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 Emma Beech Adelaide 
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For the past 2 years,
after receiving the inaugural Neil Curnow Award, Emma has been
predominantly working with 2
theatre companies Carte Blanche
and Gruppe 38 in Denmark.
In that time, she has co-developed and performed in 2 major
productions and 3 smaller pieces with Carte Blanche and one
project development with Gruppe 38.
Her most recent work
include a performance in My Walls Have Ears, developed
for the Copenhagen Art Gallery by Seimi Nørregård, and
a co-production between Carte Blanche and members of
Teatro de los Sentidos in association with El Gran Caballo Blanco
on La Bola de Oro.
She has also forged links with a
European professional animation training institution, The Animation
Workshop, where she has been the resident character acting
consultant. Emma's
soft spot for film acting has seen her taking part in a script
development workshop using a improvised scripting process with Holly
Owen and Rob Marchand entitled SMess, and is currently
working again with Rob on a feature film.
With the support of The Animation Workshop and Mindless Studio,
Emma has then been able to make her own films using a similar process.
These films are forming the basis for the development of
Live Room Theatre, a cross-platform film & and
installation concept. In the past
10 months back in Australia, Emma has been working with Playwriting
Australia in Canberra and has toured with Splash Theatre Company.
She has secured a Vitalstatistix residency where, with
director Sarah John, she will create and perform in an interactive
performance piece Saskia
Falls to be presented in their 2009 season.
She is also currently undertaking a mentorship with performance
artist Julie Vulcan in Sydney funded by Arts SA.
In November and December of this year, Emma as most recently
worked with Real TV on their new work, One night the
Dead, and Monkey Baa on Thursday's Child.
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 Teresa De Gennaro London, UK
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Within a year of graduating Teresa won two scholarships - The Adelaide Cabaret
Festival scholarship and the State Theatre’s Adele Koh Acting Scholarship.
Since graduating Teresa has worked for professional South Australian Theatre
companies such as Windmill Performing Arts, Vitalstatistix, Splash, Bakehouse,
Bluetongue and for the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust in Guys n’ Dolls.
Her experience ranges from children’s theatre to serious drama and has been part
of several Festivals between Sydney and Adelaide. One of the highlights being
The Telstra Adelaide Festival of the Arts as lead soprano in
The Second Hurricane. Teresa has appeared on
McLeod’s Daughters and has also performed her own cabaret show,
Cabaret Fan Tutti, at Sydney’s major Cabaret venues not to
mention The Basement, various corporate functions and Club venues. Teresa
was a showcase finalist in the 2003 Sydney Cabaret Convention and was also
invited back to The Adelaide Cabaret Festival to face two consecutive years of
sold out performances. Over the last six years Teresa has been an acting,
singing, vocal and Theatre Sports tutor in youth theatres, schools and
universities such as the National Institute of Dramatic Art’s Open Program and
Janice Breen Casting. In 2004 Teresa was an actor in the award winning
play
On That Day for the Sydney Short and Sweet Festival and was seen on
two episodes of the Comedy Skit Show
Dolphin Juice. She concluded the year with a six month contract with
Grayboy Entertainment on The Pacific Sky Cruise Liner. Most recently in
2005 Teresa played Philia in the Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened
on the way to the Forum for Josh Atha Entertainment. To visit Teresa's
online website go to www.teresad.com |
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 Cameron Goodall Sydney
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A talented actor, musician and singer, Cameron has performed with just about every major theatre company in South Australia. With Brink Productions he has performed in The Ecstatic Bible for the 2000 Adelaide Telstra Festival, The Rope Project, Psychosis 448 and many script developments. For the State Theatre Company of SA he has worked on Holy Day, The Great Man, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? for which he was nominated for a Helpmann Award for best supporting actor and Hamlet for which he was nominated for Best Actor. He is a founding member of The Border Project and has performed in their critically acclaimed productions of Medea Material, Please Go Hop!, Highway Rock'n'Roll Disaster, Trouble On Planet Earth and Disappearance. With Windmill Performing Arts Cameron has performed in The Sign of the Seahorse and The Snow Queen. With Patch Theatre Company Cameron performs in Who Sank The Boat, Emily Loves To Bounce and Mr McGee and the Biting Flea which won a 2008 Helpmann Award for best presentation for children. | |
 Paul Reichstein Sydney |
Paul has spent the last six years working in theatre, film, TV, dance and
musical theatre productions. His |
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 Alirio Zavarce Adelaide
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Alirio graduated from the Flinders University Drama
Centre in 2000 and in the same year worked with Brink Productions and the
Wrestling School in Howard Barker’s
Ecstatic Bible
as part of the 2000 Adelaide Festival. In this production Alirio worked
as an actor and musician, as he also did for The Yaschin Ensemble
production of Intimacy that year. In 2001 Alirio performed the one-man
show
Fronteras Americanas/American Borders
which toured to Singapore and won the Adelaide Critic Circle Emerging
Artist Award, and in 2003 toured it as part of Kultour (Melbourne,
Adelaide, Perth) and created "One Act" theatre initiative. In 2004 he
played the role of Talthybius in
Trojan Women
(STCSA) and performed the role of Vince in the feature film Look
Both Ways and the role of the Loony Twitchier in McLeod’s
Daughters. Alirio is a founding member of the Border Project and
has co-created and performed in Medea Material,
Please Go Hop!
and
Highway Rock'n'Roll Disaster. In 2005-06 Alirio
collaborated in The Australian Performance Laboratory Cultural Diversity
Cluster and was mentored by Wojciech Pisarek.
In 06 Alirio wrote, directed and performed
Trapped as part of No strings Attached, 2Connect
in the Adelaide Fringe 2006 and toured the Parallelo production of
Dos Ostias for the Adelaide and Melbourne Cabaret Festivals.
Alirio won the 1st Prize for performance in the Helpmann Academy
Foundation Front and Worked with the Yashchin Ensemble in the first stage
development of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story I only came to
use the phone… In 2006 Alirio translated and performed in the
first stage development of the acclaimed Venezuelan play La ultima
sesion (The Last Session) by Johnny Gavlovski. In 2007 Alirio
performed a returned season of Highway Rock & Roll Disaster,
directed and acted in the Australian premiere of the anti-war play
Marc and performed with Velada Flamenco in Museo del Grito
for the Adelaide Fringe 07. Among his directorial credits are:
The Gap, The Story of the man who turned into a Dog, A Way
Out a forum theatre piece R.I.P., Trapped,
March, Enough is Enough and Behind Closed
Doors, a forum theatre piece. In 2008 Alirio
performed in a
sold out season of Trouble on Planet Earth with the Border
Project for the Adelaide Fringe 08 (Winner of the Bank SA award). Later
this year Alirio will perform in Boom Bah!, Highway
Rock & Roll Disaster (at Warf 2Loud) and the Premiere of
Disappearance for Inspace. Alirio currently directs and tutors at
No String Attached Theatre of Disability and lectures at the Flinders
University Drama Centre. |
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 Lex Lindsay Sydney |
After graduating from the Flinders Drama Centre, Lex Lindsay founded Tangent
Productions with fellow graduates, producing a number of productions and
creative developments. Lex's own works include the one-man-shows
Swallowing Geography and Armour/Amour, the
short film Tempting Fate and commissioned short plays
Prime.Real.Estate and Safety. Lex
worked with the
Adelaide Feast Festival for a number of years before moving
to Sydney where he continues to write words and music for stage and screen. Lex
is on the board of
Queen Street Studio, an organisation that provides
subsidised space and creative development opportunities to independent artists.
He is currently the Artistic Director of
Queer Screen, Australia's key promoter of gay and lesbian cinema
and producer of the Mardi Gras FIlm Festival and queerDOC, the world's first gay
and lesbian documentary festival. |
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 Charlotte Rees Melbourne
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Charlotte graduated from Flinders Drama Centre in 2000. She performed in the 2000 Adelaide Telstra Festival production of Ecstatic Bible with Brink Productions. She has worked on the TV shows Blue Heelers, Ponderosa, and Chuck Finn. Her feature film credits include the movies Spank!, Disappearance, Blurred and the Channel 9 Telemovie Let Me Not. |
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 David Heinrich Sydney |
David graduated from the Flinders Drama Centre in 2000 and also performed in The Second Hurricane for the 2000 Adelaide Telstra Festival at Adelaide Town Hall and Angels In America in the Matthew Flinders Theatre. Since graduating David has worked with Splash Theatre Company, Patch Theatre Company and Windmill in Adelaide and is a founding member of The Border Project, performing in Please Go Hop!, Highway Rock'n'Roll Disaster and Trouble on Planet Earth. Recently David toured with Patch Theatre Company's award winning production of Mr McGee & The Biting Flea and travelled to Korea with Windmill's latest touring production. |
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 Peter Michell Adelaide |
Peter Michell is a local South Australian actor/singer and voice over artist, regularly working in theatre and film. Peter would be remembered by younger audiences for his presenting role on the Seven Network National childrens show The Bookplace. Always eager to take on the weird and wacky or anything adventurous, Pete relishes in a challenge - even if it means working with children and animals! Whether the story involves hair-raising-heart-pumping activity or a walk through some pristine wilderness you'll find Pete right in the middle and loving every minute! Peaches film, McLeod's Daughters, We Will Rock You musical, The Female Of The Species STC, Splash Theatre Company, Blue Heelers, Discover SA, Assassins, Cosi, Brilliant Lies, The Second Hurricane, Angels in America, The Ecstatic Bible. |
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 Katie Reilly Adelaide |
Katie graduated from the Flinders Drama Centre in 2000. Since graduating, Katie has been seen playing various guest roles on television. These roles have included Amelia Moon on Neighbours and Jill Askin on Stingers. Katie played the character Raylene in Ray Mooneys production of The Sinbin performed at LaMama Theatre in 2002. She has also had a supporting role in the Australian film Caterpillar Wish and was seen in locally made TV show Chuck Finn. While living in Dublin she played the Australian wedding planner/home wrecker on the Irish soap opera Fair City for a number of months and became involved in the industry over in Ireland, performing in Theatre and TV commercials. |
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