- Cate Blanchett
Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1969, Cate Blanchett began her career in theatre, after graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992. ... Cate's first high-profile, international role was lead in the 1998 movie Elizabeth, for which she won Best Actress awards at both the BAFTAs and Golden Globes, plus an Academy Award nomination. - Andrew Upton
Andrew Upton is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and director. As a playwright, Upton penned adaptations of "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Don Juan" for the Sydney Theatre Company. In 1999, Upton wrote and directed "Bangers" which starred his wife, Academy Award winning actress Cate Blanchett. In 2006, he wrote the film "Gone" which was directed by Ringan Ledwidge. With his wife, Upton has formed Dirty Films to develop feature projects. - Wesley Enoch
Wesley Enoch is a Murri playwright and artistic director. He was born in 1969, the eldest son of Doug and Lyn Enoch from Stradbroke Island. Wesley has been Artistic Director of Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts; an Associate Artist with the Queensland Theatre Company; a Resident Director with the Sydney Theatre Company, Artistic Director of Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-Operative and Associate Artistic Director Company B Belvoir St. - David Berthold
David Berthold is a leading Australian theatre director. He was Artistic Director of Griffin Theatre Company (2003-06), Artistic Director of the Australian Theatre for Young People (1999-2003), Associate Director of Sydney Theatre Company (1994-99), and Artistic Associate of the Queensland Theatre Company (1991-93). He has also directed work for Playbox Theatre, Black Swan, NIDA, QUT, La Boite, Opera Queensland, Auckland Theatre Company, the Royal National Theatre, London, … - Justine Clarke
Justine Clarke (born 1971) is an Australian actress, who first rose to recognition in her role as one of the tribe children in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1985. Clarke played the role of Anna Goanna, who helped Max rescue Helen Buday's character of Savannah Nix, and her band seeking the remnants of Sydney, Australia after the apocolypse known to them as Tomorrowland. At the age of seven, Clarke began appearing in television commercials, … - Nick Enright
Nick Enright (22 December 1950-30 March 2003) was an Australian playwright. He was Dux of St Ignatius' College, Riverview in 1967, where, like Gerard Windsor and Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow. At that school, he won the GPS Schools 1sts Debating Premiership in both 1966 and 1967, also winning the prestigious Lawrence Campbell Oratory Competition in 1966, whilst in Year 11. Enright received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney in 1972, … - Katherine Thomson
Katherine Thomson (born 1955) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. Katherine Thomsonwas born in Manly, New South Wales and began her theatrical involvement as a teenager with the Australian Theatre for Young People. She helped found Theatre South in Wollongong and acted in many of their productions. Her first work was "A Change in the Weather", which was followed by "Tonight We Anchor in Twofold Bay". - Marton Csokas
Marton Csokas (pronounced Martin 'Cho-kash') (born June 30, 1966) is a New Zealand actor. He is known internationally for his role as Celeborn in the films "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King". He has also made numerous appearances in "Xena: Warrior Princess" as Xena's past love and ally, Borias, and Khrafstar. Csokas was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. - Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor. Edgerton was born in Sydney, Australia. He has appeared in such films as "Erskineville Kings", "King Arthur", "Ned Kelly", and, most notably, "Star Wars" episodes II and III, portraying a young Owen Lars, step-brother of Anakin Skywalker and uncle to Luke Skywalker. Edgerton's brother, Nash, was the stunt double for Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. - Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes (born 1948) is an Australian actor whose most famous roles include "ABBA: The Movie" and the TV sitcom "Hey Dad...!" Hughes has worked extensively in Australian theatre, film and television and as a Sydney Theatre Company company artist from 1981. Theatre roles included "The War Horse" and "Great Big Adventure Book for Boys". Television roles have included: "Chopper Squad", "Cop Shop", "The Sullivans", … - Helen Dallimore
Helen Dallimore (b. October 31, 1971 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian actress. Dallimore grew up in Oxford, England and Sydney, Australia. She trained at National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1995. Dallimore's stage credits with the Sydney Theatre Company include: David Edgar's "Pentecost", "The Unlikely Prospect of Happiness", Andrew Upton and Gale Edwards' "The Hanging Man", and "Miss Adelaide" in "Guys & Dolls". - Angie Milliken
Angie Milliken is an Australian actress. Milliken first became noticed when she starred in the 1991 made-for-tv movie "Act of Necessity" for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute (AFI) award. Throughout the 1990s, Milliken starred as Jo Moody in a series of telemovies with Robert Taylor, called "The Feds", and in 1999 starred in "Paperback Hero", as well as guest starring on "Farscape" and "Stingers". - Andrew Hansen
Andrew John Hansen (born 1974) is an Australian comedian and musician, best known for being a writer and performer in The Chaser. He is particularly known for his songs as well as his character pieces in the show "The Chaser's War On Everything", which include "Scenes From The Life Of The Crazy Warehouse Guy", "the Surprise Spruiker", "Clive The Slightly Too-Loud Commuter", and "Mr. Ten Questions". - Genevieve Blanchett
Genevieve Amelie Blanchett (born 1971) is an Australian theatrical costume and set designer. She has worked extensively with the Sydney Theatre Company and other Australian theatre groups designing sets and costumes. Blanchett was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia as the daughter of a Texan naval petty officer who came ashore in Melbourne and met her mother, a Melbourne schoolteacher. Her father, Robert, later worked in advertising after marrying her mother, June. - Jane Harrison
Jane Harrison is a descendant of the Muruwari people of NSW, from the area around Bourke and Brewarrina. Jane grew up in the Victorian Dandenongs with her mother and sister. She is a writer and a playwright. She began her career as an advertising copywriter, before beginning work as a writer with Ilbijerri Theatre Company. Her most well-known work is "Stolen", which received critical claim, and has toured nationally and internationally. - Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn (April 3, 1969) is an Australian actor and musician - Donald McDonald
Donald Benjamin McDonald AC is an Australian arts administrator and between 1996 and 2006 was chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's national public broadcaster. He has been involved in the administration of various arts enterprises for many years including the Sydney Theatre Company and Musica Viva Australia. He was chief executive of the Australian Opera Company for ten years until his retirement in December 1996. - Alan Seymour
Alan Seymour (born 6 June 1927 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian playwright and author. "The One Day of the Year" is one of his plays. Initially it was rejected by a festival governing committee but was first performed in 1961 by an amateur production, then with government funding, and then in London, England. Seymour went there to see the performance and began living overseas, returning to live in Australia in 1995. - Beejan Olfat
Beejan Olfat (born 14 February 1985 in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian actor and award-winning playwright of Iranian decent. Olfat is a graduate of NIDA Young Actors Studio and Playwright's Studio. He also trained at Australian Theatre for Young People. He has performed in stage plays by William Shakespeare, Michael Gow, David Hare, Bertold Brecht, Debra Oswald, Ned Manning, Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Middleton, Alfred Jarry, Alex Broun, Mark Ravenhill, … - Dennis Olsen
Dennis Olsen (born February 28 1938 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia), is an accomplished pianist, actor and director. He is Australia's leading exponent of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Dennis Olsen originally trained for a professional career as a pianist, but decided to become an actor and attended the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, New South Wales. He has appeared with the following theatre companies: Old Tote Company, … - Anne Looby
Anne Looby is an Australian actress best known for her role in the television series "A Country Practice" as Anna Lacey and her recurring appearances in "All Saints" as Julia Archer. Other TV appearances include: "Wildside", "Water Rats" and "Always Greener". Anne graduated from NIDA in 1988. Her theatre roles include Macbeth, Arcadia, and King Learwith the Sydney Theatre Company. Anne has also portrayed characters in the plays - Mark Priestley
Mark Priestley (born August 9, 1976) in Perth, Western Australia, Australia) is an actor. He graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a degree in Performing Arts (acting) in 1999. Mark's first big TV break was when he appeared in the The Farm in 2000 and met director Kate Woods. She gave him a key role in her mini-series Changi in 2001. - Noel Hodda
Noel Hodda is an Australian actor, writer, dramaturge, director and teacher. He was born in 1954 in Albury, New South Wales. He is a graduate of The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Prior to attending NIDA he was a founding member of The Riverina Theatre Company, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and Project TYER, a Theatre In Education Co., for whom he also wrote and appeared in the play "Strata Digger". - Rebel Wilson
Rebel Wilson is an Australian actress, writer, and stand-up comedienne, and is perhaps best known for her role as Toula in the television show "Pizza". - Francis Greenslade
Francis Greenslade (born 3 October 1962 in Honiara, Solomon Islands) is an Australian comic actor. He and comedic partner Shaun Micallef appeared on the legal comedy "Welcher and Welcher", as well as "Full Frontal". Greenslade has also appeared on children's comedy "Pigs' Breakfast", as well as 2003 Australian feature film "Take Away" (with Stephen Curry). - Nick Greiner
Nick Greiner Deputy Chairman Nick has been Deputy Chairman of the Stockland Board since his appointment in September 1992. He was a Member of the New South Wales Parliament from 1980 to 1992 and Premier and Treasurer for the last five years of that period. Nick is Chairman of Bilfinger Berger Australia Limited, and Bradken Limited. He is also a director of McGuigan Simeon Wines Limited and a number of other private groups. - Damien Cooper
Damien’s lighting design for Theatre, Opera and Dance includes: A Hard God, The Cherry Orchard, Summer Rain, Metamorphosis, Boy Gets Girl, Julius Caesar, Far Away, Bed, Thyestes, Morph, The Shape Of Things, These People, King Lear, This Little Piggy, (Sydney Theatre Company); Stuff Happens, The Chairs, The Spook, In Our Name, Underpants, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The Women He Loved In The Former Soviet Union, The Ham Funeral (Company B, Belvoir); Via Dolorosa (newtheatricals); The Magi - Anthony Gabriele
Anthony made his professional debut with the Gordon/Frost Organisation, touring Australia and Hong Kong as Assistant Music Director on South Pacific. - Annabel Scholes
Annabel graduated from the NIDA Directing Course in 2000. She has directed several productions including; Jennifer Compton's The Big Picture for the New Theatre, Newtown, The Stars Come Out for Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, Brad Fraser's Wolfboy and Unidentified Human Remains And the True Nature of Love, Cho Cho San by Daniel Keene, Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Glory by Steve J Spears. - James Strong Ao
James Strong AO Exclusive to Saxton James Strong has been responsible for a formidable list of achievements in both business and the arts He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Woolworths; Chairman of Insurance Australia Group, Chairman of Rip Curl International and a Director of Qantas Airways. A passionate supporter of the Arts, he is also Chairman of the Australia Council for the Arts, the primary arts funding and policy body of the Australian Government. - Alan John
ALAN JOHN – COMPOSER Alan has a long association with Company B, especially the work of Neil Armfield , composing music for his productions of The Tempest, Hate, The Diary of a Madman, Diving for Pearls, The Governor’s Family, As You Like It, The Small Poppies, Twelfth Night, Emma’s Nose, My Zinc Bed, Waiting for Godot, The Underpants and The Spook. - Robyn Nevin
Robyn Nevin Director Robyn has held various positions at Australia’s State theatre companies including the role of Associate Director at both Sydney Theatre Company (1984-87) and Melbourne Theatre Company (1994-96). From 1996 to 1999 Robyn was Artistic Director of the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC). In June of 1999 Robyn joined Sydney Theatre Company as Artistic Director. - Chris Tomkinson
Christopher graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1997. In 2000 he studied in London with Philippe Gaulier and in Paris with Pan Theatre having received a Lend Lease scholarship through the Australian Theatre for Young People [ATYP]. - Mary MacRae
Mary Macrae Stage Manager Mary is a freelance Stage and Production Manager in Sydney. She has worked regularly with Sydney Theatre Company; Reunion , A Kind of Alaska , The 7 Stages of Grieving , Hedda Gabler (2004 and 2007 tour to BAM) , A Doll’s House , A Cheery Soul and Del Del . - Glenn Terry
Glenn Terry Glenn graduated from the NSW Conservatorium of Music in 1985 but his interests soon turned towards theatre, particularly directing and producing. He has worked in production for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford on Avon and for Sydney Theatre Company. For the past 18 years he has worked as a producer and director. His main interests lie in producing new work, International or Australian and working with small to medium size theatre companies. - Daniel Tobin
Daniel is a Queensland University of Technology graduate, with a Bachelor of Visual Arts studied under prominent Australian artists William Robinson, Davida Allen, Ian Smith and Joe Furlonger. He went on to study theatre and film design at the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. - Anne Driscoll
Anne graduated from the NIDA Technical Production Course in 1997. She has since worked as a freelance stage manager and assistant stage manager for various producers. - Rodney Dobson
Rodney graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1989. His stage credits include: Chess , Return to the Forbidden Planet , Miss Julie with the Sydney Theatre Company, Aspects of Love , South Pacific , Buddy , Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard. Most recently Rodney performed in a new Australian musical Nathanial Storm for the NIDA Company. - Nathaniel Dean
Nathaniel has appeared in the short films The Dance and The Watchers and has been a guest on the television series Always Greener and Farscape. His theatre credits include productions of The One Day of the Year at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2003 and Boy's Life at the Sydney Fringe Festival in 2001. In 2000 he appeared at the National Playwrights' Festival at NIDA and at Company B in Dream a Little Dream. - Sam Mostyn
Sam Mostyn Ms Sam Mostyn has an extensive background in law, management and politics. She is currently the Group Executive, Culture & Reputation at Insurance Australia Group where she has responsibility for managing the Human Resources, Corporate Affairs, Government and International Relations, and Corporate Sustainability functions.
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