Katherine Hicks

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With professional credits spanning film, television and theatre, Katherine Hicks is an Australian actress gaining local, national and international recognition for her strong character portrayals.

Katherine is currently filming for the third series of the popular drama, Rescue Special Ops for Channel Nine and Southern Star Productions. Katherine will continue her portrayal as Special Units Officer Heidi Wilson for which she has received a nomination for ‘Most Popular Female New Talent’ in the 2010 Logies and ‘Out of The Box’ Best Actor in Television for the 2010 IF Awards.

Katherine’s other television credits include the main cast role as Poppy Hammond in the BBC co-production ‘Out of The Blue’ that was filmed in Sydney and aired in Australia, New Zealand and the UK in 2009, as Tessa Mason in very popular and much loved ABC high school drama ‘Heartbreak High’ (1998 – 1999) and an appearance in ‘John Safran’s Race Relations’ as herself in 2009.

Anya Beyersdorf

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Actress Anya Beyersdorf first came to attention in 2008 when indie-magazine Dazed and Confused touted her their rising star to watch after her first feature Rats and Cats premiered at the Melbourne International film Festival, and sold out festivals across the USA and UK, before being released nationally in cinemas across Australia to become a cult film.

After winning the Marten Bequest Prize for Acting in 2008 as well as the International Theatre Institute’s theatre scholarship, she moved to Berlin where she was a guest at Berlin’s biggest and most prestigious theatre the Deutsches Theater under Bulgarian master director Dimiter Gotscheff.

Since returning from the theatres of Berlin at the beginning of 2010 she has shot lead roles in Triple Happiness (Aaron Wilson) and performed at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh in the Magic Lantern Picture Theatre as The Tragic Usherette & Hostess of the Deluxe Spiegeltent at the Famous Spiegeltent.

Valerie Bader

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Valerie Bader’s work spans theatre, film and television over several decades. Valerie is perhaps best known for her theatre work, which includes: Morning Sacrifice; Falsettos; Summer Rain; Darlinghurst Nights; King of Country (Sydney Theatre Company); Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Dinkum Assorted (Melbourne Theatre Company); Secret Bridesmaids Business and Competitive Tenderness (Playbox Theatre); Comedy of Errors (Bell Shakespeare Company); Venetian Twins; Tartuffe; The Winters Tale, and The Golden Age (Nimrod); Entertaining Mr Sloane (State Theatre of South Australia); and Barmaids for Belvoir St Theatre, Deckchair and Hit Productions. Valerie has also appeared regularly in the Wharf Revue for the Sydney Theatre Company.

Her television work includes Come in Spinner; True Believers, and roles in All Saints; Murder Call and GP. She had a major role in the cult comedy film hit Crackers and also appeared in the first and second series of East Of Everything.

Roxane Wilson

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Since graduating from the prestigious Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Roxane Wilson has built an extensive career in film and television in both Australia and New Zealand.

Roxane is best known for her role as lead ‘Daniella Mayo’ in the long running crime drama TV series Stingers. Other television credits include dramas City Homicide, Rescue Special Ops, Out of the Blue, The Alice and Water Rats. Roxane has also appeared in New Zealand’s multi award winning Outrageous Fortune as ‘Candace Fletcher’. Her most recent television appearance has been with Seven Network’s iconic family drama Home and Away.

Her numerous feature film credits include the award winning drama Esrkineville Kings, where Roxane starred alongside Hugh Jackman and Joel Edgerton, as well as the Danny Matier directed thriller Punishment and Rohan Zehmer’s Lucky Blue.

Michelle Vergara Moore

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Born and raised in Melbourne to Filipino migrant parents, Michelle participated in a one-year scholarship acting program at St Martin’s Youth Theatre in South Yarra before gaining her Bachelor of Dramatic Art in Acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), Sydney.

Michelle’s feature film debut is a co-starring role in Black & White & Sex, the 2011 directorial debut of acclaimed producer John Winter (Rabbit-Proof Fence).

Short film credits include leads in Fish & Chips (director: Anna Broinowski), The Story Keeper and The Life of Madrid.
Michelle’s televisions credits include Neighbours, All Saints and Wicked Science. NIDA theatre credits include One Man’s Funk, The Winter’s Tale, Thark, Fathers and Sons and The Precious Woman.

Michelle travels between Brooklyn, NY and Melbourne, Australia.

Dina Panozzo

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Dina is a theatre, television and film actress and writer with over 25 years of professional experience. Dina’s theatre credits include major roles for the South Australian Theatre Company, the Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre and Belvoir St Theatre. She wrote and performed her highly acclaimed one woman show Varda Che Bruta...Poretta for the Sydney Festival and won the 2005 Norman Kessell Memorial Award for Outstanding Performance.

Her recent television credits include Bed of Roses, Packed to the Rafters, Underbelly III: The Golden Mile and a leading role in the SBS series Carla Cametti.

Film credits include Tracey Moffat's feature Bedevil, leads in Monica Pellizzari’s Just Desserts, winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and the feature Fistful of Flies which won her Best Actress awards at International Film Festivals in Spain and Russia. She also featured in The Man Who Sued God and Love’s Brother alongside Giovanni Ribisi and Adam Garcia.

Saskia Burmeister

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Saskia Burmeister first graced international film screens in Ned Kelly opposite the late Heath Ledger. Saskia also appeared in the critically acclaimed feature The Jammed, which was a surprise hit at the box office and was recognised with numerous Inside Film Nominations in 2007 and AFI nominations in 2008.

Saskia’s other film credits include the 2009 independent feature Storage, the comic AC/DC homage Thunderstruck , the 2002 thriller The Pact, and perhaps most popular, her role as Erika Yurken in the film based on the much loved book, Hating Alison Ashley opposite actress/ singer Delta Goodrem.

Her TV credits include three seasons of the Channel Nine hit TV drama series Sea Patrol, Channel 10’s AFI award winning children’s series Wicked Science, the US production The Junction Boys, Jewboy produced by the critically acclaimed Liz Watts and Blue Heelers which earned her a 2006 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama. Most recently she appeared in a guest role on Rescue Special Ops and the long-running Australian series, Home & Away.

Maia Thomas

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Maia has worked extensively within the film and television industry since her graduation from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004.

Best known for her portrayal of Lavinia Smart, the vulnerable sole survivor in Matthew Saville's critically acclaimed feature Noise, Maia has also worked alongside some of Australia’s finest in the award winning feature Little Deaths and will soon be playing a dreadlocked activist in the upcoming film adaptation of Julia Leigh's The Hunter, starring Willem Dafoe. Along with the semi regular role of 'Sandrine' the troubled wife of Dom in Channel Ten’s hit drama series Rush, Maia has various guest roles, short film and theatre credits to her name.

Maia's diverse and sophisticated performances make her an intriguing artist to watch.

Maia also loves to cuddle puppies and can do Pilates like nobody’s business, she is credited with inventing the hovercar and was present at the clock tower when Marty McFly got the Delorean up to 88 miles per hour.

Matthew Holmes

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Matt is well known to Australian audiences for his portrayal of Swain in the television drama series Sea Patrol (series 1-5) on the Nine Network.

Prior to Sea Patrol, Matt was a regular cast member of the successful Australian drama Blue Heelers. He has also had guest roles in BlackJack 2 & 3, All Saints, Out of the Blue and Cops LAC.

Theatre highlights include Hoopla & Mud, both for Belvoir Downstairs, the best of Shorter & Sweeter at the Studio playing at The Sydney Opera House and Shakespeare on Trial and Lady Windermere’s Fan for the Darlinghurst Theatre.