DIRECTOR

Dean Drieberg is an in-demand creative, currently Resident Director of HAMILTON Australia/New Zealand. He directed PASSING STRANGE for Antipodes Theatre Company for whom he also directed a development of Michele Gould’s 107 and a reading of Harrison David Rivers’ THIS BITTER EARTH. Dean worked alongside Jarrod Draper to create his sold out solo shows for Darlinghurst Theatre Company.

Dean is Co-Artistic Director of Sondheim repertory company Watch This with whom he co-directed SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE.. He directed and designed BARE THE MUSICAL and MEMPHIS THE MUSICAL for StageArt, and has worked on over 20 tours, playing across Australia and New Zealand. Dean has produced numerous advertising campaigns and major events across Australia, Tokyo and New York.

Dean is an advocate for theatre that is inclusive of Indigenous, Bla(c)k and people of colour, artists with a disability and LGBTQIA+ artists.

MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Claire Healy is a musical director, composer actor and performer (keys/vocals) who has worked in theatre across the globe. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theatre from the Ballarat Arts Academy, and a Master of Music in Interactive Composition from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).

Claire is currently the Musical Director/Keyboards for the Australian and New Zealand tour of Six the Musical which opened at the Sydney Opera House in January 2020, and was Musical Director/Piano for the Australian premiere of Well Behaved Women by Carmel Dean at the Hayes Theatre in early 2021.

She composed music for the Irish national tour of the critically acclaimed Low Level Panic, directed by Justin Martin (The Crown, The Inheritance) before its reworking in Sydney at the Old Fitz Theatre. Other compositional work includes: Lightning Jar Theatre’s Stupid F*cking Bird and Venus in Fur, The Tosca Project (Australia Council), and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by Michael Kantor for the VCA.

CHOREOGRAPHER

Brendan Yeates has enjoyed an international career of performance-based work in music theatre, contemporary and commercial dance that spanned over ten years. The latter half of his career has seen a calling to the other side of the footlights as a creative for commercial stage productions.

Credits include: Resident Dance Supervisor HAMILTON (Michael Cassel Group), Associate Director & Choreographer West Side Story (Opera Australia, GWB Entertainment, BB Group), Associate Choreographer Love Never Dies (HoriPro Japan, Stage Entertainment Germany), Resident Choreographer Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel Group) and Resident Choreographer Matilda the Musical (Royal Shakespeare Company, Louise Withers and Associates).

Brendan’s shapes have also been seen in Disco Wonderland: Dancing ’til Dawn (Release Creative), Katy Perry ICC T20 Women’s World Cup Opening (KOJO, Squared Division), So You Think You Can Dance (Southern Star Endemol) and What Not to Wear (TLC).

SET DESIGNER

Tyler Hawkins is a Multidisciplinary Designer living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. After his early career as a professional contemporary dancer with the likes of Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin.

Tyler retrained at NIDA graduating with a Masters in Design for Performance and a published thesis on the ‘Incorporation of the Mediated Image in live Performance’. Tyler’s design practice spans Set, Costume, AV, Film, Theatre, Event, Experience, Fashion, Commercial, Objet and more alongside Art and Creative Direction for major brands. Clients include Sydney Theatre Co., Opera Australia, Malthouse Theatre, RUUSH and Louis Vuitton.

Tyler has executed large scale Festival Designs for Bondi Feast (2018 & 2019) Adelaide Fringe Festival (2020) and Melbourne Fringe Festival (2022

COSTUME DESIGNERS

Nicol & Ford is an ethically produced demi-couture label helmed by Katie-Louise and Lilian Nicol-Ford in Newtown, Sydney. With a focus on Silhouette, textile and texture, Nicol & Ford produces classically “feminine” silhouettes for all gender identities, empowering the contemporary social deconstruction of binaries by revisiting and subverting traditional understandings of glamour and construction.

Nicol & Ford’s 2022 debut at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week with La Pouffe, interrogating the link between queer culture and lavish interiors, has been acquired by the Powerhouse Museum and is currently on display in ABSOLUTELY QUEER for World Pride 2023. The label’s AAFW23 sophomore collection COMET, a body of work linked to Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, explored the opportunities for liberation in early 19th century European dress, as seen in their costumes for Darlinghurst Theatre Company.

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Veronique is a lighting, set and costume designer. As a lighting designer, Veronique’s credits include: The Jungle and the Sea, Tell me I’m Here, The Wolves, (Belvoir); Happy Days, Chorus (Red Line Productions); Sacre (Circa); Banging Denmark (Sydney Theatre Company); Near The Gods (Ensemble); The Smallest Hour (Griffin); John (Outhouse Theatre Co.); The Life Of US (Hayes).

Veronique designed costumes for Museum Of Modern Love (Seymour Centre/Sydney Festival) and As You Like It (Sport for Jove); set and lighting design for Exit The King (Red Line) and Ulster American (Outhouse Theatre Co); set and costume design for Rhinestone Rex, A Broadcast Coup, The Caretaker, A Doll’s House, (Ensemble); Our Blood Runs In The Street (Red Line Productions). Veronique has been nominated for four Sydney Theatre Awards. Veronique completed a Master of Fine Art (Design for Performance) majoring in lighting and holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Technical Theatre and Stage Management) from NIDA. She is an alumni of Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women in Theatre programme.