Rebecca De Unamuno
From Melbourne
and Sydney Comedy Festivals to film (Dags
and Muffled Love, Tropfest 2001, Tragic
Love (2002 Tropfest finalist), radio and
TV comedy, and theatre, Rebecca is favourite
with all kinds of audiences. Two-time Theatresports
® Cranston Cup winner Rebecca was also
a member of the winning World Improv Championship
team (2001 Just For Laughs Festival, Montreal)
and was named Player of the Tournament.
Rebecca is
currently the star of Impro @ the store (The
Comedy Store, Fox Studios), director/performer
for Open Stage Productions (the Theatresports®
in Schools company) and is preparing to take
the show Crash Boom Bang Theory to the 2002
Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
On radio
Rebecca has been the voice-over artist for
the Triple J Breakfast Show and for
The Triple M Chaser. TV : 10:30
Slot (ABC TV), appearances on The Morning
Shift (Channel 7), The Election Chaser
(ABC TV) and The Glasshouse (ABC TV).
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Benita Collings
Benita Collings,
much loved presenter of ABC TV's Play School,
is an actress whose career in radio, TV, Film
and Television spans more than 30 years. Some
of her TV appearances include Rafferty's
Rules, A Country Practice, and
The Restless Years, and she has worked
on many corporate documentaries. For many
years she was also a professional speaker
and trainer in the corporate world, and still
teaches presentation skills for television.
An active Theatresports player, Benita has
also worked with most of Australia's Symphony
Orchestras and has yet another "gig"
with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
in June. Benita has recorded nine albums.
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Christina Davis
Christina Davis
yes the Christina from the first
Big Brother. Christina is a dancer/choreographer/actor/stand
up comic/model. She had principal roles
with the West Australian Ballet Company,
has performed on radio/TV and was a featured
actor in "Nine Days" Tropfest.
She has co-hosted numerous TV and radio
shows and performed in many of the stand
up comedy venues in Melbourne and Sydney,
Christina was a state finalist in Raw Comedy
at the Melbourne International Comedy festival.
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Lyn Pierse
Lyn Pierse
graduated NIDA. Recently seen on SBS-TV's
Going Home as Pam
Coughlan. Theatre credits include Measure
For Measure, the Australian premiere of
Berkhoff's Greek, Paula Iland's one
woman show Divinely Irresistible and
last year's premier international performance
of The Vagina Monologues. Her films
include the Australian feature film Dags.
As Sister Mary Leonard she has appeared at
the Tokyo British Club, Harold Park Comedy
Hotel, Cat and Fiddle, Last Laugh and on ABC
TV¹s Big Gig and The Bert Newton Show.
Veteran Theatresports®
player, Lyn captained the first Australian
National
Champion Theatresports team and as National
Coach pioneered Theatresports®
teaching across Australia, New Zealand and
Japan. She has directed numerous
Theatresports seasons and events; Cranston
Cup at the Opera House, Enmore,
Belvoir Street and National Champoinships
Adelaide Festival and EXPO.
She
teaches Improvisation at NIDA, Standup Comedy
and directs Impro 2002;
the Theatresports® Teaching and Training
program. Her text Theatresports®
Down Under is in its second edition.
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Nicola Parry
Has most recently
appeared in the Theatresports® Suburb
of Origin and King of the Hill seasons
at Belvoir Street, and was a finalist in
the 2001 Cranston Cup. She trained
and tutored at the London Academy of Music
and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and prior to her
return to Sydney last year, was Associate
Director at the Bush Theatre London.
Some of her recent theatre credits include
Twelfth Night, Hitting Town,
Kvetch, and Chris and Nicholas.
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John Knowles
John Knowles has
performed in, produced and or directed live
comedy
shows including, OH BROTHER!, Gods
Cowboys - those meat worshipping singing
evangelists, IMPROZAC, The Funny
Side of Sex & Crime, Theatresports®
Improlympiad, Office Jerks
at Darlighurst Theatre and Cops On Heat
- the improvised TV Police Show parody and
hit of the 2002 Melbourne International
Comedy Festival. His comedy TV performances
include, The Footy Show, Today
Tonight, The Midday Show, and
Channel V.
He is currently
working on a one person show about the growing
similarities between himself and his bronco-riding
persian-carpet-selling cowboy of a father.
John has been described as a cross between
Don Knotts, Don Adams and Don Rickles.
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James O'Loghlin
James O'Loghlin
is one of Australia's leading comedians
who has appeared on
pretty much every TV show that has guests
on it who think they're funny. He
has hosted TV shows on the ABC and
Foxtel but he really only got into
TV to
try to break into radio. James now hosts
the evening programme ABC local
radio in NSW and the ACT from 7pm to 10pm.
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Ian Roberts (Legend)
Ian Roberts began
playing football at school - because everybody
else did.
By the time he left school he had a contract
with South Sydney 1985-89. In
1989 he moved clubs to play for Manly. He
sat 1996 out due to the Superleague bans.
In 1997 he signed with North Queensland
Cowboys retiring in 1999 with a knee injury.
Ian played
Front Row for NSW Blues and the Australian
Kangaroos 1990-1994 and
is one of our greatest Rugby League Champions.
In 1994 he gained public notoriety and great
respect when he 'came out.' Now training as
an actor in the 3 year full time acting course
at the National Institute of Dramatic Art,
Ian is following the other career he has always
been interested in. He will graduate NIDA
2003.
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Sandi Finlay
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Michael Beckley
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Annette Shun Wah
Annette Shun Wah has played
many diverse roles in both radio and TV
including writer, producer and presenter.
As the producer/presenter of SBS-TV's Eat
Carpet and music program The Noise,
Annette has consistently worked within cutting
edge spheres. Radio highlights included
being the first female announcer at Sydney
commercial music station 2WS in 1980, and
a four-year stint at 2JJJ - FM where her
evening program featured in-depth music
reports and artist profiles. Other TV credits
include presenter of ABC - TV's weekly live
music program Studio 22 & host
of ABC's Media Dimensions. She is
also a published author and actor. In 1996,
Annette's first feature film performance
in Floating Life, directed by Clara
Law, garnered a nomination for an AFI Award
for Best Performance by an Actress in a
Supporting Role.
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Michael Gegory
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Ewan Campbell
Film, commercials
and live TV comic, Ewan is one of Australia's
top comedy improvisors with credits including
four (count them!) Cranston Cup wins, New
York International Theatresports Festival,
Hamlet Improvised, The Unspeakable
Mockbeth, Really Silly Cafe,
Bonds Have More Fun and the long
running Completely Lost in Space.
Ewan was the resident funny guy on the Midday
show and appears on many other current televisions
programmes including the Footy Show.
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Wil Anderson
Wil Anderson is
one of Australia's most popular stand-up
comics and media personalities. A political
journalist for the Financial Review until
he decided to get a real job - in comedy
- he's had audiences in stitches from Edinburgh
to Good News Week and now on ABC
Radio where he appears each morning
on Triple J as presenter of the breakfast
show and Fridays, as host of The Glass
House ABC TV.
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Adam Spencer
Adam started out studying Arts/Law and
ended up with an honours degree in Pure
Mathematics. He's a debating champion and
a Theatresports(R) Champion. Adam was a
member of the winning team from last year's
Theatresports Celebrity Challenge (including
Rob Carlton & Marty Lynes) He was host
of ABC-TV's Quantum, presenting weekly
stories with his unique slant on science
(he told us science was sexy!). Adam also
presents ABC Radio Triple J's breakfast
show and was a regular guest on Good
News Week.
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Murray Fahey
Film and programme maker (Dags,
Encounters, Sex is a Four-letter
Word, A Change of Heart) film
actor (Phar-Lap, Anzacs, My
Brother Tom) , writer, director and
comic, Murray is a Theatresports legend
who has performed in just about about every
impro hit show and won the Cranston Cup
6 times!
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Jenny Hope
Actor, Writer, Director,
Choreographer, Teacher and Theatresports
legend!
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Daniel Cordeaux
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Marko Mustac
Marko is an improviser,
writer, trainer, director and producer for
theatre, television and corporate events.
He became involved with Theatresports in
its first days in Australia in 1985, when
he was a young actor and writer. Since then
he has won awards, travelled the world with
improvised comedy shows and worked throughout
the Entertainment Industry in Australia.
He recently toured the Edinburgh Festival
with 'The 3 Radicals' as well as
return tours in 2001-2002 to Germany and
Europe.
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Monique Dykstra
With Timekeeper, ref and factotum extraordinaire...
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