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Director,
Gillian Hardy |
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Australian-born
professional actor, theatre director and arts manager who has studied
physical theatre in Paris, and trained extensively in theatre in Melbourne.
She was Bloomsday in Melbourne’s first and possibly most spectacularly
memorable Bella Cohen. |
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Actors |
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Maria
Blaney: Irish actor who has worked extensively with Estuary
Theatre in Dublin, with much musical comedy experience. |
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Margaret
Doyle: Irish-born actor who has worked with Bloomsday in
Melbourne in 2002 in productions of Yeats and Lady Gregory one-act
plays, and currently works for local amateur theatre companies in
the Wicklow Hills, including Donard West Wicklow I.C.A., where she
performed in plays by John B. Keane and Wilde’s Lady Windemere’s
Fan. |
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Deirdre
Gillespie: Dublin-born Melbourne resident, who has organized
and acted in Bloomsdays in four Australian cities (Perth, Brisbane,
Adelaide and Melbourne) and is Secretary of the Bloomsday in Melbourne
Committee and on the Committee of the Celtic Club in Melbourne. |
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Felicity
McInnes trained at the Guildford School of Acting and recently
completed an honors degree in Theatre Studies at the University of
Surrey. She has appeared in often outrageous roles on UK TV and film,
the London Fringe and in the Cayman Islands. She is currently pursuing
a media career. |
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Simon
McGuinness gained degrees in Drama, English, Theatre Stagecraft
and Arts Administration. He was the original Theatre Director and
actor who helped to forge the particular working style of Bloomsday
in Melbourne. He has acted and directed professionally in the theatre
and been a theatre academic. Currently working at University College
London, he assists in the development and instigation of access and
equity schemes encouraging under-represented students to raise their
aspirations and consider the possibility of studying in higher education.
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Laura
O’Sullivan Vines is studying Creative Arts and Law
at Melbourne University, winning many prizes and distinctions as an
actor and writer of theatre scripts. This is her second association
with Bloomsday in Melbourne, having been the youngest in a gig entitled
Multiple Mollies in 2001.
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Sarah
Purcell: An Irish actor who has trained at the London College
of Music in Speech and Drama, and also at the Betty-Ann Norton Theatre
School. She has worked for Estuary Players, several times performing
in the All-Ireland 1- and 3-Act Circuits.
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Deirdre
and Laura |
Felicity
and Brian |
Simon
and Laura |
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The
Musical Team: The Tatty Tenors and Diva |
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The
Tatty Tenors (Ralph Devlin, Ron Jackson, Jim Ahern, with Ted Chapman
on piano) first came together for a convent school fund-raising dinner
in September 1996 (between them they had 17 children at the school).
Since then, the Tatties have performed at dinners, conferences and
festivals all over Queensland, and are especially welcome at the Queensland
Irish Association. Their ecumenism and reach were attested to in 2001
by His Excellency the Governor of Queensland, Major General Peter
Arnison, who at a Brisbane Club function described them as flying
under false colours: ‘They are not tatty. In fact, they are
really quite good.’ Their madcap parody of the operatic genre
has proved popular with Australian audiences. They were joined in
2001 by soprano Sharon Moore, whose operatic training at the Queensland
Conservatorium of Music has expanded the repertoire of the group.
After Dublin, they will be appearing in a series of concerts in Malta
as guests of the Australian High Commission. |
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Tatty
Tenors and Diva |
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The
Crew |
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Brian
Hurley is assistant to the director and stage-manager, as
well as having direction responsibilities for the London-based actors.
He trained in theatre at the State College of Victoria (Rusden) and
is a comedy director and performer, as well as being adept at lighting
and sound. This is his third association with Bloomsday in Melbourne.
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Jeff
Keogh is a Melbourne-based actor who assisted the Melbourne
team as rehearsal actor for the role of Al/Joyce. He works in film,
TV and theatre.
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Louise
Urwin is a London-based actress who assisted the London team
as rehearsal actress for the role of Issy. |
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The
Writers
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Most
Bloomsday in Melbourne scripts are produced by more than one writer,
and this one is no exception.
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Roslyn
Hames is a graduate of Deakin University and an experienced
playwright for Bloomsday since 1998. In 2000 she was awarded the Austin
and Valerie Asche essay prize in contemporary Australia Culture for
her play Collideorscape.
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Frances
Devlin-Glass is an Associate Professor at Deakin University
(Melbourne) and has been the director of Bloomsday in Melbourne since
1994 and an enthusiastic teacher of Joyce to generations of students.
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Di
Silber has had a pivotal and developmental role in Bloomsday
in Melbourne since its inception in 1994 as scriptwriter, organiser,
secretary and publicist. She is a writer and theatrical impresario.
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Frances Devlin-Glass |
Roslyn Hames |
Di Silber |
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