PRODUCTION
TEAM
Executive Producer - Dirk Melton
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.
Since graduating from WAPPA Sam has worked in a number of capacities in the theatre industry. Sam started off by stage managing for companies such as Company B, Urban Theatre Projects, Mardi Gras Festival and Sydney Gay Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies. She has worked as a production manager with Hair of the Dog, Platform 27, Urban Theatre Projects, and JD Productions. Sam designed the set for The Waiting Room, Platform 27 and Melbourne Workers Theatre in Melbourne. Since Sam has turned to producing, she has worked with Struthruth Productions, Sheebang Productions, Search Party and CUT Theatre. This is her second production with East Coast Theatre Company after Mother and Child.
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.
SOUND DESIGNER - MAX LYANDVERT
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).
Allison graduated from NIDA
in 2002, majoring in Stage Management. Since
then, Allison has worked for many different companies in different
roles,
including Production Assistant for the Glebe Street Fair, Deputy
Stage
Manager for the 2002 Gay Games, and Auditions Coordinator
for Disney
Theatrical Productions' The Lion King. She is currently
Technical Manager
for the Downstairs Theatre at Belvoir St Theatre. This
is Allison's second
Stage Management for East Coast Theatre Company.
