Andrea Moor, director and producer …and moor theatre
Andrea Moor returned to Brisbane in 2005 after 26 years training, acting and directing in Sydney, Melbourne, New York and London. Andrea is a NIDA graduate and has studied at East 15 in London and with The Atlantic Theatre Co in New York. She is currently being mentored as a director through the Queensland Theatre Company’s Emerging Artists Program and in 2007 launched her own company, …and moor theatre.
As a director, Andrea has worked on numerous productions including Beautiful (The Loft), Mad Forest and A Dream Play (NIDA Young Actor’s studio), Lysistrata (QUT Performance Studies), Red Cap (Ass Director, La Boite), Heroes (Ass Director QTC), Prisoner of Second Avenue (Ass director QTC), The Works (Ass Director, QTC), Furious (NIDA first Year Actors), Stars (ATYP) and Henry V (Ass Director, ATYP).
As an Actor, Andrea’s theatre credits are extensive and include, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Absurd Person Singular and Vincent in Brixton (Queensland Theatre Company); The Narcissist (La Boite); Bitin’ Back (Kooemba Jdarra), Away (World Premiere, Griffin), Emerald City, Siren, A Map of the World, A Woman in Mind, Titus Andronicus, The Visit, Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, An Ideal Husband, Games of Love and Chance (Sydney Theatre Company), Away, The Return and Kayak, Myth, Propaganda and Disaster (Griffin); Witchplay (voted best actress Edinburgh Fringe 1991); A Little Like Drowning, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Belvoir), The Old Boy, The Ninth Step, The Family, Diving for Pearls (Ensemble); The Newspaper of Claremont Street (Marion Street); and The Aunts Story for the NIDA Company.
Andrea’s film credits include Travelling North, Round The Bend, Oscar and Lucinda, Strange Planet, The Man Who Sued God, Bitter and Twisted and many award winning shorts. Her television credits are extensive and include Passion, All Saints, Flying Doctors, GP, Country Practice, H2O, Mortified and her on-going role as the School Principle in Heartbreak High.
Andrea is a dedicated teacher of actors and is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Creative Industries at QUT. Andrea co-founded Practical Aesthetics Australia, the Sydney annex of the Atlantic Theatre Company of New York.
Ross Mueller, playwright
Ross Mueller is the winner of the Wal Cherry Play of the Year 2007 for his play, The Glory, and in 2008 was nominated twice for Green Room Awards for Best New Play. In March 2007, The Ghost Writer was premiered by Melbourne Theatre Company at the Fairfax Studio at the Victorian Arts Centre. In May 2007, his play, No Man's Island, had its American premiere with a production at Here in New York City. In 2006, he was short-listed for the New York New Dramatists Award for Construction of the Human Heart and it was short-listed for the 2007 AWGIE Award for Best New Play. In 2002 he was the Australian playwright at the International Residency of the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Ross has been commissioned by Playbox, Melbourne Theatre Company, Hothouse and ABC Radio National and has been an affiliate of the Melbourne Theatre Company and a founding member of Melbourne Dramatists. Two of his plays have been published by Currency Press. His other works include; A Party in Fitzroy, Little Brother, Great Ocean Road, Colosseum, Pinters Explanation and a pilot version of Something To Die For. His newest play, Concussion, was presented as part of the Inaugural Playwriting Australia Festival in Brisbane in 2008 and was short-listed for the Patrick White Award. The Glory premiered in March at Hothouse Theatre Company.
Steven Tandy, actor
A professional actor since graduating from NIDA in 1971, Steven has worked for most major theatre companies throughout Australia including: - Queensland Theatre Ccompany (Expresso Bongo, Juno and the Paycock, The National Health, Love for Love, Who Cares?, Loves Labours Lost); Melbourne Theatre Company (Translations, Three Sisters, The Winter’s Tale, The Maid’s Tradgedy); Nimrod Street Theatre (The Speakers); New England Theatre Company (Who Was Harry Larson); Riverina Theatre Company (The Threepenny Opera); Marion Street Theatre Co (What if You Died Tomorrow?, See How They Run, When We Were Married); La Boite (Amigos, Last Drinks, James and Johnno, Summer Wonderland), Twelfth Night (Dad’s Army, Run for Your Wife, The Rocky Horror Show, ‘Allo ‘Allo); Perth National Theatre (No Names No Pack Drill); Ensemble Theatre (Time and Time Again, Noises Off), ATYP (Old Queen Cole); Bondi Pavilion (When Did You Last See My Mother?);Opening NightProductions (Love! Valour! Compassion!); Ansata Productions (The Abdication of Queen Elizabeth II); Esoteric (My Night With Reg).
Steven has also completed a postgraduate diploma in Directing at NIDA, graduating in 1995. Productions he has directed include Busybody, Night Of The Iguana, Don’s Party, Deadly Nightcap, You can’t take it with you, Peggy for You, and recently, Bouncers.
Television credits include The Sullivans (as Tom Sullivan); All the Rivers Run; Redheap; Spyforce; Sons and Daughters; The Freemantle Conspiracy; Misery Guts; Possession and Mortified.
Film Credits include Jog’s Trot; Hurricane Smith; Rough Diamonds; Mercy mission; The Rescue of Flight 471; Gettin’ Square; The Horseman.
Louise Brehmer, actor
Louise is an actor, teacher, voiceover artist and corporate trainer. She has worked for many arts organizations both in Queensland and interstate. Her numerous theatre credits include Private Fears in Public Places (QTC), Summer Wonderland (La Boite), Crèche and Burn (La Boite), New Royal (Metro Arts/ SOOB), He Died with a Felafel in his Hand (La Boite), Cooking with Elvis (QTC), The Comedy of Errors (Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble), The Greater Plague (Restaged Histories/Metro Arts), Children of the Black Skirt (Real TV/ QAC), Lovejunk (DeBase Productions), The Man Who Sold The World (Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre), Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations (rolling jaffa), Hermes and the Naked Flame (La Boite/QAC), In No Particular Order (BDP), Anne of the Thousand Days (Crossbow Productions), Mrs Klein (Crossbow Productions), The Pacific Solution (Brisbane Festival Theatre Fringe/SOOB) to name a few.
As an actor and improviser, she has worked and traveled throughout most of Australia and has twice represented Queensland in the National Theatresports Championships. She has performed public readings of new works including The Wiredancers' Waltz and Australian Gothic (National Playwrights Festival), The Narcissist (La Boite/ Noosa Long Weekend Festival), Baited and The Critic (Duende/ Metro Arts Creative Development Festival) and Faith (QLD Poetry Festival). Louise has appeared in feature length and short films and is also a Clown Doctor at The Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane.
She has extensive experience in teaching and in working with children and adults alike. Louise is a graduate of the Acting Program at QUT and has trained with Shakespeare and Company (USA), Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, Society of Australian Fight Directors, DeBase, Angry Mime, NIDA Open Program & Trinity College of London.
Ling Hseuh Tang, actor
Ling grew up in Brisbane and trained at QUT, graduating in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts- Drama. She has appeared on stage in Beautiful for …and moor theatre, La Boite’s Amigos and Griffin’s Songket at the Sydney Opera House.
She has worked extensively in television as a main cast member of All Saints, Breakers, Children’s Hospital, Trackers, Tribe and New Zealand’s Spin Doctors. Other television work includes Sea Patrol, Playschool, Fireflies, Go Big, Murder Call, Big Sky and Fallen Angels.
Ling has also provided character voices on children’s shows Tracey McBean and Spellbinder- Land of the Dragon Lord. Film work includes Ghostrider, Son of the Mask and Strange Planet.
Nicholas Cooper, actor
Since graduating from QUT with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) in 2003, Nicholas has appeared on stage in Edmond, Romeo & Juliet, La Ronde, Cabaret and St Kilda Tales. In Sydney he has been involved in the production of new Australian works including, The Mediator, Actors Anonymous and The Marriage Wreckers.
His film and television credits include working on McLeod’s Daughters, All Saints, Through My Eyes, Mermaids, Monster!, Cybergirl, Code Red, Fool’s Gold and most recently on HBO’s The Pacific War.
Kieran Swann, designer
Kieran is one half of performance making duo the Restaged Histories project, which has staged Omon Ra, The Greater Plague, Marat/Sade (educational residency at QUT) and The Jack Tragedy. Kieran was engaged in 2007 as the first designer under the emerging artist program by Queensland Theatre Company, for whom he has designed I Am My Own Wife, The Estimator, Property of the Clan, Caucasian Chalk Circle, and worked as assistant designer of Away, and design assistant of Hamlet, Private Fears in Public Places, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset, and Vincent in Brixton, and taught workshops in design for theatre and performance for high school students. Kieran has also worked as designer of The Laramie Project (Forward Movement/Springboard Theatre Company), Ivy Shambitt and the Sound Machine (Backbone Youth Arts), Mad Forest (NIDA Open Program), Tashi Stories (Imaginary Ltd), The Physics Project (QUT Postgraduate Program), and in capacities of assistant designer, design co-ordinator or design assistant of Walking by Apple Tree Creek, The Mayne Inheritance (La Boite Theatre Company), Charters Towers The Musical (Queensland Music Festival 2005) and the 2006 Brisbane Festival, encompassing work on Coorparoo Sk8 , Paradise the Musical, the Theatre Fringe, and the Courier Mail Spiegeltent. Kieran's work as a Performance Maker includes An exercise in cohabitation (or Zygotes, Lo! A Mysterious Symbiosis Of Yolk And Albumen!) (Metro Arts Creative Development Festival) and the first stage development of a new visual performance work based on Gulliver's Travels. In 2006 he was awarded a place in the SPARK national arts mentorship scheme.
Jason Glenwright, lighting designer
Jason is a freelance lighting designer and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Technical Production from QUT. Recent lighting design credits include The Kursk (Metro Arts), Beautiful (…and moor theatre), The Science of Falling (CIRCA), Metamorphoses and Much Ado About Nothing (Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble), Gaijin (Ben Knapton), Stop Violence Against Women (Anna Yen, Amnesty International), Living Like Alice (Maria Pasquarelli), The Maids (Plague Theatre) and The Logan Project (Daniel Santangeli). Jason has also designed the lighting for four original musical productions including Of Our Own Volition (Spangled Drongo Productions), Pipedreams, Sapphires Theatre Restaurant and Ataxis (KSHS). Jason has also been a lighting mentor for the 2nd year lighting design students on Production One 2007.
Jason Zadkovich, composer
Jason Zadkovich graduated from QUT with a Bachelor of Music in 2000. For the performing arts, he works as a musician, producer and technician, specifically in audio engineering, sound design, multimedia, new media and digital environments. He provides sound manipulation and editing for the Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre Company, Opera Queensland, Queensland Performing Arts Complex, Brisbane Powerhouse and the Queensland Art Gallery. His arts related credits also include sound composition for …and moor theatre’s production of Beautiful in 2007 at The Loft; as the feature guitarist on the Ten Tenors 2004 CD release, Larger than Life, and the Australian Film Commission’s film, Travelling Light in 2003. He was also co-musical director and lead guitarist in The Wall project for QUT in 2002. He is a theatre technician at the Creative Industries at QUT Kelvin Grove and performs with his band, Flipside.
He has successfully produced CD recordings for Currency Press, The Lateral Music Company, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Eli Lilly, Phizer, Merino Wool, Queensland Saxophone and Clarinet Society, Brolga Music, Somerville House and Board of Senior Secondary School Studies.