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Cast and crew
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Starring: A stellar professional cast (in alphabetical order) |
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Michael Cullen: Nick Bottom /Waiter |
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Michael trained at the Actor's Centre and has since been involved in almost every aspect of performance from film, tv, physical theatre, cabaret, schools touring, children's shows, puppetry through to teaching both young people and adults. He recently spent some time with Bibi Bulak (Crazy Goats) in East Timor as guest director and teacher, and drank lots of fresh coconut juice. Its something he may have to do more off in future...Some recent theatre credits include Comedy Of Errors under the stars, and The Golden Ass, a highly physical comedy in which he played a man who was turned into a donkey to teach him a little humility. He's not really sure it worked. He enjoys challenging himself with different creative forms, and working hard to discover new ways to play. |
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Chris Galletti: Lysander /Starvling /Fairy 3 |
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A shy little boy, Chris's mum pushed him onto the stage when he was a little whip snapper, entering him into numerous speech & drama competitions where he often won first prize. A decade or so later Chris Graduated from ACA and has also trained in numerous acting techniques with some established acting teachers from the U.S. & U.K. He recently missed the beginning of the rehearsal period for Shakespeare on the Green because he was acting in a documentary for the Australian Police force. He has appeared on TV & Internet and other theatre credits include: The Shape of Things, Hurly Burly, The Merchant of Venice, Good, The Seagull, Chicago & Wet & Dry, oh and the Wizard of Oz where he played the cowardly lion. |
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Andrew James: Theseus /Oberon |
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Graduated NIDA and worked widely in subsidised, commercial, and 'shoestring' theatre. He has worked for Theatre South on new Australian work, including Katherine Thomson's Tonight We Anchor in Twofold Bay and Wendy Richardson's Windy Gully and That Christmas in '75. Also for Theatre South: Mother Courage, The Mystery of lrma Vep, Hating Alison Ashley, Five Times Dizzy, Tim Winton's Lockie Leonard Scumbuster, Hamlet and Steel Streets. Appeared in many productions for Griffin Theatre Company during its formative years and Phillip Street Theatre, Riverina Theatre Company, Interact Theatre and the State Theatre Company of South Australia.
Creator and Associate Producer of Darlinghurst Nights by Katherine Thomson and Max Lambert for the Sydney Theatre Company. Other work includes: The Sea - Nimrod, Mourning Becomes Electra - Q.T.C., Hidden Agenda - Q Theatre, Essington Lewis - I Am Work, Steele Rudd's The Old Selection, Banjo The Man, The Listmaker - Bell Shakespeare Company. Performed in the hit musical Buddy! around Australia, in Singapore and NZ. For Sydney Theatre Company - Howard Katz by Patrick Marber, Love's Triumph for Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Torrez for Griffin Theatre Company, The Malthouse and Black Swan. Television and film appearances include The Restless Years, Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters, Prisoner, Country Practice, Heartbreak High, Water Rats, Land Of Hope, Breakers, Home and Away, All Saints, The Black Balloon. |
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Marc has returned for his third season with SOTG in the roles of Egius & Quince. He has been seen before as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and in 4 different roles in last year's production of Taming of the Shrew. In the last year Marc has been seen in various roles in commercials from singing at an ATM to being a Sumo wrestler marching around the streets of Sydney. Marc also made guest appearances on the ABC TV shows Double The Fist and Review With Myles Barlow. Marc's next adventure is a trip up the Mekong River to see fresh water dolphins. |
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Leo Kim: Francis Flute /Fairy /Hound /ASM |
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A graduate of Theatre Nepean (2006) where he appeared in "Pericles", "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" and "The Song of the Yellow Bittern", Leo has since then been seen in "Shock Nature Tourism Hostage Drama" ('Brand Spanking New', New Theatre), "Yell(ow)" ('Love & War', New Mercury Theatre), "Corporate Raiders" ('Metamorphases', Brave New Theatre Company) and played Bianca and Grumio in last year's production of "Taming of the Shrew" (Shakespeare on the Green). He has also been in a few television commercials and corporate videos, and would like to one day be in a Joss Whedon TV show. |
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Jacqui Livingston: Helena /Fairy 2 |
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Jacqui Livingston was originally a Canberra girl. She pursued several career paths including a B.A. in International Relations at the ANU, and persistently ventured overseas to see what else was out there in the world. She wishes she was a rock star but because of her dearth of musical talent, she took her "look at me! look at me!" attention seeking inclinations to Sydney to pursue a career in acting. She recently studied drama at the Actors Centre and played Mascha in Chekov's The Three Sisters, Isabel in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Karen in Lilian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Miriam in Clare Booth Luce's The Women and Harper in Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Since then she has performed in Andrew Lloyd Webber/Alan Ayckbourne's musical By Jeeves at the Genesian Theatre playing Honoria Glossop. Playing Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare on the Green is the coolest opportunity ever. |
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Cat Martin: Hippolyta /Titania |
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Cat Martin first performed with Shakespeare on the Green in 2008, playing the feisty Kate in Taming of the Shrew. In 2008, she also appeared as a naughty nun (in her holiness, StageDirections Theatre in conjunction with the Bakehouse Theatre Co.) and as Florence in Noel Coward's The Vortex (Factory Space Theatre Co.). She has also appeared in several short films and a feature, most notably as Glenda, The Wicked Bitch of the North (Damaged Goods, Myrtle Boys Productions). In 2007, she appeared in The Comedy of Errors with Nightsky Productions (as Aemilia / Courtesan). Other recent credits include roles in Eye of the Storm's Boo! and Boo Too!, Nora in A Doll's House, and Thomasina in Arcadia (for which she also composed the score). In 2008, she took classes with Kate Gaul and, in 2007, trained at the Actor's Centre. She is also a composer and trained singer. Cat has taught Drama and Linguistics at Macquarie University, and holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics She has been Script Producer and Writer for the TV children's series Hi-5 and has written scripts for five of their internationally touring stage shows, including the Helpmann award nominated Space Magic (2005) and Hi-5 Live, which premiered on Broadway in March, 2007. |
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Tristan McKinnon: Demetrius /Tom Snout /Fairy 4 |
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Tristan McKinnon is currently working as a featured performer in Baz Luhrmann's film "Australia". Recently Tristan performed with the Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe at the Star of the Sea-Manly where he performed a piece "Look out here, beyond the waves" and the classic comedy farce by Darino Fo "The Virtuous Burlar" directed by the talented Geoff Cartwright.
Tristan also has appeared in many short films including 'Stu & Andy' and '10 More Minutes'.
Tristan recently completed the 'Power of Acting" programe at the 'Actors centre.
Tristan is also a singer, dancer and musician. |
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David O'Donnell: Puck /Philostrate |
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David had an urban upbringing at Sydney's Maroubra beach, largely filled with competition surfing.
He trained at ATYP and The Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles in 2004 before going to WAAPA, graduating in 2007.
Some of his memorable productions include the award winning short film A Touch of Magic, East (WAAPA), Unaustralia (WAAPA), Back in Your Box (Legs on the Wall/ATYP), Blue Water High (ABC) and Skylab(Barking Gecko Theatre Co) for which he was nominated for a WA Equity Guild award in 2008.
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Jenna Pollard: Hermia/ Fairy 1 |
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Jenna Pollard is a recent graduate of Actors Centre Australia, where she found her experience nothing short of amazing. Orginally from the country town of Wagga, she packed her bags, as they say, and decided to follow her dream. Being a dancer all her life the diligence and knockbacks she has already encountered has well and truely prepared her for her journey ahead. Final year of Drama school gave her the opportunity to work with Mr George Olglevy, whose passion and persistence in the industry gave her a completely new respect and perspective on her craft. She has played Edna in Clifford Odets Waiting for Lefty, Elizabeth in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Miss Gibbs in Thornton Wilder's Our town, Esculas in Measure for Measure and Irina in Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters. This will be her stage debut since graduating in June which she finds both an honour and a privledge. |
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Samuel Rushton: Snug/ Fairy/ ASM |
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Samuel is a graduate of Theatre Nepean, completing his Bachelor of Performance Theory and Practice (Acting) in 2005. Samuel also has a Diploma in Speech and Drama from Trinity College London and was a student at the Actors College of Theatre and Television. During his time at Nepean Samuel featured as Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet directed by Sean O'Shea and the collaborative pieces Blow: The Pornography of War and Sequence. In Samuel's final year at Theatre Nepean he was directed by Kim Hardwick in the role of Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Rochford in Red Noses and played the Narrator in Ariel Dorfmans Widows directed by Rochelle Whyte. Since graduating from Nepean, Samuel has been involved in television work, has played Stewart in confusions at the New theatre, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet at the Zenith theatre and Pino Abrozetti in Second Childhood at the New Theatre. A Midsummer Nights Dream is Samuel's first collaboration with Shakespeare on the Green. |
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Supported by a Mercurial Crew |
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Sher Guhl has a BA English, Curtin University, W.A. She studied acting for 3 years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She worked for the Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre, Hunter Valley Theatre Co and Theatre South. Her directing credits include "Danny in the Toybox", Marian St in 2003, "Babe" at The Seymour Centre in 2004 (co-directed with Margie McCrae), in 2004, Sher directed The "Taming of The Shrew" for BardMaids Theatre Co-op, in 2005 directed "Midnight" at Marian St, in 2007 Sher directed "Twelfth Night" for Shakespeare on the Green and in 2008 Sher directed "Taming of the Shrew" also for Shakespeare on the Green.
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Production Design: Imogen Ross |
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Imogen Ross designed period costumes for Shakespeare's International 'Globe' in London - "Edward II" & "The Taming of The Shrew" in 2003. Design credits in Sydney include costumes for "The Taming of the Shrew", "BardMaids", Railway Street Theatre's "Away", One Extra Dance Company's "Blue Moves" and "Narrow House", Bluebird Productions' "Seven Acts of Love as seen by a Cat", Theatre 20-20's "The Three Sisters", O'Punksky's "The Gili Concert", Swell Production's "Finding the Sun" (The Old Fitzroy Theatre), and Darlinghurst Theatre's "The Woolgatherer |
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Ben Elliott - Musical Director |
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Ben Elliott is currently completing his 3rd year of a Bachelor of Music/Arts voice major at the University of NSW. Ben’s passion lies in both performance and composition and as such he has discovered a wonderful outlet for this whilst directing musical theatre. In 2007, Ben directed the music for his first two musicals Cabaret (NUTS, UNSW) and a new Australian musical That's The Ticket. The Taming of the Shrew has presented an interesting challenge for Ben being the first show that he has composed the score for, as well as being the first show where he hasn’t been involved in the performance run. In his ‘spare’ time, Ben teaches piano at North Newtown public school and is also working towards the release of his first EP. |
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Richard Montgomery: Lighting Designer |
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Melinda Frank: Stage Manager |
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Melinda Frank received her Bachelor of Arts, Honours from the University of Guelph and her Masters of Arts from the University of Toronto, both in Theatre Arts. Melinda has worked at the Sydney Opera House as a resident Stage Manager. Some of her credits include: MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Driftwood); FESTIVAL OF ORIGINAL THEATRE (Robert Gill Theatre); YOU SAY TOMATOES (Canadian Stage); EVIL DEAD 1&2: THE MUSICAL (Jeffrey Latimer Entertainment); JAZZ CIRCUS (Shurum Burum) and TORONTO PRIDE 2004. In Sydney, DINNER WITH FRIENDS (Fishy Productions); BLOWING WHISTLES and I LOVE YOUSE ALL! (Focus Theatre); BASH/SHAPE OF THINGS (Actor's Centre Australia); ROBERTO ZUCCO (Actor's College of Theatre and Television); ITALIAN STRAW HAT (East Coast Production); DINNER (Griffin Stablemates); KING TIDE (Griffin Theatre); Sydney Festival; QED and WRONG TURN AT LUNGFISH (Ensemble) and most recently toured BLOWING WHISTLES to Adelaide's Feast Festival. |
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Robin McCarthy: Sound Consultant |
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James Kearney is a Sydney lawyer and has practised full time as a barrister since 1986. He is enthusiastic about the Shakespeare on the Green venture. His production credits include Twelfth Night in 2007 and Taming of the Shrew in 2008, both for Shakespeare on the Green.
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The Company
Shakespeare on the Green is wholly owned by Talking Texts Pty Ltd. Talking Texts Pty Ltd reserves to itself all rights of a legal and business nature including all copyright and other intellectual property rights to which it is entitled arising from the enterprise of Shakespeare on the Green. All correspondence of a formal nature should be forwarded to the registered office of Talking Texts Pty Ltd at 8/174 Phillip St Sydney 2000.
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