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BY LANE STANLEY
Anna is waiting in her apartment for her date, but is it a date, or are they just ‘Gal-Pals’? Meanwhile, her best friend, Mal, has dozens of internet dates knocking on the door and to make matters worse, Anna’s former lover turns up having bailed on her wedding to win her back.
Her date is having an identity crisis, her ex is hiding in her bathroom, Mal’s mother has turned up for a surprise visit from out of town...and all this is happening whilst her landlord is trying to fit the broken bathtub with a butt plug.
Lipstick is a glorious, fast paced, Queer farce where everything seems to go wrong and you’re never quite sure who is behind the door!
Will everyone get their happy ending?
Or will someone just end up with lipstick on their face?
An Australian premiere production, especially adapted by playwright Lane Stanley for Sydney audiences.
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ROWAN BRUNT​
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Rowan is a Sydney theatre maker with a passion for exciting new work particularly work that is Australian, queer, rural and inclusive of our entire colourful industry . Most recently, if you know where to look you could of found Rowan playing Adam in “Queenslander” by Tremayne Gordon (N:I 2019 Theatre Travels), Dan Kelly in “Ned: A New Australian Musical” (Plush Duck Productions), Breeding in “The Brylcreem Boys” and just missed out on playing, due to the year that was, Osiris/ Cerebus in “Jasper in Deadland” (2020 Flight Path Theatre). Rowan also was the Assistant Director on “The Sentimental Bloke” part of Neglected Musicals at The Hayes Theatre 2019.
A 2017 Graduate of Federation Universities BA in Music Theatre (Sydney) Rowan played such roles as Cinderella’s Prince “Into The Woods”, Freddy Rodriguez “Working”, Jacob “Showtrain” and performed his solo cabaret “Daddies Little Farmer”. Rowan also has done further study in The Hub Studios Emerging Actors Program.
Rowan is a proud equity member of MEAA.
GIA COHEN
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Gia is getting involved in theatre and has recently graduated the NIDA Actors Studio (2020) course while completing her theatre major at the University of Notre Dame (UNDA).
This is her second time with Theatre Travels in the NO : INTERMISSION festival, where she played Jessica in the beloved Infidelity & Enlightenment (2019).
JORDANA WEGMAN
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Jordana Wegman is a Sydney comedian and theatremaker studying a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Theatre and Performance at UNSW. Last year she was seen at the Sydney Fringe Festival in By the Water Cooler, an interactive theatre experience, and Sydney Comedy Festival in the revival of the 2018 inaugural UTS Womn’s Revue, The Sealed Section (UTS CRAP), in which she was both performer and writing director. She also spearheaded the production of UNSW’s first ever queer revue, Queerpocalypse Now, as producer, writing director, and performer. Other stage credits include The Real Inspector Hound (NUTS), Arcadia (UTS Backstage), Rumours (NUTS), Hello There, We’ve Been Waiting for You (UNSW SAM) with past Belvoir director Tessa Leong, and Così (The Acting Experience). She is thrilled to be part of this production!
KEVIN T S VUN​
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Kevin first began his foray into the arts by training at London's City Academy, and after receiving glowing reviews from his teachers and colleagues to pursue his craft, he then completed his training at Sydney's AFTT, and continues to explore his craft through improv theatre, singing, and writing. Kevin's past roles on stage have been Felix in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, and as George Orwell's Winston, in 1984. Kevin has also been seen in commercial work, student films, and is excited to be returning to the "play" component to the creative arts, and looks forward to bringing this to the fore with his debut at Theatre Travels.
PHOEBE ATKINSON
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Phoebe is a passionate theatre maker and recent graduate of the Academy of Film, Theatre and Television (AFTT). Most recently Phoebe has performed with Eye Contact Theatre in Hairworm at the Old 505 Theatre and appeared in Kasia Vickery’s NIDA MFA show, Play On. Earlier last year she performed at downstairs Belvoir St as Creon in Bones at The Gate: An Antigone and as Lucy Honeychurch in A Room With a View at the Genesian Theatre. Her other credits include, The Cripple of Inishmaan and Shakespeare’s As You Like It with AFTT. Phoebe has also adapted, produced and performed in Box and Cox.
MAX BELMONTE
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Max is an Actor and Voice Over Artist who also created and co-hosts the Podcast ‘Two Unemployed Actors’. Max had parts in ‘The New Adventures of Flipper’ television series in the mid 90’s and after a brief 20 year corporate career he has returned to the stage and screen in 2019. Appearing in ‘Deadly Women’ for the Discovery Channel, ‘Home & Away’, and ‘Fighting Season’ for Foxtel. Workshops with Anthony Brandon Wong and Darren Gilshenan inspired Max to get back to the stage as Felix in ‘The Odd Couple’, and a lead in the Australian Play ‘Half Yer Luck’ with the Sharkbite Theatre.
SUSAN LING YOUNG
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Susan is an Australian born Chinese Actor. A graduate of ACTT (in Music Theatre Performance) and the Advanced Actor’s Studio, at NIDA.
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Feature Film credits include 24 HOURS TO LIVE, UNINDIAN. Television credits include HUNGRY GHOSTS (SBS), RECKONING, STREET SMART (Channel 10), PET KILLER (International Streaming TV comedy), REDFERN NOW (ABC), SOUL MATES (ABC2) and DEADLY WOMEN (CNN). Theatre credits include A DEAL (Chippen St Theatre), NOLI ME TANGERE (Riverside Theatre, Parramatta), Creative Development Workshop for MONKEY, JOURNEY TO THE WEST.
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With over 20 years experience as a former Registered Nurse, Susan won the Best Film Award (as Director/ Writer/ Co-Producer & Designer), for the 2010 NSW Nurses Association Short Film Festival, celebrating International Nurses Day.
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As an Adorned Artist (with fellow Artist makers based at the Parramatta Artists Studios in Rydalmere), Susan has also exhibited wearable art, photographic/video installations at Riverside Theatre, Mosman Art Gallery, Blindside Gallery (Melbourne), Mundubbera Regional Art Gallery (Queensland).
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LIPSTICK is Susan’s first production working proudly with Theatre Travels.
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LANE STANLEY: PLAYWRIGHT
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Lane Michael Stanley is a director, playwright, filmmaker, and producer, and a Founder of Cohesion Theatre Company in Baltimore, MD. Lane has won Best Director from Baltimore City Paper's Best of Baltimore 2016, The Bad Oracle, and DC Metro Theatre Arts, and received the Mayor's Individual Artist Award. They have had plays produced by many theaters, including The Barter Theater, Kitchen Dog Theater, Island City Stage, Trinity Street Players, Cohesion Theatre Company, Fells Point Corner Theater, Interrobang Theatre Company, Strand Theater, Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, Gadfly Theatre Productions, and Rapid Lemon Productions. Their short films have been shown at the REEL Recovery Film Festival in Los Angeles and New York City, and the TRANSforming Cinema Film Festival in Sheffield, UK; they are now working on a feature film called Addict Named Hal, for which they ran a successful $22,000 Kickstarter. They are an MFA Directing Candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information, please visit www.lanemichaelstanley.com and www.addictnamedhal.com.
LAURA HEUSTON: DIRECTOR
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Laura hopped on the musical theatre train at the tender age of 20, with her musical directing debut in Avenue Q with the Intercol Musical Society. Since then she has take on the role of MD for MUSE's Spring Awakening, The New Theatre's Nell Gwynn and Little Miss Sunshine, and various comedy shows, most recently Jacinta Gregory's 1980's Depression: The Musical for Sydney Fringe (which will travel to Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2020). She has band directed for Holt! The Musical, composed for Scarecrow at Sydney Fringe (2018), and SUDS' Caligula, and is half of the founding team of Happy Rainbow Friends, a queer centred theatre company that raises money for various charities. She took on her directorial debut in 2019 with their production of [title of show], and was creative director for their vaudeville showcase Flamin'.