CANBERRA THEATRE CENTREDirector Bruce Carmichael

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Canberra Theatre Centre is administered by the Cultural Facilities Corporation, which receives funding assistance through the ACT Government’s Minister for the Arts.

RILEY SPADAROASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Riley is a director with a practice in devised performance and new writing. He is a graduate of both WAAPA (Performance Making, 2017) and NIDA (Directing, 2019). In 2017, Riley received a research grant from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to study cross-cultural approaches to performer training at the Intercultural Theatre Institute, Singapore. In the same year, Riley seconded on the original production of Barbara and the Camp Dogs at Belvoir, and interned with Performing LinesWA where he worked on the national tours of Sensorium Theatre’s Oddysea and Roslyn Oades’ Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday. Recent directing credits include a reading of Lachlan Philpott’s Promiscuous Cities (Seymour Centre/ Mardi Gras); the devised work We Are Gods and VeronicaFlynn’s She Waits No Longer (NIDA); Essie Holt’s Distant Places (Triple JUnearthed/NIDA); Josephine Macken’s The Tent (Sydney Chamber Opera); Anna Barnes’ Minus One Sister (The Blue Room Theatre). Recent assistant directing credits include Anna Jordan’s Stay Happy, Keep Smiling (NIDA); and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti (Lost and Found Opera). Later this year, Riley will direct Antoinette Barbouttis’ Cool Pool Party in Sydney and Chris Edwards’ This Bitter Earth in Melbourne.

SHAKIRA CLANTONBARBARA UNDERSTUDY

Shakira is a 2015 graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, prior to which she trained in the Aboriginal Theatre Program at WAAPA in Perth and the Aboriginal Centre of the Performing Arts in Brisbane. Theatre credits include the one woman show The Weekend (Sydney Festival / Mooghalin Performing Arts Inc), Simone Tucker in The Long Forgotten Dream (STC), The Narrator in Creature (Stalker Theatre Company) and the Blacktown Angel in Home Country (Sydney Festival / Urban Theatre Projects). Film and TV credits include: Alex in Diary of an Uber Driver (ABC TV), Jo in Doctor Doctor (Essential Media & Entertainment), Debs in Hyde and Seek (Matchbox Pictures), Jodie in Scout (Noble Savage Pictures) and herself in the SBS documentary series Brainscience.

By Ursula Yovich and Alana Valentine Director Leticia Cáceres Songs by Alana Valentine, Ursula Yovich & Adm Ventoura*

This production of Barbara and the Camp Dogs opened at Belvoir St Theatre on Wednesday 6 December 2017 and the return season opened Friday 5 April 2019.

Set Designer Stephen Curtis Costume Designer Chloe Greaves Lighting Designer Karen Norris Sound Designer Steve Toulmin Musical Rehearsal Director Adm Ventoura Lighting Realiser Matt Cox Stage Manager Cecilia Nelson Assistant Stage Manager Brooke Kiss Assistant Director Riley Spadaro

With Troy Brady Elaine Crombie Ursula Yovich Shakira Clanton (Understudy)

Musicians Musical Director and Bass Guitar Jessica Dunn Guitar Sorcha Albuquerque Drums Michelle Vincent

* Vicki Gordon also contributed music to ‘Tick Sista’, Merenia Gillies contributed to ‘Chained to You’ and James Warwick Shipstone Contributed to ‘Pieces’.

Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir is supported by The Balnaves Foundation.We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation who are the traditional custodians of the land on which Belvoir St Theatre is built. We also pay respect to the Elders past and present, and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

PRODUCTION THANKS Khym Scott, Kamahi Djordon King (Indigenous Fabrics Designer)

PHOTOGRAPHY Brett BoardmanDESIGN Alphabet Studio

URSULA YOVICHCO-WRITER / SONGWRITER / BARBARA

Ursula is a multi-award-winning actor working for all our major theatre companies; Barbara and The Camp Dogs, The Governor’s Family, Capricornia (Belvoir); The Sapphires (MTC / Belvoir); Corrugation Road (Black Swan); The Sunshine Club (STC / QT); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Bloodland, Love and Information, Power Plays, Romeo and Juliet, The Golden Age, The Secret River (STC); Mother Courage (QT); Heart is a Wasteland (Malthouse / Brown Cab Productions); The Magic Hour (Deckchair); Man with the Iron Neck, The Barefoot Divas (Sydney Festival); Diving for Pearls, Nailed (Griffin); Waltzing The Wilarra (Yirra Yaakin); My Girragundji (Bell Shakespeare). Film credits: Top End Wedding, Australia, Goldstone, Jindabyne. Television: The Code, Devil’s Dust, Redfern Now, The Gods of Wheat Street, Wanted. Ursula is the voice of ‘Levi’ in the NITV/SBS children’s animated TV series, Little Lane and Big Cuz, on which she is also a writer. Ursula was the recipient of the 2015 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a Best Actress Helpmann Award for her cabaret Magpie Blues, and five Helpmann nominations.

ALANA VALENTINECO-WRITER / SONGWRITER

As well as co-writing Barbara and the Camp Dogs with Ursula Yovich in 2017, Alana has worked with Ursula for Barefoot Divas and Dubboo: Life of a Songman. As dramaturg, Alana worked with Bangarra Dance Theatre on Dark Emu, Bennelong, Patyegarang and ID (from Belong). Her play Head Full of Love toured Australia (Drover Award 2016) donating $60K in to the Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi Purple House for a mobile dialysis unit. Recent work includes The Sugar House (Belvoir 2018), Ear to the Edge of Time (Sport for Jove and Seymour 2018), Letters to Lindy (Merrigong National Tour 2018) and Ladies Day (Griffin Theatre 2016). In 2019, Made To Measure will be produced at Seymour. Alana is the recipient of a Fellowship at the Charles Perkins Centre. Barbara and the Camp Dogs was nominated in the Sydney Theatre Awards for Best New Australian Work and Best Original Score as well as for the Best Drama in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Nick Enright Prize for Drama in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

LETICIA CÁCERES DIRECTOR

Leticia is one of the most in-demand directors for new writing in Australia. Her Belvoir credits include the world premiere of Barbara and the Camp Dogs by Alana Valentine and Ursula Yovich (2017), Random by debbie tucker green (2018), and The Drover’s Wife (2016). In 2019 Leticia directed the world premier of The Mares by Kate Mulvany for Tasmanian Theatre Company and Ten Days on the Island International Festival. In 2018 Leticia also directed The Space In Between by Steve Vizard and Paul Grabowsky at Arts Centre Melbourne, Going Down by Michele Lee for Malthouse / STC, and The House of Bernada Alba by

Patricia Cornelius at MTC. Leticia has received Screen Australia funding to transition into film and TV. Her debut short Wild won ‘Best First Time Film’ at the London Film Awards and ‘Next-Gen Film Award’ at the 2018 Melbourne Women in Film Festival. Her second film The True History of Billie the Kid premiered at the 2018 Melbourne International Film Festival. Leticia won the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Mainstage production for The Drover’s Wife by Leah Purcell, for Belvoir in 2016.

TROY JUNGAJI BRADYJOSEPH

Troy keeps cultural fires burning through his lyrics and music, sharing these stories around the world. The Western GuGu Yelanji and Birri Gubba singer and songwriter shares his stories of country through contemporary folk/roots music. He also appeared in the original Belvoir production of Barbara and the Camp Dogs in 2017. Troy has toured the world as a feature artist with Black Arm Band as well as performing as a solo artist. Forging a career over 20 years, he has led a number of bands before hitting out on his own, his current music exploring more of his language and connection to the country of his ancestors north of Cairns and Proserpine.

ELAINE CROMBIERENÉ

Elaine is an actor, director, First Nations First Peoples Organiser for the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance, producer, singer, songwriter, standup comedian and writer, and a staunch MEAA member who has appeared in multiple plays, TV series and films. She has appeared for Belvoir in the 2017 run of Barbara and the Camp Dogs, and in Conversations with the Dead (2003). Other stage credits include Astroman (Melbourne Theatre Company), Blaque Showgirls (Malthouse Theatre), An Octoroon, Country Song, The Sunshine Club (Queensland Theatre), This Fella My Memory (Moogahlin Performing Arts), I am Eora (Sydney Festival), Bloodland (Sydney Theatre Company / Bangarra Dance Theatre), and Cherry Pickers and The Sunshine Club (Sydney Theatre Company). Television credits include, Top of the Lake, How to Stay Married, Rosehaven S2, Grace Beside Me, 8MMM Aboriginal Radio, Nowhere Boys S4, Get Krack!n, Black Comedy, Redfern Now, Kiki and Kitty. She has appeared in the films Jackie Jackie, Black Talk and Top End Wedding.

JESSICA DUNNPERFORMING MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND BASS

Jessica is a composer, sound designer and performing musician. She is the 2009 recipient of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award for excellence in jazz and has studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Jessica is founder and Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Sirens Big Band, an ensemble that promotes gender diversity in Australian music. Her recent theatre credits include Composer and Sound Designer for The Mares (Tasmanian Theatre Company), Associate Sound Designer for Counting and Cracking and Random, Performing Musical Director for the

2017 run of Barbara and the Camp Dogs (Belvoir), and Composer’s Assistant for Harp in the South (Sydney Theatre Company). She has performed widely in Australia and internationally with artists as diverse as Shubha Mudgal (India), Sandy Evans, Claire Daly (USA), Satoko Fuji (Japan), Walter Martin (USA) and Ensemble Offspring.

SORCHA ALBUQUERQUELEAD GUITAR

Sorcha is a Sydney based jazz guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Originally hailing from Perth, Sorcha began playing the cello at the age of 8 and guitar at 14, and graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance) in 2013. Since relocating to Sydney in 2014, Sorcha has played with notable local and international artists such as Ingrid Jenson (NYC), Silke Eberhart (GER), Dale Barlow, James Sherlock and more. She is a member of the Sydney Women’s Jazz Collective, The Sorcha Albuquerque Trio, and has performed at festivals such as Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Perth Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Stonnington Jazz Festival, Sydney Con Jazz Festival and Perth International Jazz Festival as a side-woman and leader. Sorcha’s original compositions are featured on two ABC releases ‘Jazz Calls: The best of Australian Jazz 2017’ and ‘Jazztrack – celebrating 40 years’.

MICHELLE VINCENTDRUMS

Michelle left her hometown of Mildura at 16 years of age to pursue her love of music and drumming in Sydney. Since then she has toured the country with many known Australian and international artists, and is no stranger to big stages. Michelle performed for Belvoir in the original run of Barbara and The Camp Dogs and is currently touring full time with one of Australia’s finest female country acts, The McClymonts. She has played drums for various artists performing on television on such programs as The Morning Show, Sunrise, X Factor and The Voice Australia. Michelle has developed a ‘Drum Line’ music program, teaching drums and performance in high schools around the Sydney region. With over a decade of experience under her belt as one of Australia’s finest drummers Michelle is constantly exploring new avenues to gain greater knowledge in the music industry.

VICKI GORDONCO-PRODUCER

Vicki (Nati Kahungunu) is a NZ born music producer who has worked as a musician, music director, festival director and cultural producer. She is the originating producer for Belvoir’s Barbara and the Camp Dogs. She produced Australia’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Contemporary Music Festival With Open Eyes and first all-girl rock festival Fast Forward. Vicki produced the South Pacific Women’s ensemble Singaot Sista for Fest Napuan Vanuatu (2010). She produced and curated the critically acclaimed Barefoot Divas for Sydney Festival and NZ International Arts Festival (2012),

Queensland Music Festival (2013), touring North America, Canada and Hawaii (2014), and selling out the Hong Kong Concert Hall (2015). She was Associate Producer for Romaine Moreton’s One Billion Beats co-written with Alana Valentine (2016). She is currently Founding Executive Director and Producer for Australian Women in Music Awards and Producer for Black Heart Black Stone with David Leha.

STEPHEN CURTISSET DESIGNER

Stephen has worked extensively as a Set and Costume Designer for drama, film, opera, dance and physical theatre. For Belvoir he has designed Barbara and The Camp Dogs, The Drover’s Wife, Twelfth Night, and Gwen in Purgatory; for Malthouse he has designed Away, It Just Stopped and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Other major credits include: All About My Mother, The Blue Room, Two Brothers and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for Melbourne Theatre Company; The Secret River, The Vertical Hour, Doubt, The Government Inspector for Sydney Theatre Company; La Boheme, Lulu, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Turn of the Screw for Opera Australia; Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) for State Opera of South Australia; and The Winter’s Tale, Henry IV, The Duchess of Malfi, The War of the Roses, and The Servant of Two Masters for Bell Shakespeare Company. Stephen has published Staging Ideas as a guide to set and costume design for theatre.

CHLOE GREAVESCOSTUME DESIGNER

Chloe has worked extensively in live theatre as a Set and Costume Designer across dance, opera and theatre nationally and internationally. Some of her more notable theatre work includes Barbara and the Camp dogs (Belvior), Rule of Thirds and LUCID (Chunky Move), The Bacchae (Fraught outfit Melbourne festival / DarkMofo), They Saw A Thylacine (Malthouse), The Waiting Room (MTC), Blak Cabaret (Sydney Festival / Malthouse), The Magic Pudding (Victorian Opera), HART (Shesaid), Le Donna Curiose (The Juliard School, New York). Chloe also works in film. She costumed the upcoming feature 2040 and That Sugar Film (Madman productions), and Living Space (Tru Dot productions). She has styled / production designed music videos for artists including Guy Sebastian, Alison Wonderland, San Cisco, DZ Deathrays and Montaigne. Chloe received the 2014 independent theatre Green Room Award for design for her year’s body of work, and has been nominated on five others occasions in the Opera, Theatre, Musical Theatre and Independent categories.

KAREN NORRISLIGHTING DESIGNER

Karen has extensive experience in theatre, dance and music throughout Australia and Europe. She has worked for numerous theatre companies including Belvoir, Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company SA, Ensemble Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre, NAISDA amongst others. Karen’s previous Belvoir work includes the

2017 run of Barbara and The Camp Dogs, Love Me Tender, and Uncle Vanya. Other credits include: for Moogahlin – Winyanboga Yurringa and Broken Glass, for choreographer Narelle Benjamin – In Glass, KAAL, Hiding In Plain Sight, Forseen and Cella (Colours Dance Festival 2017, Stuttgart, Sydney Festival 2018, Dance Massive 2019), for Bangarra – Skin, Terrain and Sheoak. Karen has also designed lighting for Barefoot Divas (Sydney Festival 2015), Songs Not to Dance To, Champions (Sydney Festival 2017), Sue Healey’s On View (Performance Space), KOTAHI (Atamira Dance Company), Blak Box (Urban Theatre Projects, Sydney Festival 2019), and Sugarland (ATYP). Her work for Skin was nominated for the Helpmann Awards 2001, and for Sheoak was nominated for the Green Room Award 2015.

STEVE TOULMINSOUND DESIGNER

For Belvoir, Steve’s credits as Composer and Sound Designer include Hir, The Rover, Jasper Jones, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Ivanov, La Traviata, Blue Wizard, 20 Questions and The Seed. His other credits include Richard III, Othello (Bell Shakespeare); Blackie Blackie Brown, Black is the New White, A Flea In Her Ear, Power Plays, Little Mercy (Sydney Theatre Company); Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Sydney Theatre Company / La Boite); Testament of Mary (Malthouse); The Homosexuals (Malthouse / Griffin); Feather In The Web, Kill Climate Deniers, The Bleeding Tree, Gloria, Beached (Griffin); A Hoax (Griffin / La Boite); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Great Falls, Circle Mirror Transformation (Ensemble); Switzerland (Queensland Theatre Company); Tender Napalm, Julius Ceaser and Hamlet (La Boite); Life, Fun House, Blanc De Blanc and Blanc De Blanc Encore (Strut & Fret) and All The Sex I’ve Ever Had (Sydney Festival).

ADM VENTOURASONGWRITER / MUSICAL REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Formally trained at the Western Australian Conservatorium of Music, Adm is a first-class bass guitarist, composer, musical director, and writer/producer based in Sydney. Over the past 25 years, Adm has worked across a wide range of musical styles throughout Australia and also in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and New Zealand. In this time, he has performed with an array of artists and musicians in concerts, clubs, and for television and radio. These artists include Al Green, Kelly Rowland, Lupe Fiasco, Guy Sebastian, Jon Stevens, Ian Moss, Jessica Mauboy, Emma Donovan, Ursula Yovich, Kate Ceberano, Vika and Linda Bull and Stan Walker. Adm is also the musical director for the Barefoot Divas, a show featuring six renowned Indigenous soul singers from Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. A hit at both the Sydney and New Zealand International Arts Festivals in 2012, it also toured North America in 2014.

MATT COXLIGHTING REALISER

Since arriving in Sydney in 2003, Matt has designed numerous theatre productions including The

Seed, (Belvoir), Dubboo, One’s Country, OUR Land People Stories, Blak, Belong (Bangarra Dance Theatre), Lake Disappointment (Carriageworks), She Loves Me (Hayes Theatre Company), The Trouble With Harry (Siren Theatre Co), Diplomacy (Ensemble), Reflections on Gallipoli (Australian Chamber Orchestra), Burrbgaja Yalirra (Marrugeku), Goldner String Quartet (Musica Viva), The Miser, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet (Bell Shakespeare) Possum Magic, The Unknown Soldier, Diary of a Wombat (Monkey Baa), Wharf Revue 2018, Ruby Moon (Sydney Theatre Company), The Mousetrap, A Murder is Announced (Louise Withers and Associates), Alice in Wonderland (Michael Sieders Presents), Symphony (Legs on the Wall), The Libertine, Othello, Antigone, The River at the End of the Road, The Tempest (Sport for Jove), This Much is True, A View From the Bridge (Red Line Productions), His Music Burns (Sydney Chamber Opera), and the Aurora Spiegeltent (2014) and The Famous Spiegeltent (2015, 2016) for Sydney Festival. Matt currently tutors for the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).

CECILIA NELSONSTAGE MANAGER

Cecilia graduated from NIDA’s BFA (Technical Theatre and Stage Management) in 2016 after completing a BSc. / BA. at The University of Sydney. She has previously worked for Belvoir as the Assistant Stage Manager for the 2017 run of Barbara and The Camp Dogs. Since graduating, Cecilia has stage managed InThe Heights (Blue Saint Productions), She Loves Me and Assassins (Hayes Theatre Co.), The View Upstairs (Invisible Wall / Sugary Rum Productions), The Howling Girls (Sydney Chamber Opera), Les Mamelles De Tiresias (Sydney Conservatorium of Music), Highly Sprung (Legs on the Wall), Miss Saigon (Packemin) and Darren Criss Intimate & Live (Michael Cassel Group). She was assistant stage manager for Artaserse (Pinchgut), Candide (Sydney Philharmonia), New Year’s Eve Opera Gala (Opera Australia), The Rape of Lucretia (Sydney Chamber Opera) and was surtitle operator for Carmen (Opera Australia / HOSH). She is passionate about music in theatre, opera and looks forward to many future shows.

BROOKE KISSASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

For Belvoir, Brooke has worked as the Stage Manager for Bliss, Assistant Stage Manager for Sami in Paradise, Rehearsal Stage Manager on Barbara and the Camp Dogs, as well as working on Mr Burns, Atlantis and Mother. Other recent roles include Stage Manager for You Animal, You (Force Majeure); Assistant Stage Manager on Accidental Death of An Anarchist and Testament of Mary (STC); Stage Manager for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Mad March Hare Theatre Company); Production Manager for The Crucible (Barker College); and Production Stage Manager for The Australian Tenors and An Afternoon at the Proms (Australian Global Entertainment). Brooke graduated from the Technical Theatre and Stage Management course at NIDA in 2016.