Dramatis Personae

Director: Brenda Addie

BRENDA ADDIE (DIRECTOR) has had a thirty-year career in the performing arts in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, and has worked with luminaries such as Richard Todd, Meryl Streep, Max Von Sydow, Michael York, Sam Neill and Sooty. In 2005 she co-authored and produced the stage play Quilting the Armour – the Story of the Kelly Women for the 125th anniversary of the Ned Kelly siege in Glenrowan which formed the basis for her Master of Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne. In 2009, Brenda directed Anitra Nelson’s Servant of the Revolution and in 2010 she played the title role in The House of Bernada Alba. Carnivale of Nighttown is Brenda’s fourth Bloomsday in Melbourne production.

 

Drew Tingwell

A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Drew has worked extensively as an actor, writer and director in Australia and overseas, performing in such diverse productions as Tristan and Yseult, The Visit, Jack Hibberd’s adaptation of The Death of Ivan Illych both for the Melbourne International Festival and in Japan, A Respectable Family at Gasworks, Soul Theatre’s highly praised production of Laughing Wild and for several years has worked with Essential Theatre, touring wineries throughout Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales performing Shakespeare. He also appeared in the critically acclaimed one-man play The Fall,playing to sell-out houses in both Melbourne and Perth. His film and television credits include The Boy Who Had Everything, ANZACS, Col’n Carpenter, Neighbours, Hostage To Fate, The Man From Snowy River, Stingers, Blue Heelers and Secret Life of Us . His guest role of Stuart Geller in City Homicide saw him short-listed for an AFI Award nomination. He is also the author of the plays The Dogger’s Run and Francis Kiss (Chapel Off Chapel, 2001) and Self, which has enjoyed four sell-out productions in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Bristol in the UK. He was also a regular script writer for the drama serial Neighbours from 1998 to 2007.

 

Uschi Felix

Uschi Felix trained in Frankfurt in the 1970s, appearing in political cabaret at the Schmiere Theatre. A trip to Australia led to a BA and PhD in Drama and French at Flinders University, further theatre work (Molière, Feydeau, Brecht, Beckett), and an engagement as director and performer in the Adelaide French Cabaret (1983-95). Hijacked by an academic career for two decades, she returned to the stage in 2006. Highlights since then have been The Vagina Monologues (Trades Hall, 06), Blackeyed Susan (Fairfax Theatre, 08) and Beckett’s Shorts (La Mama, 09). Recent solo concerts were Falling Apart Again (Vienna, 2005) and From Piaf to Brel (Frankfurt, 2008).

 

Paige Marshall

Paige Marshall is an actor and director hailing from Perth, WA. She holds a BA from the Curtin University of Technology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Arts from the University of Melbourne and has trained at both WAAPA and in physical theatre. She has performed and directed extensively in Perth and around Western Australia in both theatre and film with theatre credits including: Away, The Removalists, Old Mother Hubbard, Call of the Wild and The Small Poppies. She was also member of the WA Youth Chorale from 2005-07. Paige is very pleased to be performing for Bloomsday in Melbourne for the second time this year. 

 

Daniel Niceski

Daniel Niceski graduated from The National Theatre in 2009 where he appeared in The Lying Valet by David Garrick, Sweet Road by Debra Oswald and Beneath Heaven by Daniel Keene.  He was awarded the Florance Young Scholarship in his final year.  Since graduating Daniel has worked with Machination Theatre Ensemble in their production of One Hundred.

 

Glenn van Oosterom

A graduate of the National Theatre Drama School, Glenn has been fortunate enough to tour nationally with A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the title role in the Australian Shakespeare Company’s Romeo & Juliet; as well as premiere Tom Fool for Hoy Polloy and The Game for Fractured Femur.  Screen credits include Rush, The Legend of Billy Sing, Troll Bridge, At the End of the Day and The Pacific.  You may have heard his voice narrating something too…  This is Glenn’s third appearance with Bloomsday (except one of them was for Mr. Wilde).