Originally a dancer and dance teacher, Lisa has played a wide range of amateur musical theatre and dramatic roles, with favourites being Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street and Pippa in Hotel Sorrento.

She also choreographed Little Shop of Horrors for Matt Byrne Media, and performed for three years at the Night Train Comedy Theatre Restaurant.

Lisa is delighted to be back in Adelaide once more after eight years interstate furthering her 'day' career, marrying her No. 1 rehearsal babysitter (thanks honey!) and having his two children.

Although Damien is new to theatre, he has already notched up a number of plays for Adelaide amateur companies:

Two Gentlemen of Verona for Mixed Salad Productions; Breezeblock Park for St Jude’s Players; and Cosi for Daw Park.

This is his first show with the Rep.

Tallora has been a mainstay for the Actad Theatre Group, appearing in Nobody's Perfect in 2001, then Caught in the Net in 2003. Will You Still Love Me In The Morning? followed and later Nobody's Fool.

Away from Actad she has appeared in two Fringe Festival shows: The Naked Truth in 2002 and Bimbo in 2007. This is her first appearance for the Rep.

Nicholas most recently appeared as Lance in Mixed Salad Productions’ The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Earlier that year he performed in What I Heard About Iraq for Fringe 2007 at Holden Street.

Prior to that, he was John Woodforde in Wire through the Heart, a dramatised documentary for the ABC and BBC Scotland.

Previous stage credits include Custome of the Countrey, The Heiress, Julius Caesar, The School for Scandal, Dad’s Army, The Tower, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, State Opera’s Ring Cycle, Hay Fever, Guilding the Lily, Amadeus and St. Kilda Tales.

Film and television include: Swing, La Musica Fantastica, Belzhik, You were a Robot, You had no Heart, Opal Dream, Trial by Wire, The Ubiquitous Chomsky, Black and White, McLeod’s Daughters, TVC’s and voiceovers.

He has written and directed eight short films, and is currently making his first short feature. On the board of the Adelaide Repertory Theatre, Nicholas will be assistant director for the Rep’s Inherit the Wind.

Melanie George has been "treading the boards" for over 20 years. From humble beginnings at Mayfair she has established herself as a performer and choreographer.

Plays for the Rep include Noises Off, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.

Other productions include Death of a Salesman, Stepping Out, Rookery Nook, Psycho Beach Party, Dinkum Bambino, Tom Jones, Showboat, The Boyfriend, West Side Story, Chicago, Mame, Mystery of the Hansom Cab, Nunsense, Irene, Me and My Girl, Something's Afoot, Hello Dolly, The Sentimental Bloke and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

As a choreographer, Mel has worked on La Cage Aux Folles, Biloxi Blues, Amadeus, The Good Companions, Cole, Something's Afoot, Once Upon a Mattress, The Lorenz Hart Story, High Society, a concert version of Guys and Dolls, Iolanthe and won Best Choreographer for Cabaret.

As an Assistant Director: Biloxi Blues, Amadeus, Boxer Shorts, Suburbia and A Little Night Music.

Maxine feels like the Arts Theatre has become her second home in the last twelve months. This will be her third show with Adelaide Rep and in that time has reprised her role of Cherry in Cosi, played a few characters in Ben Elton's Gasping and a minor role in Therry's The Happiest Days of Our Lives. Last year Maxine appeared as Jenny in Tony Moore's Rick for Spotlight Theatre.

Previously she has appeared in MBM's production of Steaming and with the Stirling Players many shows and characters too numerous to recall.

Maxine is a little worried as there seems to be a theme running through some of her work as a mental institution inmate, a mentally challenged adult and lovable Edna Louise who is not the brightest globe in the box, but she is "happy and important" to her large family so who could ask for much more than that?

Brian considers himself no stranger to Rep audiences and might, just may, be remembered for roles in Caught in the Net, Sylvia, It Runs in the Family, Barefoot in the Park and Cosi.

No prize for guessing any character he played in any of the afore-mentioned productions. He still recalls (perhaps with a little difficulty now) his 1988 appearance in the Rep's 80th Anniversary production of Lady Windermere's Fan as ... Lord Keith Michell.

He has also appeared for MBM (My Beautiful Moments) in David Williamson's Soulmates, and in Who's Afraid of Virginia's Wolf? for ... some other group. Yes, Virginia, your little friends are wrong! There is a Santa Claus!!

That was all a long, long time ago, when Brian was able to write his own CVs for theatre programs and could thus control what was written about him. He learns slowly!

After 20 years of performing in musical theatre, this is Michelle's first play. Her credits include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Gilbert & Sullivan Society), Emma in Jeckle and Hyde (Hills Musical Company), Rose in The Secret Garden (The George Street Company), and most recently Linda in Bloodbrothers (Hills Musical Company).

Michelle has appeared on television as presenter in a number of series, including The Music Shop, Here's The Beat and Living English. She was the most recent weather presenter on ABCTV News.

Michelle now enjoys treading the boards in between running around after two young children.

This is Bronwyn's third play with the Rep. Previously she appeared in Separate Tables and Seasons' Greetings.

Not only an actor, Bronwyn has also performed with Australian Dance Theatre in various Adelaide Festival and Come Out productions from 1978 to 1981. Film roles include Moustache which screened at film festivals worldwide.

Other Adelaide theatre companies where she has worked include Independent Theatre, St Jude's Players, The Met, Stirling Players, Burnside Players, Halifax Theatre, Actad, Spotlight, Noarlunga Theatre Company and Carnival Night Shakespeare.

Her favourite role so far has been Sarah/Jane in RedChilli/Blackwood Players' production of Speaking in Tongues.

This is not the first time that Allison has appeared in a Rep production. Patrons may remember her in The Heiress and Barefoot in the Park. For the Therry Society it was Lord Arthur Saville's Crime.

Breaking from the tried and true, the comfort zone of too many amateur companies, she joined the cast of the Adelaide Uni Theatre Guild's production last year of Experiment with an Air Pump. For St Jude's Players she was in Relatively Speaking and Steel Magnolias for the Stirling Players.