Cast
James Caitlin Ham Young James Young Caitlin, Madame Blanchard, Inner Caitlin Sir Ernest Shackleton, Inner James Amelia Earhart, Inner Caitlin Sir Robert Scott, Inner James
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. She 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, and Darragh Martin's An Air Balloon Across Antarctica and Everything is Invisible. She also appeared in the 2006 Short and Sweet Festival.
Claire recently returned from the UK where she had the privilege of playing Hecate in the European Premiere of David Mence's Macbeth Re-Arisen for the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival.
Sophie Lampel
Sophie graduated from Ballarat University in 1995. In 1999 she co-founded Essential Theatre and has performed in Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night as part of their Shakespeare in the Vines tour.
Other credits include Spring Session and Next for Short and Sweet 2006, Scuttlebut, Seeking Djira, Triple Acorn (awarded best performance skills Melbourne Fringe 1999), After the War, For All That Lives, Savage/Love and many more. Sophie has appeared in various television productions, short films, voice overs and music video clips.
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.
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 Green’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.
