Casting Director Stevie Ray In Conversation with Sheridan Harbridge: SYDNEY EVENT

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  Stevie Ray

  Stevie Ray has worked in casting for the past 17 years with McGregor Casting. He has worked across all performance platforms – theatre, TV commercials, TV and web series, short and feature films. Some examples of his web and TV series work include the popular ABC series The Moodys, Here Come The Habibs for Channel 9, The Let Down, Diary of an Uber Driver & Troppo for the ABC and the AACTA nominated and multi-award winning web series High Life. His short film work includes the AACTA nominated film, You and Me Before and After, the AACTA winning and Oscar nominated film, The Eleven O’Clock, and he was awarded the Casting Guild of Australia award for Best Casting for a Short Film for Strangers. He has been an associate on a number of feature films including the AACTA nominated film Wish You Were Here, The Rover and San Andreas. He was casting director on the feature films Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, Little Monsters, Penguin Bloom, 6 Days; won a Casting Guild of Australia award for Best Casting in a Feature Film for both Down Under and Babyteeth - for which he also won an AACTA award for Best Casting. You can currently catch his work in the feature film Transfusion, starring Sam Worthington and the series Wolf Like Me starring Isla Fisher and Josh Gad, both on Stan, the feature film The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race on 10Play, the series The Last King of the Cross, starring Tim Roth and Lincoln Younes on Paramount+, the series Colin From Accounts, starring Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall on Binge, the series Thai Cave Rescue starring Damon Herriman and Rodger Corser and the feature film Spiderhead starring Chris Hemsworth and Miles Teller, both on Netflix and the feature film The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. He is currently the treasurer of the Casting Guild of Australia.
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  Sheridan Harbridge

  Sheridan is an award winning actor, writer and director, graduating from NIDA in 2006. She won Best Actress at the Sydney Theatre Awards for her performance in the premiere season of Prima Facie, and was nominated for her role in Stop Girl at Belvoir Theatre, the debut work of journalist Sally Sara’s chronicling her time as foreign correspondent in Afghanistan. For Melbourne Theatre Company she appeared in The Beast, The Speechmaker, North by Northwest, and she has co-authored the upcoming musical My Brilliant Career for the Melbourne Theatre Company 2023 season. She wrote the musical Songs for the Fallen, which won Best Musical, and Outstanding Actress at the New York Music Theatre Festival, and a Green Room Award. Her theatre acting credits include Calamity Jane, The Sugar House, Girl Asleep, The Dog/The Cat (Belvoir Theatre), Prima Facie, Kill Climate Deniers, Jump for Jordan (Griffin Theatre Company), Queen Fatima (Sydney Festival), Gaybies (Darlinghurst). Her work in musicals includes Muriels Wedding, Fiddler on the Roof, and My Fair Lady. She recently appeared in The Twelve for Foxtel, and The Messenger on ABC. She played Valerie Solanas and Judy Garland in Jim Sharman’s online film Andy X. TV credits include Rake, All Saints and Wild Boys, Doctor Blake Murder Mysteries, and The Justine Clarke Show.