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Mike Bishop has worked extensively in theatre, film, television
and radio for many years. His appearances in theatre include Much
Ado About Nothing and Body Songs for Theatre Works and The Hobbit
which was performed at the Sydney Opera House and Victorian Arts
Centre. He has appeared in a number of films, including Mr
Average, Ghosts of the Civil Dead and Malcolm. His
television credits include Something in the Air, Stingers,
Backberner, Blabbermouth, Neighbours and Blue Heelers.
He has also performed in numerous radio plays as well as commercials
for both television and radio.
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Julia Blake is one of Australia's most distinguished actresses.
Born in the UK and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School,
she came to Australia in 1963 and has lived in Melbourne ever
since. She has won nine major stage and screen awards including:
an A. F. I. Award for the film Father and for Edens
Lost-a three part mini-series. She also won a Penguin for
Edens Lost and for The Dunera Boys. Her theatre
credits include premiere seasons of Hotel Sorrento and
Honour and most recently she appeared in Life After
George. The film Travelling North and her appearance
in the Australian cult TV series Prisoner have helped make
her one of Australia's most well known actresses. Recently she
played a Buddhist Monk in the ABC's hit TV series Sea Change
as well as starring in the Paul Cox film Innocence opposite
Bud Tingwell.
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Humphrey Bower was a founding member of the Melbourne theatre
collective Whistling in the Theatre, appearing with them in The
Secret Garden, 1001 Nights and many other productions from
1985 to 1990. Other appearances during this time included My
Son the Lawyer is Drowning for Playbox Theatre and Lives
of the Saints and Closing Time at La Mama. His subsequent
theatre work includes performances in: The Idiot at Theatreworks;
Anthill's productions of Life is a Dream, The School for Wives
and Mother Courage; and Arcadia and Lady
Windemere's Fan with the Melbourne Theatre Company. In 1996
he received Narrator of the Year Award for his reading of Death
of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan.
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Don Bridges was trained in the theatre in London and New York.
He has spent twenty years working in theatre, television and doing
voice-over work and was awarded a Penguin Award for Best Children's
Television Performer. His appearances include Romper Stomper,
Quigley Down Under, The Man from Snowy River, Big Girl's Blouse
and Blue Heelers.
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Jane
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Jane Clifton was born in
Gibraltar of British Army parents and emigrated to Australia in 1961.
Actress, singer and general show business all-rounder, Jane Clifton
is probably best known for the role of Margo in the long-running TV
show Prisoner and for her performance in the smash-hit stage
show Mum’s the Word.
Her theatre work includes performances with La Mama, the Pram Factory
and the Melbourne Theatre Company. In cabaret Jane has been involved
in shows at The Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant, Le Joke, the Comedy
Cafe, The Night Cat and The Black Cat, touring Australia with a host
of local and overseas shows.
Her first novel Half Past Dead was published in 2002.
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James Condon was born in Fremantle, Western Australia and has
been a professional actor in radio, theatre, film and television
for over fifty years. He began acting in television with the ABC
in 1957, performing in commercial television, drama and plays.
James has been narrating talking books since 1985 and narrated
the winners of the 1992 Australian TDK Audio Book Award Patrick
White: a life by David Marr and the 1995 Australian TDK Audio
Book Award Dark Places by Kate Grenville.
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Stephanie Daniel graduated from the Central School of Speech
and Drama, London, and began her acting career working in repertory
theatres around the UK, understudying in West End plays and appearing
in national theatre tours. For 5 years in Munich, Germany, she
worked in radio, television and films, including The Odessa
File, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Cabaret.
She also spent 5 years performing in Montreal, Canada before coming
to Australia in 1984. Stephanie performs in theatre and television,
narrates talking books and since 1997 has been performing to high
acclaim as Jane Austen in An Uneventful Life.
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Beverley Dunn is one of Australia's most distinguished actors.
Her acclaimed work in theatre, television, radio and in her solo
performances, in particular, her Celebration of Mary Gilmore:
to Botany Bay on a Bondi Tram has taken her all over Australia
and overseas. Her many television credits include 2 years in the
Flying Doctors and 5 years in Bellbird. Her role
as Miss Siss in the play A Happy and Holy Occasion, won
her a Green Room Award in 1993. She also featured in the Oscar
winning film Shine. Beverley was awarded Narrator of the
Year in 1989 for her reading of Thea Astley's It's Raining
in Mango and won the TDK Australian Audio Book Award in 1994
for her reading of White Eye by Blanche d'Alpuget. In 1995,
Beverley's narration of Goodbye Girlie by Patsy Adam-Smith,
won both a TDK Australian Audio Book Award and Narrator of the
Year Award.
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Melissa graduated from the Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide
in 1993. Since then she has performed in both the Adelaide and
Melbourne Fringe Festivals and with various theatre companies
in Melbourne in a variety of plays including The Seagull, The
Lover, The Cherry Orchard, Action, Making Short Work of Beckett
and Televixens. Melissa has also toured schools in
South Australia and Victoria with several children's theatre companies
and has appeared in three short films as well as the television
programs Seachange and RAW FM.
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Paul's work in theatre includes twenty-five productions for the
Melbourne Theatre Company, from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
to Janis Balodis' The Ghosts Trilogy; premieres of
new Australian work for Playbox by Michael Gurr, Peta Murray,
Rodney Hall and Nick Enright; Tom Stoppard's Arcadia with
the Sydney Theatre Company; and the plays of Daniel Keene with
the Keene/Taylor Project, of which he is a founding member.
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Francis started performing with Adelaide University Footlights.
His theatre credits include productions with the State Theatre
Company of South Australia, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne
Theatre Company, Magpie, Playbox and Arena. His television credits
include The Micallef Programme, Sea Change, Full Frontal, Pig's
Breakfast, Blue Heelers, Stingers and The Games.
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Stuart Halusz studied at the Western Australia Academy of Performing
Arts. He has appeared in a number of theatre productions including
Uncut Gems with the Perth Theatre Company, Essington
Lewis: I am Work at Belvoir Street Theatre and Dags
for the Ensemble Theatre. He has toured extensively with the production
of Dear Heart in both Western Australia and London. His
TV credits include Big Sky and Fallen Angels, and he played
the lead in Thunderstone.
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Jeffrey Hodgson made his debut at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne
in a play called Tea and Sympathy in 1956. He has continued
to work in theatre both in Melbourne and Perth. He has also read
many radio plays, serials and Youth Education Broadcasts for the
ABC as well as making guest appearances in television series of
the time--Homicide, Division 4, Cop Shop, The Sullivans and
Matlock Police. He has been narrating talking books for over
20 years.
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Kate Hosking has been narrating talking books since
1993. Between readings she performs in children's shows and student
films and performs in the gypsy trio Vardos. Kate's reading of Darkness,
Be My Friend by John Marsden was shortlisted for the 1998 TDK
Australian Audio Book Awards.
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Peter Hosking has been narrating books since 1985. He was awarded
a Narrator of the Year Award in 1987 for A Riverman's Story
by E.M. Kelsall and the 1996 TDK Australian Audio Book Award Home
Before Dark by Ruth Park & Rafe Champion. In the industry
for many years, Peter has performed in numerous theatre, television
and film productions.
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