Loaded Productions

CATHERINE CAMPBELL Performer	Catherine is an actor, singer and director. Regarded as one of Adelaide's best cabaret singers, Catherine studied cabaret at Yale drama school and has toured nationally and internationally with cabaret shows. She has performed in *The Mikado* (AFCT), *Northern Lights/Southern Cross* (Tutti/Interact SA), *Take Flight, Songs For A New World* and *Wild Party* (for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival). Catherine starred in and co-wrote Frank Ford's *My Blue Angel: Marlene Dietrich* and starred in Frank Ford's *Secret Love. Catherine is a founder of the cabaret show Gentlemen Prefer Curves* (Advertiser Critics Award for Excellence) and a creator of the cult show *Berlin Cabaret. Catherine works with Tutti Arts as a Director (Mouth Music, Blind Date*) and vocal coach. Catherine has been a proud member of the MEAA since 1997.
HEW PARHAM Performer	A graduate in 2001 of the Flinders Drama Centre, Hew is a core member of Adelaide's award winning *Berlin Cabaret Ensemble. He has also performed in the acclaimed one-man show The Idiot, the film Travelling Light* and a cabaret of Tom Waits songs called *My History of Obsession with Tom Waits. Hew has also performed in Significant Others* with Oddbodies Theatre Company, *Pounding Nails into the Floor with my Forehead* with Pounding Theatre Company which won 2004 Melbourne Fringe Festival Best Spoken Word Performance and *Boo!* with Windmill Performing Arts. Hew recently won the Neil Curnow Award, which he used to study at the Hunter Gates Academy of Physical Theatre in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada; and Bouffon and Clown with Karen Hines and John Turner on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. Hew was the drama co-ordinator of Tutti Arts.
SEAN WEATHERLY Performer/ Co-Producer	A graduate in 2002 of the Flinders Drama Centre, Sean's credits include The Second Hurricane at the 2000 Adelaide Telstra Festival and Symposium at the 2002 Shanghai Int. Arts Festival. He played Ted in Sondheim's *Saturday Night* with Magnormos at Chapel Off Chapel, the BMW Edge and at Hats Off in 2003. He is a master at persuading audiences to *Sing Your Own Musical* at the Melb Arts Festival in 2004 and the Adelaide Cabaret Festivals in 2006/07. Sean co-produced and performed in the Melbourne Premiere of *Tomfoolery* at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2004 and recently performed in the new musical *Shlobaglob* from the talents of Kate and Phillip Gould. He recently played Humpy at *Hunchbax Theatre Restaurant* in Melbourne has appeared on television in *Sensing Murder, The King, Neighbours, ABC’s Australian Story* and the upcoming Hanks/Spielberg mini-series *The Pacific*.
ADAM LUTLEY Performer/Pianist	Adam Lutley is heavily involved in the local jazz scene as a pianist and band leader. Adam collaborates with bass and drums to form *The Adam Lutley Trio*. The trio often accompanies Adelaide's finest singers and has performed at many venues and events across Adelaide, including The Barossa Jazz Festival, Glenelg Jazz Festival, Stamford Plaza and Hilton Adelaide. He has been resident at the Hilton Adelaide since 2001, as a solo pianist, vocal accompanist and band leader (Saturday evenings). He was one of six finalists in the 2001 Barossa Jazz Awards. His expertise is in tailoring music to different situations. With extensive experience in both jazz, Latin and pop music and associations with quality musicians, Adam regularly forms groups that will perform the best music for any given occasion.
MICHAEL FULLER Director/ Choreographer	Michael arrived from the U.K. in 1972 and has worked at *N.I.D.A.* as a movement/dance teacher and also as a Choreographer for *Sydney Theatre Company, A.T.Y.P.* and as an actor/choreographer for The Sydney Theatre of the Deaf. In 1977 he moved to Adelaide where he worked as a movement and dance lecturer at *Flinders University's Drama Centre* and as an actor and choreographer for *The State Theatre Company* and *Troupe Theatre. He has also choreographed for State Opera, S.A.Film Corp, Patch Theatre, Doppio Teatro* and *Vitalstatistix* to mention a few. Michael was also co-founder of Gestures and the S.A. Theatre of the Deaf. Michael directed the acclaimed production of *Falsettos* which won the Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Music Theatre in 2000. He also directed and choreographed the Melbourne Comedy Festival Production of *Tomfoolery* in 2004.
BOB WEATHERLY Lighting/ Sound Design	After teaching in the Arts, Bob has worked for Patch Theatre Company since 2003 as a Production Manager co-ordinating the technical aspects of their shows and stage managing. Overseas tours include Children’s Festivals in Singapore in 2003 & 2007, Minneapolis in 2004, Canada in 2006, and New York in April 2008 at the New Victory Theatre on 42nd Street. In Australia, he has stage managed seasons at the Sydney Opera House, Victorian Arts Centre, and the Adelaide Festival Centre. Patch won Drover Awards in 2004, 2005 & 2006 for their production values for national "Playing Australia" tours to over 40 venues. Bob returns to Loaded Productions to reprise his technical role in Tomfoolery from the Melbourne Comedy festival in 2004 at Chapel Off Chapel.
AMANDA ARMSTRONG Performer	Amanda Armstrong is a graduate of the John Bolton Theatre School (1996), has a BA in Drama from LaTrobe University (1990) and has completed a certificate from the Australian Music Examination Board as a Contemporary Vocalist. Amanda has a long standing relationship with the Lunchtime Theatre events dating back to 1995 and in 1999 she took over as Artistic Director. She was most recently seen in the independent film Twinkle Toes and the play Treading Water at La Mama Theatre. She has also performed with West Theatre, Lloyd Jones Performance Arts Ensemble, Polyglot Theatre and at St Martins Theatre. Her Festival work includes the Melbourne International Festival, Canberra Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Federation Festival and Diabetes Victoria. In 2001 she was nominated for Best Cabaret Act at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. This year Lunchtime Theatre has been nominated for a Green Room Award for Significant Contribution to Independent/Fringe Theatre.
PAUL REICHSTEIN Performer	Paul Reichstein graduated from Flinders Drama Centre with a BA (Honours) in Drama and English (2000). His stage credits include Dealers Choice with the State Theatre of SA, *The Rope Project* with BRINK Productions and The *Sign of the Seahorse* with Windmill Performing Arts. Last year he featured in Playbox Theatre Company's *Falling Petals* and has just returned from the Adelaide Fringe Festival working with *The Border Project, directed by Sam Haren. He is also one of the founding members of The Border Project. Paul's screen credits include guest appearances on both McLeod's Daughters* and *Blue Heelers*.
PETER HURLEY Performer/Pianist and Co-Producer	Peter Hurley performs regularly around Australia in many different guises - he has performed for the A.B.C., with the *State Orchestra of Victoria, as a classical musician with pianist Nehama Patkin, and with children’s entertainer Franciscus Henri. To Melbourne audiences he is a regular in the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Fringe Festival and Midsumma Festivals. His involvement with Cabaret goes back to such venues as Mietta's and the Athenaeum, and of course, far too many shows at Chapel off Chapel to mention though his most recent appearances include It’s all new, but nothing’s changed* with Nehama Petkin, Naughty Little Showtunes, *There are Bears in There* and *A Snatch of Ms. Penelope* at Chapel Off Chapel and *Mad Dogs and Finlayson* at Caper's - "Witty and original" – Melbourne Age.