GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS KILL CLIMATE DENIERS DAVID FINNIGAN 23 FEBRUARY- 7 APRIL

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2 GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS KILL CLIMATE DENIERS DAVID FINNIGAN 23 FEBRUARY- 7 APRIL Director Lee Lewis Designer Jonathan Hindmarsh Lighting Designer Trent Suidgeest Sound Designer Steve Toulmin Audiovisual Designer Toby Knyvett Stage Manager Khym Scott With Eden Falk, Sheridan Harbridge, Emily Havea, Rebecca Massey, Lucia Mastrantone SBW STABLES THEATRE 23 FEBRUARY-7 APRIL Government Partners Supported by Griffin s Production Partner program Griffin acknowledges the generosity of the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation in allowing it the use of the SBW Stables Theatre rent free, less outgoings, since 1986.

3 I ve spent the last ten years producing theatre in collaboration with climate and earth system scientists. I produce science theatre as part of a collective called Boho we take concepts from climate science and complexity theory and turn them into performance pieces. The goal is to take these concepts from climate science to audiences who would never in their lives come to a theatre show about climate change: politicians, mining company executives, policy-makers and so on. We re cautious about making work that doesn t just speak to progressive arts audiences, we work constantly on getting out of our bubble. In that work I spend a lot of time bending over backwards to avoid politicising the science, picking my words carefully to avoid getting anyone offside. And that s important, because that s how you build consensus, that s how you get into conversations with people from the other side of the fence about land and resource management, and maybe that s how we formulate change. This play isn t that. This isn t going to change anyone s mind about anything. This is years of anger and despair tied up in a barrage of some of the best music our species has ever produced. This is everything I wanted to say but bit my tongue about, year after year, until I sat down and blurted it all out in one hit. This is fuck it I m scared, turn the volume all the way up, panic euphoria, hold hands tightly let s go. Straighten up and fly right, ecstasy chasers. It takes a full day s work just to survive. David Finnigan Writer PLAYWRIGHT S NOTE

4 Be careful of entering your play in the Griffin Award. You may just win. And at Griffin we are really committed to giving winning plays a production. This is not one of those comfortable awards that gives you a cheque and lets you put the play in a drawer. Someone should have warned David Finnigan. Because he was onto a good thing the story of having his play shut down by right-wing commentators. Guaranteed sympathy from the left, a lot of outrage from fellow artists, an album, a walking tour, a one-man show, dinner invitations endless possibilities. But then Kill Climate Deniers won the Griffin Award last year. It was unlike anything else we had read in its fury, its audacity, its typography, its cheekiness, its understanding of Canberra. And now David has to watch the legend become a play. And wonder, like all playwrights heading into production, if his words can make their way off the page, onto a stage and into our consciousness in such a way that it can make a difference to the status quo. Faith in the power of theatre to create change can be hard to cling to. But it inspires me that the son of a climate scientist is using an artistic voice to spread his father s work out into the world. His passion for climate politics is as fierce as the science is real. We are not fighting climate wars yet. But as Cape Town runs out of water I wonder when and where the first battles will be fought. There is a clear-sighted provocation inside this play: If you are not against us you are for us. If we do not actively fight against climate deniers we are passively accepting and thus supporting their politics. We may not like to see ourselves as climate deniers, but if we stick our heads in the sand that is what we are. This is sobering, disturbing, destabilising and true, both personally and politically. Malcom Turnbull, your thoughts please? Lee Lewis Director DIRECTOR S NOTE

5 David Finnigan Playwright David Finnigan is a writer, theatre-maker and game developer. He works at the intersection of science and art, producing participatory works that explore concepts from game theory, complex systems science, network theory and resilience. David is a Fellow of the Churchill Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts. He has been a resident artist at University College London, Tanghalang Pilipino in Manila, and Campos de Gutierrez in Colombia. David is the founder of two Australian performing arts festivals: the Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle and the You Are Here Festival in Canberra. He is the co-founder of science-theatre ensemble Boho and an artistic associate of UK company Coney and Filipino company the Sipat Lawin Ensemble.

6 Lee Lewis Director Lee is the Artistic Director of Griffin Theatre Company and one of Australia s leading directors. For Griffin she has directed: The Bleeding Tree (Best Director at the 2016 Helpmann Awards), Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography, The Homosexuals or Faggots, Rice, Masquerade (co-directed with Sam Strong), Gloria, Emerald City, A Rabbit for Kim Jong-il, The Serpent s Table (co-directed with Darren Yap), Replay, Silent Disco, Smurf In Wanderland, The Bull, The Moon and the Coronet of Stars, The Call, A Hoax, The Nightwatchman. Other directing credits include: for Griffin and Bell Shakespeare: The Literati; for Bell Shakespeare: The School for Wives, Twelfth Night; for Belvoir: That Face, This Heaven, Half and Half, A Number, 7 Blowjobs, Ladybird; for Hayes Theatre Company: Darlinghurst Nights; for Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC): Hay Fever and David Williamson s Rupert, which toured to Washington DC as part of the World Stages International Arts Festival and to Sydney s Theatre Royal in 2014; for Sydney Theatre Company: Honour, Love-Lies-Bleeding, ZEBRA!; for Darwin Festival: Highway of Lost Hearts. Jonathan Hindmarsh Designer This is Jonathan s first production with Griffin. His previous credits include, for Apocalypse Theatre Productions: Doubt: A Parable; for Imperial Artistry: Crimes of the Heart; for The Kings Collective: The Wonderful World of Dissocia; for La Mama: Intoxication; for Mad March Hare Theatre: Belleville; for NIDA: Hunger, Sports Play; for New Theatre: The Cherry Orchard; for the Old 505 Theatre: The Criminals; for Q Theatre: Teacup in a Storm; for Red Line Productions: A View From the Bridge, The Judas Kiss, Look Back in Anger; for Sport for Jove: Away; for Thread Entertainment: Low Level Panic. He has also been the production designer on a number of music videos, including Huntington s Secret and the short film Redflags for ACON health organisation. Jonathan graduated from NIDA. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English Literature and Theatre from University of New South Wales.

7 Trent Suidgeest Lighting Designer Trent was the lighting designer for Griffin s The Homosexuals or Faggots. Other recent credits include: for Ambassador Theatre Group: The Beast; for Opera Australia: Carmen, The Opera (The Eighth Wonder); for Opera Australia and Barking Gecko Theatre Company: The Rabbits; for The Production Company: Dusty, Jesus Christ Superstar, Nice Work If You Can Get It; for Sydney Theatre Company: Muriel s Wedding, Hay Fever, Talk; for Hayes Theatre: Calamity Jane, Only Heaven Knows, Darlinghurst Nights. His credits as set & lighting designer include: for Black Swan State Theatre Company: Death of a Salesman, Dinner and Shrine; for Black Swan State Theatre Company and Belvoir: The Sapphires; for Melbourne Theatre Company: National Interest; for Queensland Theatre: Other Desert Cities, Gasp!, Managing Carmen. Other highlights: Praying for Time: A Tribute to George Michael, From Sydney with Love and I Am Eora (Sydney Festival); Waltzing the Wilarra (Perth International Arts Festival). Trent is a recipient of the Mike Walsh Fellowship and WA s Department of Culture and the Arts Young People Fellowship. He is a graduate of WAAPA (Production & Design). Steve Toulmin Sound Designer Steve s credits as composer and/or sound designer include: for Griffin: Gloria, The Homosexuals or Faggots, The Bleeding Tree, Beached; for Griffin and La Boite: A Hoax; for Bell Shakespeare: Othello, Richard III; for Belvoir: Jasper Jones, The Blind Giant Is Dancing, Ivanov, La Traviata, Blue Wizard, Is This Thing On?, 20 Questions, The Seed and Scorched; for La Boite: Tender Napalm, Julius Caesar, Hamlet; for La Boite and Sydney Theatre Company (STC): Edward Gant s Amazing Feats of Loneliness; for Michael Sieders Presents: Porn. Cake; for the Royal Queensland Show: Arena Spectacular; for STC: A Flea In Her Ear, Power Plays, Little Mercy; for Ensemble Theatre: Great Falls, Liberty Equality Fraternity, Circle Mirror Transformation; for Queensland Theatre: Switzerland, That Face; for Strut & Fret: Blanc De Blanc; for Sydney Festival: All The Sex I ve Ever Had. Steve s credits as associate designer include: for Belvoir: Radiance, The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe. His credits as audiovisual designer include: for Griffin: Angela s Kitchen, Between Two Waves; for STC: God of Carnage, Tot Mom. Steve is also known as a songwriter and music producer, having worked with artists such as Ricki-Lee Coulter, Samantha Jade and Megan Washington.

8 Toby Knyvett Audiovisual Designer Toby was the audiovisual designer on Gloria for Griffin Theatre Company. His previous video and lighting design credits for the stage include: for CDP: Incredible Book Eating Boy (original production and national/international tours); for Next Wave Festival: The River Eats, which has since been remounted at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea); for Performance Space: I Might Blow Up Someday; and for Sport For Jove: All s Well That Ends Well, which won Toby the 2014 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Lighting (Independent Production). His previous lighting design credits include: for the Australian National Maritime Museum: Actions Stations, which saw Toby light the HMAS Onslow submarine and HMAS Vampire destroyer. Toby s interactive art credits as creator and/or developer include: for the Sydney Opera House s Creative Play program: Echo Tables, which allowed participants to collaboratively draw with their shadows, and The Unbroken Line, a 7.5m wide bodyscreen built to react to body movements without touch. He is a founder of EAG, the world s first record label for experiences. Now based in Berlin, Toby s long-term project, Orbital Illumination, aims to reflect unused sunlight in space down to earth using mirrors. Khym Scott Stage Manager Khym was the stage manager for Griffin s Festival of New Writing, The Witches, Girl in Tan Boots and The Serpent s Table. From 2013 to 2017 he was assistant stage manager of the Australian Ballet, and toured regionally (as stage manager), nationally, and internationally. Other recent credits include: for Sydney Festival: Lady Rizo: Red, White and Indigo, for Belvoir: This Heaven, Miss Julie; for Performance 4a: Stories Then and Now. He has also stage managed for Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Khym is a graduate of NIDA and the University of Sydney.

9 Eden Falk Finig Eden performed in Griffin Independent production The Ugly One. His recent theatrical credits include: for Belvoir: A Christmas Carol, The Great Fire, This Heaven; for Black Swan State Theatre Company: Death of a Salesman; for Brisbane Powerhouse/Ride On Theatre: The Blind Date Project; for post/performing Lines: Who s the Best?; for Sydney Theatre Company (STC): Macbeth. From 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the STC Actors Company, and performed in multiple award-winning productions including Barrie Kosky s The Lost Echo, Robyn Nevin s Mother Courage and Benedict Andrews War of the Roses. He also received an Australia Council grant to develop a small-scale intimate work with the multi-award winning Belgian theatre collective Ontroerend Goed. The result was A Game of You, which was produced in Belgium and London in co-operation with the National Theatre Studio. Eden s feature films include Julia Leigh s Sleeping Beauty, Baz Luhrman s The Great Gatsby, Simon Stone s The Daughter, and Jeffrey Walker s ABC television drama Riot. Eden is a WAAPA graduate. Sheridan Harbridge Georgina Bekken Sheridan performed in Griffin s production of Jump for Jordan, and co-wrote and performed in the Griffin Independent production Nosferatutu. She was part of Griffin Studio in Her other recent performance credits include: for Belvoir: The Cat/The Dog; for Big hart: Blue Angel, Hip Bone Sticking Out; for Darlinghurst Theatre: Gaybies; for GFO: An Officer and a Gentleman; for Hayes Theatre Company: The Bald Soprano, Cabaret, Charlie Brown, Calamity Jane, DreamSong, Frogger and Smudge, Miss Julie, Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah, Threepenny Opera; for Melbourne Theatre Company: The Beast, North by Northwest, The Speechmaker; for Opera Australia: Carmen, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady; for Sydney Theatre Company: Muriel s Wedding. Her musical Songs for the Fallen won Best Musical and Outstanding Actress at the New York Music Theatre Festival, and has toured to Sydney Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne, and Brisbane Festival. Her cabaret Mrs Bang: A Series of Seductions in 55 Minutes appeared in Brisbane Festival, Sydney Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the 32nd Stage Song Review in Poland, and the Opera House. She played Valerie Solanas and Judy Garland in Jim Sharman s online film Andy X. TV credits include Rake, All Saints, Wild Boys, Doctor Blake Murder Mysteries, and various plays for ABC Radio National. Sheridan is a NIDA graduate.

10 Emily Havea Remely Clark / Beverly Ile Emily is a Sydney-based actor, singer and dancer working across theatre, music, film and TV. Theatre credits include A Midsummer Night s Dream (Bell Shakespeare), BU21 (Old 505), Dogfight (Hayes Theatre), Sing to Me (Apocalypse Theatre) and Black Birds (WITS Festival Fatale, re-staged 2018 for Griffin Batch Festival as Brown Skin Girls). In 2018 Emily plays Calpurnia and Octavius in Julius Caesar for Bell Shakespeare. Her film credits include Stem (Goalpost Pictures) and the web series Resting Pitch Face (Google / Grumpy Sailor Productions). TV credits include Sisters (Network 10), Growing Up Gracefully (ABC) and Wentworth (season 6). Emily trained full-time with Danceworld Studios in 2011 and currently teaches and performs regularly with Retrosweat, the 80 s aerobic workout. An accomplished singer, Emily also works as a backing vocalist and has sung for the EP launches of Okenyo and Mirrah Refects. Emily is a 2014 NIDA acting graduate. Rebecca Massey Gwen Malkin Rebecca performed in Borderlines and Ship of Fools for Griffin. Some of her notable other credits include: for Belvoir: The Alchemist, The Book of Everything, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Cloudstreet, Exit the King, It Just Stopped (for which she won a Green Room Award for Best Actress), Macbeth, The Seagull, The Small Poppies, Stuff Happens, The Underpants; for Malthouse Theatre Company: Tartuffe; for Sydney Theatre Company (STC): After Dinner, Chimerica, Dinner, Perplex, Travesties; for STC and State Theatre Company of South Australia: Vere. Rebecca s recent film credits include Bad Girl, Accidents Happen, The Black Balloon, Mask II and Backyard Ashes. Her television credits include the Working Dog team for Utopia (season 3). Other roles include Deep Water, The Principal, Utopia, Winter, Chandon Pictures, Lowdown, Packed to the Rafters, My Place, City Homicide, Tricky Business, Small Claims and All Saints. Rebecca s animation credits include The Kangaroo Creek Gang and Pacific Heat.

11 Lucia Mastrantone Catch Lucia performed in Griffin s production of Ladies Day. Some of her other theatre credits include: for Belvoir: Atlantis, The Book of Everything, Love and Magic in Mammas Kitchen, Macbeth, Popular Mechanicals 1 & 2, Scorched, Twelfth Night, Vicious Angel; for Bell Shakespeare: The Duchess of Malfi; for Melbourne Theatre Company: Venetian Twins; for State Theatre Company of South Australia: A Little Drowning, The Merchant of Venice, Six Characters in Search of an Author; for Sydney Theatre Company: Mariage Blanc, Romeo and Juliet, Talk. Lucia s screen appearances include acclaimed TV series Tangle, ABC TV s Rake and AFI Award winning film Look Both Ways. Lucia is currently co-starring in a new animation comedy series produced by Working Dog called Pacific Heat.