DIRECTOR

Peter Goers is an Adelaide director, actor, designer and occasional playwright. A Fringe Award winner and former Artistic Director of the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild. His production of “California Suite” opened Holden Street Theatres in 2003. He co-directed the opera “Hansel And Gretel” with Dame Joan Hammond, pantomimed Captain Hook in the ballet of “Peter Pan”, taught university drama and directed plays in Istanbul, Turkey and is a prolific and iconoclastic Adelaide theatre director. Favourites of the many shows he’s directed include “A Little Night Music”, “The Glass Menagerie”, “Streetcar”, "Kiss Of The Spider Woman”, “The Christian Brothers” and “Amadeus”. As an actor his favourite roles are Elwood P. Dowd in “Harvey”, Gerald Popkiss in “Rookery Nook”, the Emperor in “Amadeus” and playing opposite Martha Lott in “California Suite”. Goers is a celebrated ABC Radio broadcaster and frequent entertainer who has appeared more than a thousand times throughout Australia including the Theatre Royal in Tasmania. He has performed eight solo shows for the Holden Street Theatres Fringe and is the author of two memoirs, “Maddening, Self-Indulgent Crap” and “In The Air Of An Afternoon Almost Past” published by Wakefield Press and is a Distinguished Alumni of Flinders University. In 2013 he was honoured by the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to community, broadcasting and the arts.

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Geoff graduated from Flinders University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1978, majoring in Drama Performance and English. He has worked with various companies over the years, including Troupe, Magpie Theatre in Education, STCSA, MTC, Playbox, Arena, The Church, Red Shed, Patch, Junction, Urban Myth, Bakehouse, Vitalstatistix, Flying Penguin, Red Phoenix and Windmill.

Geoff was a Helpmann Award nominee in 2010 for Windmill’s production of ‘The Wizard of Oz’. This is his first production with Holden Street Theatres Inc.

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Is a founder and the Artistic Director of Holden Street Theatres and multi-award winning actress and producer. She has worked as actor, director and producer in Australia and the UK and has appeared in many plays such as 'Private Lives' by Noel Coward, 'Califonia Suite' by Neil Simon, 'The Removalists' by David Willamson, 'Death of a Salesman' and 'Trojan Women' at the State Theatre Company SA, 'The Mistress' by Arnold Wesker which toured to the Edinburgh Fringe and plays in SA and 'Bash' by Neil LaBute. Martha took a break from the stage and returned in 2019/2022 with'Grounded' by George Brant, and in 2021 performed her own work 'That Boy'. More recently Martha Starred in the highly celebrated production of 'LOOPED' by Matthew Lombardo as Tallulah Bankhead and ‘night, Mother by Marsha Norman. Her most recent film and television credits include 'Storm Boy' and 'The Stranger'.

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John Doherty has intermittently balanced the roles of Head of Drama at Westminster School, freelance playwright, screenwriter, actor, and Acting teacher for twenty years. John was last on stage in Junglebean Productions extraordinary 2009 Fringe Production of Neil La Bute's "Autobahn."

Johns tv and film credits go back to Sara Dane in 1982, Glass House, Wastelander Panda: Exile, Here I Am, Broken Hill, Azadi, McLeod's Daughters, Selkie and River Kings. When Peter Goers approached Joh, he jumped at the opportunity to play Commander Peter Gilpin, RN in this Holden Street Theatre Company Production, and is thoroughly enjoying being back on stage with a wonderful cast.

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Helen trained at the Adelaide Centre for Performing Arts, and the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide University. Stand out theatre roles include Hedda in Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler “ , Immaculata in “Miracles” (awarded ATG best female performance ), Cherry in “Cosi” , Nora in “A Doll’s House”, Barbara in David Williamsons “A Conversation”, Leslie in Allan Bennett’s “Her Big Chance”(Festival of One), Sheila in “A Chorus Line”, Sandra in “Beautiful Thing”(awarded Critic’s Circle emerging artist award), Maureen in “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” ( ATG nominated for best female performance), Izy in “Izy and Willow” written and composed by Helen Geoffreys (awarded best children’s production Oscarts), Paige in“DINNER” (awarded ATG’s best female performance) and Barbara Weston in Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County” ( awarded ATG best female performance )

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Rebecca's recent theatre highlights include playing Margo Channing in St Jude's 'All About Eve, performing in Independent Theatre’s production of Seagull as Arkadina, and co-directing with Robert Bell the critically acclaimed 'Ink' for the UATG. Other theatre highlights include playing Queen Elizabeth II in ‘The Audience’ with Therry Theatre, Lady MacBeth in ‘MacBeth’ with Independent Theatre, Lady Elizabeth Pembroke ‘ in The Madness of King George III” with Adelaide Repertory Theatre, Lizzie in UATG’s ‘Seventeen’; Mrs Allonby in Adelaide Repertory Theatre's A Woman of No Importance, Miss Blake in Red Phoenix’s Blue Stockings, and Sybil Birling in Therry Theatre’s production of ‘An Inspector Calls’. Rebecca is delighted to be involved in her first production with Holden Street Theatres and embracing her comedic roots again under the direction of Peter Goers, and is very grateful to be working alongside such a stellar cast and crew.

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After a lengthy "sabbatical", Brian returns to the Theatre.

With a lengthy background in Directing & Acting - including Stage, TV & Film; Brian was also co-Founder of The Fringe: albeit that much of thar was lost with the passage-of-time. He was also Chairman of Adelaide's premier theatre; The Adealide Theatre Group at the erstwhile Sheridan Theatre.

The smell of the crowd, and roar of the greasepaint, has finally drawn him back to the stage arena.

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