Patrick Hamilton
Gaslight
Patrick Hamilton was born in Hassocks, Sussex in 1904. He and his parents moved a short while later to Hove, where he spent his early years. He published his first novel, Craven House, in 1926 and within a few years had established a wide readership for himself.
Despite personal setbacks and an increasing problem with drinking, he was still able to write some of his best work. His plays include the thrillers Rope (1929) – on which Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rope was based – and Gaslight (1939), also successfully adapted for screen in the same year. There was also a historical drama, The Duke in Darkness (1943).
Among his novels are The Midnight Bell (1929), The Siege of Pleasure (1932), The Plains Of Cement (1934), a trilogy entitled Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky (1935), Hangover Square (1941) and The Slaves Of Solitude (1947). The Gorse Trilogy is made up of The West Pier, Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse
and Unknown Assailant, which were first published during the 1950s.
He died in 1962.
Adapted by
Johnna Wright
Johnna has worked, studied and collaborated in various parts of Canada as a director, actor, producer, dramaturg and playwright.
She was a co-founder of Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival (now Canada’s largest Shakespeare festival outside Stratford). There, her most recent project was an acclaimed adaptation of All’s Well that Ends Well, set in India on the eve of Partition, co-created with Rohit Chokhani.
Johnna is a two-time recipient of Vancouver’s Jessie Richardson Awards for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Production, as well as other awards. Favourite projects include The Rivals for Blackbird Theatre in Vancouver and The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble in Saskatoon.
As a dramaturg and director, Johnna has supported the development of dozens of new Canadian plays. She also works as an editor for writers of fiction and memoir.
Patty and Johnna’s next play, The Three Musketeers, is in development. Johnna also wrote The Suspect, an adaptation of her mother’s award-winning novel of the same name.
After the challenges of the last few years, Johnna believes more than ever in the power of theatre to change the way we see the world, and in the need for audiences to have that experience together.
Patty Jamieson
Patty’s career as an actor, singer, dancer, musician and teacher has taken her to theatres across Canada, the U.S and Germany. Notably, she has been a member of the Acting Ensemble at the Shaw Festival, Canada’s second largest repertory theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, for 26 seasons. There she has played roles in over 60 plays including Ragtime, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Light in the Piazza, The Sea, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, Rope, Happy End, Cabaret, The Women, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion.
Patty works with many local arts organizations in her hometown as producer, writer, and performer, and teaches arts, music and theatre for Brock University, Music Niagara, and Yellow Door Theatre Project. She received her M.Ed. in 2018 and has seen first-hand the power of supporting arts education for students at all levels, teaching in both of Canada’s official languages.
Patty and Johnna continue to collaborate on various writing projects with an interest in bringing out voices that have often not been heard. They are extremely grateful for the support of their families, Playwrights Guild of Canada, Shaw Festival Artistic Director, Tim Carroll, and their hardworking literary agent, Colin Rivers.
Lee Lewis
Director
Lee Lewis is the Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre and one of Australia’s leading directors. For Queensland Theatre she has directed: First Casualty, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Return to the Dirt, Prima Facie, Our Town, Mouthpiece, Rice. For Griffin she has directed: Prima Facie, The Almighty Sometimes, Kill Climate Deniers, The Homosexuals or Faggots, Rice, Gloria, The Bleeding Tree (three Helpmann Awards), 8 Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography, Masquerade (co-directed with Sam Strong), Emerald City, A Rabbit for Kim Jong-il, The Serpent’s Table, Silent Disco, The Bull The Moon and the Coronet of Stars, The Call, A Hoax, The Nightwatchman, and; for Griffin and Bell Shakespeare: The Literati; for Bell Shakespeare: The School for Wives, Twelfth Night, for Belvoir: That Face, This Heaven, 2000 Feet Away, Half and Half, A Number, 7 Blowjobs and Ladybird; for Melbourne Theatre Company: Gloria, Hayfever, David Williamson’s Rupert, which toured to Washington DC as part of the World Stages International Arts Festival and to Sydney’s Theatre Royal in 2014; for Sydney Theatre Company: Mary Stuart, Honour, Love Lies Bleeding and ZEBRA!; for ATYP: Battlegrounds and Citizenship; for Darwin Festival Highway of Lost Hearts; for NIDA: After Dinner, Big Love, Shopping and Fucking, and The Winter’s Tale; and for WAAPA: As You Like It. She directed the revival of Max Lambert’s and Katharine Thompson’s musical Darlinghurst Nights for The Hayes.
Renée Mulder
Set and Costume Designer
Renée Mulder is an award-winning set and costume designer.
Renée works with Australia’s leading directors including Jessica Arthur, Sarah Goodes, Lee Lewis, Paige Rattray, Imara Savage, Shari Sebbens, Sam Strong, and Kip Williams. Renée was Design Director at Queensland Theatre 2020-2021, was a member of Queensland Theatre’s National Artistic Team from 2016-2017 and Resident Designer at Sydney Theatre Company from 2012-2014.
Renée won Best Stage Design of a Mainstage Production and was nominated for Best Costume Design at the 2019 Sydney Theatre Awards for her work on The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Renée won the 2018 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Costume Design for Top Girls and was nominated in the same category for her designs for Harp in the South, both with Sydney Theatre Company. She also received a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Costume Design for Harp in the South. Renée has won three Matilda Awards for Best Design for Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Sydney Theatre Company/La Boite), Best Design – Set and Best Design – Costume for First Casualty (Queensland Theatre).
Paul Jackson
Lighting Designer
Paul Jackson APDG is a multi-award-winning lighting and set designer, dramaturg and theatre maker who works across Australia and internationally. Paul’s practice encompasses theatre, opera, dance, music theatre, concerts, and live events. Lighting design credits include: for Melbourne Theatre Company, Sunday, Cyrano, Escaped Alone and What If If Only; for Sydney Theatre Company, Oil, Do Not Go Gentle, The Lifespan of a Fact, Death of a Salesman; for Malthouse, Nosferatu, This Is Living.
Paul has designed lighting for The Australian Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Berlin Staatsballett, West Australian Ballet, Victorian Opera, West Australian Opera, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, TML, The Production Company, Bell Shakespeare, Playbox, Malthouse, Belvoir, Queensland Theatre, Circa, Opera Australia, Australian Art Orchestra, and many others.
Paul has won a Helpmann Award, two Sydney Theatre Awards, seven Green Room Awards, a Critics’ Award for Theatre in Scotland, and five Australian Production Design Guild Awards. In addition, he has also received a further four Helpmann Award nominations, thirty-two Green Room Award nominations, five APDG nominations and four Sydney Theatre nominations. Paul is accredited with the Australian Production Design Guild.
Paul Charlier
Original Music and Sound Design
Paul Charlier has composed and sound designed for approaching 200 productions across theatre, dance, physical theatre, film, television, radio and audio-visual installations in Australia and overseas. He started out with industrial noise outfits SoliPsiK and SPK and since then his works include: Lee Lewis and Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie, Priscilla Jackman’s RBG: Of Many, One, Liv Ullman’s A Street Car Named Desire, Stephen Soderberg’s Tot Mom, Judy Davis’ Faith Healer and Dance of Death, Gale Edwards’ Buried Child, and a lot of plays with Neil Armfield at Belvoir Street Theatre back in the day including Aftershocks, Hamlet, The Blind Giant Is Dancing, The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll; Michael Blakemore’s Copenhagen at STC plus his Deuce on Broadway and Afterlife at the National Theatre, London; Marrugeku’s Jurrungu Ngan-Ga (Straight Talk), Nigel Jameson and Legs On The Wall’s Honour Bound; Kate Champion’s Already Elsewhere, and Lloyd Newson’s The Cost Of Living (DV8). He also scored the films Aftershocks, Candy, Last Ride, The Final Quarter, Suzy And The Simple Man and Rachel’s Farm, was Music Supervisor for Holding The Man and Sound Designer for The Projectionist, Looking for Alibrandi and Paul Kelly: Stories of Me.
Rodney Rigby
Producer
Rodney Rigby founded Newtheatricals; a producing group operating across Australia and on Broadway.
Current Broadway: Water For Elephants a new musical.
On Broadway: Good Night, Oscar starring Tony Award Winner Sean Hayes, Come From Away (also Australia, North American tour, London – Winner of four Olivier Awards including Best Musical, Toronto), Diana, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Children Of A Lesser God, Rocky, Catch Me If You Can and Lend Me A Tenor. Off Broadway productions: David Bryne’s Joan of Arc: Into the Fire, Here Lies Love and Helder Guimarães: Verso. Regional: Marie (Little Dancer).
In Australia: Come From Away 2019-2023, Darkness, Jersey Boys 2009-13 and 2018-19, Blue Man Group, The Addams Family, Rock of Ages, Boeing Boeing, Mum’s the Word 2: Teenagers, Burt Bacharach and the Sydney Symphony, The Woman in Black, Jamie Oliver Live, Bryn Terfel – In Recital, David Campbell – Wild with Style, Anthony Warlow – Under the Stars, Stuff Happens, Leader of the Pack, Lesley Garrett and Anthony Warlow – The Magic of The Music, Via Dolorosa (written and performed by David Hare), La Fura Dels Baus XXX and The Helpmann Awards (2001, 2004 and 2005). Awards include Live Performance Australia Life Member, Olivier Award for Best Musical 2019 (Come From Away), six Helpmann Awards including Best Musical 2010 (Jersey Boys) and Best Play 2006 (Stuff Happens), two Sydney Theatre Awards including Best Musical Production (Jersey Boys), eighteen Greenroom Awards and three time Tony Award nominee.
Queensland Theatre
Producer
For more than 50 years, Queensland Theatre has created collective experiences that change lives, presenting an annual season of the best classic, contemporary, international and Australian works. Queensland Theatre are committed to championing new voices on Australian stages including supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to develop and share their stories, and encouraging a love of theatre through education and youth participation across Queensland.
Co-Producers
Marriner Group
Marriner Group is one of Australia’s preeminent theatrical organisations. Founded in 1986, Marriner Group owns and operates five major historic venues in Melbourne: the Princess, Regent and Comedy theatres, Forum Melbourne, and the Plaza Ballroom.
The team at Marriner Group are dedicated to the management and enhancement of our venues, playing host to the most celebrated live performances. Plays, musicals, opera, ballet and family entertainment are all home at our theatres; local and international music acts choose to play at Forum Melbourne; and our venues provide a stunning backdrop to corporate events, parties and weddings catered by our award-winning in-house kitchen.
Marriner Group produces and invests in a diverse range of productions, spanning from independent theatre to large-scale commercial musicals. All these endeavours form an integral part of our unwavering commitment to nurturing a dynamic and comprehensive theatrical industry that shines on the global stage.
TEG
TEG is a global leader in Live Entertainment, Ticketing and Technology and has been at the heart of the live event experience for 50 years through its touring and ticketing operations. Every day TEG connects fans to experiences and customers with brands. TEG are proud partners of some of the world’s largest and most iconic venues as well as leading event promoters globally.
In recent years TEG has welcomed many new members to the TEGfamily of businesses by expanding into new markets, genres, and capabilities. Through TEG’s integrated operating model, the business brings the best live content, ticketing and technology to partners and creates memories for fans that last a lifetime.
TEG is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and operates globally out of seven country offices and includes Ticketek, Ticketek Marketplace, Ticketek UK, Ticketek New Zealand, Ticketek Malaysia, Ticketek Philippines, Eventopia, Softix, TEG Live, TEG Dainty, TEG Sport, TEGVan Egmond, Laneway Festival, Handsome Tours, SXSW Sydney, TEGTheatrical, MJR Presents, TEG Lifelike Touring, TEG TES Live, Brickman, TEG Rockefeller, Rugby Live, TEG Europe, Propaganda, TEG USA, Qudos Bank Arena, FAN+, VIP NOW and Ovation.
Newtheatricals
General Management
Newtheatricals is a team comprising of Simone Cheuanghane, Megan Cox, Ben Finn and Rodney Rigby serving as Executive Producer and General Management for musicals, plays and live events across Australia and New Zealand. Recent credits include Come From Away (2019-2023), Darkness, 5 Eliza and Jersey Boys.
Lauren Wiley
Casting
Lauren’s credits include: As Casting Director – Hamilton (Jeffrey Seller/Michael Cassel Group), Hamilton International Tour, Australian Casting (Jeffrey Seller/Michael Cassel/GMG Productions), Come From Away (Junkyard Dog/Newtheatricals), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Michael Cassel Group), Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel Group). As Consulting Casting Director – Tina, The Tina Turner Musical (TEG Dainty/Stage Entertainment). As Casting Administrator – Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Misérables (Michael Cassel Group). Lauren’s theatrical casting career began 15 years ago at Sydney Theatre Company as the Casting Coordinator for Co-Artistic Directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton. Lauren later returned to Sydney Theatre Company as the in-house Casting Director for Artistic Director Kip Williams until 2019.
Ticket Hive
Ticketing Management
TicketHive assists clients to optimise ticket sales by developing customised ticketing solutions and providing the necessary tools to effectively manage ticketing processes. They offer a comprehensive range of services, from ticketing administration to sales and pricing strategy, allowing clients to tailor the services delivered based on the needs of their event.
TicketHive was founded in early 2023 by experienced ticketing and event professionals who are passionate about supporting event organisers with the administration and development of their ticketing processes and strategies. TicketHive works with a diverse range of clients across Australia including venues, commercial producers and not-for-profit event organisations, from theatrical seasons in well-known venues to installation events held on temporary sites.
Jessica Bendell Publicity
National Publicity
Jessica Bendell from Jessica Bendell Publicity is a Melbourne-based publicist, specialising in arts, theatre, concerts, musical theatre and entertainment publicity across Australia. With close to 20 years publicity experience, including nine years as the Media Manager at Arts Centre Melbourne, Jessica established her own publicity consultancy in 2018. Highlights of current and former clients and performances Jessica Bendell Publicity has worked with include Crossroads Live (Hairspray, Grease, Chicago, Magic Mike Live); Michael Cassel Group (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child); StoreyBoard Entertainment (tick, tick…BOOM!, CHESS The Musical); JONES Theatrical Group (Madagascar the Musical, Metaverse of Magic); Concertworks (Jekyll & Hyde, An Evening with James Bond); Melbourne Theatre Company, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra, Opera Australia, Lifelike Touring and Arts Centre Melbourne.
Venue Partners