Cast
James Caitlin Ham Young James Young Caitlin, Madame Blanchard, Inner Caitlin Amelia Earhart, Inner Caitlin (Cast 2) Sir Ernest Shackleton, Inner James Amelia Earhart, Inner Caitlin (Cast 1), Ham (Cast 2) Sir Robert Scott, Inner James Crew
Writer Director Stage Manager Designer Composer (The following bios are available for download in our press section.)
Cast Bios
Paul David-Goddard
Originally from Perth, Paul David-Goddard has a BA in Theatre from Curtin University, where he performed in over twenty shows. His Theatre credits in Perth include The Bald Prima Donna, Cracked, Shadow of the Serial Killer, Oblique, Degree Absolute, 15 Minutes of Fame and Across Hellfire at the Blue Room Theatre. Paul has also performed in numerous shows for Barking Gecko Theatre Company including Hidden Dragons for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2004 Equity Guild Awards and has had return seasons at the Vancouver International Children’s Festival, the Melbourne Arts Centre and the Opera House. He has previously been to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2001 performing Welcome to Paradise which he also co-wrote, and which also toured South Australia with Mainstreet Theatre Company in 2005.
Claire Glenn
Claire Glenn began her acting career in New Zealand where she studied drama at the University of Otago, graduating in 2000. Her versatility as an actor was seen in such performances as Miranda in Shakespeare's The Tempest, Meg in Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, Jo in Low Level Panic by Claire McIntyre and Mother Superior in The Sound of Music. In 1997, Claire was one of the founding members of “Amiable Productions” and worked with this company for the next four years on devised pieces such as Christmas Presence and Four Sisters, as well as playing the title role in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Mother in Ring Round the Moon. She also appeared in film and television commercials.
Now based in Melbourne, Claire has worked with St Martins Youth Arts Centre, performed in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, Darragh Martin's An Air Balloon Across Antarctica and Everything is Invisible, and also played Hecate in the European Premiere of David Mence's Macbeth Re-Arisen for the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Sophie Lampel
Sophie graduated from Ballarat University in 1995 and works as an actor, singer, writer and producer. In 1999, she co-founded Essential Theatre and her main focus is the development of Shakespeare in the Vines, their annual tour of Shakespeare’s much loved works to wineries across Australia. For Essential Theatre she has played the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Hero and Verges in Much Ado About Nothing, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Feste in Twelfth Night as part of their Shakespeare in the Vines tour.
Other credits include Spring Session and Next for Short and Sweet 2006, Seeking Djira at 45 Downstairs, Triple Acorn (written and performed by herself and two friends at Trades Hall and awarded best performance skills at Melbourne Fringe 1999), After the War at the Mechanics Institute, For All That Lives at La Mama, Savage/Love at the George Gallery, Scuttlebut at Fad Gallery, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at Her Majesty’s Theatre and many more. Sophie has appeared in Blue Heelers, can be heard on a number of voiceovers for radio and television and can also be seen in music video clips for Kasey Chambers and Sympathy7.
Nicolette Minster
Nicolette is a 2004 Acting graduate of the University of Ballarat Arts Academy (formerly BAPA). Since graduating, Nicolette has extended her performance training abroad in New York and currently studies voice with Kristin Keam at home in Melbourne.
In 2005, Nicolette founded theatre company Phrankly Theatre, which aims to develop mentor relationships between arts practitioners and new graduates. Phrankly's first venture, The Auxiliary, was created as part of the 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival and was followed soon after by a highly anticipated 2006 revival season of Alex Buzo's Rooted at Trades Hall.
Nicolette works regularly as a radio voice over artist and has appeared in Neighbours and Lift Off. Performance highlights include Oolie/Donna in City of Angels (Just Pretending at 45 Downstairs), Carol in A Bunch of Ratbags (Magnormos), The Stepdaughter in Six Characters (Arts Academy), The World Goes Round (RedRoom Theatre) and Louise in Off the Canvas (RAV Arts2Go/Complete Works Theatre Co). Nicolette recently appeared as Elsa in the Australian Professional Premiere of Kander & Ebb's Flora the Red Menace at Theatreworks, and as Sharon in the award winning production of UnAustralian as part of Short & Sweet Melbourne 2007.
Daniel Madrigali
Daniel is an experienced and versatile actor. He has performed in a critically acclaimed season of Sarah Kane’s Crave as A, played Leonardo in Fredrico Garcia Lorca’s Bodas De Sangre (Blood Wedding) and played Benedick in Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing. Recent work includes playing Ross in a season of Macbeth, a showing of The Merry Wives Of Windsor in the snow at Mount Buller as Master Page and playing a philosophical lobster called Glubb in a Melbourne Short & Sweet Top 30 show.
An Air Balloon Across Antarctica is Daniel’s first Adelaide Fringe Festival experience, having already performed in most major fringe festivals around Australia, including Perth Fringe, Artrage and Melbourne Fringe Festivals. Rounding out his experience, other credits include musicals, children’s theatre and installations, as well as short-film and television work. He has a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Theatre and Drama Studies and Media Studies and has completed year-long professional actor training with Melbourne’s Verve Studios. Daniel is a financial member of Equity.
Karen Roberts
Graduate: West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Acting) 2002. Curtin University, BA Social Sciences, Double Major Anthropology and Theatre Arts 1994. International training Pan Theatre Paris, Tage Larsen of Odin Teatret Utrect, Holland
Theatre: 2006 Studies in Being Human Dance House Directed by Bagryana Popov, Crestfall by Mark O’Rowe Redstitch Actors Theatre Directed by Ross Ganff, 2005 Skin Tight Directed by Alan Beecher, return season and national tour Perth Theatre Company. 2004 Skin Tight WA regional tour Perth Theatre Company. 2003 ‘Jane’ Merry-go-round in the Sea Directed by Andrew Ross Black Swan Theatre Company, ‘Elizabeth’ Skin Tight Perth Theatre Company, So... Do You Come Hear Often, Shott Dance Theatre Choreographed by Shannon Bott Perth International Arts Festival, 1999 Descansos Descansos Dance Theatre directed by Sylvia Leehmann, The Fantastical Adventures of Leonardo da Vinci Kaos Physical Theatre Company for Perth International Arts Festival.
Radio: Plays for ABC Radio Drama, 2005 Meet the Candidates, Embryonics. 2004 An Inquest into the disappearance of a sensible woman. 2003 Covert
TV: 2007 ‘Kristine” Satisfaction Showtime Channel, Bed of Roses ABC Television,2005 ‘Ethel Florey’ The Magic Bullet SBS Television. 2004 ‘Alia’ Last Man Standing.
Kristian Sartori
Kristian first started acting at St. Martins Youth Theatre in Sth Yarra playing Ben in Ross Mueller’s Colosseum. He then performed several other shows with St Martins before moving to Western Australia and performing Little Voice with Melville Theatre Company. He returned to Melbourne performing with RMIT and in several short films with the VCA. He moved to London to perform with Chelsea Players at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006. He directed a Chelsea Players production of They Won’t Kill You at Baron’s Court Theatre. He acted in two productions with EKProductions in London performing at the Gielgud theatre at RADA. He played ‘Young James’ in An Air Balloon Across Antarctica during the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Three to a Room, only to take on the role of Ernest Shackleton at the Adelaide Fringe Festival this year.
Charlotte Strantzen
Since graduating from Rusden with a Bachelor of Arts (Drama/Performance Studies major) in 1997, Charlotte has been in high demand as an actor, dancer and presenter, and has enjoyed the variety of working both onstage and behind-the-scenes in technical areas.
Charlotte has previously collaborated with playwright Darragh Martin on both An Air Balloon Across Antarctica (2004) and Everything is Invisible (2005), and was Production Manager on the critically acclaimed 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit, Macbeth Re-Arisen. Other career highlights include two years touring with the Flying Bookworm Theatre Company; a season in Apollo Bay playing Olivia in Green Cyc's Twelfth Night; three summers playing Mole in Glenn Elston's Wind in the Willows in the Royal Botanic Gardens; and 5 months on the road with comedian Ross Noble as part of his Australian/New Zealand Randomist tour.
Mark Wilson
In 2007, Mark completed his Honours degree at the Monash University Academy of Performing Arts, which saw him perform under the Artistic Direction of Peter Oyston in Hamlet, The Crucible, Three Sisters, The Bacchae (as Dionysus) and Our Country’s Good (as Sideway, directed by Kate Cherry). For his undergraduate degree he performed in Mad Forest, Elektra and Tales from the Vienna Woods; he also performed the self-devised work Rachel’s Performance, a reaction to the work of Rachel Rosenthal.
During his degree, Mark was heavily involved in Monash University Student Theatre, including performing in Declan Greene’s Laugh Out Loud, directed by Yvonne Virsik. For the Monash Shakespeare Society he directed Antony and Cleopatra and The Merchant of Venice. In 2006, he co-devised and co-directed Violent Delights, an exploration of violence in the works of Shakespeare which performed at Montsalvat and Melbourne’s Old City Watch House.
Mark has stage managed Theatre@Risk’s rehearsed reading of Three Dog Night and Look Twice’s Beta Life at 45downstairs, and recently directed the short film Joshua.
Crew Bios
Darragh Martin
An Air Balloon Across Antarctica is the first in a series of five plays that Darragh is writing about the elements. The second, Everything is Invisible (water) premiered at the Melbourne Fringe in 2005 and he is currently writing the third, The Last Brontosaurus (earth). Other writing credits include The Disappearance of Jonah, The Storm and two short films, Francium and Mirth and The Emptys, which was shortlisted for Tropfest 2006. His most recent directing project was a bare words and dirt adaptation of Macbeth which played at Chashama Theatre in New York in March 2007.
Darragh graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with a BA in English and Drama and is currently pursuing a Theatre PHD at Columbia University on a Fulbright scholarship.
Yvonne Virsik
Yvonne is currently the Artistic Director of Monash University Student Theatre. For M.U.S.T. she has directed pieces including Slow Falling Bird (2003 National Playwrights' Competition Winner) by Christine Evans, Declan Greene's BOG which premiered at M.U.S.T. and was then remounted off campus at Theatreworks, and Laugh Out Loud (2005 National Playwrights' Competition Winner) also by Declan Greene and has facilitated the creation of dozens of theatre works.
In the last few years, she has also worked with Theatre @ Risk, directing a rehearsed reading of ID by Antony Sher, with Theatre in Decay on All of Which are American Dreams, and directed Treading Water for La Mama. Last year, Yvonne directed Chris Hodson's Spring Session for The Short and Sweet Festival at the Victorian Arts Centre, which was chosen for the gala final and subsequently won several prizes. She is a graduate of Directing at the VCA where she was awarded the Yvonne Taylor Scholarship.
Ellen Gales
Ellen has been involved in the technical side of theatre since 2002, taking on a number of roles in theatre, fashion shows and variety performances. Her stage management credits include the 2005 Amnesty International Standup For Your Rights Gala, and both the Australian and European premieres of White Whale Theatre’s Macbeth Re-Arisen (Melbourne, 2004, and Edinburgh, 2006). She also received the 2004 University of Melbourne’s Union House Theatre Technical Award for stage management.
Sayraphim Lothian
Sayraphim Lothian is an art mercenary who has worked in theatre, film and television in a wide range of jobs including set design and construction, props, puppet design and construction, costuming, graphic design, web design, research and general art department.
Highlights include being the designer for The International Puppet Carnival at Federation Square, working on Spike Jonze's upcoming film Where The Wild Things Are, building monster puppets for the Pixar exhibition at ACMI and doing a 5 year stint as a Lieutenant with the award winning Melbourne theatre company theatre in decay. On the side, Sayraphim is an artist who works in the media of photography, digital imagery, sculpture and found objects and she's currently knitting her way through as many monsters as she can think of. Her website is www.sayraphimlothian.com
Christopher Elliott
Christopher Elliott was born in New Zealand and began playing music at an early age. He is a classically trained percussionist and has played in orchestral, jazz, and rock groups. He has taught drumming both professionally and privately. Since settling in Melbourne in 2004, he has undertaken a range of projects as a composer for plays and short films. He recently completed a Diploma in Audio Engineering in SAE Institute and is playing and working on a number of musical projects.
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