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PENNY WILKINS
Vanessa Downing's  extensive theatre credits include: The Glass Menagerie; Pygmalion; Faustus; The Taming of the Shrew; The Busy World is Hushed and Afterplay; King Lear; Bone (Ride On Theatre and the Darlinghurst Theatre – for which she received a nomination from the Sydney Theatre Critics for Best Actress); Influence, Howard Katz, The Lady in the Van, Morning Sacrifice, A Cheery Soul, Macbeth, Chasing the Dragon, The Madras House and Measure for Measure ; Mother and Child; Hello Dolly; Equus, Three Birds Alighting on a Field, Ring Round the Moon, Private Lives, Upside Down at the Bottom of the World, As You Like It, Traitors, Pericles, A Month in the Country and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Live Acts on Stage and the original 1986 production of Away; Falling from Grace; Good Works; Composing Venus and Season’s Greetings; How the Other Half Loves, The Heiress, Absurd Person Singular; The Increased Difficulty of Concentration and The Madrigirls; Wet and Dry, Daylight Saving, and St. James Infirmary; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Key Largo, Don’s Party and Beach Blanket Tempest, and Steaming. On television Vanessa has appeared in Rake, Home and Away, Water Rats, All Saints, Big Sky, G.P., A Country Practice, Bullpitt!, Funeral Going, Double Skulls, Melba and Packed to the Rafters. She appears in the films Mary, The Boy Who Had Everything, Two Hands and Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueberger.  Vanessa is also a member of the Sydney Philharmonic Symphonic Choir.   
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CELINE VAN GELDER
Lucy Wigmore graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 2002 and has been working extensively on stage and screen since. She is most familiar to audiences for her work on television including her portrayal of Justine Jones on NZ’s highest rating TV show, Shortland Street; Lillian Armfield on Underbelly: Razor and Carol Figgins on Love Child. She has also played leading roles in: Cloud 9, Look Back in Anger, The Women, Salon 71 (her solo show) and film roles in various short films and features including: The Last Magic Show, Spectacularman and Spring Flames. She moved to London in 2008 where she continued her work on stage, including playing Rosalind in As You Like It. She also wrote and directed her first short film, Sign Language and worked as a 1st Assistant Director on short film Rapunzel and award winning commercial, Embrace Life. Since moving to Sydney, she has directed her first play, Cat and Mouse at La Mama Theatre, played Bella in The Sweetest Thing at Belvoir Street Theatre while continuing her screen acting work. She is also developing a new comedy TV series and various short films.  And will soon be seen on the big screen in feature film - The Land.
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BERNARD COOK
Alan Flower trained at UNSW and the Ensemble Studios and was a founding member of Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company, where he was Artistic Director for five years. His theatre credits include shows for Company B, Sydney Theatre Company, Force Majeure, Hot House Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, B Sharp, Stables, Darlinghurst Theatre, Burning House Theatre Co, New Theatre, Shorter n Sweeter, and Cross Roads Theatre. His TV credits include: Scorched, The Silence, The Alice, Home and Away, All Saints (Morris the Florist), Bad Cop Bad Cop, Love Is A Four Letter Word, Farscape, Backberner, Flipper, Above the Law, Water Rats, G.P, A Country Practise, Big Sky, Roar, and Family and Friends. Feature film credits include The Venus Factory, A Wreck a Tangle, When Good Ghouls Go Bad, Danny Deckchair, Fat Pizza, Jewboy, and Gabriel. For version 1.0 he has performed in This Kind of Ruckus and worked on the creative development of The Table of Knowledge.  He is soon to be seen in Hiding on the ABC, Catching Milat on 7 and Dream Home at the Ensemble Theatre.
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DAVE STURTLEY
Benedict Wall was born in New Zealand. He gained a Bachelors Degree In Journalism from the Auckland University of Technology before switching his focus to acting and leaving New Zealand to take up a place at the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. After Graduating from The Neighborhood Playhouse Benedict returned to his native New Zealand working widely in both theatre and television. Benedict appeared in a number of plays by leading New Zealand play write Thomas Sainsbury and cult television series "Outrageous Fortune" as well as soap opera "Shortland Street". Benedict then moved to Sydney Australia where he has been working on top rating television series "Underbelly", and as legendary Australian bushman and war criminal Breaker Morant in "Breaker Morant the Retrail" which was shot on location in Queensland and South Africa. Benedict has also found time to return to New Zealand and work on projects such as festival favourite short film "Ten Thousand Days" and the lead in Lippy Pictures "Pirates of the Airwaves", in which he played legendary pirate radio DJ Rick Grant.