Robyn Nevin
Director
Robyn Nevin AO is one of the most prominent and prolific artistic figures Australia has produced. As a director, she has run two state theatre companies and directed Cate Blanchett in Hedda Gablerwhich toured to New York in 2006. As an actress, Robyn has played leading roles for all of Australia’s major theatre companies since the early sixties, appearing also in London’s West End and in the US, including Carnegie Hall in New York.
Her many memorable roles include Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Miss Docker in A Cheery Soul, Maria Callas in Masterclass, Hecuba in Barrie Kosky’s Women Of Troy, Mary Tyrone in Long Days Journey Into Night, with William Hurt, Didion’s one-woman play The Year Of Magical Thinking, Lally Katz’s Neighbourhood Watch at Belvoir Theatre, Emma in Neil Armfield’s celebrated production of Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll also for Belvoir, Queen Lear in Queen Lear at Melbourne Theatre Company, Mrs Venables in Suddenly Last Summer for the Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Opera House, Kate in All My Sons and The Fool in STC’s LEAR with Geoffrey Rush. In 2016 Robyn played Mrs Higgins in Julie Andrews’ acclaimed production of My Fair Lady, which toured Australia. In 2020 she played in the widely acclaimed A German Life, a one-woman play by Christopher Hampton, produced by Crossroads Live and directed by Neil Armfield for his Adelaide Festival.
On screen Robyn has appeared in the iconic Australian films The Castle, Careful He Might Hear You, The Eye of the Storm, Emerald City, The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith and the 2003 Matrix movies. More recently she starred opposite Emily Mortimer and Bella Heathcote in the horror movie Relic which opened in SUNDANCE in 2020, the new Australian film The Appleton Ladies Potato Race and horror-genre film, STING.
Robyn’s television credits include the award-winning series Water Under The Bridge, Halifax, Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake, The Turning with Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, The End and as Nanny Margaret in three award-winning seasons for the ABC of Upper Middle Bogan. Her awards for best actress include the Helpmann, Sydney Critics’ and Green Room awards; she received a Sydney Myer Performing Arts award and a Sammy and a Logie Award for Water Under the Bridge.
As director she has been Artistic Director and CEO of two state theatre companies. She led the Queensland Theatre company for three years and then the Sydney Theatre Company for nine years, where she created the celebrated Actors Company in 2003. For this ensemble she directed the inaugural production of Mother Courage.
Her most recent directing credit is for her highly-acclaimed production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap which toured Australia for Crossroads Live. For her contribution to the arts, she was a recipient of a Keating Fellowship, made an Honorary Doctor of Literature at the University of Tasmania and has been acknowledged by the Australian Government with an Officer of the Order of Australia award.
Paul Charlier
Sound Designer
Paul Charlier has composed the music and sound designed for over 200 productions across film, television, theatre, dance, physical theatre, radio and gallery installations in Australia and overseas. Theatre scores include: Lee Lewis’ Gaslight and Prima Facie, Priscilla Jackman’s RBG: Of Many, One, Liv Ullman’s A Streetcar Named Desire and Tamas Ascher’s Uncle Vanya, Stephen Soderberg’s Tot Mom, Robyn Nevin’s Scenes From A Separation, Judy Davis’ Victory, Faith Healer and Dance Of Death, Gale Edwards’ Buried Child and Neil Armfield’s Hamlet, The Blind Giant Is Dancing, Suddenly Last Summer, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Judas Kiss and Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll. He was Sound Designer for Michael Blakemore’s Copenhagen in Australia and his Deuce on Broadway and Composer for his Afterlife at the National Theatre, London. Paul composed the scores for the dance/physical theatre works including: 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 DV8: The Cost of Living. Paul scored the films, The Pool, Candy, Last Ride, The Final Quarter, Suzy and The Simple Man and Rachel’s Farm. He was Sound Designer for The Projectionist, Looking for Alibrandi and Paul Kelly: Stories of Me. Awards include: Australian Screen Sound Guild award for Paul Kelly: Stories Of Me, Sydney Theatre Awards for Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll and Honour Bound and a Helpmann Award for A Streetcar Named Desire.
Trudy Dalgleish
Lighting Designer
Trudy Dalgleish is one of Australia’s leading lighting designers and a graduate of The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) She has been nominated and won many awards for her work, including a ‘Mo’ Award for outstanding contribution to musical theatre, a Helpmann Award, and seven Greenroom awards. Trudy has worked extensively with most companies around Australia including Opera Australia, Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Dance Company. She is best known for her work in commercial musical theatre both in Australia and overseas. She has worked in the West End and on Broadway, and extensively in Asia and the Middle East. Trudy is also known for her many arena shows around the world and was Head of Lighting at the Sydney Entertainment Centre for seven years.
Trudy’s latest designs included The World of Wearable Art in Wellington, Grease the Australian tour, The Mousetrap and The Odd Couple for Crossroads Live, A Cat’s Attic, the Cat Stevens Australian and international tour, The Tap Pack on London’s West End, Turn of the Screw, Macbeth and Pirates of Penzance for SA Opera, Eucalyptus and A Little Night Music for Victorian Opera.
Dale Ferguson
Set & Costume Designer
Dale Ferguson’s credits for Belvoir include The Jungle and the Sea, Sami in Paradise, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Brothers Wreck and The Power of Yes. Dale’s other theatre credits include Death of a Salesman (GWB, Andrew Henry Presents) 37, Come Rain or Come Shine, An Ideal Husband, The Weir, The Speechmaker, The Crucible, Top Girls (MTC); A German Life (Adelaide Festival); Emerald City, L’Appartement (Queensland Theatre); Because the Night, Away, Brothers Wreck, Night on Bald Mountain, Dance of Death, Timeshare (Malthouse Theatre); Exit the King (Broadway); Cosi, Away, Les Liasions Dangereues (Sydney Theatre Company). Opera credits are Tosca (Opera Queensland WA Opera); The Magic Flute (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Anything Goes (Opera Australia); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021 Adelaide Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera). Dale received Helpmann Awards for August: Osage County and for Counting and Cracking. He has also received a number of Green Room Awards, most recently in 2022 for Because the Night and Tony and Drama Desk nominations for Exit the King on Broadway. Dale is a Lecturer in Performance Design at the Victorian College of the Arts.