GHOST QUARTET

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MUSIC, LYRICS AND TEXT

Dave Malloy 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”; Black Wizard/Blue Wizard, an escapist RPG fantasy; Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage, an anti-academia rock opera; Beardo, a reinterpretation of the Rasputin myth; Sandwich, a musical about killing animals; and Clown Bible, Genesis to Revelation told through clowns. www.davemalloy.com

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DIRECTION

Brandon is the Founding Artistic Director for Antipodes Theatre Company, where he directed Ghost Quartet (two 2020 Green Room Award Nominations, return seasons in 2021 and upcoming Sydney season in 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 the Winter Lab - an annual development program for new work and bold ideas.

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ASSOCIATE PRODUCER & PRODUCTION MANAGER

Laura is a producer, production manager, director and multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal Land, who has recently graduated from The University of Sydney with a  Bachelor of Arts in Film and Theatre Studies. Recent projects include producing and assistant directing Kirsty Saville’s debut play “Truly Gone Fishing” which was nominated for the best emerging artist award at the 2024 Sydney Fringe Festival, associate producing and production managing Michele Gould’s development and Hayes concert presentation of “Ribbons In Our Hair”, associate producing Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s 2023/4 national tour of “Overflow” by Travis Alabanza, and production assisting on the Australian Premiere of “Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812”.

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ASSOCIATE PRODUCER & MARKETING MANAGER

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 Winter Labs 2020 - present, Festival of the Unseen 2023 - present) 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, Gavin Roach), Protein (Assistant Director & Sound Design, Autonomous Inventions), MIMMA (dir. Adam Mitchell), JTC's RENT (dir. Mark Taylor) & BSSTCs Assassins (dir. Roger Hodgman). www.cameronsteens.com

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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.

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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 (VCA). 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).

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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.

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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 (2021) as well as the ‘Young Belvoir Club’(2022) and ‘Griffin Ambassadors’ (2022). She has been a proud member of the  ATYP Youth Advisory Body since 2023.

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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 seen by audiences across Australia, praised by reviews as "one of the best lighting designers Melbourne has to offer”.

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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 (2018). 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 & Guys & Dolls (Antipodes Theatre Company), The View From Up Here, The Grief Trilogy & Ballkids (VIMH), Parade (Soundworks, Vic & NSW), The Inheritance (fortyfivedownstairs).