Cast

Creatives

Anna Breckon - Writer/Director

Anna is an independent artist, filmmaker, film studies scholar, and critic from Aotearoa. She has a PhD in queer and feminist film theory from The University of Sydney. Her thesis considers queer politics of happiness in a selection of contemporary auteur films. Anna has published on John Waters (2013) and Todd Solondz (2018) in Screen (Oxford University Press) and Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls (upcoming, Indiana University Press).

Theatre as writer/director includes: The Second Woman (international tour), Set Piece (Australian tour) 

Exhibition includes: Rear view (The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Piece of Work (Verge Gallery), 3 Scenes (Cement Fondu), On Record (Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery)

Nat Randall - Writer/Director

Nat Randall is an Australian artist working at the intersection of performance, video and film. Randall studied at the University of Wollongong where she developed a breadth of performance practice including devised work, site specific practice and participatory work. In 2019 Randall, collaborator Anna Breckon and Performing Lines were nominated for a Helpmann Award for ‘Best Production of a Play’ for The Second Woman. Randall has guest lectured and delivered presentations at BAM, UTS and NIDA on her performance practice and experimental processes. Randall is currently on the Artistic Directorate of PACT Centre for Emerging and Experimental Art in Sydney, Australia.

Theatre as writer/director includes: The Second Woman (international tour), Set Piece (Australian tour) 

Exhibition includes: Rear view (The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Piece of Work (Verge Gallery), 3 Scenes (Cement Fondu), On Record (Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery), Supreme Ultimate (Museum of Contemporary Art)

Genevieve Murray (Future Method Studio) - Set Designer

Future Method is a research and design studio that actively questions and pushes the line between the practical and the abstract. Founded by Genevieve Murray in 2013, Future Method works collaboratively with creatives, researchers and communities on work that sits in-between established notions of contemporary architecture & art, with commissioned works for the Sydney Biennale, Melbourne Design Week, the Sydney Architecture Festival, and the Venice Architecture Biennale amongst others.

Set Design Includes: The Second Woman (global tour), Food Fight, WATERTOPIA, The Long Paddock

EO Gill - Video Designer

EO Gill is a video artist, videographer and curator living and working on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia). Their creative practice research speaks to bodily sites of tension, suspension and play explored through a self-reflexive documentary style. Gill was the recipient of the 2018 Create NSW Visual Arts (Emerging) Fellowship and has exhibited extensively in Australian and internationally. They were awarded the 2022 BADS Essay Prize by the British Association of Decadence Studies (BADS), which is based at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Video and Camera Design includes: The Second Woman (International tour); Set Piece (2022 Sydney Festival)

Lauren Woodhead - Lighting Designer

Previous Young Vic: The fabric with Colour Vogue Ball, Of the Cut, AI, The new tomorrow. 

Theatre includes: BURGERZ (Co-Design, Hackney Showroom, UK and International tour), BLUBBER, (The Roundhouse), If you love me this might hurt (Camden peoples theatre), Fatty Fat Fat (UK tour), Really real TEENZ (The Yard theatre), Man Muck (The Etcetera theatre). 

Theatre as Associate Lighting Designer includes: Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith), FITTER (Soho theatre), The crown dual (Wiltons music hall). 

Theatre as Assistant Lighting Designer includes: Jesus Christ Superstar (Regents park open air theatre), Jubilee (Royal Exchange theatre & Lyric Hammersmith) As you like it (Regents park open air theatre).

Yarit Dor - UK Movement Director

Yarit is a fight director, movement director, IDC certified intimacy director & intimacy coordinator.

Previously for Young Vic: Death Of A Salesman (also West End), Changing Destiny and Wild East. 

Theatre includes: Hamilton (West End), The Glass Menagerie (West End); The Shark Is Broken (West End); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); “Daddy” A Melodrama (Almeida Theatre); Black Superhero, This Is Not Who I Am, Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks (Royal Court), The Band’s Visit, Love & Other Acts Of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; Hamlet; As You Like It; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Old Bridge, Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre), The Crucible, An Unfinished Man, Dirty Crusty (The Yard); Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Last Easter (Orange Tree Theatre).

Dance credits include: Rooms, Peaky Blinders (Rambert Dance Company); The Burnt City (Punchdrunk).

Film/TV includes: Glass Onion: Knives Out Mystery; The Wheel Of Time; Shadow & Bone; Cheaters; Starstruck; Mood; Adult Material and Atlanta 3 amongst others.

Nina Buchanan - Composer

Nina Buchanan is a musician and composer based in Naarm, Melbourne. Working predominantly with electronic sound and keyboard instruments, her music creates rich emotional landscapes, oscillating between the ecstatic and the melancholic. Her live and recorded solo work evokes genre affiliations as broad as 90s electronica, IDM, film scores and minimalism, with releases on Nice Music and Heavy Machinery Records. As a composer she has created soundtracks for theatre, film, television, gallery and site-specific installation, with work featured at festivals in Australia, USA, Europe, UK and Asia.

Theatre as composer includes: The Second Woman (global tour)

Suzanne Scotcher - Wigs, Hair and Makeup Co-Designer

Suzanne has worked for Madame Tussauds on exhibitions in London and internationally, including Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. She has also worked extensively with the National Theatre supervising over 25 shows, including NT Live productions, national and international tours. She has also taught at Christine Blundell Makeup Academy, Wimbledon College of Art London, LCF and the National Theatre education department.

For the Young Vic: Mandela

Theatre includes: Tammy Faye, The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida); Dancing at Lughnasa, Much Ado About Nothing, Trouble in Mind, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other; One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre/ West End/ International tour); The Father and the Assassin, Home, The Pillowman, Phaedra, Master Harold and the boys, An Octoroon, Amadeus, Saint George and the Dragon, Common, Ugly Lies the Bone, Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, Wonder.land, The James Plays, The Elephantom, Men Should Weep, Never So Good, The Hour, Women of Troy, Sing Yer Heart out for the Lads (National Theatre); Bach & Sons (Bridge Theatre).

As Wigs Hair and Makeup Co-Designer: Jitney (The Old Vic); The Chairs (Almeida)

Other work includes: Photo shoots for the National Theatre, Almeida, British and American Vogue.

Belinda Young - Hair and Make-up Co-Designer

Born and raised in Belfast, Belinda started her career in hair salons and has since worked on countless productions in TV and Film - including upcoming drama Woman in the Wall, where she worked as Ruth Wilson’s personal hair and makeup artist.

TV and Film includes: Game of Thrones (2010-2018); Bloodlands; The Secret; Torvil and Dean; Conversations with Friends; Tom Jones; Dublin Murders; Woman in White and many others