BIOGRAPHIES
PHILIP LETHLEAN Lighting Designer
JIM ATKINS Sound Designer
OLIVIA CRANWELL Rapunzel
Philip Lethlean’s designs can be seen in many parts of Asia, Europe and America including, theatre, stadiums, opera, dance, circus puppetry and architecture. Commissions include the Australian Pavilion at Expo Shanghai, How to Train Your Dragon for Dreamworks/Global Creatures (2012) and White Night Melbourne in 2013 and 2014. Theatre works include the English National Ballet, Opera Australia, MTC, Circus Oz, and the recent Mbantua Festival in Alice Springs. Into the Woods marks a continuing collaboration between Phil and Stuart Maunder, previously working together on the Australian National Day event in Shanghai and the opening of Hamer Hall in Melbourne 2012.
Jim Atkins has a long career in audio production with credits on over 100 major label CDs, including several Aria awardwinning recordings. Jim worked with the ABC from the midseventies and has pursued a freelance career since 2010. Regularly working with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as sound designer and engineer, Jim was the sound designer for En Masse and 2011/2012 national tour of Namatjira. Recent Victorian Opera productions include Nixon in China and Sunday in the Park with George.
Olivia Cranwell is a graduate of the Master of Music (Opera Performance) program, run by Victorian Opera in partnership with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. Performances with Victorian Opera include Gossip (Angelique), Watkin Wombat/ Rooster (The Magic Pudding – the opera), Celeste 1 and Waitress (Sunday in the Park with George), Puss (Puss in Boots), Queen Clementine (Sleeping Beauty), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Robber Girl (Snow Queen), God (Noye’s Fludde) and the Gala Concerts 2012 and 2013 (Opera on a White Night). Other roles include Carmen (In Good Company); The Plaintiff/Angelina in Trial by Jury, Hebe in HMS Pinafore (Savoy Opera Company).
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