Backstage

Leigh Sachwitz

Leigh Sachwitz is the founder and leading creative director of  flora&faunavisions.

She is an award winning creator and visionary, and the mastermind behind the content that will be displayed across 23 LED screens for Opera Australia’s The Ring Cycle.

Her work spans across immersive experiences, exhibitions, music stages, theatre and opera performances, fashion shows and art installations. Leigh has characterised a unique style through design in space and time.

 

Thomas DeAngelis

Thomas De Angelis is a playwright, theatre maker and researcher. 

He joins Regina Botros to talk about the operatic odyssey of a lifetime; the site-specific pastiche opera TRACK WORKS will take centre stage at Sydney’s iconic Mortuary Station in all its historical splendour (November 21 – December 19).

 

 

Tom Conroy

Tom Conroy joins Regina Botros to dive into The Master and the Margarita on at Belvoir Theatre.

Tom’s credits for Belvoir include Tell Me I’m Here, My Brilliant Career, Ghosts, Jasper Jones, Mortido, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Small and Tired. Find out more here.

Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Jane joins Regina to talk Malvolia (yes a twist on the role) in Twelfth Night for Bell Shakespeare.

Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an actor, writer and academic. Currently Director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance, Jane is an expert on Greek drama and theories of performance, and has taught at Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne, and La Trobe universities.

Twelfth Night opens at Sydney Opera House 26th October 2023 until 19 November.

 

Thomas Campbell and Betty Is a Butcher

Thomas Campbell joins Regina Botros to talk through the inspiration for Betty Is a Butcher for Sydney Fringe.

Five characters, five reasons to live, an odyssey towards death.  A collage of memory, these characters jostle for existence in a theatrical phantasmagoria

A Siren Theatre Production, directed by Kate Jane Gaul.

 

Chris Mitchell and The Marvellous Elephant Man the Musical

Chris Mitchell joins Regina Botros to see the spectacle of this Sydney Fringe show at the Speigeltent.

The Marvellous Elephant man the Musical.

The story of the “Elephant Man” has been told in many books and in the famous David Lynch film starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins.

The co-director of this production Chris Mitchell takes us into this new musical production, the inspiration and the exploration.

 

Chris Mitchell is a Melbourne-based entrepreneur, major art grant recipient, graduate of 16th Street
Actors Studio and founding partner of the brand-new Northcote Theatre. He is also an accomplished filmmaker, with award-winning short films and featurettes screened at international festivals including Fantastic Fest, Snow Dance, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Tokyo International Short Film Festival and many more. The venue he founded and creatively directed - Red Bennies - won multiple Melbourne Fringe awards, including best venue, and served as an Australian hub for global artists.

Kerri Glascock Sydney Fringe 2023

Kerri Glasscock Sydney Fringe Festival Director joins Regina to talk about what's hot this Sydney Fringe Festival.

So much to see - catch the hot tips - here!

 

A month of delicious, unfiltered, utterly unbelievable performance performances, where literally anything could happen. 

Spread across every inch of the city, from Parramatta to Hurstville, the Western Harbour, the CBD, and the Inner-East festival gardens. No matter where you find yourself at The Fringe, we guarantee an unforgettable experience that will stay with you long after the festival ends. Get a variety of performance of every genre that defy convention and challenge your expectations.  

Where else can you see HUNDREDS of world premieres made in your backyard? Or if you are a visitor popping by our beautiful city, what better way to get to know the true Sydney?  

Leave your expectations at home this September as together we paint the town PINK and create the vibrant, experimental, expressive, playful, and diverse Sydney we dream of all year round.  

 

Fun FUN Fun!

 

Margaret Thanos director of A Very Expensive Poison

Margaret joins Regina to explore this award winning play based on true events.

 

Margaret Thanos is an award-winning Cypriot-Australian director and actor for theatre and film, based in London. 

THE PLAY:- London, 2006. A brazen political assassination is carried out in broad daylight. Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, drinks green tea laced with radioactive poison.
Subsequent investigations uncover a conspiracy generated from the very heart of the Russian government, and a murder probably approved by President Vladimir Putin.

In this award-winning play, based on the facts as laid out by the investigative journalist Luke Harding in his book of the same name, acclaimed writer Lucy Prebble tells a complex story of espionage and mystery.

Playing at the NEW THEATRE till 16th September.

 

 

Debra Oswald

Debra Oswald joins Regina to talk about tow shows playing at the Ensemble Theatre, plus how she came to writing from a young age.

Debra Oswald is screenwriter, playwright and fiction author.

She was the co-creator and head writer for series 1-5 of the award-winning Channel Ten series Offspring. Debra won the 2011 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for the Offspring telemovie script and won the 2014 AACTA for Best Television Screenplay for an episode in series 4.

 Her other television credits include award-winning episodes of Police Rescue, Palace of Dreams, The Secret Life of Us, Sweet and Sour and Bananas in Pyjamas.

Debra’s stage plays have been produced around Australia. Gary’s House, Sweet Road and The Peach Season were all shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award, and her play Dags has had many Australian productions. Gary’s House has been performed in translation in Denmark and Japan. Mr Bailey’s Minder broke the Griffin Theatre’s box office record in 2004, toured nationally in 2006, and was produced in Philadelphia in 2008 and is back with the gorgeous John Gaden, as well as Rachel Gordon and Albert Mwangi and Claudia Ware…

She’s also bringing back

Is there something wrong with that Lady—sold out in APRIL….at griffin and it is playing at ensemble from 18^th September.

Her  plays are published by Currency Press. 

 

Gareth Davies

Gareth joins Regina to talk about his life from wanting to be a philosopher to the stage and his current production performing in Benefactors at Ensemble Theatre.

Gareth Davies is an actor and playwright based in Sydney. He has written and performed for the Black Lung Theatre (of which he’s a member), Belvoir St Theatre, the Malthouse and many more.

Gareth’s theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard (Melbourne Theatre Company); The Government Inspector (Malthouse Theatre/Belvoir); The Rover, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Peter Pan, As You Like It, And They Called Him Mr Glamour (which he also wrote) and The Seagull (Belvoir); As You Like It (Bell Shakespeare); and The Literati (Griffin/Bell Shakespeare). He has also performed at Belvoir for B Sharp in The Only Child, The Suicide and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

He co-wrote and performed in Masterclass and Masterclass 2 – Flames of the Forge (Redline Productions at the Old Fitz), and is a member of Melbourne’s Black Lung Theatre, collaborating on Avast and Avast II – The Welshman Cometh (Black Lung Theatre/Malthouse Theatre), Rubeville, Sugar, Pimms, I Feel Awful (Black Lung Theatre/Queensland Theatre Company), and Doku Rai (Black Lung Theatre/Darwin Festival), a show devised and performed in collaboration with artists from East Timor.

His film and TV credits include The Daughter (Screen NSW/Fate Films), The Letdown (Giant Dwarf/ABC), Hunters (Universal Cable/Valhalla) and the upcoming Peter Rabbit (Animal Logic).