Playwright - Belinda Bradley (Savage River, Thunder)

Belinda is a Tasmanian playwright based in Hobart and has spent the last twenty-five years acting, writing and producing for theatre, film, radio and television. Currently she is Blue Cow Theatre’s Writer in Residence.

Bingo! began in Blue Cow Theatre’s Cowshed plays and playwrights development program and spent 2 years in development, working with dramaturg Peter Matheson.  

Belinda’s plays and radio documentaries have been produced around Australia and internationally. The Other Woman was nominated for two Victorian Green Room Awards after seasons at La Mama and the Courthouse Theatre and adapted and produced on ABC Radio as a radio play. Her play, Polly Blue, was published by Currency Press. Her hour length radio documentary, Black Tuesday, for ABC Radio National, was nominated by the ABC for the NSW Premier's History Prize.

In 2020 Belinda received the Erin Thomas Scholarship for regional playwrights, and in 2022 she is a mentor for this year’s recipient. Belinda is currently developing a new play, 122 Words for Fear, again working with dramaturg, Peter Matheson, as part of Blue Cow Theatre’s Cowshed Program.

Co - Director - Brett Rogers (Dark Noise, All About E, Rake)

Brett is a proud Tasmanian with over 20 years experience working in the performing arts. Brett’s journey as professional actor began at 18 years of age in Hobart on the Theatre Royal stage. Several years and many fun and exciting productions later, Brett relocated to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), from which he graduated with a Bachelor of dramatic Arts (Acting) in 2009. Since graduating Brett has worked consistently as an actor, presenter and director in theatre, film and television. Even after moving to Sydney Brett maintained his close connection to his home state, and over the years has worked with many local companies including Blue Cow, Big Monkey, Performing Lines, Hobart Rep and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 he was part of the Helpmann Award winning production of Boats staged by Terrapin Puppet Theatre, and in 2016 he was awarded a Mike Walsh Fellowship, which enabled him to study at the prestigious Stella Adler Studio in New York. 

As well as performing, Brett has a passion for coaching and mentoring young creatives. He has been a core tutor with NIDA Open since 2010, a role which has seen him teach Introduction to Acting through to Advanced Actors Studio, and everything in between. Brett is also passionate about ensuring that the performing arts are accessible to all members of the community, and for many years was a lead teaching artist for Riverside Theatre Company's Beyond The Square, an inclusive arts program for people with intellectual and physical mixed abilities. A highlight of his time at Riverside was adapting and directing a joyful production of Slay The Jabberwocky in 2019.

Brett is excited to back home in Tasmania full time, and is currently back working with Terrapin Puppet Theatre on their Forever Young project, facilitating puppetry and performance in aged care. Brett is absolutely thrilled to be working with Blue Cow and an incredible ensemble of Tasmania's finest professionals on Bingo!

Co - Director - Lisa Gormley (Home & Away, Deadloch)

Lisa Gormley is a Tasmanian Professional Actress, Director, Producer and Acting Coach.A graduate of Acting from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2009, Lisa has been working professionally in the performing arts industry acting for stage and screen and in production roles ever since.Lisa is a passionate advocate for the performing arts industry in Tasmania, and established Acting True, specialising in professional screen, stage and voice over training workshops and producing top shelf theatre in the Huon Valley.

Creative Producer - Lucinda Toynbee Wilson (Tis a Pity She’s a Whore, Twas a Dark & Stormy Night, Amy’s Tattoo)

Lucinda studied theatre at CSU in NSW before moving to the US where she graduated in theatre directing from Oregon State University. Lucinda has worked as a creative producer for over 30 years in the USA, UK and Australia and moved to Tasmania in 2000. Lucinda has written and published a small short story series, has produced her own work to sell out audiences and hopes to finish her third script soon. Between theatre roles she has held senior positions for the Alcorso Foundation, Festival of Voices, Ten Days on the Island and as well as working as a CCD consultant and cultural policy advisor.

Di Richards (Dot) is a stalwart of Tasmanian musical theatre, performing in a myriad of shows.

She has delivered vivid characterisation to roles in Annie, Into The Woods, Sweeney Todd, Beauty and The Beast, A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to The Forum, Oklahoma!, Company, Eurobeat, Cabaret , Side By Side and I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change for which she was nominated for an Tas Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Leading Role. Di recently appeared in a 4-woman original show called Take The Spotlight and Run alongside Jude Elliot, Meg Bignell and Nicole Sims-Farrow. Justice Charlier in John X’s production of Rock Of Ages, The Vicar in the Vicar of Dibley, to name just a few.

Gabrielle Adkins (Pip) has a Bachelor of Performing Arts.

Her television credits include Bay of Fires (ABC), Rosehaven (ABC), Grass Roots (ABC), My Husband My Killer (Screentime), Backberner (ABC), All Saints (Seven Network), Water Rats (Nine Network), Home & Away (Seven Network), Breakers (Network Ten), Big Sky (Network Ten), GP (ABC), Police Rescue (ABC), and A Country Practice (Seven Network). Her theatre credits include Amy’s Tattoo, Man v Dog, Jingled, It Happened One Day, Mum’s the Word, Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell, Animal Farm, Christmas Carol, How the Other Half Loves, The Girls Stand Up, Girls Night Out, Midsummer Night’s Dream. Gabrielle is a voice over artist and has written for stage, radio and stand-up comedy.

Jane Binning (Jude) It’s been over a decade since Jane has been on stage and she it over the moon to be getting back on the boards in such fine company.

After graduating from UTAS - Centre of Performing Arts - in the early 90s , Jane co-created the company Ripe Theatre and spent the early part of her career creating and performing new work. 

Jane has worked as a performer with Centre Stage, Theatre North, Bay Street Productions, The Australian Script Centre, Mudlark Theatre, Wide Angle Tasmania, Blue Cow Theatre, Tasmanian Theatre Company and New Story Company . She has also worked with Blue Rocket. The most significant role  being the voice of Pixel Pinkie in the nationally acclaimed animated TV series of the same name.

In recent years Jane is best known for her work as a casting director. Her business,  Jane Binning Casting was an integral part of growing the Tasmanian film industry and giving local actors the opportunity to work on screen. After selling the business in  2018 Jane has been road tripping around the country and caring for her mum.

Jane Longhurst (Val) is an award-winning actor, ABC Radio broadcaster, voice artist and popular presenter of events big and small.

She has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts. Television credits include Rosehaven, Death or Liberty, Blue Heelers, A Country Practice, Neighbours, Janus, GP, Deadloch and Bay of Fires.

Recent theatre credits include her Black Bag Trilogy: Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, (Mona Foma 2021 Launceston and Hobart) and Request Programme by Franz Xaver Kroetz (Beaker Street Festival 2022 and Theatre North 2023 awarded Best Professional Performance in a Leading Role at this year’s Tasmanian Theatre Awards). Other Blue Cow performances include Amy’s Tattoo, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, The Events and Grounded.

Rose Grayson (Lina) is completing her MA in theatre and was a featured actor in the short film Love Forever, which premiered at the Venice film festival in 2022.

She has performed for the Tasmanian Theatre Company, Belvoir St Theatre, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, MONAFOMA, and the MCA ARTBAR. Rose is a singer and has provided vocals for TV & film, including Talk to Me (D & M Philippou), Blaze (Del Kathryn Barton), The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion), The Rover (David Michôd), and Whoever Was Using This Bed (Andrew Kotátko). Rose’s vocals feature on Christopher Townend’s MONA sound installation Suspended Perpetual Funeral Choirs from the Future, and her song, 6 Feet Under, received an Honorary Mention at the USA International Songwriting Competition. Recently, she's been co-creatively developing the program Forever Young with Terrapin Puppet Theatre Company, and in 2023 her vocals featured in a sound installation for Vivid Sydney.

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Sue Hayes (Cockie) Sue Hayes is passionate about the environment, the arts and her community. She loves a crafternoon especially with paper, wallpaper, wood and all things upcycled.

Ensemble Studios graduate in 1990, Sue has had a 20yr+ engagement with JUTE Theatre Company in Cairns, as a writer/performer/director. As choreographer her work includes Forging of Men, Diverse Dance, Boatman, and Deep Tank 5 as well as directing and co-devising numerous community theatre productions. Since moving to Tassie, Sue has enjoyed dancing with MADE in Frocks, Heirloom, Belvedere Ballroom and Seven Deadly Sins. Sue has also performed with BLUE COW THEATRE in Frida and Derek, BIG MONKEY’S Aladdin and SECOND ECHO ENSEMBLE’S Contested Lands. Sue is delighted to be back on the stage again with this wonderful Bingo ensemble to create magic, mischief and meaningful stories.

Scott Farrow (D E A T H)has been a regular on Tasmanian stages for the past 20+ years. Working extensively in dramatic theatre and musical theatre.

Notable credits include principal roles in Big River, Grease, Rent, Sweeney Todd, The Last Five Years, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Next to Normal, and as the Honourable Paul J Keating in Keating! The Musical and his acclaimed performance as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. Most recently in 2021 Scott played Australian Cricket legend Shane Warne in The Cabaret Club’s production of Shane Warne The Musical, and followed this by playing Riff Raff in the John X Presents highly successful run of The Rocky Horror Show and Antigonus/Clown In Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale also for Blue Cow in 2022. Plus much much more!

Lighting and Projection Design - Jason James (The Maids, Amy’s Tattoo),

I like breaking things apart to see how they work.  However, I haven’t been able to break light apart to see how it works, so I am endlessly fascinated by it.  I have tried splitting it, hitting things with it, stopping it, warming it, cooling it, and bending it. Yet, I still haven’t managed to break it. Light is still useful to create awe, direct where people look and add emotional impact to scenes. I guess some things are useful even if I can’t break them.

Set Design - Jill Munro (Rocky Horror Show, The Mares) Jill brings her designs to life from her country-based design studio, approaching her design process in an open collaborative way. She begins by gaining a clear idea of the director’s vision, and aesthetic. She then ‘dreams big’, collating images and inspiration from far and wide. Texture, detail, form, and function define Jill’s design theory, with architectural form and the natural world her two biggest sources of inspiration. She is also inspired by how humans interact with the space around them. She believes that it’s the thoughtful consideration of detail that can raise a design from good to exceptional. 

Sound Design & Composition Saxon Hornett Devers (TSO, Blundstone),

What I love most about musical and sound design is its ability to evoke specific emotions and breathe life into the unfolding drama on stage. Crafting each note and sound allows me to transport audiences to distant worlds, trigger nostalgia, and ignite raw emotions within them. When done thoughtfully the practice elevates the entire theatrical experience becoming more then underscore for actors on a stage. This blend of artistry and creativity fuels my enjoyment for the craft, and with every new project, I find further nuance and challenges in bringing stories to life through the power of sound.

Choreography - Claire Dawson (Big Monkey, Blitz) Claire Dawson is an English born performer, hailing from Liverpool, who attended the prestigious Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in the UK. Her roots lie in devising theatre for the community, musical theatre and pantomime, with which she worked around the UK. 

That was all well and good, but Claire wanted more, she wanted a Big Sky and Big Green. A Tassie boy appeared and offered her adventure across the seas; she arrived in Hobart in 1996 and has not left since….well not completely. 

Claire has managed to travel the world with her art, performing her one woman musical comedy show A Woman on the Edge at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and then at the Adelaide Fringe Festival where it gained 5 stars and rave reviews. 

Loving a bit of creativity Claire has written, produced and performed 6 one-woman shows and written and produced 3 original CDs of her songs. Her musical career saw her co-write an Electro-Pop album with her former band: WonderMouse which premiered in Sydney, and a festival favourite with her Tasmanian based band: SiSi and the Sonics, when Claire performed under the guise of SiSi. 

Claire has enjoyed working in the Tasmanian Arts and Theatre scene, performing and choreographing with professional theatre companies; Blue Cow Theatre Co, Tasmania Theatre Co and Big Monkey Theatre Co, with whom she is also the annual choreographer and on the Board. She has worked extensively as MC both in the corporate world and at the Festival of Voices, where she has also been a regular performer over the last 10 years. 

Outside of the world of the Arts, Claire teaches singing, dancing, yoga and meditation and can be found pottering with her hubby and very small dog down in Snug.