In Development
Multiple Depps
Written by Michael Louis Kennedy
Developed by the Company
Johnny Depp journies to The Underworld to retrieve his repuation.
Amber McMahon and Bec Massey play Johnny Depp(s).
Taking myth-making and our collective compulsion to narrate our way out of self-reflection, we are exploring the Depp-Heard trial using clowning, sketch comedy, audience interaction, physical theatre, puppetry, ventriloquism (why not).
Multiple Depps is a fascinating theatrical provocation: reframing the Depp v Heard trial through the intersecting mythologies of Peter Pan and Orpheus, to explore questions of myth, domestic violence, power and collective belief.
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Amber is a beloved Australian actor of the stage and screen. Since 2002, she has worked with a host of leading theatre companies including the MTC, Malthouse Theatre, STC, Belvoir, State Theatre Company of SA and Queensland Theatre Company. Her most recent works include the MTC’s North by Northwest and Windmill Theatre’s Girl Asleep.
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Bec is an acclaimed actress working across film and television, and one of Australia’s beloved theatre clowns. She founded Club House Productions as a naughty play space for skilled artists to colour outside the lines.
Alongside Dance Dance Insurrection, she is currently developing a large scale adaptation of It’s a Secret! with Bruce Gladwin, Lucy Guerin and Iain Grandage.
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).
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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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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 a production of Carmen for the inaugural Opera on Cockatoo Island, and was the Librettist and Director for 3 operas for young audiences.
For the Ensemble Theatre, she 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 re-imagining of Hamlet at the Old Fitz.
Sheridan is a highly-skilled actress (Prima Facie, Stop Girl, Calamity Jane, Muriel’s Wedding), cabaret performer and writer. Her self-penned and performed Songs for the Fallen won Best Musical and Outstanding Actress at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, as well as a Green Room Award for Best Artist.
An exciting new force in directing, she received a nomination for Best Director at the Sydney Theatre Awards for the premiere of the musical Dubbo Championship Wrestling, and directed the Sydney Festival season of 44 Sex Acts in One Week for Club House.
Sheridan is currently the Hayes Theatre fellow and is co-writing a new musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career for Melbourne Theatre Company.
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..jpg)