Writer

Charmaine Gorman

Relativly new to the writing foray, Charmaine's second full length play is bound to make you smile, giggle, laugh, chuckle and/or guffaw. Her first piece of writing, "Centre Stage With Your Arms Up" was produced in March 1999 at the Carlton Court House for a sell out three week season. Charmaine and her sister Kate have adapted that script for the big screen and are currently working with a producer to convert it into a feature film. Also in Charmaine’s credits are plays about beer, wine, food and cigarettes as well as writing for channel 9's sketch comedy programme "Comedy Inc."

Director

Kate Gorman

Kate has been a performer for 20 odd years in everything from panto to feature film, performing everywhere from Tasmania to London. She has had an itch for directing film and theatre for the past few years. Now the itch has started to be scratched, instead of it being soothed.......the itch has spread! taking over her entire being with the need to put on funny, unusual, poignant and downright entertaining theatre.

Character

Actor

Geoff Assner

Ben Anderson

Ben is a Fringe Festival virgin. He has worked on TV, in an ongoing role as a lawyer in Neighbours, and a superhero in Legacy of the Silver Shadow, as well as on stage in The Wind and the Willows and Red Stitch's The Play About the Baby. He has a role in the movie Takeaway and is in the midst of making a short film.He is happiest when walking the dog or anywhere there are no telephones.

Katie Kornel

Penelope Bartlau

Penelope's obsessive-compulsive type-A personality make her perfect fodder
for Total Entertainment's anchorwoman Katie Kornel.
Film & TV appearances for 2002/3 include; Josh Jarman (feature), Neighbours,
Scooter Secret Agent (TV), MDA & Transmission (pilot), Spider & Fly (short)
Just Love (short) & Nuts (short). Theatre work over the last 18 months
includes; Wide Brown Land (Courthouse), The War Against Short Trousers
(Chapel Off Chapel), Open for Inspection (La Mama Comedy Fest.), Still (45
Downstairs), The Three Musketeers (Aust. Shakespeare Co.), Kaidan
(Storeroom) & Women in Love (Ripponleigh).
PLEASE DO NOT GIVE THIS ACTOR CODEINE OR OTHER NON-PRESCRIPTION DRUGS OF ANY KIND. Or things Could Get Really Ugly.

Esther Whiteman

Kal Kingi

Kal Kingi originally trained with Sonstrum, a radical theatre group in Poland, who incorporated the techniques of Strassberg and Grotowski with the spiritual practices of the Ashu Ginta group. Kal then entered into a 3 month solitary actor training retreat in the Appalachian Mountains. There he developed a 'lived-through' experiental technique which culminated at the end of the retreat into a 3 hour improvised epic of floral/faunal body/voice incorporations. This was presented to an exclusive audience at a local community festival. Presently Kal is a 'Way of Life' coach.

Sonia Eserski

Judith Roberts

Judith is now referred to as a 'veteran performer'. She began her career with J.C Williamsons in 1961 playing leads in musicals such as The Sentimental Bloke, Sweet Charity, Promises Promises and then with other managements shows such as Bye Bye Birdie, Bells are Ringing, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Guys and Dolls, Cabaret and Nunsense. She was a member of the cast of the outstandingly successful Revue A Cup Of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down and played Golde opposite Topol in
Fiddler on the Roof. This year Judith received a Green Room Award nomination for her performance as Mimi Schwinn in A New Brain.She has worked extensively in drama at The Ensemble Theatre, La Mama and Chapel Off Chapel. Her television credits include The Sullivans, Blue Heelers, Neighbours and Prisoner. Judith also writes, produces and choreographs and has been Head of Music Theatre at the University of Ballarat and the National Theatre.

Robert

Randall Berger

American-born Randall immigrated to Australia by himself in 1973 at age 19 "on a lark," embarking on a professional acting career that included major musicals for JC Williamsons, dramas and comedies, plus over 35 notable feature film and television projects. Sometime during the run, you'll be
able to see him in The New Basil Brush Show on the ABC. Or you can always watch SHINE again and see him as violinist Isaac Stern. He has also had a parallel career as a writer, scriptwriter and creative director across most mediums for many of Melbourne's top production companies. Married to drama educator Helen Sandercoe since 1977, they have three cheeky children, Sarah (17) and Rebekah (15) and Matilda (7). Even though Randall has been a character actor who was always too old, too fat and too American for over 30 years, he is appearing in his very first Melbourne Fringe Festival production with TOTAL ENTERTAINMENT.

David "DJ" Jones

Josh Cameron

Josh has been performing comedy for the last 4 years and has extensive experience in character work most notably at Dracula’s where Josh created and performed “one of the most successful and vibrant characters Dracula’s has ever seen,” the eccentric but lovable “Syst”. Josh has also performed in a number of Shakespeare productions, most recently in Neolith’s Romeo and Juliet as “Mercutio”. He has also worked as a voice over artist for the last 2 years. Short film credits include “Tony” in The Referees directed by Katrina Mathers, (Tropfest top 16) and “Billy” in Little Noel Wants to Fly directed by Nathene Valamanesh. Josh is soon to appear in a guest role in Stingers
Josh was an original member of The 5th Dementia, who took out the Fringe Best Comedy Award in 2001 and is now a member of The Six.

Tissy Part

Kate McLennan

Kate has been writing and performing comedy for the past three years. Kate was an original performer and writer with The 5th Dementia, who took out the Best Comedy Award in the 2001 Melbourne Fringe. This was followed by a sell-out show at The Famous Spiegeltent for the 2001 Melbourne Festival and a successful season in the 2002 Melbourne Comedy Festival with their show The Hindsight Prophecies. Kate is now a member of comedy group, The Six, who performed to great acclaim in the 2002 Melbourne Fringe with their self-titled sketch comedy show, this show fused stage and film sketches. Most recently she performed with The Six in their show The 666 – One Hell of a Show in the 2003 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The Six are also performing in the Amnesty International benefit Stand Up For You Rights in late October. Kate’s television credits include Secret Life of Us, MDA and Stingers. Still to come.

The Floor Manager guy

Luke Doxey

From last Fringe Festival to this one Luke has performed in 5 other pieces of theatre, 2 short films, eaten over 1095 meals, and helped 14 little old ladies accross their respective roads - it has been a busy year. The shows haven't exactly been a walk in the park either, oh no, one of them, which was staged in the back room of his house, included two performances on that horrible 43°c day last summer. So, for this show Luke has decided that he isn't going to be putting any effort into extraneous things like learning lines. At the very least it'll be interesting to see what he comes up with.