Kate Stones, President
Kate Stones has been working with the CTC since 2009. Kate joined the committee in 2010 and served as Secretary from 2011-2018, becoming President in 2017. Her CTC directing credits include Qubit (2024), Peter Panto or One Flew Over the Second Star on the Right (2022); The Tempest, (2021); Gallipoli: The Musical (2017); Monkey and the Monk (2015). She has performed for the CTC in numerous productions, including as Elizabeth Hare in Frankentstein’s Children (2019), as Doll Common in Playhouse Creatures (2014) , as Rosie Donahue in The Donahue Sisters (2012) for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Kyneton One-Act Play Festival. Kate works across independent and community theatre on both a voluntary and professional basis, as Creative Director of CreateA, an organisation that creates creative opportunities for adults with disabilities, and as associate director/children’s workshop facilitator with Arena Theatre Company.
Leah O’Toole, Secretary
Directing a high school musical was a highlight of Leah’s adolescence. Discovering the power and joy of bringing a show to life was a formative experience that has never left her. To keep the magic alive, she has taken on various roles in school productions, including Shakespeare, contemporary plays and, of course, musicals with all the bells and whistles. Supporting people to create great theatre with and for their community is her key motivation for joining the committee.
Georgina Heydon, Treasurer
Leah Fistric, Vice President
Toby Heydon
Toby Heydon has served on the CTC committee of management since 2019. He is an actor, musician, writer and producer and is active in various performing arts. Toby has been involved with all four of the company’s Shakespeare productions, and has performed a curious range of the Bard’s characters: Pistol (Henry V), Mowbray (Henry IV pt 1) Charles the Wrestler, William (As You Like It), Sebastian (The Tempest) and the Apothecary (Romeo and Juliet). With Rob Jorritsma, Toby conducts the biennial CTC Shakespeare Youth Workshop.
Emma Richardson
When Emma was a child, she had no television and was a voracious reader, and would bring the characters to life by drawing them. At age 15 became entranced by the stage, when her theatre-loving aunt took her to see Les Miserables. Several years of studying and creating theatre followed. Emma is now returning to the theatre world after about 30 years, and is thoroughly enjoying being part of CTC, first as an actor in Inspector Hound and Qubit, and now as lighting operator and committee member. She loves how theatre brings people together to play and to explore what it means to be alive.
John Willis
