1983 ACTORS

FLINDERS DRAMA CENTRE


Syd Brisbane
Melbourne

 
  After graduating from Flinders Unversity Drama Centre, Syd worked with Troupe Theatre in their 1984 Festival Production Tibetan Inroads.  He was a founding member of the Bushdance Theatre Company, touring SA and Victoria with the Kelly Dance.  He joined Troupe in 1985 appearing in many plays including Rundle Rita, The Floating Palais and The Last Drive-In On Earth for the 1986 Festival. He has also worked with Harvest and Patch Theatres.  For the Red Shed Company Syd has appeared in Immaculate Deceptions and Road and for State Theatre Company in Marat/Sade, The Comedy Of Errors and Quickies.  Other theatre highlights include Daniel Keene's Low and Terminus.  His film credits include Dead Letter Office, Struck by Lightning, Hammers Over The Anvil, the mini-series Shadows Of The Heart, Tracks Of Glory, The Battlers and the critically acclaimed Bad Boy Bubby.
 

Michael Griffin
Sydney

 


  Michael studied drama at the University of Adelaide and at Flinders University Drama Centre in South Australia.  He has a double major in Drama and Performance from Flinders Uni Drama Centre and in Anthropology (Social Science) from the University of Adelaide.  He has a first class honours degree in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory from the University of Adelaide.  Michael has worked extensively as an actor on the stage and in television and film throughout Oz.  He has played lead roles on the stage on numerous occasions but most notably in the Australian Premiere of Stephen Lowe's Tibetan Inroads during the 1984 Adelaide Festival of the Arts and in the cult hit world premier of John Romeril's music theatre piece Black Cargo for the Melbourne Worker's Theatre in 1991.  He has appeared with the State Theatre of South Australia in the Greek tragedy Medea and in the very popular Dealer's Choice. His work has been described as 'absolutely marvelous', 'stunning' and 'outstanding' by Australian critics. He has been nominated for acting awards in both Melbourne and Adelaide.  He appeared in Scott Hick's first feature film Call Me Mr Brown and in Australian television series such as The Flying Doctors, Chances and The Gerry Connelly Show.  He has had grants from government arts departments to write and develop scripts for the stage.  Before acting, he worked as a musician/singer and more recently he has worked as an Academic - lecturing and tutoring law, and as a legal research officer. He has also enjoyed success as a writer and event co-ordinator.
 

Melissa Reeves
Melbourne

 
 


Melissa Reeves is a Melbourne Playwright.  Her plays include In Cahoots, The Girl I Love, (co-written with Margeret Mills, Maude Davey and Nicki Redlich), Sweetown - awarded the Jill Blewitt Memorial Playwrights Award in 1993, Great Day, The Emperor's New Clothes, Storming Heaven and Road Movie.  Who's Afraid of the Working Class and Fever were both co-written with Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius and Christos Tsiolkas, the former winning best play in the Queensland Literary Awards, two Awgies for best new play, and the Jill Blewitt Playrights Award.  Salt Creek Murders was winner of the Wal Cherry award.  Melissa received the Major Awgie Award in 2005 for her new play The Spook.

 


Tanya Nehme
 





  An editor since 1986, Tania Nehme edited numerous documentaries, commercials and short dramas
before she cut her first feature, Epsilon, for Rolf de Heer in 1995.  Tanya was nominated for an Australian Film Institute [AFI] Award for Best Editor in 1991 for her work on the short drama Once In A Time.  Working as both picture and sound editor, The Tracker was the fifth feature Nehme has cut with de Heer, earning her Best Editor nominations at both the 2002 AFI Awards and the 2002 Film Critics Circle Awards.  Nehme also edited, Dance Me To My Song, The Sound Of One Hand Clapping and The Quiet Room.  Apart from feature films, Nehme edited the Barron Television children's series Chuck Finn, the SBS Australia documentary Kumarangk 5214 and the Australian Film Commission funded short feature The 13th House.  Neme worked on her sixth feature collaboration with Rolf de Heer, Alexandra's Project, which resulted in nominations for Best Editing for Film Critic's Circle and AFI awards in 2003.  As well as film editing nominations, Nehme also received nominations for an IF and AFI Award as part of the sound team for The Tracker (2002) and Alexandra's Project (2003).  In 2004, Nehme won Best Editor at the IF Awards for The Old Man Who Read Love Stories.  In that year, she also received nominations for Best Editing at the Film Critic’s Circle and AFI Awards.
 

Eileen Darley
Adelaide

 
   

John Crouch

 
 

 


Annabel Giles

 
   

Robert Crouch
 
   
     
   

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