club house
Where you go to hang out. Let it swing.
Club House is a theatrical brains trust. A collective of crafty and exceptionally naughty theatre artists and friends, led by award-winning actor and theatre maker, Bec Massey.
Club House is where experienced artists go to play together. To mess around and magic up a shiny something out of nothing.
Seriously good times in the theatre.
Where you go for a party after dark. To bring back the wild.
Since Club House's inception in 2019 at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney, we’ve gone from strength to strength, cementing our position as an exciting emerging voice in the Australian theatre landscape.
2022 we made our celebrated debut at the Sydney Festival with David Finnigan’s 44 Sex Acts in One Week. We also began the creative development of It’s a Secret! (supported by the Major Festivals Initiative). This large-scale, all-ages romp features some of the country’s brightest creative talent, including director Bruce Gladwin (2022 International Ibsen Award) and choreographer Lucy Guerin, AO.
2023 we hunkered down and developed the third instalment of David Finnigan’s apocalyptic comedy series: Dance Dance Insurrection, a devastatingly funny meld of choreography, conspiracy theories, and intergenerational warfare. This ever more relevant work will find its place in the world in 2027.
2024 was the year of 44 Sex Acts. Club House Productions debuted at the Canberra Theatre Centre, were touted by Brisbane as “the hit of the Comedy Festival”, and took the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by storm - selling out (literally not spiritually) and winning gold for Australia at what felt like the theatre olympics (Best Play, The Stagey Place).
2025 Kip Chapman, director/writer/ immersive theatre wunderkind and all round amazing human, returned to the Club House where he and Bec reworked t’s a Secret! into the interactive work it was always meant to be. Supported by our friends at Melbourne Fringe we trialed the concept in an ambitious work-in-progress with two sell out shows with actual live audiences. The only way you can trial an immersive show. We built a scavenger hunt through the Victorian Trades Hall and turned the graffitied carpark into an underground party for families. Voted by audiences as THE. BEST. PARTY. EVER.
2026 We set our sights further a field with an exciting new partnership with Parrot Ox, international theatrical managers extraordinaire. The fit is snug - they, like us, want to move hearts, change minds, and step off the beaten path - it’s a match! They will be working with us to share the joyfest that is It’s a Secret! with festival audiences in Australia and round the world.
To learn more about what’s happening in the Club House, see our Works.
A Churchill Fellow, Liesel has over 25 years experience in writing, producing, directing and performing theatre for both young and adult audiences.
For Opera Australia, she directed Carmen for the inaugural Opera on Cockatoo Island, and was the Librettist and Director for 3 operas for young audiences.
For the Ensemble Theatre, Liesel has directed Masterclass (2024), The Glass Menagerie, The Half Life of Marie Curie (2025) and Bette and Joan (2026).
In 2026, Liesel directed Goodnight Sweet Prince, her acclaimed chamber re-imagining of Hamlet at the Old Fitz.
44 Sex Acts in One Week
Steve is a Foley director and composer whose work has soundtracked countless theatre productions, including the raunchy cabaret Blanc De Blanc and Nakkiah Lui’s ground-breaking plays Blackie Blackie Brown and Black is the New White.
In addition to his theatre work, Steve also served as Ricki-Lee Coulter’s music director from 2012–14, and has collaborated with major Australian artists like Megan Washington and Samantha Jade.
It’s a Secret!
Julie is a celebrated theatre artist and a queen of the Australian stage. For decades, she has toured festivals across the globe: from her solo schoolboy performance in Anthill’s Kids’ Stuff to her ensemble work in Belvoir Theatre’s Cloudstreet. Most recently, she shone alongside Hugo Weaving in The President at the Gate Theatre, Dublin.
Dance Dance Insurrection
Yvette is one of Australia’s most sought-after choreographers, with over 20 years’ experience bringing performances to life. She has worked across all genres and industries: from television events (the ARIA and Logie Awards) to theatre productions (In the Heights; American Psycho), and even stadium shows (AFL Grand Final 2021 – 2023). In the world of choreography, Yvette is an unparalleled talent.
44 Sex Acts in One Week: The TV Series
Jordan is a multi-award-winning writer, director, and performer whose films have screened at festivals across Australia and the world. His most recent credits include co-writing Justin Dix’s shipwreck horror Blood Vessel and developing the feature project Other People, as part of Impact Australia’s screenwriting incubator.
44 Sex Acts in One Week: The TV Series
Todd is an intimacy coordinator with over 25 years’ experience performing on stage and screen. His work in intimacy coordination spans film (The Long Track), television (Shortland Street; Raised by Refugees) and theatre (Saving Face; Daddy Ubu).
It's A Secret
Tim Chappel is an Academy Award, BAFTA, and AFI Award-winning costume designer who began his career with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. That debut brought him international recognition and launched a career spanning stage, screen, and large-scale live events.
He has designed for global television and live events, from The Masked Singer and Dancing with the Stars to the Islamic Solidarity Games Opening Ceremony in Baku and the Dubai World Expo Closing Ceremony.
Chappel’s stage credits include Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical — which earned him the Tony, Olivier, and Helpmann Awards for Best Costume Design — alongside acclaimed productions such as Dream Lover, Sweet Charity, Vivid White and Gypsy. He also teaches at NIDA and AFTRS, passing on decades of design experience to the next generation of artists and designers.
Michael Louis Kennedy is an independent artist, playwright and author based in Sydney,
Australia.Recent works include The Balloon Dog Bites (Old Fitz, Sydney & Melbourne Fringe 2025; and Shoreditch Playhouse, London 2025), All The Fraudulent Horse Girls (Old Fitz, Sydney
2024; Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe 2024; Seven Dials Theatre, London 2024; The Blue Room, Perth; Melbourne Fringe 2023; and the Glory, London 2022); Acqua Profonda
(Bondi Festival 2022), and All That Glitters Is Not Mould (NIDA 2022).His work has been featured in Overland, Voiceworks, Brag, Going Down Swinging,
Transportation Press, Baby Teeth, and more.He was the recipient of the 2023 Junior Foundation Commission with Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP), and was a member of Sydney Theatre Company’s Emerging Writers Group from 2021-2023.
He is currently part of the 2026-2027 Griffin Studio Cohort.
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Jonathon is an award-winning designer for theatre, film and television.
Jonathon is the co-creator, production designer and character designer of ABC’s television series BEEP & MORT produced by Windmill Pictures, receiving an APDG award for Best Production Design for a Television Series.He designed the film GIRL ASLEEP for which he won an ACCTA Award for Best Costume Design, received an ACCTA nomination for Best Production Design, and won two APDG Awards – for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. The same year, he won a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Costume Design for MR BURNS and a PAWA for MR IRRESISTIBLE.
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It’s a Secret! Selected to pitch at APAX
September 2026
Following a highly competitive process, Club House was selected to pitch It’s a Secret!, our immersive family show, as part of the Australian Performing Arts Exchange (APAX) arts market program.
We can’t wait to share this show. Artistic Director Bec Massey, and director Kip Chapman, will be heading to Brisbane and pitching on Tuesday 8 September.
It’s a Secret! APAX 2026
2026
Bec and Kip had a ball meeting presenters and artists at APAX, which coincided with the opening of the excellent Brisbane Festival. What a blast. Heaps of interest for a 2027 tour of It’s a Secret! And connection with people making and baking work.
Where do cats go at night? To an underground douf in The Victorian Trades Hall carpark of course! It’s a Secret! at Melbourne Fringe Festival.
October 2025
Club House sold out It’s a Secret! in the Victorian Trades Hall Car Park as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival.
44 Sex Acts in One Week wins 'Best Play' at Edinburgh Fringe, The Stagey Place
August 2024
We came (44 times), we saw (so many amazing pieces of theatre) and we were conquered by the generosity of the many gorgeous audiences that rocked up each day at 4.40pm to the King Dome to see 44 Sex Acts. Whilst they were throwing javelins and running races in Paris, we were competing for audiences in the Arts Olympics (aka The Edinburgh Fringe).
Club House debut Canberra Theatre Centre
July 2024
It was frosty cold outside but the heat was turned up for Club House’s wild debut at the Canberra Theatre Centre.
Programmed as part of Valence, 44 Sex Acts in One Week was a perfect fit for this new series, designed 'to ignite the senses and challenge perceptions; bringing together visionary artists, exploring the now, pushing the boundaries of convention, inviting reflection and action.'
44 Sex Acts is the ‘highlight of the Brisbane Comedy Festival’
May 2024
We just smashed a two-week-long stint at this year’s Brisbane Comedy Festival.
Not only did our fruity, apocalyptic rom-com bring some seriously good times to the Powerhouse theatre, but we were heralded the 'highlight of Brisbane Comedy Festival’ (Scenestr) and one of the 'best performances — a hilarious, heart-warming, subversive, and intelligent show that stood out like a banana in your pocket.' (Stage Whispers) This high praise is a testament to David Finnigan’s hilarious, prescient script, and the sizzling chemistry and comic timing of our cast.
2022
‘[The] momentum of the theatrical spectacle is stripped bare to its primal beating heart.’ Read article
TIME OUT
★★★★
2022
AARON BEACH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BELVOIR
‘Club House Productions operates as a playground for some of Australia’s finest theatrical artists and as a result creates poignant and quintessentially Australian comedy that is thoroughly enjoyable and accessible to global audiences.’
We acknowledge the following organisations for their generous support. With their help, Club House is able to achieve our creative and organisational goals.
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