CAST

 

Ben Ager

Linda Cropper

Patrick Dickson

Luisa Hastings Edge

David Lyons

Bojana Novakovic

 

 
 
 
 
 

BEN AGER

Ben Ager graduated from The Drama Centre, London in 1994 and moved to Australia two years later.

Theatre experience includes Hamlet (Studio Company), Balm In Gilead (Group Theatre Company), Pan (Trinbay), A Clockwork Orange (TRS), Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (Downstairs Belvoir), The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Twelth Night and Measure for Measure (SBS) and A Great Reckoning in a Little Room (Scottish Duck Company)

Film credits include Angst, After the Rain and Blame (Winner of Best Film in the Metro Screen Kaleidoscope Awards).

On television he has been in Don't Blame Me, Head Start, Breakers, McLeod's Daughters, Home and Away, Wildside and Water Rats. He has also appeared as John - an alcoholic English backpacker in All Saints, Ashley - an arrogant English backpacker in Going Home, and Stephan - a drug dealing English backpacker in Crash Palace. Ben would also like to point out that he is not, nor has he ever been a backpacker.

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LINDA CROPPER

Linda's theatre credits include, Cabaret (The Musical) H.V.T.C., Volpone, Celluloid Heroes, Tristram Shandy Nimrod Theatre, The Dresser Theatre Royal, Chinchilla, As you Desire Me, Nicholas Nickelby. The Madras House, Loot, The Mortal Falcon, An Ideal Husband, The Secret Rapture, Three Sisters, Top Girls, King Lear, Arcadia, A Month In The Country. S.T.C A Midsummer Night's Dream M.T.C. The Marriage Of Figaro R.Q.T.C. Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night Bell Shakespeare.

For TV: Palace Of Dreams, Bodysurfers, Bordertown, Children Of the Dragon, Eden's Lost, Wildside, Backberner A.B.C. And for the Commercial Networks Melba, Tracy, Lola Montez, Ring Of Scorpio, The Hostages, Water Rats, My Husband, My Killer, Farscape, All Saints, White Collar Blue
And Film: Going Sane, The Perfectionist, Seventh Floor, White Lies, Blackrock, Passion, Envy, Teesh And trude, Little Fish and With You Or Without You (U.S.A.)

 

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PATRICK DICKSON

Patrick has been acting professionally since 1978 both here and in the UK. Patrick is an active founding member of both The Bell Shakespeare Company and O'punksky's Theatre and has performed as a guest actor for The Druid Theatre in the Republic of Ireland.

His theatre credits include: Hamlet (The Box Theatre Co.) How Like an Angel, Much ado about Nothing (Railway Street Theatre) Night Letters (SATC/Playbox) Cavelcaders, A Doll's House (Ensemble Theatre). Via Dolorosa, The Gigli Concert, Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against The Eunuchs, The Sons of Ulster (Opunsky's Theatre) ART (State Theatre South Australia)
Ozone (Brisbane Arts Festival) A Doll's House (Sydney Art Theatre) Coriolanus, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III, Hamlet, King Richard III, Merchant of Venice (Bell Shakespeare Company) As You Like It, Dead White Males, Away, The Rivers of China (STC) Night of the Missing Bridgegroom ­ The Gun in History, Flame (Griffin Theatre Co.) Cheapside (Druid Theatre Co, Galway Arts Festival) King Henry IV, King Lear, Othello (DSI Shakespeare) Karamazov, Break of Noon, The Poet Assassinated, The Ambassador, The marriage, Hamlet (Thalia Theatre) Sarah Bernhardt's Rabbit (Belvoir St) Cheapside (MTC).

His TV credits include: Flat Chat (FOX), Children's Hospital, The Timeless Land, The Fast Lane, GP (ABC) Passion Series, English at Work (SBS) Seachange, Murder Call, Home and Away, ROAR, A Town like Alice, Carson's Law, Land of Hope, Elly and Jools, The Saint in Australia
For Film Patrick's credits include: Pride, Lilian's Story, Rupert, A Bridge too Far, The Fluteman, This Time Next Time, Shall we Dance, Turtle Beach and numerous short films .

Patrick is also a chorister with JOCOBEAN SINGERS, CAPUCCINO CHORUS & ST CLEMENTS CHURCH CHOIR.

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LUISA HASTINGS EDGE

Luisa graduated from VCA in 2001. Recent theatre credits include: Handbag
(Focus Productions), Hamlet and As You Like It (Bell Shakespeare) and One Thumb Out (Naked Theatre). She devised and performed Weill Women: A Kurt Weill Cabaret at The Old Fitzroy Theatre and Bondi Pavilion (2002 ­ 03) and Chapel Off Chapel for the Melbourne Fringe (2004). TV includes Always Greener and the role of 'Sarah Lewis' in Home and Away.

 

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DAVID LYONS

Graduating from NIDA last year, David recently played Christian in MTC's Cyrano De Bergerac before appearing in Blue Heelers and the films 'The Sea' and 'Letter for Chloe'. While at NIDA, he appeared in The Grapes of Wrath, Much Ado About Nothing, Big Love, Twelfth Night, The Double Dealer, and No NamesNo Packdrill. He is a founding member of Array Productions and The New Black Theatre Company, and has appeared in the short films, The Watch, Cash Out and On The Rocks.

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BOJANA NOVAKOVIC

Since graduating NIDA in 2002, Bojana has completed filming the Channel 10 series The Cooks , the ABC mini series Marking Time, for which she received her first AFI Award for Best Actress in 2004, the feature film Thunderstruck and the Cordelia Beresford short film The Eye Inside. Her theatre credits include These People and Away for the Sydney Theatre Company, Necessary Targets ­ Darlinghurst Theatre and Malthouse Theatre seasons and Loveplay for B Sharp. At NIDA she played Irina in Three Sisters, Marina in Pericles and co-wrote, directed and performed in Grimm Bacon, an original piece. Prior to NIDA, Bojana's professional credits include Bell Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the films Monkey's Mask, Strange Fits of Passion and Blackrock, and television including Wildside, Water Rats, Heartbreak High, Murder Call and Big Sky.

 

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