Beyond the Gun - Creative Partnerships with Amy Ingram, Julia Robertson, Ngoc Phan, Nicholas Brown and Cameron Hurry

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  Amy Ingram

  Amy is a multi-award-winning actor and theatre-maker based in Brisbane, later this year she will appear in the return season of Pride And Prejudice at QTC and the World Premiere of Suzie Miller’s Strong Is The New Pretty touring Nationally.Credits Include : Queensland Theatre: Pride and Prejudice, Family Values, Bernhardt /Hamlet, The Odd Couple, The Seagull, Trollop, Seeding Bed, Fat Pig. Other Credits: Complete Works Of William Shakespeare Abridged ( QPAC )  , MML Worldwide : Magic Mike Live Australia. Shake N’ Stir : Fourteen ( Brisbane Festival and National Tour ) The Good Room : I Want To Know What Love Is, One Bottle Later, I Just Came To Say Goodbye, I Should Have Drunk More Champagne, Where We Begin, Rabbit, Single Admissions, Holy Guacamole. Myths Made Here and QPAC: Cinderella. La Boite Theatre Company: Blackrock, The Tragedy of King Richard The Third, Cosi. Metro Arts:  Awkward Conversation: Medea Redux. The Old Fitz and Justin Martin: Low Level Panic.  Elbow Room: We Get It, Adelaide Fringe and Rebecca Meston: Tracksuit Girl and many more.TV/Media: 2 years later , INA , Dustfall, Posthumous, Apples Never Fall, The Demon Disorder, Boy Swallows Universe,  In Our Blood, Joe Vs Carol , Young Rock, Mabo As Co Creator: The Good Room: Let’s Be Friends Furever, I’ve Been Meaning To Ask You, Dirty Laundry, Red Light, One Bottle Later, That’s What She Said,  I Want To Know What Love Is, I Just Came To Say Goodbye, I Should Have Drunk More Champagne, Where We Begin. Positions: Co Founder and Co Artistic Director of The Good Room, Co Founder of Myths Made Here, QLD Equity Branch Council 2020- 2024, Co Director of National Young Writers Festival ( 2007/2008). Awards: Sydney Theatre Awards : Best Theatre for Young People ( I’ve Been Meaning To Ask You 2020 ), Matilda Awards: Best Supporting (Fourteen 2022, Best Female Actor in a Leading Role (Cinderella 2019 ), Best Emerging Artist ( Fat Pig and Single Admissions 2010) and Best Supporting Actor – in a Mainstage production – Matilda Awards 2022.
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  Ngoc Phan

  Ngọc is an award-winning actor, director and playwright. Her diverse theatre work includes Vietgone, Boy Swallows Universe and Good Grief (Queensland Theatre), Laurinda (Melbourne Theatre Company), Love Stories (Brisbane Festival/QPAC), Horizon (Playlab Theatre), Medea (Shock Therapy Productions), We’re All Gonna Die, Away, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Mathematics of Longing and The Village (La Boite Theatre), What I’m Here For, The Motion of Light in Water and After All This (Elbow Room), The Lost Lending Library (Punchdrunk Enrichment / Imaginary Theatre), Dolores (Anywhere Festival), Splendour (Now Look Here), That’s what she said (The Good Room), Hedonism’s Second Album (La Boite indie) and Stunt Double (The Farm). Her screen performances include Black Snow S2 (Stan), Rock Island Mysteries (Fremantle Media), Audrey (Invisible Republic), And the Ocean Agreed (Scout Films), Kidnapped in Paradise (Steve Jaggi/Sepia), Tidelands (Netflix Australia/Hoodlum), Faker and Freudian Slip web series (Broken Head Productions), NRMA (TV Commercial), QLD Government Road Safety Speeding Commercial (Two little Indians), Australia Day (Hoodlum/Foxtel), Pawno (Toothless Pictures); Schapelle (Fremantle Media); At World’s End (New Holland Pictures); Sea Patrol (Nine Network); Terra Nova (Terra Nova Productions), Secrets and Lies (Network Ten) and the AFI award-winning film The Black Balloon. Ngọc recently directed Torch the Place and was a co-director on Vietgone (Queensland Theatre). She was Associate Director for Trent Dalton’s stage adaptation of Love Stories (Brisbane Festival/QPAC). She has directed for Queensland Theatre’s Young Artists in Impending Everyone and DNA. And has also directed the Brisbane Girls Grammar senior production of She Kills Monsters. As a playwright, she was one of the participants in the Lotus Program supported by Playwriting Australia (PWA) and Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (CAAP). She was an Artist-in-residence at La Boite Theatre Company where she worked on her play My Father who slept in a Zoo; her writing was featured in their production of The Village and was also a creative assistant in its companion piece, The Neighbourhood. She was also part of La Boite's Artist Company. As a tutor, she has taught for the NIDA Open Program and has been a teaching artist for La Boite and Queensland Theatre’s Youth Ensemble. Ngọc trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in the Acting Program. Ngọc recently won the Matilda Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Mainstage Production for Vietgone and Best Ensemble for Stunt Double.
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  Julia Robertson

  Julia Robertson is a multidisciplinary theatre maker, director and actor living and working on Gadigal land. She is the Artistic Director of the award-winning devising group Little Eggs Collective, a recipient of the Ensemble Theatre’s Sandra Bates Award for Directing, and a Young Artists Program finalist with Opera Australia. Julia was recently nominated for Best Direction of a Musical at the Sydney Theatre Awards for The Producers (Joshua Robson Productions / Hayes Theatre Co. / Riverside Parramatta).In 2026, Julia will direct the premiere production of STELLA, The Musical in Melbourne, as well as The Addams Family for Joshua Robson Productions and Hayes Theatre Co. She will also work as Movement Director on 84 Charing Cross Road for the Ensemble Theatre, and as Assistant Director on Suzie Miller’s new work Strong Is the New Pretty for Sydney Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre and Brisbane Festival.Julia previously directed and wrote the book and lyrics for the musical adaptation of Metropolis (music by Zara Stanton), which premiered at Hayes Theatre Co. in 2023, winning three Sydney Theatre Awards and receiving a TIME OUT Sydney nomination for Best Musical. Other directing credits include The Producers (Joshua Robson Productions / Hayes Theatre Co. / Riverside Parramatta) which was nominated for five Sydney Theatre Awards and was included in Sydney Morning Herald’s top five shows of 2025, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel (Glen Street Theatre & The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre), PINOCCHIO (Little Eggs Collective), for which she received the NIDA Emerging Directors Award at Sydney Fringe, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Little Eggs Collective / KXT) which was included in Sydney Morning Herald’s best shows of 2019.As an assistant director, Julia has worked with Opera Australia (Il Trittico), Ensemble Theatre (The Great Divide, The Heartbreak Choir), and Joshua Robson Productions (Bonnie and Clyde, City of Angels). As an actor, she continues to work professionally. Previous work includes How to Plot a Hit in Two Days, dir. Lee Lewis (Ensemble Theatre), Wherever She Wanders, dir. Tessa Leong (Griffin Theatre Company) and The Real Thing, dir. Simon Phillips (Sydney Theatre Company).Julia is also a classically trained musician and a recipient of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant, which supported a residency with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has trained with the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
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  Nicholas Brown

  NIDA graduate NICHOLAS BROWN has forged an impressive international career across film, television and theatre as an actor, writer, singer, songwriter and leading man with major roles in Bollywood films, Australian drama and as a much-loved ABC Play School presenter. He plays a lead role in upcoming Alex Proyas science fiction musical film R.U.R. Other film credits include Jimpa, Sahela (Companion), A Perfect Pairing (Netflix), Christmas On The Farm (Stan), Laka, Sedition, Dance Academy, Pratichhaya, Unindian, Random 8, Love You To Death, Kites, A Man’s Gotta Do, Temptation. For TV: The Shakedown, Fake, NCIS: Sydney, In Our Blood, The PM’s Daughter, Upright, After The Verdict, Joe Vs Carole, Amazing Grace, Wakefield, The Unlisted, Harrow, The Letdown, Play School, The Code 2, The Elegant Gentlemen’s Guide To Knife Fighting, Mr And Mrs Murder, Home & Away, Underbelly: The Man Who Got Away, City Homicide, The Cooks and White Collar Blue. Recent theatre include The Normal Heart at STC, Naturism at Griffin, Circle Mirror Transformation at STC, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time at Belvoir, Edmond in Bernhardt/Hamlet and Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew for Queensland Theatre and Come From Away for New Theatricals. Other theatre includes Belvoir’s Counting And Cracking and for STC, The Long Forgotten Dream and Still Point Turning. As a playwright, Nicholas won the prestigious Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting in the 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards for his play Sex Magick which was performed in the 2023 Griffin Theatre season. It was also nominated for a 2025 AWGIE and a 2024 Sydney Theatre Award. His other self penned play Lighten Up was part of the Griffin season in 2016. Both plays have been published by Currency Press. His new play Oracle Boy has been in development with The National Theatre of Parramatta and he contributed an autobiographical chapter to the book Growing Up Indian in Australia. As a TV writer Nicholas has written episodes of The Unlisted, The Wonder Gang and Play School. He’s also been lead singer, written and recorded with several bands including The Modernists and Luck Now releasing the 2005 funk album Big Score and the singles I Spent My Rent On A Record, Up And Coming, Don’t Mind Me and Strange Shadow. Nicholas’s life story has been recently featured on ABC Conversations: A wild Bollywood adventure - from Sydney to Mumbai and back again.
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  Cameron Hurry

  Cameron Hurry is a Brisbane based actor and writer. He completed his actor training through the University of Southern Queensland. Cameron’s theatre credits include: Pride and Prejudice (Queensland Theatre Company), Unconditional (Playlab Theatre), Three Little Words (Ad Astra), Twelfth Night (4MBS Brisbane Shakespeare Festival), Dance Nation (THAT Production Company), Grand Horizons (PIP Theatre), Adventures of Peter Rabbit (Small Crown Productions), The Woman in Black (White Rabbit Theatre/HOTA), The Lonesome West (Troop Productions) Frankenstein (Fractal Theatre), Macbeth (JUTE Theatre), Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues (Mixed Company), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (AStheatre), Tashi (Imaginary Ltd.), Strange Attractor, Delicacy, Picnic at Hanging Rock (Brisbane Arts Theatre), and Aladdin and the Mysterious Magical Lamp, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Shadowlands (Harvest Rain Theatre Company). His film and television credits include: Spit, Boy Swallows Universe, The Bureau of Magical Things, Young Rock, and Wanted. Cameron has received the Matilda Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role – Independent Production (Grand Horizons) and has a proud member of MEAA for 20 years.