CAST
Anthony LaPaglia
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. 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.
Willy Loman
Alison Whyte
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.
Linda Loman
Josh Helman
Josh’s film credits include George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road and Mad Max: Furiosa, X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse, Jack Reacher, Animal Kingdom, Thirteen Lives, Feast of the Seven Fishes, Undertow, My Name is Lenny, and Monster Hunter. He can next be seen in Evil Dead: Wrath, to be released in 2027.
On television Josh has appeared the Emmy-winning HBO/ Playtone miniseries The Pacific and the Golden Globe nominated Starz original drama Flesh and Bone. Other credits include Optics, Harley Quinn, Troppo, Wayward Pines, The Loudest Voice opposite Russell Crowe, and most recently in the Stan original miniseries Watching You.
Theatre work includes John Pollono’s Rules of Seconds and Small Engine Repair, the latter of which won three Los Angeles Ovation Awards including Best Ensemble Cast, and starred in Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman opposite Anthony LaPaglia and Alison Whyte. In addition to acting, Josh also co-wrote and directed Kate Can’t Swim, which won the jury’s Honorable Mention at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2017.
Biff Loman
Ben O'Toole
Ben O’Toole graduated from the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2011 and made his feature film debut playing Russell Crowe’s son in THE WATER DIVINER. Ben featured in the Jerry Bruckheimer produced film 12 STRONG opposite Chris Hemsworth and was also cast in Kathryn Bigelow’s drama DETROIT. He appeared in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES, and in the Mel Gibson directed WWII film HACKSAW RIDGE opposite Andrew Garfield. Ben starred in the romantic comedy EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY opposite Karla Souza, and in the film NEKROTRONIC with Monica Belluci. In 2020 Ben played the lead role of “Rex” in the darkly comedic feature film BLOODY HELL. He will next be seen in the thriller/horror feature film PENNY LANE IS DEAD directed by Mia’Kate Russell and THE ONLY ONE directed by Michael Schwarz.
Ben has appeared in numerous Australian television series, including the Stan original series CAUGHT, the critically acclaimed television adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE, ABC series BARONS, LOVE CHILD for the Nine Network, mini-seriesPETER ALLEN: NOT THE BOY NEXT DOOR for network 7/Shine, the HALIFAX: RETRIBUTION reboot starring Rebecca Gibney and Channel Nine television series AMAZING GRACE. He is currently shooting a new series for ABC called FORTITUDE VALLEY.
Ben’s previous theatre credits include FREAK WINDS (Old Fitz), MEN (Old Fitz), MOJO (Sydney Theatre Company), THE SUBLIME (Melbourne Theatre Company), BOY GETS GIRL (Black Swan Theatre Company), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Black Swan Theatre company), HARP IN THE SOUTH (Sydney Theatre Company) His recent theatre credits include director Neil Armfield’s 2024 production of DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Sydney’s Theatre Royal and Crown Theatre in Perth), THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL and ON THE BEACH (Sydney Theatre Company), and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Old Fitz in Sydney. Ben also starred in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2024 production of the Australian football play 37 and reprised his role of Joe in the 2025 remount.
Happy Loman
CREATIVE TEAM
Director
Neil Armfield
Neil Armfield is a leading Australian director of theatre, opera and film. Alongside Rachel Healy, Neil was Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival between 2017 and 2022. Prior to that, Neil was the Artistic Director of Belvoir St Theatre for 17 years, which he also co-founded.
As Artistic Director of Belvoir, and for other companies, Neil has directed over 50 productions including a focus on new and Indigenous writing, Shakespeare, David Hare and Patrick White.
Some highlights include; The Tempest, Hamlet, Up the Road, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Keating!, Toy Symphony, Dallas Winmar’s Aliwa, Angels in America, A Cheery Soul, Signal Driver and The Blind Giant is Dancing.
In 2022, Neil directed the world premiere of oratorio Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan at the Adelaide Festival and Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. For the 2021 Adelaide Festival, Neil directed the Australian premiere of A German Life by Christopher Hampton, starring Robyn Nevin, as well as Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Festival Theatre.
In addition to his work in Australia, many of Neil’s productions have also played internationally. These include Cloudstreet (toured to London, Dublin, Zurich, New York), Hamlet (with Richard Roxburgh), Diary of a Madman (with Geoffrey Rush, toured to Moscow, St Petersburg, New York), Exit The King (Broadway), The Book of Everything (toured to New York), The Judas Kiss (toured Australia with Bille Brown, London, New York and Toronto with Rupert Everett), The Secret River (adapted by Andrew Bovell) and the world premiere of David Hare’s I’m Not Running for National Theatre in London.
Neil frequently collaborates with major opera companies, having directed productions at The Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Chicago Lyric Opera, Zurich Opera, Bregenz Festival, Washington National Opera, Opera Australia, Canadian Opera, Welsh National Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. In addition to classics by Mozart, Britten and Wagner, Neil has experience directing new operas including Frankie and The Eighth Wonder by Alan John, Love Burn by Graeme Koehne and Bliss and Hamlet by Brett Dean.
For screen, Neil directed and co-wrote the feature film Candy, starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish, which screened at over twenty international films festivals including In Competition at the Berlinale. Neil was awarded Best Adapted Screenplay at the AFI Awards and an AWGIE for Best Screenplay. Neil’s second feature film Holding The Man premiered at Sydney Film Festival in 2015. For television, Neil directed miniseries Edens Lost for ABC (AFI Award Best Director and Best Mini-Series), The Fisherman’s Wake (by Andrew Bovell), which won an ATOM Award for Best Original TV Production, and Coral Island (by Nick Enright).
Over his distinguished career, Neil has received 2 AFI Awards, 12 Helpmann Awards and several Sydney Theatre, Victorian Green Room and Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Awards. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Sydney and NSW Universities, and in 2007 was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia.
Set Design
Dale Ferguson
Dale has worked extensively with major theatre and opera companies around the world. Recent theatre credits include The Jungle and the Sea, Counting and Cracking (including 2022 Edinburgh Festival and 2019 Adelaide Festival), Sami in Paradise, The Blind Giant is Dancing, (Belvoir) Come Rain or Come Shine, An Ideal Husband, Born Yesterday, Cosi, The Weir, The Speechmaker, The Crucible, Top Girls, The Drowsy Chaperone, God of Carnage, and August: Osage County (MTC), Away, Brothers Wreck, Night on Bald Mountain, Dance of Death, Timeshare (Malthouse) A German Life (Adelaide Festival), Les Liasions Dangereues (Sydney Theatre Company), L’Appartement (Queensland Theatre) Oklahoma (The Production Company).
His recent opera credits include Tosca for Opera Queensland and WAOpera, The Magic Flute (Lyric Opera of Chicago) The Riders (VSO/Malthouse) Anything Goes (Opera Australia); Otello (Cape Town Opera, Western Australia Opera and Opera Queensland); A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago; Ariadne Auf Naxos for the Welsh National Opera and Boston Lyric Opera; Marriage of Figaro for Opera Australia and Welsh National Opera.
Dale is the recipient of Helpmann Awards in 2010 for August :Osage County and 2019 for Counting and Cracking and five Green Room Awards for design, most recently for Away in 2018 . He was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award and two Tony® Awards in 2009 for set and costume design for the Broadway adaption of Exit the King. Dale is a Lecturer in Performance Design at The Victorian College of the Arts.
Composer
Alan John
Alan John is one of Australia’s most prolific composers for theatre, opera, television and film. Theatre credits include THE JUNGLE AND THE SEA, PACKER AND SONS, THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE, TWELTH NIGHT, SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL, STUFF HAPPENS, ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY, THE JUDAS KISS (Belvoir); A GERMAN LIFE (Adelaide Festival), I’M NOT RUNNING (National Theatre London); THAT EYE THE SKY, A DOLL’S HOUSE, (State Theatre Company of South Australia). MACHU PICCHU, ORLANDO, THE SEASON AT SARSAPARILLA, MOTHER COURAGE, HEDDA GABLER (Sydney Theatre Company); HAMLET, AS YOU LIKE IT, THE WINTER’S TALE, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Bell Shakespeare).
Opera credits include THE EIGHTH WONDER (Opera Australia), HOW TO KILL YOUR HUSBAND, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (Victorian Opera/Malthouse Theatre).
Musical Theatre credits include THE ADVENTURES OF SNUGGLEPOT AND CUDDLEPIE, JONAH JONES, FRANKIE – AN OPERA FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, CAN YOU HEAR COLOUR?
Film credits include HOLDING THE MAN, LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI, THE BANK, and the recent STORM BOY, and TV credits include THE SHARK NET, THE FARM, LOVE MY WAY, THE BEAUTIFUL LIE.
Awards include 2002 APRA Award for Best Score Feature Film for THE BANK, APRA Award for Best Music Mini Series for THE SHARK NET (2004) and THE BEAUTIFUL LIE (2016); 2010 Sydney Theatre Award and Helpmann awards for Best Music for DIARY OF A MADMAN, Sydney Theatre Award for THE WHITE GUARD.
Costume Design
Dale Ferguson
Dale has worked extensively with major theatre and opera companies around the world. Recent theatre credits include The Jungle and the Sea, Counting and Cracking (including 2022 Edinburgh Festival and 2019 Adelaide Festival), Sami in Paradise, The Blind Giant is Dancing, (Belvoir) Come Rain or Come Shine, An Ideal Husband, Born Yesterday, Cosi, The Weir, The Speechmaker, The Crucible, Top Girls, The Drowsy Chaperone, God of Carnage, and August: Osage County (MTC), Away, Brothers Wreck, Night on Bald Mountain, Dance of Death, Timeshare (Malthouse) A German Life (Adelaide Festival), Les Liasions Dangereues (Sydney Theatre Company), L’Appartement (Queensland Theatre) Oklahoma (The Production Company).
His recent opera credits include Tosca for Opera Queensland and WAOpera, The Magic Flute (Lyric Opera of Chicago) The Riders (VSO/Malthouse) Anything Goes (Opera Australia); Otello (Cape Town Opera, Western Australia Opera and Opera Queensland); A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago; Ariadne Auf Naxos for the Welsh National Opera and Boston Lyric Opera; Marriage of Figaro for Opera Australia and Welsh National Opera.
Dale is the recipient of Helpmann Awards in 2010 for August :Osage County and 2019 for Counting and Cracking and five Green Room Awards for design, most recently for Away in 2018 . He was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award and two Tony® Awards in 2009 for set and costume design for the Broadway adaption of Exit the King. Dale is a Lecturer in Performance Design at The Victorian College of the Arts.
Sophie Woodward
Sophie is a Melbourne-based set and costume designer.
Sophie graduated with a Bachelor of Production (Design) from VCA in 2010 winning the Beleura John Tallis Design Award in her final year. Sophie recently designed costumes for Melbourne Theatre Company’s Come Rain or Come Shine. Recent set and costume designs include Selling Kabul (Red Stitch Actors Theatre) and All the Shining Lights (HotHouse Theatre).
Earlier design work from Sophie includes Hungry Ghosts (Melbourne Theatre Company); Burn This, The One and Mr Burns, A Post Electric Play (fortyfivedownstairs); Those Who Fall in Love like Anchors Dropped Upon the Ocean Floor, Between the Clouds, Pyjama Girl and Letters from the Border (HotHouse Theatre); A Simple Act of Kindness, Fast Food, Iphigenia in Splott, Grace, Extinction, Rules for Living, You got Older, The Honey Bees, The Village Bike, Wet House, Love Love Love, 4,000 Miles and Day One. A Hotel, Evening (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); #No Exemptions, Thigh Gap and A Long Day’s Dying (LaMama Theatre). Sophie was Costume Design Associate on Girls & Boys, Bernhardt/Hamlet, An Ideal Husband and Twelfth Night (Melbourne Theatre Company).
Lighting Designer
Niklas Pajanti
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 theatre includes: for Melbourne Theatre Company, BERLIN, COSI, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, ASTROMAN, A DOLL’S HOUSE PART 2, RUPERT, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THE BEAST, QUEEN LEAR; 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 Sydney Theatre Company, COSI, WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING (with Brink Productions), AUSTRALIA DAY (with MTC), SPRING AWAKENING, and I WANT TO DANCE BETTER AT PARTIES (Chunky Move/STC); for Malthouse ONE NIGHT THE MOON, KITTEN (with Jenny Kemp), NOT LIKE BECKETT; 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 Bell Shakespeare, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING; for Ranters Theatre AFFECTION; HOLIDAY (with Griffin Theatre), INTIMACY (Germany and Portugal tour Nooderzon Festival Groningen Netherlands); CROSSING LIVE and THE HIVE (Chamber Made); HEART IS A WASTELAND, WHICH WAY HOME Ilbijerri); BASS BATH (Dark Mofo); THE EXPERIMENT (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide Festivals); SEMAPHORE (Arts House); WHEN THE RAINSTOPS FALLING (Brink Productions); SPRING AWAKENING (The Hayloft Project/B Sharp); THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES (Bell Shakespeare); SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (Victorian Opera); LUCREZIA BORGIA (Melbourne Opera); and REMBRANDT’S WIFE (Opera Australia, upcoming).
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 (Melbourne Festival); AXEMAN LULLABY (BalletLab); SKELETON TREE for Stephanie Lake and RED (Dancenorth) Brisbane Festival.
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.
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 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. Niklas has an ongoing interest in architecture, architectural lighting design and luminaire design.
Sound Designer
David Greasley
David, a theatre-sound engineer and senior supervisor for System Sound Australia. He has been Head of Sound for productions including Cats, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia! and Sunset Boulevard.
He has Production Engineered or Sound Supervised productions such as Miss Saigon, Love Never Dies, Les Misérables, Matilda, Billy Elliot, Wicked, Mamma Mia!, King Kong, Evita, Phantom of the Opera, School Of Rock, Come From Away throughout Australia and Asia.
He has designed the sound for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in Sydney, Dream Girls in Kuala Lumpur, opening of the Shanghai Cultural Centre, Ultimate Broadway in China, Funny Girl, in Australia and as Associate Sound for Australian and international productions including Georgy Girl, War Horse, Book Of Mormon, Billy Elliot, Girl From The North Country, 2.22 A Ghost Story, Matilda and currently Associate on Moulin Rouge Australia, Korea and Japan and Wicked Australia.
Associate Director
Therèsa Borg
Therèsa Borg is a director, performer and writer.
Her directing credits include Titanic starring Anthony Warlow at Melbourne Town Hall, ‘Sweeney Todd’, starring Anthony Warlow and Gina Riley at Her Majesty’s Melbourne, ‘The Light in the Piazza’ at Arts Centre Melbourne, ‘Disney Under the Stars’ at SOH/ Myer Music Bowl, ‘Paw Patrol Live!’ at Wembley Arena and twice voice-directing the Muppeteers in New York City. Therèsa was Resident Director on GWB’s recent tour of ‘An American in Paris’ and most recently directed Little Women at the Victorian College of the Arts for the Music Theatre Company of 2023.
Therèsa was the 2022 National Library of Australia Creative Fellow for Australian Writing. In 2021, Therèsa and composer Jane Hammond wrote ‘Songs of the Helmeted Honeyeater’, a celebration of citizen science written in collaboration with the mountain communities of Yellingbo and Corranderk and which premiered at fortyfivedownstairs and Melbourne Recital Centre. In January 2023 Theresa and Jane workshopped their new opera The Spare Room, an adaptation of Helen Garner’s celebrated novel thanks to funding from the Australia Council for the Arts.
Therèsa founded Melbourne production house TEG Entertainment Store/Life Like Touring with her partner Anton Berezin, and over the course of 20 years with their company she wrote and directed over 20 family musicals in collaboration with international studios. These shows, including ‘Scooby Doo Live: Musical Mysteries’, ‘Octonauts Live: Operation Reef Shield’, and ‘Sesame Street presents Elmo’s World Tour’, toured mainstages and arenas globally.
Therèsa’s roles in music theatre and opera include Christine, Cosette, Zerbinetta, Angelique, the Queen of the Night, Jellylorum, Musetta and Fosca for producers including Cameron Mackintosh, The Really Useful Company, Victorian Opera and Opera Australia.