The Glass Menagerie

This is rated 5 out of 5 stars

‘A stunning contemporary adaptation.’
The Scoop

This is rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

‘An emotionally layered revival.’
MelbourniseMe

This is rated 4 out of 5 stars

‘Moody, playful, memorably performed.’
The Age

This is rated 0 out of 5 stars

‘Director Mark Wilson ... has found a way to see The Glass Menagerie anew without losing the heart and the warmth.’

Theatre First

ABOUT THE SHOW

For the first time in two decades, Melbourne Theatre Company presents the Tennessee Williams classic that changed the course of modern theatre.

Celebrated stage and screen actor Alison Whyte (Death of a Salesman) makes a much-anticipated return to the Company to take on one of the greatest roles in the theatrical canon: Amanda Wingfield, the heartbreakingly hopeful mother who clings to the past while trying to control the future. As she sets out to secure stability for her daughter Laura (Millie Donaldson), her son Tom (Tim Draxl) – yearning for freedom – teeters between obligation and escape. When a much-longed-for ‘gentleman caller’ (Harry McGee) steps into their world, he may be the fulfilment of Amanda’s dreams, or the blow that shatters her carefully constructed illusion.

Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1945 and recipient of the first-ever Tony Award for Best Play revival, The Glass Menagerie is a haunting, poetic portrait of a languishing family and the fragile illusions we cling to in order to survive.

Directed by Melbourne Theatre Company’s own Mark Wilson ( Jacky, Much Ado About Nothing), this sharp and poignant new production of a timeless masterpiece is an experience you cannot miss.

This production has been supported by Melbourne Theatre Company’s The Glass Menagerie Production Patrons:
Karen Cusack, Charles Gillies and Penny Allen, Tania Seary and Chris Lynch, Andrew Sisson AO and Tracey Sisson.

Wheelchair Accessible
Hearing Assistance
Audio Described
Tactile Tour
Open Captioning
Closed Captioning
Auslan Interpreted

Performance Type	Performance Date(s)
Audio Described by Vision Australia	Saturday 23 May at 2pm Tuesday 26 May at 6.30pm
Tactile Tour at venue	Saturday 23 May at 2pm (Tactile tour commences at 1pm)
Open Captioning via screen	Saturday 30 May at 2pm
Closed Captioning via GoTheatrical App	Saturday 30 May at 2pm
Auslan Interpreted	Tuesday 2 June at 6.30pm

Millie Donaldson

Laura Wingfield

Tim Draxl

Tom Wingfield

Harry McGee

The Gentleman Caller

Alison Whyte

Amanda Wingfield

Mark Wilson

Director

Kat Chan

Set Designer

Matilda Woodroofe

Costume Designer

Paul Lim

Lighting Designer

Marco Cher

Composer & Sound Designer

Geraldine Cook-Dafner

Voice & Dialect Coach

Jamila Main

Assistant Director

Amy Cater

Intimacy Coordinator

Jess Keepence

Stage Manager

Zsuzsa Gaynor Mihaly

Assistant Stage Manager

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Millie Donaldson

Laura Wingfield

Millie is a proud disabled and neurodivergent performer. The Glass Menagerie is her professional theatre debut. Her screen credits include Boy Swallows Universe (Netflix) and Jack Irish (ABC). She is a graduate of the VCA (Screenwriting). Her writing has earned her accolades from the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, Blacklist and Austin Film Festival.

Tim Draxl

Tom Wingfield

Tim Draxl’s career spans more than two decades in theatre, film and television. His theatre credits include The Normal Heart (Sydney Theatre Company); the Sunset Boulevard Tour (Opera Australia/GWB Entertainment); Into the Woods (Belvoir/Hayes Theatre Co); Jagged Little Pill (GWB Entertainment); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Belvoir); Catch Me If You Can, Evie May, Only Heaven Knows (Hayes Theatre Co); Lip Service, Mothers & Sons (Ensemble Theatre) and others. On television, he has appeared on In Our Blood, Austin, Erotic Stories, Last King of the Cross, Summer Love, The Newsreader, Reef Break, A Place to Call Home, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Supernova and The Shark Net. Tim’s film credits include Blacklight, Guardians of the Tomb, A Few Best Men, Swimming Upstream, Dirty Deeds and more. In 2006, Tim received the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Cabaret Production for Back for Seconds and has received multiple AACTA and Logie Award Nominations for his work in television.

Harry McGee

The Gentleman Caller

Harry McGee is an actor and theatre maker based in Naarm. He is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and a founding member of the award-winning experimental theatre collective Pummel Squad, for which he has won multiple Green Room Awards. The Glass Menagerie is Harry’s debut performance with Melbourne Theatre Company. Recent stage credits include How The King Learned To Live Forever (Pummel Squad and fortyfivedownstairs); POV, UFO (re:group); Twenty Million Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Hertz Family Reunion and Spring has Sprung or The Beautiful Show (Pummel Squad). His screen credits include Super Wog: Son Of A Donkey.

Alison Whyte

Amanda Wingfield

Alison Whyte returns to Melbourne Theatre Company following Jacky, Last Man Standing, Clybourne Park, All About My Mother and Richard III. Other productions include Death of a Salesman (5 Minute Call); The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear & His Three Daughters (Belvoir); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Michael Cassel Group); Monsters, Cloudstreet, Love and Information, The Bloody Chamber, Optimism and Tartuffe (Malthouse Theatre); Faith Healer, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Belvoir/Melbourne Theatre Company); The Testament of Mary, Australia Day (with Melbourne Theatre Company), Travelling North (Sydney Theatre Company); Hand to God (Vass Theatre Group); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (Australian Shakespeare Company); Groundhog Day the Musical (GWB) and Rising Water (Black Swan). Her numerous films include The Dressmaker, Centreplace, The Jammed, Subterano and Saturday Night. TV credits include Scrublands, Fisk, Jack Irish, Harrow, The Kettering Incident, Glitch, Playing for Keeps, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Tangle, Satisfaction, and Frontline. Alison has received multiple Green Room, Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Awards, as well as Logies and ASTRA Awards for her work on screen.

Mark Wilson

Director

Mark Wilson is Associate Artist at Melbourne Theatre Company. He has an established practice as a director, dramaturg, devisor, performer and writer. Recent directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing, Jacky (Melbourne Theatre Company, Belvoir) and Bighouse Dreaming (Melbourne Fringe Festival, Brisbane Festival, Darwin Festival); Code of Conduct (Midsumma Festival); World Problems (Theatre Oostblok, Amsterdam) and Sweet Phoebe (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre). He has a long-term collaboration with Brian Lipson, Alice Will Caroline and Triage Live Art Collective, and as dramaturg on Emily Godard’s This is Eden. Before COVID, he also created and performed three radical Shakespeare adaptations: Unsex Me, Richard II and Anti-Hamlet, which were seen across the country. He trained at Monash University, Victorian College of the Arts and Ecole Philippe Gaulier, and is an International Fellow of Shakespeare’s Globe in London. He teaches and directs regularly at VCA. His shows have won awards at Melbourne Fringe and at Melbourne's Green Room Awards.

Kat Chan

Set Designer

Kat Chan is an award-winning theatre designer for theatre, dance, video installation and photography. She is a regular casual mentor and tutor in Performance Design at the Victorian College of the Arts. Recent/select credits include for Melbourne Theatre Company include English (Set & Costume Designer), I Wanna Be Yours (Set & Costume Designer), Admissions (CostumeDesigner), Touching the Void (Costume Designer), Lifespan of a Fact (Costume Designer), Torch the Place (Costume Designer), Golden Shield (Associate Designer), Beached (Costume Designer); for The Australian Ballet, The Nutcracker: National Tour & Storytime (Set Designer), Annealing (Costume Designer), Raymonda Act III (Set Designer), From Silence (Set & Costume Designer); for Malthouse, The Birds (Set & Costume Designer), Monsters (Costume Designer), Because the Night (Costume Designer); for IF Theatre/Belvoir, Mother (Set & Costume Designer); and for AsiaTopa Fed Square, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, The People’s Currency (Set & Costume Designer). Kat’s costume designs for The Lifespan of a Fact won a Green Room Award.

Matilda Woodroofe

Costume Designer

Matilda Woodroofe is a Set and Costume Designer with a diverse body of work and range of experience spanning theatre, dance, TV, film and events. Matilda completed a Bachelor of Production at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2014. Melbourne Theatre Company credits include Costume Design on The Removalists, Set and Costume Design on Cost of Living, Design Associate on Sexual Misconduct of the Middles Classes and Minnie and Liraz. She was also the stylist on the 2023, 2025 and 2026 season photoshoots. Other credits include Abduction (Victorian Opera); Truth, This is Living, Stay Woke, Hour of the Wolf, Because the Night (Malthouse Theatre); Going Down (Malthouse Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group/Sydney Theatre Company); Beetlejuice the Musical (Michael Cassel Group); Random (Belvoir); and Spear (Bangarra Dance Theatre). Matilda was part of the design team on Rising Festival 2021 and 2022. She was also the 2016 Emerging Designer intern for The Rabble. Matilda has been nominated for four Green Room Awards for design.

Paul Lim

Lighting Designer

Paul Lim is a Director of Additive – a Melbourne-based company providing innovative lighting design and technical solutions to the arts, entertainment and installation sectors. Lighting design highlights include premiere seasons of: English, Happy Days, Lifespan of a Fact (Melbourne Theatre Company); NewRetro, Flux Job (Lucy Guerin Inc), The Magic Flute (New Zealand Opera); Hair: The 50th Anniversary Australian Tour (Peace Productions); international touring seasons of Split, One Single Action (Lucy Guerin Inc); Hot Brown Honey (Quiet Riot). Installation and exhibition highlights include Our Wondrous Planet (Melbourne Museum); Flash Forward (City of Melbourne); The Heart @ Melbourne Connect (University of Melbourne); The Brain (Monash Brain Park); Neon Playground (Melbourne Zoo); Breathing Space (Genevieve Lacey & National Museum of Australia). Paul's depth of knowledge has provided integrated solutions for clients around the world including Illuminate Adelaide, MONA FOMA, Auckland Arts Festival, City of Melbourne and Arts Centre Melbourne.

Marco Cher

Composer & Sound Designer

Marco Cher is an artist working with sound to explore contemporary culture, expression and experience. They are a constant collaborator and deviser working in live performance contexts. Select compositions and sound designs include: Do Not Pass Go, The Removalists, English, Laurinda (Melbourne Theatre Company); Complexity of Belonging (Melbourne Theatre Company/Chunky Move); Super Discount (Back to Back Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company); Lady Eats Apple (Back to Back Theatre); Troy, Homo Pentecostus, Monsters, KBOX and I am a Miracle (Malthouse Theatre); Nayikia A Dancing Girl (Belvoir); Flesh Mirror (Rebecca Jensen and Weave Movement Theatre); Mohini and Narasimha (Raina Peterson); We All Know What’s Happening (Samara Hersch and Lara Thoms). Recent awards include The Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre, the International Ibsen Award with Back to Back Theatre, and Green Room awards for Composition and Sound Design (I am a Miracle, Siren Dance), Visual Design (Mohini), Technical Achievement (…Derelict in Uncharted Space…), Best Ensemble (Flesh Mirror) and Innovation in Site Specific Work (MASS).

Geraldine Cook-Dafner

Voice & Dialect Coach

Geraldine Cook-Dafner has worked on thirty-eight shows at Melbourne Theatre Company, including most recently Much Ado About Nothing, Rebecca, and Meet Me at Dawn. She was also the voice and dialect coach for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, & Juliet and The Picture of Dorian Gray (London/New York) and has worked for ABC, SBS, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre and Musica Viva. Geraldine holds a doctorate from the University of Melbourne where she is also a Senior Honorary Fellow. Geraldine was previously the Head of the School of Performing Arts, Head of Voice and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne.

Jamila Main

Assistant Director

Jamila Main is an actor, playwright, and director telling stories for the stage, screen, and livestream. Jamila is known for their plays Pillow Talk (Warehouse Residency Arts House); Benched (Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Midsumma Festival, Carclew); Butterfly Kicks (RUMPUS Theatre); How Long Can This Last? (Adhocracy Vitalstatistix); and How to Eat Rabbit (La Mama Theatre, The Mill). On screen, Jamila has performed in SHADOW and Agincourt (Back to Back Theatre). In 2020 Jamila was a Carclew Fellow and an artist-in-residence at Carclew in 2021. Across 2020-21 Jamila was a participant in the Midsumma Pathways Program where they were mentored by Kate Mulvany. In 2025 Jamila graduated from the Masters of Theatre (Writing) at the Victorian College of the Arts. Jamila holds an Advanced Diploma of Arts (Acting) from the Adelaide College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in the Enhanced Program for High Achievers from Flinders University.