THEATRE

ESCAPED ALONE & WHAT IF IF ONLY

MELBOURNE THEATRE CO. 2023

In this world-first theatrical experience, Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks directs two separate Caryl Churchill works: What If If Only, the micro-meditation on grief and possibility starring Alison Bell; and Escaped Alone, a visionary play starring Helen Morse about afternoon tea and the apocalypse.

2024 Green Award Nomination: Outstanding Composition & Sound design (Theatre Companies).

  • Writer: Caryl Churchill
    Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
    Set & Costume Design:er Marg Horwell
    Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
    Composer & Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward

    Cast Includes:
    Helen Morse , Kate Hood, Debra Lawrance, Deidre Rubenstein & Alison Bell,

    2024 Green Award Nomination: Outstanding Composition & Sound design (Theatre Companies)

    Image: Pia Johnson

SUNDAY

MELBOURNE THEATRE CO. 2023

Sunday is an audacious fantasy inspired by the stories and myths that surround Heide Museum of Modern Art founder Sunday Reed – the muse and mentor to a circle of artists including Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester.

After a sellout, rave-reviewed season in Melbourne, this lush, romantic, and transporting portrait of an Australian icon – the irrepressible Sunday Reed – is having its Sydney premiere. Sydney Theatre Co 2024

2024 Green Award Nomination: Outstanding Composition & Sound design (Theatre Companies)

  • By: Anthony Weigh
    DIR: Sarah Goodes

    Drums & Perc: Ralf Rehak
    Double Bass: Dan Witton

    2024 Green Award Nomination: Outstanding Composition & Sound Design (Theatre Companies)

    Image: Pia Johnson


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HOUR OF THE WOLF

MALTHOUSE THEATRE 2023

An immersive theatre Mystery. Malthouse Theatre's new large-scale immerse work Hour of the Wolf imagines an entire cursed town where you can hunt down the strange antics and mysterious events that occur when all sensible people are asleep.

  • Creator & Writer: Keziah Warner
    Creator & Director: Matthew Lutton
    Assistant Director: Bernadette Fam
    Interactive Dramaturg: David Harris

    Set Designer: Anna Cordingley
    Associate Set Designer: Karine Larché
    Costume Designer: Zoe Rouse
    Lighting Designer: Amelia Lever-Davidson

    Composition & Sound Designer:Jethro Woodward
    Associate Sound System Designer: Justin Gardam

    Cast: Lucy Ansell, Jack Green, Natasha Herbert, Kevin Hofbauer, Keegan Joyce, Brooke Lee, Emily Milledge, Christina O’Neill, Eva Rees, Karl Richmond, Katherine Tonkin

    Image: Pia Johnson


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THE RETURN

MALTHOUSE THEATRE & RISING FESTIVAL 2022

Once considered ‘exotic’ trophies of antiquity, the bodily remains of Indigenous men, women, and children served scientific theories of evolution and were prized objects displayed on mantelpieces. In the cover of darkness, grave robbers would pillage burial grounds, to sell Ancestral remains to the highest bidder under the guise of scientific research. Thousands were stolen and sold.

Composed in collaboration with Jason Tamiru

  • Composed in collaboration with Jason Tamiru: Vocals, Yidaki, & Clapsticks.

    Writer: John Harvey
    Co-Director & Cultural Custodian: Jason Tamiru
    Co-Director: Matthew Lutton

    Image: Pia Johnson.

BLASTED

MALTHOUSE THEATRE 2018

This was the debut script of in-your-face playwright prodigy Sarah Kane. Her prescient dissection of our response to violence was heralded as ‘depraved’ by some, ‘tender’ by others. So ignited the polarising firestorm of Kane’s blazing career.

  • BY: Sarah Kane
    DIR: Anne-Louise Sarks
    CAST: Fayssal Bazzi, Eloise Mignon & David Woods
    SET & COSTUME: Marg Horwell
    LIGHTING: Paul Jackson
    SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION: Jethro Woodward
    CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sky Davies

    Photo: Pia Johnson

SOLARIS

Malthouse Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company 2019

MYSTERIOUS PLANET. INCOMPREHENSIBLE INTELLIGENCE. GHOSTS OF REGRET.
Above an uninhabitable world possessed by a powerful intelligence, the crew are sleepless and lost. They fight with the nature of the planet below, their mission, their own motivations, and the dark horrors of their past that haunt the space station

  • A New Play By: David Greig
    Adapted From Stanisław Lem’s Novel
    Direction: Matthew Lutton

    Cast: Leeanna Walsman, Keegan Joyce, Jade Ogugua, Fode Simbo

    Featuring: Hugo Weaving As Gibarian (Video)

    Set & Costume Design: Hyemi Shin
    Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
    Sound Design & Composition: Jethro Woodward

    Malthouse Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company

    This production toured to Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre & the Lyric Hammersmith in London

    Images: Pia Johnson


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THE TRUTH

MELBOURNE THEATRE CO | 2021

From the internationally celebrated playwright behind The Father comes a devilishly dark comedy that explores the truths that tear us apart and the lies that keep us together.

  • MELBOURNE THEATRE CO | 2022
    WRITER: FLORIAN ZELLER
    DIR: SARAH GILES


    VOICE: GAIN SLATER


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THE ELEPHANT MAN

MALTHOUSE THEATRE | 2017

Joseph Merrick, better known as the Elephant Man, is cast out. He survived circus ‘freak shows’ and the revulsion of a gawking public for years until a young doctor offered him asylum at the London Hospital in 1879.

  • MALTHOUSE THEATRE | 2017

    By: Tom Wright
    Direction: Matthew Lutton
    Set & Costume Design: Marg Horwell
    Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
    Composition & Sound Design: Jethro Woodward

    Cast: Paula Arundell, Julie Forsyth, Emma J Hawkins, Daniel Monks, Sophie Ross

    Jenny M. Thomas - Violin & Viola
    Dan Witton - Double Bass & Tuba


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SMALL ODYSSEYS

RAWCUS THEATRE CO. | 2011

A collage of images and moving pictures revealing moments of daring and glimpses of journeys from the epic to the everyday. Small Odysseys plays with proximity and distance. The work shifts between intimacy and isolation and carries a yearning for home. Small Odysseys features live music by Jethro Woodward and vocalist, double bass player Ida Duelund Hansen.

  • Director Kate Sulan
    Set Design Emily Barrie
    Costume Design Emily Barrie
    Sculptor/Designer Shaun Patten
    Composition/Sound Design Jethro Woodward
    Lighting Design Richard Vabre

    Rawcus Ensemble

    Musicians Jethro Woodward & Ida Duelund Hansen

    image: Paul Dunn

    2011 Green room award- Lighting
    2011 Green Room Nominations- Direction, Production, Design Integration, Sound


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IRONY IS NOT ENOUGH

FRAGMENT 31 | 2013

Irony is not enough... is an exploration on the nature of identity and love. It explores the construction of self, what we are capable of, or allow, within the frame of the various personas we create around and within ourselves through our attempts to know love.

  • Created by Luke Mullins and Leisa Shelton , Anna Cordigley, Jethro Woodward and Jen Hector

    From a text by Anne Carson

    Composer, Sound designer & Performer: Jethro Woodward
    Designer: Anna Cordingly
    Lighting Designer: Jen Hector
    Presented by Arts House

    Photographs: Ponch Hawkes and Heidrun Lohr


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SONG FOR A WEARY THROAT

RAWCUS THEATRE CO. | 2017

Fifteen performers surface from the aftermath, the wake of a disaster, in the haunting Song for a Weary Throat, as live music from the critically-acclaimed contemporary vocalists Invenio Singers meets the exquisite image making and uninhibited physicality of the Rawcus Ensemble.

  • Director: Kate Sulan
    Designer: Emily Barrie
    Lighting Designer: Richard Vabre
    Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward
    Director of Invenios: Gian Slater

    Devised and performed by the Rawcus Ensemble

    Singers: Gian Slater, Josh Kyle and Louisa Rankin

    Song for a Weary Throat premiered at Theatre Works in December 2017.

    2018 Green Room Awards: Best Ensemble, & Music Composition and Sound Design.


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FOR THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY

ST. MARTINS YOUTH THEATRE | 2018

What would make you abandon immeasurable happiness for a world that promises nothing? St Martins is inviting audiences to roam its many rooms in search of the traces of the ones who walked away.

  • Concept and Direction / Nadja Kostich
    Text / Ursula K. Le Guin, Daniel Keene and the St Martins Ensemble
    Associate Director / Luke Kerridge
    Dramaturgy and Video Design / Michael Carmody
    Composition and Sound Design / Jethro Woodward
    Set and Costume Design / Emily Barrie
    Lighting Design / Richard Vabre

    Associate Artists / Stefan Bramble, Kat Cornwell, Harriet Devlin, Lyndsay Marsden, Katy Maudlin, Joana Pires, Ahmarnya Price and Gabriel Collie.

    2018 Greenroom Award for Best Design
    2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival Award for Best Live Art

SAMI IN PARADISE

BELVOIR THEATRE CO. | 2018

Based On The Suicide By Nikolai Erdman.
Sami’s lived in the camp so long he can barely remember his real home. He’s a bit of a dreamer, a bit of a clown. One night he wakes up at the end of his tether. There’s gotta be more to life than this. He stakes his dignity on learning the tuba, little knowing he’s set off down the path to his own funeral party…

  • Based on The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman
    Adapted by Eamon Flack & the company
    Director Eamon Flack
    Set & Costume Designer Dale Ferguson
    Lighting Designer Verity Hampson
    Musical Direction, Sound Design & Composer (in collaboration with Mahan Ghobadi & Hamed Sadeghi) Jethro Woodward


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MOTH

Arena | Malthouse | Sydney Opera House | QPAC

What starts as just another night drinking down at the cricket nets soon gives way to an ecstatic vision that leaves Sebastian unconscious, their friendship left in ruin. The next morning, he wakes up with a mysterious moth in a jar by his bed, and a calling to save the souls of all humankind. And so begins the Passion of Sebastian.

2010 Green award for best Composition & Sound design

  • Arena Theatre Company 2010
    Malthouse | Sydney Opera House | QPAC

    By Declan Greene
    Directed By Chris Kohn
    Set & Costume By Jonathon Oxlade
    Lighting By Rachel Burke
    Composition & Sound By Jethro Woodward
    Photography By Jeff Busby

    2010 Green award for best Composition & Sound design


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