Not Today at Theatre Works

Alexandra is a skilled actor, writer, musician, and producer who graduated from NIDA’s Screen Actors Studio in 2014 and Actors Centre Australia in 2017. Her screen credits include short films The Passenger, Gecko, and Warrior. She has appeared on SBS’s The Feed and performed the lead role in Katie Pollock’s Normal during its Australian premiere at The Old 505, directed by Anthony Skuse. Alexandra produced and starred in the short film Her Own Music directed by Olivia Aleksoski which premiered at the 2020 Sydney Film Festival as a finalist in the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, and had its international debut at OutFest LA 2020. Alexandra is also the co-creator of forthcoming web-series How To Be Queer, which was the winner of 2020’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival’s Pitch Pleez! and recently premiered at the 2021 edition of the festival. Her music appears on Triple J Unearthed and in the Her Own Music score. In 2020, Alexandra independently released the singles ‘Quiet Australian’ and ‘Isolation Song’ with music videos directed by Miranda Middleton. Alexandra also writes for television, with two TV series in development - Not Sure Yet and Girl Crush the Series. She is excited to bring her debut song cycle Not Today to Melbourne.

Miranda Middleton is a director, writer, and choreographer, with a Master of Fine Arts (Directing) from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). She is particularly interested in the intersection of text, music, and movement on stage, and aims to create theatrical events which spark joy and connection within the audience. Miranda recently undertook a Professional Directing Placement on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with Michael Cassel Group. In 2021, Miranda directed and choreographed the Australian premiere production of Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts at Theatre Works, and the critically-acclaimed cabaret Not Today at Kings Cross Theatre. She is also developing a new Australian musical Paper Stars through Salty Theatre’s ‘Hatch Lab’, and writing a new play, Pear-Shaped, for presentation with Rogue Projects in 2022. In 2020, Miranda directed The Great and Powerful Ozzie – an original, two-woman adaptation of The Wizard of Oz – at the Old 505 Theatre, supported by Create NSW and the Sydney Fringe Festival’s Art in Isolation Program. In 2019, Miranda wrote and directed an original adaptation of the screenplay Amélie, for NIDA’s Festival of Emerging Artists, incorporating a live arrangement of music from the film. Prior to studying at NIDA, Miranda directed the NSW premiere of Ned: A New Australian Musical at the New Theatre and choreographed Spring Awakening at King Street Theatre.

Brittanie Shipway is a proud Gumbaynggirr and Turkish woman. A graduate from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA - Musical Theatre), Brittanie is a writer, dramaturg, actor, singer, and storyteller. She is currently a resident dramaturg for Theatre Works First Nations Initiative. As a writer, Brittanie has successfully won grants from the Australia Council of the Arts, Create NSW and Belvoir: Shutdown Residency to workshop her autobiographical play A Letter for Molly, which will premiere at the Ensemble Theatre in 2022. She is also workshopping her original musical Yellow Rock through Hope New Works. Her other creative credits include writing short stories for ABC’s Radio National, writing lyrics for the Hope Development Project’s Coburg: Melbourne, Assistant Director at Old 505’s Mercutio & The Prince Of Cats, and composing original music in Sport For Jove’s recent production of Othello. After studying acting in New York at the Lee Strasberg Institute of Film & Theatre, Brittanie returned home to Australia to make her professional debut at The Hayes Theatre Co. with RPG’s Big Fish (The Witch) and went on to perform in Chapel Off Chapel’s Ordinary Days (Claire) to great critical acclaim. Her passion for new Australian work has seen her workshop many original theatre projects, most notably Sydney Theatre Company’s Muriel’s Wedding (Rhonda) and New Musicals Australia’s Evie May: A Tivoli Story (Evie May) with director Damien Ryan.

Grace is a production and costume designer working across theatre, film, and television. Grace’s practice is based on creative collaboration and exploration, with a history of developing new works. Grace is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (BFA and MFA Design for Performance). In her time at NIDA, Grace collaborated with some of Australia’s leading theatre directors, including Judy Davis and Kate Champion. Grace has been awarded the William Fletcher Foundation Scholarship and Peter Ivany Scholarship for Excellence in Design. Grace’s recent design credits include: Twenty Somethings (KXT), The Masked Singer Australia (2021), Videotape (KXT), The Great and Powerful Ozzie (The Old 505), Australian Open (KXT), This Bitter Earth (Midsumma Festival /Theatre Works), VOGUE 60th Anniversary Event, 3 Moons (Music Video), Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards (Design Assistant), Distant Places (Music Video), God of Carnage (NIDA), We Are Gods (NIDA), MEAT EATERS (NIDA) and Blood on a Cat’s Neck (KXT).

Robbi has been The Rogues’ producer since 2017 when he joined the company to take Gina Schien’s Morgan Stern to the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival. From a decade of professional performance in his youth to formal study his passion for creative production and audience engagement has fuelled a career spanning media, business development, marketing & project management. Robbi is a graduate of Western Sydney University and completed his Masters in Arts Management at the Sydney Opera House with the Australian Institute of Music. His final thesis critically investigated the measurement, systems of support for, and impact of, diversity strategies in Sydney theatre companies, a subject he remains passionate about. He is also currently the Marketing and Engagement Manager for Critical Stages Touring, Australia’s national touring theatre company, where he spearheads the company’s communications and digital production initiatives.