FELICITY BURKE - Director, Actor

As an actor, Felicity has appeared as Beatrice Lacy in Rebecca, Mrs Read in Jane Eyre, Liz in Wild Horses, Lady Brockhurst in The Boyfriend, Mrs Pearce in Pygmalion, Apple Annie in Annie, Mrs Burling in An Inspector Calls, H.M. Queen Elizabeth II in Olympic City Massacre (an original musical); Lacy Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, The Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Rosemary in Confusions, Queen Elizabeth I in Mary of Scotland, and Irish Woman in Saints and Sinners. These performances have taken place between 1997 and 2005, and have been with Campbelltown Theatre Group, Centre Stage Players, St John’s Dramatic Socirty, WOFTAM (World of Fine Theatre and Entertainment), Mercedes Theatre Group, IPAC Theatre, Myers Theatre and Short and Sweet – Best of the Rest.
Felicity’s production and direction credits include Fish and Ships (production assistant, costumes, set design and props); High Society (assistant Director/ production assistant); Arsenic and Old Lace (director, set design and dressing, sound design, program design); Sleeping Beauty Pantomime (writer, director, merchandise and props); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (director, set design, sound design, lighting plot); The Right Size (director); Trade (director); Allergic to New Lambton – short film (writer, director); Short Fuse Filmfest (festival director); Between Mouthfuls (director); Short and Sweet; Dry Drunk (writer, director), The Real Inspector Hound; Black Comedy (director). The first of these was at Araluen Arts Centre; Alice Springs Children’s Theatre; many have been with Campbelltown Theatre Group; more recently in Short and Sweet, Newcastle Shoot Out Film Festival, Henry Lawson Theatre group and the Stoppard double at Parramatta Riverside.

Felicity can be contacted at burkef@ispdr.net.au

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