CAST
Man - Mark Constable
Johanna - Tamara Cook
Sergeant & Robert -
Laurence Coy
Max and David - Andrew Crowley
Clerk & Neil - Eamon Flack
Boy- Ben Geurens
Woman - Tanya Goldberg
Cop - Tom O'Sullivan
John - Berynn
Schwerdt
A graduate of WAAPA,
Mark is a co-founder of the Tamarama Rock Surfers (TRS)
and the Old Fitzroy Theatre. He has worked for the STC,
QTC, Black Swan, Railway Street, TRS
and Hair of the Dog theatre companies. Recent stage work
includes The Misanthrope (Belvoir St), directed
by David Field, Half and Half (B Sharp 2004) and
The Hour Before My Brother Dies (Old Fitzroy),
both by Daniel Keene and directed by Lee Lewis, Car Gods Burn
(Railway Street) directed by Nick Clarke and Stephen Sewell's,
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary
America (Stables Theatre, 2003/2005) directed by Chris
Hurrel. He has directed numerous productions, including last
year's sell out seasons of Away, Cosi and Blackrock
at the Pilgrim Theatre. Film credits include Terra
Nova, Tom White and the lead role in Modern Love
(which he recently returned from filming in South Australia).
He has produced a number of short films, including the multi
award winning Breathe and currently has two in post-production,
Untitled Monologue by Daniel Keene ( co-producer and co-director)
and Last Dance which he wrote, produced and directed himself.
Tamara has worked extensively
in theatre, television and film. Her favourite theatre gigs include
Coriolannes (STC), Jordon (Belvoir St)
and Blue Window (Darlinghurst Theatre). Television
credits include Water Rats, Breakers, All Saints, Backburner,
Jimeoin and White Collar Blue. She won a best actress
award for the short film Trish and Mouse and just completed
the feature film Three The Hard Way.
Laurence began his performing career in 1982 as a stand up comic. Under the 'nom-de-mic' of Pat McGroin he was one of several who established and legitimised 'New Wave' comedy in this country. Over the past 23 years he has performed thousands of shows throughout Australia, Britain, Ireland, North America and South East Asia.
He is a graduate in Theatre Studies from UNSW, in Acting from WAAPA and in Directing from NIDA. In Australia he has acting credits with all the State Theatre Companies, Perth and Adelaide Festivals, Bell Shakespeare, Marion St and with many commercial and fringe producers. He has also performed widely in Britain and Ireland - most notably in the acclaimed touring production of Ron Blair's The Christian Brothers in 1999. His most recent performance at the Darlinghurst Theatre was in Portia Coughlan in 2003.
Directing credits range through ancient texts, Shakespeare, Restoration Comedy to modern British, Irish and American work. He holds a special place in his heart for Australian plays though and works with them as often as possible.
Aside from acting and directing
he tries to bring his love of storytelling to young people through
teaching at the Australian Academy of Dramatic Art.
Andrew played Hamlet
for Theatre South's touring production of NSW in 2002.
His other theatre credits include: Sixty Six Minutes - Short
Plays About a Big City (Darlinghurst Theatre and Tap
Gallery), The Perfectionist (The Actor's Forum),
Mixd Drinx (Short and Sweet), Neighbours,
The Plot's the Thing (Cat & Fiddle), Jack
and the Beanstalk (Edinburgh People's Theatre) and
many leading roles for the Faculty of Creative Arts, University
of Wollongong, of which he is a graduate. He was part of the
team which built and created the Cat & Fiddle Theatre
and has worked as director on Conspiracy (Cat &
Fiddle). Film and TV credits include: All Saints,
The Illustrated Family Doctor, Pizza, Dil Chahta
Hai and the animation - Chopper, which won
Best Comedy at Tropfest and Best Animation at the IF
Awards.
Ben has recently graduated from NIDA in 2004. At drama school his credits include The Return, Romeo and Juliet, Much to do about Nothing, and Who's afraid of the working Class.
Previously to attending NIDA
his theatre credits include a national tour of Hotel Sorento
(Hit Productions). Film and television experience includes
Neighbours, The Man from Snowy River, Body Melt and
Blue Heelers
Tanya trained in Acting at
NIDA (2002). Stage work includes Loveplay for RideOn
at BSharp 2004, The Homecoming for BSharp 2003,
Checklist of an Armed Robber and Seven Seconds: In
God We Trust, both for STC Blueprints and The Women
of Troy, Downstairs Belvoir. Tanya is an ensemble
member of State of Play. Television work includes White
Collar Blue and Home and Away, and the feature
film Fat Pizza. Tanya made her directorial debut with
the Australian premiere of Moira Buffini's Loveplay for
BSharp 2004. She has since directed Grimm Tales
for Ascham School and worked as assistant director on
L'Orfeo for Pinchgut Opera. Before attending NIDA,
Tanya used her ATYP-LendLease Scholarship to study with the Moscow
Art Theatre and completed an Arts/Law degree at the University
of Technology, Sydney.
Originally from Perth, Tom
moved to Sydney in 2001 to do the acting course at NIDA,
where he appeared in Stags and Hens, Antione, the Accrington
Pals, Our country's Good, Hot Fudge and a bunch of other
shows. When in Perth Tom appeared in many shows with The Broken
Limb Theatre Company including Away, Macbeth, Night and
Day and Starcrossed and did many shows with the Artrage
Festivals.
Berynn has worked as a choreographer,
director and actor and has performed with the STC (The
Crucible, Much ado about Nothing), the Bell Shakespeare
Company in the highly regarded Actors at Work, at
Crossroads Theatre in Bloody Poetry, for the NIDA
Company (The Imaginary Invalid, Macbeth), for
Belvoir Street in Kim Carpenter's Hansel and Gretel,
for the Tilbury Hotel (Strictly Cinders, Snow
White and the Seventh Dwarf), for Paul Dainty in The
New Rocky Horror Show (subbing for Frankenfurter), in Certified
Male with Glynn Nicholas, Five Stories High with State
of Play, a one-man show, Homage by Tobsha Learner,
Rosencrantz and Guilenstern are Dead with Pork Chop,
Cargo for the Riverina Theatre Company, Kelly's
Reign at the Performance Space, The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and many other theatre
productions around Australia and abroad. He has appeared in numerous
short films and features including Dead Heart by Nick
Parsons, and in television shows such as A Difficult Woman,
Wild Side, Denton, Twisted Tales, A Country
Practice, Comedy Inc and Young Lions. He played,
directed and taught Theatresports at Belvoir Street
and in schools and abroad, and teaches at the Actors'
Centre.
