A number of recent graduates have been successfully working on a variety of projects. They include…

	Kat Stewart Graduate 1998 Kat Stewart has cemented her place as a major Australian performer since winning the AFI award for Best Actress for Underbelly in 2008. She is currently in the new TV series ‘Offspring’ but continues her close personal involvement with the Red Stitch Theatre Company in Prahran. Kat was recently nominated for the TV Week Logie award for Most Outstanding Actress for her role in Offspring 2011.
	Richard Davies Graduate 2005 Rick has had regular series roles in ABC TV’s ‘Bed of Roses’, ‘Saddle Club 3′, guest roles on ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘Rush’ and has appeared in numerous short films and commercials. ‘When the Wind Changes’ a film he wrote and starred in was a recent hit at the Melbourne Internationl Film Festival. Rick is now a regular on the Channel 10 series Offspring for which he has received a TV Week Logie nomination for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent 2011.
	Nathan Strauss Graduate 2005 Nathan continues to be the well-known face of the “Call Jason…” RACV TV Campaign. He has acted in a number of fringe plays and films. Nathan has also turned his hand to directing and has several premier productions to his credit.
	Isabella Heathcote Congratulations also to former student (2008) Isabella , winner of the 2010 Heath Ledger Award. Bella’s recent film credits include leading roles opposite Johnny Depp & Brad Pitt. Bella’s current international film credits include Dark Shadows, Cogan’s Trade and Twilight Zone.
	Glenn van Oosterom Graduate 2006 Since graduating Glenn has played Romeo in the Australian Shakespeare Co’s Romeo and Juliet in the Botanical Gardens, toured nationally in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, played Marcel in Proust on Love at the Stork Theatre and done extensive voice-over, film and television work. Current;y Glenn is touring in The Sum of Us with Steve Bisley.

Also our congratulations to

Geraldine Quinn

Graduate 2001
for winning the Goldern Gibbo Award in the 2011 Comedy festival

and

Esther Hannerford

two time Green Room Award Winner and 2011 Helpmann Award Winner as Penny Pingleton in the recent hit musical Hairspray 2011

National Theatre graduates are becoming regular featured artists at the Red Stitch Actor’s Theatre.

In 2010 James Taylor (2007 graduate) performed in the very successful production of Stop Rewind and this year recent graduate Brett Ludeman, in addition to a six month residency with the company, appeared in The Laramie Project – 10 Years On and is also in The Aliens. Ngaire Dawn Fair (2008 graduate) also performed with Red Stitch in 2011 in the popular play My Romantic History.

James Taylor

Ngaire Dawn Fair

Brett Ludeman