Geraldine Hakewill
Bella
Geraldine graduated from WAAPA in 2008 and has since starred in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Fury, Baal, The Real Thing, Disgraced, Chimerica and Julius Caesar (Sydney Theatre Company), Peter Pan (Belvoir), which toured to New York, Tartuffe (Bell Shakespeare Company), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), and Macbeth (Melbourne Theatre Company).
Geraldine’s television credits include lead roles in Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, Wakefield and Wanted for which she was nominated for a TV Week Logie for Most Outstanding Newcomer.
Geraldine has also appeared in many independent Australian feature films including The Pretend One, Disclosure, Uninhabited, Wasted on the Young and Joe Cinque’s Consolation.
Geraldine recently produced the feature film The Rooster, starring Hugo Weaving, which premiered in competition at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2023.
Toby Schmitz
Jack
Toby Schmitz is a writer, director and actor. He was most recently seen on stage in The Seagull (Sydney Theatre Company).
His other acting theatre credits include Amadeus (Red Line Productions) opposite Michael Sheen, The Rover, Hamlet, The Wild Duck, Measure for Measure, Thyestes, Strange Interlude, Ruben Guthrie and Dance of Death (Belvoir), The Present, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Travesties, Hanging Man, Rabbit and The Great [STC], Wild and The Importance of Being Earnest (Melbourne Theatre Company], Much Ado About Nothing (Bell Shakespeare Company), The Boyce Trilogy (Griffin Theatre), and Thom Pain (based on nothing) and Degenerate Art (Red Line Productions), which he wrote and directed.
Toby received Helpmann Award Nominations for his performances in Thyestes, Much Ado About Nothing and Ruben Guthrie, and Sydney Theatre Award Nominations for Howie the Rookie, The Great and Ruben Guthrie.
Kate Fitzpatrick
Elizabeth
Perth-born, Adelaide-raised Kate Fitzpatrick is an actor and writer who is a NIDA Bachelor of Arts graduate. She was also a NIDA Board Member for two terms.
Her films include: The Removalists, A World Apart, Heaven’s Burning, Summer of Secrets, Goodbye Paradise, By Night, The Perfectionist, Salute to the Great McCarthy, The Promised Women, The Office Picnic and Deep Water.
Television credits include Something in the Air, Players to the Gallery, Redheap, The Last Resort, Packed to the Rafters and Rake.
Her extensive theatre credits include: Arcadia (Queensland Theatre); The Recruiting Officer (Melbourne Theatre Company); Hamlet on Ice, Celluloid Heroes, The Ride Across Lake Constance, Shadows of Blood, Rooted, Beyond Mozambique, Kennedy’s Children and On the Shore of the Wide World (The Nimrod/Stables/Belvoir).
For the Old Tote Theatre Company, later the Sydney Theatre Company, her credits include: The Legend of King O’Malley, Nola Boyle in The Season at Sarsaparilla, The Misanthrope, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Country Wife, The Comedy of Errors, Les Parents Terribles, The Jungle, Hamlet, DelDel, Macbeth, The Bourgeois Wedding and Late Arrivals (which opened The Wharf Theatre). She was also Jenny Diver in Jim Sharman’s The Threepenny Opera, which opened the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre, The Comedy of Errors, Don in Don Juan, Marguerite Gautier in The Lady of the Camelias, and Mag in Big Toys, the play Patrick White wrote for her.
For the Playbox/Malthouse Theatre: Kate played Marilyn Monroe in Insignificance; a Molière Season of four plays, Britannicus, Spring Song, Unsuitable for Adults, Ghosts, Twelve Angry Men, Scapin, Singled Out, The Fat Boy and Julia 3.
Kate is also an accomplished writer, essayist and humourist, with four published books – two of these, Namedropping and Airmail, are still in print. She has worked as a feature writer/columnist for major newspapers and journals, and on TV as an interviewer/presenter.
In the summer of 1983-1984 she became the world’s first female cricket commentator on the Nine Network. Her cricket writing has been included in two volumes of Australia’s Best Sports Writing, and syndicated in India and Pakistan.
Kate is one of 50 people who wrote a piece for the recently published book Transcendence, about working in the Sydney Opera House, to celebrate its 50th birthday.
She recently completed a Renny Harlin movie, Deep Water, to be released 2024. She did her own stunts.
Kate is a grandmother and was awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal for services to the theatre.
Courtney Cavallaro
Nancy
Courtney is an actor and writer who invites vulnerability, heart and glee into her work. Upon graduating from WAAPA (Performance Making), she was awarded the Belinda Dunbar Prize which recognises the most outstanding Bachelor of Performing Arts graduate and went on to be nominated as best newcomer in the WA Performing Arts Awards. Courtney was selected for the AFTRS National Talent camp, cast as Simone Sinclair in Irreverent (Netflix), and in 2023 Courtney made her Queensland Theatre debut in As You Like It.
Maddison Burridge
STANDBY BELLA/NANCY
Maddison was born and raised in Queensland, graduating from QUT with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) in 2015. Between 2016 and 2021, she toured both nationally and internationally with educational theatre companies Shake&Stir, Brainstorm, and Poetry in Action. Her mainstage theatre credits with Shake&Stir include; A Christmas Carol (2020, 2021), Fantastic Mr Fox (2021) and Jane Eyre (2022). She began working with Queensland Theatre as a Teaching Artist in 2022 and in the same year, performed in the rehearsed reading of Paradise Dreaming. This is her mainstage debut with Queensland Theatre and New Theatricals. Maddison also has thirteen years of classical ballet training, is a proud member of MEAA and a full time Psychology student at UQ.
Julian Curtis
STANDBY JACK
JULIAN CURTIS is a NIDA graduate. He just filmed the lead role in Australian thriller ‘First Moon’.
He has worked for many Australian theatre companies including Queensland Theatre (Bernhardt/Hamlet, 25 Down); Playlab (Magpie, Horizon in 2024); LaBoite (Dead Devils of Cockle Creek, The Glass Menagerie); Sydney Theatre Company (Embers, Galipolli); Darlinghurst Theatre (La Dispute); Riverside (Shakespeare’s R&J); Shake & Stir (Wuthering Heights) and True West for Brisbane Powerhouse – for which he won a Matilda Award.
He has appeared on television in both Australia and the United States: highlights include a series regular role on Are You Afraid of the Dark? (nominated for a 2024 Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Series) and Bryan Singer’s HULU series Spooked; and recurring on ABC’s Dance Academy.
As a writer, he has been produced twice by Screen QLD (Power the Kid, And the Winner Is); and his debut play Legacy was developed by Playwriting Australia.
Barbara Lowing
STANDBY ELIZABETH
Barbara is the first Queensland graduate of The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA – 1986). She has performed with The Hole in the Wall Theatre Company, Playlab Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, The State Theatre Company of South Australia, Griffin Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre Company, Shake and Stir Theatre Company, Belloo Creative, The Dead Puppet Society, Camerata – Queensland Chamber Orchestra, The Brisbane Powerhouse, JUTE Theatre Company.
Barbara has contributed to the creation of over 60 new works for the Australian stage, many of which have gone on to be performed on main stages throughout Australia.
Her film and television credits include The Royal Hotel, Mako Mermaids, Secrets and Lies and Boy Swallows Universe.
Barbara has been a proud Equity/MEAA member since 1987.