THE CRACKABARRUP AUSSIE BUSH BAND - comedy show

Sam Longley

Sam started performing in the late '80s and after a decade playing Theatre Sports in Perth (representing WA three times), Sam moved to Chicago to study improvised comedy at The Second City, Improv Olympic and Comedy Sportz. On his return home he started the improvised comedy show The Big Hoo-Haa! (Cut Snake Comedy) now in its seventh year, at its home Lazy Susan's Comedy Den, as Perth's premier improvised comedy show. Since returning from Chicago in 2002 Sam has starred in numerous theatre productions, including On Our Selection; The Stones; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Buzz, , Much Ado About Nothing; Five Unenviable Lives; Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew with Perth's leading professional theatre companies. His biggest gig yet was wearing a 50kg rubber monster suit for Spike Jonze's film Where The Wild Things Are.

Damon Lockwood

Damon is an actor and playwright who graduated from Murdoch University with a BA (Theatre and Drama Studies). He was nominated for 'Best Actor' at the 2006 Equity Guild Awards for DEALER'S CHOICE (Perth Theatre Company / Red Ryder Productions). Other credits include Hot Dogs, His Majesty's New Clothes and Pri-mates (Barking Gecko Theatre Company), Aquasapiens, The Velveteen Rabbit and The Little Prince (Spare Parts Puppet Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Deckchair Theatre Company), Across Hellfire (Luke Milton Productions) and Taking Liberty (Perth Theatre Company). Damon has been writing professionally for over ten years and has had his work produced all across the country. He won the national Write Now! 2005 competition (NSW) for Best Script with his one man show Domestic Bliss and his script Pri-mates was selected for the Australian Script Centre Collection #6 publication. Nature as Explained by Theatre, for Longwood Productions, was chosen as the Play of the Month, Oct 2007 for the Australian Script Centre. Other scripts include Muttaburrasaurus (Spare Parts Puppet Theatre), Gogo Fish:The Fossil that Changed the World (Barking Gecko Theatre Company), 12:15, Saturday Night (Damage Theatre, shortlisted for 2006 Short and Sweet Sydney) and A Change in the Weather (Rockwood Productions, nominated for 2005 Blue Room Theatre Award for Best Production and listed in the top ten for Write Now! 2005 competition). Recent scripts include Short Four Play for Longwood Productions.

Mark Storen

Mark is a performer / writer / director. He graduated from Murdoch University with a BA (Theatre and Drama Studies) in 1997 and a Certificate in Musical Theatre from WAAPA in 1995. Mark performed his one-man show A Drunken Cabaret for the 2008 Adelaide and Melbourne fringe festivals, again for Deckchair Theatre's Blood Roses and Baklava mini festival and most recently at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, being one of four shows from Perth and one of twelve internationally to be accepted. Mark is currently a participant of the joint initiative of Perth Theatre Company and His Majesty's Theatre "In The Chair" program for emerging directors, and has written a new work for Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, a re-imagining of Banjo Patterson's The Man From Snowy River. Mark has recently crested theMOXYcollective, with co director Renee Newman-Storen, committed to presenting existing and original work, courageous and challenging performance. Mark was last seen in Deckchair Theatre's 2009 production of The Lonely Hearts Club.

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