2001 ACTORS

FLINDERS DRAMA CENTRE


Belinda DiVito
New Zealand
 

 
 

Belinda has worked in Television including Neighbours, Stingers, Savvy Tv and The Mystical Guides programme for Open Channel.  Her theatre credits include Friday Night, In Town where she played the role of Emma. (La Mama), With The Dark (Eagles Nest Theatre) and Tuppaware for the 2007 Short and Sweet Festival which won the overall peoples choice awards (wildcards).  Belinda played the role of Claire in The Comedy Saturday Night Williamstown, part of the Williamstown short Play 6 Festival.  She played Tracey in The Wireless for the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2006 and again in 2009 for the Melbourne Comedy Festival at Trades Hall.  She performed in Lorca's Blood Wedding with the Women Of Asia Company at Chapel Off Chapel.  In 2001 she travelled to Singapore touring a collection of plays including her self devised comedy character FlangeShe has featured in several short films which included Alan Lams Soroboro which won the special effects award from Film Victoria.  Currently Belinda is working in New Zealand and has just performed in the very first NZ Short & Sweet Festival.


Katherine Fyffe
Sydney

  Katherine  has performed for a variety of companies including in Hannie Rayson’s Inheritance for the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company, Afternoon of the Elves for Windmill Performing Arts and STCSA, Each Beach for Patch Theatre and for Vitalstatistix National Women's Theatre on Melissa Reeve’s Tough Girls workshop.  She is a founding member of The Border Project, and has co-created and performed in Highway Rock n Roll Disaster, Please Go Hop!, Medeamaterial and Disappearance (development).  Katherine has also performed in Nick Enright’s Blackrock, Margaret Edson’s Wit, and Angels In America Parts 1 and 2.  Katherine will travel to Chicago this year to work with experimental theatre company Goat Island Performance Group after receiving funding from Arts SA and the Australia Council for the Arts.  In 2001 she travelled to Singapore touring a collection of post-modern plays and has featured in several short films.  Her TV work includes Blue Heelers and Channel 10’s Savvy TV.
 

Romy Loor
Los Angeles, USA
 
 
 

Romy works in the industry both as a writer and actor. Her TV credits include Last Man Standing for Channel Seven and Savvy TV for Network10.  She has performed for the State Theatre Company of South Australia and has also worked with Vitalstatistix in Adelaide and La Mama in Melbourne both as a writer and actor.  Her play Where’s My Mother! was a finalist in the Patrick White Award for 2006. She was awarded a mentorship by the Australian Writer’s Guild to work with playwright Hilary Bell, and last year co-wrote a play for St Martin’s Youth Theatre called Radicals and Misanthropes.  Currently she is working on a short film which has won Raw Nerve 2007 funded by Open Channel and the Australian Film Commission.
 


Melanie Vallejo
Sydney

 
  Melanie's professional credits include the Sydney premiere of Stephen Sewell's Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany, Gosling as part of Sydney Theatre Company's young playwrights awards readings, The Return with Fresh Track Productions and The Memory Museum.  She performed Sit On My Fence at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2001 and worked on Savvy TV for Network 10.  Melanie's TV credits include All Saints for the Seven Network, various commercials including KFC, Betty Crocker and Degree.  She also appears in the latest series of Power Rangers as Madison Rocca, the blue Power Ranger.  In 2009 she will be playing the new flat mate on the hit Seven Network drama Packed To The Rafters and starring in the Belvoir Street production Baghdad Wedding
 

Caleb Lewis
Sydney

 
  Caleb studied writing at Flinders University under playwright Verity Laughton.  In 2002 he began a yearlong mentorship with Nick Enright and began work on Nailed.  In 2003 Lewis won the IAF Literature Scholarship to research the play Krissy Pho in Vietnam and also Naked Theatre Company’s Write Now competition for his play, RocketBaby.  In 2004 his play, Songs for the Deaf, was produced by FreshTrack Productions for the Adelaide Fringe Festival and he began a two-year residency with Griffin Theatre Company culminating in the world premiere of Nailed (short listed for the Phillip Parsons playwright's award) Caleb has completed commissions for  Jigsaw Theatre Company (ACT) and Riverland Youth Theatre Company (SA) – His short film, The Half Windsor, opened in Sydney last May.  After receiving funding from the Australia Council Theatre Board and Literature Board, his play, The The Sea Bride, won the Theatrelab Emerging Playwright Award earning a two-week workshop with playwright Edward Albee.  His new play DogFall premiered in Adelaide in November 2007.  Caleb is currently writing, Otzi – the story of the Iceman, for the Australian National Maritime Museum.  In 2008, Songs for the Deaf tours to Hong Kong and his latest play, Men, Love and the Monkeyboy opens in Sydney.
 

Hew Parham
Adelaide

 
 

Hew was a core member of Adelaide's Berlin Cabaret Ensemble which won Best Cabaret at the 2002 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Light Year Awards for Best Cabaret and The Adelaide Critics Circle Award for Innovation.  He has also performed in the acclaimed one-man show The Idiot, the film Travelling Light and a cabaret of Tom Waits songs called My History of Obsession with Tom Waits. Hew has also performed in Significant Others (Oddbodies Theatre Company), Pounding Nails into the Floor with my Forehead (Pounding Theatre Company) which also played the 2004 Melbourne Fringe Festival and won the Best Spoken Word Performance Awards and Boo! with Windmill Performing Arts.  Hew recently won the Neil Curnow Award, which he used to study at the Hunter Gates Academy of Physical Theatre in St Albert, Alberta, Canada; and Bouffon and Clown with Karen Hines and John Turner on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. Hew is the drama co-ordinator of Tutti Arts and is currently writing and directing their show The Little Blue Parcel.
 


Amber McMahon
Sydney

 
  Graduating in time for the Fringe and Festival of  Arts, Amber found work performing cabaret at the now
closed Weimar Room in Adelaide and Hindley St's Minke Bar.  Since then Amber's critical acclaim has
been ongoing since her stunning break-out performance in the State Theatre Company production of the
drama Proof back in 2003.  Since Proof Amber has appeared in Windmill Theatre's The Snow Queen and Afternoon of the Elves.  She continued her work with State Theatre in Boston Marriage and travelled to New York to study with renowned film and theatre actor Bill Hopkins at the Stella Adler Company.  Amber is a founding member of The Border Project and is currently part of the ensemble actors with Sydney Theatre Company.
 

Roman Vaculik
Adelaide

 
  Roman's professional experience includes 4:48 Psychosis with Brink Productions for the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2006, The Hit! with Paralello which toured to the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, Checklist for an Armed Robber with Vitalstatistix, The Half Windsor for the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2004, The Return with Fresh Track Productions for the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2002, Come Out in 2003 and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2003.  He has worked as a writer, actor and workshop co-ordinator for the Global Education Centre for Federal Government with Acting For Change: Welcoming Refugees "Is This Real?"  Roman has also worked on The Memory Museum, Blackrock at the Queens Theatre, Cyborganic at the Minkebar, Sit On My Fence for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2001, the short film Wild Strawberries and Savvy TV for Network 10.
 

Roberta Tyrrell
Adelaide
 
 
 

 


Eva Lewkowicz
Adelaide

 
   
     
   

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