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.

Andrew played Huxley, the palaeontologist for Global Creatures in Walking with Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular, US/Canada 2014 and the Australia/New Zealand tours of 2011 and 2015.

He has appeared in Kid Stakes and The Aunt’s Story for MTC and Belvoir St Theatre, plus The Women of Troy and Medea for Complete Works. Other theatre credits include Shadow Passion, You Are The Blood, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Taming of The Shrew, Othello, The Women in Black and Death of a Salesman.

Andrew is a regular performer on Australian television, appearing in Bloom 2, Warnie, Utopia, Barracuda, Newton’s Law, House Husbands, Dr Blake Mysteries, Underbelly: Squizzy, Winners & Losers, Satisfaction and the multi-award-winning children’s series, Mortified. Other long running series include A Country Practice, Neighbours, Stingers, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, City Homicide, Blue Heelers, Law of the Land and State Coroner. 

As Artistic Director of Complete Works Theatre Company his credits include A Man For All Seasons, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Cosi by Louis Nowra, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler, Othello, Oedipus the King, Richard III, Hamlet, Galileo, The Crucible, Extinction by Hannie Rayson, Medea, The Women of Troy and Monkey Fights the Water Dragon.

Luke has enjoyed a nearly twenty-year career on stage and screen, most recently completing a three year run in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and has just wrapped on filming Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky alongside Liam Neeson.

Other theatre credits include The Real Thing, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Maestro, The Ham Funeral, Holding The Man (STCSA), The Wizard of Oz (Windmill/STC) and a national tour of The One Day Of The Year. On screen,  Luke has featured in Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries, The Broken Shore and The Whistleblower. 

Luke is also a screenwriter and co-founder of No Small Parts Productions, where he has co-developed ideas for film and television in collaboration with ABC, Kojo Entertainment, Arena Media, Factor 30 Films, Ruby Entertainment and Northern Pictures. 

Caroline Craig is an acclaimed and multi-award-winning stage, screen and voice actor. Her extensive theatre credits include starring roles with the Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Griffin Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare, amongst many others. In 2023, she appeared in Suzie Miller’s internationally acclaimed stage drama, Prima Facie, for the State Theatre Company of South Australia.  Caroline’s tour de force portrayal of ‘Tessa’ in this solo show garnered glowing reviews and standing ovations.  Most recently, she appeared as an understudy in Julia (Melbourne Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company).

Caroline’s many screen credits include roles in some of Australia’s best-loved television drama series, including the phenomenal crime franchise, Underbelly, which she also narrated across three series. Caroline’s role as Sergeant Tess Gallagher on Australia’s longest-running police drama series, Blue Heelers (Seven Network) made her a household name. Caroline has also voiced the primetime factual series: Medical Emergency ICU, the Spotlight series and Murder Uncovered (Nine). Most recently she narrated the Nine Network series Missing Persons Investigations.

Eden Falk is an actor based on Dharug Country. After graduating from WAAPA he joined the Sydney Theatre Company Actors Company under the Artistic Directorship of Robyn Nevin followed by Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton. During that time he appeared in several award-winning productions including: Mother Courage and Her Children, The Lost Echo, The Art Of War, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Season At Sarsaparilla, The Serpents Teeth, Gallipoli and The War Of The Roses. Most recently for STC he appeared in Macbeth. Other theatre; for Black Swan Theatre Company: Death Of A Salesman (for which he was also assistant director) For Belvoir: This Heaven, A Christmas Carol, The Great Fire. For Griffin Theatre Company: Kill Climate Deniers. For post/STC/Noorderzon Festival Netherlands: Who’s The Best? For Ontroerend Goed (Belgium): A Game Of You, Internal. For film: Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty, Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, Simon Stone’s The Daughter, ABC’s Riot and most recently Jon Bell’s Indigenous horror The Moogai which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

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.

Actor, singer and writer Mia Morrissey started acting at sixteen, starring in Venice Film festival favourite, Bat Eyes. Shortly after, she landed the Seven Network’s musical comedy series In Your Dreams, which shot in Australia and Germany for two seasons; for which she also wrote original music.

Deciding to pursue training, she studied at the Atlantic acting school in New York in 2015 and was accepted into the prestigious full time acting course at WAAPA in 2016.

Since graduating in 2018, some of her most notable screen and theatre credits have included Jade Lennox on Home and Away, Mimi in RENT at the Sydney Opera House, Gabby/Bobbi in the Hayes Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of City of Angels, Laura Cunningham on Stan and Sundance series Totally Completely Fine and Nadiyah Zammit on worldwide hit Amazon Original series Deadloch. Mia also wrote, composed and starred in, In Loving Memory, a musical about the many faces of grief; produced, funded and programmed by The Hayes Theatre.

Peter O’Brien is an Australian actor known for his extensive film and television work in Australia and internationally. Peter is well known for starring in the Netflix series Tidelands and Glow. Most recently he appeared in Riptide.

Peter’s television credits include Darby and Joan, Grey Nomads, The Moth Effect, The Unusual Suspects, Wentworth, Elemental: Hydrogen vs Hindenburg, The OA, Winter, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Dance Academy, Crownies, Underbelly, Doctor Who, :30 Seconds, All Saints, Casualty, Blue Heelers, The Bill, Shades, Water Rats, The Knock, Halifax F.P, Queer As Folk, See How They Run, The Day of the Roses, Spellbinder, Cardiac Arrest, Law of the Land, The Flying Doctors and many more. Peter will next be seen in Return to Paradise and Ladies in Black.

In 2003, Peter was nominated for an AFI for Best Actor in a Leading Role and a Logie for Most Outstanding Actor for his role in White Collar Blue. Peter was one of the original cast members of Neighbours, as Shane Ramsey, for which he won a ‘Most Popular Actor’ Logie in 1987. In 2024, Peter has returned to the show.

Peter’s feature film credits include Sola, Breaker, What Still Remains, Lake Alice, Maximum Ride, The Killing Field, Love of my Life, Hanyut, Dangerous Remedy, Fatal Honeymoon, Undertow, Carless Love, X-Men Origins: Wolverine,  The Return, The Pact, Federation, and many more.

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.

Grant began his career in the early 1980’s soap opera Sons and Daughters and has since appeared in more than 100 productions. His work has been recognised with several Green Room Award nominations and two wins for The Merry Widow and The Producers, as well as AACTA and Helpmann nominations.

Grant has worked prolifically across screen with more recent screen highlights that including Utopia, The Newsreader 3 and working alongside Daniel Radcliffe in Escape From Pretoria. However Grant’s true love as a performer is theatre. Highlights have included the world premiere of Realism, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, The 39 Steps, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, His Girl Friday, and The Odd Couple all for the Melbourne Theatre Company. As well as Moby Dick, The Merry Widow, Taking Steps, The Producers, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Under Milk Wood, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hairspray, Hand to God, Oklahoma, Death Of A Salesman, A Christmas Carol, and credits his ultimate highlights as being Connor McPherson and Bob Dylan’s Girl From The North Country, and performing opposite his wife Marina Prior AM in Hello Dolly!

Tom recently completed a national tour of Arthur Miller’s modern classic Death of a Salesman, alongside Anthony Lapaglia, for GWB Productions/Andrew Henry Presents.

Tom has enjoyed an extensive international and local career on Film, TV and stage, which includes working for every state theatre company in Australia.

Other select Theatre credits include Black is the New White (nominated for Best Play at the 2018 Helpmann Awards), Pygmalion (Sydney Theatre Company), Sunday (Melbourne Theatre Company), In the Next Room – The Vibrator Play (Black Swan State Theatre Company), Romeo & Juliet (Bell Shakespeare), Music, The Pigeons (Griffin Theatre Company), The Glass Menagerie, Blood Bank, The Queen’s Nanny (Ensemble Theatre Company). King of Pigs, Capture the Flag (Critical Stages), Of Mice and Men (Sport for Jove), Shakespeare’s R&J (Riverside), I Want to Sleep With Tom Stoppard, (Tamarama Rock Surfers), Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar (Cry Havoc) and Don’t Look Back (Perth International Arts Festival).

Film credits include: The Rooster (AACTA nominated), The Railway Man, Equals, Newness, The 11^th Green, and Wasted on the Young. TV credits include: Warnie playing Australian Cricket Captain Steve Waugh, NBC’s La Brea, Miss Education and Australia: The Story of Us.

Tom is a graduate of WAAPA (West Australian Academy of Performing Arts).

Claire is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (Music Theatre) with experience across stage, screen, modelling and voice-over work.

She starred as Rose Morris in the national tour of Wesley Enoch’s The Sunshine Club and has appeared as Olivia in Twelfth Night (Melbourne Shakespeare Company). Claire has also toured with Complete Works, performing as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Her voice-over work includes audiobooks and campaigns for the Australian Ballet, and her recent screen credits include the short Crown of Thorns, directed by Jesse O’Brien. Claire is proudly represented by Ian White Management.