Three Sisters

Do you want my biography? Here it is.

I was born in Taganrog in 1860. I finished the course at Taganrog high school in 1879. In 1884 I took my degree in medicine at the University of Moscow. In 1888 I gained the Pushkin prize. In 1890 I made a journey to Sahalin across Siberia and back by sea. In 1891 I made a tour in Europe, where I drank excellent wine and ate oysters. In 1892 I took part in an orgy in the company of V. A. Tihonov at a name-day party. I began writing in 1879. The published collections of my works are: “Motley Tales,” “In the Twilight,” “Stories,” “Surly People,” and a novel, “The Duel.” I have sinned in the dramatic line too, though with moderation. I have been translated into all the languages with the exception of the foreign ones, though I have indeed long ago been translated by the Germans. The Czechs and the Serbs approve of me also, and the French are not indifferent. The mysteries of love I fathomed at the age of thirteen. With my colleagues, doctors, and literary men alike, I am on the best of terms. I am a bachelor. I should like to receive a pension. I practice medicine, and so much so that sometimes in the summer I perform post-mortems, though I have not done so for two or three years. Of authors my favorite is Tolstoy, of doctors Zaharin.

All that is nonsense though. Write what you like. If you haven’t facts make up with lyricism.

Matt Abotomey holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts (University of Wollongong). His performance credits include: (2024) Parliament of Women – Queen Hades Productions, Timon of Athens – Sport for Jove, (2023) A Very Expensive Poison – New Theatre, UFO – re:group, Apocka-Wocka-Lockalypse – Tooth and Sinew, (2022) Labyrinth – Dream Plane Productions, (2021) The Sucker – independent, (2020) Molly Sweeney - Clock and Spiel Productions, Hotel Bella Luna - Ponydog Productions, (2019) The Grapes of Wrath - New Theatre, (2018) Tom William Mitchell - Woodcourt Art Theatre, One Way Mirror, subtlenuance

Talia Benatar is a Sydney based actor/director. Her creative credits include working as an assistant director for Anthony Skuse on 'Hedda Gabler' and ‘Gun Dog’ (Secret House/KXT),‘Breaking the Code’ (The New Theatre) and ‘Ladybird Ladybird’ (Flight Path Theatre). Talia has been working as a tutor and director at AFTT/JMC and directed their first year productions of ‘Lungs’ and ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’. She also produced and assistant directed a sold out season of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore’ with The Company Theatre and recently assistant produced ‘The Cherry Orchard’ at The Old Fitz Theatre with Secret house. 

Meg (she/her) is an honours graduate of the University of Wollongong's performance course, and has also studied Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Recent theatre credits include Augusta (Subtlenuance), Much Ado About Nothin (Bar’d Work), Twelfth Night (Fingerless Theatre), Picnic at Hanging Rock (New Theatre), The Complete Works of Shakespeare - By Chicks (Sydney Fringe), Macbeth (SheShakespeare), and various Theatre in Education shows for the Australian Shakespeare Company. Meg was a recipient of the inaugural Katie Lees Fellowship at Flight Path Theatre, through which she developed and produced her acclaimed one-woman show Losing It in 2022 and 2023. 

Jasmin (she/her) designs for musicals and theatre and enjoys using colour and practical light sources to create worlds and convey emotion. She has a Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours)/ Arts from UNSW, majoring in Chemistry and Theatre and Performance Studies, and has spent the last few years attempting to keep her feet firmly in both worlds. Recent lighting design credits include Animal (Ratcatch), Blood Wedding (La Fábrica de Microobios and Gente Perdida), For the Love of Paper (BCD Theatre and Culture Shock Theatrical), Grain in the Blood (Virginia Plain), It's Not Funny It's Private (Sydney Fringe), A Very Expensive Poison (New Theatre), The Pitchfork Disney (Virginia Plain), The Hero Leaves One Tooth (Ratcatch), Cherry Smoke (CrissCross Productions), Chef (Virginia Plain) Urinetown (Heart Strings Theatre Co. and Hayes Theatre), The Woman and the Car (Ship's Cat Theatre Company), Hit Me Baby and Losing It (Flightpath Theatre), Labyrinth (Dream Plane Productions) Much Ado (Attractive, Not Model Attractive), Chef (Virginia Plain), Much Stuff (Peg on a Line Productions), Wil & Grace (Rogue Projects), Fuente Ovejuna! (Dream Plane Productions), Distorted (Fixed Foot Productions), associate lighting designer with Martin Kinnane for Rosaline (Little Trojan), lighting designer for R&J (Sheshakespeare), and REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. (Sydney Fringe Festival)

Alex's recent theatre projects as an actor have included It's A Wonderful Life and Hell Hole: A Love Story (Joining The Dots), The Caretaker (Theatron/Glen St) which he also co-directed, and the sold-out 2019 season of The Cripple of Inishmaan (Mad March Theatre Co/Old Fitz) on which he was also Assistant Director. Further theatre credits include: That Eye The Sky, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet (New Theatre), ASYLUM (Apocalypse), As You Like It (Shakespeare On The Green), Singled Out (Seymour Centre), Romeo & Juliet (Impulse), World Creates Itself (MayDay), The Case Of Katherine Mansfield (Brokebliss), A View From Moving Windows (Riverside), C.H.I.C.O.M. (Brand Spankin’ New), Zetland (Sydney Fringe), The Merchant of Venice, Bash, Sunrise, A Doll's House (Actors Centre Australia), Kinderspiel (ATYP), Brokenville (ATYP/National Theatre, London). Directing credits include August: Osage County (New Theatre - Assistant Director), Next Lesson (Sydney Fringe 2018), and The Angry Brigade (New Theatre). Alex has been a proud member of Equity and MEAA since 2007

Nicola Denton is a Sydney-based actor, producer and writer. Graduating from Actors' Centre Australia in 2020, her acting credits while training include Clytemnestra in The Oresteia (Dir. Gale Edwards), Olivia in Twelfth Night (Dir. Adam Cook) and Valerie in That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play (Dir. Troy Trilsbach-Harrison). Since graduating, her credits have included lead roles in a variety of formats such as the short film Beasts (Dir. Manul Gunaratne), the web-series pilot Crushing (Dir. Ash Dunford) and in the Australian premiere of Radiant Vermin by Phillip Ridley (Dir. Victor Kalka). As a producer, Nicola began in the role of production manager, stage manager and marketing producer for The Company Theatre's sold out run of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore at Flow Studios, moving on to write, produce, direct and star in her own short film, Ophelia's Got a Gun. She is currently producing and editing the ‘An Actor Survives’ podcast, and is developing an original play.

Barry has a BA (Dramatic Art) and has worked as an actor, director and set designer. For Moira Blumenthal Productions: Stories from the Violins of Hope (2023), Man in the Attic, The Chosen, and designed Addressee Unknown, From Door to Door. For New Theatre: as director, Marat Sade, Take Me Out, Traitors, Tango Masculino; as actor, Equus, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Cabaret, Hamlet, The Weir, The Crucible; as set designer Badjelly the Witch, Gasping, Oh What a Lovely War Mate! Barry has also performed in and designed numerous productions with Sport for Jove including Cyrano de Bergerac, The Crucible, Taming of the Shrew and A Doll’s House. His most recent production was The Front Page (New Theatre, 2024)

Sarah Greenwood is an actor and playwright from Meanjin (Brisbane) who has been performing on Sydney stages since 2017. A WAAPA Acting graduate, she debuted at the Eternity Theatre in KINDERTRANSPORT. She has since worked on several projects with the director, Sandie Eldridge, most notably Possum Magic, touring twice nationally, playing the Sydney Opera House. It was awarded the inaugural Penny Cook award in 2019.

Most recently Sarah played a young Miles Franklin in Kingdom of Eucalypts, directed by Moira Blumenthal. In 2023 Sarah led the New Theatre production of Van Badhams Banging Denmark in the role of Ishtar Madigan. She was reviewed as ‘hysterical’, ‘electric’ and ‘sexy, even in her trackie daks’.

In 2022 she appeared in; Cassie Hamilton’s Daddy Developed a Pill at KXT; Grace Davidson-Lynch’s ‘Hydrarchos’; Moira Blumenthal Production’s ‘Torn Apart by War’; and worked with director Madeleine Withington in Much Ado which received five stars. Sarah first worked with Victor Kalka at the New Theatre in 2021 as Malvolio/Maria in Virginia Plain’s Twelfth Night Heads or Tails.

As a playwright Sarah has written three plays, her first play Two’s a Company premiered in 2019 at KXT, her second play Fiction Amended was developed in the vault by KXT bAKEHOUSE in 2023. Her third play Bottle Blondes is a compilation of existential (and ridiculous) skits and songs. It was generously developed by the Flight Path Theatre, and premiered there in 2024.

Matilda Holton is an emerging professional stage manager who has a Diploma of Live Production and Stage Management from JMC Academy. She recently made her professional ASM debut for the show Hedda Gabler at KXT on Broadway. Matilda also stage managers for student theatre societies including Sydney uni drama society and UNSW theatrical society. Matilda would like to thank anyone who has ever supported her in journey in the industry so far.

Patrick is a freelance theatre artist born on Gundungurra Land, who now lives and works on Gadigal Land, with a passion for queer, political, devised, musical and documentary theatre. He is also a Program Manager for Arts on Tour, one of Australia's most prolific touring organisations and the peak body for touring in NSW.

A graduate of AIM Dramatic Arts and Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Patrick has performed, directed, production, company and stage managed, sound designed, composed and dramaturged for an array of different companies. These include PYT Fairfield, Force Majeure, Monkey Baa, Performance Space, Sydney Opera House, ATYP, Contemporary Asian Australian Performance, The Last Great Hunt, Little Triangle, Red Line Productions and New Theatre. He also makes and produces his own work, and has conducted various teaching and mentoring engagements.

Notable sound design and composition credits include Wild Thing (Wild Thing Production), Control, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Collaborators, Cats Talk Back, 5 Guys Chillin' (New Theatre), The Campaign (White Box Theatre), We Are The Himalayas (Brave New Word), and Götterdämmerung (Arrive. Devise. Repeat.).

www.patrick-howard.com

Victor is a freelance designer and director. In 2019 Victor established the indie theatre company Virginia Plain that debuted with a new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. Select credits include: 
Director: Three Sisters, Grain in the Blood, The Pitchfork Disney, Chef, Twelfth Night [heads or tails], The Cherry Orchard (Virginia Plain); Radiant Vermin (Studio Sputnik) The Merry Wives of Windsor (New Theatre) A Delicate Balance (Sydney Classic Theatre Co.); Brothers Karamazov, Tender Indifference, Red Cross (Arrive. Devise. Repeat.); Constellations (Chippen Street Theatre) Debris, Bitch Boxer, Grounded (Sydney Fringe Festival); Titus, The Seagull (SUDS); and Cowboy Mouth(Backspace Theatre).

Designer: Grain in the Blood, The Pitchfork Disney, Chef, Twelfth Night [heads or tails], The Cherry Orchard (Virginia Plain); Radiant Vermin (Studio Sputnik); Ear to the Edge of Time (Sport for Jove); Things I Know to be True, Once in Royal David’s City (New Theatre); Brothers Karamazov, Tender Indifference, Red Cross (Arrive. Devise. Repeat.); Wit (Clock and Spiel Productions); Fuente Ovejuna!, Ditch (Dream Plane); Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Montague Basement); The Street of Crocodiles and Image of an Unknown Young Woman (AFTT); A Westerner’s Guide to the Opium Wars (35 Square); Antigone, Wyrd (Ninefold).

Lighting Designer: Plenty of Fish in the Sea (Clockfire); Betty is a Butcher (Siren Theatre Co.); Things I Know to be True, Once in Royal David’s City (New Theatre); Wit (Clock and Spiel Productions).
Training: B.Perf Australian Institute of Music, and B.A. University of Sydney.

Jessie is a Sydney based actor and received her Bachelor of Arts (Acting) at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

Prior to WAAPA, Jessie trained at the Actors Centre Australia in the 2015 foundation program and studied a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours).

Most recently, Jessie toured and performed nationally with CDP Theatre Producers in the 2024 musical production of The Gruffalo as ‘Mouse’, the 2022-2024 musical production of The Gruffalo’s Child as ‘Mouse’ and the 2023 production of Mr Stink as the swing for Chloe.
Other theatre credits include: Poetry in Action (touring performer 2020-2021), Aphrodite in Death in the Pantheon (Upper Crass Theatre Company, 2024), Anne Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor (New Theatre, 2022), Anna in Ginger. Black. Brunette. Blonde. (Rogue Projects, 2019), Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest (WAAPA, 2018), Jacques in As You Like It (WAAPA, 2017) and Elizabeth in Holy Day (WAAPA, 2016).

Film/TV credits: Ruby in Spud (AFTRS, 2024) Billie in Bernice (Madeleine Wighton, 2023), Jessie in Ghoul Power (Imogen Ross, SF3 film festival and Etihad airways in flight entertainment, 2019), Joey Filch (WA Screen Academy, 9NOW, 2018), Amy Raw (WA Screen Academy, 9NOW, 2018), Spin Class Woman First Things First TVC (Department of Health, 2020), Featured Student Edith Cowan University TVC (2017-2018).

Outside of acting, Jessie writes poetry for the online platform Brainshnacks.

Alice is a Sydney-based actor, voice artist and director. She is a graduate of The Drama Studio (Sydney)

and holds a B. Ed from Melbourne State College and an MA in Theatre Studies from UNSW.

Alice was co-founder of independent company Focus Theatre, producing for Seymour Centre,

Darlinghurst Theatre, Feast Festival (Adelaide), Griffin Stablemates and Belvoir/B Sharp. She has performed with many companies in Sydney, regional NSW and Queensland. Highlights include A Doll’s House (STC), Dinner (Focus Theatre/Griffin Stablemates), Richard III (Sport for Jove/Seymour Centre), The Libertine (Sport for Jove/Darlinghurst TC), Kingdom of the Eucalypts (Moira Blumenthal Productions), A Delicate Balance (SCTC/Chippen St), Emerald City (Theatre UpNorth), The Elephant Man (RTC), Out in the Open (Focus Theatre/Darlinghurst TC), and A Family Affair (B Sharp/Belvoir). She has also had a long association with New Theatre, appearing in productions of Chimerica, Once in Royal David’s City, August: Osage County, The Clean House, Hay Fever, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Equus, Into the Woods, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Assassins, A Cheery Soul, and Only Heaven Knows, and directing Jumpers for Goalposts, My Night With Reg, The Little Dog Laughed, The Heidi Chronicles, The Real Thing, Privates on Parade, Top Girls, The Weir, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Film and tv includes most recently Kaboom!, The Unlisted, Granny, plus all the soaps over the past 30 years. She has done numerous TVCs and voiceovers, plus a podcast and a short film for the NIDA MFA (Playwrighting) course.

Outside of her acting and directing work, Alice is Publicist for New Theatre, and a LOTE subtitler for SBS.

Ciarán is a member of Come You Spirits, an independent touring Shakespeare company, for whom he plays Puck, Romeo, Ferdinand and Macduff in outdoor spaces, schools and theatres around the country. Other recent credits include Estragon in Waiting For Godot (ACA Graduate Company), Isaac in Grain in the Blood at KXT (Virginia Plain Theatre), Chimerica (New Theatre), Merry Wives of Windsor (New Theatre), and What Have You Done (Chippen Street Theatre) and Sydney The Folk Musical (National Folk Festival, St Albans Folk Festival, Bundanoon Folk Festival). Ciarán is a graduate of the Actors Centre Australia and also a voice actor, morris dancer and has adapted and directed a pop-up production of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales for the St Ives Medieval Faire (2019).

Mason Phoumirath (He/Him) is an actor currently living and working on Dharug and Eora land. He trained as an actor at the University of Wollongong, graduating with a Bachelor of Performance in 2015.
Since graduating they have appeared in Australian Graffiti (Sydney Theatre Company), Human Activity, Too Human and The Linden Solution (KXT bAKEHOUSE and Riverside Theatres), National Tour with Poetry In Action and Monologue Roulette (Old Fitz).
He has also recently appeared in feature films and short films such as Mr. Red Bean, To Freely Flourish and Everyone Gets Bored of Everything.

Mason is currently represented by MCSM.

Originally hailing from country Western Australia, Joseph is a 2020 WAAPA
Acting graduate. Now an actor and theatre maker based in Sydney his most
recent credits include Wit, (Clock & Spiel Productions), Jellyfish (The New Theatre), Short Blanket (Slanted Theatre Company), Hamlet (dir. Sean O’Shea) and can currently be seen on tv eating chicken for KFC.