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| | Michael Pigott - Albany
is repeating his role as Albany from last year's production of King Lear. He worked with Quasimodo as assistant director on Macbeth. Previous theatrical experience includes acting in: The Tempest (DRAMAC), Macbeth (New Theatre); directing: Scenes from an Execution (DRAMAC); writing: Waiting for Words (CA Directors' Season 2001); Walking on Eggshells (Academy of Film, Television and Theatre, 2002). |  | Ross James - Burgandy
Since tap dancing through Crazy for You, Company and Anything Goes, Ross is
proud to be the bearer of bad news in King Lear. As a member of the Woodstock Players, Ross has appeared as Bill Shorter in There Goes The Bride and as Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing. Other theatrical credits include the new musical Children of Eden, understudying the roles of Adam/Noah and Father (Newtown Theatre); The Mikado in Hot Mikado at (Footbridge Theatre). Ross also performed as a finalist in the Sydney Cabaret Convention 2001, to
great acclaim. Since first appearing on television 21 years ago, Ross has been seen in over 30 commercials and many films and series. Ross is currently in rehearsal for The Melody Lingers On, a story of the music and life of Irving Berlin. |  | Kym Vercoe - Cordelia
Kym graduated from the UWS – Theatre Nepean in 1996. After graduating she
worked on a number of Australian plays including Ceasefire by Shirley Lewis, Radiance by Louis Nowra and Charity by Wendy Beckett for the 1998 Adelaide Fringe Festival. In 1998 Kym joined Co Theatre Physical, performing the solo show Waltz No 6 by Nelson Rodriguez. For Co Theatre Physical she has also performed in Tailing Out in 1999 and again in 2001, Overexposed by Nelson Rodriguez for Carnivale 2000 as well as two schools tours. Most recently the company performed their newest work Landed. Kym also often works with ERTH. This is Kym’s second show with Harlos Productions, having played Regan in 2001’s production of King Lear. |  | Christopher Johnson - Cornwall
Christopher most recently completed performing in his play The Dog Logs: Monologues By Dogs at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, and before that for two seasons at the Darlinghurst Theatre. This is his sixth production with David Ritchie, following both Dog Logs seasons, last years King Lear, Romeo and Juliet at the Italian Forum and Othello at the New Theatre, the last two of which he directed. He was Assistant Director to Gale Edwards on The White Devil (STC) and the late Richard Wherrett on Cabaret (Gordon/Frost) and As You Like It (NIDA). He graduated from the NIDA Directors course in 1997. |  | Nick Berg - Edgar
graduated from NIDA in 2000. Whilst there he performed in There is No Need To Wake Up directed by Barry Kosky, Berlin to Broadway directed by Jim Sharman and Twelfth Night directed by Adam Cook. Since leaving he has appeared in All Saints, the B Sharp Season at Belvoir, the Hotbed readings for the Mardi Gras Festival, assistant directed at NIDA and is about to appear as Robinson in the Theatre of Image/STC production of Robinson Crusoe. |  | Tanc Sade - Edmund
Tanc is a member of Ricochet Working Productions who recently performed in the Big Laugh Comedy Festival with End of the Line. Tanc’s other stage credits include Who’s Afraid of the Working Class (New Theatre) and The Club (New Theatre). His film and television credits include Code 2 and Water Rats.
|  | Gertraud Ingeborg - Fool
Gertraud most recent directing credits include Laundry & Bourbon (Full House Productions), Punch & Judy (Sidetrack Theatre/George Moore Theatre Co), Beverly Hills 1943, Isolde & Tristan and Siberia (The Lookout Theatre). As an actress she most recently performed in Pandora’s Garden (New Theatre), played Mary Stuart in Mary Stuart (New Theatre/Belvoir St/Old Fitzroy and New York seasons), Mother Courage in Mother Courage (New Theatre) as well as playing the Fool in King Lear 2001. |  | Michael Byrne - France
Michael began acting with the Riverina Theatre Company where he played Orlando in As You Like It and Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew. Since moving to Sydney he has performed in 10 x 10 for TheatreSonge, Macbeth and Temptation for New Theatre and Romeo and Juliet for the Italian Forum. He has performed in numerous short films, playreadings and collaborative performance works. He is an accredited stage combatant with the Society of Australian Fight Directors. In addition to his performance work, Michael plans to produce and develop new Australian film and theatre through his production company. |  | Kerry Cassey - Gloucester
Kerry has worked with Steven Berkoff on Bell Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and played the Friar in Romeo and Juliet in the Botanical Gardens. Previous productions include A Lifetime Slapping Water Buffalo on the Arse, Inland, Toss, Conversations with Charlie, The Cherry Orchard, Tartuffe, Medea, The Remedy, Pierrot and the Detective and Homer Rules. TV and film include Water Rats, Murder Call, All Saints, Police Rescue, The Power Rangers Movie, and the Bollywood epic, Hearts Desire. Later this year, he will appear at the Studio with Legs on the Wall in Runners Up. |  | Colleen Cook - Goneril
The closest Colleen usually comes to eye-gouging tragedy are television roles in Water Rats, All Saints, Home and Away or the occasional film. Colleen enjoys live theatre, particularly comedy, most recently playing alongside David Ritchie in Punch and Judy and The Bald Prima Donna. She has performed at the Tilbury, and is also a lyricist and choreographer. She tapped away and understudied in the Sydney run of 42nd Street. Colleen’s six-part series on music theatre went to air in January on ABC Classic FM, and she is currently preparing a 100th birthday special on Richard Rogers for the same network. |  | Patrick Trumper - Kent
Patrick’s theatre credits include AA Infinity, Neighbours (Cat and Fiddle Theatre), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare in the Vineyard), Reservoir Dogs and Going Straight (Comedy Hotel, Harold Park), Who Slew Reg Smedley (Lookout Theatre), Deathtrap, Present Laughter and The Nightingale (Blue Mountains Theatre Co), The Whales Tale (Sheradon Productions), Cosi (Nomad), Almost a Dinosaur, Two Doses of Moliere (Downstairs Belvoir), Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead (Pilgrim), the title role in Amadeus (Enmore Theatre). Film and television credits include The Escape of the Artful Dodger, Farscape 2, All Saints, Wildside, Police Rescue, Cody, On the Dead Side and The Magic Pencil. Patrick lives in Sydney with his partner, playwright Mish Conyngham, and their two children. |  | David Ritchie - Lear
first directed Lear at New Theatre. This production won the Critics' Circle Award. He has also directed Mother Courage, Hamlet and Othello, and last year again directed Lear at the Bondi Pavilion. Recent Shakespearean roles include Capulet, Malvolio & Iago. He last appeared on stage as four dogs in Christopher Johnson's The Dog Logs at the Darlinghurst Theatre. Film & television credits include Act of Betrayal, The Paper Man, Harbour Beat, Elly and Jules, Home and Away, I, Eugenia, Wildside & White Collar Blue. |  | Alex Jones - Oswald
is repeating his role as Oswald from last year's production of King Lear. Alexander received his BA in Acting For the Stage and Screen at Charles Sturt University in 1998. Plays include Three Sisters, As You Like It, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Riverina Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pandora's Garden (New Theatre), Twelfth Night (Quasimodo) and Adam in the Canadian production of The Kabbalistic Psychoanalysis of Adam R Tzaddik (Adelaide Fringe Festival 2002).
|  | Lisa Gorman - Regan
Lisa attained her Performer’s Certificate in 1992 through Trinity College London. She toured for four years with Nomad Reportory Theatre Company to schools throughout NSW from 1992-96 – roles included – Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest, Dianne in The Real Thing, Pandora in The Diary of Adrian Mole and Erica in Hating Alison Ashley. She toured NSW with Tell Tales Entertainment in 1996-97 performing pantomime. In 2000 she co-founded and is Director of A Full House Theatre Company touring to clubs and other venues of NSW as Rita in Educating Rita, Hattie in Laundry and Bourbon and Roy in Lone Star. Other roles include Yvette in Mother Courage (New Theatre) and Meg in Hotel Sorrento (Zenith Theatre). |
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