17 APRIL Esperance Civic Centre 19 & 20 APRIL Albany Entertainment Centre 24 APRIL Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 27 APRIL Cummins Theatre, Merredin 01 MAY Matt Dann Theatre & Cinema, Port Hedland 03 MAY Red Earth Arts Precinct, Karratha 05 MAY Broome Civic Centre

WA REGIONAL TOUR

BY Helli� TurnerBased on the novels BY dianne Wolfer

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BLACK SWAN STATE THEATRE COMPANY AND RED EARTH ARTS PRECINCT PRESENT

PRINCIPAL PARTNER GOVERNMENT PARTNER

Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries

Government of Western Australia

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development

REGIONAL PARTNERSPRODUCTION FUNDFOUNDING PARTNER

PRODUCTION FUND

DONORS

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Clare Watson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Natalie Jenkins

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CHAIR

Nicola Forrest

DEPUTY CHAIR

Alan Cransberg

TREASURER

Craig Yaxley

DIRECTORS

Rob McKenzie Kellie Parker Vicki Robinson Linda Savage

FOUNDING PATRON

Janet Holmes à Court AC

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Featuring DAISY COYLE Fay Howe

BENJ D'ADDARIO Robert Howe

MURRAY DOWSETT Joe Taylor

NICK MACLAINE Frank/Major Bridges

WILL MCNEILL Jim Finch

GIUSEPPE ROTONDELLA Charlie

GRACE VICTORIA Alice Finch

STUART HALUSZ Director

LAWRIE CULLEN-TAIT Set Designer

LYNN FERGUSON Costume Designer

JOE HOOLIGAN LUI Lighting Designer

BRETT SMITH Composer/Sound Designer

HUGO AGUILAR LÓPEZ Stage Manager

GEORGIA SMITH Assistant Stage Manager

POLLY LOW Dramaturgy

NATHAN FRY Company Technician

KIM WESTBROOK Transport Logistics

STEWART CAMPBELL Production Manager

JESS KNIGHT Tour Manager

E Production photos by Lee Griffith Photography.

DURATION approx. 1 hr 40 mins [no interval] WARNING Some mild language, mild descriptions of war scenarios

SUITABILITY Families, ages 10+ E Please remember to turn off your mobile phone during the performance.

SynopsisAt the outbreak of World War I, a sweet young girl named Fay resides

on Breaksea Island in the Great Southern region of WA.

Her once isolated life takes a sensational turn. On the

other side of the country in rural Victoria, Charlie and

his best mate Jim sign up for the adventurous prospect

of war. The war gives Fay a remarkable purpose – to

transcribe and send messages for the soldiers stationed

off shore. As the lighthouse keeper’s daughter, she knows

semaphore and Morse code; using her skills to telegraph

loved ones on their behalf. Fay eventually becomes friends

with the young soldier Charlie who has no family.

After the soldiers depart for the battlefields of Egypt and Gallipoli, Fay continues to follow their journey and exchanges long-distance conversations with them through letters and postcards. Charlie and Jim, as soldiers in the Light Horse Brigade, quickly fathom the brutal realities of life on the frontline.

The ‘adventures’ they envisioned contain little grandeur. While valiantly defending their country on the frontline, Fay serves the war effort from windswept Breaksea Island; with all sides emulating the resilience and heart of the generation.

AcknowledgementsBlack Swan State Theatre Company would like to acknowledge the Whadjuk people from the Noongar nation who are the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which this work was created. We pay respect to the Elders; for they hold the history, the cultural practice and traditions of their people. We would also like to acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the lands and languages of the areas that The Lighthouse Girl company will be visiting on this tour. It is a privilege to be together on Aboriginal land.

This project is supported by the State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, Lotterywest and the Royalties for Regions program.

A RIO TINTO WA STORIES PROJECT The Lighthouse Girl was originally developed as a Rio Tinto Black Swan Co-Commission in association with Albany Entertainment Centre.

THE LIGHTHOUSE GIRL IS SUPPORTED BY

Red Earth Arts Precinct

The Red Earth Arts Precinct is a City of Karratha facility.

CITY OF KARRATHA

MAYOR Peter Long

CEO Chris Adams

RED EARTH ARTS PRECINCT

MANAGER ARTS & CULTURE Pippa Davis

VISITOR SERVICES SUPERVISOR Crystal Hilton

TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR Clint McRae

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Clockwise from top left: As a 14 year old Fay Howe, created an ANZAC legend when she communicated with troops in King George Sound. Baby Fay Howe. Photos courtesy of Don Watson, Fay’s son from the novel The Lighthouse Girl by Dianne Wolfer.

A NOTE FROM THE

PlaywrightIn early 2015, after a period of immersion in the historic panorama

of World War One, I was excited to begin the task of adapting Dianne Wolfer’s two superbly emotive books “Lighthouse Girl” and “Light Horse Boy”.

Writing the first draft of the play was a ‘gruelling joy’ ... gruelling because of the need to be immersed in the carnage of war ... a joy because constantly I was reminded of the remarkable resilience of the human spirit. It was a challenge which I utterly enjoyed, in the way one enjoys piecing together a jigsaw.

In June that same year, Black Swan sent an eager team of creatives to Albany for the inaugural public reading of the script. The townsfolk came out in droves and the reading was a sensational success, with much laughter and many tears in response to the actors’ passionate articulation of the text. Afterwards we were inundated with a tsunami of positive feedback and we knew we had a meaningful and important play on our hands. Subsequent drafts underwent a process of stringent dramaturgy which culminated in a workshop where the play was read and discussed with mounting fervour.

It is extraordinary that the play will open in Albany, the place where Fay’s story originates ... and there is little doubt

that this heart-felt West Australian story will have national and international resonance because it

speaks the universal truth of what it is to be humanly small in the face of gargantuan

conflict. At this current time when the world’s peoples rail at each other in the name of religion and race and dogma this play reminds us that beneath the cruel machinations of a few major players, there are vulnerable individuals who become the collateral damage.

As the playwright of this creative collaboration, I feel blessed to

have an incredible array of theatre practitioners bringing my script to

life with such vigorous enthusiasm. From the brilliant design team ... to

the talented director and actors ... to the diligent technical crew, the passion has been

palpable.

I’m sincerely grateful to Black Swan for encouraging me to undertake such a satisfying commission.

HELLIE TURNER

Playwright

A NOTE FROM THE

DirectorWhilst travelling through country Victoria some years ago I visited a museum of local history,

located in a very unassuming, historic building in the beautiful town of Beechworth.

In amongst the faded stories of early pioneers, bushrangers and local farming history was the ubiquitous display case containing memorabilia of a young man’s experience of the Great War – army records, bits of uniform, letters home. Most strikingly was an artefact collected by him whilst stranded in No Man’s Land during one of the brutal assaults at Gallipoli, discovered after hearing a loud crack above his head during the hellish chaos of shells bursting and men screaming – a Turkish and Australian bullet had collided head on and the heat of the impact had fused them together, perhaps sparing the lives of those who fired them, perhaps only delaying their deaths…

This struck me at the time as a poignant reminder of how the lives of two strangers can be thrust together by fate and have a lasting impact; an impressive reminder of the futility and sheer chance of war.

In every town, in every state, there is a memorial to fallen soldiers. Brothers, fathers, sons, friends. Most of these young men would have travelled through Albany on their way to the battlefields of Europe and the Middle East, the longest journey to war in history by the largest convoy of soldiers ever assembled.

This uniquely WA story had an enormous significance on the world stage, and Hellie Turner’s beautiful play, based on the novels by Dianne Wolfer and with dramaturgy by Polly Low, explore the beginnings of the ANZAC legend, the spirit of young Australians heading off to war and those left behind to keep the home fires burning.

Fay’s story embodies the strength, resilience, resourcefulness and courage of the women left behind by a generation of men, many of whom would never return, and for whom Breaksea was the last piece of Australia they would ever see.

This play, a Black Swan Rio Tinto Commission, had a period of creative development in Albany with a lot of local input from Albany residents.

The Albany Entertainment Centre also supported the premiere of this production and it was a fitting place to have presented the world-premiere in their beautiful theatre, overlooking the very harbour where the troop ships assembled in convoy 113 years ago.

Outlining the youthful and blind enthusiasm of young men enlisting to fight; the cautious and prescient warnings of older men who have lived through turmoil and heartache; and the innocent and strident conviction of a young girl wanting to do her bit, this play speaks to every generation and across the ages.

My heartfelt thanks and gratitude go to former Artistic Director Kate Cherry for programming this work and entrusting it to me, and to my creative team of Lawrie Cullen-Tait, Lynn Ferguson, Brett Smith and Joe Hooligan Lui. Likewise to Head of Production Stewart Campbell and his team who have created wonders with our set, and my stage management team led by Hugo Aguilar López and Georgia Smith. Their combined efforts, complemented by a very talented and equally passionate cast, reflect the dedication and commitment brought to this production. I feel very honoured to do my bit in remembering and commemorating this piece of history.

STUART HALUSZ

Director

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Cast

DAISY COYLE Fay Howe

BLACK SWAN: The Lighthouse Girl. OTHER

THEATRE: The Blue Room: An Almost Perfect

Thing Jedda Productions: Project Xan Ant Hill

Kids: This Is A Work of Fiction The Blue Room:

Is This Thing On? Perth International Arts

Festival: Blackmarket OTHER: West Australian

Youth Theatre Company: Crave, On the Face of Things, The

Dreaming Hill TRAINING: 2017 Curtin University Theatre Arts.

BENJ D’ADDARIO Robert Howe

BLACK SWAN: The Lighthouse Girl, Dust,

A Streetcar Named Desire, Arcadia, A

Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Crucible.

Black Swan/Queensland Theatre Company:

God of Carnage. OTHER THEATRE: Yirra Yaakin

Theatre Company: King Hit; Maiden Voyage

Theatre Company: Belated; Perth Theatre Company: The Ugly

One, Taking Liberty, Glorious!, Welcome To Dullsville. Deckchair

Theatre: The Fremantle Candidate, Taking Liberty, Ruby Moon.

Red Ryder Productions: Loveplay, Dealer’s Choice, Dying City.

Barking Gecko: Fatty Wombat. Agelink Theatre Company:

The Greatest Woman in the World, Life in Their Hands, And

Now, The Governor’s Wife. Happy Dagger Theatre: The York

Crucifixion. Brainbox Project/His Majesty’s Theatre: The Maj

Monologues. Fragmented Artists: Fragmented. Class Act: Hotel

Sorrento. Steamworks: Medea 05. Bell Shakespeare: Much

Ado About Nothing, Actors at Work. Short Shakes Theatre

Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Belvoir Street Theatre

Downstairs: An Idiot Amongst Us. Darlinghurst Theatre: The

Treatment, Portia Coughlin. Parramatta Theatre Company:

Hamlet. Household Words: Henry V. MUSICALS: Evie and the

Birdman. TV: Serangoon Road, Home and Away, Comedy

Inc, Big Sky. FILM: These Final Hours, Mr. Perfect, The 100th

Monkey, Pecking Duck, Fly On the Wall, Made Flesh, Wolf.

OTHER: Benj is a founding member of local independent

company Red Ryder Productions and has been a proud

member of Equity since 1996. TRAINING: Benj graduated with

a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Curtin University in 1993 and from

WAAPA in 1996 (Acting).

MURRAY DOWSETT Robert Howe’s Assistant

BLACK SWAN: The Lighthouse Girl, On Our

Selection, Away, The Merry-Go-Round

in the Sea, Tourmaline, Twelfth Night.

FILM: Looking for Grace, Drift, The War

that Changed Us. AWARDS: WAAPA: Nigel

Rideout Award. Short Film Festival – Watch

My Shorts: Best actor award for the short film Struck.

TRAINING: WAAPA (Acting). Murray teaches regularly at the

various tertiary and secondary schools in Perth. Murray has

worked extensively in theatre, film T.V. and radio and has

designed and directed many theatre productions.

NICK MACLAINE Frank

BLACK SWAN: The Lighthouse Girl, As You

Like It, Arcadia. OTHER THEATRE: Barking

Gecko Theatre Company: Bambert’s Book

of Lost Stories. The Last Great Hunt:

Price Tag, The Crossing, Old Love. Jedda

Productions: Project Xan. Gabrielle Metcalf:

An Almost Perfect Thing. Second Chance Theatre: Josephine!,

Coincidences at the End of Time, Between Solar Systems.

Ellandar: Multiverse Theory In D, The Standover Man, The

Night Guardian, 10,000. Chaos Ensemble: Tank. Little y Theatre

Company: Second Hands. Shakespeare WA: Twelfth Night,

Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors.

Class Act Theatre: Macbeth. Upstart Theatre: A Midsummer

Night’s Dream. Prickly Pear Ensemble: The Enchanters. Janus

Entertainment: Blood Brothers. AWARDS: 2016 Helpmann

Award (Best Presentation for Children) for Bambert’s Book of

Lost Stories. 2015 Best Production Team for Between Solar

Systems. 2011 Equity Guild Award for Best Newcomer for The

Enchanters. TRAINING: 2012 WAAPA graduate. OTHER: Nick has

been a proud member of Equity since 2011, and is a member

of the Independent Theatre Committee.

WILL MCNEILL Charlie

BLACK SWAN: The Lighthouse Girl,

Shrine, Arcadia.  OTHER THEATRE: Brainbox

Project Downstairs at The Maj: Pinter’s

People.  FILM: An Accidental Soldier, Desert

Rats. AWARDS: The Effie Crump Award 2015

TRAINING: WAAPA, (2016) Acting.

GIUSEPPE ROTONDELLA Jim

BLACK SWAN: Switzerland, The Lighthouse

Girl. OTHER THEATRE: Peter Semyonich in Neil

Simon’s The Good Doctor, Eddie in Arthur

Miller’s A View from the Bridge. TRAINING:

WAAPA, (2016) Acting.

GRACE VICTORIA Alice

BLACK SWAN: As You Like It. OTHER THEATRE:

Southwark Playhouse: The Love Girl and

The Innocent, The Old Fitz: Playing Rock

Hudson, Zygosity. The Kings Collective: The

Wonderful World of Dissocia, After The

End, JackRabbit Theatre Company: Sex

Object, Barking Gecko Theatre Company: Hamlet. FILM:

The Greenhouse. TRAINING: WAAPA (2013) Acting. AWARDS:

WAAPA, Sally Burton Shakespeare Award and a National

Australian Voice Association award.

HELLIE TURNER Playwright

Hellie is a veteran playwright, director and dramaturg who has worked extensively across the WA theatre sector. She has numerous awards and production credits to her name including having won the WA Premier’s Award in 2002 for Bench,

and again in 2006 for Sardines. She also won the inaugural Maj Monologues in 2006 for Billy Windlock. She was short-listed an additional three times for the WA Premier’s Award (Windows, Bone Dry, Anytown), and four times for the WA Equity Guild Awards (Billy Windlock, Bench, Anytown, Mad Fred). She was resident playwright/director for ‘kompany M’, professional WA theatre ensemble from 2005-2010, where her work included Road Train, The Gun, Luv Struk, Fair Dinkum, Jeepers Creepers and Bone Dry.

In 2012 Hellie’s play Mesh was show-cased in London and during 2013 she was one of seven international playwrights invited to the hotINK festival in New York, to workshop her play Bela Kiz.

During 2014 her musical Mad Fred was shortlisted for the Perth Acting WA Awards, and she was the recipient of the Page-to-Stage Initiative for The Time of Texas Wall, as well as a residency at Varuna, in the Blue Mountains. She was then involved in the ‘Women of Letters’ initiative, short-listed at Theatre 503 in London for Bela Kiz, and had her play Billy Windlock read in New York. She was an artist-in-residence during 2015 and 2016 at Black Swan, and early in 2016 she directed The Plough and the Stars for the Irish diaspora of Perth, to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Uprising. During the same year she was also short-listed for an AWGIE for her WAYTCo script, The Dreaming Hill, then her documentary theatre work Project Xan, which she also directed, was programed at PICA.

Hellie is proud of her mentoring role with WA’s new and emerging playwrights, and is extremely honoured that her adaptation of The Lighthouse Girl was first staged by Black Swan in 2017.

STUART HALUSZ Director

BLACK SWAN: DIRECTOR: The Lighthouse Girl, A Perfect Specimen, Extinction, The House on The Lake. ACTOR: Let the Right One In, Angels in America, Dinner, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, The Importance of Being Earnest, The White Divers of Broome,

Rising Water, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Memory of Water, Far Away, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Black Swan/Melbourne Theatre Company: National Interest. Black Swan/Big Sky Entertainment: Shakespeare Shenanigans. OTHER THEATRE: Red Ryder Productions: Loveplay. Perth Theatre Company: The Big Picture, Taking Liberty, Marmalade and Egg, Skin Tight, Noble Rot. Deckchair Theatre: Taking Liberty, The Modern International Dead, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It. Shakespeare Globe Centre: King Lear, Sonnet Stroll. Australian Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Agelink Theatre: Dear Heart, As Ships Pass By, Here to Stay, Christmas Spirit. Belvoir Street Theatre: Essington Lewis: I Am Work. Performing Arts Productions: Homme Fatale – The Joey Stefano Story, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Anne of Green Gables. Ensemble Theatre: Dags. Downstairs at the Maj: Pinter’s People. TV: The Great Mint Swindle, Cloudstreet, The Great Escape, Air Australia, CNNNN, The Secret Life of Us, Blonde, Blue Heelers, Thunderstone, Big Sky, Fallen Angels. FILM: The Reckoning, Victim. DIRECTOR: WAAPA: The Tempest, Midnite Youth Theatre: Troilus and Cressida. WA Youth Theatre Company: Away, Romeo and Juliet. Maelstrom Productions: On A Day in Summer in A Garden. OTHER: Proud member of Equity since 1995. AWARDS: 2000 Narrator of the Year TRAINING: WAAPA, Inaugural International Artistic Fellowship - Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre - London, SAFDi Intermediate Stage Combat.

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POLLY LOW Dramaturgy

BLACK SWAN: AS PRODUCTION DRAMATURG:

The Lighthouse Girl, Rising Water, The Red Balloon. AS LITERARY DIRECTOR: Since her appointment to this role in 2014, Polly has worked on script development with all of Black Swan’s commissioned writers. AS

ACTOR: National Interest, The Damned, One Destiny, Closer, Blackrock. OTHER THEATRE: Melbourne Theatre Company: National Interest. Agelink Theatre: Red Flowering Gums, Life in Their Hands. Deckchair Theatre: Grace. State Theatre Company of WA: The Season at Sarsaparilla, Orpheus Descending, The Country Wife, Antony and Cleopatra, Season’s Greetings. Perth Theatre Company: The Vagina Monologues. Handzon Theatre: The Merry Wives of Hay Street. Effie Crump Theatre: Livingstone, Starting Stalls, Lipstick Dreams. Hole In The Wall Theatre: Mourning Becomes Electra, Fool For Love, Grass Widow, The Cherry Orchard, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Juno and the Paycock, Gladbags, Pax Americana, Fen. National Theatre Company: The Blind Giant is Dancing, No Names No Pack Drill, Extremities, Do You Love Me Enough, Easy Come, Cocky on the Lawn, When We Are Married. Playhouse Theatre: Widows, Gaslight. Regal Theatre: House Guest. Winter Theatre: Hanging Together, The Kid. OTHER:

Polly works extensively as a freelance dramaturg and script assessor, for Companies and for individuals. Additionally, she has in recent years guided the development of community performance projects in Albany, Esperance and Shark Bay, as well as Perth. She has also worked as an actor in film and on TV; as a playwright, a director, a role-play specialist (particularly for the mining industry throughout Australia and for the Cancer Council); as a teacher of playwriting, a teacher of voice, and a performer in many radio dramas. TRAINING:

ACAE, RSAMD and WAAPA.

HUGO AGUILAR LÓPEZ Stage Manager

BLACK SWAN: STAGE MANAGER: The Lighthouse Girl, A Perfect Specimen, Next to Normal, Extinction, The House on The Lake, Twelfth Night. The HotBed Ensemble: The Shape of Things. ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER: Madagascar. OTHER THEATRE: Perth Theatre

Company: From the Rubble. Lockwood Productions: I Honestly Love You. The Workshop Productions: The Amber Amulet (metro & regional school tour). PRODUCTION & TOURING

MANAGER: Perth Theatre Company: The Ugly One, Africa, The Pride, The Disappearances Project, Tender Napalm, The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer, Blackbird, It’s Dark Outside. PRODUCTION & STAGE MANAGER: The Kabuki Drop: The Elders Project (Creative Development). Side Pony Productions: The Pride (Blue Room Season & Under The Radar Festival Brisbane tour). WAYTCO: Sweat.  ASSISTANT

STAGE MANAGER: West Australian Opera: Opera in the Park (Gianni Schicchi). BBC: Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular. Shakespeare WA: Taming of the Shrew. FESTIVAL & EVENTS: Stage Manager for City of Joondalup’s Joondalup Festival 2010/2014/2016, Valentine’s Concert 2010-2011, Little Feet Festival 2010, Blues and Roots 2010, AUSDANCE WA’s

Dance Live (2013-2016), Up Late in Mount Hawthorn (2013), Variety WA’s Christmas Party (2013-2014). OTHER:  Academic Staff at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (2012-2016). AWARDS: 2009 HAWAIIAN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Stage Management. TRAINING: 2009 WAAPA Advanced Diploma of Stage Management Graduate, CERTIV in Training and Assessment 2013 and a Bachelor of Performing Arts in 2014.

GEORGIA SMITH Assistant Stage Manager

BLACK SWAN: This marks Georgia’s debut with the company. OTHER THEATRE: The Last Great Hunt: The Great Ridolphi, Fag/Stag, Bruce and The Advisors. Second Chance Theatre: Josephine!, Laika: A Staged Radio Play, Frankenstein. Rorschach Beast:

Bus Boy. Maiden Voyage Theatre Company: Toast, Alone Outside, Belated. Red Ryder Productions: Grounded. AS TOUR

MANAGER: The Last Great Hunt: The Great Ridolphi, Fag/Stag and Bruce. Rorschach Beast: Bus Boy (pre-production Brighton Fringe May 2018). POSITIONS: Georgia recently worked with Perth Festival as Program Assistant for Writer’s Week and School’s Day. AWARDS: As Stage Manager on Fringe World Martin Sims Award Winners, Bus Boy (Rorschach Beast), 2017 and The Great Ridolphi (TLGH), 2016 and The Blue Room Theatre Best Production, Toast (MVTC), 2017 and Grounded (RRP), 2016 and Member’s Choice winners Laika: A Staged Radio Play (SCT), 2017 and Grounded (RRP), 2016. TRAINING: BA Performance Studies, Curtin University, graduated 2015.

Creatives

LAWRIE CULLEN-TAIT Set Designer

BLACK SWAN: SET & COSTUME DESIGNER: LOADED: A Double Bill of New Plays, The Year of Living Dangerously. SET DESIGNER: The Lighthouse Girl. DIRECTOR & COSTUME

DESIGNER: Venus in Fur. DIRECTOR:

Switzerland. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: As You Like It, A Streetcar Named Desire. OTHER THEATRE:

DIRECTOR/DESIGNER: Onward Production: Red. PTC: An Oak Tree. The Blue Room/Fringe World: The Night Guardian. The Blue Room/Art Gallery of Western Australia: Picasso’s Goldfinch. Downstairs at His Majesty’s/New York City’s Barefoot Theatre Company’s International Festival, the 70/70 Horovitz Project: Lebensraum. Metcalf Theatre: Music From The Whirlwind. Tennant Creek High School and Community: Romeo And Juliet, A MIdsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth. Otago University: Breath Out And I Breathe You In. DIRECTOR: WAAPA: A View From The Bridge. SET DESIGNER: Onward Production: Deep Blue Sea. Omnibus Productions: The Secret Garden. SET/COSTUME DESIGNER: The Kabuki drop, WAYJO, iOTA: Slap and Tickle. Barking Gecko: In A Dark Dark Wood. The Kabuki drop, iOTA: The Average Joe. The Blue Room Theatre: Red Silk. Buzz Dance Theatre: Snap Happy. Tura New Music: Rendezvous An Opera Noir. PRODUCTION

DESIGNER FILM/TV: Southern Star Entertainment/Magna Films Ireland: Foreign Exchange. SBS: Teesh and Trude, ABC: Outback Upfront, The Pet Show, Artemis: Death of The Mega Beast, The Bombing of Darwin An Awkward Truth. ART

DIRECTOR: ABC/Goal Post Productions: Lockie Leonard Series 2. POSITIONS: Lectured in Art Direction at WAAPA. Co-founder of Plumb Construction & Design. AWARDS: Equity Guild: 2012 Best Production for Red. TRAINING: WAAPA Production and Design - Set and Costume Design, WAAPA Directing.

LYNN FERGUSON Costume Designer

BLACK SWAN: COSTUME DESIGNER: The Lighthouse Girl, A Perfect Specimen, Death of Salesman, The Importance of Being Earnest. OTHER THEATRE: Bristol Old Vic: The Dumb Waiter. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Reader, Sharp Shorts. NVA, Glasgow:

Sabotage. Clamjamfrie, Glasgow: Somewhere. Unique Events, Edinburgh: Christmas Capital, Mouth Music. Gary Lang NT Dance, Darwin: Goose Lagoon. Tracks Dance, Darwin: The Cook, The Queen & the Kelly, Endurance. POSITIONS: Black Swan Wardrobe Manager 2011 to present. Head of wardrobe: Bristol Old Vic. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh. Supervisor: Grec Festival, Barcelona. Communicado Theatre, Edinburgh. London Baroque Opera. Cutter: Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Cameron Mackintosh Ltd. FILM/TV: Australia, Balibo (Darwin), Tartan Shorts, Ines de Castro, Mouth Music. OTHER: Lynn has also worked for Unique Events, Edinburgh; National Library of Scotland (Exhibition); Kilkenny Events; and Charles Darwin University as a Visual Arts Lecturer. TRAINING: Arts University College (Bournemouth), Edinburgh College of Arts, Association of British Theatre Technicians.

JOE HOOLIGAN LUI Lighting Designer

BLACK SWAN: AS LIGHTING DESIGNER: The Lighthouse Girl, Venus in Fur. DIRECTOR: I Am My Own Wife. SOUND DESIGNER: I Am My Own Wife. LOADED: A Double Bill of New Plays. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Angels in America, Part One. OTHER THEATRE:

DIRECTOR/WRITER: Renegade Productions: Unveiling: Gay Sex for Endtimes, The Book of Life, Letters Home, Laryngectomy, The Book of Death (A Story of Life), The Tribe. DIRECTOR: Renegade Productions: Selkie. Blue Room Theatre: Giving Up the Ghosts. Nicole in Red: Kitsch. Fringe World 2013: If I Drown I Can Swim. Deckchair Theatre (Emerging Director): Taking Liberty, Lorelei, Modern International Dead. COMPOSER/

SOUND DESIGNER: Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company: The Fever and the Fret, Kaarla Kaatijn. Performing Lines: The Magic Hour. Perth Theatre Company: From the Rubble, Operation Zebra. Steamworks Productions: Standing Bird 2/Verge (also lighting design), Rites. LIGHTING DESIGNER: Ochre Dance Company: Dreamtide. The Skeletal System: Great White. WAYTCO: Fire and Another. ACTOR: Renegade Productions/Blue Room Theatre: Letters Home. Theatreworks: Letters Home. PVI Collective: Blackmarket. POSITIONS: Joe is a founding member and creative leader of Renegade Productions. AWARDS: Blue Room Theatre Awards: Judge’s Choice Award for Laryngectomy. TRAINING: Bachelor of Arts Murdoch University.

BRETT SMITH Composer/Sound Designer

BLACK SWAN: COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER: The Eisteddfod, The Lighthouse Girl, Perfect Specimen, Venus in Fur, The House on The Lake. OTHER THEATRE: Australian Theatre for Young People: Chrysalis. The Last Great Hunt: Elephents, Fag/Stag, Old Love, The

Advisors, PriceTag. Red Ryder Productions: Grounded. Riptide Youth Theatre: Queen Leah, Some Kind of Disaster. Craig Silvey: Amber Amulet. Variegated Productions: The Man and the Moon. DANCE: Chrissie Parrott: The Man. Jo Pollitt: Divided. Shona Erskine: White Matter. Michael Whaites, Laura Boynes: Hanging Space. Rhiannon Newton: Circle Dances. Unkempt Dance: Creature of Habit. Emma Fishwick: InBetween, I contemplate my conclusion. Isabella Stone: Mouseprints. RECORDINGS: The Chemist: Ballet in the Badlands, Lullabies. Mace Francis Orchestra: Music for Average Photography. Horizon Art Orchestra: Live at the Bird. OTHER: Brett’s first performance work When you’re here, I’m nowhere was curated as part of Proximity Festival 2015 at AGWA. Brett was a 2016 PIAF emerging artist and a 2014/2015 Emerging Artist for Black Swan. In 2015 he undertook an internship with the audio team on Cirque du Soleil’s Mystere in Las Vegas. Brett has toured internationally and currently performs with Methyl Ethel and the Mace Francis Orchestra. AWARDS: Bendat Family Trust Scholarship for musical excellence 2008. WAYJO/DCA Scholarship 2011. TRAINING: 2011 WAAPA Graduate.

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Giving to Black SwanThe Lighthouse Girl WA Regional tour has been supported by the Black Swan Production Fund, through the generous support of our Production Fund Founding Partner Minderoo Foundation and the Fund’s founding donors.

The original production world premiered in Albany and then at the Studio Underground in Perth, in April 2017 and was

supported by our Patrons Club Giving Circle.

BLACK SWAN PRODUCTION FUND

Black Swan established the Production Fund in March 2017, as a future fund, designed to ensure that we can develop works of exceptional quality that match the boldness and beauty of the state in which we live. With your continued support, the Production Fund will enable us to develop breathtaking original theatre productions of scale and ambition and will support Black Swan’s future sustainability and growth strategy.

We look to our valued supporters to help us to grow the Production Fund, to enable us to undertake more projects for the benefit of Western Australians. The further life of this wonderful Western Australian story, touring regional WA, is a great example of this.

Thank you to those that have already supported and the role you have played in delivering world-class theatre to Western Australia. We are very pleased to see our first project supported through the Black Swan Production Fund and with your support, look forward to many more in the future!

Production Fund Founding Partner Minderoo Foundation

Founding Donors

Mimi & Willy Packer

Tim Roberts

Angela Roberts

Tony Grist

Katrina & Craig Burton

Ungar Family Foundation

Thanks also to all other Production Fund donors.

PATRONS CLUB

The Patrons Club giving circle facilitated the development of this successful new program for Black Swan, which ensures the Western Australian theatre industry remains vibrant and sustainable. It also promotes all important opportunities for collaboration between emerging and experienced artists.

• Michela and Adrian Fini• Janet Holmes à Court AC• Stan and Jean Perron

• Simon Lee Foundation• Ungar Family Foundation

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If you are interested in supporting Black Swan, please

contact our Philanthropy Manager, Andree McIntyre on

andree@bsstc.com.au or 0417 187 025.

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