Lainie Hart • Director
Lainie is so grateful to the REP “village” and community, for trusting her with this production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and for all those people that have been a part of bringing it to life. She had the opportunity to direct REP’s production of Away in 2024, and is back for more! With respect to Acting credits, Lainie recently appeared in Leisa Keen’s delightful pantomime Cinderella at The Q, Echo theatre’s reboot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, their professional NSW tour of God of Carnage and REP’s production of A Doll’s House Part 2. Lainie has also appeared in Lakespeare’s 2025 production of Macbeth, and in Echo Theatre’s Bombshells and King Lear. Lainie has performed in The Street Theatre’s production of This Rough Magic, Chaika Theatre’s productions of The Children and Three Tall Women, Everyman’s seasons of The Importance of Being Earnest, and Free Rain’s Steel Magnolias. Lainie would like to dedicate this work to her parents and dear friends who support her crazy professional/creative life with grace and loving interest.
Kayla Ciceran • Set Designer
Kayla has once again sacrificed the laughter and applause of performing on stage for the glitz and glamour behind the scenes. Her previous set design work with REP has included Lizzy, Darcy and Jane in 2025 and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) in 2023. You may have also seen Kayla’s prop design in REP’s Logues competitions (which she won’t mention she won in 2023). From 2023–2025, these shows have featured a horrifying demon head (inside a self-moving box), a bullet-wounded GhostBusters shirt, and an octopus.
Nathan Sciberras • Lighting Design
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. He completed his first lighting design 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. Last year he was nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design at the Ovations for Baby Jane for REP and Hand to God for Everyman Theatre. Nathan has also designed for many 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.
Paris Sharkie • Sound Design
Paris is a multi-faceted theatre practitioner with experience in acting, directing, composing, sound designing and writing. A graduate from the ANU in sound design and music production, she has been fortunate enough in Canberra to be able to pursue numerous and varied creative projects. Her most recent accolade is a one-woman play titled Do I Have Your Attention, produced by Sunny Productions, and supported by Canberra Theatre Centre and Canberra Youth Theatre. A self-written show, Paris also performed the run solo, alongside sound designing and co-producing it. Concurrently to Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Paris is also in the cast of another French play set in the same era, Les Misérables, produced by Queanbeyan Players, where she is in the Ensemble and understudy for Eponine. Some of her other recent credits include sound designing Lakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, sound designing and playing Decius Brutus in ActHub x Chaika Theatre’s Julius Caesar, sound designing and playing a Witch in The Q x Lakespeare’s Macbeth, playing Kat in CYT’s You Can’t Tell Anyone, and directing & sound designing Lucy Prebble’s The Effect at the ANU.
Paris is beyond excited to be involved in her first ever REP Production and hopes that you enjoy watching (and listening) to the show.
Helen Drum • Costume Design
Helen hopes you enjoy your journey into the late 18th century in France - where nothing is at is seems and one should be wary of what one hears. Designing for this play is another personal sequel—having designed the costumes for REP’s previous 2009 production of Le Liaisons Dangereuses.
This has been a great team to work with and even more frocks this second time—enjoy! Helen has also designed costumes for REP’s productions of A Doll's House, Part 2 (2025) for which she was awarded the 2025 CAT Award for Best Costume Design and the 2025 Ovations Award for Outstanding Costume Design, Away (2024), Home I’m Darling! (2023), Hotel Sorrento (2022), The Grapes of Wrath (2020), A Doll’s House (2019), One Man, Two Guvnors and Oh! What a Lovely War (2018), A View from the Bridge (2017), Witness for the Prosecution (2016), Gaslight (2015), Arcadia (2014) for which she was awarded the 2014 CAT Award for Best Costume Design, Jazz Garters 4 (2013), The Memory of Water (2012), The Pig Iron People (2011), part of the design team for Lady Windermere’s Fan (2010), Moon over Buffalo (2010), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2009), Cosi and The One Day of the Year (2008), Elizabeth Rex and Hay Fever (2007), The School for Scandal (2006), After the Lions, Galileo, Amadeus, Charley’s Aunt, 84 Charing Cross Road and The Rivals—and helped out on a few more.
Rosemary Gibbons • Properties & Set Dressing
Rosemary moved to Canberra in 2021 and joined REP after a life time of involvement in amateur theatre in NZ. She can be found either acting on stage, or assisting anywhere backstage or in front of house. She really just enjoys being part of a talented team of volunteers. For this production she has found it particularly challenging finding suitably luxurious or antique props and has dived into cupboards that haven’t seen the light of day for many years. For some truly difficult items, she has been rescued by the wizard called Russell Brown.
