Cast
Amy Lehpamer
Tillie, Charlotte Lucas, Charles Bingley, Miss Bingley
A Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Award Winner, Amy grew up in Geelong and began her musical life playing the violin.
Acclaimed as one of our most versatile leading ladies, her career has traversed singing the hills alive as Maria in The Sound of Music to delivering pop power ballads and comedic asides as Anne Hathaway in &Juliet.
Other notable roles include Dusty Springfield in Dusty, Cynthia Weil in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Mrs Walker in the Who’s Tommy, Principal Rosalie Mullins in School of Rock, Christine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, violinist Reza in Once, Sherrie in Rock of Ages, Janet in Rocky Horror and the 2008 and 2012 casts of Eddie Perfect’s Shane Warne the Musical.
In demand as a solo artist, she has performed in concert with all of Australia’s major orchestras, and written and performed solo cabaret shows for Sydney’s Teatro, QPAC and Opera Queensland.
Amy’s screen credits include Australian Epic, Get Krack!n, Utopia and The Time of our Lives. She is the creator and co-writer of the webseries Donnatelegrams.
Zoe Ioannou
Flo, Mrs Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy
Zoe Ioannou is a graduate from NIDA. Most recently, she appeared in Grease the musical (Crossroads Live) understudying the roles of Sandy, Frenchy and Jan.
Other performance credits include Tammy and understudy Penny/Amber in Hairspray (Crossroads Live), Rose in the Australian premiere of Dubbo Championship Wrestling (Hayes Theatre Co), Carolyn in Bridges of Madison County (Matthew Management/Neil Gooding Productions) at the Hayes Theatre, West Side Story (Opera Australia/GWB Entertainment) as Rosalia, alternating the role of Maria, and The Wizard of Oz (Gordon Frost Organisation/Suzanne Jones) understudying the role of Dorothy. Other credits include Big Fish at the Hayes Theatre (RPG Productions), and Pepper in Annie (Gordon Frost Organisation).
Zoe’s screen credits include Paige in the ABC TV series Dance Academy, resident work for Disney Playhouse, and Ally in Channel 7’s Home and Away.
Zoe has also worked creatively as Choreographer/Associate Director for BARBRA: The Greatest Star (Hayes Theatre Co) and Choreographer/Assistant Director under Brittanie Shipway for I HATE MEN As Read By Men (Stoddart Entertainment Group). Other credits include Associate Director/Choreographer for The Dismissal, and Assistant Director on If/Then at the Hayes Theatre. She will also be Assistant Director/Choreographer for We Are The Tigers playing at the Hayes Theatre in October/November 2026.
Kaori Maeda-Judge
Clara, Jane Bennet, George Wickham, Lady Catherine de Bourgh
With a diploma in screen acting (Film and Television Institute) and a BFA in Music Theatre (Victorian College of the Arts), Kaori’s on-screen credits include Australian soap, Neighbours as Jasmine Udagawa, Orange Is The New Brown and NBC series, La Brea.
Kaori’s on-stage credits include David Bowie’s musical, Lazarus playing Maemi (The Production Company), White Pearl, written by Anchuli Felicia King and directed by Priscilla Jackman, playing Ruki (Sydney Theatre Company), The Dismissal written by Laura Murphy, Blake Erickson and Jay James Moody covering Margaret Whitlam and Junie Morosi (Squabbalogic), The Hello Girls directed by Jason Langley, playing Bertha Hunt ( Hayes Theatre Co./Heart Strings Theatre Co), Little Women Directed by Amy Cambell, playing Meg March (Joshua Robson Productions/Hayes Theatre Co.) and she will be reprising her role in Jack Thorne’s Tony award winning, A Christmas Carol directed by David Spencer playing Jess and covering Belle and Little Fan (GWB Entertainment/Marriner Group). In 2025 Kaori did a nation tour of Japan with Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo as the lead Japanese performer. Kaori also LOVES audience interaction and the more you avert your eyes, the more she’s going to pick on you. You’ve been warned.
Ruby Shannon
Anne, Mary Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Mister Collins, Mrs Gardiner
Ruby Shannon hails from Shepparton on Yorta Yorta Country and is a graduate of the QUT Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), class of 2023. During her training, she appeared on stage as Joan in Joan Must Die *I Never Liked Her Anyway and Mash in Stupid F#king Bird. Prior to QUT, Ruby studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and continues her screen training with Creating Artists.
Since graduating, Ruby has collaborated on independent theatre, film and development projects in Meanjin (Brisbane). Notable credits include Marie Antoinette in the premiere production of CAKE (IMRSE at Metro Arts), starring roles in short films Good Mourning (Bus Stop Films) and In Between (Brown Lab Productions), and development work with Dead Puppet Society through their DPS Lab.
Ruby is thrilled to be making her professional theatre debut in this production, touring multiple bucket-list venues around Australia in one go — she couldn’t be more excited.
Teo Vergara
Effie, Elizabeth Bennet
Teo Vergara is an actor, singer, dancer and a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in Music Theatre.
Teo made their screen debut in the ABC series, Crazy Fun Park (2023) directed and created by Nick Verso, portraying the character Bridget. They followed this by starring in the queer and gender diverse series, Turn Up The Volume (ABC), playing Quinn. They were also a member of the original Australian cast for Jagged Little Pill: The Alanis Morissette Musical, directed by Leah Howard, which toured nationally.
Most recently, Teo starred in the original Australian musical, Converted! created by Vic Zerbst for the Australian Theatre for Young People (dir by Hayden Tonazz).
Teo can also currently be seen in the lead role of Laura in the animated adventure film, A Sloth Story (2024), directed by Tania Vincent and Ricard Cussó.
Creatives
Isobel McArthur
Writer & Original Director
Isobel McArthur is an Olivier award winning actor, director and playwright. Her 5-star sensation Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) played to acclaim in London’s West End and is now touring the UK as well as playing in translation in multiple languages world-wide.
As an actor and musician Isobel has performed in most of the UK’s major playhouses in collaboration with Ella Hickson, Mike Bartlett and Anthony Neilson, as well as in her own plays How to Sing it, Daphne Oram’s Wonderful World of Sound and the lauded Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of).
As playwright-director, other recent productions include her touring adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (National Theatre of Scotland), her original sell-out Fringe First Winner The Grand Old Opera House Hotel (Traverse Theatre) and her adaptation of Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West (Royal Shakespeare Company).
In addition to the Oliver Award for ‘Best Comedy Play’, Isobel has also won the Evening Standard Award for ‘Best Emerging Talent’, The Scotsman’s ‘Fringe First’ Award, The List ‘Hot 100’ Award, The Saltire Society’s ’40 Under 40′ alongside nominations for the Stage’s ‘Best West End Debut’, and both Whatsonstage’s ‘Best Supporting Actor’ and ‘Best New Play’.
Jason Bovaird
Lighting Designer
Jason is a multi award – winning lighting designer and has received 4 Green Room Award Nominations (Musical Theatre) graduating from Melbourne University in 1995 and in 2012 graduated from New York University’s Broadway Masterclass in Lighting Design and Projection.
With 34 years of experience Jason’s work has been seen throughout Australia, New Zealand, London, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manilla, Tel Aviv, Europe, Dubai and throughout the Middle East. He has worked for most of the major performing arts companies and festivals in Australia and overseas as a lighting designer, stage manager and production manager such as Melbourne Theatre Company, Opera Australia, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Sydney Theatre Company, Playbox Theatre Company, Brisbane Festival, Perth Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Criterion and Barbican Theatre (London), Edinburgh Festival, Crown Casino,Theatre Works, Nederlander Theatre (New York), Andrew Kay and Associates.
His national lighting designs include the most recent critical acclaimed production of The Diary Of Anne Frank where Jason received 5 Star reviews for his lighting design along with Evil Dead – The Musical (Sydney / Melbourne). Other designs include Saturday Night Fever, Kitty Litter, 2026 Green Room Awards, Once Apon A One More Time, The Play That Goes Wrong (Australia / NZ), The Blues Brothers, Here You Come Again (Australia), Dream Girls (Australian Premiere), Next to Normal, Xanadu, Kinky Boots (2024 Green Room Nomination), Ruthless (2025 Green Room Nomination), Son Called Moon (2025 Green Room Nomination) In The Heights (Australian Premiere) and The Colour Purple.
Australian Tours of The 39 Steps, Motherhood – The Musical, One Day of The Year, The Club, Jersey Forever (The Original Jersey Boys), The Colour Purple, Around The World In Eighty Days, Love Letters, Oracle, Matador and Barassi – The Stage Show.
Other work includes internationally Shaolin Warriors (Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand), Mister Maker (Singapore / Manilla), Princes Of The Night (Capitol Theatre,Singapore), Busting Out (Los Angeles), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (New York, Australia / New Zealand), Marilyn (New York).
Jason is managed by Ian White Management and owner of Moving Light Productions Australia (THE MOVING LIGHT GROUP).
Simone Sault
Associate Director and Choreographer
Simone Sault (She/Her) is an internationally acclaimed choreographer, director, and movement coach, with a reputation for excellence across Australia and the global stage. Growing up in Melbourne, she trained in classical ballet at the National Theatre Ballet School before beginning her professional dance career with the Sydney Dance Company in 1999. Over her eight-year tenure, Simone performed numerous principal roles, including a critically praised performance of Ellipse at The Joyce Theatre in New York.
Recently, Simone returned from Broadway, where she served as Associate Director and Movement Director on The Roommate, starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow, under the direction of Jack O’Brien.
Other notable credits include serving as Associate Choreographer for the US and UK productions of Marianne Elliott and Stephen Sondheim’s Company on Broadway, the North American Tour, and the West End, as well as choreographing and associating for Love Never Dies across multiple countries. She was also the Movement Director for Bell Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and directed a workshop of Cinderella at The Other Palace in London.
Simone’s influence extends to one of the most iconic productions in musical theatre history — The Phantom of the Opera— for the landmark new staging on Sydney Harbour, where she has worked as Choreographer and Associate Director alongside Simon Phillips and Gabriela Tylesova on the first major reimagining of the production in over 38 years.
Her career also spans several high-profile films, including Beauty and the Beast (directed by Bill Condon), Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, and films directed by Tim Burton including Alice in Wonderland and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Simone has also contributed to numerous television and creative projects, including Giri/Haji for Netflix, Baby Ballroom on Channel 4 UK, Strictly Dance Fever for the BBC, and the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony directed by Danny Boyle.
Her performance career includes roles in The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago (London and Australia), Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Sadler’s Wells, Sinatra at the London Palladium, and On the Town in both Paris and London, among many others.
As a highly sought-after dance coach, Simone has conducted masterclasses and workshops across the globe, including in the USA, Japan, Russia, Australia, China, and the UK.
