So Many Splintered Parts

Shaun Charles | Writer, Co-Director & Co-Producer
Shaun’s plays include Rio Saki and Other Falling Debris, Three Points of Contact, The Understudy, Lead Sister and the stage adaptations of Andrew McGahan’s Last Drinks and The White Earth. More recently he completed the libretto for the pop opera adaptation of Matthew Condon’s A Night at the Pink Poodle (composed by Peter Farnan). As a director, his focus has been on new Queensland theatre writing, directing premiere productions by Andrew McGahan, Linda Hassall, and Elaine Acworth.

Robert Forster | Writer
Robert Forster is a Brisbane based singer-songwriter and author and co-founder (along with Grant McLennan) of the acclaimed pop/rock band The GoBetweens. He has released numerous solo albums, the most recent of which is Strawberries. He has contributed music journalism to The Monthly, won the Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism in 2006, and a collection of his music writings was published in 2009, titled, The Ten Rules of Rock and Roll. His memoir, Grant & I was published in 2016 and has been translated into Italian and German. He is currently writing a novel. Night Thoughts of an Artist is his first play.

Kathryn Marquet | Writer
Kathryn is a playwright and actor whose work spans stage, screen, and the written word. Her new ecodrama Aurochs won the 2024 Shane and Cathryn Brennan Prize and was shortlisted for the 2024 Patrick White Award. Her plays include Pale Blue Dot (La Boite), The Dead Devils of Cockle Creek (Playlab/La Boite), The Owl and the Pussycat (Little Match), and The Secret Garden (QT/Dead Puppet Society). She has been Playwright in Residence at Playlab Theatre and La Boite and was previously an Associate Artist at Queensland Theatre. Kathryn’s acting credits include productions with Queensland Theatre, La Boite, and Bell Shakespeare, as well as roles in Don’t Tell, Sisters of War, and Postmortem Mary. She holds a Master’s and is completing a PhD in playwriting at UQ.

Aidan Rowlingson | Writer
Aidan Rowlingson is a multidisciplinary artist and producer based on unceded Jaggera and Turrabal land. A proud Butchulla man of K’gari and the Wide Bay region, Aidan works across theatre, poetry, sculpture, and community-led performance. His plays include Capricorn (developed with QPAC and Moogahlin Arts) and Tentacles (Brisbane Sci-Fi Theatre Festival). His sculptural work 660 has been exhibited at Queensland Museum, Griffith University Art Museum, and Flinders University Museum of Art. As a producer, he has collaborated with Digi Youth Arts, Jungle Love Festival, Queensland Music Festival, and La Boite. Aidan is a graduate of the University of Canberra’s Bachelor of Acting and Performance and is passionate about storytelling that connects people and place.

Sita Walker | Writer
Sita Walker is a high school English teacher, freelance writer and award-winning memoirist whose first book, The God of No Good (Ultimo Press, 2023), won The People’s Choice Award at both the Queensland Literary Awards and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Sita has written for The Guardian, The Griffith Review, Red Magazine (UK) and others. Her second book, a novel, will be published in 2026.

Grace Wilson | Writer
Grace Wilson is an emerging playwright living on Yuggera and Turrbal land in Meanjin. Her show My Name is Tommy was the runner up for the Queensland Theatre’s Young Playwrights’ Award 2021 and the following year, Grace took the prize with her play Goodbye Eli Anderson. This work when then go on to shortlist for the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award with Sydney Theatre Company, the Griffin Award with Griffin Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre’s Premiers Drama Award and Queensland Writers Centre’s Stageable – all in which she is the youngest in history to ever make the list. She has also been longlisted for the Griffin Award, ATYP Foundation Commission and the Varuna Underrepresented Writers Fellowship.

Sharka Bosakova | Set & Costume Design
Originally from Prague, Sharka Bosakova is a Designer and Artist working at the intersection of design anthropology and contemporary practice. Holding degrees in Education, Fashion, Scenography, and Visual Arts (High Distinction), her work explores symbolic aesthetics and participatory experiences that merge form with function. She has collaborated/worked for: The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, Ballet Theatre of Queensland, Belloo Creative, ELISION Ensemble, Good Company Arts, Opera Queensland, Queensland Conservatorium, QPAC, Queensland Theatre, TAIKOZ, The Australian Voices, and Village Roadshow Studios (Netflix, Walt Disney Productions).

Teegan Kranenburg | Lighting Design
Teegan is a lighting designer and production manager based in Brisbane/Meanjin. They work across theatre, dance, circus, performance art, drag, and live music in many capacities. Teegan has served as Venue and Technical Coordinator at Metro Arts and is currently the Production Manager at La Boite Theatre. As a lighting designer, Teegan’s credits include Matriarchs and [gameboy] (Metro Arts), The Norman Mailer Anecdote (Queensland Theatre, Bis Scary Animal Productions), She (Indelability Arts, Metro Arts), Bliss (The Good Room, Bleach Festival), and most recently, Fancy Long Legs (La Boite Theatre, The Little Red Company, Brisbane Festival).

Nicholas O’Donnell | Co-Producer
Nicholas O’Donnell is a digital strategist, creative director and HCI researcher whose work blends technology, storytelling and social impact. Nicholas is Co-Producer of So Many Splintered Parts (Queensland Theatre, 2025), and previously produced the world premieres of Water Wars (La Boite Indie, 2011) and RISK (Metro Arts, 2008). Whether on stage or screen, his work seeks to engage, challenge and connect – changing the world one pixel (or play) at a time.

Jessica Veurman
Associate Director

Saffron Benner
Dramaturg

Lialize du Plessis
Stage Manager

Nick James
Performer
Nick has worked as an actor, performer, writer, director, facilitator, and dramaturg across Australia and overseas. As an actor for Shake & Stir Theatre Co, Nick has appeared in Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, and Jane Eyre, as well as being an in schools touring actor for the company (2020-2022). As a graduate of The Victorian College of the Arts, Nick received the Richard Pratt Bursary for Outstanding Acting and represented the college playing Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at the Folkwang Shakespeare Festival in Essen, Germany. He was co-creator and performer of Unplugged, which debuted at the Asia Pacific Bureau Theatre Schools Festival and Directors Conference in Singapore, as well as Bag of D*cks, which had seasons at both Melbourne Fringe Festival and Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Zoe de Plevitz
Performer
Zoe de Plevitz is a Brisbane-based actor whose work spans theatre, television and film. Her stage credits include Cost of Living (Queensland Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company), Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with companies such as Queensland Theatre, Fractal Theatre, and 4MBS Classic FM. She has co-created and performed in site-specific works at Fort Lytton and Newstead House, including Immigration, Frontline, and The War Years, and was nominated for a Matilda Award for Adventures of Peter Rabbit. On screen, Zoe has appeared in Boy Swallows Universe, Swinging Safari and The Suicide Theory. A graduate of QUT and the Atlantic Acting School (New York), she is equally at home in classical and contemporary performance.

Tyrone Noonan
Composer, Performer & Musician
Tyrone Noonan is an ARIA Award-winning artist and producer with over two decades of diverse experience. As co-founder of george, he contributed to the No. 1, double-platinum album Polyserena. He is an award-winning composer and sound designer for theatre and film and produces major events. A multifaceted musician, Tyrone excels as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, DJ and cabaret artist, while also performing with his jazz band Palimpsest.