Stuart Dunn
Stuart now has a BA at UoW with Theatre Studies and Screen and Media Studies majors. At Whangerai Boys' High he played in Oliver and also performed with the Northland Youth Theatre Company. He has worked with Gaye before in both Cosi, Half Life and The Laramie Project. Stuart will add backstage credits, as assistant stage manager for Carving in Ice's Compleat Female Stage Beauty.
Alec Forbes
lights up our lives, both onstage and off.
Keagan Fransch
Keagn moved to New Zealand from Zimbabwe in 2004. At high school in Timaru theatre became a greater part of her life. She was selected to perform at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre as part of the Young Shakespeare Company (2005) after competing in the regional leg of the Sheilah Winn Festival. This experience continues to feed her passion for theatre today. Keagan majors in Psychology and Theatre Studies. She played Cherry in Cosi last year and will also appear in Compleat Female Stage Beauty.
Scot Hall
Scott is in first year at UoW, undertaking a Theatre Studies/English double major BA. He is the recipient of both the Vice Chancellor's Prize for Academic Excellence, and a Creative and Performing Arts Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship. After last year's NCEA scholarship examinations, Scot was awarded scholarships in both Classical Studies and English, and was named Top Scholar in Drama for 2007. He looks forward to representing his country when he travels to England in July of this year, studying and performing at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre as a member of the 2008 SGCNZ New Zealand Young Shakespeare Company.
Charlie Joramo
Charlie is from Norway and in her third year at UOW studying Japanese and Theatre Studies. Interested in all aspects of theatre, she has done sound for Full Catastrophe and lighting for Fringe contemporary dance event Three. Charlie will also operate lights for Compleat Female Stage Beauty.
Clive Lamdin
Prior to last year Clive made occasional appearances in productions at Riverlea Theatre and elsewhere. Since enrolling in a Graduate Diploma in Theatre Studies and Geography he has enjoyed the opportunity to work with directors like Gaye Poole and John Davies. In 2006 he directed the vocal group in the University Alumni revue and last year he appeared in a successful production of Cosi. He is appearing in The Joss Adams Show and The Blue Shawl in this year's Fuel Festival. In August he will play Samuel Pepys in Compleat Female Stage Beauty. Clive also conducts two Hamilton choirs.
Antonia Lema Trevino
Antonia came from Mexico to study for her BA. She is now a graduate with Theatre Studies and Screen and Media majors. She has been working in the theatre since 2006 with Gaye Poole in shows like The Laramie Project, Cosi and (upcoming) Compleat Female Stage Beauty. Antonia has a dance background (she has danced in several shows in NZ and was a member of a dance company in Mexcio City). A previous Hillary scholar, Antonia plans to continue her education in Europe with a Masters degree in
Directing Film.
David Lumsden
David has taught Philosophy at UoW since 1979 and has been involved in Phoenix Players' productions: Play it Again Sam, The Changeling, Whose Life is it Anyway? and The Three Sisters as well as Theatrevue's Equus and last two Alumni reviews. For Carving in Ice, David featured in Half Life and will also appear in Compleat Female Stage Beauty.
Sara Young
Since a 1994 debut at Cambridge Repertory Sara has appeared in twenty theatre productions in the Waikato. Sara has ventured into musicals, backstage, played comedy (Noises Off and 'Allo 'Allo) and more recently the challenging role of Miriam in Ayckbourn's Snake in the Grass. Sara thoroughly enjoyed working with Gaye and the talented cast of Half Life and joins Carving in Ice for The Joss Adams Show.
Arianne Zilberberg
Arianne has been in theatre since a very young age. She enjoyed performing in numerous school Shakespeare productions including Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Olivia in Twelfth Night as well as participating in the Sheilah Winn festival in Wellington. She has also been involved in The Laramie Project, Swamp Treasures, the unveiling of the Riff Raff statue, Fame. Another Hillary scholar, Arianne is studying Theatre Studies and Screen and Media Studies.
