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Allan Chapple

Allan Chapple has done over three thousand performances, including the series director in 2005 Tele movie ''Dynasty – Behind the Scenes'', two thirds of which involved singing, and has produced a doze...
52 Articles

Annabelle Drumm

Annabelle Drumm grew up in a theatre family and has worked out front and behind the scenes of Arts, Media and Entertainment for the majority of her career. She was a professional Performing Artist her...
111 Articles

Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens refl...
693 Articles

Bronwyn Fullerton

Bronwyn Fullerton worked as an actress and singer for over 20 years after training with Hayes Gordon at The Ensemble Theatre Studios in Sydney in the 70s. She has worked for The Ensemble Theatre, Stab...
113 Articles

Carol Dance

Carol Dance reviewed plays for her local newspaper in Sydney while working as the editor at the University of New South Wales Press. Then, as CEO of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre, she obse...
151 Articles

Carolyn Neumann

Highly qualified in things other then 'the Arts'; Carolyn's life long love of theatre, movies, comedy and music has meant that she has spent much of her life in dark rooms with strangers - sitting upr...
83 Articles

David Kary

David Kary completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (BCA) at Wollongong University between 1990 and 1992 majoring in Arts Journalism and Theatre Studies. Ever since 1992 he has been writing about the ar...
4516 Articles

Dragica Jukic

Dragica Jukic lives in Sydney’s Inner West and has a BA (Communications) and Dip Ed (Secondary). She is a high school teacher and has worked in public education for over 20 years. She is always on the...
18 Articles

Elizabeth Surbey

Elizabeth had a passion for theatre and performing from her youth and was a keen contributor to the joint school musicals- mostly the Gilbert and Sullivan romps. Once she headed to university this pas...
62 Articles

Geoffrey Sykes

Over 30 professional theatre productions, as writer, producer or director, including La Mama Melbourne, Holden Street Theatre Adelaide, 707 Theatre Redfern Sydney, Tap Gallery Sydney, Teatrul Municipa...
50 Articles

Grace Roodenrys

Grace Roodenrys is a writer from Sydney. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Plumwood Mountain, EcoTheo, Riverstone Literary Journal and the anthology Ghost Cities: New Writing from Western Syd...
3 Articles

Jake Freeman

Jake Freeman is a junior administration assistant, editor, camera operator and filmmaker. Jake has previously completed his studies in Film and Television at the Northern Melbourne Institute of Tafe (...
59 Articles

Jasmin Rothfield

Jasmin Rothfield has been a freelance writer for many years and is interested in theatre, literature, music and films. She has previously worked in magazine publishing and currently also works as a ...
6 Articles

John Pollak

John Pollak did Arts and Law at Sydney uni. He practised Law for a short while and went into business. He made too much money for his own good and today is not so much retired as having little to do. ...
51 Articles

Judith Greenaway

Judith is a Sydney theatre worker who was ‘born in a trunk’. With a lifelong passion for all performing arts, she has turned her hand to many jobs in film, TV and live theatre. Ranging from earning...
1196 Articles

Loretta Barnard

Loretta Barnard is an author, arts writer, reviewer, editor and project manager, who is a regular contributor on the arts to a number of online sites. Her most recent book is Imagining Australia: a hi...
5 Articles

Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile ...
442 Articles

Lynne Lancaster

A passionate theatre person Lynne is originally from Sydney and holds a B.Ed (Art) - a postgraduate Diploma in Information Management (Librarianship) and an MA in Theatre. While living in London ( 200...
995 Articles

Maggy Franklin

Maggy Franklin has been involved in theatre and musical theatre in Sydney for many years. She has a teaching diploma in Speech and Drama, has attended Darlo Drama classes, acted and directed in Crash ...
105 Articles

Mark Pigott

A memorable part of Mark’s childhood, in Sydney in the sixties, was spent queuing up in George Street to watch the latest movies. Mark remains an avid cinema and theatre goer, and believe that the...
260 Articles

Patricia Youlden

Tricia Youlden is an actor, teacher and writer. After “majoring” in SUDS, during her undergraduate years at Sydney University 1965-9, she has been performing on stage and screen in Sydney and Perth. S...
5 Articles

Paul Nolan

Paul Nolan was born on the New South Wales North Coast. He has been involved with musical theatre and choral groups on the NSW North Coast and in Sydney. Paul has had poetry published in v...
466 Articles

Richard Cotter

Art for art's sake. Art felt and artful.
1598 Articles

Ron Desiatnik

I can’t act, sing, dance, paint, direct, or produce, but I enjoy watching and listening to those who can. However I do hold a doctorate in law, and am a published author of both fiction and non-fictio...
16 Articles

Tiffany Yuan

Tiffany is a current University of Sydney student completing her Bachelor of Design in Architecture. She loves collecting degrees, having completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Psychology and a Mas...
12 Articles

Tony Laumberg

Tony Laumberg has been involved in entertainment since he was a child, having been persuaded by his mother to perform as a singer in talent contests while on holidays and managing only to win a wooden...
7 Articles
I hope that you become a regular visitor and enjoy reading about Sydney’s vibrant arts scene.
David Kary
Publisher and Editor
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