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Adelaide Festival presents a Sydney Theatre Company production

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Oscar Wilde
Adapted & directed by Kip Williams

Performer Eryn Jean Norvill

Designer Marg Horwell
Lighting Designer Nick Schlieper
Composer & Sound Designer Clemence Williams
Video Designer David Bergman
Dramaturg & Creative Associate Eryn Jean Norvill
Production Dramaturg Paige Rattray
Assistant Director Ian Michael
Voice & Text Coach Leith McPherson

Original production supported by Frances Allan & Ian Narev, Megan Grace & Brighton Grace, and Presenting Partner Allens.

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Biographies

Kip Williams
Direction & Adaptation

Kip Williams is the Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company (STC). While at STC he has directed Julius Caesar, Playing Beatie Bow, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord of the Flies, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Cheery Soul, The Harp in the South: Part One and Part Two, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Three Sisters, Cloud Nine, Chimerica, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All My Sons, The Golden Age, Love and Information (a co-production with Malthouse), Suddenly Last Summer, Children of the Sun, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Under Milk Wood, and was Associate Director on Andrew Upton’s production of Cyrano de Bergerac and Dramaturg on Sarah Goodes’ production of Orlando. In 2016, he directed a reading and short film of Daniel Keene’s The Hungry Mile.

For Melbourne Theatre Company, Kip adapted and directed August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. For Sydney Chamber Opera, he directed with Elizabeth Gadsby a gender-flipped production of The Rape of Lucretia (a co-production with Victorian Opera and Dark Mofo), An Index of Metals, The Lighthouse, and the double bill Ich Habe Genug and Nunc Dimittis. For Malthouse, Helium and US-A-UM he directed an all-female production of Lord of the Flies, for Tamarama Rock Surfers he directed Fallout at the Old Fitz Theatre, and for the Sydney Writers’ Festival he directed 1001 Nights. For the 18th Biennale of Sydney, he directed Through The Gates (also for Sydney Chamber Opera). For Princeton Theatre, New Jersey, he directed Fifth of July, for National Theatre, Melbourne, he directed One For the Road, and for NIDA he directed productions of Lord of the Flies and Samuel Beckett’s Not I.

Kip directed the short films B, Bee and Mee and Walk, as well as music videos for Guineafowl, including Little Fingers and Botanist, which was listed in ABC’s RAGE 50 list of the top music videos for 2009. In 2015, Kip won the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play for his STC production of Suddenly Last Summer. In 2016, his production of Miss Julie won the Green Room Awards for Best Production, Best Direction, and Best Digital Media Design and Integration. He also won the 2018 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director for The Harp in the South: Part One and Part Two which also won Best Production and Best New Work. At the 2021 Sydney Theatre Awards, Kip won Best Direction of a Mainstage Production for The Picture of Dorian Gray and the production won Best Mainstage Production.

He has completed a Master of Dramatic Art in Directing at NIDA and a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communication) at University of Sydney. Kip now sits on NIDA’s Board of Directors.

Eryn Jean Norvill
Performer, Dramaturg & Creative Associate

Sydney Theatre Company: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Three Sisters, All My Sons, King Lear, Suddenly Last Summer, Cyrano de Bergerac, Romeo and Juliet. Other Theatre: Malthouse: Melancholia, The Government Inspector. Belvoir: The Government Inspector. Melbourne Theatre Company: Hamlet, Top Girls. Griffin Theatre Company: The Boys. Western Australian Symphony Orchestra: Fidelio. Performing Lines: Anthem. As Writer, Dramaturg and Theatre Maker: A Tiny Chorus, NICHE. TV: PREPPERS. Awards: Sydney Theatre Awards for Suddenly Last Summer (2015), The Boys (2012), Truckstop (2012). Green Room Awards for The Government Inspector (2014), Top Girls (2012) and Melbourne Fringe Festival People’s Choice Award: A Tiny Chorus (2009).

Marg Horwell
Designer

Sydney Theatre Company: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Avalanche (with Barbican Theatre), How to Rule the World, The Histrionic (with Malthouse). As Costume Designer: Lord of the Flies, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Other Theatre: English National Opera: Salome. Malthouse: Because the Night (interiors), Blasted, Melancholia, Bliss, Caravan, The Testament of Mary, The Real and Imagined History of The Elephant Man, Revolt She Said Revolt Again, The Homosexuals Or ‘Faggots’ (with Griffin Theatre Company), Edward II, I Am A Miracle, The Good Person of Szechuan. Melbourne Theatre Company: The House Of Bernarda Alba, Lilith The Jungle Girl, Birdland, I Call My Brothers, Peddling, Cock, Constellations, Marlin, The Dream Life of Butterflies, The Water Carriers, Circle Mirror Transformation. Victorian Opera: Lorelei. Circa: Leviathan. Performing Lines: Anthem. Belvoir: La Traviata, Nora. Bell Shakespeare: The School for Wives. Griffin Theatre Company: Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography, Summertime in the Garden Of Eden. Dee and Cornelius: Love, Big Heart, SHIT, Savages. Angus Cerini Doubletap: Resplendence, Save For Crying, Chapters From The Pandemic, Wretch. Chunky Move: Common Ground. Awards: 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 Green Room Awards, 2013 Sydney Theatre Awards.

Nick Schlieper
Lighting Designer

Sydney Theatre Company: many productions including Playing Beatie Bow, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wonnangatta, The Deep Blue Sea, The Real Thing, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mosquitoes, A Cheery Soul, The Harp in the South: Part One and Part Two, Saint Joan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Three Sisters, Chimerica, All My Sons, King Lear, The Present, Switzerland, Macbeth, Waiting for Godot, The Maids, Gross und Klein, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler, A Streetcar Named Desire, The City. As Set and Lighting Designer: Endgame, Face to Face, Baal (with Malthouse), Death and the Maiden (with Melbourne Theatre Company). Other Theatre: Melbourne Theatre Company: Macbeth, Richard III, Hamlet, The Visit, The Tempest and Set and Lighting Design for Photograph 51 and North By Northwest. Malthouse: Set and Lighting Design for Pompeii L.A. Belvoir: Packer and Sons, Ghosts, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure and Set and Lighting Design for Once in Royal David’s City. Musicals: include Love Never Dies (Australia, Tokyo, Hamburg, USA), Priscilla (Australia, West End, Broadway). Other overseas work includes productions for The Royal Shakespeare Co, the State Theatre companies of Bavaria and Hamburg, Schillertheater Berlin, Theatre Clwyd Wales and the National Theatre of Norway. Opera: many productions for Opera Australia including Tosca, Elixir of Love, Tannhäuser, Trovatore, Falstaff. Salzburg Festival: Lear, Médée. Hamburg State Opera: Billy Budd, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. SOSA: Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Awards: six Green Room Awards, six Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Lighting (Chimerica, The Serpent’s Teeth, The War of the Roses, Baal) and Best Set Design (Baal, Endgame), and five Helpmann Awards (Bennelong, Bush, The War of the Roses, Love Never Dies, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead).

Clemence Williams
Composer & Sound Designer

Sydney Theatre Company: Death of a Salesman, Grand Horizons, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Banging Denmark, Lethal Indifference. As Associate Director: Fun Home (with Melbourne Theatre Company). As Composer: Playing Beatie Bow, A Cheery Soul. As Assistant Director: Saint Joan. Other Theatre: Melbourne Theatre Company: Heisenberg, Torch the Place, Arbus & West. Bell Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Belvoir: The Wolves. Ensemble: A View from the Bridge. Old Fitz: Chorus, A View from the Bridge, Wind in the Underground, Paper Doll, The Wolves. KXT: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. Old 505: Little Borders. New Theatre: Chapel Perilous. New Fitz: Wind in the Underground Paper Doll. Periscope Productions: Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons. As Director: Sydney Chamber Opera: Breaking Glass (Commute, The Invisible Bird). Red Line: Chorus. Seymour Centre: Unfinished Works. New Theatre: The Cherry Orchard. KXT: Transience. Edinburgh Fringe: Chamber Pot Opera. PACT: The Threepenny Opera. JackRabbit Theatre: FINDR. As Assistant Director: Sydney Chamber Opera: La Passion de Simone, Notes from Underground. Sydney Conservatorium: La Calisto. 2021 APRA AMCOS Art Music Award for Best Live Performance (Commute). Training: Sydney Conservatorium, NIDA.

David Bergman
Video Designer

Sydney Theatre Company: Julius Caesar, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical (with Global Creatures), The Hanging, The Effect (with Queensland Theatre), The Long Way Home. As Video and Sound Designer: A Cheery Soul, The Wharf Revue (2009-2018). As Sound Designer: Playing Beatie Bow. Other Theatre: As Video and Sound Designer: Luckiest Productions/The Hayes: Merrily We Roll Along. As Composer and Sound Designer: National Theatre of Parramatta: Zombie Thoughts. Griffin Theatre Company: Green Park, Superheroes, First Love is the Revolution. Darlinghurst Theatre Company: Maggie Stone. State Theatre Company South Australia: The Gospel According to Paul. Seymour Centre: Made To Measure. NIDA: Salem, Another Country. As Video Designer: Bangarra: Sandsong, Spirit: A Retrospective. Sydney Chamber Opera: Breaking Glass. Monkey Baa: Possum Magic, The Peasant Prince. Bangarra: Knowledge Ground. As Sound Designer: Sydney Opera House: RENT. Belvoir: Packer and Sons. Monkey Baa: Josephine Wants To Dance. Curveball Creative: Who’s Your Baghdaddy. Hayes Theatre: The Rise and Disguise of Elizabeth R, Catch Me If You Can. Australian Theatre for Young People: Spring Awakening: A New Musical. Awards: 2021 Sydney Theatre Award – Best Stage Design of a Mainstage Production for The Picture of Dorian Gray, 2021 Sydney Theatre Award – Best Sound Design of a Mainstage Production for Green Park. Training: NIDA.

Paige Rattray
Production Dramaturg

Sydney Theatre Company: The Picture of Dorian Gray. As Director: Death of a Salesman, Triple X (with QT), The Deep Blue Sea, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, How to Rule the World, Black is the New White (plus tours), Australian Graffiti, Power Plays, Boys will be Boys. As Dramaturg: The Golden Age. Other Theatre: As Director: Belvoir: Fangirls (with QT, ATYP and Brisbane Festival). Queensland Theatre: Hedda, Scenes from a Marriage, Switzerland. ARTHUR: Cut Snake, Bright World (with Theatreworks), Return to Earth (with Griffin Independent), The Myth Project: Twin (with MTC NEON), The Midlands (with Mudlark), The Sea Project (with Griffin Independent, Mudlark), Dirtyland (with The Spare Room). Milkcrate: This House is Mine. Walkley Foundation: Storyology After Dark. Outback Theatre: Beneath an Oxbow Lake (with ATYP and Griffith Regional Theatre). Positions: Sydney Theatre Company: Associate Director (current), Richard Wherrett Fellow. Queensland Theatre: Associate Artistic Director. Griffin Theatre Company: Resident Director, Affiliate Director. Awards: Sydney Theatre Awards 2019 Best Direction of a Mainstage Production for The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 2019 Best Production of a Mainstage Musical for Fangirls. Matilda Awards 2019 Best Musical for Fangirls, Matilda Awards 2016 Best Mainstage Production for Switzerland. Recipient of a 2015 Glorias Fellowship and 2016 Mike Walsh Fellowship. Training: NIDA.

Ian Michael
Assistant Director

Ian is a Wilman Noongar man. Sydney Theatre Company: The 7 Stages of Grieving, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Other Theatre: As Director: The Blue Room: The Bleeding Tree. As Actor: Black Swan State Theatre Company: City of Gold (with Sydney Theatre Company), Cloudstreet, Our Town, Let the Right One In. Malthouse: Cloudstreet, Blak Cabaret. Yirra Yaakin: The Noongar Shakespeare Project. She Said Theatre: HART, Laika and Wills. Melbourne Theatre Company: The Kid. Ilbijerri Theatre Company: Flashblaks, Northwest of Nowhere. Mooghalin Performing Arts/Sydney Festival: Yellamundie First People’s Playwriting Festival. As Assistant Director: Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Cherry Orchard. Black Swan State Theatre Company/Yirra Yaakin: Skylab. As Writer: Black Swan State Theatre Company: York. Critical Stages/Paines Plough: Another Day in the Colony. She SaidTheatre: HART. Film: Where are the Warriors? Positions: Black Swan State Theatre Company: Artistic Associate (2021), Resident Artist (2018-2020), Sydney Theatre Company Richard Wherret Fellowship 2022. Other: Black Swan State Theatre Company: Maali Festival (Curator). Awards: 2019 and 2017 Best Actor PAWA Awards. 2019 CHASS Australia Prize for a Future Leader. 2019 Western Australian of the Year (Finalist - Youth Award). 2016 Best Emerging Artist Adelaide Fringe (HART). 2016 Best Production (Independent) Green Room Awards (Nominated – HART). 2013 and 2015 Most Outstanding Indigenous Performer Melbourne Fringe (HART and Laika and Wills). Training: WAAPA.

Leith McPherson
Voice & Text Coach

Sydney Theatre Company: White Pearl (with The National Theatre of Parramatta), Grand Horizons, Triple X (with Queensland Theatre), Death of a Salesman, Julius Caesar. Other Theatre: As Dialect Coach: Melbourne Theatre Company: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Shakespeare in Love, The Lady in the Van, Twelfth Night, Astroman, A Doll’s House: Part 2, An Ideal Husband, Macbeth, Melbourne Talam, Born Yesterday, Jasper Jones, Skylight, The Weir, Double Indemnity, Peddling, North by Northwest, Jumpy, I’ll Eat You Last, Private Lives, Other Desert Cities, All About My Mother, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Boston Marriage, Madagascar, The Swimming Club, The Drowsy Chaperone, August: Osage County, Rockabye, Songs for Nobodies, The Dame on the Ten Dollar Note. Freidman, Callender, Cassel: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Original Australian Company). National Theatre (London): The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Melbourne). Royal Shakespeare Company: Matilda the Musical (Melbourne). Coppel, Withers & Bewick: Mamma Mia the Musical (Australian Tour). Global Creatures: Muriel’s Wedding: the Musical (Melbourne). Luckiest Enterprises: Little Shop of Horrors. TML Enterprises: Fiddler on the Roof. Gordon Frost Productions: Anything Goes, Once the Musical (Australia). As Associate Director: Queensland Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company: Noises Off. As Voice Coach and Assistant Director: Melbourne Theatre Company: Richard III, Hamlet. Film: As Dialect Coach includes: Ghost in the Shell, Gods of Egypt, The Hobbit (Trilogy), Zulu, The Lovers. As Language Creator: Mortal Engines.​

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