective). Writing credits: Orlando (fortyfivedownstairs/Antipodes), Death of a Demi Diva (Cabaret), Finucane and Smith's Touring Dance Hall (Resident Cabaret Artiste). Other Theatre: Treble, The Hall, The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven (Vocal Captain, BulletHeartClub), Medea Out of the Mouths of Babes (Theatreworks).

  • Sam Hamilton

    He/Him

    COVER

    Sam is an international performer, based in Sydney, Australia, and graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) with a Diploma of Musical Theatre. Sam made his professional musical theatre debut as Bobby C in Royal Caribbean International’s staging of Saturday Night Fever. Other credits include the original cast of The Hogwarts Frog Choir (Universal Beijing Resort) and 54 Below Goes Camping (also Graphic Designer/Head of Marketing). Australian credits: Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Miserables, Into The Woods, Be More Chill, The Producers, The Who’s: Tommy, Beauty & The Beast, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

  • Charlotte Kerr

    She/Her

    COVER

    Charlotte is a Melbourne-based emerging artist originally from the South Coast of NSW. A dynamic performer and multi-instrumentalist, she was the winner of the inaugural Broadway Unplugged competition (Sydney) and has performed in many self-written cabaret shows. She is also a published poet and arts writer with an interest in the dark, weird and absurd.

  • Felix Star

    They/Them

    COVER

    Felix‘s professional career began at a young age as Fleance and Son of MacDuff in Macbeth (dir. Michael Attenborough), Tobi and Jeremy understudy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (dir. Roger Hodgman), and Kurt in The Sound of Music (dir. Anton Luitingh). TV credits include Freddo in Molly (dir. Kevin Carlin) and Angus in The InBESTigators (Wayne Hope). A recent graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), at VCA they had the honor to play Otto in ‘Spring Awakening’ (dir. Petra Kalive) and Randy & Dance Captain ‘Curtains’ (dir. Roger Hodgman). Felix recently appeared as Young Ebenezer in ‘A Christmas Carol’ (dir. David Spencer).

Meet the Team

  • Dave Malloy

    He/Him

    MUSIC, LYRICS AND TEXT

    Dave is a composer/writer/performer/orchestrator. He has written fourteen musicals, including Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations, including Best Musical, Score, Book, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet, a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey; Preludes, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”; Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage, an anti-academia rock opera; and Beardo, a reinterpretation of the Rasputin myth. www.davemalloy.com

  • Brandon Pape

    He/Him

    DIRECTOR

    Brandon is the Founding Artistic Director for Antipodes Theatre Company, where he directed their inaugural production Ghost Quartet (two 2020 Green Room Award Nominations, return seasons in 2021 and 2025) and co-directed with Trudy Dunn their immersive reimagining of Guys and Dolls (thirteen 2024 Green Room Award nominations). Other Antipodes credits include Sam I Am, And She Would Stand Like This, Passing Strange (five 2023 Green Room Award Nominations), Orlando, and Winter Lab - an annual development program for new work and bold ideas. Upcoming projects include Storked by Myf Hocking and the return of Antipodes’ Festival of the Unseen.

  • Jodi Hope

    She/Her

    PRODUCTION DESIGNER

    Jodi is a costume, set and textile designer for stage. Her background in fine art and textiles underpin her approach to visual storytelling; expressed through a sensitivity to colour, texture, composition and character. She is a three-time Green Room Award nominee in Costume Design and a recipient of the Trina Parker Scholarship for postgraduate study in Production Design through the Victorian College of the Arts. Recent credits include Set Design for Curtains (dir. Roger Hodgman) Costume Design for Victorian Opera’s The Grumpiest Boy in the World (dir. Elizabeth Hill- Cooper) and tick, tick…BOOM (dir. Tyran Parke), and Set and Costume Design for MinusOneSister (dir. Marni Mount).

  • Sidney Younger

    He/Him

    LIGHTING DESIGNER

    Sidney is a Green Room award winning Lighting Designer and a 2021 graduate of the BFA (Design and Production) degree at the Victorian College of the Arts. Design credits include Werewolf, A Case for the Existence of God (Gary Abrahams), Parade, Songs for a New World (Soundworks), Meet Your Maker (Brisbane Festival), Bach's Universe (Brandenberg Orchestra), Every Lovely Terrible Thing (Lab Kelpie), Insert Self (Chunky Move), Redhealer (Back to Back), Songs of the Flesh (Danger Ensemble), Piper (Frenzy Theatre), and The Hello Girls (Jason Langley). His works have been praised by reviews as "one of the best lighting designers Melbourne has to offer”.

  • Evan Drill

    He/Him

    SOUND DESIGNER

    Evan is a sound designer working mostly in musical theatre. For Antipodes theatre he designed sound for Ghost Quartet, Passing Strange, Guys & Dolls and Orlando. Recently Evan designed sound for RENT (LPD Productions), In The Club (Theatreworks) and was Associate sound designer for Midnight (Aspect Entertainment) & Rocky Horror (Crossroads Live). As Production Sound Engineer Evan has worked on recent productions of Sister Act, A Christmas Carol, Tick Tick Boom, Billy Elliot, Book of Mormon & Sunset Boulevard.

  • Laura Campbell

    She/Her

    GADIGAL (SYDNEY) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER & PRODUCTION MANAGER

    Laura is a producer, production manager, director and multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal Land, who has recently graduated from University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Theatre Studies. Recent projects: associate producing and production managing Ghost Quartet and Ribbons In Our Hair (Antipodes Theatre Company, Hayes Theatre Co), producing and assistant directing Kirsty Saville’s debut play Truly Gone Fishing (nominated for the best emerging artist award at the 2024 Sydney Fringe Festival), associate producing Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s 2023/4 national tour of Overflow, and production assisting on the Australian Premiere of Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812.

  • Cameron Steens

    They/Them

    NAARM (MELBOURNE) ASSOCIATE PRODUCER & MARKETING

    Cameron is a Naarm based queer, multidisciplinary theatre maker. As Antipodes Theatre Company's inaugural New Work Manager, they've produced numerous developments and networking programs (including five Winter Labs and Festival of the Unseen) in addition to the premiere of Orlando, Antipodes' first production originating from the Winter Lab. Other credits include: This is Living, If We Got Some More Cocaine (Associate Director), Protein (Assistant Director & Sound Design, Autonomous Inventions), MIMMA (dir. Adam Mitchell), JTC's RENT (dir. Mark Taylor) & BSSTCs Assassins (dir. Roger Hodgman). Upcoming projects include Storked by Myf Hocking and the return of Antipodes’ Festival of the Unseen. www.cameronsteens.com

  • Jemma Sproul

    She/Her

    GADIGAL (SYDNEY) STAGE MANAGER

    Jemma recently graduated with a Bachelor of Performing Arts from WAAPA majoring in Stage Management. Since moving to Sydney, she has worked with Sydney Dance Company on Club Origami (Stage Manager), the premier season of The Double Bill with Monique Placko and Ebony Nave (Stage Manager), multi-award Fringe show Masterpiece (Stage Manager/Technician), Ensemble Theatre on McGuffin Park and most recently The Little Big Theatre Company on Penpals (Stage Manager). This is Jemma’s Hayes debut and she is very excited to work with and showcase Antipodes Theatre Company.

  • Adelaide Tustian

    She/Her

    ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

    Adelaide recently completed her Certificate 3 in Live Production and Technical Services as well as an internship with Hamilton the Musical. Recent credits include: Truly Gone Fishing (Stage Manager, Sydney Fringe) Screwd! (Stage Manager, Sydney Fringe), DOGHOLE (director, SUDS), USYD Wom*ns Revue (Director), Sondheim on Sondheim (Stage Manager, UNSWMTS), Rolleo and Juliet, CBT (Lighting Designer, SUDS). Adelaide was a part of Sydney Theatre Company’s Young Wharfies program as well as the Young Belvoir Club and Griffin Ambassadors. She has been a proud member of the ATYP Youth Advisory Body since 2023.

  • Ashleigh Walwyn

    She/Her

    NAARM (MELBOURNE) STAGE MANAGER

    Ashleigh is a Stage/Production/Company Manager, originally from the UK. She grew up and found love for theatre in Malaysia before graduating from VCA with a BFA in Production – Stage Management. Credits include Special Events Stage Manager for Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Senior Stage Manager/Back of House Caller for The Victorian State Schools Spectacular (Dir. Neill Gladwin), and Stage Manager for Punk Rock (Patalog Theatre), Bright Star (Pursued By Bear), Every Lovely Terrible Thing (Lab Kelpie), Ghost Quartet, Orlando, Guys & Dolls (Antipodes Theatre Company), The View From Up Here, The Grief Trilogy, Ballkids (VIMH), Parade (Soundworks, Vic & NSW) and The Inheritance (fortyfivedownstairs).

  • Rose Knowles

    She/Her

    LOBBY PERFORMER - QUEER NIGHT

    Rose is a passionate performer with 10+ years of stage experience and has a background in bands and orchestras. She has studied dance in different styles, and is quick to pick up different styles of choreography. Rose has skills in puppetry, as well as juggling. She can read sheet music; vocals, piano, drum charts and percussion. She has over ten years experience with assorted percussion (drums, mallets, secondary) and is quick to pick up new instruments. She also has basic guitar, piano and clarinet skills.

  • Zoe Conolan-Glen

    She/Her

    LOBBY PERFORMER - FOLK NIGHT

    Jenny and the Hanivers are a Sydney alt rock and folk band fronted by multi-instrumentalist Zoe Conolan-Glen. Zoe’s previous work includes playing guitars, accordion and brass instruments for Gailla; keyboards, guitars, flutes and saxophones for multidisciplinary artist Wen Pei Low; and various orchestra and studio credits, including the soundtrack to Birdeater (2023).

Venue Information:

Hayes Theatre Co

19 Greenknowe Ave, Potts Point NSW 2011

A limited number of accessible seats are available in the front row of the theatre (A13-A15). These, as well as Companion seats, can be purchased over the phone with our box office team.

Please contact the Hayes Theatre box office on (02) 8065 7337 if you have any questions regarding our accessibility and to make your booking now.


Patrons requiring the use of our side entrance due to accessible needs should notify box office staff of their requirements upon arrival. Hayes Theatre Co also ask that you please arrive to the theatre early. Once the performance has commenced, patrons requiring the side entrance will not be able to be admitted.