Max Lyandvert is a composer, sound artist and director whose work with major theatre companies has garnered him many awards. He has won two Helpmann Awards, in 2008 for War of the Roses and 2005 for The Ham Funeral/Journal of a Plague Year. He has received numerous Helpman, Sydney theatre and Greenroom nominations.  Max has worked extensively with the STC and also with Company B/Belvoir, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Malthouse Theatre, ICA, QTC, Legs on the Wall, Hothouse Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company. Some notable productions include LOST ECHO, WAR OF THE ROSES, JULIUS CAESAR, FESTEN, SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT and ORESTEIA. He has worked extensively with Rodney Fisher, Benedict Andrews, Kate Champion and international directors Romeo Castellucci, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Annabel Arden. In 2008, Max composed choir arrangements for the feature film Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger starring Toni Collette. In 2011 Max was Artist in Residence at NIDA. In 2012 Max was Composer and Sound Designer for the Australian and European tour of STC’s Gross Und Klein which starred Cate Blanchett. Recently, Max composed the score for the six part mini-series DEVILS PLAYGROUND and the feature film documentaries GAYBY BABY and AFTER THE WAVE. In 2014 Max received the Australia Council for the Arts Theatre Fellowship.

Max’s work as director includes STC's commission MANNA (2009), the workshop production of NETHER, the Australian premiers of Richard Forman’s works NOW THAT COMMUNISM IS DEAD MY LIFE FEELS EMPTY (B Sharp Belvoir, Malthouse and Melbourne Festival of the Arts in 2007), I'VE GOT THE SHAKES (Darlinghurst Theatre in 2004) and MY HEAD WAS A SLEDGEHAMMER (B Sharp in 2001) and his own work CLOSE YOUR LITTLE EYES, for Fourplay string quartet, Sydney Children's Choir and Melissa Madden Gray, for Sydney Festival at the Opera House. 


Seth Jordan is an Australian-based Music Journalist, Radio Broadcaster, and Festival Consultant. He is the Pacific correspondent for Songlines magazine (UK), and was the Contributing Editor for the book 'World Music: Global Sounds in Australia' (2010 UNSW Press). 
Seth's national world/jazz/beats radio program 'The Tiki Lounge Remix' is produced at 2 Triple B in Bellingen NSW, Australia, and is networked to Community stations nationwide via the Community Radio Network (CRN). 
The program is made possible with support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation (cbf.com.au).

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