CAST

MEG TARANTO (she/they) - ROSALIND

Meg is a performer, theatre maker, writer, director and dramaturg working across stage and screen in Naarm (Melbourne) In 2021 Meg completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) where they were awarded the Patricia Kennedy scholarship for outstanding achievement in performance. Whilst at VCA she devised work for Otello…What’s Changed? (dir. Robert Draffin), Sleep Faster! Show Cat! (dir. Emma Hall), Robert Mueller’s Day Off (dir Jason Maling) Low Hanging Fruit (dir Company 2021), created the participatory work Who Are You to Me? (2019) for the DISCORD879 festival and alongside the other members of Water Closette Company devised their graduating work B**CH. Meg also directed Our Father by Lucy Holz (Melbourne Fringe, 2019) and acted as dramaturg on Ned Kelly the Big Gay Musical (dir. Kaine!). She will assistant direct An Uncertain Time (dir. Sarah Austin, Arts Centre Melbourne) in mid 2023. Meg has been published in Voiceworks magazine and wrote their first play The Magpie in 2021 With every project Meg hopes to use the vitality of storytelling to make the world a more empathetic place

VERONICA PENA NEGRETTE (she/her) - LUCY

Veronica Pena Negrette is a Venezuelan-Australian actor based in Naarm/Melbourne, who is a 2022 graduate of a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Her credits at the VCA currently include ‘Palace of Illusions’ (dir Sonya Suares), Paulina in ‘The Seagull’ (dir Bagryana Popov), Gemma in ‘First Love is the Revolution’ (dir. Georgina Naidu) and #25 in The Wolves (dir. Yoni Prior). Additionally performing in a handful of short films outside of VCA while studying, performing for Midsumma Festival and Melbourne Fringe in a show titled ‘Slutnik’ (dir. Tansy Gorman) and creating and performing an original work titled ‘I love Your Process’ performed at the VCA Muse Festival, with the goal of putting it onstage in 2023. Veronica is bilingual and speaks fluent Spanish and is also a dancer with 10+ years of training However, her favourite hobby is getting lost in the many worlds film and theatre have to offer, and she dreams of being a part of those stories herself.

EDDIE ORTON (he/him) - FRED

Eddie is a graduate of the National Theatre Drama School. Recent stage credits include Let The Right One In (Darlinghurst Theatre Co), Touching The Void (MTC), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Outhouse Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Essential Theatre), Our Blood Runs In The Street (Red Line/ Chopt Logic), If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You (Green Door), Extinction of the Learned Response (Belvoir 25A), Jurassica (Red Stitch Actors Theatre) and The Players (Bell Shakespeare) Screen credits include Framed (SBS) and the feature film About An Age. Later this year, Eddie will be appearing in Every Lovely Terrible Thing (Lab Kelpie) at Theatre works. Eddie is proudly represented by Ian White Management.