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 Jessica Beck Sydney 
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A descendent of the Arrernte group, Jessica grew up on a farm in Mingbool in
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 Joanne Hartstone Sydney
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Joanne has been performing since the age of five. She graduated with Honours
from the Flinders University
Drama Centre in 2005. Her recent performances have included
Gertrude in her graduate production of
Hamlet and the role of
Lindsay in Neil LaBute’s award winning play
Some Girls. Joanne has acted in
several short films and has recorded a variety of voice-overs for radio and
television. She is also an
accomplished jazz and musical theatre singer and performed in
Sing Your Own
Musicals at the Adelaide
Cabaret Festival in 2006. Joanne trained for twelve years in classical and
contemporary ballet however her
main passion lies in acting. Her most recent achievements at the 2008
Adelaide Fringe Festival include the performance trio
Ripple Effects and directed the production
Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls.
Joanne's latest project has been a UK tour playing the lead role in
Oleanna for Guy
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 Scott Fraser UK |
Highlights of Scott's time at the Drama Centre include
playing the roles of Laertes in
Hamlet, Warren in Wolf Lullaby and the Aristocrat in David Hare’s The Blue Room. He has had the pleasure of working with ABC Radio Adelaide for the radio play Madagascar Lily, and since graduating has worked on The Bank Job, the film December Boys, Jim Cartwright’s Two, Mrs. Talkalot’s Treasure Island, Pastiche for the 2006 Feast Festival, and a variety of corporate performances around Adelaide. Scott moved to Tasmania in 2007 for a one year stint in Tasmania’s longest running play The Ship that Never Was with the Round Earth Company in Strahan. |
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 Robynne Kelly Melbourne |
Robynne graduated from the Flinders Drama Centre 2005, with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours). During her time there she worked with directors Catherine Fitzgerald; Psycho Beach Party, Tim Maddock; Flight and international director Jon Green; Hamlet. Robynne has always been an avid promoter of theatre and performed in Fitting Rooms for both the Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festivals, since moving to Melbourne she played the role of Virginia Woolf in Julia Britton's The Object of Desire, The Life of Duncan Grant for the Midsummer Festival as a part of La Mama's forty year anniversary, Jack Hibberd's 30th Anniversary of Dimboola at La Mama, Melborn's Playspotting in Alex Broun's Cate Blanchett Wants To Be My Friend on Facebook. Robynne has also had the pleasure of working with Storm Productions in the SBS television series Kick and most recently has been involved in her first feature film The Dream Children with Fat Kid Films and the award winning short film I Can Speak Swedish with FAD Productions.  Show
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 David Rock Melbourne |
David graduated from the Drama Centre with a Bachelor of Creative Arts
(Honours). David's performance highlights at Flinders include
The Blue Room,
Talk Radio and
Hamlet. David currently resides in Melbourne and made
the finals in the 2006 Melbourne Short & Sweet finals acting in the play
Hi It's Me I'm On The Train directed by Beng Oh and was also
televised on Foxtel's Movie Extra channel. David played a cameo role
in Red Stitch's
Harvest (2006 Green Room award winner for Best Production) and
most recently worked on the ABC Mini Series
Very Small Business. In early 2008 David
travelled to Hong Kong to work on several films and is currently editing
his own short film that he wrote and starred in.
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 Daniel Daw UK |
Daniel was the 2006 recipient of the Dame Ruby Litchfield Scholarship
(Performing Arts). The scholarship
enabled Daniel to attend the CandoCo Dance Company Foundation Course in Dance,
London, United
Kingdom. As a young disabled artist he is a deeply passionate member of
the South Australian integrated
arts community and professionally committed to its further development.
Originally from Whyalla and
participant of D’faces of Youth Arts, Daniel was a regular dancer for Restless Dance Company
and is now travelling to London to work as a
professional dancer. Daniel's theatre credits include
Pastiche for the 2006 Feast Festival and
Vocabulary - a co-production between Restless Dance Company
and Australian Dance Theatre. |
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 Tim Lucas Adelaide |
Since graduating Tim has co-written, directed and performed the student
radio show Radio Play Time and has amassed 37 episodes over three years.
More recently his play 2 Birds was performed in Sydney’s
Short & Sweet theatre festival. Tim is also a singer/songwriter, and
as part of local band
Tokyo Story - his songs receiving
national airplay. This year Tim performed in two new, South
Australian plays, My Last Purchase by Christian O'Keefe and
The Bank Job by Alex Vickery-Howe. Currently he is
working as script editor for Sweet & Sour, a collaborative project between
the multi-award winning
People’s Republic of Animation and
Shanghai Animation Film Studio. He is also
a co-founder of
The Green Bucket, a new independent company designed to
produce original work through various media. This is not to be
confused with Windmill Theatre Company's
The Green Sheep which Tim has performed with in Adelaide and
also toured to Canberra. |
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 Chris Olver Melbourne |
Chris began his professional career in 2000 with the lead role in the
Australian Premiere of the stage show Lord of the Flies.
He went on to study at Flinders Drama Centre, graduating in 2005.
During his time there he enjoyed lead roles in a number of shows including
The Share,
Dreaming,
Pyscho Beach Party
and
After Dinner. During his time at Flinders he also
took supporting roles in the TV Series
McLeod's Daughters
and the Feature Film
2:37. Chris has also leant his
voice to a number of radio plays and advertisements and he voices two
characters in the film Elephant Tales. Since
graduating Chris has spent much time overseas, primarily in Uganda and
Zambia where he taught drama in orphanages and schools. He currently
resides in Melbourne with his wife, jazz-singer Nicole. |
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 Xavier Samuel Sydney |
In his graduation
performance at the Drama Centre, Xavier was directed by Dr. John Green in
Hamlet as the title role. Since this time he has
worked professionally in both theatre and film. In 2006, he played
the role of Colin in Windmill Performing Arts production of
Two Weeks with the Queen. He was directed by Murali K
Thalluri In the film
2:37 and played the role of
Theo. He also played the role of Will Turner alongside Rhiannon Owen
in the film
Angela’s Decision written by Gena Ellis and directed by Mat
King. Xavier is currently performing the role of Gary in The
Rabble’s production of
Osama the Hero at La Mama in Melbourne after a successful season
in Sydney. His feature film debut
is one of the central characters
in the Australian feature film
September, directed by Peter Carstairs featured in the Toronto
International Film Festival.
Since then
Xavier has finished
several features including
Newcastle
directed by Dan Castle which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2008
and
The Loved Ones which premiered at the Forum Theatre
for the 2009 Melbourne International Film Festival.
Xavier's television credits include a guest appearance on
McLeod's Daughters. He is currently working on set for
the 3rd installment of the
Twilight feature
film series playing the vampire Riley. |
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 Jenny Starvall Adelaide |
Jenny graduated from the Flinders University Drama Centre in 2005. Her credits whilst at University include Dream Town by Melissa Reeves, John Green's production of Hamlet and You Gotta Have Hart which was performed as part of the 2004 Adelaide Cabaret Fringe at the Weimar Room. Jenny recently performed with other Flinders graduates Jessica Beck and Joanne Hartstone in their trio Ripple Effects for the 2008 Adelaide Fringe Festival. | |
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