DAME & COMMANDER

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WRITER

Theresa Borg is a singing actor, writer, director and producer. Her professional credits in music theatre and opera include Christine (The Phantom of the Opera), Cosette (Les Miserables), Fosca (Passion) and Musetta (La Boheme). She has written and directed over 30 musicals for young families under international license to Disney, Warner Brothers, Sesame Street Workshop and others. These shows toured nationally and globally. Her direction credits include The Consul at 45 Downstairs, The Light in the Piazza at Arts Centre Melbourne and Sweeney Todd, starring Anthony Warlow. Theresa’s play JUMP!, a fantasia on Egon Kisch’s 1934 visit to Australia, was recently read in completion of her VCA Masters of Theatre (Writing).

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DIRECTOR

Maude Davey has been making work in and out of Melbourne for more than thirty years. Trained as an actor at VCA, she regularly appears in film, on TV and on stage. In 2016 she completed a Masters in Writing for Performance at VCA. Selected credits: Finucane & Smith’s The Burlesque Hour/Glory Box, her burlesque retrospective My Life in the Nude, and Retro Futurismus (nominated for 6 Green Room Awards). Recent directing: Gender Euphoria (Melbourne Festival) and Dance Nation (Red Stitch). Recent acting: Anthem (Melbourne Festival) and Melancholia (Malthouse) for which she won a Green Room Award for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role.

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READER

Lucy Ansell is an artist and performer currently based in Melbourne/Naarm. She trained at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and graduated in 2018. Recent credits include Wild Cherries (dir. Beng Oh), Patalog Theatre’s Tusk Tusk (dir. Ruby Rees) and She Is Vigilante (co-dir. by Krystalla Pearce and Bridget Balodis) which she later received a Green Room award for. Lucy is currently in the cast of Harry Potter and Cursed Child, Melbourne.

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READER

Caroline Lee has worked professionally as a theatre, television, film and voice actress for over thirty years. She has worked with Malthouse, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Back to Back Theatre, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Chamber Made Opera, MKA, Finucane and Smith, HeLD Productions, Hildegard, Playbox and La Mama. She is a proud ensemble member of Red Stitch Actors Theatre where she most recently appeared in Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill (dir: Jenny Kemp), Dance Nation by Clare Barron (dir: Maude Davey) and Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams (dir: Stephen Nicolazzo).

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READER

Dan Witton is a performer based in Melbourne. Recent work includes Apocalypse Meow, A Crisis is Born (BAM,NYC, Malthouse), Pandemonium at the (Perth Festival, Seattle Symphony), Anthem (Perth, Sydney and Melbourne Festivals). Other projects and ensembles include: Artplay, Melbourne Recital Centre, Still Awake Still, Opera Australia, State Theatre Co SA, The Seymour Group, Etcetera Theatre, Belvoir, Magpie, Strange Fruit, The Blue Grassy Knoll, Cosmo Cosmolino, Not Yet It's Difficult, ACCA, Urban Dream Capsule, Chamber Made Opera, Ennio Morricone Experience, Bush Gothic, Spooky Men's Chorale and desoxy Theatre.

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READER

Harvey Zielinski is a transgender actor who graduated from The National Theatre Drama School in 2017. In 2018, he was the Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre graduate ensemble member, won a Casting Guild of Australia Rising Star Award and was a Heath Ledger Scholarship top ten finalist. Credits include: series lead in Don’t Look Deeper, the audiobook of Craig Silvey's Honeybee, Hir,The Antipodes,Suddenly Last Summer (Red Stitch), Why Are You Like This, Get Krack!n, You Can’t Ask That (ABC), My First Summer,Some Happy Day (FF), Gender Euphoria (MIFF, Mardi Gras, Midsumma), and Starting From…Now! (SBS/web). Outside of acting, Harvey's first feature length screenplay received development funding from ABC’s Fresh Start Fund. www.harveykzielinski.com

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PRODUCER

Brandon is the Artistic Director for Antipodes Theatre Company. Melbourne credits: GhostQuartet, #Really?! with Mel andPeppy, Bowie Ball,Mad World, From: New York, For: Him.NYC credits: the world premieres of Only You Can Prevent Wildfires, Happily After Ever (also Edinburgh Fringe), and Gordy Crashes for RicochetCollective (which he also co-founded)and several projects as resident producer with The Orchard Project andThe Drama League. Favorite directing credits include The Last Five Years, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Shape of Things, and Big Love. @midwestrunaway