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WRITER

Noel is a writer/director/performer/producer. Noel completed NIDA’s Playwright Studio and written work includes: Germ Warfare (Bondi Pavilion), Kylie Kastle Throws a Party, Sammy and Dave (Stables Theatre) and The Carer (Belvoir). In 2008, Noel’s short play Pulling Out won Best Writing & Best Production in Pink Shorts (Gasworks) and in 2012 his work featured in Love Letters at the Melbourne Arts Centre. In 2013, Noel’s play Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame played to sellout crowds (La Mama), returning in 2015 to the Jewish Museum of Australia. Other work includes the musical Audrey Hepburn and I Consider Our Assets (Melba Spiegeltent) and his play on the AIDS epidemic, Dark Victory (Midsumma 2016). Moving to film, Noel worked on the first-ever Australian Aboriginal sitcom for SBS, “The Masters,” and in the past twelve months directed the TV series “Next” (Foxtel, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, We-Are TV) and the music video “Travellers in Time” (12,000 views on YouTube). Noel recently produced a successful season of Love Kills 2017 at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

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DIRECTOR

Brandon is the Artistic Director for Antipodes Theatre Company. Melbourne credits: GhostQuartet, #Really?! with Mel andPeppy, Bowie Ball,Mad World, From: New York, For: Him.NYC credits: the world premieres of Only You Can Prevent Wildfires, Happily After Ever (also Edinburgh Fringe), and Gordy Crashes for RicochetCollective (which he also co-founded)and several projects as resident producer with The Orchard Project andThe Drama League. Favorite directing credits include The Last Five Years, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Shape of Things, and Big Love. @midwestrunaway

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READER

Daniel Agar graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre) from Federation University in 2017. There, some of his credits include Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie and Mark Cohen in Rent. Since graduating; Daniel has involved himself in many different productions, some of which include; Sven in Waiting On You (Majella Productions), The Australian Ballet Tours of Spartacus and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Thea/Guitarist in Spring Awakening (North by South), Gustav in Still Buried (VCA), and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing (GJ Productions). Most recently Daniel portrayed David/Dads/Descendant in Jack Frost: The Musical.

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Cassandra Hart graduated from Film and Television Studio International in 2017, under the guidance of Mentor and now Agent, Craig McMahon of McMahon Management. Cassandra’s recently featured in several play readings during the Summer Reading Series with The Cracked Actors Theatre, where she was awarded Best Supporting Actress for one of her portrayals. Cassandra also appeared as Sister Anne Harefield in William Rotor’s original work, The Major and the Matron 1914 that debuted at The Motley Bauhaus as part of the 2019 Melbourne Fringe Festival.

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Adam May has been an actor for over 30 years in theatre, film, and television, spanning a broad variety of theatre spaces including: La Mama, Theatreworks, Chapel off Chapel, 45 Downstairs, Northcote Town Hall, Gasworks, Victorian Arts Centre, Regal Theatre Perth, the London Palladium, and the Edinburgh Festival. Film and television credits include the Chinese feature film Dogfight, Utopia, Ali’s Wedding, House Husbands, Tangle, Blue Heelers (semi-regular), Saddle Club, One Perfect Day, Secret Life of Us and nominated Best Actor at the 15/15 Festival and awarded Best Comedy Actor by the Cracked Actors Theatre in 2020.  adammayactor.com

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Lorinda Merrypor is an Australian musical theatre performer from Rockhampton, QLD. In 2016, she graduated from the Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium with a Bachelor of Musical Theatre. There, she performed in several concerts, cabarets and theatre productions, including Mimi Marquez in Rent. In her hometown, Lorinda has played Nancy in Oliver, Little Inez in Hairspray and Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street. Soon after graduating from the conservatorium, Lorinda made her professional debut in the Australian premier of American Idiot and was then cast in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.  Lorinda has spent the last year and a half touring Australia in Tony Briggs’ The Sapphires.

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Caroline Simone O’Brien is an award-winning actor, director, puppeteer & writer.  A graduate of ACA, The Groundlings, Second City and an accredited coach with Ivana Chubbuck, she’s worked across Australia, the UK & USA. Caroline worked for the UN and is still a keen human rights advocate, published by the European Commission. She directs Shakespeare for inner city kids and tours with the Connecting Cultures Mobile Museum. Tony Winner Rupert Holmes called her “spectacular, powerful & vibrant” in A Time To Kill. Credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, Dancing at Lughnasa, Puppet Life 1 & 2 (Amazon), Locks Of Love (Screen Australia), award winning FELT HELP, Prime Possum (7Network). Her production company Skithouse is the home of kind humor.

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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Cameron Steens is a graduate from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with a Bachelor Degree in Music Theatre.  He appeared in numerous shows, most notably Rent (Tom Collins, dir. Adam Mitchell), The Crucible (Thomas Danforth, dir. Crispin Taylor) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nick Bottom, dir. Trent Baker). He made his professional debut in Black Swan Theatre Company’s Assassins (Leon Czolgosz, dir. Roger Hodgman), his Melbourne debut in James Terry Collective’s Rent (Benny, dir. Mark Taylor) and was most recently seen in the world premiere of Mimma: A Musical of War and Friendship (dir. Adam Mitchell).