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PERFORMER

Tallulah Bankhead

Involved in the arts industry since she was a child, Martha has worked in Australia and the UK as an actress in both film and television, with her most recent appearances in 'The Stranger' and 'Storm Boy' and 'That Boy' which she also wrote. As a producer and as the Artistic Director of Holden Street, Martha's most recent works are 'Afghanistan Is Not Funny' starring and written by Henry Naylor which has been performed in the U.S. and the UK.

She founded the Holden Street Theatres in 2002 and has built it up to be recognised world wide for its support of and excellence in theatre.

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PERFORMER

Danny Miller

I am an international performing artist that’s worked extensively on stage, television and film. Just some of my credits include –Miss Fishers Murder Mysterious, Danger 5 Seas 1 and 2 (SBS Television), House husbands and Bad Language. My stage work includes State Theatre productions A View From a Bridge, Three Sisters and The Give and Take as well as the world premiere of Barassi: The Stage show performed at the prestigious Arts Centre in Melbourne. I recently returned from performing nightly in Las Vegas for the no.1 male revue in the world Thunder From Down Under.

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PERFORMER

Steve

Robert has played a prolific, diverse and popular range of roles for Adelaide companies. These include Stanley Kowalski in “A Streetcar Named Desire”, title roles in The Elephant Man, The Dresser, the Woody Allen role in “Play It Again Sam”, Tom in “The Glass Menagerie”, Teach in “American Buffalo” and three characters with 67 costume changes, including Harpo Marx, in “Lady Be Good”. He also appeared in “The Matchmaker”, “Rookery Nook”, “Home”, “Playboy Of The Western World”,“Furtive Love”, “The Fantasticks" and revue. Recent roles include Mr Goldstone in “Gypsy” and two roles in “California Suite” which opened Holden Street Theatres in January, 2003. He also appeared in the movie “Fire In The Stone” (in which was dubbed for American audiences) and a best forgotten TV series with Graeme Bond.

DIRECTOR

Peter Goers is an Adelaide director, actor, designer and occasional playwright. A Fringe Award winner and former Artistic Director of the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild. His production of “California Suite” opened Holden Street Theatres in 2003. He co-directed the opera “Hansel And Gretel” with Dame Joan Hammond, pantomimed Captain Hook in the ballet of “Peter Pan”, taught university drama and directed plays in Istanbul, Turkey and is a prolific and iconoclastic Adelaide theatre director. Favourites of the many shows he’s directed include “A Little Night Music”, “The Glass Menagerie”, “Streetcar”, "Kiss Of The Spider Woman”, “The Christian Brothers” and “Amadeus”. As an actor his favourite roles are Elwood P. Dowd in “Harvey”, Gerald Popkiss in “Rookery Nook”, the Emperor in “Amadeus” and playing opposite Martha Lott in “California Suite”. Goers is a celebrated ABC Radio broadcaster and frequent entertainer who has appeared more than a thousand times throughout Australia including the Theatre Royal in Tasmania. He has performed eight solo shows for the Holden Street Theatres Fringe and is the author of two memoirs, “Maddening, Self-Indulgent Crap” and “In The Air Of An Afternoon Almost Past” published by Wakefield Press and is a Distinguished Alumni of Flinders University. In 2013 he was honoured by the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to community, broadcasting and the arts.

STAGE MANAGER

After a lengthy "sabbatical", Brian returns to the Theatre.

With a lengthy background in Directing & Acting - including Stage, TV & Film; Brian was also co-Founder of The Fringe: albeit that much of thar was lost with the passage-of-time. He was also Chairman of Adelaide's premier theatre; The Adelaide Theatre Group at the erstwhile Sheridan Theatre.

The smell of the crowd, and roar of the greasepaint, has finally drawn him back to the stage arena.