PRODUCTION
TEAM
Producer - Dirk Melton
Producer - Sam Hawker
Design - James Browne
Lighting Designer - Stephen Hawker
Sound Design - Max Lyandvert
Dramaturg Jenya Osbourne
Dirk has extensive corporate
experience having worked as a strategic adviser to the CEO's
of some of Australia's largest organisations. He has recently
started his own business, DreamReal Enterprises, in which he
provides management consulting services to the sports, entertainment
and arts sectors. In association with this he is Chairperson
of the East Coast Theatre Company and has helped produce
a number of their productions including, as part of the B
Sharp 2005 season, Jon Fosse "Death Variations".
Sam's producing credits include: Mother and Child and Empress of China (East Coast Theatre Company), 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, 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 Bones (The New Black & Darlinghurst
Theatre), Terminus (East Coast Theatre Company
& Darlinghurst Theatre) and Queen Lere (CUT
Theatre)
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 third design for Eastcoast
Theatre Company.
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).
A graduate of NIDA Jenya worked in the theatre and radio for some years. She became a columnist for The Sunday Australian, for Vogue Australia and for Cosmopolitan, wrote book reviews and articles for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, Nation Review, The Australian and the ABC. She edited Edda's Diaries for Penguin Australia. She first worked with ECTC on Euripides' Medea, adapting it for their Sydney Street Theatre season. Subsequently she was dramaturg on ECTC's production Love Fix 2 one act plays, Prelude and Liebestod by Terrence McNally and the Aria Di Mezzo Carattere by Tim Benzie. This will be her third association with ECTC.