Since our Season Launch back in September last year, our casting department has been hard at work behind the scenes, assembling a remarkable company of artists for the 13 productions that make up our 2026 season. With the year now well underway, we’re thrilled to share an update of some of the outstanding performers joining us for what promises to be a vivid, surprising and unforgettable year of theatre.
Alongside our extraordinary leading actor Kala Gare, the full cast of the barnstorming new Australian musical My Brilliant Career has been confirmed.
Returning from the original 2024 Melbourne production are Cameron Bajraktarevic-Hayward, Lincoln Elliott, Victoria Falconer, Raj Labade (The Talented Mr Ripley), Drew Livingston, Ana Mitsikas, Christina O’Neill (Bloom), and Jarrad Payne. Their collective experience — and deep connection to this joyful, defiant story — promises to bring the production roaring to life for its Sydney season.
Joining them is Melanie Bird, who became part of the ensemble for the 2026 tour and now steps into her first STC season with us.
With this team, the musical’s fierce humour, big heart and foot-stomping score are in truly brilliant hands.
The gripping contemporary classic Doubt brings together an exceptional cast.
Pamela Rabe (Happy Days) takes on the formidable role of Sister Aloysius, the school principal whose icy resolve and unshakeable convictions drive the play’s tense moral unravelling.
Fresh from directing the acclaimed Purpose at Wharf 1, Zindzi Okenyo takes the stage as Mrs Muller — a mother caught in an impossible situation, navigating fear, hope and the weight of institutional power.
Shannen Alyce Quan (The Dictionary of Lost Words) is Sister James, a young nun whose earnestness and vulnerability sit at the centre of the story’s emotional storm.
This powerful cast promises to deliver a production charged with tension, compassion and razor-sharp insight.
Tara Morice joins a dynamic and still growing ensemble of performers who’ll bring to life the story of the first season of the AFLW – Women’s AFL. Tara was last with us in 2022 for Emme Hoy’s adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and she joins Amy Ingram (How to Plot a Hit in Two Days) and Lucy Bell (Appropriate) for this joyful, real-life tale, written by Australia’s most famous contemporary playwright Suzie Miller.