In 2008 Christian was the first Australian actor to be invited to join the China National Theatre Company, performing in the acclaimed 'Heaven's Dynasty' (Tian Chao, 1900) at the newly opened National Opera House in Beijing. He has died in a bloody heap as Mr Orange in the Australian stage premiere of Reservoir Dogs and been a rastafarian Faust in a David Hare translation of Geothe's 'Faust' the Sydney Festival. A journalist, publisher and China media consultant by day, Christian is a self-confessed 'closet Shakespeare nut'. He speaks fluent Mandarin and, to his wife's unending suffering, can recite Macbeth in French.

Robyn’s professional career in theatre began in 1991 when she toured as an actor, with a rep company.13 productions later she began directing. Midsummer’s Night Dream  (Pavilion Theatre), Under Milkwood (Ensemble Rep), Lysistrata (Ensemble Studios), Oleanna (Wildcard Productions), The God of Hell (Raw-Em), Midsummer’s (New Theatre), Othello (Quasi Modo) and Reservoir Dogs (Harold Park Hotel).Young cast productions include; Alice in Wonderland, Les Mis, A Christmas Carol, Grease, Huckleberry Finn, Crazy for You, Romeo and Juliet, Guys and Dolls and The Crucible. As an artistic director for A Full House Theatre Company, she directed a touring double bill of Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita. She has been a Short and Sweet finalist director and recently Company B Belvoir Acting Education Manager.

Patrick Trumper first performed for Shakespeare on the Green in Twelfth Night in 2007, playing Orsino and Fabian. He is very pleased to be linking up again with Sher and James, producers of On the Green, and director Robyn Maclean, with whom he last worked 12 years ago at the Comedy Hotel, in a stage version of Reservoir Dogs. Patrick’s recent work includes the title role in Macbeth for Wildfire Theatre at the Bondi Pavilion, John Joseph Bennett in Darwin’s Brave New World for ABC TV, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night for the Coogee Arts Festival, and a national tour of It’s a Dad Thing for TML Productions and Regional Arts Victoria.

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".

Troy has been off the boards for quite a while now, and very happy to be back. He most recently appeared as Sir Toby in Twelfth Night (Quasimodo) and Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream (New Theatre). Troy has performed in many Shakespeare productions, a multitude of television shows, commercials and the occasional feature film. He can also juggle fire clubs whilst riding a unicycle - which is far more difficult than you may think.

Fiona has co-ordinated costumes on numerous productions with the director Robyn McLean, including Les Miserables, Grease, Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Romeo and Juliet, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol and The Crucible. Other productions include Amadeus, The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew. She has also contributed to costumes for Shakespeare by the Sea, and has a BBus degree with a major in Management and specialisation in Media and Communcations. Currently she works for Company B Belvoir.

Tristan Mckinnon is excited to return for a third year with Shakespeare On The Green. In 2008 Tristan played the love struck Lucentio in 'The Taming Of The Shrew' and in 2009 he bore his chest as Demitrius in 'A Midsummer Nights Dream'.  Tristan has previously worked on feature films such as Baz Luhrmann's epic "Australia", and Bruce Beresford's film  'Mao's Last Dancer'. He has recently finished touring Australia with the theatre company Village Space focusing on social justice issues around the world.  Tristan has trained at NIDA, Actors Centre Australia and continues to develop his skills in the Meisner technique at the Actors Pulse.

Richard Tulloch is one of Australia's most popular writers of plays, books and children's film and television. His plays include Year 9 Are Animals, Stella and the Moon Man, and adaptations of Hating Alison Ashley and The Book of Everything, playing in Belvoir St Theatre during January 2010.
 
For TV, he has contributed scripts to many children's series, notably 150 episodes of Bananas in Pyjamas. He now also writes travel articles for the Sun-Herald newspaper.

This is Cat’s third appearance with Shakespeare on the Green. In 2008, she played the feisty Kate in Taming of the Shrew; in 2009, she dabbled with magic as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has also recently appeared in Sport for Jove’s production of the Dream, as Starveling. In 2009, she played Miss Maudie in Epicentre’s production of To Kill a Mockingbird, and Susannah in Someday Suddenly for Sidetrack. Other recent roles include a naughty nun (her holiness, StageDirections Theatre) and Florence in Noel Coward’s The Vortex (Factory Space Theatre Co.). Cat has appeared in several short films and a feature as Glenda, The Wicked Bitch of the North (Damaged Goods & More Damage, Myrtle Boys Productions). In 2007, she appeared in The Comedy of Errors with Nightsky Productions  (as Aemilia / Courtesan).

Nate trained at the Sydney Conservatorium and NIDA (Singer, Actor, Dancer). Nate is a founding member of Vintage Duck and has directed for Opera Boot Camp Australia; for productions of Shakespeare’s Pagliacci, Les Miserables, Grease, The Crucible (co-directed), Cabaret (assistant director) and recently wrote, produced and directed a new adaptation of Orpheus in the Underworld. Nate has musically directed productions of West Side Story, 42nd Street and Beauty and the Beast for local companies as well as The Taming of the Shrew , Masque and Chess. Stage credits include Romance/Romance and Santa’s Kingdom . He sang the tenor role in Tippett’s A Child of our Time for SBS Television with the SBS Youth Orchestra. Nate works as an education consultant for Opera Australia.

Alison Carlson trained as an actor at the University of Wollongong  School of Creative Arts  before going on to complete a Bachelor of Media at Macquarie University. She has a long list of Shakespearian credits including Helena in Midsummer Nights Dream, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing (twice!), Octavia in Julius Ceasar, The Princess in Loves Labours Lost, Rosalind in As You Like It and the created role of “MC” in Titus Andronicus. Many moons ago she directed a production of Comedy of Errors. This is Alison’s first production with Shakespeare on the Green.

Sarah holds Arts and Law degrees from UNSW and has a background as a classical pianist, having performed across Australia, the USA and China. Recent musical director credits include Cabaret, Orpheus in the Underworld and The Mikado. Other theatre credits as a repetiteur and production manager include Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Into the Woods, Chess, Pirates of Penzance, West Side Story and The Venetian Twins. Sarah has also been involved in numerous cabaret shows, appearing most recently in Stories from the Stage Door, I Put Out on the Second Date and Cupid is Stupid and I Wish He Was Dead. She is the executive producer of theatre company ‘Vintage Duck’, and works as a lawyer in her spare time.

Theatrical credits include Wild Honey (NIDA Studio Theatre), his critically-acclaimed portrayal of Edward Damson in Gift of the Gorgon (Phoenix Theatre Company), the merelyplayers production Birth, Death and Everything in Between (Tap Gallery), Navigating (New Theatre) and The Balmain Jesus (SBW Stables Theatre). He also played Leonato in the Shakespeare Under the Stars production of  Much Ado About Nothing at Coogee.Peter recently performed with Topol in the hit musical Fiddler on the Roof, and the NY-based production of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, while back in Sydney he squeezed in The Night Heron (SBW Stables), Terrorism (Darlinghurst Theatre), Redheads (Old Fitzroy), Honeymoon Suite (New Theatre), Away (Impulse Theatre). He appeared in Light Bites and Tasty Treats at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Kerry has performed in many MUSICALS:

Kerry has choreographed numerous television series and commercials and has been resident director and choreographer for annual musicals at major private schools Knox and Shore since 1988. She currently teaches musical theatre at both schools.

WAAPA graduate Emily is an actor, director and teacher. NSW Theatre credits include: LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN, THE UNSCRUPULOUS MURDERER, THE FRAIL MAN, FIT TO BE TIED (Darlinghurst Theatre). TWELFTH NIGHT (Coogee Arts Festival); REDHEADS (Old Fitzroy); LIVE ACTS ON STAGE (Griffin Theatre Co.); FALLEN ANGELS (Belvoir Downstairs); THE GRADUATE (Really Useful Co.); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (HVTC and Aust. Shakespeare Co.); MONEY AND FRIENDS, SONS OF CAIN, TRAVELLERS, (HVTC);)

In 2006 Rebecca completed a Diploma of Arts (Small Companies and Community Theatre) at Swinburne University of Technology, which sparked her interest in technical production, with a particular emphasis on stage management; giving her the background and skills to study Production at NIDA.

During her time at NIDA Rebecca worked on a number of NIDA productions and completed various Stage Management secondments on productions in both Sydney and Melbourne including: Pericles (Bell Shakespeare), Jersey Boys (Newtheatricals), Poor Boy (Melbourne Theatre Company), Crazy for You (The Production Company) and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (Trafficlight & Token Events).
Since completing her Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Production) at NIDA, Rebecca has Production and Stage Managed Shining City at Griffin Theatre Company.

Marc has returned for his fourth season with SOTG. He has appeared as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, 4 different roles in Taming of the Shrew and Egeus/Quince in last year’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the last year, Marc has been seen in various roles in commercials, short films and theatre. Marc also appears at various corporate training courses as irate customers and staff with problems.  He has also just finished another season as the jolly fat man in the red suit from the North Pole. Marc's next adventure is swimming with sea lions in the Great Australian Bight !!

Rhys Morgan is a recent graduate of the Actors Centre Australia (2009) where he performed in: There Will Always Be An England (2009), Reality Bytes (2008/2009), A Winter's Tale (2008), The Natural Order Of Things (2008), Man and Beast (2008), Cloudstreet (2008), Miss Julie (2008) and Wings Water Sex Death and the Dentist (2007). Since graduating Rhys has performed in several short films and is actively pursuing his goals in the world of acting.

Sher Guhl has worked as an actor for theatre companies including the Sydney Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company. Sher’s directing credits include co-directing Babe at the Seymour Centre in 2004 and co-directing Midnite for Marian Street. Sher directed The Taming of the Shrew for Bardmaids Theatre co-op in 2005. For Shakespeare on the Green Sher has directed Twelfth Night in 2007, The Taming of The Shrew in 2008 and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2009. For the last three years Sher has directed for North Sydney Council’s ‘Page to Stage’ program.

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, The Taming of the Shrew in 2008 and A Midsummer Night’s dream in 2009 for Shakespeare on the Green.