PRODUCTION
TEAM
Executive Producer - Dirk Melton
Associate Producer - Peter Hayes
English Version May-Brit Akerholt
Set and Costume Design - Karla Urizar
Lighting Designer - Stephen Hawker
Sound Designer - Max Lyandvert
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - DIRK MELTON
Dirk has extensive business
and corporate strategy experience. He has worked in the Office
of the CEO of Commonwealth Bank, Freehills and Goodman Fielder
as well as having consulted to many companies including Telstra,
LG, Reebok International and Greg Norman's - Great White Shark
Enterprises. He has an MBA from the AGSM (Full Time) and a BEng
(Chem) from the University of Melbourne.
Sam's producing credits include: Mother and Child, Empress of China and Terminus (Eastcoast Theatre Company), Bones (The New Black & Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Crescent Moon, Yellow Star (Belvoir St, Downstairs Theatre), Head Quatres (Struthruth Productions), The Lover (Sheebang Productions), The Country (Search Party & B Sharp), Half and Half (The Chess Club & B Sharp), King Lear - Sydney & Taree , Queen Lere (2004 & 2005), Tempest, Accidental Death of an Anarchist - Sydney & Melbourne Fringe (CUT Theatre)
Before moving into producing Sam was production manager for such companies as Hair of the Dog, PlatForM 27 and JD Productions. Sam designed the set for The Waiting Room PlatForM 27 and Melbourne Workers Theatre in Melbourne. And stage managed for companies as Company B, Urban Theatre Projects, Mardi Gras Festival and Sydney Gay Games opening & closing ceremonies.
Coming up in 2005 Sam will
be producing, A Pop-Opera Production (PACT Theatre) and
The Deptarment Store (Parnassus' Den) which will
be performed at The Fiztroy Theatre.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER - PETER HAYES
ENGLISH VERSION - MAY-BRIT AKERHOLT
May-Brit Akerholt was born and educated in Norway before she came to live in Australia in 1975. She has worked as a Tutor in English and Drama at Macquarie University (Sydney) and Lecturer in Drama and Dramaturg at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). She spent six years as Dramaturg and Literary Manager at Sydney Theatre Company before she became the Artistic Director of the Australian National Playwrights' Centre, and the annual National Playwrights' Conference. She was a recipient of a Fellowship from the Theatre Board of Australia Council.
May-Brit has translated / adapted 22 plays which have been produced by many theatre companies around the country, including Sydney Theatre Company, Company B Belvoir, State Theatre Company of SA, Queensland Theatre Company, East Coast Theatre Company.
Throughout her career, May-Brit has worked with various writers in the development of their new scripts, including Hilary Bell, Andrew Bovell, Beatrix Christian, Timothy Daly, Stephen Sewell, Katharine Thomson, Alana Valentine, and many others. She has also worked as production dramaturg on a large variety of plays.
May-Brit has published numerous articles about translation, theatre and writing for performance including "New Stages: Contemporary Theatre" in Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature. Books include Patrick White's Drama, Rodopi, Amsterdam; two volumes of translations of Ibsen and Strindberg plays: Word for Word, Five Islands Press, Sydney; Jon Fosse, Plays Three, and two translations in Jon Fosse: Plays Four, both published by Oberon Books, London.
COSTUME
AND SET DESIGN - KARLA URIZAR
Winning the Fox Studio
Award for Design Excellence upon her graduation from AFTRS in
2000, Karla has been designing for film, television and theatre
ever since, working on the feature film The Boys before
doing Production Design the feature film, Lost Things,
which is currently being shown at international festivals. Her
current theatre design work includes set and costume design for
Jon Fosse's Mother and Child at Downstairs Belvoir,
costume design for the workshop presentation Stained at
the Darlinghurst Theatre. Most recently she designed the
costumes for the Sydney production of Stephen Sewell's Myth
Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America.
Karla also designed the premiere season of The Secret Death
of Salvador Dali in Melbourne and has worked extensively
in commercials.
LIGHTING DESIGNER - STEPHEN HAWKER
As a Lighting Designer Stephen
has worked with companies such as Company B Open House,
The Small Poppies and Svetlana in Slingbacks, Platform
27 Marinheiro and The Waiting Room, Siren
Theatre Connie and Kevin and the Secret Life of Groceries,
Ensemble Lobby Hero, Hair of the Dog Misanthrope
and Sweet Phoebe, Griffin Wicked Sisters and
Rabbit, Kicking and Screaming/B Sharp Pussy
Boy, A.T.Y.P Brokenville and Scorch Theatre/B
Sharp Love That Dog to name but a few.
His most recent work being Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in
Nazi Germany and Contemporary America for Tangent
Productions Inc. The Secret Death of Salvador Dali for
Griffin. This is Stephen's second design for Eastcoast
Theatre Company the first being Mother and Child.
Max worked closely with Joseph Uchitel on the ECTC's production of Mother and Child. His profound knowledge of various theatre styles and his distinct understanding of Fosse's imagery resulted in an extraordinary score he wrote for Mother and Child. A composer, pianist, sound designer and director Max has worked in Australia, Europe and America. His credits include, Pentecost, The Recruit, La Dispute, Life After George, Fireface and Three Sisters (STC); The Ham Funeral, UBU and Dead City (Company B); The Winter's Tale (QTC), Fellini-ada (Auto Da Fe), From Here to There and Under the Influence (Legs on the Wall), Art and Soul and Design for Living (MTC), Gulls, Macbeth, The Idiot, Kafka Dances, Courtyard of Miracles, Closer, The Rose Tattoo and Twelfth night (State Theatre Company of South Australia), Fertility of Objects and Sweet Phoebe (Griffin) and Redemption (Playbox).
In New York, he sound designed Copi's The Four Twins for the Ontological Theatre and worked at the Knitting Factory. In 1998, he sound designed Shelley Hirsch's multi-media piece For Jerry at the Marstall Theatre in Munich and the Hebbel Theatre in Berlin. Max composed music and sound for Urfaust for Weimar '99 which had its Australian premier at the 2000 Adelaide Festival. He composed music for Same, same but different (Sydney Festival 2002) and premiered Close Your Little Eyes (Sydney Festival, 2003).
GRAPHIC DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART DESIGN - CAMERON BAIRD
Cam's theatre graphic design
and photography credits include:
For The Bird's, in Perth and Sydney (Old Fitzroy Theatre),
Etta Jenks (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Vertigo &
The Virginia (Old Fitzroy Theatre), A Moment on the
Lips by Jonathan Gavin (Old Fitzroy Theatre & Melbourne
Trades Hall), Portia Coughlan (Darlinghurst Theatre
Company), Sixty Six Minutes (TAP Gallery &
Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Jane Bodie's Hilt (Old
Fitzroy Theatre), Fidelity (Old Fitzroy Theatre),
and This Blasted Earth: A Christmas Miracle with Music (Old
Fitzroy Theatre).
In 2005 Cameron has worked on TRS' 2005 Season Brochure, Crescent Moon, Yellow Star (Downstairs Belvoir), Terminus (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Fuddy Meers (Darlinghurst Theatre Company) and A Girl in a Car with a Man (Old Fitzroy Theatre).
He is also designing for upcoming shows: A Moment on the Lips (Griffin Theatre), To The Green Fields Beyond (Old Fitzroy), The Memory of Water (Darlinghurst Theatre Company & Whoosh Productions), Death Variations (Company B), Kunt Pi (Old Fitzroy) and Young Tycoons (Darlinghurst Theatre Company).
Ali's recent stage management credits include Tiny Dynamite and the 2003 and 2005 seasons of Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America at the Griffin Theatre, Hansel and Gretel (Pacific Opera) and True West (Insomniac Theatre), as well as a season of Peter Pan in Hong Kong.
Ali's performance credits include The Wizard Of Oz, Journey To The West, The Rival, The Women, Wind In The Willows and Beauty and The Beast.
Her production credits include
Anything Goes, Red Hot and Cole, and Snow White.
Ali has an Advanced Diploma in Entertainment from the Actors'
College of Theatre and Television.
