Meet the CUT Creative Team
DUNCAN GRAHAM Writer/Director
Duncan Graham is a writer and performer. He completed a Bachelor of Medical Science before studying Acting at AC Arts in Adelaide. His works include one long night in the land of Nod (TRS/ floogle, shortlisted for the Max Afford Playwright’s Award), Ollie and the Minotaur (Belvoir/floogle/45 Downstairs), Cut (Belvoir), Half-Real (Malthouse/The Border Project/Melbourne Festival), The Love Play (Malthouse/ABC/Belvoir), No Exit From the Roof (STC) and Twin (Neon Festival, MTC). He received the Adelaide Fringe award for Best New Work in 2006 and the Jill Blewett Playwrights’ Award in 2008. Duncan was a writer in residence as part of the Griffin Studio in 2012, his play Dreams in White received its premiere season at Griffin in 2013, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award and Max Afford Playwrights' Award.
HANNAH NORRIS Woman
Hannah Norris is a widely acclaimed actress of the independent and professional stages of Australia. A 2001 acting graduate of Adelaide’s Centre for the Performing Arts (now AC Arts), she is perhaps best known for her powerful performance of the one-woman show My Name is Rachel Corrie (Daniel Clarke) in Melbourne and Adelaide, receiving Adelaide Critics Circle and Victorian Green Room Award nominations, and the 2010 ATG 'Curtain Call' Award for Best Female Performance. In 2009 she was awarded Best Theatre Performance at the Adelaide Fringe for her role in After the End (Daniel Clarke).
Other theatre credits include Buried Child (State Theatre Company of SA), Justin Hamilton's Goodbye Ruby Tuesday (Melbourne International Comedy Festival), Palace of the End (Theatre Works), The Red and the Black (Stork Theatre), Osama the Hero (The Rabble), Been So Long (Adelaide Fringe) and The Turn of the Screw (State Opera SA).
SAM HOPKINS Technical Direction and Lighting Design
Sam Hopkins has worked as a Lighting Designer, Programmer and Technician for over 25 years. He has also worked as a Visual Engineer, Production Manager and Technical Director throughout his career.
Sam has long had a special interest in automated FX and gadgetry used in support of lighting and video in productions around the world.
Sam’s extensive professional history includes recent contracts as Senior Lighting Supervisor for Opera Australia, European Tour Lighting Director for Australian Dance Theatre Proximity (2014) Lighting Designer and Production Manager for Casus Circus’ Jerk Brighton Festival UK (2014), Assistant Lighting Designer and Programmer Clusters of Light Sharjah UAE (2014), Lighting Designer One for the Ugly Girls Adelaide Fringe/La Mama (2013) Lighting Supervisor Assembly Hall Edinburgh (2012/13) Senior LX Technician The Ring Cycle Opera Australia Melbourne (2013), Lighting Designer & Operator Melbourne Fringe Hub (2011/13), just to name a few. Sam has also toured extensively internationally with major rock and roll acts (2004-2011), been Visual Engineer (Projection Artist) for Sunday In The Park With George on West End and Broadway (2005-2008) and has been involved with hundreds if not thousands of other plays, musicals, events, clubs, installations and festivals since 1989.
ELIZABETH GADSBY Design
Elizabeth is a designer with a background in installation and performance art. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) - NAS and a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts (Design) - NIDA.
Her theatre design credits include Faust: part one; Cloud 9; and the musical Woyzeck all produced at NIDA. Since graduating from NIDA she has designed set and costume for Bach Coffee Cake with the Little Baroque Co for London Handel Festival 2013 and Brighton Early Music Festival 2014; Much Ado about Nothing for Sport for Jove Shakespeare Festival; Epic Fail for Perth International Arts festival and W.A Ballet; Ecobots and Plain Jane for Buzz Dance Theatre and Awesome Festival; The Old Maid and the Thief and The Impressario at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music; Costume design for The Boat People by co-produced by the Hayloft Project and Rock Surfers; Cinderella for Belvoir St Theatre.
RUSSELL GOLDSMITH Sound
Russell Goldsmith is a multiple award-winning Sound Designer, Composer, Audio Producer and Audio System Designer. He has a diverse body of work in theatre, film, television, commercials, radio, live music, and installation art.
Russell’s recent theatre projects include; Hate (Malthouse Theatre), The Other Place (Melbourne Theatre Company), His Girl Friday (Melbourne Theatre Company), Pale Blue Dot (Optic Nerve), Blood Wedding (Malthouse Theatre), The Golden Dragon (Melbourne Theatre Company), Persona (Fraught Outfit), Mary MacLane - By Herself (Malthouse Theatre/Griffin/Ride On), Don Parties On (Melbourne Theatre Company), Total Football (Ridiculusmus for The Barbican London/Edinburgh Festival, National Theatre of Wales/Belfast Festival). He had his Broadway debut in 2009, with the critically acclaimed season of Exit the King at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it played for 16 weeks.
Russell's work has been recognised both locally and internationally. His sound design for Exit the King won the 2007 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Sound Design/Composition, and was nominated for Best Sound Design at both the 2008 Green Room Awards in Melbourne and 2009 Tony Awards in New York.
Duncan Graham is a writer and performer. He completed a Bachelor of Medical Science before studying Acting at AC Arts in Adelaide. His works include one long night in the land of Nod (TRS/ floogle, shortlisted for the Max Afford Playwright’s Award), Ollie and the Minotaur (Belvoir/floogle/45 Downstairs), Cut (Belvoir), Half-Real (Malthouse/The Border Project/Melbourne Festival), The Love Play (Malthouse/ABC/Belvoir), No Exit From the Roof (STC) and Twin (Neon Festival, MTC). He received the Adelaide Fringe award for Best New Work in 2006 and the Jill Blewett Playwrights’ Award in 2008. Duncan was a writer in residence as part of the Griffin Studio in 2012, his play Dreams in White received its premiere season at Griffin in 2013, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award and Max Afford Playwrights' Award.
HANNAH NORRIS Woman
Hannah Norris is a widely acclaimed actress of the independent and professional stages of Australia. A 2001 acting graduate of Adelaide’s Centre for the Performing Arts (now AC Arts), she is perhaps best known for her powerful performance of the one-woman show My Name is Rachel Corrie (Daniel Clarke) in Melbourne and Adelaide, receiving Adelaide Critics Circle and Victorian Green Room Award nominations, and the 2010 ATG 'Curtain Call' Award for Best Female Performance. In 2009 she was awarded Best Theatre Performance at the Adelaide Fringe for her role in After the End (Daniel Clarke).
Other theatre credits include Buried Child (State Theatre Company of SA), Justin Hamilton's Goodbye Ruby Tuesday (Melbourne International Comedy Festival), Palace of the End (Theatre Works), The Red and the Black (Stork Theatre), Osama the Hero (The Rabble), Been So Long (Adelaide Fringe) and The Turn of the Screw (State Opera SA).
SAM HOPKINS Technical Direction and Lighting Design
Sam Hopkins has worked as a Lighting Designer, Programmer and Technician for over 25 years. He has also worked as a Visual Engineer, Production Manager and Technical Director throughout his career.
Sam has long had a special interest in automated FX and gadgetry used in support of lighting and video in productions around the world.
Sam’s extensive professional history includes recent contracts as Senior Lighting Supervisor for Opera Australia, European Tour Lighting Director for Australian Dance Theatre Proximity (2014) Lighting Designer and Production Manager for Casus Circus’ Jerk Brighton Festival UK (2014), Assistant Lighting Designer and Programmer Clusters of Light Sharjah UAE (2014), Lighting Designer One for the Ugly Girls Adelaide Fringe/La Mama (2013) Lighting Supervisor Assembly Hall Edinburgh (2012/13) Senior LX Technician The Ring Cycle Opera Australia Melbourne (2013), Lighting Designer & Operator Melbourne Fringe Hub (2011/13), just to name a few. Sam has also toured extensively internationally with major rock and roll acts (2004-2011), been Visual Engineer (Projection Artist) for Sunday In The Park With George on West End and Broadway (2005-2008) and has been involved with hundreds if not thousands of other plays, musicals, events, clubs, installations and festivals since 1989.
ELIZABETH GADSBY Design
Elizabeth is a designer with a background in installation and performance art. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) - NAS and a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts (Design) - NIDA.
Her theatre design credits include Faust: part one; Cloud 9; and the musical Woyzeck all produced at NIDA. Since graduating from NIDA she has designed set and costume for Bach Coffee Cake with the Little Baroque Co for London Handel Festival 2013 and Brighton Early Music Festival 2014; Much Ado about Nothing for Sport for Jove Shakespeare Festival; Epic Fail for Perth International Arts festival and W.A Ballet; Ecobots and Plain Jane for Buzz Dance Theatre and Awesome Festival; The Old Maid and the Thief and The Impressario at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music; Costume design for The Boat People by co-produced by the Hayloft Project and Rock Surfers; Cinderella for Belvoir St Theatre.
RUSSELL GOLDSMITH Sound
Russell Goldsmith is a multiple award-winning Sound Designer, Composer, Audio Producer and Audio System Designer. He has a diverse body of work in theatre, film, television, commercials, radio, live music, and installation art.
Russell’s recent theatre projects include; Hate (Malthouse Theatre), The Other Place (Melbourne Theatre Company), His Girl Friday (Melbourne Theatre Company), Pale Blue Dot (Optic Nerve), Blood Wedding (Malthouse Theatre), The Golden Dragon (Melbourne Theatre Company), Persona (Fraught Outfit), Mary MacLane - By Herself (Malthouse Theatre/Griffin/Ride On), Don Parties On (Melbourne Theatre Company), Total Football (Ridiculusmus for The Barbican London/Edinburgh Festival, National Theatre of Wales/Belfast Festival). He had his Broadway debut in 2009, with the critically acclaimed season of Exit the King at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it played for 16 weeks.
Russell's work has been recognised both locally and internationally. His sound design for Exit the King won the 2007 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Sound Design/Composition, and was nominated for Best Sound Design at both the 2008 Green Room Awards in Melbourne and 2009 Tony Awards in New York.