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JONATHON OXLADE
Designer
Jonathon studied Illustration
and Sculpture at the
Queensland College of Art.
He has designed sets and
costumes for companies
including Windmill Theatre,
Queensland Theatre Company, Is This Yours?,
Aphids, Circa, Arena Theatre Company, Polyglot,
Bell Shakespeare, Polytoxic, The Escapists,
State Theatre of South Australia and LaBoite
Theatre, and for venues and festivals including
Sydney Opera House, Melbourne and Adelaide
Festivals, Malthouse Theatre, Performance
Space and Queensland Art Gallery. Jonathon
illustrated The Empty City for Hachette Livre/
Lothian and the Edie Amelia series by Sophie
Lee, and was Festival Designer for the 2010 Out
of the Box Festival and 2015 Brisbane Festival’s
Arcadia. He is currently the Resident Designer at
Windmill Theatre.
Awards include Matilda Awards for Best
Designer for Attack of the Attacking Attackers
in 2009. He was nominated for a Green Room
Award in 2010 for Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie
Mudd for Best Design and a Ruby Award in 2011
for School Dance. Jonathon was nominated for
a Helpmann Award in 2013 and 2014, for Best
Scenic Design for School Dance and Pinocchio
along with Greenroom nominations for Skeleton
and I Heart John McEnroe.

DEAN STEVENSON
Composer & Musician
Dean is an award winning
musician and composer of
15 years who hails from
a strong performance
background. Graduating
with a Masters of Music
from UTAS, he has performed and recorded in
many ensembles across Australia as well as
releasing several solo projects (In Time, Arco
Set, The London Suite). He has composed works
for film, theatre and live events featuring his
own Arco Set ensemble and a collaboration
with Kate Miller-Heidke. Live projects have
involved the Tasmania Symphony Orchestra,
performing at many festivals including Mona
Foma, Dark Mofo (Tim Passes), Ten Days on the
Island, and an invitation to premiere a new work
at Government House Hobart. He also performs
in Tasmania with the popular bands Les Coqs
Incroyables and 4 Letter Fish. Films include One
Life and Sixteen Legs.

NICHOLAS HIGGINS
Lighting Designer
Nick has been an
independent lighting
designer since graduating
from WAAPA in 1999. He
has worked across all
genres in all states and
for most companies. Nick is not only a lighting
designer, but a photographer and film-maker.
He was a nominee for the Best Lighting Design
Award, Sydney Theatre Awards for his design
for Frankenstein for the Ensemble Theatre
Company. Nick and his partner moved to
Tasmania after working on a show and falling
in love with the state. He just hopes that no-one
else finds out how wonderful it is there.