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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).

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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)
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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)

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By: Anthony Weigh
DIR: Sarah Goodes
Drums & Perc: Ralf Rehak
Double Bass: Dan Witton
2024 Green Award Nomination: Outstanding Composition & Sound Design (Theatre Companies)
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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.

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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
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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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

VOICE: GAIN SLATER

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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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…

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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

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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