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 United 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.

Wed 15th: Queer Night Show your pride alongside other members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, featuring live music in the lobby before the show

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

Mon 20th: Industry Night 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

Previously Nominated in 2019 for two green room awards

DAVID BUTLER - Musical Theatre, Best Musical Direction

GHOST QUARTET - Musical Theatre, Best Ensemble

★★★★★ ‘...Antipodes Theatre Company demonstrates they’re a new theatre company to keep an eye on...an intimate serenade between performers and the audience.’ - Kristen Iliopoulos, Theatre People'

★★★1/2 ‘...Exquisite...brilliantly performed by a charismatic quartet of multitalented actor-musicians. Ghost Quartet is the inaugural production for new independent theatre company Antipodes and it is a wonderful success.’ - Reuben Liversidge, ArtsHub

‘Electrifying...NOT to be missed. Antipodes Theatre have proven they are one to watch with this beautiful and haunting production.’ - Owen James, Theatre Press

‘Mesmerizing and masterful...Antipodes Theatre Company triumphs in its inaugural production. The storytelling is intoxicating and the performances are spell-bounding.’ - Lillian Nejad, Weekend Notes

‘Blissfully lyrical, mysterious and magical...A palpable chemistry exists between four excellent performers who bring a surreal musical experience to life...superbly directed and designed by Brandon Pape.’ - Alex First, The Blurb

‘The cast is comprised of four incredibly talented musicians with a warm and incredible chemistry. Not only are the vocals stunning, but their gifts - playing multiple instruments - are astounding, performed with incredible finesse and talent to create a beautiful and haunting soundscape. Brandon Pape has created a visually stunning piece of theatre in his design and direction. I would see it again in a heartbeat and experience its beauty and tragedy all over again.’ - Taylor Kendal, Theatre Travels

Performer: CAMERON BAJRAKTAREVIC-HAYWARD (he/they)

Performer: HANY LEE (she/her)

Performer: WILLOW SIZER (they/them)

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

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

Director: BRANDON PAPE (he/him)

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

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

Lighting Designer: SIDNEY YOUNGER (he/him)

Production Designer: JODI HOPE (she/her)

Sound Designer: EVAN DRILL (he/him)

Biographies are available below.

2021 Graphic Designer: JULIAN LEON (he/him)

Meet the Cast

  • Cameron Bajraktarevic-Hayward

    He/They

    PERFORMER

    Cameron Bajraktarevic-Hayward (he/they) is a Melbourne (Naarm) based Actor, Musician, Singer and Dancer. Originally from Western Sydney (Darug Nation), Cameron moved to Naarm in 2020 to study at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Since moving to Naarm, Cameron was part of the 2022 performance season for the VCA in ‘Mongrel: Cracked’ (dir. Maude Davey and Sarah Ward), ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ (dir. Jason Langley) and ‘Morning Melodies 2022’ (dir. Jayde Kirchert).

    Following their time at VCA Cameron performed as Young Ebenezer in A Christmas Carol 2022 and 2023 (dir. Matthew Warchus) and played the role of Dolokhov in Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (dir. Dean Drieberg) at Darlinghurst Theatre Company. Cameron is thrilled to be making their Melbourne Theatre Company debut in My Brilliant Career (dir. Anne-Louise Sarks) as Frank later in 2024. Cameron is proudly 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), Australia.

    Regularly appearing as drag alter-ego Peppy Smears; he performs and musically directs with Antipodes Theatre Company, Tash York in their award-winning shows HAPPY HOUR, IT’S UP TO YOU: TASH YORK, TASH YORK, and their 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 Lee is a multi-hyphenate, Australian-born Korean artist credited for her dual talent in the music and acting industry. Lee's performances in theatre include My Brilliant Career (Blanche/Gertie, Melbourne Theatre Company); Hamilton International Tour 2024 (Ens./All Schuyler Sisters US, Michael Cassel Group); Hamilton NZ & Australia Tour 2023 (Ens./All Schuyler Sisters US, Michael Cassel Group); The Ghost Quartet Sydney Tour 2025 (Brittain, Antipodes Theatre); The Ghost Quartet (Brittain, Antipodes Theatre) and BARE The Musical (Diane, Stage Art Productions). Hany Lee is mostly recognised for her role on Neighbours (Sunny Lee, Channel Ten/Fremantle Media); The Newsreader S1/S2 (Jen Kim, ABC/Werner Film Productions), Harrow (Mira Nguyen, ABC/Hoodlum Entertainment) and Wentworth (Suyun Lee, Fremantle Australia). 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

    An emerging queer creative and actor. They are a multi-Green Room Award nominee including;  ‘Best Year’s Work’ encompassing their performance work in Legally Blonde (James Terry Collective) and Ghost Quartet (Antipodes Theatre Co). That same year, their cabaret, Death of a Demi Diva, was nominated for Best Original Music and Best Music Direction. Most recently, Willow performed at the 2022 Brisbane Festival in a month-long residency focussed on community activation and empowerment with Finucane and Smith’s Travelling Dance Hall and starred as Medea in Steven Mitchell-Wright’s Medea: Out of the Mouths of Babes at TheatreWorks.

Meet the Team

  • Dave Malloy

    He/Him

    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

  • Brandon Pape

    He/Him

    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.

  • Laura Campbell

    She/Her

    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”.

  • Cameron Steens

    They/Them

    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

  • Evan Drill

    He/Him

    SOUND DESIGNER

    Evan trained at the Victorian College of the Arts and began a career in sound design with the VCA Music Theatre school’s first tour, Tribe. He spent many years touring with musicals including Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Mamma Mia!, Barnum, The Boy From Oz, King Kong, Legally Blonde and Kinky Boots. Evan’s sound design credits include Dreamsong (Theatreworks), Madiba (AU/NZ tour), Ghost Quartet, Passing Strange, Guys and Dolls (Antipodes), Heathers (Aus tour). Most recently, Evan has been the Associate Sound Designer for Midnight! The Cinderella Musical and Rocky Horror 50th Anniversary Tour.

  • 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 (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).

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

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.