Jacqueline Susan McKenzie is a classically trained Australian actress of stage and screen.
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is Australia’s leading centre for education and training in the performing arts. Founded in 1958, NIDA uses a conservatoire model, where students learn through practical experience, working on real productions. NIDA offers Bachelor’s, Master’s and Vocational degrees in subjects including acting, writing, directing, scenic construction, technical theatre, voice, costume, props, production design and cultural leadership.
Matthew Walker is a New Zealand-born actor and performer.
Jeremy Hartley Sims is an Australian actor and director.
David Berthold is one of Australia's most prominent theatre directors and cultural leaders. He has directed for most of Australia's major theatre companies, as well as internationally, and has led several key arts organisations. He is currently Artistic Director of Brisbane Festival, one of Australia's major international arts festivals and Queensland’s largest arts and cultural event. He has a tenure of five festivals, 2015-19. In 2019, Berthold transformed the Festival into Australia's largest major international arts festival, presenting more works to more people than any other, with an audience of more than one million people.
James David Sharman is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and the film's follow-up, Shock Treatment (1981).
Tommy Murphy is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, adaptor and director. He is best known for his stage and screen adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man. His most recent play is Mark Colvin's Kidney (2017).
Ian Meadows is an Australian actor and writer.
Judith Ann Clingan is an Australian composer, conductor, performer and music educator. Since 1997, she has been the Director of Wayfarers Australia Australia Wide Choir.
Peter Mochrie, is an Australian actor whose career spans over forty years in the industry. His love of acting started at the age of 13 when he appeared in a play at Knox Grammar School (NSW), where he completed his schooling in 1976. He is also a producer of Fine Films and Profiles, presenter, teacher of 'The Art of Presenting on Camera' and an auctioneer for McGrath Estate Agents.
Peta Sergeant is an Australian actress best known for her lead role in the Australian television series Satisfaction. She graduated from NIDA.
Aimée Rene Horne, is an accomplished Australian actor. She has worked in film, theatre, radio and television and is an established voice-over artist. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).
Sarah Snook is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles in the films Sisters of War (2010), Not Suitable for Children (2012), These Final Hours (2013), Predestination (2014), The Dressmaker (2015), and Steve Jobs (2015). For Predestination, she won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In 2018, she began starring in the HBO black comedy series Succession.
Benedict Samuel is an Australian actor, writer and director best known for playing Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter in the Fox crime series Gotham.
John Sheedy is an Australian theatre director, born in Geelong in 1972. He was educated at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Based in Melbourne, he is a director of drama and musicals for the stage as well as opera. He has been described as "a director of bold vision both filmic and theatrical”.
The Rabbits is a music theatre work with music by Kate Miller-Heidke and libretto by Lally Katz, based on the book by John Marsden illustrated by Shaun Tan. As per the original book, it is an allegory for the colonisation of Australia, depicting an invasion of rabbits described as alien, harsh and greedy, as they destroy the land and lives of the native marsupials.
Rowan Witt is an Australian film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his roles in The Book of Mormon, She Loves Me,Into The Woods, South Pacific, Dogfight, Home and Away, Underbelly, and The Matrix.
