MEET THE cast

 

THE KNIGHT

Bobbie-Jean Henning

Bobbie-Jean Henning is an actor, singer and creative who works across theatre, screen, cabaret and music theatre.

After graduating from WAAPA she created two solo shows; Tales of a Time Travelling Songstress and All Hail Me: King Henry VIII which she has performed nationally. Bobbie-Jean will soon go into production for Screen Australia funded short form comedy, The Power of the Dream, which she co-created, wrote and will star in. With cocreator, Alexandra Keddie, she has received funding from ABC’s Fresh Start Fund to develop their comedy series Spread Your Wings, a heart-warming look at a community musical theatre society. Bobbie-Jean is a founding member of Edgeware Forum Theatre Company and has been involved in a variety of developments for new works with Bondi Feast’s 24 Hour Play Party, Kings Cross Theatre, Griffin Theatre’s Scratch Night and The Lysicrates Prize. She has script edited for short film You, Me and Him, and been the dramaturg for cabaret Udderly Fabulous and is an emerging director.

Bobbie loves to write with a sense of theatricality, charm, feminism and hope. She currently has a slate of projects in development including a musical comedy series about gendering, an absurdist series about taking justice into your own hands and a satirical cabaret about morning shows and the wrath of ageism.

 

THE lost royal

Brendan de la Hay

Australian born award winning entertainer, tv personality, performance artist, designer, creative director and visual artist, Brendan de la Hay is a powerhouse of innovative activations and striking creations featured at festivals, events, galleries, in print and on stages and screens across the globe.

Brendan's work explores a unique perspective as a gender queer international nomad, blurring the lines between performance, wearable and visual art, contrasting unique constructed beauty with innate darkness.

Recent works include: Canva Mardi Gras 2022 (Brand Ambassador/Production design), The Great Gatsby (Production Design, Viral Ventures), Emilie & Voltaire Winner Best Production Design Paris Film Festival, Opera Australia), All Together Now (Judge, Channel 7/Endemol Shine) and Candide (Production Design, Sydney Phil Choirs/Sydney Opera House).

 

THE ALCHEMIST

Challito Browne

Challito is a Sydney based Writer / Performer with an eclectic range of projects under his belt.

Performance credits include: Feature lead in indie coming of age: YOU ACCORDING TO ME, Wade in ABC’s FRAYED, DRIFT [Tara Clark - Two Peas / ATYP], Twelfth Night [Jerome Pride], Story teller at A LIKELY STORY.

Theatre Writing credits include: Dementia family drama; SACRED HANDS, and finance, comedy, rap-musical; DIAMOND RHYMES. He is currently receiving development support for his work from National Theatre of Parramatta. Challito has also been in writing rooms with companies such as Matchbox, Brouhaha, Hopscotch and Co-Curious.

 

THE Warrior

Christopher Tomkinson

Christopher has acted in over 50 shows across the major and independent theatre companies in NSW.

His most recent work as a director was Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman for Hearth Theatre at Melbourne’s 45 Downstairs Theatre. A return season and tour is in development for 2023.

Christopher is the Carnival Director of Sport for Jove's Shakespeare Carnival - a NSW wide performance opportunity for primary and high school students.

His play, The Orphan’s Orchard, has been published by CUP. He studied at WAAPA, Pantheatre, Ecole Philippe Gaulier and ATYP and has been a proud member of Equity since 1985.

 

THE cowboy

Jerome Studdy

Hailing from the realms of circus, musical theatre, choral music, and makeup, Jerome Studdy is a Sydney based creative with a broad array of performance skills. With a rapidly expanding catalogue, Studdy has built a portfolio that includes credits as a performer, director, choreographer, music director, aerialist, makeup artist, set and costume designer, pit instrumentalist, and giant cupcake. Extensively experienced as a classical musician, Studdy realised his potential as a physical performer and has since been training as a contemporary dancer, aerialist, acrobat, and contortionist.

Eternityland marks Studdy's professional theatre debut, and he hopes audiences enjoy meeting The Cowboy.

 

THE Clown

Lou P Scarlett

Born in the depths of Sydney's burlesque and music scene, Lou P Scarlett is an elegant, eccentric, electro-pop showgirl fusing together original music with old Hollywood sensibility to create her own brand of surreal techno-tease.

Lou P Scarlett received 2nd runner up in Miss Burlesque 2018 and independently released her debut album ‘Time in Lou’ (2022). She has performed at Heaps Gay, GirlThing, Home the Venue, Slide, Employee’s Only and Stonewall (NYC 2020) to name a few and most recently starred as ‘Myrtle’ and performed burlesque in The Great Gatsby (Immersive AU).

 

THE Mother

Paige Walker

Paige hails from New York, a theatre baby, and landed on Aussie shores where she added dialect coach, voice artist, aerialist and tango dancer to her cap. Paige was a resident aerialist at El Circo, here in Sydney, for almost 10 years before COVID and is thrilled to be back up in front of an audience.

Between dialect coaching on Netflix series and working on new tango choreys,Paige is always-mom to the two best humans ever.

 

THE Money

Tim Hansen

Tim Hansen is a performer, composer and teaching artist. His eclectic career has seen him work across genres and disciplines from classical music composition to modelling, from primary school teaching to cabaret performance. Amongst other things he is a co-writer on the hit musical “Schapelle Schapelle”, was shortlisted for the Vanda and Young Songwriting Competition in 2018, performs cabaret under his alter ego Tim Handsome, and ran in the 2019 NSW State Election, coming dead last but regretting nothing.

At the core of everything he does is a love of music, theatre and freedom of expression: you only have one life to live, may as well live the hell out of it.

 CREDITS

Creator & Director Danielle Harvey

Dramaturg Nathan Luff

General Manager Amy Morcom

Creative Producer Bridget Harvey

Head of Production Damion Holling

Head of Marketing Harriet Cheney, Jess Krishnaswamy



Marketing Partner Jacqui Stanton, Danielle Bullock, The Streets of Barangaroo



Production Design Matthew Aberline, Isabel Hudson, Dan Potra, Natalie Verriest, Yeah Yeah Chloe, Lewis Dean

Costume Design Mason Browne

Sound Design Julian Wessels

Projection Artwork Club Sandwich—Tamlin Hill

Video Design Sabrina Organo, Tim Oxford, Club Sandwich

Scent Design Tammy Burnstock, Jocelyn Fullerton

Creative Associate Megan Drury

Creative Consultants Jonny Hawkins, Allie Rosen

Head of Art Department Natalie Verriest

Art Department Jay Chessells, Ziggy Taylor, Jimi Rawlings, Hannah Tayler

Associate Designer Hannah Yardley

Scenic Painter Lewis Dean, Lacey Malice, Mitch Walder

Graffiti Artists Lotte Smith, Mitch Walder

Movement Consultant Alice Osborne


Technical Manager Peter Montgomerey

Stage Manager Abby Gallaway

Assistant Stage Managers Erin Bruce, Georgia Wohlfiel

Set Construction Greg Murphy Scenery

Crew & Build Team Gabriel Castro, Daniel Grech, Bruno Kelson, Ryan Lynch, Edward Milne, Alban Richardson,
Daniel Wong, Malinny Cheng, Stephen Crossley, James Rawlings

Design Intern Sammy Kyung

The D.L.M Bar Programmer (Pre-Season) Rosanna Scarcella

Front of House Manager Kristina McNamara

Mixology The Creativity Project

Publicity Hannah Booth, The Cru

Brand . Website . Launch Campaign Glider Global

Digital Marketing Bolster



A PRODUCTION BY

 
 

PARTNERS + FRIENDS

ETERNITYLAND would not be possible without the generous support from so many, who are keen to get Sydney open and make people happy. We thank them so much for answering the call to adventure with us and saying YES!

 

PROUD FUNDER

 

MAJOR PARTNERS

 
 

BAR PARTNERS



THANK YOU TO OUR HELPING HANDS

Jarred Bleechmore, Derrin Brown, Damien Cooper, Stephen Crossley, Damien Eames, Tim Ford, Denis Gambino and The Creativity Project team, Matt Gaskin, Kerri Glasscock, Joel Green, Griffin Theatre Company, Cecily Hardy, Leah Howard, Hayden Howse, Chris Kennedy at NML Live, Lisa King (flowers and birds), Scott Langham, Robin McCarthy, Toby Morrison, Vanessa Orzlowski, Chris Twyman, Ricky Woo and the Byto team, Wanni Zhu, The Ethics Centre.

THANK YOU TO OUR LENDLEASE SUPPORTERS

Manuela De Rossi, Nesko Kolasinac, Malcolm Nixon, Scott Sullivan, Brett Rowe, Jack Moran and the International Towers security team.