Coralie Bywater

Coralie completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours, majoring in film and theatre studies at the University of Sydney. Her acting training includes the two year full time programme at the late Uta Hagen’s HB Studio in New York City and she continues to work with Annie Swann of the Actor’s Lab, Sydney. Coralie’s theatre credits include Mary Bryant and The Maids in New York, America Hurrah, Loveplay, Meet The Candidates and Twelfth Night, among others, in Sydney. Her television credits include roles in All Saints and Out of the Blue and numerous commercials. She has appeared in music video clips and short films including, recently, Frances and Annie with award winning director Genevieve Clay. Coralie’s Great Grandfather, John Bunn, and two Great Uncles, George Bunn and Frederick Berry, all fought in the Great War in the same regiment on the Western Front. All were wounded and unfortunately, Frederick, at 23, never made it home.

Mairéad Berne

Mairéad Berne has been performing on stage since she was four years old. Whilst she was at school she performed in Cosi and the musical The Boyfriend. In 2007 Mairéad played Emma in A Moment On The Lips (Hot Krumpet Productions). Aside from the stage Mairéad also explores the world of film appearing in short films Smack by Steven Woodburn and Rontus McNally by Ollie Ford. Mairéad graduated from the Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (AADA) where she played Andromache in the Women of Troy, Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons and Viola in Twelfth Night. Most recently she starred A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians for the New Theatre and played Polly Pocket in Polly Pocket is not a Princess in the 2009 Brand Spanking New season.

Lucy Miller

Lucy trained in London after receiving a full 3 year scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. She worked at Riverside Studios, Avondale Theatre and the Landor Theatre in London on productions such as Vinegar Tom, Anatol, A Dolls House and Blithe Spirit. In Australia she has worked with Night Sky Productions in 6 seasons of Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and The Comedy of Errors, as well as two seasons of A Midsummer Nights Dream in Centennial Park. She has performed with Young Australia Workshop/Canute productions of Shakespeare On Trial to over 200,00 students around Australia, a national tour of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and The Bamboo Flute. Other recent productions include As Bees In Honey Drown at the Darlinghurst Theatre, Redemption at The Old Fitzroy Theatre, and Defiance at The Q Station. She toured productions of Unit 46 and Snatch Paradise to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2009 and did My Private Parts for the Sydney Fringe and I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change at Glen Street Theatre. Film/TV includes All Saints and the documentary/drama film The Macdonagh Sisters.

Johann Walraven

Since graduating from NIDA in Acting in 2003, Johann has appeared as Vincent van Gogh in Vincent in Brixton (Ensemble), Ethelred in Silence & Jack in Checklist for an Armed Robber (both for B Sharp), Mike in Dinner (Griffin), Rot in Features of Blown Youth & Hamlet in Hamlet (for New Theatre), Will and Donny in The Carnivores (TRS), Jaques in As You Like It (Shakespeare Centre), amongst other things. Other roles include TV performances in Fireflies, Home and Away, All Saints, Rescue Special Ops, Rake, the U.S. feature film Stealth, numerous short films & music videos.

Peter Hayes

Graduated from Boroko East Uniting Church Sunday School pageants to play the schoolboy in Port Moresby Players 1968 production of 1066 and All That and never looked back. Performed memorably in various productions at Wesley College and the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney before training in London at Webber Douglas Academy. Settled in Sydney for a guttering career in film [incl. 15 Amore, The Junction Boys], tv [incl. Prisoner, Just Kidding] and theatre [incl. Chris Hurrell’s Macbeth, Jeremy Rice’s Richard III, Joseph Uchitel’s Provincial Anecdotes, Marion Potts’ production of Mark Swivel’s Struth]. A proud member of Equity since 1984.

Sebastian Lamour

Sebastian has had no formal training, but attends various long-term classes with NIDA, Actors Centre and Sandra Lee Patterson’s On Camera Connections. Some of Sebastian’s credits include Benedict Andrews’ La Dispute, the ABC tele-movie The Road to Coorain, regular appearances in both Home and Away and All Saints, and Wolverine. He is very excited to work with Cheryl Ward again, previously acting alongside her in the New Theatre’s production of Cosi.

Producer, Director, Writer & Props - Cheryl Ward

Cheryl studied acting technique at the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles in 1994/5. Since then she has appeared in over 20 stage shows including Olivia in Twelfth Night (PACT), Rose in Dancing at Laughnasa, Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Ruth in Cosi (New Theatre), as Paula Heimann in Mrs Klein (Edge Theatre) and as the woman driver in A Couple of Poor Polish-Speaking Romanians (Newtown Theatre). In 2008 she was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA, London) for the Acting Shakespeare course where she played Queen Lear in the final course production of Queen Lear (adapted from King Lear). She has also had guest roles on All Saints, Water Rats, Young Lions and Home and Away. This production marks Cheryl’s directing and producing debut with her creative studio No Rest for the Wicked.

Dramaturg/Research Assistant - Stephen Barker

MEAA Green Room Award winner Stephen Barker is an accomplished actor, director, writer, musician and educator having created an extensive body of work throughout Australia and overseas. Most recently he featured in Ray Lawrence’s film Jindabyne. Stephen has mentored and provided dramaturgical advice to a number of emerging young writers in the Canberra region as well as creating and teaching the course Writers Unite. He was commissioned to write They Also Served, Dog of War and Our Darkest Hour for the Australian War Memorial. Stephen is a proud member and vice-president of the MEAA (Actors Equity ACT Branch), an accredited judge for the AFI, and drama lecturer at the University of Canberra.

Set Design - Tom Bannerman

Tom Bannerman is a Sydney-based set designer, though he was born in Scotland. His family came to Australia in 1962, staying at a relative’s home, the corner shop at the bottom of Awaba St, Balmoral, eventually moving to the nearby suburb of North Balgowlah.

As a theatre designer, his achievements include receiving the Chief Glugg’s award for Excellence Behind the Scenes and his work being included in the last Australian showing of professional scenography at the Prague Quadrennial, the supreme international scenographic exhibition. Recent designs include Push Up and This Way Up (Newtown Theatre), Bedroom Farce, Tom and Nicole and Russell and Friends and The God Botherers, (Darlinghurst Theatre), Bent and Homebody/Kabul (B-Sharp), Cabaret, Don Juan in Soho and Take Me Out (New Theatre), Bondi Dreaming and The Crucible (Seymour Downstairs), Unit 46 (The Factory), All Shook Up (Knox Grammar), Influenced (La Mama) and Vincent River, The Carnivores and Mile High (Old Fitzroy). He is currently designing the set for Burnt by the Sun at New Theatre. Tom is better known north of the harbour for his work at the Ensemble Theatre, for which he designed 30 productions, the latest being A View from The Bridge. Tom became interested in theatre design not far from here at Balgowlah Boys High School, where his first work, Saint Joan, won for him the first of a hat-trick of Arts Council of Australia Drama Festival Awards for Best Set Design (1971, 1972 and 1973).

Tom’s father, who was conscripted into the British army for six and a half years, received the care of military nurses first in a field hospital and then at the 110 British General Hospital, near Bruges, in the closing months of WWII, before returning to his regiment as it entered Germany following its crossing of the Rhine. The old veteran still speaks with enormous admiration for the medical help he received in those terrible times.

Lighting Design - Spiros Hristias

Costume Design - Cassandra Pascoli

Cassandra Pascoli completed a BA (Theatre Theory and Practice) at UWS in 2000 before heading to New York to work as Assistant Head of Wardrobe at Frenchwoods Festival of Performing Arts, completing several shows per season, including Ragtime, Drowsy Chaperone and Edwin Drood. She then worked in London as Assistant Wardrobe Mistress for Peter Pan (Qdos Entertainment) and as a wardrobe coordinator for a busy costuming house in central London, supplying costumes to companies such as the BBC. Since returning to Australia, Cassandra has worked on various independent and community theatre projects including Les Miserables (HMDS). Cassandra’s recent costume design include The Witches, Don Juan in Soho, Cabaret, Waiting For Godot (New Theatre) and Bent (Focus Theatre). She is currently working for Opera Australia.

Sound Design - Jeremy (Jed) Silver

Jeremy has worked as a sound designer in Sydney for the last seven years. He was recently nominated for Best Sound Design/Score at the Sydney Theatre Awards for Capture the Flag and he has also been nominated for The Greenroom Awards for Best Sound Design for Ying Tong. His recent productions include Ying Tong, Morph for Sydney Theatre Company, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, The Gates of Egypt, Stuff Happens and Run Rabbit Run for Belvoir St Theatre, This Is How It Goes at The Darlinghurst Theatre and Capture the Flag, Little Boy, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset at the Old Fitzroy Theatre. His Sound Operating credits include Keating, The Threepenny Opera, Macbeth and My Zinc Bed for Company B.

Stage Management / Lighting and Sound Operator - Engie Ho

Engie has been a Singapore-based theatre practitioner since 2002, mainly working as a costume and stage manager on numerous productions, a high school drama educator and director, and has also worked as an assistant producer. Major Singapore theatre companies she has worked with include Singapore Repertory Theatre, Singapore Lyric Opera, Theatre Practice, Dream Academy Productions, Resorts World Sentosa, Toy Factory Productions, Theatreworks, Wild Rice and The Necessary Stage. Major theatre productions include Bent, Dangerous Liasons, Quills, Snow Queen, Twist of Fate, Man of Letters, Cabaret, Thunderstorm, Lord of the Flies, La Traviata, Turandot, Tales of Hoffman, Much Ado About Nothing, The Office Party, Revenge of the Dim Sum Dollies, Dim Sum Dollies: Singapore’s Most Wanted, Dim Sum Dollies: Little Shop of Horrors, Kumar The Queen, Dim Sum Dollies in the History of Singapore, SingDollar, The Hossan Leong Show, Child Aid 2009, Broadway Beng Returns, Broadway Beng – Jiak Liu Lian. She is thrilled to be working on her first Australian historical play.

Nursing Consultant - Anne Finley

Anne has been a nurse for 36 years. She trained as a nurse, midwife and health visitor in England before her husband convinced her to migrate to Perth, Western Australia (because it has the fastest wicket) in 1986. She worked mainly with the indigenous and migrant families as a community nurse for 20 years before moving to Sydney in 2006. She has a BSc and Master of Nursing and works as a Nurse Practitioner in a Sydney hospital.

Stills Photography - Grant Lyndon

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