Greg Fleet Performer
Greg Fleet is an award-winning actor, comedian, playwright and author.
Born in Michigan, USA, his family moved to Victoria when he was aged four. He studied at Geelong Grammar School for twelve years and then attended NIDA for a year before being expelled. His acting career began opposite Nicole Kidman in 1984 and he went on to star in, amongst other things, Prisoner, Underbelly: Squizzy, Neighbours and the series Wolf Creek, as well as treading the boards in Twelfth Night for the Melbourne Theatre Company. More
Developing a stand-up career that saw him acclaimed all over the world, Greg’s comedy across TV, film, radio and theatre, and the honesty with which he speaks about his long-term drug addiction, have made him one of the most respected, beloved and in-debt stand-up comics around. Greg Fleet’s hilarious and harrowing memoir, These Things Happen, was published in 2015 and his first novel The Good Son in 2018. He is currently writing the screen adaptation of The Good Son.
His plays, This Is Not A Love Song and Signifying Nothing, both received numerous Best Theatre and Critics Choice awards across Australia.
Ian Darling Performer
Ian Darling is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, who returns to the stage for the first time in 40 years. His Director credits include The Final Quarter, Paul Kelly — Stories of Me, In the Company of Actors, The Oasis, Suzy & the Simple Man, Alone Across Australia, Woodstock for Capitalists and Polly and Me. He is an Executive Producer of Allen vs. Farrow, Paper and Glue, On The Record, 2040, The Fourth Estate, The Bleeding Edge, Unrest, Inventing Tomorrow and How to Change the World. More
He received the Byron Kennedy Award at the 2018 AACTA Awards, won the AFI/AACTA Award for Best Direction in a Documentary, has twice been a Walkley Awards Finalist and a winner of two Film Critics Circle Awards. His photographs have been finalists in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, the Sydney Life Photography Prize, and the Head On Portrait Prize.
Ian is Executive Director of Shark Island Institute, Founder of voxdocs, Good Pitch Australia, Documentary Australia Foundation, and Patron of the ARTSLAB, Kangaroo Valley. He has been Chair of The Caledonia Foundation since 2001, was a former Chair of the Sydney Theatre Company and the STC Foundation, a Director of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and was a member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board.
Sarah Butler Director
Sarah Butler is an actor, director, designer, teacher and writer. She has worked as an actor (most recently in new Australian film The Flood), and as a director and designer in Sydney and regional NSW. She has written, devised and adapted stories for theatre including: Biding Time; Island (an adaption of Shakespeare’s Tempest) and Tales from Outer Suburbia. More
Her one-woman play Safety Nets will premiere in 2022. Sarah is founder and Artistic Director of The ARTSLAB Kangaroo Valley and Manager of Shark Island Institute Kangaroo Valley. She has a BA and MEd in Theatre and Creative Arts Education.
Terry Serio Director
Terry Serio is one of Australia’s most accomplished and versatile performers. His film roles include Running on Empty, He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, Dirty Deeds, Unsound, 33 Postcards and will appear in the soon-to-be-released feature, The Half Dead (aka Shadow Wars). More
His television appearances include Shout! The Story of Johnny O’Keefe (playing Johnny — AFI/AACTA nomination for best actor), Police Rescue, Blue Heelers, Water Rats Wildside, Stingers, Blackjack, Stupid Stupid Man, Janet King, Rake, Underbelly Badness, A Model Daughter, The Secret Daughter and Reckoning. Terry’s theatre credits include Keating! (2007 Helpmann Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical). Rasputin, Hair, The Threepenny Opera, Blasted, 4.48 Psychosis, Summer Rain, Concussion, Under Ice, Way To Heaven, Machinal, The Winter’s Tale, Of Mice And Men (and Composer) and A Riff On Keef. Terry is also an accomplished musician singer/songwriter/composer and radio presenter and has been published in ‘Musicians and Addiction’ and ‘Smashed’.
Mary Macrae Producer
Mary Macrae is Producer and Production Manager at Shark Island Institute. Mary produced the films The Final Quarter, Life After the Oasis, Suzy & The Simple Man, Paul Kelly — Stories Of Me, and was line producer and production assistant for The Oasis and In The Company Of Actors and production manager for the short films Polly And Me and Wall Boy. More
Mary is currently producing feature documentary The Department. Prior to working at Shark Island Productions Mary had a career as a production stage manager in theatre and dance for companies including Sydney Theatre Company, Company B Belvoir Street Theatre, Force Majeure and Griffin Theatre Company including My Zinc Bed, Waiting For Godot, A Cheery Soul, Same Same But Different, Already Elsewhere, the Australian premiere production and U.K./U.S.A tour of Cloudstreet and the Sydney and New York production of Hedda Gabler. The Twins will be her return to stage work.
