Hitchcock Blonde
28 July – 19 August, 2006
Patrick Wilson
A graduate of the Academy Drama School in London, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Glengarry Glen Ross, Arsenic and Old Lace at Downstage in Wellington, The Bach, Twelve Angry Men for Auckland Theatre Company and Independent productions of the Sore Footed Man, The Cherry Orchard and The Changeling. Television and film credits include Crooked Earth, Savage Honeymoon, Interrogation, Spin Doctors Mercy Peak and Shortland Street, Maddigan's Fantasia and Orange Roughies. Patrick's 2nd Fortune Theatre production having played Colin in Roger Hall's Spreading Out last year.
Danielle Mason
Danielle Mason is a 2002 Toi Whakaari: The New Zealand Drama School graduate with a prior BA from Waikato University. Since graduating Danielle has been acting professionally for stage, screen and radio. Her screen credits include television series The Strip, Revelations and NZ feature film Futile Attraction. In 2004 she played Lisa in Miranda Harcourt’s production Collected Stories and Evelyn in Ross Jolly’s The Shape of Things both at Wellington’s Circa Theatre, for which she won the Chapman Tripp Award’s as Best New Actress and Most Outstanding Performance respectively.
Alister Browning
Alistair was born in Dunedin and has performed The Paradise Package, Antony and Cleopatra and Burn This at the Fortune Theatre. He has also worked in London, Melbourne, Perth, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Palmerston North; performing Angels in America, Arcadia, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, A Doll's House, Great Expectations, Hamlet, Insignificance, Middle Age Spread, Mother Courage, The Real thing, School for Scandal, The Secret Rapture, Three Sisters, Threepenny Opera, An Unseasonable Fall Of Snow, Who's Afraid of Vrginia Wolf? and many other theatre roles. Alister directed Terry Johnson's Hysteria at Court Theatre as well as Money and Friends and Blood.
On film he has had major roles in Fracture, Lord of the Rings, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Vertical Limit and received an award for his work in Rain. A short film, Us, is in this year's film festival. Televsion watchers will have seen him often; in Shortland Street, Street Legal, Spin Doctors, Jacksons Wharf, Hercules, Xena, Duggan, Riding High, Marling Bay, Gloss and The Sullivans.
Erin Banks
A newcomer to the Fortune Theatre and to Dunedin, Erin is based in Wellington. She was selected for the SGCNZ Young Shakespeare Company in 2001, her final year at college, then headed to Victoria University to do a BA in theatre and English Literature. Since arriving in Wellington she has performed in many shows at BATS, most recently Hate Crimes and the multi- award-winning I.D. She also appeared in Fallow for Hone Kouka's company Tawata Productions and earlier this year in Golden Boys at Circa. Erin has also worked extensively with David Lawrence's company The Bacchanals, earning a Chapman Tripp for most promising female newcomer for her role as Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream last year.
Mark Neilson
Mark Neilson was until very recently, a Dunedin based actor. He started his professional career in the (now infamous) TTR Theatre class of ’98, and later studied towards a degree in Theatre Studies at Allen Hall. He has been involved in many memorable Dunedin productions including the Globe Theatre’s American Buffalo in 2004, and The Jungle Book at the Fortune Theatre in 2002. He also played the hapless Ed in last year’s hit political mocumentary TV series, The Pretender.
