The Cast and Others of It's Not You
MEET
THE FERKSTERS
The
Cast and Others of It's Not You
Iain Triffitt, Malcolm Frawley, Jean Dixon, Brett Danalake,
Darren Hawkins, Timothy Mitchell, Phillippa Iemma, Tiffany Curlew, Paige Rodgers
People ferking with us -
MALCOLM FRAWLEY is Ferknerkle's “autistic dictator”.
Originally training as an actor at the Independent Theatre School Malcolm has mainly worked as a writer, director and teacher in theatre, television and film. His plays have been staged all around the country and his AWGIE-nominated theatre-in-education play One Of The Girls was published in 1995.
Malcolm worked in serial television for several years writing (and script editing) Neighbours and E Street. He later moved into screen writing and has enjoyed several options on his screenplay as well as commissions to write other projects. Unfortunately, none of these works has so far hit the big screen.
Malcolm wrote and directed three short films in 2005 – Stay Awhile, Therapy and Whatever It Takes. This year he completed a feature film screenplay First Lady with acclaimed novelist Alan Gold whose latest book has just been published in the USA.
He recently directed Australian Faust, part of the Actors Anonymous ‘Journey Into Sin’ project.
Returning to acting in the late 20th century he appeared as Bluey In Out There for ABC TV; Mack in the feature film Sum Of Existence; Dr Young in the feature film Bitter And Twisted (which he also script-edited); Sanders in the feature film Rollover; Reubens in the short film Reubens; Man In Charge in the short film Product and Father Jenkins in the short film Rose. He recently completed filming the role of Knife, the serial killer, in the low budget feature The Hunt.
Malcolm has taught screen acting, impro, scriptwork, characterization and the audition process at N.I.D.A., University Of Western Sydney (Theatre Nepean), The Actors College of Theatre and Television, Screenwise, The Sydney Theatre School (where he directed The Caged Birds), The Actors Lounge, The Screen Actors Workshop, ADASA, Gala Studios and Keane Kids Studios (where he has a long association teaching teens) He has directed six productions for Darlo Drama including Lovepuke, A Man With Five Children and Nothing Like Old Times.
For Ferknerkle Malcolm has written and directed Simon Says, It's My Party, Only Forever, Tumbling Dice, Father’s Day, Nothing Like Old Times, Famous Last Words, Falling Pianos, Allergies, No Secrets, Visiting, Sniper, Meant To Be, Hot For Frida, Previously On, A Single Selfish Act and the short films Loser Takes All, Perfect Match, Breakfast in Bed and See of Love. He wrote and acted in Benchmark, Right Place - Wrong Time, Feathers and A Delicate Egg; acted in Before The Show, King Of The Castle, A Change In The Wind, Crossed Lines, The Entree Was Death and the short films Head Of The Class and Poppy; and directed Do No Harm, Caught In The Web.Com, Coffee With Marilyn, The Wolf In The Sunlight, You Are Here, The Siege of Cafe Glebe, Bad Blood, Remember This, Gone Bush and Play Removed Due to Legal Advice.
MAX BROWN attended the Darlo Drama Fundamentals Of Acting course from 2004 to 2005 working with tutors who included Maurie Barlin, Craig Illott and Melanie de Ferranti. In 2005 he studied at both NIDA’s open programme (tutor : Sam Worthington) and the Actor’s Centre Power Of Acting course (with Brett Booth). In 2005 he was short-listed for admission into NIDA’s full-time programme. In 2006 he continued at the Actor’s Centre with “The Journey’. From 2001 to 2003 Max was a presenter for ABC TV’s Youth Program FLY TV on both Digital (2001 onwards) and free to air (2002-03). (Series Producer : Bruce Kane.) His Darlo Drama stage roles include Cheshire Cat, Seven of Spades and Knave of Hearts in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (Director : Melanie de Ferranti) and Roger Chan in ‘A Man With Five Children’ (Director : Malcom Frawley). Max will make his FERKING debut in our 2007 Short & Sweet entry The Entrée Was death (Director : Brett Danalake) and will follow this up later in the year with the play Sniper (Director : Malcolm Frawley) and short film Love Your Work (Director : Chris Panagis).
Brett has also acted in the short films 'Buggered', 'God-mode', played the Panti-hose Client' in 'Upskirt' and Dino the Florist in 'Not for the Money'. He also wrote, co-directed and acted in the short film 'Room-mates' and directed episode one of the 2006 FBi Live Radio Plays 'Sydney Plantagenet's Physedelic Quest' at the Opera House.
With Iain Triffitt, Brett has co-written the Ferknerkle plays 'Crossed Lines', 'It's Not You', 'Remember This', 'The Entree Was Death' and 'Gone Bush', the radio plays 'With This Ring I Thee Dead' and 'Sit On My Facets' which were broadcast live from the Sydney Opera House on FBi Radio in 2004 & 2005, the non-Ferknerkle Short & Sweet plays 'Relics', 'Faithless' and 'The Old Crowd'. They also wrote, and Brett directed, the Clover Moore monologue featuring Sheree da Costa for the Cracker Comedy Festival show 'Party Political'. 'Relics', their 2005 Short and Sweet play directed by Alex Galleazzi, was restaged at the Sydney Opera House in 2006 as part of the best of Short and Sweet season, which toured to Singapore and then regional Australian locations in 2008 and was also directed by Jasper Baggs for the 2006 Melbourne season of Short & Sweet.
For Ferknerkle, Brett has been an actor (Right Place, Wrong Time, Benchmark, Famous Last Words, Siege of Cafe Glebe, Previously On), writer (A Change In The Wind, Remember This, Gone Bush and Play Removed Due to Legal Advice), director (Feathers) writer/actor (Caught In The Web.Com, You Are Here, Hot For Frida and the short film No Accounting), writer/director (Because She Can, Before The Show, Sci Fi Fo Fum, Invasion From A Planet With No Special Effects, King Of The Castle, Speaking of Nothing, Crossed Lines, It's Not You and The Entree Was Death) and writer/actor/director (All The Wrong Places). He is currently working on more radio projects, short films, plays and this website.
Is there no end to this man's talents? Yes. And if you don't believe me, check out the online journal.
CHRIS GALLETTI has enjoyed roles in many film and television productions (e.g. 'Water Rats', 'All Saints','Home and Away'). He is a regular with Shakespeare By The Sea appearing in 'The Merchant of Venice', 'Merry Wives Of Windsor', 'As You Like It', 'A Winter's Tale', Julius Caesar' and 'Much Ado About Nothing'. In 2006 he also appeared in the ABC Four Corners AWB reconstruction and a Railcorp training video. He has appeared for us in 'Right Place, Wrong Time' (1998 production), 'Benchmark', 'Only Forever', 'Caught In The Web.Com', 'The Wolf In The Sunlight', 'Falling Pianos', 'Allergies', 'Visiting' and the short films 'Poppy' and 'Therapy'.
PHILLIPPA IEMMA has trained as an actor, singer & dancer since the age of 8. She completed NIDA’s music theatre programme in 2000 and has completed a wide range of other courses at Prototype Casting, TV Promotions and the Actors College of Television & Theatre. Pip’s credits include a variety of stage productions, numerous short films, commercials and a children’s television pilot. She has also performed at RSL Clubs and in Variety Shows. Pip debuted for FERKNERKLE in the play Invasion From A Planet With No Special Effects and followed up with Famous Last Words, Previously On, It's Not You, Remember This and Gone Bush. Her short FERKING films include See of Love (which she also produced), No Accounting and Poppy. Pip has taught both acting and dance at Keane Kids Studios and Action Acting and she also runs her own business entertaining children as a Fairy and various other characters at birthday parties and corporate events. Visit her website at www.fairyfun.com.au
KEN JAMES has been a Ferkster from the beginning but made his theatrical debut as the Lecturer in Invasion From A Planet With No Special Effects then played the Judge in Previously On' and the electrician, Doug, in the short film No Accounting. He is a film-maker who has directed the short film ‘Beautiful’ and written and directed the short films ‘Dead Rite’ and, for Ferknerkle, Poppy. He is currently writing a feature film screenplay ‘The Angel Who Pulled The Trigger’.
PAIGE RODGERS is a Ferking founding member, and 1994 Gala Studios graduate, who appeared in our first three plays ‘Simon Says’, ‘Right Place, Wrong Time’ and ‘It’s My Party’ before heading overseas for two years. Since returning she has been featured in 'Sniper', 'Ferking About', 'Meant To Be', 'Hot For Frida', 'Famous Last Words', 'It's Not You', 'The Entree Was Death' and the short film 'Poppy'. Paige teaches at Gala and Keane Kids Studios, Elena De5 Performing Arts Academy and Kids Casting Agency.
OLIVIA SOLOMONS began her training, as a young teenager, at the Australian Theatre for Young People. At the same time she was twice selected for the Met North Drama Ensemble, performing in its productions of Spectrum and The Fourth Wall Fiasco. In 1998 she continued her training at Keane Kids Studios joining Malcolm Frawley’s Teen Master class where she workshopped, and then performed in, Malcolm’s play No Mere Formality. In 1999 she was invited to gain some professional experience operating lighting and sound for several Ferknerkle plays and in 2000 she appeared in her first Ferking production Famous Last Words. In 2001 she joined our impro group. Olivia’s other Ferknerkle productions are Invasion From A Planet With No Special Effects (2001), King of the Castle (2003), Crossed Lines (2005), Ferknerkle’s 2006 Short And Sweet Festival entry Remember This, our 2007 entry The Entree Was Death and our 2007 play Sniper. In 2003 she resumed her training at Screenwise, working with tutors who included Kate Woods, Michael Carson, Denise Roberts and Tina Bursill. On screen, Olivia has been featured in J. D. Cohen’s feature film Sum Of Existence (2003) and has played lead roles in the short films Packing (2004, director Kyung Clulee), Control (2004, director J. D. Cohen – finalist in Ohio’s Frankly Film Festival), Wrong Answer (2005, director J. D. Cohen - winner of Ohio’s Frankly Film Festival) and the Ferknerkle films See of Love (2004),No Accounting (2004) and Whatever It Takes (2005). She also produced, for Ferknerkle, the short films Stay Awhile and Therapy (both 2005). Also, in 2005, she played the guest role of Tammy on Channel 7’s Headland.
JACQUELINE DELMEGE has appeared for us in ‘Because She Can’, 'Visiting', 'Sniper', 'Hot For Frida', 'Ferking About', Speaking of Nothing', 'Previously On' and was co-lead in the short film 'Breakfast in Bed'. She studied drama/acting at various and assorted establishments finding herself at N.I.D.A. Upon graduating in 1999 she has continued to study and refine her craft and hopes to, one day, get it right. She has worked on the mini-series ‘Horace And Tina’, the ABC comedy 'Corridors of Power' and, for the Ensemble, 'Lovers At Versailles' at the Sydney Opera House.
LAMONT DuMERDE has an amazingly long string of plays to his credit. Beginning with the comedy 'Whoops! That's My G-String' he found his style quickly and followed with the musical 'Pokers and Upskirts and Flashers and Minge', the kitchen sink drama 'Bend Over the Table' and, specially written for Ferknerkle, the audience participation women's prison drama 'Wash Day in Cell Block D'
PREVIOUSLY FERKING WITH US (1998 - 2005)
