Ed Wightman • Director
Ed is thrilled to be back directing his sixth production for REP. He previously directed Rope, Arms and the Man, Twelfth Night, The Book of Everything (Canberra Critics’ Circle winner) and The Memory of Water. He directed the Australian premiere production of The Pass for the Seymour Centre and A View From the Bridge for NIDA. Other directing credits include Are You Listening Now? (Old 505 Theatre), The Comedy of Errors (WAAPA), Lawrence & Holloman (Sun Herald Best Independent Theatre mention), Disconnected and The Velvet Rope (Grayboy Entertainment/P&O), as well as student productions of Spring Awakening, City of Angels, A Chorus Line, Animal Farm and The Visit. Ed has also worked as Assistant Director on the world premiere production of Fawlty Towers Live and the Australian revival of Billy Elliot: The Musical. He was Resident Director for the Sydney season of Moulin Rouge The Musical! and the recent Australian tour of Mamma Mia The Musical. Ed originally trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he was awarded the David Suchet Scholarship. He has performed with most of Australia’s leading theatre companies, including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir and Bell Shakespeare, amd has appeared in roles (both leading and supporting) in film and television.
Ed also works as an acting teacher, and has taught for Bell Shakespeare Company, the Sydney Opera House, Australian Theatre for Young People; renowned drama schools NIDA, The Actor’s Centre, and WAAPA; as well as for numerous high schools. He is currently Head of Acting at the performing arts institution, ED5 International. For several years, Ed has also enjoyed working as a freelance casting director, running casting sessions for several leading Sydney-based casting directors, including McGregor Casting, Fountainhead Casting and i4Casting.
Andrew Kay • Set Designer
Andrew has been a member of REP for fifty years during which he has acted on stage, played piano for 33 years of REP’s Old Time Music Hall, designed over forty sets and worked on the construction crew and as scenic painter for countless more. Andrew was a recent recipient of REP’s Russell Brown Award for best off-stage performance. In 2023 he designed the sets for REP’s productions of Love Letters, Mr Bennet’s Bride and Home, I’m Darling!, and and in 2024 the sets for The Actress and Away. Andrew has won CAT Awards for his sets for Flat Spin (2010), A Doll’s House, The Art Of Coarse Acting, and Waiting in the Wings (2019), and in 2023 the Canberra Ovations Award for his outstanding set for Home, I’m Darling!
Nathan Sciberras • Lighting Designer
Nathan has always had a keen interest in live theatre, and for lighting in particular (being the son of well-renowned Canberra Theatre lighting veteran, Alex Sciberras). Looking to build on this interest, Nathan joined REP in 2019 as a crew member and lighting operator. His first lighting design was on the 2019 production of Waiting in the Wings, which played at both REP Theatre and The Q. He has gone on to design for numerous REP productions since then, including Absurd Person Singular, What the Butler Saw, Rope, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, A Christmas Carol, Sense and Sensibility, Amadeus, Away and Bloody Murder, and has won CAT Awards for two of his designs. Nathan has also designed for productions at ACT Hub and for the Canberra International Music Festival. Away from the theatre Nathan is also a musician, playing in the Canberra group Brass Knuckle Brass Band.
Neville Pye • Sound Designer
Most recently, Neville was the Sound Designer for Bloody Murder, REP. Neville has produced an impressive array of sound effects for this production, which have been skilfully interwoven into this show. Nev always goes above and beyond – sometimes waaaay beyond! His dedication is deeply appreciated by all who work with him, as indeed are the ear plugs, during cast warm ups. Neville has been the Sound Designer on more than 50 theatre productions and radio plays, over the past 9 years, with Shadow House Pits, Canberra Repertory, Papermoon, Alchemy Artistic, Chaika, Everyman, & Echo Theatre. His most recent highlights have been The Boys; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Three Tall Women; Our County’s Good; Collected Stories & Sense and Sensibility (2022); Holding the Man, Amadeus, The Children & King Lear (2023); Seagull, Dead Man’s Cellphone, A Streetcar Named Desire, August: Osage County, Lord of the Flies, & Away (2024).
Anna Senior OAM • Costume Designer
Anna is a costume designer specialising in period costumes for film, TV and theatre; a textile artist; and a puppet maker. Her film credits include: My Brilliant Career (for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design); Breaker Morant; Phar Lap; Don’s Party; The Getting of Wisdom; The Odd Angry Shot; and Wake in Fright. TV credits include: Sara Dane; The Term of his Natural Life; and Robbery Under Arms. For theatre, her credits include: Old Time Music Hall; The Lion in Winter; The Madness of King George III; and The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. In the last few years she has designed costumes for: Strictly Ballroom for Canberra Philharmonic; We Will Rock You for PeeWee Productions; The Judas Kiss for Mockingbird Theatre; The Belfast Girls for Echo/The Q; and The Threepenny Opera, Dr Frankenstein, Arms and the Man, The Woman in the Window, Waiting in the Wings and What the Butler Saw, all for REP. In 2021, for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Anna focused on props, returning to costumes for Rope and The Governor’s Family. In 2023, Anna designed costumes for: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Ruthless (The Q); Arsenic and Old Lace; and Sense and Sensibility, and, 2024 for Mr Bennet’s Bride.
Antonia Kitzel • Properties
Antonia knew that Australia was the land of milk, honey, and a particularly handsome man, but it wasn’t until said man signed her up with REP in 2015 that she packed her bags and moved from Frankfurt, Germany to Canberra. Having co-founded a small but growing theatre company in Frankfurt (Theatre Language Studio Frankfurt), Antonia has worked in most areas of theatre, from acting, directing and designing, to tech support, selling drinks, washing glasses and scrubbing floors. She has been a member of the REP Council for a number of years and is the current President. On this production Antonia has been busy coordinating and sourcing an array of properties.
Kelly McInnes • Hair & Makeup
Kelly is a Canberra based makeup artist and actor. In a last-ditch effort to avoid the Public Service after university, Kelly completed a Diploma in Specialist Makeup Studies through Canberra Makeup Academy (2016), where they discovered a talent for turning people into wizards, zombies, and the occasional bride. Their previous acting credits include original productions with amateur company Supa Productions Inc (2007-8), and a Citizen of Vienna in REP’s Amadeus (2023), directed by Cate Clelland. Kelly’s previous makeup projects include ANU NUTS productions (2015), Canberra Fashfest (2015), and far too many pop culture conventions to count, both locally and interstate. Kelly is very excited to be working with the talented cast and crew of Baby Jane, and hopes you enjoy the production.
