The Waiting Room

Belinda McClory

Naomi Edwards

Richard Vabre

William McInnes

Dayna Morrissey

Dayna is a Melbourne based production designer, who studied for a Postgraduate Diploma in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, and has previously designed The Sublime for MTC. Dayna’s recent designs include Hedda Gabler (Belvoir Theatre); the adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (adapted with Adena Jacobs and Danny Pettingill for Fraught Outfit); Hate (Malthouse Theatre); On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (Fraught Outfit/NEON Festival); Speaking in Tongues (Griffin Theatre Company); Beyond the Neck, The City and Faces in the Crowd (Red Stitch Actors Theatre); and The Lost Story of the Magdalen Asylum and i(Peepshow Inc.). Her other company appointments include Monash University Honours Ensemble, St Martins Youth Arts Centre, Little Wing Puppets, and FOG Theatre. Dayna received a 2012 Green Room Award for her design of Persona, and has previously been nominated for her set designs for On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (2013), Devine (2011), The City (2010), and White with Wire Wheels (Union House Theatre, 2007).

Chloe Greaves

The Waiting Room is Chloe’s debut with the MTC. Some of her most recent costume designs included Blak Cabaret (Sydney Festival/ Malthouse); The Magic Pudding (Victorian Opera); On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (Fraught Outfit/NEON Festival), Le Donna Curiose (The Juliard School, New York); Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Essential Theatre); Thérese Raquin and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Dirty Pretty Theatre); and Pacific Overtures (Watch This Productions). Chloe also works in film and television, and has designed music videos for San Cisco, Guy Sebastian, Montaigne, and Imperial Teen. Chloe won the Green Room Award for her Body of Work in 2014 and has been nominated another four times: in 2014 in the Musical Theatre category for Pacific Overtures; in 2013, in the Opera category for The Magic Pudding (set and costume); in 2012, in the Independent Theatre category for her costume design in The Pineapple Sorrow (Crossditch Theatre); and in 2010, the Independent Theatre category in 2010 for The Fate of Franklin and his Gallant Crew (Four Larks Theatre).

Kate Atkinson

Brett Cousins

Russell Goldsmith

Sophie Ross

Michael Carmody

Michael Carmody has designed video for numerous Melbourne theatrical productions including Bare Witness and Chapters from the Pandemic, for which he received a Green Room Award nomination. His short films include Debutantes, which screened at MIFF 2005. In 2013/14, he was filmmaker on the Spinning Yarns project and Video Artist on the public art installation The Locker Room, both for the City of Knox. He also collaborated with Nadja Kostich on the Monash University/Bachelor of Performing Arts: Third Year Production Raid. In 2015, his collaboration with Elissa Goodrich, Dusk to Dawn: Devolving, screened at the eighteenth Traverse Video Festival in Toulouse, France, and his short film Drowning World will screen as part of La Trobe University’s Centre for Creative Arts Nature in the Dark project. Following his video design for MTC Education’s I Call My Brothers, this is Michael’s first MTC mainstage production.

Geraldine Cook-Dafner

Kylie Trounson

Kylie Trounson has worked as a playwright, actor and lawyer. She is currently a Writer in Residence at Melbourne Theatre Company as part of the NEXT STAGE Writers’ Program. Kylie’s plays have been developed through Playwriting Australia’s National Script Workshop and National Play Festival, Sydney Theatre Company’s Rough Drafts and Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cybec Electric. Her work includes The Waiting Room, which premiered at MTC in 2015 and was nominated for an AWGIE award for Best Play. Other plays include The Man with the September Face (Arts Centre Victoria/Full Tilt), The Lost Story of the Magdalene Asylum (Green Room Award winner for Best Site Specific Work), Love Letters (Victorian Arts Centre), Hotel and Uninvited Guests at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. In 2010/11 she was Writer-in-Residence at Red Stitch and wrote Merman, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Patrick White Playwright’s Award. Kylie is also developing new television dramas with Matchbox Pictures and Easy Tiger.