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CHRIS RYAN
Hamlet GENEVIEVE PICOT
Gertrude JESSICA CLARKE
Ophelia
Chris Ryan is a double graduate
of the Victorian College of the
Arts in both Music (Voice) and
Acting. Chris’ theatre credits
include All My Sons, The Present
(Broadway), Cyrano De Bergerac,
Children of the Sun, Gross Und
Klein, Baal, and Concussion
for Sydney Theatre Company;
King Kong for Global Creatures;
Thyestes (as performer, co-writer
and two-time Green Room Award
Winner), Measure for Measure
and The Promise for Belvoir;
The Call for Griffin Theatre
Company; Meow Meow’s Little
Mermaid (local and Edinburgh
Tour), Little Match Girl (local and
London Tour), ‘Tis Pity She’s a
Whore, Thyestes and Elizabeth
for Malthouse Theatre; The
Hypocrite for Melbourne Theatre
Company; Hamlet and Othello
for Bell Shakespeare Company
and Platonov for The Hayloft
Project. Chris’ TV and film credits
include Rake, feature film The
Jammed and shorts Skeletons
and Numurkah. Chris also co-
wrote and performed in Andrew
Tonight!; and co-wrote/adapted
The Wild Duck (Belvoir), which
toured internationally in 2014. Genevieve Picot graduated from
NIDA in 1979 and has appeared
in extensive film, theatre and
TV roles. Genevieve’s theatre
credits include The Great Fire and
The Book of Everything (Belvoir
Theatre), Rock’N’Roll, Queen
Lear, The Aunt’s Story, The Rain
Dancers, Away, Miss Bosnia, My
Father’s Daughter, Summer of
the Seventeenth Doll, Arcadia,
A Flea in her Ear, The Sisters
Rosensweig, Summer of the
Aliens, On Top of the World, The
Respectable Wedding, The Rivers
of China, The Benefactors, Sons of
Cain, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Top Girls, Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?, The Changeling, As You
Like It, and Antigone (Melbourne
Theatre Company), Small Metal
Objects (Back to Back Theatre),
The Spook (Malthouse Theatre),
The Great Man (Sydney Theatre
Company), and The Temple
(Playbox Theatre). Since graduating from WAAPA
in 2011, Jessica Clarke has
appeared in various film, theatre
and TV productions. Jessica’s
TV credits include Offspring and
Sisters, both directed by Emma
Freeman, Glendyn Ivin’s The
Beautiful Lie, The Doctor Blake
Mysteries and Miss Fisher’s
Murder Mysteries. Theatre
credits include Thérèse Raquin
for Critical Stages/Dirty Pretty
Theatre, Rules For Living for
Red Stitch, Starchaser for Arena
Theatre Company, Waltzing
The Wilarra for Yirra Yaakin/
Perth Festival and Heaven for
La Mama. Jessica’s film credits
include Paul Currie’s 2:22, Sean
McNamara’s The King’s Daughter
and David Parker’s The Menkoff
Method. Jessica was nominated
as Best Newcomer and Best
Supporting Actress at the 2011
WA Equity Guild Awards for
Waltzing The Wilarra.