ALEXIS FISHMAN

NANCYE HAYES

is one of Australia’s favourite theatrical actresses. She is an accomplished actor, dancer, singer, choreographer and director. She began her career with J.C. Williamson Theatres Ltd as a chorus member in My Fair Lady. She went on to star in many major musical productions including Sweet Charity, Chicago, Sweeney Todd, Guys & Dolls and 42nd Street. Most recently Nancye performed in the musical Half Time (Nineteen 98 Productions) at The Hayes, Ripcord for State Theatre of South Australia and her one woman show Hayes at The Hayes for which she received best cabaret performance by The Sydney Theatre Awards. Other credits etc. Other credits include Minnie and Laraz (Melbourne Theatre Co), Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks with Todd McKenney for the Ensemble Theatre, Follies in Concert (Story Board Entertainment) , Sondheim on Sondheim (Manilla Street Productions), as Ruth in Pirates of Penzance (Harvest Rain), as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (State Theatre Company SA), in Beyond Desire (Neil Rutherford Productions/Hayes Theatre Co), as Miss Hannigan in the Australian Tour of Annie (The Gordon Frost Organisation), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Jerry’s Girls (The Production Company), Grey Gardens, Follies, Oklahoma, Music Man, Funny Girl, Brigadoon (The Production Co.), Murderers (Ensemble), A Little Night Music, My Fair Lady (Opera Australia), and Sunday in the Park with George (Victorian Opera). Nancye Hayes has made a significant contribution as a theatre director. Her credits include The Boy from Oz, Sweet Charity, Gypsy (The Production Co.), Crazy for You and The World Goes Round (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts), Australia’s Leading Ladies Concert (Brisbane Festival), The Wizard of Oz (GFO/SEL/Macks Entertainment) and Noel & Gertie (Christine Dunstan Productions). Nancye has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Green Room Awards, The Sydney Theatre Awards and The Helpmann Awards. Nancye was honoured with The Order of Australia Award with an OAM in 1981 and an AM in 2014.

JASON LANGLEY

is an award-winning director with thirty-two years’ theatre experience variously as a director, actor, dramaturg, mentor and performance coach. Pre-covid, Jason directed The Boy From Oz at Melbourne’s State Theatre for The Production Company, an Australian tour of Bosom Buddies starring Nancye Hayes and Todd McKenney, the play Honest and the Sydney Theatre Award winning production of Hayes At The Hayes. In recent years Jason has directed: Brigadoon for The Production Company (Green Room Award nomination), Dusty at the Playhouse Theatre - Melbourne and Adelaide Festival Theatre, Bernstein’s Wonderful Town at the Sydney Opera House, Loving Repeating – for which he received a Green Room Award, the play Here Lies Henry in London, four new Australian works (Between Worlds, Almost Home, Say Hello First and Playing Rock Hudson), the World premiere and National tour of Breast Wishes, the plays As You Like It and Mr Burns - A Post-Electric Play, Elegies at The Sydney Theatre, Flora The Red Menace, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Hello Girls  for VCA, Yesterday an Incident Occurred, The Skriker, The Rimers Of Eldritch and Chekhov In Hell for AIM Dramatic Arts and for WAAPA; Carousel, 42^nd Street, Legally Blonde, Merrily We Roll Along, Batboy, Once On This Island, A Chorus Line, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying and Noel Coward’s Easy Virtue.   He is a regular guest lecturer and director at the esteemed actor training institutions around Australia and is performance coach for many Australian celebrities and reality TV stars.   Jason’s most recent acting credits include Mothers and Sons (Ensemble Theatre), Under Ice (Griffin Theatre Co), Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk (Belvoir) and No Way to Treat a Lady (Darlinghurst Theatre Co). He also played Brave Sir Robin in the Australian premiere of Monty Python’s Spamalot at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne.

NATALIE MOSCO

Originally from New York, Australian-American Natalie made her Broadway debut in the original Broadway cast of Hair.  With her dance background (Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty) producers tapped her early on to choreograph Hair in Toronto, Boston, Paris (playing Jeanie there in French), and finally Melbourne’s premiere season.  Natalie liked Australia; Australia liked Natalie, and roles ensued (Musicals: Rizzo in Grease, Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Mona in Dames At Sea, Magenta in Rocky Horror, and the original quartet in Gershwin; Plays: Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleo, Maya in The Archbishop’s Ceiling, etc.; and Television: Bellbird, Number 96, Carson’s Law, A Country Practice, Flying Doctors, plus numerous roles with the ABC.)  After Melbourne’s season as Charmin in The Magic Show, she returned to Broadway to play that role for several years.  American regional theatre favorites include the groundbreaking revival at Paper Mill of Follies, Grushinskaya in Grand Hotel for Walnut Street (also, a role she played in London’s West End).  Off-Broadway highlights include Sophie in The Housewives of Mannheim (59 East 59^th Street) and Georgia in her own play, A Brush with Georgia O’Keeffe (5 months run as well as at The Smithsonian in DC).  Additional writing includes a tribute to Harold Arlen, Get Happy! (two seasons in Australia).  She is currently at work on a one-woman play for herself. She also directs and produces.