CHRIS BUCHANAN - Robin
Chris has performed predominantly in musical theatre for the past 9 years, having trained with David Rogers-Smith and Susan Crawshaw. He played the lead role of Jason in the wildly successful Australasian premiere of Bare - A Pop Opera with Shoosh Productions as part of the 2008 Melbourne MidSummer Festival. Other theatre credits include: OzMade Concert 2007 (Magnormos), I Love You, Your'e Perfect, Now Change (sell-out season, Chapel Off Chapel), A Slice of Saturday Night (Red Scooter Events), West Side Story, Les Miserables, Is There Life After High School?, Pippin, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sweeney Todd, Barnum, Disney's Beauty & the Beast and Fame - the Musical. Chris has been nominated several times by the Theatre Guild of Victoria for Best Male Performer in a Lead Role and Best Male Performer in a Supporting Role, the most recent nomination being for his performance as Mickey in Blood Brothers (CLOC Musical Theatre) last year.
JULIA HARARI - Megan
Julia Harari is a Creative Arts student from Melbourne University majoring in Theatre Studies. She has tackled many of the classic roles including Hedda in Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Macbeth Re-Arisen, Nora Helmer in A Doll's House, Ophelia in Hamlet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and Dora Maar as part of the National Gallery's Picasso exhibition. She relished her turn as an incestuous Jehovah’s Witness in Rageboy (which she subsequently reprised for the Midsumma Festival), and has been involved in many short films. She has undertaken courses at the Victorian College of the Arts, Union House Theatre, and the Melbourne Theatre Company, as well as current studies at the Melbourne Actor's Studio. When she grows up, she hopes to be a Thundercat.
MIRIAM GLASER - Sam
Miriam has trained at the Atlantic Acting School in New York, with Philippe Gaulier in Paris and has completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts at Melbourne University. Theatre credits include: Smashed by Lally Katz (VCA Directors’ Season), For We Are Young and Free by Lorin Clarke (Melbourne International Comedy Festival), Rageboy by Declan Greene (Midsumma Festival at the Malthouse), Charcot (Full Dress Productions), In Cahoots by Melissa Reeves (Melbourne International Comedy Festival), Wallpaper (Melbourne Fringe Festival) and The Last Episode of the Bubble Teens by Lally Katz (St. Martins’ Theatre). Television and film credits include: City Homicide (Channel 7), Fergus McPhail - core cast (Channel 10/BBC) and the multi-award winning short film Blow (Australian Film Commission).
LORIN CLARKE – WRITER/DIRECTOR
Lorin is a writer/director with experience in radio, film, TV and theatre. Since forming Standing There Productions in 2003 with her friends (Rita, Mel Howlett and Tim Stitz), Lorin has written and directed the 2003 play People Watching (awarded 2nd prize, International Student Playscript Competition), the short film I Could Be Anybody (2005), and the play For We Are Young And Free (nominated, Golden Gibbo Award, MICF 2007). She helped script-edit The Librarians (ABC TV), write a coffee table book ‘celebrating’ 20 Years of Neighbours (2005), work as an event coordinator, and take calls about truck drivers' most embarrassing moments on Triple M. She has an arts/law degree.
RITA WALSH - PRODUCER
Rita completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne in 2002. She formed Standing There Productions with Lorin Clarke in 2003 and produced the play People Watching (2003), the short film I Could Be Anybody and the play For We Are Young And Free, which had a sell-out season at MICF 2007 and received a Golden Gibbo Nomination. Over the last six years Rita has worked on film and TV productions that include BoyTown, Noise, Curtin, Crackerjack, The Murray Whelan Series, Lake Mungo, Poetry, Directions, Mary & Max and Kath and Kim. Rita also produced the short film Hollow Bones (2006) and the Australian Film Commission financed short Hugo, with director Nicholas Verso and writer Rachel Bowen. Most recently she has commenced a Producers Attachment with Jan Chapman on Bright Star, the new film by Jane Campion, and is working on producing her first TV and feature projects with Standing There Productions.
STEWART THORN – PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Stewart graduated from the VCA with a degree in Fine Arts (Photography) in 2005. He completed a Film Victoria attachment on the film Noise with cinematographer Laszlo Baranyai. Since then he has worked on films, TV shows and stills shoots including TAC Make A Film Make a Difference finalist The Price of Friendship, Robin Geradts-Gill’s The Other Side, and Standing There Productions’ I Could Be Anybody. Stewart performed in Standing There’s People Watching (2003).
PAUL DANIEL – WEBSITE DESIGNER
Paul has been designing websites for a few years and appears to be getting away with it... Further evidence of the scam can be found at www.pauldaniel.com.au. His actual job involves designing products.
