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Tom Parsons

Since graduating from London’s Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Tom’s stage roles have included Peter in Jesus Christ Superstar (Arena World Tour, including the UK and Australia), as well as being an original cast member in the first Arena Tour in 2012, Mark in Monkee Business at the Manchester Opera House, Nicky and Trekkie in Avenue Q for the Noel Coward Theatre, the Gielgud Theatre and the Wyndhams and understudying Eddie and Sky in Mamma Mia at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Tom also recently sang the lead role of Guy in the concert for the concept album Concrete Jungle by Bobby Cronin at St James Theatre, London.

Madeleine Jones

Madeleine graduated from the Actors Centre in 2009. Her theatre credits since then have included Sally Bowles in Cabaret and Jill Mason in Equus, both for the New Theatre, Mole in the Australian Shakespeare Company’s Wind In The Willows, Cissy Franks in Punk Rock for pantsguys and ATYP (which won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Production), Katie in Girl In Tan Boots for Griffin Independent, Sister Martha in Cyrano de Bergerac (which won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Production) and Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, both for Sport for Jove productions. In 2014 Madeline appeared in The Incredible Book Eating Boy at the Sydney Opera House and M.Rock for the Sydney Theatre Company. Her screen credits include Devil’s Dust for the ABC, a number of short films and the web series Fragments Of Friday.

Anton Berezin

Andrew Broadbent

Ben Brown

Gerard Carroll

A NIDA graduate, Gerard theatre credits include the world premiere of Dead Man Brake by Alana Valentine at Merrigong Theatre Co, Buddy, Deborah Conway’s Patsy the Musical, the Australian Shakespeare Company’s Wind In The Willows, and Red Star and Bad Poetry for the NIDA Company. His television credits include Camp with Rachel Griffiths, Underbelly Badness, Rake, The Kangaroo Gang, Home and Away, Backberner and Australians at War. For ABC Radio National, Gerard created various voices for The Woman Who Knitted Herself A Child, Dark Paradise, The Jetty and the audio-novel Cooking With Fernet Branca.

Colin Dean

Brent Hill

Keegan Joyce

Amy Lehpamer

Amy holds a Bachelor of Arts and an Associate Diploma in Music for violin. Her first music theatre role was Sherrie in Rock of Ages, for which she won the theatrepeople.com.au Best Female Actor in a Musical Award 2011. In 2012 she created the title role in Margaret Fulton: Queen of the Dessert (Theatreworks). Other credits include The Threepenny Opera (Malthouse and Victorian Opera), Young Phyllis in Follies (The Production Company), Christine Colgate in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Sydney’s Theatre Royal, a performance which earnt her the BroadwayWorld Sydney Best Actress in a Musical award in 2013, and Shane Warne – The Musical. Television credits include The Time of Our Lives, Winners and Losers, House Husbands and The Pacific. Amy created the web series Donnatelegrams with Brent Hill for ABC’s Fresh Blood initiative.

Lachlan Neate

Jane Patterson

Jane began playing violin at age four, and took her studies through to university, graduating from Monash with a Bachelor of Music/Arts in 2009. For the past 10 years she has been performing as a violinist and backing vocalist for bands around the country. With John Flanagan and the Begin Agains she toured the Australian festival circuit and travelled to Nashville to perform at the Americana Music Conference. Her versatile vocals have also taken her to Germany as the musical director and singer in cabaret/a cappella girl group Ginger and Tonic. In 2014, the group’s cabaret 50 Shades of Gay was a standout of the Midsumma and Adelaide Fringe festivals; their new show Desperate and Dateless was a headline act at the recent Melbourne Cabaret Festival.

Susan-ann Walker

Susan-ann’s musical theatre career commenced in 1989 with the role of Jenny-Any-Dots in Cats, which she performed over 1200 times in five different countries. Her appearances since then include Les Miserables (Australasian tour), Godspell (Sydney Opera House), Gale Edwards’s production of Aspects Of Love, The Secret Garden, Grease The Arena Spectacular, Mame, Funny Girl, The Sound Of Music, Menopause The Musical and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. Susan-ann is also an accomplished cabaret artist with her show Jacques Brel winning a Green Room Award in 2000 and Yummy and The Yummy Burlesque Hour, which she wrote and performed in with Sally Bourne, nominated for Best Cabaret Writing in the 2013 Green Room Awards.

Paul Watson

A versatile performer, Paul’s music theatre credits include Rent at Chapel off Chapel, Jesus Christ Superstar at QPAC, the original Australian production of Jersey Boys, the Ambassador Theatre Group’s Guys and Dolls and an Australian/NZ tour of Fiddler on the Roof. For television he has had regular guest roles on Winners and Losers and Neighbours. His work in the music industry includes the Crowded House/Split Enz tribute band, Pineapplehead! Paul is also an established voice-over artist and a director of numerous semi-professional musical productions in Melbourne.