CAST
In order of appearance
Emma Palmer | Woman
A 2007 NIDA graduate, Emmas theatre credits include Constellations (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), War Horse (The National Theatre/ Global Creatures), Tot Mom and The Lost Echo (Sydney Theatre Company), The Kid (Griffin Theatre Company), On the Shore of the Wide World (Pantsguys & Griffin Independent), the Australian premiere and national tour of Syncopation (The Follies & Critical Stages), Risky Lunar Love (504 Productions), The Jungle (Darlinghurst Theatre Company) and Fefu and Her Friends (Red Rabbit Theatre).
Emma has also worked as a voice artist on the childrens cartoon series Gasp! (SLR Productions). Her short film credits include Polly and Me (Shark Island Productions), Thanks for Coming, Take Me Home, (Pearly Productions), Im You Dickhead (Lucas Testro), Dinner with the Diamonds (UTS), Milk & Vodka (Myrtle Street Pictures) and Shopping (CineDream).
Emmas Australian television credits include All Saints, Underbelly II: A Tale of Two Cities, Offside and Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms. She is best known to Australian audiences as a regular host on the much-loved ABC childrens program Playschool.
Emma has been a proud member of Actors Equity since 2008.
Dion Mills | Man
A member of the Red Stitch Actors Theatre ensemble since 2003.
RS credits include: Eurydice, The Flick, Herding Cats, Penelope, Stop Rewind, Day One, Hotel, Evening, Creditors, The City, That Face, Fatboy, Yellow Moon, Pool (No Water), Harvest, Fewer Emergencies; The Country, The Night Heron, Outlying Islands, Jesus Hopped the A Train, Wheres My Money, The Lights. Other theatre credits include: Black Box 149, Acts of Deceit (Dirty Pretty Theatre), Weary & Under Milk Wood (McPherson Touring), Bison & The Maids (WreckedAll Productions).
Film and television credits include: Its a Date (ABC), Conspiracy 365 (Circa), Woodley (ABC), The Killer Elite (Omnilab), City Homicide (Channel 7), The King (Fremantle Media), Stingers (Channel 7).
Caroline Lee | Annie Birkett
Caroline has worked with various companies including the Malthouse, STC, MTC, Bell Shakespeare, Back to Back Theatre, Finucane and Smith, Hildegard, Playbox (Raw) and La Mama. Most recently Caroline appeared in Waking Up Dead at fortyfivedownstairs; played the role of Sylvia Plath in A Kind of Fabulous Hatred; performed in Phdre with Bell Shakespeare; played Venus in The Minotaur Trilogy with Chamber Made Opera for the 2012 Melbourne International Arts Festival; performed the role of Harper in Caryl Churchills Far Away; toured Australia with a new Australian gothic work The Flood, by Jackie Smith; and appeared as Simone in Simone de Beauvoir at the Stork Theatre. Caroline has developed a strong reputation for her work in one-woman shows, playing Grace Marks in the highly successful one-woman show, alias Grace by Margaret Atwood; Marguerite in La Douleur by Marguerite Duras; Lola Strong in The Three Interiors of Lola Strong; Sylvia Plath in A Kind of Fabulous Hatred; and six different characters in the one-woman adaptation of her novel, Stripped.
Carolines film and television appearances include a main cast role in Bogan Pride, and roles in Tangle, Winners and Losers, Satisfaction, Stingers, MDA, Halifax fp, Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Holidays on the River Yarra and Dogs in Space.
Caroline has received three Green Room Awards for Best Actress.
Daniel Last | Harry Birkett
Dan graduated with a Bachelor in Dramatic Arts (acting) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013.
Since graduating, Daniel performed and was co-creator on a production of Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang which was performed at Metanoia Theatre in February and also had his first performance at the renowned La Mama theatre, performing in a new play by Diane Stubbings called The Parricide. Daniel has also performed in several short films through the VCAs Film and TV school, two of which will be showcased at ACMI later this year. He was also involved in a moved reading of Clifford Odets Waiting for Lefty as a part of The Sandpit St. Kildas Elia Kazan: A Retrospection. Daniels highlights whilst at the VCA would be performing as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and a performance of the suicidal priest Father Walsh in an excerpt of The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh.
Daniel was excited to see that the short film The World that he performed in whilst at VCA was recently screened in the Accelerator Programme as a part of MIFF.