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Turning Points – Dean Daley-Jones
Released in cinemas this month, Mad Bastards is a hard-hitting account of Aboriginal life in the Kimberley country of Western Australia. The plot is based on real life experiences and accounts, as heard by the Pigram brothers and filmmaker Brendan Fletcher, collated into a uniquely organic movie-making process in which some of those who shared […]
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Ursula Yovich – Life Journey
Ursula Yovich has always wanted to do her own show to perform the songs that she’s always wanted to sing, but when the Adelaide Cabaret Festival Director David Campbell approached her in late 2008, she had reservations. She’d just had her first baby, Jala (now two years-old) and wasn’t sure if she’d have time or […]
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Leah Purcell – Queen Leah
Deadly Vibe Issue 157 March 2010 Despite a hugely successful career in acting, directing and music, Leah Purcell remains humble and ready to learn more about her craft Leah recently landed a role in the Bell Shakespeare production of King Lear . “Acting in Shakespeare is like playing jazz – there are actual rules you […]
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Rocky McKenzie – High-School Musical Star
The new leading man in the long-awaited movie version of the musical Bran Nue Dae had never acted, sung or danced before being cast in the role of Willie. Now he’s sharing the screen with acclaimed actors, such as Ernie Dingo, Ningali Lawford-Wolf, Deborah Mailman and Geoffrey Rush. While most aspiring actors spend their lives […]
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Richard Frankland – Laterally Speaking
Richard Frankland’s not afraid to speak his mind when it comes to Indigenous human rights, but his latest project promotes a quiet cultural revolution as the key to freedom. Gunditjmara man Richard Frankland has been called many things: a Renaissance man, a musician, an activist, filmmaker, director, writer, deaths-in-custody investigator, soldier and fisherman. When Richard […]
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Brandon Walters – A Star is Born
Deadly Vibe Issue 142 He’s the newest face in film. Meet Brandon Walters – star of Australia. Brandon Walters has been described by the famous Australian film director Baz Luhrmann as “our next leading man”, but even a key role in a $130 million international film hasn’t convinced Brandon that acting is his future. “I […]
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Michael Tuahine
The eternally charming TV host with the most Michael Tuahine switches on to the Deadly Vibe Celebrity Health quiz. Tell us about your diet – do you eat enough fruit and vegies? I make sure I have at least two pieces of fruit every day. Apples and watermelon are my favourite. I think all vegies […]
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Reality TV
Deadly Vibe Issue 131 – January 2008 Aaron Fa’aoso breaks new ground in his latest foray into TV drama. STORY: Rudyard Kipling once said: “Oh, east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet”. While he was referring to the divisions between Britain and India during the late nineteenth century, the […]
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Michael Tuahine
In his final year of training at Sydney’s National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Michael Tuahine is set to consolidate his burgeoning career in the performing arts. Even before gaining admission to NIDA’s highly competitive acting course, Michael had proven that he has what it takes. A professional entertainer for over eight years, he has been […]
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Skin
David Page Born in Brisbane, David is a descendant of the Munaldjali clan, part of the Bundjalung nation from southeast Queensland. David’s music career began as a singer at age 13 when he recorded two singles for WEA and sang on television. In 1991 he joined Bangarra Dance Theatre as resident composer and performer, working […]
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David Page
Deadly Vibe Issue 99 May 2005 Growing Pains From child star to award-winning composer – David Page comes of age. While most of us were still playing happily running around the backyard, David Page was performing on television and recording top ten singles. An all-singing, all-dancing child star, little Davey Page was Australia’s answer to […]
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David Gulpilil
Deadly Vibe Issue 93 November 2004 The world’s his stage Throughout David Gulpilil’s one-man show which has been playing around the nation this year, he makes much of the trophies he’s won during his long and distinguished acting career. Now David can add another trophy to his collection – a big, pointy Deadly award and […]
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Luke Carroll
Deadly Vibe Issue 113 July 2006 Basic Instinct The challenge of the theatre is what keeps this talented young thespian coming back to the stage. Deadly Vibe chats with rising star Luke Carroll. Famed American actress Rosalind Russell once said: “Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly”. It’s a tough profession, the […]
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Russell Smith
As a third-year acting student at Sydney’s National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), Ngadjuri fulla Russell Smith is treading some of the most hallowed boards in the country. It makes quite a change from one of the first venues he performed in ” a public lavatory. When he was 16, Russell joined a Perth-based theatre […]
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Peta Strachan
Peta is a descendant of the Dharug people from the Kurrajong area of NSW. Peta began her dance training at the age of 13 with the Castlereigh School of Ballet, she studied the Ceccetti style of ballet ti immediate level, she also tought Jazz and Contemporary dance to classes at the school. While studying at […]
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Vicki Van Hout
Vicki Van Hout is a Wirradjerri woman born in Wollongong,on the NSW south coast.Her involvement with indigenous performing arts started when Vicki was hired as an actor for the inaugural Aboriginal Playwrites conference in 1986/87.Thereupon deciding to join the Aboriginal/Islander Dance theatre as a full time student,graduating with a diploma in dance and successfully gaining […]
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