Cast

Jack is a graduate from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He recently completed touring with the Australian national production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap for Crossroads Live. Jack made his professional stage debut in the role of Grant in La Boite Theatre Company’s production of Lysa and The Freeborn Dames and returned to La Boite in the lead role of Romeo in their production of Romeo and Juliet.

Jack made his feature film debut as Charlie in Birdeater, directed by Jack Clark and Jim Weir and produced by Breathless Films. Birdeater premiered internationally at the Austin SXSW festival in 2024, along with winning the Audience Choice Award at the 2023 Sydney Film Festival. On screen, Jack most recently appeared in the Netflix series Pieces of Her.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Brendan began playing, singing and writing original music in WAM Song of The Year nominated trio Thumb and then in the WAMI Award winning WAM Song of The Year nominated The Devil Rides Out. In Perth, he trained in Contemporary Performance at WAAPA ECU. His critically acclaimed and eclectic performance credits include: The Visit, Woyzeck, Red Shoes and Antigone all directed by Matthew Lutton, The Manic Pony (also composing original music), Heart of Gold and The Pride (also collaborative devising) directed by Zoe Pepper, Caucasian Chalk Circle and Portraits Of Modern Evil with Black Swan State Theatre Company’s Hotbed, Much Ado About Nothing with Black Swan State Theatre Company directed by Kate Cherry, Shadowboxing and The Eisteddfod directed by Jeffrey Jay Fowler/Black Swan State Theatre Company, The Ugly One directed by Melissa Cantwell with Perth Theatre Company, Pluck, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet with Melbourne based Sly Rat Theatre Company; Acts of Undressing and One Night Echo with The Duck House directed by Katt Osbourne and  Unheimlich by Katt Osbourne & Tarryn Gill PICA. Brendan won the PAWA award for best actor in 2017.

Jennifer Flowers is an award winning actor/director who has worked for all major theatre companies in Australia, particularly Queensland Theatre and the Sydney Theatre Company. She has also worked extensively with Creative Industry acting students at QUT and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2005 which enabled her to observe world class teachers of voice and text in London and New York. She was an Associate of the Queensland Theatre Company for many years and sat on the Boards of the QTC and TN.

Theatre credits highlights include Mrs Warren’s Profession, The Skin of our Teeth,  The Tempest, The Marriage of Figaro,  Honour, After the Ball, Julius Caesar, Arcadia, Simpatico, Romeo & Juliet, The Crucible, Mrs Klein, Gilgamesh, The Cherry Orchard, A Cheery Soul, Hotel Sorrento, Twelfth Night (all for Queensland Theatre), The Crucible, The Lady in the Van and Doubt (all for Sydney Theatre Company) plus The Soldier’s Tale and Summer of the Aliens for QPAC.

Nicholas Hammond’s international career on stage, film and television started when he was first picked out of a thousand boys by Peter Brook for his masterpiece Lord of the Flies. From then until this day Nicholas has been in constant demand in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. He has performed leading roles on stage all over the world. For the Gordon Frost Organisation, he has done An Evening with Julie Andrews and special guest Nicholas Hammond, and last year Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella and for Crossroads Live Australia, The Rocky Horror Show. He is thrilled to now do Agatha’s Christie’s greatest play. Featured or starring in forty-six films and some two hundred and seventy television shows, Nicholas has been a familiar face to audiences all over the world for his entire life, from achieving global fame as Friedrich Von Trapp in The Sound of Music to recently in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and his just- completed sixth production for Bruce Beresford, Overture. As a screenwriter Nicholas has twice won first prize at the New York International Film and Television Awards for his miniseries A Difficult Woman and Secret Men’s Business. As a director Nicholas has directed the musicals Girl Crazy, She Loves Me, Dear World and Kiss Me Kate.

Christen O’Leary is a highly accomplished actor with an extensive string of theatre credits to her name. Some of her theatre highlights include Round the Twist, First Casualty, Mouthpiece, Antigone, Twelfth Night, Scenes From A Marriage, Gloria, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, The Sunshine Club (Queensland Theatre), An Ideal Husband, Away, Blackrock, Medea (La Boite), End of the Rainbow (QPAC), Urinetown The Musical, The Threepenny Opera (Sydney Theatre Company), Ruby Moon, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Don Juan in Soho, The Rover, Cosi, A Little Night Music, Company (Melbourne Theatre Company), Porn Cake, Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd (Malthouse Theatre), North By Northwest (Kay & McLean), Triple X (STC/QT), Ladies in Black (QT/MTC), Bombshells (HIT Productions), The Boy From Oz (Production Company).

Christen won a Matilda Award for her role as ‘Judy Garland’ in End of the Rainbow for Queensland Performing Arts Centre as well as receiving a Helpmann Award nomination. She won a Helpmann Award for The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and has been nominated for Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd and Urinetown The Musical. She has been nominated for seven Green Room Awards, winning twice for her work in A Little Night Music and Company.

Chris Parker directed the 25th Anniversary Concert of Jekyll and Hyde starring Anthony Warlow and Jemma Rix, and the critically acclaimed production of Oklahoma! for The Production Company’s 20th anniversary. Other credits include Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company/ACM), The Irish Boy (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), and Sondheim on Sondheim (Melbourne Recital Centre).

Chris has worked on the development of many new musicals including Georgy Girl – the Seekers musical, Moonshadow – a musical fantasy by Yusuf, The Gathering, and the Helpmann award-winning Sideshow Alley. Chris was associate director for Australian touring productions of The Mousetrap (Crossroads Live/Shake n Stir), A German Life (Adelaide Festival/GFO), The Graduate (Kay and McLean Productions), Avenue Q (Arts Asia Pacific), and The Bodyguard (Gordon Frost Organisation).

As performer, Chris’ credits include ‘Sky’ Mamma Mia (Louise Withers), ‘Johnny Slocum’ Summer Rain (Sydney Theatre Company), ‘Franklin Shepard’ Merrily We Roll Along (Melbourne Recital Centre), and most recently the role of Major Metcalf in The Mousetrap.

Chris is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Anthony Phelan has enjoyed a strong and varied career across film, television and theatre. With over 100 theatre credits, Anthony has performed for every state theatre company and every major theatre festival in Australia.

Selected credits include: Death of a Salesman (Sydney and Perth seasons), Twelfth Night, Mother Courage and Her Children, Once in Royal David’s City, Hamlet, and The Wild Duck for Belvoir St Theatre which toured to Melbourne, Vienna, Amsterdam, Oslo and Perth and for which he was awarded a Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Award for Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in 2011. For Sydney Theatre Company; Julius Caesar, Holy Day, The Tempest and Uncle Vanya, which toured to Washington DC and NYC.  For Queensland Theatre Company: Boy Swallows Universe. For La Boite: The White Earth, Mirandolina, Occupations, The Queensland Game, The Runaway Man, The Legend of King O’Malley, Dickinson and Angel City. For TN!: Cloud Nine, Boys Own McBeth, Private Lives, The Removalists, True West, Design for Living, Zen and Now, The Mikado and The Popular Mechanicals.  For The Theatre Division, Miracle City at the Sydney Opera House 

Television projects include, Darby and Joan S2, Strife, Wellmania, Significant Others, The Secrets She Keeps, The Gloaming, Ms Fisher Modern Murder Mysteries, Reckoning, Wanted S1+2, Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Kettering Incident, Deep Water, Gallipoli, Rake, Top of the Lake. 

Selected Film Credits, Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis, The Dog Days of Christmas, directed by Tori Garret, The Nightingale directed by Jennifer Kent, and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, and Star Wars Ep II: Attack of the Clones.