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New Electric Ballroom » Creative Team
Director: Kate Gaul
Set Design: Tom Bannerman
Lighting Desginer: Verity Hampson
Composer/Sound Designer: Daryl Wallis
Vocal Coach: Natasha McNamara
Assistant Directors: Katharine Cullen + Jacobie Gray
Performance Studies Observer: Jacinta John
Stage Manager: Michael Cutrupi
CAST
Ada: Jane Phegan
Clara: Genevieve Mooy
Breda: Odile LeClezio
Patsy: Justin Smith
Jane Phegan - Ada
Jane Phegan graduated from UWS / Theatre Nepean. Australian premiers include Singing the Lonely Heart (Alana Valentine), I Will Always Love You (Tom Holloway) and Homemade (Vanessa Bates). Jane has also voiced a number of radio plays an performed Angels in America (TheatreInk & Riverside Theatres). As Company Artist with version 1.0, Jane has devised and performed in From a Distance..., Deeply Offensive & Utterly Untrue, THIS KIND OF RUCKUS, A Distressing Scenario and The Table of Knowledge. For Siren Theatre Co: As You Like It, Fox (Monkey Baa/National Tour)
Genevieve Mooy - Clara
Genevieve has worked extensively in Australian Theatre, Film and TV since graduating from NIDA (too many decades ago!). She has worked for the major theatre companies around Australia and over the last few years has been involved in the Independent theatre scene in Sydney. Recent Productions: Laura Ruohonen’s Queen C (B Sharp) in which her performance in the role of Queen Mother was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Award by the Sydney Theatre Critics, National tour of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. For Siren Theatre Co: Richard 3, The Seagull
Odile LeClezio - Breda
Odile has worked extensively in theatre and film throughout Australia
since graduating from NIDA in 1982. She has also worked in Europe for
Filao Films developing documentary films such as Atlantic Drift
(Berlin 2002) and Diego Garcia (FIPA 2011) which came out of Mauritius
where Odile was born. Most recently Odile performed and devised for
How To Lose Sight -a site-specific work- created and directed by
Michal Imielski in Parramatta.
Justin Smith - Patsy
Justin has worked consistently across Australian film, television and theatre since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1997.
In 2011, Justin appeared in Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm, Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty which was in Official Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival, and most recently was seen in Jonathan Teplitsky’s Burning Man. Justin made his feature film debut in Daniel Nettheim’s Angst.
In 2012, Justin will appear in the new Matchbox Pictures series, The Straits on the ABC.Justin’s other television credits include My Place, Queen Kat Carmel and St Jude, White Collar Blue, Backberner, Stingers and Bastard Boys for which he was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama and most recently, the second series of Foxtel’s Spirited.
Justin’s musical theatre credits include Billy Elliot: The Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, Rent and Tick Tick Boom. He has also starred in Just Macbeth, The Servant of Two Masters and Shakespeare’s R and J for the Bell Shakespeare Company; Benedict Andrews’ The Threepenny Opera and Kate Gaul's Svetlana in Slingbacks for Company B; and he performed in three main stage productions for the Sydney Theatre Company, The Wonderful World of Dissocia directed by Marion Potts, Howard Davies’ The Cherry Orchard and Andrew Upton’s Ruby Moon.
Tom Bannerman - Set Design
Tom Bannerman’s body-of-work as a set designer is considerable - over 200 productions, mostly for theatres in Sydney. Works seen at The Stables Theatre are ‘The Night Heron’ and ‘Hurlyburly’. Recent designs include ‘Bent‘ and ‘Homebody/Kabul‘ (B-Sharp), ‘Bondi Dreaming’ (Bondi Pavilion and Downstairs Seymour), ‘The Crucible’ (Downstairs Seymour), 'The Temperamentals', ‘Piranha Heights’, ‘Canary’, ‘Cabaret’ and ‘Don Juan in Soho’ (New Theatre), ‘Once Under a Sky’ and ‘Vincent River’ (Old Fitzroy); ‘Orange Flower Water’ and ‘The Godbotherers’ (Darlinghurst). Tom received the 2002 Chief Glug’s Award for Excellence Behind the Scenes.
Verity Hampson - Lighting Design
For Siren Theatre Co: Duck, Twelfth Night
Daryl Wallis - Composition/Sound Design
Daryl is a composer, keyboard musician, vocal coach and musical director. He has composed music for productions of The Violet Hour, Kimberly Akimbo, You Talkin’ To Me?, Mary Stuart, Tuesdays With Morrie, Casanova (Ensemble), The Gates of Egypt (Company B), Wicked Sisters (Griffin, National Tour), King Lear (Studio Company), Camarilla, Valley Song, The Dapto Chaser (Merrigong ), Phaedra’s Love (ATYP), Woman Before A Glass (Karnak Playhouse), Queen C (B Sharp).
Daryl provided additional music and lyrics for the musical Chair in the Landscape and was musical director for the premiere production. He also composed music for the television documentary series Heat In The Kitchen for SBS Television, the award winning short films Embrace and Cake and a 10 minute tango-opera An/nA (Short and Sweet, 2006)
He won second prize in the 2009 Melbourne Federation Bells Composing Competition and composed an operatic adaptation of the picture book Fox by Margaret Wild & Ron Brooks for Monkey Baa/Siren Theatre Co (National Tour)
As musical director his credits include many cabaret performances and musicals – notably the work of Stephen Sondheim for the Lyric Theatre Company including productions of Assassins, Passion, Pacific Overtures, Follies, Marry Me A Little and Sunday In The Park With George. He was musical director for the Kaleidoscope 2007 Opening Ceremony for the Oxfam International Youth Partnerships program in association with Oxfam, Cirque Du Soleil and ATYP. Daryl played piano for the STC production of The Women Of Troy directed by Barrie Kosky, and Company B's The Man From Mukinupin directed by Wesley Enoch.
He formed The Wallis Trio in 1999 to explore the classic songbooks of jazz, broadway and contemporary song. The trio has recorded an album of sailing themed songs with jazz singer Fiona Ruth called ‘Life Is An Ocean’ and is currently performing with jazz/soul singer Ali Hughes as Ali and the Thieves. They performed in The Royal Seed in the Utzon Room as part of the Sydney Opera House Babies Prom series, and most recently created Leonard Cohen Koans - inspired by Leonard Cohen’s poetry, prose and song with performances in Sydney and New York.
For Siren Theatre Co: Wanna Go Home, Baby?, Blue Heart , Connie and Kevin and the Secret Life of Groceries, Frozen, Human Resources, Duck, Twelfth Night, Richard 3, The Seagull, As You Like It and Fox
Natasha McNamara - Dialect and Vocal Coach
Natasha is a Performing Arts graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and a graduate of NIDA Voice Studies. She has worked extensively as a voice coach on theatre productions and on various NIDA graduate shows where she worked with dirctors such as Richard Cotteril and Darren Gilshenan. She believes theatre is a live creature and strives to stay current with her art form and make the text authentic and relevant for a modern actor or presenter. She has worked with vocal gurus Cicely Berry and Barbara Houseman and forum theare legend, Augusto Boal whose techniques she utilises in a lot of her teachings. She is regularly sought after as a vocal coach for theatre and film, most recently for the feature film Tomorrow When The War Began. She teaches masterclasses for Actors Equity specialising in accent coaching. Her clients range from celebrities to zoo keepers to politicians, business men and women and up and coming young soap stars... Natasha is a regular NIDA Open Program tutor and NIDA corporate trainer. Natasha has taught voice to the full time Acting course at NIDA. She has been a Accent coach voice for The Brothers Size, Fool for Love, and Porn Cake (all Griffin Independent). She has worked with Bell Shakespeare Company as a Voice coach for both the mainstage and actors at work company. For Siren Theatre Co: As You Like It
