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COURTNEY MONSMA
WICKED, FROZEN, SIX THE MUSICAL, PAPER DOLLS
Courtney Monsma is currently playing Glinda in the touring Australian production of Wicked. Previously, she was most well-known for starring as Princess Anna in the recent Australian tour of Disney’s Frozen the Musical. She has recently filmed the new Australian drama series Paper Dolls for Helium Pictures which appears on 10 and 10 Play.
Other theatre highlights include the role of Katherine Howard in SIX The Musical presented by Michael Coppel, Louise Withers and Linda Bewick at the Sydney Opera House in 2020, the Australasian tour of Disney’s Aladdin covering the role of Princess Jasmine, the Australian 2017/18 tour of Mamma Mia! presented by Michael Coppel, Louise Withers and Linda Bewick covering the role of Sophie, and Opera Queensland’s Kiss Me Kate.
Hailing from Queensland’s Gold Coast, Courtney has performed in concerts and live events across the local area from a young age and graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University with a Bachelor of Musical Theatre in 2017. At the Conservatorium, under the direction of Associate Professor Paul Sabey, Courtney appeared as Charity in Sweet Charity, Carmen in The Life and Maria in West Side Story. She also toured with the production of I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change.
On screen, Courtney has appeared in numerous short films including playing the title role in award winning short Dorothy, as well as appearances on Toasted TV for Network 10 and The Strip for Nine Network.
Courtney released her debut album In The Light in 2022 which features some of her favourite and career moment songs, as well as her original track The Light That You Are.
Whilst at NAPA Courtney had many achievements including being awarded the 2014 Performing Arts Ambassador Award at the International Women's Day Awards, Best Actress at the Indi Film Festival in Toronto (Short Film – “Dorothy”) and Best Actress in a School or Youth Musical at the Gold Coast Area Theatre Awards 2013 (Hairspray – PBC) and again in 2014 (Peter Pan – Top Hat Productions).
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MICHAEL BISHOP
SUPERMAN + LOIS, DISNEY'S 'SPIN'
Michael has most recently been cast as ‘Jonathon Kent’ in Superman & Lois (Warner Brothers) (2022, 2023) and while studying at NAPA College, featured as ‘DJ Max’ in Spin (Disney Channel) (2020), ‘Teddy’ in Grace Beside Me (2018) - series regular, ‘School Yard Kid’ in Swinging Safari (2018), Extra in Harrow (2019), Reef Break (2019), Pirates of the Caribbean (2015), Voice Over in Mako Mermaids (2015), TVCs for Hallmark Homes, Movie World and Shell Solar.
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EMILY MONSMA
WICKED, BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL
Gold Coast based, Emily Monsma is graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University where she completed her Bachelor of Music: Musical Theatre. Under the direction of Associate Professor Paul Sabey, Emily appeared as Ado Annie in Oklahoma, Celisse in Godspell and Sheila in A Chorus Line. Most recently, Emily appeared in the Ensemble (U/S Carole King) in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, and as Glinda in Wicked, both with Matt Ward Entertainment. She appeared as the Swallow in The Happy Prince, a timeless tale set to a soaring score by well-known musical director David W. Young. Emily has also toured nationally in Arena shows of Hairspray: The Arena Spectacular as Penny Pingleton and in Grease: The Arena Experience as Marty, as well as originating the onstage role of Leah in Nickelodeon’s Shimmer and Shine Live! (Pen2Stage), Regina in Rock Of Ages (NAPA Ensemble) and Blue Girl in NAPA Ensemble’s production of Downtown! The Mod Musical.
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SEBASTIAN LI
THE KING AND I, DON QUIXOTE, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN, NOWHERE BOYS, THE FAMILY LAW
Sebastian is a graduate from The Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. There, he was awarded the Grace Marion Wilson Trust scholarship for Excellence in Acting.
Sebastian starred as Chen in SBS mini-series New Gold Mountain and his other television credits include The Family Law (SBS) and Nowhere Boys: Season 4 (ABC). Sebastian has also performed the role of Prince Chululongkorn in Opera Australia’s The King and I (QPAC), and appeared as a supernumerary in The Australian Ballet’s 2023 revival of Don Quixote (State Theatre). Sebastian has performed with Melbourne Shakespeare Company on their productions of The Comedy of Errors as Angelo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Puck and The Merry Wives of Windsor as Slender. He most recently performed at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Breath and Bones Theatre Company in the original work How to Be a Person When the World is Ending, followed by a subsequent season at Theatre Works.
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CASSIDY MACKIE
COTTA, THE VOICE
Wowing audiences as a semi-finalist on THE VOICE AUSTRALIA 2022, Cassidy has performed frequently as herself, her alter-ego COTTA or as one half of her corporate acoustic duo. A singer-songwriter by trade, Cassidy has performed as a musician at the 2020 and 2022 AFL Grand Finals in Brisbane and Melbourne, at corporate events the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and Home of the Arts Gold Coast, as well as in musical theatre and cabaret productions across Queensland.
Having worked recently with prolific Melbourne producer Oldland, Cassidy has released a number of hit singles as COTTA, which have been added to Triple J Unearthed rotation and picked up by many curated Spotify and Apple Music playlists.
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MAX BIMBI
ALADDIN, WEST SIDE STORY, A CHORUS LINE
Max is a graduate from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), with a Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre) where he won the Jackman Furness Foundation Award for his cabaret solo at the Julie Michaels Cabaret Competition. Max made his professional stage debut in West Side Story (The Production Company). He has toured Australia and Hong Kong with Peppa Pig Live! and Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom Live! (Life Like Touring).
In 2016, Max was an original company member in the Australian production of Aladdin (Disney Theatrical Productions), in which he understudied and performed the roles of Iago and Omar. Max toured with Aladdin throughout Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
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SABRINA DURANTE
HEARTLAND, LEGALLY BLONDE, LOVE CHILD
Sabrina graduated from NIDA and recently accepted the lead role in the Outback Spectacular production of Heartland. Sabrina also sang the National Anthem at the 2018 Melbourne Cup. Her debut single ‘Glad It’s Not Me’ made waves across Australia in early 2022. As well as graduating NIDA and starring in stage productions ‘Legally Blonde’ and ‘High School Musical’ and TV’s ‘Love Child’, Sabrina Durante has a long history in equestrian, winning Australian National Equestrian Championships multiple times in the show horse discipline.
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ETHAN ROBINSON
SWINGING SAFARI, DANGER CLOSE
Ethan played 'Liam' in the feature film Swinging Safari with Guy Pearce, Kylie Minogue, Julian McMahon and Radha Mitchell under the direction of Stephen Elliott. In 2018 Ethan was cast as ‘Private Alf Bartlett’ in the film Danger Close, starring alongside Travis Fimmell, Luke Bracey and Nicolas Hamilton under the direction of Kriv Stenders.
LILLY VAN DER MEER
Lilly is a Los Angeles based model and actress best known for her lead series regular role on 'Neighbours' as Xanthe Canning.
CONOR PUTLAND
Conor is a driven and passionate performer hailing from the Gold Coast. Falling in love with performing arts at a young age, Conor endeavours to share stories with audiences across Australia. In 2019 Conor graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University with a Bachelor of Musical Theatre. Conor is currently touring professionally as Swing in Grease the Musical. Conor made his professional debut as Joey in Friends the Musical Parody before touring Australia with Hairspray! (John Frost for Crossroads Live) as a Swing.
More recently Conor originated a role in the new Australian production Midnight – The Cinderella Musical. Other credits include Daniel in Once On This Island and Marius in Les Misérables.
MICHAEL KING
Michael has been a lifelong Wiggles fan, owner of the largest Wiggles collection as far as the eye could see and he has had the amazing privilege to work for The Wiggles in many different ways. He's toured as a Wiggly Dancer, has been the "helper" of every Wiggly Friend (except for Shirley-Shawn) at least once; (Most notably filled in as Captain Feathersword when Dom Field was filling in for Simon). King has also been on stand-by as an understudy for Anthony Field during a show when Anthony was ill. King has also been working at Dreamworld for a number of years. In 2018, he became known as the "Wiggly Brain of the Universe" when he competed against Anthony getting every question right.
MADI MARR
Madi has performed as Disneyland Cast Member in Hong Kong, and is currently performing at Movieworld and Seaworld, Gold Coast.
CHLOE FINLAY
After graduating from Brisbane Academy of Musical Theatre, and spending four years performing at Universal Studios, Japan, Chloe has arrived home to explore further performance opportunities. Chloe is currently performing at theme parks across the Gold Coast.
HARRY TOWNSEND
Harry has recently graduated from Brent Street, Sydney and has received a contract to join the cast of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, Japan.
TORI ASTON
After performing in various productions across the Gold Coast on graduating, Tori has recently moved abroad to join the cast of Shanghai Disney Resort, China.
HALLE ANDERSON
Halle has recently commenced her first professional adventure in joining the cast at Disneyland, Hong Kong.
LILLI NEWMAN
Lilli grew up on the Gold Coast performing in musical theatre productions and dance concerts before relocating to Melbourne to study dance at Patrick Studios. At 19 years of age, she set out on her professional career dancing around the world on cruise ships, in theme parks and even in Bollywood films.
After losing overseas work during COVID, she rejoined the Howell Management team to continue to grow in the industry.
LILLY JERRETT
Lilly graduated from ADPI and accepted a position at ‘Draculas Cabaret’ on the Gold Coast and was cast in NAPA Ensemble’s Rock of Ages.
NATASHA VESELINOVIC
Natasha Veselinovic is a musical theatre performer, writer, visual artist, co-artistic director of The Local Lesbians and Resident Director of The Seven Sopranos. She studied at The Queensland Conservatorium of Music, where she gained a Bachelor of Musical Theatre, and also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Theatre (Griffith University).
Previous theatre credits include, Cover Madame Thenardier, in Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Miserables (Asia and Dubai tours), The Owl, in The Owl And The Pussycat (NSW Tour), The Happy Prince (David Young, Metro Arts), The Railway Children (Alex Parker Theatre Company, Cadogan Hall, London), The Girls From Oz (London Hippodrome, and Live at Zedel, London), Covent Garden's West End Christmas (London), Woman 2, 35mm: A Musical Exhibition (Australian Premiere), and Killer Queens (Brisbane Powerhouse, & HOTA).
Natasha is passionate about creating new Australian work, and has co-written several cabarets, including, Villains (Brisbane Powerhouse & QACI), Once Upon A Time (Toulouse Lautrec, London), and Matilda Award nominated, Lesbian Love Stories (RPAC, Brisbane Powerhouse, Metro Arts, Wynnum Fringe, Moncrieff Theatre, Midsumma Festival, World Pride, Sydney, and Adelaide Fringe). She has additionally been involved in many professional developments, including, Spark (Megan Shorey), One in Seven (Megan Shorey), Ladies in Black (Queensland Theatre), Antigone (Queensland Theatre), The Sun Queen (Tarita Botsman, Cre8ion), and Peter And The Starcatcher (Dead Puppet Society, QPAC).
ANDRE DRYSDALE
After graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2016, Andre has appeared in multiple productions throughout Australia, including The One Armed Bandit, Daisy Moon was Born this Way and award-winning short film Pressure. Andre also had the opportunity to travel internationally with well-known trio, The Aussie Boys, and transitioned into touring shows such as Free to Air. Andre moved into the production of independent theatre with up-and coming company Last One Standing Theatre Company, with wonderful shows appearing in 2019 seasons Sydney-wide.
AYLA BEAUFILS
Ayla was accepted into WAAPA for directing in 2016 and is now studying at NIDA in 2019.
JY ETHERINGTON
Jy graduated from NIDA and was awarded Most Entertaining Soloist at Starbound Entertainers 2013 and Most Outstanding Supporting Actor at the Gold Coast Area Theatre Awards. Jy studied Musical Theatre at ADPI and recently performed with the Sydney Theatre Company.