MICHAEL PIGOTT

B.A. (Hons) Performance Studies, Dip.Ed. (Drama)

Michael Pigott is a director, teacher and writer. His directing work includes: La La Land (Darlinghurst Theatre); Pugilist Specialist (Darlinghurst Theatre); The Forgotten Tide, The Space Between, A Midsummer Night's Dream & Roberto Zucco (Sydney Theatre School); The Golden Ass (B Sharp); The Young Tycoons (Darlinghurst Theatre); Dahling You Were Marvellous (NIDA Studio); Meet the Candidates (Darlinghurst Theatre); King Lear (Harlos Productions); The Doglogs (National Tour); Crescent Moon, Yellow Star (Belvoir Downstairs); Backpacker (Darlinghurst Theatre); Barnsey the Harbour and You (Darlinghurst Theatre); Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Harlos Producations).

As a writer his work includes: Between the Seabed and the Sky (VCA / Darlinghurst Theatre); Walking on Eggshells which premiered in Slovenia and toured to Germany.

MALCOLM FRAWLEY

Malcolm is a writer / director / teacher and actor with over 30 years of professional experience. His plays and/or productions have been performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Byron Bay and Darwin. One Of The Girls, Malcolm’s AWGIE-nominated theatre-in-education play about peer pressure, was published in 1995. Malcolm worked for some years in serial television, writing and script-editing series including Neighbours and E Street.

More recently, he moved into screen-writing and worked as script editor with young film-maker Christopher Weekes on his feature film Bitter And Twisted that has recently been selected for distribution by Icon Productions. He recently completed a commission writing First Lady, a first fleet screenplay, with acclaimed novelist Alan Gold (Jezebel, Boadicea, The Pirate Queen etc) that is now being considered by Warner Brothers in Los Angeles. Malcolm played the lead in the short film Reubens, and major supporting roles in the low-budget features Rollover and Sum Of Existence (broadcast on Channel 9) and the short films Product, Rose and Faith. He will soon play a major role in the low-budget feature The Hunt.

Malcolm directed Australian Faust, part of the Actors Anonymous ‘Journey Into Sin’ project staged at Newtown Theatre in August/September 2007. Malcolm was co-director of NIDA’s screen acting programme for Third Years from 2000-2003 (inclusive). He has taught screen acting, audition technique, stage-craft, text analysis, improvisation and characterisation at Screenwise, Actors College of Theatre and Television, Sydney Theatre School, Theatre Nepean, Screen Actors Workshop, The Actor’s Lounge, Ed5, Kick Performance Group and Keane Kids/Gala Studios. He regularly leads screen writing workshops for teenagers at St Aloysius College and play writing at The Studio, MLC Burwood. Over the past two years he has directed six productions for Darlo Drama. Malcolm is the artistic director of Ferknerkle Productions (www.ferknerkle.com).

SARAH GOODES 

Sarah graduated in 1998 with a Post Graduate Diploma in Theatre Directing from the Victoria College of the Arts. She has since directed three productions for the Tamarama Rock Surfers at the Old Fitzroy Theatre: What Happened Was….. by Tom Noonan, Vertigo and the Virginia by Sven Swenson and Hilt by Jane Bodie and The Sister’s Project.  Sarah also directed The Italian American Reconciliation by John Patrick Shanley at Down Stairs Belvoir St with Camel Bite productions.
 
Sarah established Splinter Theatre Company in 2003 which has presented three productions directed by Sarah as part of the Downstairs Belvoir St Theatre independent theatre season B Sharp - a sell out season of the Norwegian play Elling by Alex Hellstenius (translated by May-Brit Akerholt) and the Russian play Black Milk by Vassily Sigarev.   Sarah was selected to be a member of Downstairs Belvoir Streets inaugural Boiler Room program – a selection of up and coming independent theatre directors in Sydney. In 2007 she directed the Australian debut of The Small Things by Irish writer Enda Walsh.

 Sarah worked as Assistant Director to Richard Roxburgh on the production of Ray’s Tempest for Company B, Belvoir Street’s 2005 season and directed a radio play for FBI radio at The Studio at the Sydney Opera House. In 2006 Sarah directed a one man show by Nicholas Hope called The Colour of Panic at The Studio Sydney Opera House which was funded by the Norwegian Government and toured to Norway. In November 2006 Splinter Theatre Company presented a production of the famous Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell’s play The Gruesome Murderer…. directed by Sarah Goodes at the Darlinghurst Theatre in 2006 which was funded by Arts NSW. Sarah has also taught and directed at The Australian Theatre for Young People and has work as a dramaturge for the Sydney Theatre Company’s Education program. In 2007 Sarah directed a production of Twelfth Night for Sydney Theatre School.

CHRISTOPHER BURKE

Bachelor of Arts (Theatre), University of Western Sydney - Theatre Nepean.

Chris is a director, producer, actor and voice-over artist.  He lectured and directed a vast array of productions at Theatre Nepean 1989 – 1997.  Directing credits include Early Days Under the Old Hat, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Vital Signs, The Tempest, Measure for Measure, The Last Days of the World and A Comedy of Errors (Theatre Nepean); Lysistrata & Agamemmon (Seymour Centre). 

Acting credits include:  The Internationalist (Practical Theatre Co); For the Birds (Whoosh Theatre Co); Henry IV Parts 1&2, The Tempest, Two Gentleman of Verona (Shakespeare by the Sea); Amadeus (Enmore Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Iron Cove Theatre Co); Hold Me (And the Kitchen Sink); Six Shakespeare Plays (S.W.Y.L.I); Under Milk Wood (Seymour Centre) and more.

Television & film acting credits include:  The Bridge, All Saints, Home & Away, Water Rats, Beaches, Police Rescue, E Street, A Country Practise, The Three Stooges, Buzz, House of Cards, The Leaving of Liverpool and Making it and a host of TV commercials from 1990 – 2008.