Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor. He is known for his eccentric leading man roles on stage and screen. He is among 24 people who have won the Triple Crown of Acting, having received an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award. He also received three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Rush is the founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year.
Paul Joseph Mercurio is an Australian actor, dancer, TV presenter and politician. Mercurio is best known for his lead role in Strictly Ballroom 1992 and his role as a judge on TV series Dancing with the Stars.
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is an Australian educational institution for the performing arts is based in Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 1958, many of Australia's leading actors and directors trained at NIDA, including Cate Blanchett, Mel Gibson, Judy Davis and Baz Luhrmann.
Katharine Cullen is an Australian actress, daughter of actors Max Cullen and Colleen Anne Fitzpatrick.
David Berthold is one of Australia’s most prominent theatre directors and cultural leaders. As a theatre director, he has directed for most of Australia’s major theatres companies, as well as in London and Berlin. As an Artistic Director, he has led transformational change at several significant arts organisations. He was Artistic Director of Brisbane Festival, one of Australia's major international arts festivals and Queensland’s largest arts and cultural event. Through his tenure of five festivals, 2015–19, 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.
Alan Edmund William Edwards AM MBE was a British actor and founding Artistic Director of the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Robyn Anne Nevin is an Australian actress, director, and stage producer, recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art. Former head of both the Queensland Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company, she has directed more than 30 productions and acted in more than 80 plays, collaborating with internationally renowned artists, including Richard Wherrett, Simon Phillips, Geoffrey Rush, Julie Andrews, Aubrey Mellor, Jennifer Flowers, Cate Blanchett and Lee Lewis.
John Bernard Derum is an Australian stage, film and television actor. He has also directed and produced for theatre companies throughout Australia and for television.
Jonathan Messer is an Australian director of theatre, television and film.
Lindsay Farris is an Australian / Maori actor, writer, producer, musician and voice over artist.
Catherine Terracini is an Australian actress and producer born in Lake Como, Italy. She is the daughter of opera singer and artistic director of Opera Australia, Lyndon Terracini and arts administrator Elizabeth Terracini. Catherine is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and has been working in Australian theatre, film and television and commercials since 2004.
Anna McGahan is an Australian actress and playwright, who has appeared in Australian television, film and theatre.
Beejan Land is an Australian actor and playwright. He graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Art and Newtown High School of the Performing Arts
James Wilson Mackay is an Australian actor known for The CW television series Dynasty, as well as roles in films and on stage.
Jacinta John is an Australian actress, producer and director. She is best known for her performance as Miss Casewell in the (2012–2013) 60th anniversary tour of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, which played to an audience of over 150,000 people across Australasia.
Alice Ansara is an Australian actress and dramaturg who works in film, television and theatre.
Terence Crawford is an Australian actor, author, theatre director, academic, and songwriter.
Persia Blue is an Australian actress of both screen and stage.
Matt Scholten is an Australian theatre and film director, producer, writer and teacher. He is the Artistic Director & Creative Producer of independent theatre company If Theatre which was established in 2006.
Andrea Moor is a Brisbane-based actor known for with roles in theatre, film and television. She is also a stage director and coordinator of actor training at QUT.
