Anthony LaPaglia is a multi-award winning actor who has an extensive and diverse list of credits across film, television and theatre.

Anthony will be reprising the role of Willy Loman in the upcoming 2026 remount of Arthur Miller’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN in Melbourne and Brisbane. His performance during the 2023 – 2024 Australian seasons received rave reviews across seasons in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

Anthony was recently seen in the television adaption of Trent Dalton’s iconic novel BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE, which reached the Top 3 globally on Netflix, becoming the most successful Australian made series for Netflix. He also starred in Justin Kurzel’s feature NITRAM, alongside Caleb Landry Jones, Essie Davis and Judy Davis, which had its World Premiere in Competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Anthony also served as an Executive Producer on the film, which received critical acclaim and earned him an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

His other recent credits include the Netflix series FLORIDA MAN alongside Édgar Ramírez, Maziar Lahooti’s debut feature BELOW which premiered at the 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival, David Sandberg’s horror film ANNABELLE: CREATION, the SBS miniseries SUNSHINE alongside Melanie Lynskey, for which he was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Drama and a Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actor at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival, the Sky series RIVIERA with Julia Stiles, the limited series BAD BLOOD, and a guest starring role in season five of the popular ABC series RAKE. 

Anthony’s other projects include Walter Hill’s feature THE ASSIGNMENT alongside Sigourney Weaver, which premiered at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, Neil Armfield’s HOLDING THE MAN alongside Guy Pearce, for which he received nominations for an AACTA Award, Australian Film Critics Association Award and Film Critics Circle of Australia for Best Supporting Actor, Marco Serafini’s feature TOY GUN, the critically acclaimed ABC series THE CODE, the BBC telemovie THE EICHMANN SHOW alongside Martin Freeman, A GOOD MARRIAGE, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel and Matthew Saville’s A MONTH OF SUNDAYS for which he was nominated for an Australian Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor.

He starred in the Australian feature BALIBO where he also served as Executive Producer.  His performance as Roger East in the film earned him the AFI Award and Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actor. 

His other feature film credits include the critically acclaimed LANTANA, for which he was awarded the AFI Award, IF Award and Film Critic Circle of Australia Award for Best Actor, BIG STONE GAP, MENTAL, NEWCOMER, BETSY’S WEDDING, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, SWEET AND LOWDOWN, THE CLIENT, COMPANY MAN, SUMMER OF SAM, AUTUMN IN NEW YORK, LANSKY, PHOENIX, COMMANDMENTS, BRILLIANT LIES, WINTER SOLSTICE and THE ARCHITECT.

Anthony received widespread critical acclaim for his portrayal of Jack Malone in WITHOUT A TRACE, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and earned an Emmy Award nomination and two SAG Award nominations for Outstanding Male Actor and a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Ensemble.

His television credits include a recurring role in FRASIER, for which he earned an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Daphne’s brother Simon Moon, the Nine Network’s series HALIFAX: RETRIBUTION, Robert Connolly’s telemovie UNDERGROUND, which tells the story of a young Julian Assange, MURDER ONE and the movies NEVER GIVE UP: THE JIMMY V STORY, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, for which he received a CableACE nomination, and GARDEN OF REDEMPTION.

Anthony has also appeared on stage in Stanley Tucci’s LEND ME A TENOR for the Music Box Theatre and Terry Kinney’s CHECKERS at the Vineyard Theatre.  He was awarded a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance in the Arthur Miller classic A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. His additional stage credits include THE ROSE TATTOO, which earned him a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, the Off Broadway productions of BOUNCERS, NORTHEAST LOCAL and ON THE OPEN ROAD and the Off Off Broadway production of THE GUYS, which went on to become a feature film in which he starred with Sigourney Weaver.

Anthony was the 2014 recipient of the Virgin Australia Orry Kelly International Award presented by Australians in Film which recognises his significant international contribution to the Australian film and entertainment industry.

Alison Whyte is one of Australia’s most accomplished and celebrated actors, with an outstanding reputation in theatre, film and television.

Alison returns to GWB Entertainment’s production of Death of a Salesman as ‘Linda Loman’. Alison’s other theatre credits include King Lear, Faith Healer (Belvoir), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Belvoir/Melbourne Theatre Company), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Michael Cassel Group), The Testament of Mary, Travelling North (Sydney Theatre Company), The Glass Menagerie, Jacky, All About My Mother, Richard lll (Melbourne Theatre Company), Macbeth, Hamlet (ASC) and Monsters, Cloudstreet,, The Bloody Chamber, Optimism (Malthouse Theatre), Peter and the Starcatcher  (Dead Puppet Society) and Groundhog Day The Musical (GWB Entertainment).

Film: Below, The Dressmaker, Centreplace Television: Gnomes, Scrublands, Fisk, Jack Irish, Harrow, The Kettering Incident, Glitch, Playing For Keeps, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Tangle, Satisfaction, Frontline. Alison is the recipient of multiple industry awards including Green Room, Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Awards for her work on stage, as well as Logie and ASTRA Awards for her work onscreen.

Neil Armfield AO is a leading Australian director of theatre, opera and film. He was Co-Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival (2017 – 2022) and Artistic Director of Belvoir St Theatre for 17 years, which he also co-founded. Having directed over 100 stage productions, including many world premieres, recent credits include: Andrew Bovell’s Song of First Desire, Handel’s Julius Caesar, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Joseph Twist’s Watershed: the Death of Dr Duncan, Rameau’s Platée and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

International productions include Cloudstreet, Hamlet, Diary of a Madman, Exit The King, The Secret River, The Book of Everything, David Hare’s The Judas Kiss and I’m Not Running. Other highlights are; The Tempest, Hamlet, Up the Road, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Keating!, Aliwa, Angels in America, A Cheery Soul, Signal Driver, The Blind Giant is Dancing and Things I Know To Be True.

Neil has directed for many of the world’s major opera companies and in addition to repertoire classics such as Wagner’s Ring Cycle, OA’s Janáček cycle and Houston Grand Opera’s Britten cycle, Neil directed the premières of Frankie and The Eighth Wonder by Alan John, Whitsunday by Brian Howard, Love Burns by Graeme Koehne and Bliss and Hamlet by Brett Dean.

Neil’s screen credits are Candy and Holding The Man (features) and Edens Lost, The Fisherman’s Wake and Coral Island (television). Over his distinguished career, Neil has received 2 AFI Awards, 12 Helpmann Awards and many Sydney Theatre, Victorian Green Room and Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Awards.

He holds Honorary Doctorates from Adelaide, Sydney and NSW Universities, and in 2007 was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia.

Niklas Pajanti is an award-winning lighting designer whose practice ranges across contemporary art forms and performance styles including theatre, dance, opera, circus, musical theatre, comedy, events, exhibitions and public spaces.

 Niklas has designed for a range of leading Australian and international companies including: Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse, Chunky Move, Victorian Opera, Brink, Ilbijerri, Dance North, Dancehouse, The Eleventh Hour, Ranters Theatre, BalletLab, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne Festival, Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Commonwealth Games Festival Melbourne, Federation Square and Waterfront City.

 He designed lighting for the Helpmann Award winning production of ANGELS IN AMERICA as well as THE WILD DUCK for Belvoir which toured to the Vienna Festival, Holland Festival and The Barbican London; and lighting RUPERT for Melbourne Theatre Centre which went on to commercial seasons at Sydney’s Theatre Royal and The Kennedy Center, Washington DC.

 Niklas’ lighting for Opera includes: for Victorian Opera, KATYA KABANOVA, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, REMBRANDT’S WIFE; for Melbourne Opera, LA BOHEME, LUCREZIA BORGIA; for Lyric Opera, BIOGRAPHICA.

 Niklas’ lighting for theatre includes: for Melbourne Theatre Company, WEST GATE, MOTHER PLAY, THE REMOVALISTS, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, BERLIN, COSI, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, ASTROMAN, A DOLL’S HOUSE PART 2, RUPERT, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THE BEAST, QUEEN LEAR; for Sydney Theatre Company, COSI, WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING (with Brink Productions), AUSTRALIA DAY (with MTC), SPRING AWAKENING, I WANT TO DANCE BETTER AT PARTIES (with Chunky Move); for Belvoir, MY URRWAI, ANGELS IN AMERICA, WILD DUCK, BABY TEETH, WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, THE PROMISE, BAGHDAD WEDDING,THE PILLOWMAN, YIBIYUNG; for Malthouse THE BIRDS, ONE NIGHT THE MOON, KITTEN (with Jenny Kemp), NOT LIKE BECKETT; for Bell Shakespeare, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING; THE SCHOOL OF WIVES; for Dark Mofo, BASS BATH; for Ilbijerri, HEART IS A WASTELAND, WHICH WAY HOME; for Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide festivals, THE EXPERIMENT; for Chamber Made, CROSSING LIVE and THE HIVE; for The Eleventh Hour, ENDGAME (with Melbourne Festival and tour to Enniskillen International Beckett Festival), THE SONG OF THE BLEEDING THROAT, OTHELLO, KING JOHN (with Adelaide Festival); for Ranters Theatre AFFECTION, HOLIDAY (with Griffin Theatre), INTIMACY (Germany, Portugal tour, Noorderzon Festival Groningen Netherlands); for Arts House, SEMAPHORE; for Brink Productions, WHEN THE RAINSTOPS FALLING; for The Hayloft and B Sharp, SPRING AWAKENING; for Theatre Works and Bullet Heart Club, IN THE CLUB; and for Too Close to the Sun, AT THE END OF THE LAND;

 For dance, Niklas’ work includes: for Dance North, WAY FINDER, RED, COMMUNAL TABLE, DUST, SPECTRA (Sydney Festival, Brisbane Festival, Japan and France tour); Martin Hansen’s IT’S ALL IN MY VEINS (Dance Massive/ Dancehouse); Nicola Gunn’s PIECE FOR PERSON AND GHETTO BLASTER (Australian National tour, Performance Space 122 New York; international tour 2017); for Chunky Move, COMPLEXITY OF BELONGING (with Melbourne Theatre Company, Schaubühne, Melbourne Festival and Brisbane Festival), AN ACT OF NOW, BLACK MARROW 247 DAYS, SINGULARITY, I WANT TO DANCE BETTER AT PARTIES, TENSE DAVE; for KAGE, THE COLLAPSIBLE MAN, APPETITE; Shaun Parker’s THIS SHOW IS ABOUT PEOPLE (with Melbourne Festival); for BalletLab, AXEMAN LULLABY; for Stephanie Lake, RED, Dancenorth, and Brisbane Festival, SKELETON TREE.

Niklas has extensive experience in exhibition lighting and events including: for Melbourne Museum, TRICERATOPS (co-design),  MAKE BELIEVE; State Library of Victoria, VICTOR HUGO: LES MISÉRABLES – FROM PAGE TO STAGE; for Melbourne Museum, MAKE BELIEVE; for Melbourne’s Science Gallery, SWARM, BLOOD, PERFECTION and MENTAL; for Australian Centre for the Moving Image, WONDERLAND, GAME MASTERS, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE-5 THEMES, STAR VOYAGER: EXPLORING SPACE ON SCREEN, DREAMS COME TRUE, THE ART OF DISNEY’S CLASSIC FAIRY TALES (which also showed Walt Disney Animation Research Library), TIM BURTON THE EXHIBITION (which also showed at the Museum of Modern Art New York), HOLLYWOOD COSTUME (which also showed at Victoria and Albert Museum London).

 Events and shows include: for the Commonwealth Games Arts Festival, Circus Events, 15 Big Top and Outdoor Aerial Rig Shows, Alexandra Gardens Area Lighting; at Federation Square, INTERNATIONAL PUPPET CARNIVAL and ADVENT CALENDAR; Shaun Micallef’s GOOD EVENING national tour; TRIPOD world tour; SPICKS AND SPECK-TACULAR and SPICKS AND SPECK-TACULAR – THE FINALE national tour; ICEHOUSE CHRISTMAS ON ICE SPECTACULAR.

 Niklas designed lighting for the theatre interiors of Fred Schepsi’s film THE EYE OF THE STORM.

 Niklas has won 3 Green Room Awards and received 11 nominations across all categories, including Best Lighting Design for A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE for Melbourne Theatre Company.  He has also been nominated for Helpmann Awards, Sydney Theatre Awards and APDG Awards for his lighting design.

 Niklas holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts and has a postgraduate qualification in Lighting Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He has attended the Broadway Lighting Design Master Classes in New York.  He was principal lighting designer at production and design company Traffic Light for 10 years, delivering projects nationally and to Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Asia. Niklas has an ongoing interest in architecture, architectural lighting design and luminaire design.

Therèsa Borg is a graduate of University of Melbourne and twice of The Victorian College of the Arts.  Her directing credits include Titanic , Sweeney Todd & The Light in the Piazza on Australian mainstages, Paw Patrol Live! at Wembley Arena, voice-directing the Muppeteers in New York City twice, and independent productions at La Mama, Teatro Leichardt, Theatre Works and The Eternity Playhouse.  She was Resident Director on GWB’s The Lord of the Rings, An American in Paris and is delighted to once again be Neil Armfield’s Associate on Death of a Salesman .

In 2022 Therèsa was the National Library of Australia Creative Fellow for Australian Writing toward her play Cissie and Jean. The Spare Room, Therèsa’s adaptation of the novel by Helen Garner with composer Jane Hammond, premieres with Victorian Opera in October 2026. Theresa wrote and directed over 20 family musicals for the production house she founded with Anton Berezin, TEG Entertainment Store/Life Like Touring,

Therèsa’s roles in music theatre and opera include Christine, Cosette, Zerbinetta, Angelique, the Queen of the Night, Jellylorum, Musetta, Philomel, Hope Harcourt, Emily Dickinson, Eliza Doolittle and Fosca for producers including Cameron Mackintosh, The Really Useful Company, The Production Company, Victorian Opera and Opera Australia.