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Acting Performance Studio .. Tutor of Acting Performance StudioJason Agius
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Jason has worked as an actor consistently over the past 8 years, beginning with a bit part on the critically-acclaimed TANGLE alongside Lincoln Younes. Since, he’s appeared in the MIFF funded (and opening night) film THE DEATH AND LIFE OF OTTO BLOOM, starring Xavier Samuel (of TWILIGHT fame) and produced by Oscar winner Melanie Coombs. This led to Jason’s casting in NEWTON’S LAW, working alongside Claudia Karvan and in comedy COREY WHITE’S ROADMAP TO PARADISE— both which aired on the ABC (For a more extensive CV, visit www.imdb.me/jasonagius).
Between his gigs and auditions, Jason has coached actors of all ages, teaching a practical approach to learning scenes and helps to provide them with the necessary tools (the business side to acting) to become working actors.
Jason is also currently developing a feature film screenplay with an AFI award winning producer/director.
Away from the industry, Jason enjoys eating, watching James Bond films, and keeping up to date with foreign affairs.
Emma Annand
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Emma Annand. Tutor of Acting Performance StudioJasper Bagg
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Jasper is just off both ‘Harrow 3’ and ‘Informer 3838’, with ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ & Marvel’s ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ not far behind. (Jasper was Thor’s barber until Stan Lee was edited in!)
In 2017, Jasper was pinned for a lead in the ‘Starz’ series ‘Counterpart’ opposite J.K Simmons. In 2015 he played the role of ‘Campbell’ in the International spy-thriller, ‘Joker Game’ (NYC Japanese FF Japan Cuts 2015) opposite Kazuya Kamenashi and Kyoko Fukda. ‘Joker Game’ went on to attain number one on the Japanese Box Office and Blue Ray sales.
Jasper has extensive series regular & featured lead guest roles, and is known for his standout characters, such as the elusive ‘Two-Stroke’ in Matchbox’s ‘The Straits’, and his hilarious ‘D’arcy the Dandy’ in Jonathan M. Shiff’s ‘Pirate Islands’. Other guest star roles include major appearances on such iconic series as: ‘Bed of Roses’, ‘Winners & Losers’, ‘Blue Heelers’, ‘Neighbours’, ‘City Homicide’, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’, ‘Stingers’, ‘Round The Twist’ and ‘Thunderstone’.
Jasper graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1990. Previously, in 1984, his first on-set gig was with James Coburn, and since then he has had the opportunity to work beside such luminaries as Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Ioan Gruffudd, John Boyega, Russell Crowe, Geoffrey Rush, Heath Ledger, Guy Pearce, Rachael Griffiths, James Nesbit and Brian Cox.
In his capacity as mentor to many professional actors, Jasper daily directs international self-tests, as well as working one on one, in person or by Skype, in order to enhance their approach to themselves in a role.
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Brianna Bishop
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Brianna Bishop. Tutor of Acting Performance StudioElizabeth Blackmore
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Elizabeth Blackmore is an Acting graduate from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
On stage she has appeared in numerous productions for Black Swan State Theatre Company, becoming an associate artist in 2009, Belvoir St, Shakespeare WA, PIAF and was a member of the original Australian cast of ‘Jasper Jones’ for Barking Gecko.
In her native Australia she has appeared in both television and film roles as well as numerous advertising campaigns including Bank West alongside John Cleese and John McEnroe. She has also been part of several short films, including the award winning dance short “Shadow/Self” which she worked on as both performer and collaborator. It was her being cast as a series lead in the Disney/ABC America show ‘Legend of the Seeker’ that took her to the USA where quickly she was cast as a lead in the reboot of Sam Raimi’s ‘Evil Dead’ (SONY) and the roles continued. Television credits include "Beauty and the Beast"(CBS), "Once Upon a Time"(ABC), "Shooter"(TNT), "Shameless"(Showtime), "Turn: Washington's Spies"(AMC) as well as ongoing lead roles on "The Vampire Diaries" (Warner Bros/CW) and across two seasons of the ever popular "Supernatural" for Warner Brothers.
Most recently she wrapped a role on “The Right Stuff” for National Geographic that shot in Orlando, Florida.
Incredibly thankful for the opportunities she has had to work and learn on many productions in various international locations, Elizabeth looks forward to spending time at home in Melbourne where she hopes to continue to grow as an artist.
Robyn Clancy
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Robyn Clancy has been involved in theatre, film, and TV as an actor and writer. The great majority of her work has been at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne and with a traveling Shakespeare company. She has a deep love for seeing her students find the joy of using their creative ideas to tell stories and learn a broad range of skills that can be used not only for great art but life in general.Bronwen Coleman
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Bronwen Coleman is an award winning director, writer, actor and teacher based in Melbourne.
Bronwen lived in New York for more than a decade, in which time she became a specialist in Strasberg’s Method and was made a Life Member of the prestigious Actors Studio. She has acted in film, television and theatre internationally, and is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television (BFTV), and the Actors Studio Drama School (MFA). She is currently undertaking a Master of Teaching at Monash University.
Recent directing projects include Angus Cameron’s “Dirt” for the 2021 Adelaide Fringe, which won both the Critics Award and Frank Ford Award. She is the founding Artistic Director of the Anthropocene Play Company, with whom she is directing Daniel Nellor’s new play “Ignis” in its Bunjil Place development in May 2021.