Cast & Creatives

Penny re-trained in later life at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama in London. She lived in Asia for many years working as a full time voice and theatre actor, voicing everything from Japanese anime, movies to telephone answering systems. She ran her own successful theatre group Purple Turtle, which toured China and was invited to represent Hong Kong at the International Festival of Theatre Methods in Latvia in 2005.

Since moving to Australia she has been busy in movies, TV and theatre. In 2015 she finished filming the independent movies Memories of Michael and Irreversible Choices.

Theatre credits include: Actor in the award winning group devised piece, Landing, the lead role Kendall, a trans gender man, in the critically acclaimed Australian play Into the Mirror; Marcus Andronicus in F&C theatre’s all female production of Titus Andronicus; Edith in the musical You’ve Got Buckley’s Chance, the Nurse in Sydney Classic Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet, Diedre in Bushfire, Lydia in Last Dance at Dum Dum and most recently Baptista in Taming of the Shrew.

She works in theatre in education performing an anti-bullying show to high schools throughout Sydney and as a children’s entertainer with her pal Gilbert the Gecko.

Laura graduated Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2013. She recently performed her one woman show Hitchcock Birds at the Butterfly Club and was part of Hedger and Nicholson’s new Musical, Hook Up, at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. While at WAAPA her theatre credits included; Thoroughly Modern Millie, Once on this Island, Spring Awakening, Assassins, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, The Comedy of Errors and A Chorus Line.

In 2013 Laura worked with Steve Vizard and Paul Growbowski on the workshop and cast recording of their new musical play; Centenary. For screen, she has featured in web series with ABC (Fresh Blood), Footballer wants a Wife and Backwards Anorak.

Catherine is a graduate of The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London), having completed the Contemporary Theatre Summer Program. She has also completed part-time courses at The Actor’s Centre Australia, and master classes at The Hub Studio with Anthony Skuse and Kevin Jackson. Catherine is also a trained dancer, holding a Certificate IV in Performing Arts (Dance Major) from ed5 International.

Catherine’s theatre credits include Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Genesian), Saleria in The Merchant of Venice (Emu Heights Theatre Co.) and Jennie in Chapter Two (RADA). She performed at The Seymour Centre as part of The Sydney Fringe Festival in the role of Rachel in Our Father Who Art (Nearly) In Heaven.

She appears in the latest season of Deadly Women (Beyond Productions) on The Discovery Channel and is playing the lead role in an upcoming web series, The Deathing Game. She also has a minor role in Woman with an Editing Bench, a movie documentary, directed by Karen Pearlman, about the life of Russian film editor, Elizaveta Svilova.

Catherine is currently rehearsing a staged reading of The Chapel Perilous at The New Theatre, playing the roles of Judith/Sister Rosa, performing in May to students who are studying the play as part of the HSC English Syllabus.

Tom grew up in Victoria’s Yarra Valley and is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Music. In 2007 Tom took the road less travelled by classically trained percussionists and joined Taikoz – Australia’s leading taiko ensemble, with whom he has performed both locally and abroad as well as concerto performances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Western Australia Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Dresden Sinfonika in Europe. He has also has directed performances for Taikoz around Australia and overseas. As a member of Taikoz, Tom was lucky enough to work with John Bell and the Bell Shakespeare Company in their highly acclaimed production of Pericles and his love of acting was born.

Over the coming years he would complete numerous short courses including Acting for Film and Television at NIDA, Actors Centre Australia’s Power of Performance and Bell Shakespeare’s Actor Training Graduate Course. Stand out moments during Tom’s time at ACA include working with such directors as Anthony Skuse, Kevin Jackson, Cristobel Sved, Stefanos Rassios, George Ogilvie, and Samantha Chester in productions as varied as “Twelfth Night,” “Time Stands Still,” “Ivanov,” and the self-devised “Night Circus.”

Jessica is a 2013 graduate of the Actors Centre Australia Full Time program. Theatre credits include ‘An Ideal Husband’ and ‘The Removalists’ (Epicentre Theatre Company), ‘Ambrosia’ (Grumpy Mandrake Theatre, Sydney Fringe Festival), ‘Hunger’ (NIDA Graduate program) and ‘EI8HT’ (Edgeware Forum, Sydney Fringe). She has been apart of numerous developments, notably with Stephen Sewell (NIDA). Jessica has also been a part several film projects. She is a founding member of Edgeware Forum, a new theatre company that aims to develop and produce bold new work, particularly new Australian plays.

Michael has been performing theatre for many years, beginning with an endless list of productions for the UNSW Theatre society, and going on to perform for touring companies such as Echelon, and Brainstorm Productions. Michael is also artistic director for his own theatre company SANDKING, whose first production of ‘Retrograde’ was performed at 107 Projects in Redfern for Sydney Fringe, featuring Peter-William Jamieson and acting legend Mark Lee.