Bios
Iain Sinclair
Iain is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and King’s College London’s Masters program in Text and Performance Studies. Recent work includes: The Caretaker by Harold Pinter and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf for The Ensemble, All My Sons by Arthur Miller (which opened the new Eternity Theatre in Sydney), The Beast by Eddie Perfect, A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller and Berlin by Joanna Murray Smith for Melbourne Theatre Company, Mojo, Our Town and Blood Wedding for Sydney Theatre Company, The Seed by Kate Mulvany, Killer Joe by Tracey Letts, My Arm by Tim Crouch, Beyond the Neck by Tom Holloway for Belvoir, and Hurlyburly by David Rabe and Lord of the Flies by William Goldman for The Stables. Other work includes One Scientific Mystery or: Why Did The Aborigines Eat Captain Cook?, Of Mice and Men, The Highway Crossing, The Pork Stiletto with Allsop and Henderson, Rope, One Long Night in the Land of Nod and many other new and classic works.
He has won three Sydney Theatre Awards, including for his premiere of The Seed by Kate Mulvany, was nominated for Best Director at the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2023 for The Caretaker, was awarded the 2020 Green Room for Best Direction for A View from the Bridge, and won a further four Canberra Critics Circle awards. He is the Head of Acting at 16th Street Actors Studio.
Kirsty O'Connor
Kirsty O'Connor is an actor, director, videographer, and all-round creative mongrel. In her hometown of Sydney she trained at NIDA (Screen Acting), and gained experience behind the camera at AFTRS which culminated in her role as Producer's Assistant on Beneath Hill 60 (2010). In Melbourne she has trained at the Improv Conspiracy Group, and is a graduate from 16th Street Actors Studio part-time program. More recently she has been training in voice and movement with Vicki Roussell, and explored clowning with Giovani Fusetti and Pedro Fabiao.
Credits include lead roles in short films such as 'Moth' (2019) and 'Nightshift' (2020); directing and producing the online experience 'The Ritual Theatre of Death' for Melbourne Fringe Festival, and a live one-woman cabaret clown extravaganza, Goodbye to Speakeasy HQ.
Her current creative crushes include Betty Grumble, Doctor Brown and Akram Kahn. Kirsty is very excited to be assisting on The Ninth Floor Productions first show, Milked.
Laurence Boxhall
A NIDA graduate, Laurence was most recently seen touring nationwide as Christopher Wren in the 70th Anniversary Tour of The Mousetrap, for which he received critical acclaim. Other stage work includes Silvius in As You Like It and Sam in Shakespeare In Love, both directed by Simon Phillips for Melbourne Theatre Company. He made his professional stage debut in Jumpy, directed by Pamela Rabe in a co-production with Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company. His other stage work includes Lysander/Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Australian Shakespeare Company, Chadwick Meade in Punk Rock for Patalog Theatre, and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot whilst in his final year at NIDA.
Laurence was the Gen Z captain in Nine’s popular Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation with Shaun Micallef, Andy Lee, and Robyn Butler. Other screen credits include Daniel in Ronny Chieng: International Student for the ABC, Corey in Neighbours for 10, Jimmy Paradise in Deadline Gallipoli for Foxtel, Elder Morton in the feature Spirit of the Game, Simon Birch in Worst Year Of My Life…Again for the ABC/BBC, and Arnold in Ben Ulm’s multi-award winning short film Love, and Other Mental Disorders, for which Laurence won Best Lead Actor at the 2021 LA Independent Film Festival.
Laurence is also an award-winning audiobook narrator, having narrated 30+ audiobooks, and is a skilled magician. Post Milked, he will be seen co-starring opposite Toni Scanlon in the thriller Switzerland by Joanna Murray Smith for Ensemble Theatre in Sydney.
Richard Vabre
Richard Vabre is a freelance lighting designer who has lit productions for MTC, STC, Malthouse Theatre, Belvoir Street, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Back To Back Theatre, Victorian Opera, Circus Oz, Windmill Theatre, Arena Theatre Company, NICA, Barking Gecko, The Darwin Festival, Stuck Pig’s Squealing, Chambermade, Rawcus, Red Stitch, Polyglot, Melbourne Worker’s Theatre, Aphids and many many productions at La Mama Awards: Richard has won 5 Green Room Awards including the Association’s John Truscott Prize for Excellence in Design (2004). He has also been nominated for 10 other Green Room Awards.
William McKenna
William McKenna is an actor who starred as Ed Kennedy in The Messenger for Lingo Pictures which premiered on the ABC in 2023. He also starred in BBC’s Queen of Oz, series 3 and 4 of Nowhere Boys for Matchbox Pictures. And can be seen in the upcoming Thou Shalt Not Steal directed by Dylan River.
In 2019 to 2020, William starred as Scorpius Malfoy in the Australian production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which he was nominated for a Helpmann Award for ‘Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play’ and won the Green Room Award for ‘Best Performance in a Theatre Production.’ He has starred in Melbourne Theatre Company’s Admissions as Charlie Luther Mason opposite Kat Stewart in 2022 and Bernhardt/Hamlet as Maurice Bernhardt directed by Anne-Louise Sarks in 2023.
William performed and wrote his first solo comedy play as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival at the Town Hall called Appellation. For which he was nominated for ‘Best Newcomer’ at the MICF awards.
He was the winner of the 2015 MICF ‘Class Clowns’ nationwide competition. He came back to host the 2016 National Final. He performed and hosted his own season of live shows as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2016 and 2017 at the Arts Centre.
William was awarded the Casting Guild of Australia ‘Rising Star Award’ for 2023.
Louisa Fitzgerald
Louisa Fitzgerald (she/her) is a set and costume designer for theatre, opera and dance. Her practice is informed by a passion for design history and her skilled background as an artist and maker. Originally from Sydney, Louisa moved to Melbourne to complete a Master of Production Design at the Victorian College of the Arts. Recent credits include Costume Design for The Australian Ballet's 'Storytime Ballet: Cinderella' (2023), and Set Design for Victorian Opera's 'The Grumpiest Boy in the World' (2023). Louisa was awarded a 2023 APDG Outstanding Emerging Designer Award, and is a 2024 graduate ensemble member of Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre.
Jessica Smart
Jessica Smart is a stage manager based in Melbourne and is passionate about bringing stories to life on the stage. Jessica is a recent graduate, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Her VCA credits include Lighting Programmer and Operator for ‘First Love is the Revolution', Assistant Stage Manager for ‘Urinetown: the Musical’, Stage Manager for ‘INCONSOLABLE plus 4’ and Assistant Production Manager in the VCA's 'Heathers: The Musical'. She has also completed internships in Melbourne Theatre Company's 'Is God Is' and Malthouse Theatre’s 'Telethon Kid'. She is very excited for her first show post-graduation and to be part of the amazing 'Milked' team.
Ashleigh Walwyn
Ashleigh (Ash) is a Stage, Production, and Company Manager, originally from the UK. She grew up and found her love for theatre in Malaysia before graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) with a BFA in Production – Stage Management in 2018. Some of Ash’s credits include Assistant Stage Manager for Mr Burns, a post-electric play – Return Season (Lighting Jar Theatre Inc), Special Events Stage Manager for The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Senior Stage Manager/Back of House Caller for The Victorian State Schools Spectacular (Dir. Neill Gladwin), and Stage Manager for Punk Rock (Patalog Theatre), Bright Star (Pursued By Bear), LAND and ANALOG (Three Fates Theatre Company), Ghost Quartet – Return Season and Guys & Dolls (Antipodes Theatre Company), The View From Up Here and The Grief Trilogy (VIMH), Parade (Soundworks Productions), and The Inheritance (fortyfivedownstairs). She has been the Resident Stage Manager of Antipodes Theatre Company since 2023.
Ash is very grateful and excited to be working alongside and supporting this incredible company to bring Milked to life.
Connor Brown
Connor Brown is a passionate emerging sound designer who has worked in the production industry on and off since 2014. Currently working on Wurundjeri land They have previously designed with WAYTCO(24h play generator) and The last Great Hunt (Telephone, Dick pics in the Garden of Eden). They graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts studying Sound Design & Engineering. They have a love for theatre-making and the role sound design plays in worldbuilding and the texture of a performance. Connor is grateful for the opportunities he gets to explore sound design more and is eager to continue their journey.
Lyndall Grant
Lyndall Grant is a fight director, movement director, actor and motion capture specialist. She trained in acting at London’s ArtsEd School of Acting and then specialised in fight performance and movement from 2007. Lyndall is an accredited teacher with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat and a member of the Society of Australian Fight Directors. In 2013 she founded Captivate Action, which trains actors in stage/screen combat and motion capture in Australia and the U.K. Lyndall was recently a guest instructor at the Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Workshop in Canada, and teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and 16th Street Actors Studio. Recent fight/movement credits include Groundhog Day The Musical, Death of A Salesman, An American in Paris (GWB); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group); Beauty and the Beast (Disney Australia); 37, My Sister Jill, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol, Is God Is, Sunday, As You Like It, Berlin, The Lifespan of a Fact, The Architect, Cosi, Torch the Place, The Lady in the Van, Astroman (Melbourne Theatre Company); Cruel Intentions the Musical (David Venn Enterprises); Nosferatu, Looking for Alibrandi, Atlantis, The Return, Because the Night and Cloudstreet (Malthouse Theatre).