ACA GRADS IN FOCUS

Lisa Chappell  
Lisa Chappell (Graduate 2000)

TV -
Mcleod's Daughters Series 1 - 4, Stingers; City Life, Small Claims 3, Hercules.
Theatre - Design For Living, All My Sons (Auckland Theatre Company); Educating Rita (HIT Productions)
Film - Coffin Rock, Crossbow, Beneath the Tide
Awards - Best New Female Talent (Logies 2002); Silver Logie Winner 2004; Silver & Gold Logie Nominations 2003 & 2004.
     
Zachary Drayson  
Zachary Drayson (Graduate 2006)

TV - Rescue II (Channel 9 - Southern Star), Packed To The Rafters, All Saints, Always Greener, Home and Away (Channel 7)
     
Lexi Freiman  
Lexi Freiman (Graduate 2004)


Theatre - Pericles, Romeo and Juliet (Mainstage production for Bell Shakespeare)
As You Like It (National Tour for Bell Shakespeare)
Actors at Work (for Theatre in Education, Bell Shakespeare)
     
Kallista Kaval  
Kallista Kaval (Graduate 2007)


TV - The Cut, East West 101, Bed of Roses, Packed to the Rafters, All Saints
Theatre - Cymbeline (45 Downstairs, Melbourne)
Radio - The Lecturer (SBS)
     
Dale March  
Dale March (Graduate 2007)

TV -
All Saints (Channel 7)
Theatre - The Removalists
(STC); Eugene's Ghost, I Might Be Edgar Allen Poe (Actors' Ensemble, NYC); Our Country's Good (Darlinghurst Theatre); Cymberline (Fontanel & Larrikin)
     
Amy Mathews  
Amy Mathews (Graduate 2000)


TV - Home and Away; Blue Heelers Live; Love Bytes; Skool Sux; All Saints
Awards - 2007 Logie 'Most Popular New Female Talent'
     
Simone Mcaullay  
Simone Mcaullay (Graduate 2000)


TV - The Strip; Home and Away, Blue Heelers, Crash Palace
Theatre - October (Griffin Theatre); La Ronde (Belvoir St Theatre)
     
Jon Sivewright  
Jon Sivewright (Graduate 2004)


TV -
Sydney Weekender; Home and Away (ongoing lead role); All Saints
     
Georgina Symes  
Georgina Symes
(Graduate 2000)

TV - The Day of the Roses; Blue Heelers; Simone de Beauvoir's Babies
Theatre - The Alchemist (QTC/Bell Shakespeare); The Female of the Species, Ruby Moon, Beckett x 3, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lily Can't Sleep, Away (QTC)

alumni news

Following is a list of many of our full-time acting program graduates and a brief outline of their current employment within the industry as well as the initiatives they are creating.

ACA is proud to have been a part of these artists’ training and their artistic contribution. 


Jaclyn Albergoni

Jaclyn Albergoni (Graduate 2007)

TV - Home and Away; All Saints; Eternity Man
Theatre -  Carmen (Opera Australia)
Film - The Hunt


Dean Baker (Graduate 2007)

TV - Out of the Blue; McLeods Daughters 
Theatre - Cymbeline (Fontanel & Larrikin Ensemble Theatre);boy / girl, At Sea (Short and Sweet), 
Film -  Hobby Farm (Director: Brad Diebert) - winner of Best Drama Feature (International) at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (2008), Heron's Story (Director: Aaron J March) - winner of Paulo Coelho's 'Experimental Witch' project (2008).


 Emily Blatchford Emily Blatchford (Graduate 2008)

TV -
Packed to the Rafters
Theatre - The Return (Devil May Care Productions); To Kill A Mocking-Bird (Zenith Theatre)





Lisa Chappell (Graduate 2000)

TV -
Mcleod's Daughters Series 1 - 4, Stingers; City Life, Small Claims 3, Hercules.
Theatre - Design For Living, All My Sons (Auckland Theatre Company); Educating Rita (HIT Productions)
Film - Coffin Rock, Crossbow, Beneath the Tide
Awards - Best New Female Talent (Logies 2002); Silver Logie Winner 2004; Silver & Gold Logie Nominations 2003 & 2004.


Ritakahn Chen

Ritakahn Chen (Graduate 2008)

Theatre - The Spiral of Love (Old Fitzroy Theatre) 
Film - The Art of Giving (Tropfest)


Kaitlyn Cox 

Kaitlyn Cox (Graduate 2001)

TV -  The Cut, Fire Flies (ABC); Home and Away, Always Greener (Seven).
Theatre -  As Bees in Honey Drown (Darlinghurst Theatre)
Film - Feeling Amorous


Zachary Grayson 

Zachary Drayson (Graduate 2006)

TV - Rescue II (Channel 9 - Southern Star), Packed to the Rafters, All Saints, Always Greener, Home and Away (Channel Seven)


Lexi Freiman 

Lexi Freiman (Graduate 2004)

Theatre - Core member of Bell Shakespeare Company: Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It,


Marian Frizelle

Marian Frizelle (Graduate 2006)

TV - The Pacific (Producers Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks)
Theatre -  Steel Magnolias (Seymour Theatre)

Andrew Hazzard

Andrew Hazzard (Graduate 2008)

TV - All Saints (Seven Network)
Theatre - Disney's High School Musical Live On Stage! (Capitol Theatre, national tour)


Daniel Henshall

Daniel Henshall (Graduate 2006)

TV - All Saints (Guest - SNO 2007), Out of the Blue (Regular - Southern
Star/ BBC 2008)
Theatre - The Golden Ass (Bsharp 2006), The Popular Mechanicals (Parramatta
Riverside Theartres 2007), Poetry In Action Schools Tour (Shaman
Productions 2007), Bells Line (Old Ftzroy 2008)


Beccy Iland

Beccy Iland

TV -  Home and Away (Seven)
Theatre - Cocktails with Jimmy (Newtown Theatre); Newtons Crade (Old Fitzroy); 52 Pick-Up (Two Hour Traffic productions, Belvoir St theatre); A Mid Summer Nights Dream (Night Sky productions, Centennial Park); Little Hitler's Ode to an Austrian Bentwood (NIDA Parade Theatre)
Film - Firestorm (Impossible Pictures UK (Discovery Channel); Chasing Down the Dawn (Metro Screen);
Awards - Best Actress, Short & Sweet 2008


Hugh Jackman

TV - Halifax fp, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, Blue Heelers, Correlli.
Theatre - The Boy from Oz, Sunset Boulevard, Oklahoma, Carousel.
Film - X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(Director: Gavin Hood), Australia (Director: Baz Lurhman), Deception (Director: Marcel Langenegger), Happy Feet (Director: George Miller), The Prestige (Director: Chrisopher Nolan), Scoop (Director: Woody Allen), X-Men: The Last Stand (Director: Brett Ratner), X-2 (Director: Bryan Singer), Kate & Leopold (Director: James Mangold), X-Men (Director: Bryan Singer), Swordfish (Director: Dominic Sena), Erskineville Kings (Director: Alan White), Paperback Hero (Director: Anthony J Bowman). 
Awards -
 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program - 58th Annual Tony Awards Ceremonies, 2002 Golden Globe Award - Kate & Leopold, 1999 Australian Film Industry Award for Best Actor - Erskineville Kings, 1998 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical - Oklahoma!, 1997 Mo Award for Best Actor in a Musical - Beauty and the Beast. 


Soren Jensen

Soren Jensen

TV - Home and Away (Seven Network)
Theatre - A LIE OF THE MIND Papermoon Prod; Three Sisters (Free Rain); The Shape of Things - Director (Free Rain); Thom Pain (MTC); Angels in America Pts 1 & 2 (Papermoon Prod); Cosi,Noises Off, I'll Be Back Before Midnight, Arcadia, Don's Party (Canberra Rep); Hedda Gabler (Free Rain); Penalty Shot (Jigsaw Theatre Company)

Kallista Kaval

Kallista Kaval (Graduate 2007)

TV - Bed of Roses (ABC); All Saints (Seven Network);The Cut (ABC)
Theatre -  Citrus Paradisi (Io Myers theatre); Chekhov and Knipper (Newtown theatre); Cymbeline (Fontanel & Larrikin Ensemble Theatre @ 45 Downstairs, Melbourne)
Radio - Acts of Love (SBS Radio)

 


Caroline Kemp

Caroline Kemp (Graduate 2006)

TV - Underbelly 2 (Channel 9); The Cut (ABC); Home and Away (Seven)
Theatre -  The Peach Season (Phoenix Theatre); The Age of Consent (Australian Premiere, Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Old Fitzroy)


Dale March (Graduate 2007)

TV - All Saints (Channel 7)
Theatre - The Removalists (Sydney Theatre Company); I Could Be Edgar Allan Poe (one-man show, The Actors Ensemble, New York City); Cymbeline (Fontanel & Larrikin Ensemble Theatre @ 45 Downstairs, Melbourne)  


Anna Martin

Anna Martin (Graduate 2008)

TV -
All Saints (Seven Network); I Rock (ABC)
Theatre - Just Quietly... (The Sandpit/Lounge Cafe); Under Milk Wood (Free Association Productions); Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (Canute Productions); Catherine at Avignon (Subtlenuance/Tap Gallery); Lady Sings It Better (Black Cat Productions)


 Amy Mathews

Amy Mathews

TV -  Home and Away 'Dr. Rachel Armstrong' (Seven Network); Blue Heelers - Live (Southern Star); Love Bytes (Fox World Australia); Skool Sux (SBS Television); All Saints (Channel 7)
Awards - 2007 Logie 'Most Popular New Female Talent'.


   Sarah Mawbey 

Sarah Mawbey (Graduate 2007)

TV - Something with Numbers (Music Video): Deadly Women (Discovery Channel) Beyond Productions
Film - Vanguard (Vanguard Productions); The 7th Hunt (Coherent Productions)

 


 Brendan May

Brendan May (Graduate 2008)

Theatre - A Little Blue (Newtown Short and Sweet); Family Stories (Ride on Theatre - Griffin Stablemates)


Cameron Mayo

Cameron Mayo

Film - The Bastard Man of Root Fields (independent feature, USA) Co-lead actor, Director - Marco Chierechella



Simone Mcaullay

Simone Mcaullay (Graduate 2000)

TV - The Strip (Nine Network); Home and Away (Seven); Blue Heelers 'Susie Rayne' (Seven Network - 2003 to 2006). 
Theatre - October (Griffin Theatre Company); La Ronde (Belvoir Street)



Mcglynn


Ainslie Mcglynn (Graduate 2005)

TV - All Saints 'Angie Clayton' (Seven Network); Love My Way (Southern Star Endemol)
Theatre - We'll Always Love Wagga (Tinks Productions); Fire (Darlinghusrt Theatre); Carnal Knowledge (Newtown Theatre)


Lindsay Moss

Lindsay Moss

TV - All Saints (Network Seven)
Theatre - Blowing Whistles (Downstairs Belvoir St); Cosi (Newtown Theatre) 
Film - Mortal Fools with AFI award winning producer David Hannay. 
Initiatives - Started ‘StarTime Studios’ a performing arts school for kids and young people in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.


Locky Nolan

Locky Nolan (Graduate 2008)

TV - The Strip (Nine Network)

 


Sarah Owen

Sarah Owen

TV - Outrageous Fortune
(South Pacific Pictures); Go Girls (Series 1) (South Pacific Pictures); Diplomatic Immunity (South Pacific Pictures)
Theatre - Perils of the Deep, Sleeping Beauty, Three Little Pigs, Christmas Story (The Real Theatre Co);

 


India Patten

India Patten

TV - Beached Az
(ABC TV)
Film - These Days 'Marion' (Rumble Fish Productions); The Makeover with Martin Dingle-Wall; The Nothing Men


Helen Preston

Helen Preston (Graduate 2007)

TV - The Cut (ABC)


Andrew Rix

Andrew Rix (Graduate 2007)

TV - Home and Away
(Seven Network)
Commercial - Lemsip (Plaza Films);McDonalds (DDB);


Jon Sivewright

Jon Sivewright (Graduate 2004)

TV - Home and Away - 'Tony Holden' (Seven Network); Sydney Weekender (Channel 7); All Saints (Channel 7)



Sam Smith


Sam Smith

TV - The Abominable Flatmate (ABC); All Saints (Channel 7); First Australians (Blackfella Films); Home and Away (Channel 7); Hammer Bay (MTV Cherub Pictures) 
Theatre - Actors at Work (Bell Shakespeare); La La Land (Darlinghurst Theatre); Some Voices, 100 (Alchemy Theatre)

Luke Storrier

Luke Storrier (Graduate 2004)

TV -  MTV Music Awards (2007); Raggs Kids Club Band (Seven Network); Home & Away (Seven Network)
Theatre - Megan Mostyn Brown (Old Fitzroy Theatre)

Georgina Symes

Georgina Symes (Graduate 2000)

Theatre - The Alchemist (QTC/Bell Shakespeare); The Female of the Species, The Importance of Being Earnest, Away, Lilly Can’t Sleep, Ruby Moon (Queensland Theatre Company)


Denby Weller

Denby Weller (Graduate 2007)

TV - Crime Investigations Australia (Fox 8/Channel 9).
Theatre - Macbeth &  Richard III (Shakespeare by the Sea)
Film - Coffee
(Actor & Director - Roasted Films)


Rebecca Wood

Rebecca Wood (Graduate 2008)

Theatre - The Country Wife (New Theatre); Julius Casear (Cry Havoc at Studio 1 - The Wharf)