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									Artemis: Utter Mess, 29 August 2025
									
 
								
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									Brown Women Comedy, 18 July 2025
									
 
								
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									Garry Starr Classic Penguins, 16 May 2025
									
 
								
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									Tinderella and the Eight Unique Uses of Tinder, 11 April 2025
									
 
								
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									Saltbush, 13 March 2025
									
 
								
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									Unprecedented, 11 August 2023
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 22 November 2019
									
 
								
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									Sunset Strip, 5 November 2019
									
 
								
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									The Splinter, 15 October 2019
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 20 September 2019
									
 
								
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									My Urrwai, 29 August 2019
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 2 August 2019
									
 
								
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									The Last Boy On Earth, 9 July 2019
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 21 June 2019
									
 
								
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									Animal Farm, 7 May 2019
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 12 April 2019
									
 
								
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									Romeo Is Not The Only Fruit, 22 March 2019
									
 
								
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									Garry Starr Performs Everything, 19 March 2019
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 23 November 2018
									
 
								
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									Fag/Stag, 26 October 2018
									
 
								
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									It's Dark Outside, 17 October 2018
									
 
								
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									The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer, 11 October 2018
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 14 September 2018
									
 
								
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									Who Am I? One suit, eight nights. The opportunity of a lifetime., 28 August 2018
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 27 July 2018
									
 
								
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									Shit, 17 July 2018
									
 
								
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									Mother's Ruin: A Cabaret about Gin, 21 May 2018
									
 
								
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									Kaput, 20 April 2018
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 6 April 2018
									
 
								
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									The River at the End of the Road, 9 March 2018
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 1 December 2017
									
 
								
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									Hotel Bonegilla, 16 November 2017
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 15 September 2017
									
 
								
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									Rice, 29 August 2017
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 14 July 2017
									
 
								
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									Hart, 26 May 2017
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 12 May 2017
									
 
								
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									Kaput, 4 April 2017
									
 
								
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									The Orchid and the Crow, 21 March 2017
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 17 March 2017
									
 
								
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									This Is Hacting, 5 December 2016
									
 
								
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									At The Hip, 3 November 2016
									
 
								
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									Picasso and His Dog, 29 June 2016
									
 
								
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									Generate Theatre Festival, 9 June 2016
									
 
								
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									Generate Theatre Festival, 7 June 2016
									
 
								
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									They Saw a Thylacine, 3 May 2016
									
 
								
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									The Touch of Silk, 17 April 2016
									
 
								
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									Galah Bar, 15 April 2016
									
 
								
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									The Dapto Chaser, 15 March 2016
									
 
								
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									Between the Clouds, 5 November 2015
									
 
								
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									Quiet Faith, 8 October 2015
									
 
								
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									This Is Eden, 11 August 2015
									
 
								
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									Generate: Shakespeare's Clowns and Ratbags, 17 June 2015
									
 
								
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									Kelly, 2 June 2015
									
 
								
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									This is Where We Live, 30 April 2015
									
 
								
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									It's Not For Everyone, 19 March 2015
									
 
								
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									Letters from the Border, 14 November 2014
									
 
								
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									Packed, 23 October 2014
									
 
								
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									Food, 12 August 2014
									
 
								
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									Warning: Small Parts, 3 July 2014
									
 
								
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									The Motion of Light in Water, 24 June 2014
									
 
								
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									1984, 13 May 2014
									
 
								
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									Stories I Want to Tell You in Person, 6 March 2014
									
 
								
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									Hothouse InHouse, 27 November 2013
									
 
								
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									The Pyjama Girl, 25 October 2013
									
 
								
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									I'm Your Man, 11 September 2013
									
 
								
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									The Table of Knowledge, 30 July 2013
									
 
								
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									The Bull, the Moon and the Coronet of Stars, 13 June 2013
									
 
								
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									The Fabulous Dame Farrar's Dazzling Display of Stupendous Acts for the Stage!!!, 19 March 2013
									
 
								
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									Hothouse InHouse, 28 November 2012
									
 
								
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									Zombatland, 23 October 2012
									
 
								
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									Moth, 7 August 2012
									
 
								
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									Angela's Kitchen, 26 June 2012
									
 
								
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									I Love You, Bro, 29 May 2012
									
 
								
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									Fractions, 21 March 2012
									
 
								
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									Deviation, 17 December 2011
									
 
								
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									Chasing the Lollyman, 18 October 2011
									
 
								
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									Boy Girl Wall, 9 August 2011
									
 
								
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									The Laramie Project, 15 July 2011
									
 
								
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									Silent Disco, 16 June 2011
									
 
								
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									A Commercial Farce, 3 May 2011
									
 
								
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									Disarming Rosetta, 31 March 2011
									
 
								
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									Spontaneous Broadway, 26 October 2010
									
 
								
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									The Berry Man, 5 August 2010
									
 
								
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									I Don't Wanna Play House, 6 July 2010
									
 
								
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									Propaganda, 11 March 2010
									
 
								
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									Australia!  The Show!, 5 November 2009
									
 
								
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									The Web, 3 September 2009
									
 
								
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									Embers, 7 August 2009
									
 
								
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									Basic Training, 28 July 2009
									
 
								
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									My Generation, 16 June 2009
									
 
								
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									Inside Out, 5 May 2009
									
 
								
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									Seasons, 12 March 2009
									
 
								
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									Tender, 4 November 2008
									
 
								
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									Lyrebird - Tales of Helpmann, 9 September 2008
									
 
								
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									Codgers, 12 August 2008
									
 
								
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									The Biting Dog Festival, 11 June 2008
									
 
								
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									The Pitch, 20 May 2008
									
 
								
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									The Glory, 26 March 2008
									
 
								
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									A Tribute to Danny Kaye, 15 November 2007
									
 
								
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									Happy and Clean, 15 November 2007
									
 
								
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									Impractical Jokes, 15 November 2007
									
 
								
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									Bangers and Mash, 15 November 2007
									
 
								
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									The Debutante Diaries, 15 November 2007
									
 
								
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									The Carpenters From Kempsey, 15 November 2007
									
 
								
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									Hothouse Theatre Comedy Festival, 15 November 2007
									
 
								
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									The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table, 25 September 2007
									
 
								
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									The Shape of Things, 9 July 2007
									
 
								
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									The Ghost Writer, 25 April 2007
									
 
								
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									Unspoken, 23 March 2007
									
 
								
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									The Messiah, 7 December 2006
									
 
								
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									I Am My Own Wife, 10 October 2006
									
 
								
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									Embers, 13 July 2006
									
 
								
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									The Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 13 June 2006
									
 
								
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									Windmill Baby, 29 April 2006
									
 
								
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									Mr Bailey's Minder, 14 March 2006
									
 
								
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									Country Energy Comedy Festival, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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									Full Blown Rose, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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									Sensitive New Age Cowpersons, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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									Mindless Stupidity for the Thinking Person, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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									Yellowfeather, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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									Eureka Stocktake, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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									Damian Callinan is Babysitting, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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									Drink Pepsi, Bitch!, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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									Love, 27 October 2005
									
 
								
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									Oleanna, 4 August 2005
									
 
								
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									Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 25 May 2005
									
 
								
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									Through the Wire, 26 April 2005
									
 
								
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									The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, 15 March 2005
									
 
								
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									Comedy Festival, 2 December 2004
									
 
								
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									Scotty and Son, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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									Open Road, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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									We Don't Have Husbands, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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									Slick, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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									Inna Thigh, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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									Last Cab to Darwin, 10 November 2004
									
 
								
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									Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed, 1 September 2004
									
 
								
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									Second Childhood, 21 July 2004
									
 
								
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									Ruby Moon, 22 June 2004
									
 
								
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									Mouse, 29 April 2004
									
 
								
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									Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 24 March 2004
									
 
								
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									The Secret Death of Salvador Dali, 21 October 2003
									
 
								
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									Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 27 August 2003
									
 
								
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									Wonderlands, 13 June 2003
									
 
								
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									Such a Storm, 2 May 2003
									
 
								
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									The Fall of the Roman Umpire, 19 February 2003
									
 
								
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									Palomares Cook Calamares, 19 February 2003
									
 
								
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									Fat and Skinny in Lab Rats, 19 February 2003
									
 
								
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									Sucker, 19 February 2003
									
 
								
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									The Trade, 19 February 2003
									
 
								
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									A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2003
									
 
								
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									Confidentially Yours, 30 November 2002
									
 
								
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									Burn!, 19 September 2002
									
 
								
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									Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 14 June 2002
									
 
								
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									The Bridge, 26 April 2002
									
 
								
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									A Large Attendance in the Antechamber, 13 March 2002
									
 
								
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									Solid, 16 October 2001
									
 
								
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									The Biting Dog Festival, 3 September 2001
									
 
								
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									Mental, 27 June 2001
									
 
								
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									Second Childhood, 23 May 2001
									
 
								
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									Skin, 8 March 2001
									
 
								
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									Guess Whose Mums Got a Willy? / Ethel Chop and Chums, 29 November 2000
									
 
								
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									The Small Poppies, 1 November 2000
									
 
								
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									Parallax Island, 1 September 2000
									
 
								
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									Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 4 June 2000
									
 
								
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									Meat, 8 March 2000
									
 
								
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									Big Hair in America, 2 December 1999
									
 
								
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									Odyssey, 30 September 1999
									
 
								
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									Body of Desire, 2 September 1999
									
 
								
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									Alive at Williamstown Pier, 9 June 1999
									
 
								
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									The Biting Dog Festival, 11 May 1999
									
 
								
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									This is Your Miserable Life, 24 February 1999
									
 
								
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									Lucrezia and Cesare, 22 October 1998
									
 
								
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									Skylight, 21 August 1998
									
 
								
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									A White Sports Coat, 23 July 1998
									
 
								
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									Equation: The Act of Making Things Equal, 3 July 1998
									
 
								
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									Steel and Rust, 21 May 1998
									
 
								
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									The Biting Dog Festival, 11 May 1998
									
 
								
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									Hotel Bonegilla, 26 September 1997
									
 
								 
								
								
									
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									Unprecedented, 11 August 2023
									
 
								
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									The Orchid and the Crow, 21 March 2017
									
 
								
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									Quiet Faith, 8 October 2015
									
 
								
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									This is Where We Live, 30 April 2015
									
 
								
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									Letters from the Border, 14 November 2014
									
 
								
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									Packed, 23 October 2014
									
 
								
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									Food, 12 August 2014
									
 
								
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									The Motion of Light in Water, 24 June 2014
									
 
								
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									I'm Your Man, 11 September 2013
									
 
								
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									The Table of Knowledge, 30 July 2013
									
 
								
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									Propaganda, 11 March 2010
									
 
								
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									Catch a Star...Falling, 8 November 2006
									
 
								
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									Catch a Star...Falling, 2005
									
 
								
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									Hiding Behind the Brightness, 2001
									
 
								 
								
								
									
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									The River at the End of the Road, 9 March 2018
									
 
								
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									At The Hip, 3 November 2016
									
 
								
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									Generate Theatre Festival, 9 June 2016
									
 
								
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									Between the Clouds, 5 November 2015
									
 
								
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									Generate: Shakespeare's Clowns and Ratbags, 17 June 2015
									
 
								
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									Letters from the Border, 14 November 2014
									
 
								
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									Packed, 23 October 2014
									
 
								
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									Hothouse InHouse, 27 November 2013
									
 
								
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									The Pyjama Girl, 25 October 2013
									
 
								
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									Hothouse InHouse, 28 November 2012
									
 
								
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									Deviation, 17 December 2011
									
 
								
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									The Laramie Project, 15 July 2011
									
 
								 
								
								
									
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									The Splinter, 15 October 2019
									
 
								
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									Rice, 29 August 2017
									
 
								
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									The Bull, the Moon and the Coronet of Stars, 13 June 2013
									
 
								
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									Angela's Kitchen, 26 June 2012
									
 
								
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									Silent Disco, 16 June 2011
									
 
								
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									The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table, 25 September 2007
									
 
								
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									Mr Bailey's Minder, 14 March 2006
									
 
								
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									Wonderlands, 13 June 2003
									
 
								
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									Alive at Williamstown Pier, 9 June 1999
									
 
								 
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
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										Rob Scott
									 - Designer, Lighting Designer, Set Designer, Technical Director
								
								
									
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										At The Hip, 3 November 2016
									
 
								
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										Between the Clouds, 5 November 2015
									
 
								
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										Letters from the Border, 14 November 2014
									
 
								
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										Warning: Small Parts, 3 July 2014
									
 
								
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										The Pyjama Girl, 25 October 2013
									
 
								
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										The Fabulous Dame Farrar's Dazzling Display of Stupendous Acts for the Stage!!!, 19 March 2013
									
 
								
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										All In The Timing, 20 July 2012
									
 
								
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										The Biting Dog Festival, 11 June 2008
									
 
								
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										The Messiah, 7 December 2006
									
 
								
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										The Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 13 June 2006
									
 
								
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										Sensitive New Age Cowpersons, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Eureka Stocktake, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Yellowfeather, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Drink Pepsi, Bitch!, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Full Blown Rose, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Mindless Stupidity for the Thinking Person, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Oleanna, 4 August 2005
									
 
								
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										Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 25 May 2005
									
 
								
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										Slick, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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										Scotty and Son, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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										Open Road, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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										We Don't Have Husbands, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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										Second Childhood, 21 July 2004
									
 
								
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										Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 24 March 2004
									
 
								
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										Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 27 August 2003
									
 
								
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										Wonderlands, 13 June 2003
									
 
								
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										Such a Storm, 2 May 2003
									
 
								
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										Confidentially Yours, 30 November 2002
									
 
								
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										Burn!, 19 September 2002
									
 
								
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										Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 14 June 2002
									
 
								
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										The Bridge, 26 April 2002
									
 
								
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										Second Childhood, 23 May 2001
									
 
								
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										Guess Whose Mums Got a Willy? / Ethel Chop and Chums, 29 November 2000
									
 
								
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										Parallax Island, 1 September 2000
									
 
								
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										Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 4 June 2000
									
 
								
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										Meat, 8 March 2000
									
 
								
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										Body of Desire, 2 September 1999
									
 
								
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										This is Your Miserable Life, 24 February 1999
									
 
								 
								
								
									
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										Sensitive New Age Cowpersons, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Eureka Stocktake, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Yellowfeather, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Drink Pepsi, Bitch!, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Full Blown Rose, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Mindless Stupidity for the Thinking Person, 1 December 2005
									
 
								
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										Through the Wire, 26 April 2005
									
 
								
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										Slick, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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										Scotty and Son, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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										Open Road, 1 December 2004
									
 
								
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										We Don't Have Husbands, 1 December 2004
									
 
								 
								
									
										Wiggy Brennan
									 - Artistic Director, Costume Designer, Designer
								
								
									
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										At The Hip, 3 November 2016
									
 
								
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										Embers, 13 July 2006
									
 
								
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										Love, 27 October 2005
									
 
								
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										Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 25 May 2005
									
 
								
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										The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, 15 March 2005
									
 
								
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										Mouse, 29 April 2004
									
 
								
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										Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 27 August 2003
									
 
								
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										Burn!, 19 September 2002
									
 
								
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										Biting Dog Theatre Festival, 4 June 2000
									
 
								 
								
									
										Campion Decent
									 - Artistic Director, Dramaturg/e, Festival Director, Playwright
								
								
								
									
										Aidan Fennessy
									 - Actor, Artistic Director, Director, Playwright, Writer
								
								
								
									
										Jon Halpin
									 - Artistic Director, Creator, Director, Dramaturg/e, Writer
								
								
								
									
										Guy Hooper
									 - Actor, Creator, Director
								
								
								
									
										Sebastien Pasche
									 - Artistic Director, Costume Designer, Director, Sound Designer, Writer
								
								
								
									
										Jean-Marc Russ
									 - Actor, Artistic Director, Director, Festival Director, Writer
								
								
								
									
										Maude Davey
									 - Actor, Composer, Devisor, Director, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Jason Glass
									 - Lighting Operator/Technician, Technical Director
								
								
								
									
										Kharen Harper
									 - Actor, Director, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Peter Houghton
									 - Actor, Director, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Lucas Stibbard
									 - Actor, Creator, Scriptwriter, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Brett Collery
									 - Composer, Sound Designer
								
								
								
									
										Tom Considine
									 - Actor, Artistic Director, Director
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Travis Dowling
									 - Designer, Director, Writer
								
								
								
									
										Wesley Enoch
									 - Artistic Director, Associate Director, Playwright
								
								
								
									
										Russell Fletcher
									 - Actor, Comedian, Creator, Performer
								
								
								
									
										Steve Francis
									 - Composer, Sound Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Chris Isaacs
									 - Creator, Performer, Technical Director, Writer
								
								
								
									
										Rhys Llewelyn
									 - Lighting Designer, Production Designer, Sound Operator/Engineer, Stage Manager
								
								
								
									
										Max Lyandvert
									 - Composer, Sound Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Bruce McKinven
									 - Design Consultant, Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Matthew Ryan
									 - Creator, Playwright, Scriptwriter, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Chris Thompson
									 - Director, Festival Director, Scriptwriter, Writer
								
								
								
									
										Anna Tregloan
									 - Costume Designer, Designer
								
								
								
									
										Guy Webster
									 - Composer, Sound Designer
								
								
								
									
										Sophie Woodward
									 - Costume Designer, Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Jane Bayly
									 - Actor, Composer, Devisor, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Rusty Berther
									 - Comedian, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
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										Shit, 17 July 2018
									
 
								
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										Love, 27 October 2005
									
 
								 
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Keith Clark
									 - Creator, Lighting Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Anna Cordingley
									 - Costume Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Anni Davey
									 - Actor, Composer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Marcel Dorney
									 - Creator, Director, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Adam Elliott
									 - Lighting Operator/Technician, Set and/or Property Maker, Technician
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Drew Fairley
									 - Actor, Comedian, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										John Fleming
									 - Comedian, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Mark Gaal
									 - Director, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Anni Gifford
									 - Company Director, Director
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Emily Goddard
									 - Actor, Performer, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Ben Grant
									 - Performer, Sound Designer
								
								
								
									
										Chloe Greaves
									 - Costume Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Basil Hogios
									 - Composer, Sound Designer
								
								
								
									
										Steph Holumbiyevska
									 - Lighting Designer, Lighting Operator/Technician, Production Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Alan John
									 - Composer, Musical Supervisor
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Andrew Lake
									 - Lighting Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
									
										Jo Lancaster
									 - Circus Style Performer, Creator, Director, Performer
								
								
								
									
										Colin Lane
									 - Actor, Comedian, Devisor
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Annie Lee
									 - Actor, Comedian, Devisor, Singer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Darren Mapes
									 - Comedian, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Kate McLennan
									 - Comedian, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Arky Michael
									 - Actor, Devisor, Performer
								
								
								
								
								
									
										David Milroy
									 - Composer, Director, Playwright, Sound Designer
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Ross Mueller
									 - Actor, Director, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Martin Murphy
									 - Comedian, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
									
										Ralph Myers
									 - Costume Designer, Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Roslyn Oades
									 - Creator, Director, Dramaturg/e, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										David Pidd
									 - Composer, Devisor, Director, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
									
										Andrea Powell
									 - Comedian, Director, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Jim Russell
									 - Actor, Devisor, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Denise Scott
									 - Comedian, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Kate Smith
									 - Actor, Comedian, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Alan Surgener
									 - Lighting Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
									
										Ryan Taplin
									 - Production Manager, Technician
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Kyle Walmsley
									 - Actor, Assistant to the Director
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Michele Watt
									 - Actor, Comedian, Devisor, Singer
								
								
								
									
										Tim Watts
									 - Creator, Performer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Simon Yates
									 - Circus Style Performer, Creator, Director, Performer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Matthew Adey
									 - Lighting Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Sean Bacon
									 - Devisor, Video Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Sam Bailey
									 - Associate Director
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										John Beckett
									 - Lighting Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Jacky Bennett
									 - Lighting Designer, Stage Manager
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Brendon Boney
									 - Sound Composer, Sound Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Jeremy Brennan
									 - Musical Director, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Matt Cox
									 - Lighting Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Jess Frost
									 - Assistant Stage Manager
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Niccolo Gallio
									 - Production Manager, Technical Manager
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Shaun Gurton
									 - Costume Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Michael Hankin
									 - Costume Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Georgia Hopkins
									 - Costume Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
									
										Ros Horin
									 - Director, Producer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Marg Horwell
									 - Costume Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
									
										Andrew Howard
									 - Composer, Sound Designer
								
								
								
									
										Isabel Hudson
									 - Costume Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Richard Jeziorny
									 - Costume Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
									
										Liu Jie
									 - Contortionist
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Lucy Jones
									 - Actor, Composer, Director, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Lally Katz
									 - Performer, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Nelle Lee
									 - Actor, Adaptor, Creator
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Bec Li
									 - Assistant Stage Manager
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Brian Lipson
									 - Actor, Director, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Tom Lycos
									 - Actor, Playwright
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Daizy Maan
									 - Performer, Producer
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Nigel MacLean
									 - Musical Director, Musician
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Delwyn Mannix
									 - Set Painter, Visual Artist
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Ian Michael
									 - Devisor, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Ian Moorhead
									 - Composer, Sound Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Tim Munro
									 - Technical Director
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Nicki Novy
									 - Assistant Director
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Sam Reed
									 - Video Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Greg Riddell
									 - Accompanist, Musical Director
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Zoe Rouse
									 - Costume Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Nick Skubij
									 - Actor, Adaptor, Creator
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Raya Slavin
									 - Composer, Sound Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Daniel Tobias
									 - Creator, Performer, Songwriter
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Jean Tong
									 - Director, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										 Velalien
									 - Assistant Director
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Kym Vercoe
									 - Devisor, Performer
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Emma Vine
									 - Costume Designer, Set Designer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										Tiffany Ward
									 - Associate Producer, First Nations Associate Producer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
									
										David Williams
									 - Director, Performer, Writer
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
								
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			"Can you write something about writing?" That’s what Troy asked me to do. Nothing too onerous, just a page or two about the way I work, perhaps with a focus on how I went about writing The Bridge. Sounds easy enough…until you try and sit down and capture on paper how you capture things on paper. It’s a little bit like when you try and think about how you breathe…suddenly your breathing becomes completely erratic and forced, and, as you lapse into hyperventilation, you wind up convincing yourself that you’ll probably never breathe properly again. 
 
 I’m not sure that I know exactly how I go about writing…and I’m even less sure about whether I want to know. When I was studying filmmaking at College, the first thing my lecturer said was, "…don’t worry too much about what’s going on inside the camera…it’s what’s going on outside that you should worry about…as far as you’re concerned, there’s tiny little gremlins in there that make everything work…just worry about what you’re giving them to work with…" I kind of liked that…the idea that you don’t need to understand everything about a process for the process to work, that intuition plays a part, that there’s a little bit of mystery involved. 
 
 What I do know is that I go about writing different projects in different ways, and that being a writer for performance (theatre, film or television) isn’t as solitary an occupation as the clichés would have it. I didn’t always know that. I used to think that the ideas, the characters and the stories were all totally mine, regardless of how they came to me. Now I know that that is only sometimes true. A few weeks ago, I was asked to write a paragraph about what I thought a writer was. This is what I wrote: 
 
 Sometimes a writer is a straight-out storyteller, digging into the imagination to make up characters and events to tell a tale that is just for fun and entertainment. Other times, a writer is a mirror, creating a story that is a reflection of who we are and what we feel or hope for. On occasions, a writer is a filing cabinet, storing away stories in dusty corners that can be brought out later and told again, or even passed on to others. A writer can be a translator or interpreter, taking one or more set of complex events and turning them into a story that is easier to understand or deal with than the raw truth; a writer can be a hired gun, using the skills of language and imagination to bring another person’s idea to life; and a writer can even be a hunter-gather, sniffing out the juicy roots of a story through the anecdotes and memories and ponderings of others. 
 
 Another thing I know, is that you don’t always work in a consecutive way, which is to say that you don’t always have an idea and write it, then have another idea and write that and so on. At least that doesn’t seem to be the way I work. For me, particularly in the past four or five years, writing has been a bit like that spinning plates routine you see at the circus. You get one plate spinning nicely, and then another and another…then one starts to wobble or spin oddly and you go back and give that some attention…and one slows down, so you work with that for a while…or, on a bad day, one spins right off and crashes to the ground and you have to find a new plate…but eventually, with a bit of skill, some luck, some ‘showmanship’ and a good diary, you get all those plates up and spinning nicely…and everyone applauds. At least you hope that’s how it works out. 
 
 #G1#So, back to what Troy asked me for…how did I go about writing The Bridge. In fact the period during which The Bridge was conceived, developed, written, re-written and re-written again probably provides an interesting snapshot of what being a writer can involve. 
 
 The idea for The Bridge first came up in 1996. I don’t know why, it just did. It wasn’t even The Bridge then, it was just an idea about writing a play that touched on the subject of youth suicide. Coincidentally, 1996 was also the beginning of HotHouse Theatre. At our first Artistic Directorate meeting, each of us offered up a project that we might like to create for our new theatre company. My offering went up onto the whiteboard with the less than subtle title of ‘The Suicide Project’. The idea didn’t move very far from the whiteboard for the next couple of years. Then, in September 1998, we started to get serious and began applying for funding. This, of course, required some additional thought on my part…what sort of play would this be? What would it be about? And what would it be called? (certainly not Suicide Project!) So, the first actual writing was a sketchy outline for a play that was then going to be called Esteem. (still not a great title, but better than Suicide Project) At that time, the idea for this play was all structure and no story. It was going to be performed in schools as a three-stage piece presented as an incomplete story that then invited the audience to offer ways of completing it, and then used the actors’ improvisational skills, to perform those ideas as a number of possible resolutions. In effect, I was going to write about three-quarters of the play, and then the audience and actors would finish it off. Already, this was no longer a singular effort. 
 
 Esteem hung around as an idea for more than a year until, in early 2000, I heard a talk-back radio discussion about how to stop people jumping off the Westgate Bridge in Melbourne. Although the idea had been slowly coming into focus in my head for four years, it wasn’t until then that I actually wrote anything down. It was five pages under the heading of ‘The Bridge’, and included six short character descriptions and a handful of events that occur in a regional town called Hopetoun, including the all-important death of the character of Donny (although whether Donny would be seen as a character, and how or why he died wasn’t yet certain). Three months later, to the creative team took those five pages into the rehearsal room for a week of exploration and development. For a writer, this is a rare luxury. Usually, you need to produce a first draft of a script before you get to ‘play’ with it. It also increases the number of ideas, points of view and inputs that will influence the writing process. The writing process in this project is definitely not an isolated one. 
 
 #G3#Around this time, The Bridge plate is starting to spin nicely, but other plates have started to spin as well. To my great surprise I find out that an application I sent to the Australia Council has been successful and I have received a grant to write a children’s show for actors and an orchestra. To my even greater surprise, a television project I have been involved with has been given the go-ahead, and over the next seven months I will write or co-write thirteen half-hour episodes of a new Cable-TV series called ShockJock. Now the plates are really spinning…it never rains but it pours. 
 
 So, back to The Bridge. With an enormous number of possibilities scrawled in my notebook, swirling in my head and plastered over half a dozen lengths of butchers paper, I leave the luxury of the creative development week and head off to an even greater luxury…a month in a house by the sea on The Great Ocean Road. Here, I set up a little office (with an ocean view, if you don’t mind) where I spend the days tapping away at my laptop turning all that wonderful stuff from the creative development week into the first draft of the play. 
 
 For me, writing is as much about what happens away from the desk as it is about what happens when me and my pen (or me and my keyboard) are facing the blank page (or screen). The writers retreat by the sea is such a romantic fantasy, but it is also a very good environment within which to let ideas stew and tumble and roll around in your imagination before committing them to words. This process happens for different writers in different ways. For me, there are two places where inspiration visits me more often than anywhere else. One is in the shower…and the other is while walking. The shower part can happen anywhere, but walking by the sea or in the bush is infinitely more productive than walking along High Street in Northcote. Many of the knottiest problems in the writing of The Bridge got untangled in the Angahook National Park, or walking along the beach at Fairhaven. I don’t know why showering or walking is where I’m most likely to solve my writing problems…perhaps I slip into neutral and let my mind wander so that instead of staring a problem straight in the eye, I glance sideways at it and catch it off guard. Who knows? Like my film lecturer said, "…don’t worry too much about what’s going on inside…" 
 
 So, it turns out that a month is not as long as it might be. Before I know it, I’m back in Melbourne with the creative team and we’re reading the first draft. I’m also starting to gather research for the play I got the grant for, and I also have my first meeting with the writing team that will contribute to the scripts for Shock Jock. The beach seems a long way away and the plates are all spinning and wobbling, but nothing broken as yet. 
 
 By February of 2001, I have completed a second draft of The Bridge and in the same period of time I’ve written those thirteen episodes of Shock Jock. It strikes me as strange that as we start to develop the third draft of The Bridge, all thirteen episodes of ShockJock have been written, re-written, finalised, shot and are going to air. Writing for theatre and writing for television, I have discovered, are two entirely different things. And that other play has been completely shelved for the time being. 
 
 And just when the plates look like they might be spinning well, it all changes again. The latest draft of The Bridge has another reading in The Butter Factory and we decide that the structure of letting the audience and actors complete the story doesn’t really work, so it’s back to the drawing board (and butchers paper) to write a new draft, this time for a more complete play that will work in the HotHouse subscription season rather that as a performance in schools. 
 
 #G2#To cut a long story short, the remainder of 2001 and the beginning of 2002 were pretty much focussed on getting The Bridge completed and ready for rehearsal. In that time, there was also a second series of Shock Jock to write and, of course, that play I got the grant for. These three projects, in their own ways, represent three entirely different writing processes. With The Bridge, it began as my idea but slowly took on more and more points of view. The trick this presents for the writer is to know when to listen to others, when to make changes and when to dig your heels in on something you strongly believe in. That’s the nature of writing in collaboration. With Shock Jock, the idea didn’t come from me…it came from Tim Ferguson. Slowly I got drawn into the world he wanted to create so that what I eventually wrote satisfied me as a writer and served his vision for the project. On top of that, we had a writing team of four other writers who would give feedback on the scripts and offer their own ideas, lines, jokes and so forth. Quite a different process from The Bridge. And then, of course, there’s that other play. In that case, I was writing something that relied solely on my ideas and my imagination. No creative development. No pressing deadline for the start of rehearsals. Just the writer and his idea. Perhaps that’s why it took me so long to get around to it. But I did eventually write it. As The Bridge was going into production at HotHouse, the second series of Shock Jock was going to air and I was finishing its first draft. The plates were finally all spinning nicely. 
 
 And so, here I am sitting in a little cottage in North Adelaide, where I’m spending a few weeks while my wife is performing in a play here. And what am I doing? Well, I’ve got all those plates spinning again…and a couple of new ones as well. I’ve been making a final draft of The Bridge, one that includes all those little bits and pieces that become clear to you when you finally see the play on stage. And I’m thinking about writing a third draft of that other play, which is going to have a reading later this year. And I’m working on some characters and storylines that might become a new television series sometime in the future. And I’m completing a script that will be used by young people in next year’s Biting Dog Theatre Festival. Oh, yes…and finally writing that thing about writing for Troy. 
 
 Did I mention that one of the writer’s skill is dealing with deadlines? Maybe that’s another story… 
		       
		      
		     
	
		   
		 
	    		
      
       Article:  Christopher Thompson, HotHouse Theatre, The Complex Life of a Writer, HotHouse Theatre, 22 October 2002 
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			SIMON: I've just opened in a show in Albury at the Hothouse Theatre called The Bridge. My only other professional work has been in a couple of episodes of John Safran's Music Jamboree for SBS. I've done a lot of acting at school and amateur theatre and have performed in two Melbourne Fringe Festivals. I finished year 12 last year and am studying arts at Melbourne Uni. 
 
 DARREN: I was born in Brisbane, graduated from NIDA in Sydney in 1988 and have worked professionally since. I've worked in musicals, TV, film, radio, ads and done a lot of theatre, from Shakespeare to contemporary plays. 
 
 I'm currently performing in Richard III, my 11th production with Bell Shakespeare, and am now an associate artist with the company. Last year I did three plays and a TV series called Dossa and Joe (written and directed by Caroline Aherne, The Royle Family) back to back. I just came off 14 months of work. I spent three of the last five years on Full Frontal and Totally Full Frontal as a series regular, which I was mixing with Bell tours. I've toyed around with TV and done guest parts in soaps and small parts in a couple of American films. 
 
 People who last in the theatre are those who develop very strong stagecraft. They're capable of doing 200 shows on the trot and can make people who've paid $50 a ticket feel like they've got their money's worth. 
 
 SIMON: Do you have to do much work that you don't enjoy, in order to pay the bills and to get the good roles? 
 
 DARREN: It's a constant battle, particularly when you start off. In the beginning it's important to get your face out there, and that means auditioning for everything that comes along. A lot of times you don't know where your work is going to lead you. So much of the industry works on connections. 
 
 SIMON: Is it necessary to go to drama school? 
 
 DARREN: There's no definitive way of getting into acting, although drama school helps a great deal, particularly if you're doing theatre. It also introduces you to agents and the chance of meeting and being taught by directors. However, if you grow up doing a lot of community or school theatre, you can learn it other ways. These days there's a big push to go to drama school, but there are people in this company who haven't been. My involvement in this company has happened after many years of being committed to the industry. If you take it on flippantly, it just won't last. With acting, you have to be thick-skinned and a bit obsessive, a bit single-minded about it. 
 
 SIMON: When I was 15, I sent my photo and bio to as many agents as I could. I had a few interviews, but the agent I went with was the only one that asked me to prepare something to act for them. How do you find an agent? 
 
 DARREN: If you ring an agency - and there are plenty of them - the common response is: "Our books are full.'' It's a catch-22, but the easiest way to get an agent is to get a job to show you're making an income. An agent will be interested if they can make money out of you. In the meantime, as well as submitting your bio and chasing up your application, you can offer agents free tickets to any of your performances. 
 
 SIMON: Until I've reached the stage where I've done a lot of work, I'm going to need my agent to tell me about upcoming auditions. I don't know anyone at my level who gets work without one. Also I want to make sure I get more professional work. 
 
 DARREN: That desire never changes. A lot of the time you don't know, but if you've got the passion for it, something looks after you. If you keep your ear to the ground and make sure every job you do is your best, and keep a positive attitude, you'll hear about work. The employment statistics can be bleak, but don't focus on those. You could land one ad that can give you a mortgage, or land four days' work on an American film and get enough money to look after you for three months. In between, whether you do acting classes or voice training, yoga, or play readings, so much of the industry is about existing in a place where you're always working towards increasing your skill level and opportunities. Don't sit by the phone waiting for your agent to ring, or in coffee shops with cynical actors lamenting the state of the industry. It doesn't help in any way to focus on the possibility of failure. The people I find continuously working in this industry don't stop and question if they will be successful, they just make a go of it. And your first job unravels that very first thread. 
		       
		      
		     
	
		   
		 
	    		
      
       Article:  Darren Gilshenan, Marcella Bidinost, Simon Stone, The Age, My Career: A Desire to Be Under the Spotlight, The Age, 4 May 2002, 24 
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       Newsletter:  HotHouse Theatre, Hot Goss: The official newsletter of HotHouse Theatre, July 2002, July 2002
 
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       Photograph:  Troy Flower, HotHouse Theatre, Photograph - The Bridge, HotHouse Theatre, HotHouse Theatre Website, 2002
 
             
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