MEET THE TEAM

BIOGRAPHIES

Discover a little more about the team bringing SEA WALL to life.

Daniel Anderson - Lighting Designer

Daniel is an Australian based Lighting Designer for stage, live performance, cityscapes and architecture.In 2012 Daniel was nominated for a Matilda Award for the Bille Brown Award for the Best Emerging Artist, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production) from the Queensland University of Technology. Daniel has collaborated with a range of artists over varying art forms, and has created designs for Queensland Theatre Company, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, La Boite Theatre Company, Brisbane Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Motherboard Productions, Next Wave Festival, Brisbane City Council, JUTE Theatre Company, Metro Arts, Black Honey Company, and many more. Daniel is a professional member of the Association of Lighting Designers. and has received a Development Grant in 2015 and an ArtStart grant in 2013 from the Australia Council for the Arts.

Brooke Coleman - Costume Designer

Brooke is a costume and set designer based in Brisbane. After graduating from QUT’s Bachelor of Creative Industries (Technical Production) in December 2018, Brooke designed set and costume for Queensland Music Theatre’s school touring shows My Story Your Story and Hoods. In 2019 she was set and costume designer for Queensland Theatre’s Senior Youth Ensemble production of The Trial. For the past three years, Brooke has regularly designed costumes for Brisbane Arts Theatre, including their 2020 production of Dodger and 2021 The 39 Steps. Sea Wall is Brooke’s first project with THAT Production Company.

Stephanie Elliot - Assistant Director

Stephanie Elliot is a budding performer and performance-maker, only recently finishing university and moving into developing and creating her own practice. Having started in her local community theatre in Ipswich, Stephanie has since joined Backbone Youth Arts’ Performance Ensemble, co-creating Ride, as well as performing in THAT Production Company's Kill Climate Deniers at Metro Arts, and just recently finishing a season at QPAC as a Courtier in Slingsby Theatre Company's The Young King. In the past three years, Stephanie has begun to explore writing and creating performance, primarily from a devised practice, but recently moving to playwriting in her final year of university in a project called Small Packages, where she wrote a 10-minute play, To the Monster in my Cupboard, exploring childhood, mortality, and the comfort only a synthetic, well-loved bear can offer. Earlier this year, Stephanie received an RADF grant to further develop To the Monster In my Cupboard. Stephanie has had a passion for shaping work for a few years now, especially after spending her final year as Artistic Director of QUT’s student theatre company, Vena Cava Productions. In the beginning of 2020, Stephanie worked with THAT Production company on What We Saw in the Sorghum Fields by Tremayne Gordon as the Assistant Director; this was her first exploration of direction where she was able to shadow Timothy and learn more about aesthetics, discovery and the work involved in directing new theatre.

Chloe Harrison - Stage Manager

Chloe is an experienced theatre professional who started her journey in community theatre in 2011. Since then, she has pursued a full time career in technical theatre, working in one of Brisbane’s state-of-the-art performing arts centres as well as with one of Australia’s top rated opera companies. She has lighting designed and/or stage managed shows such as The Secret Garden, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Blood Brothers, Eurobeat, The Pirates of Penzance, La Cage Aux Folles, Emerald City, City of Angels, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Xanadu, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Tell Me On A Sunday and Curtains to name a few, including light designing the original production of Billy Buckett in 2013 and again in the 2019 revival at Logan Entertainment Centre. She light designed the Queensland premieres of musicals The Hatpin and Flashdance and made her directing debut assistant directing in the Australian premieres of Love Noel and the award winning touring production of Caught in the Act. Later in the year she will be both light designing and stage managing Disney’s The Little Mermaid and The Sound of Music for Beenleigh Theatre Group.

Steven Rooke - Alex

For Queensland Theatre: The Odd Couple, Kelly (including national tour), No Man’s Land (w/ Sydney Theatre Company), Gasp (w/Black Swan), Macbeth (w/ Grin and Tonic), Gloria, Fat Pig, The Removalist, 1001 Nights, The Exception and the Rule, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome. Other theatre: Animal Farm (shake & stir), Julius Caesar, 48 Shades of Brown (La Boite), Rising (Playlab), Tower of Babel (Baran Theatre), The Pillowman (23rd Productions), Boat (Out of the Box). Feature Films: Last Ark, Forever First Love, The Chronicle of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Australia Day, Footy Legends, Blurred. Short Films: Fall From A Height, Mr Brisbane, Transmission, Quiet: You’ll Wake Up The War. Television: Harrow, Hoges, Wanted, Schapelle, Always Greener, Home and Away, Open for Inspection (Pilot), All Saints, Beastmaster. Matilda Awards: Body of Work (2009), Best Supporting Actor (2009), Best Actor (2011).

Nicholas Southey - Assistant Producer

Nicholas is an award-winning emerging Producer and Theatre-maker hailing from the regions. Drawing from his creative practice and studies in a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama) at QUT, he aims to contribute to the cultural footprint of Australia’s arts sector by growing Brisbane's vibrant independent theatre. As an independent Producer, he is currently working with Daniel Evans to deliver Let’s Be Friends Furever for Brisbane Festival and HOTA, Home of the Arts. He also runs The Black Box Collective, a new work generator designed to give emerging artists the resources to develop new theatre for which he won the MILKE Emerging Producer Award. Their current work, Blue Iris by Egan Sun-Bin, successfully received funding from Arts Queensland Individuals Fund for the play’s continued development. He has worked with Blak Social, Playlab, Backbone, The Good Room, Vena Cava Productions, and now THAT Production Company.

Brady Watkins - Sound Designer

Brady is a graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, completing a Bachelor of Music Technology in 2015. Since graduating, she has worked consistently in the Brisbane theatre scene as a sound designer/composer, sound operator and sound consultant. Brady’s other credits include: As Sound Designer/Composer – The Neighbourhood (La Boite), The Revisionist (Refraction Theatre), The Trial (Queensland Theatre), Reagan Kelly (Rocket Boy Ensemble). As Associate Sound Designer/Operator – Sweet Charity (Understudy Productions), Spring Awakening (Underground Broadway). As Assistant Sound Designer – Carrie: The Musical (Wax Lyrical Productions). As Sound Consultant/Operator – Triple X, Antigone (Queensland Theatre), Neon Tiger (La Boite), Sweet Charity, Edges: A Song Cycle (Understudy Productions), Spring Awakening, Don’t Call Me Ishmael (Underground Broadway). As Swing Sound Operator – Jasper Jones (Queensland Theatre)

Jack Winrow - Rehearsal Observer

Jack has performed as a chorus member in St Edmunds and St Mary’s productions of Rock of Ages, as Michael Wormwood in St Mary’s and St Edmunds production of Matilda the Musical, as Frank Sparrow in St Edmunds production of Where in the World is Frank Sparrow and extra work on ABC’s Grace Beside Me. Jack is currently an active member of Queensland Theatre’s Youth Ensemble and, in 2020, was cast as Ned Schneebly in St Edmunds and St Mary’s production of School of Rock the Musical (postponed til 2021). In 2020, Jack was the Assistant Director on THAT Production Company and Mirra Ball Productions production of Cosi. As a hobby, he is currently writing a stage adaptation of the film 10 Things I Hate About You, as well as an original play The Struggles of Benjamin Reid.

Timothy Wynn - Director

Since 2009 Timothy has fashioned diverse and imaginative seasons of theatrical experiences as the Artistic Director of THAT Production Company. He has directed over 20 productions, including the Australian premier of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined by Lynn Nottage (at Studio 188, Ipswich) Saved by Edward Bond (at the Old Courthouse, Ipswich); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (at the Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove); Spring’s Awakening (at Metro Arts, Brisbane). Timothy studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, and trained at the JUTE Theatre Company’s Director Development Program facilitated by Dr David Fenton. Timothy has also worked as an Assistant Director with Backbone Youth Arts, JUTE Theatre Company, Spotlight Theatre, and Fractal Theatre Company. In 2017 his production of Cosi with Beenleigh Theatre Company was nominated for seven Gold Coast theatre awards, winning Best Supporting Actress and Best Magic Moment of Theatre. In 2018 Timothy directed Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (also for Beenleigh Theatre Company) and Baal by Bertolt Brecht for Vena Cava Theatre Company. In 2019 he was a directorial observer for Death of a Salesman at Queensland Theatre, directed a staged reading of Thread by Emma Workman for La Boite’s HWY Festival and directed the Queensland premiere of Kill Climate Deniers by David Finnigan.