THE YEAR IN TATTERS

Ensemble Theatre: TOP SILK, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD, DIAL M FOR MURDER, EMERALD CITY, THE LOVER AND THE DUMB WATIER, MCGUFFIN PARK, UNCLE VANYA, THE GREAT DIVIDE, MIDNIGHT MURDER AT HAMLINGTON HALL, BENEFACTORS, RHINESTONE REX AND MISS MONICA, BOXING DAY BBQ, A DOLL’S HOUSE, THE WOMAN IN BLACK, OUTDATED, KENNY, CRUNCH TIME, THE ODD COUPLE, THE LAST WIFE, MURDER ON THE WIRELESS, THE BIG TIME, THE NORMAN CONQUESTS, SHIRLEY VALENTINE, TAKING STEPS, NEVILLE’S ISLAND, TWO, ODD MAN OUT, RELATIVELY SPEAKING, BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, BETRAYAL, GOOD PEOPLE, MY ZINC BED, EDUCATING RITA, ABSENT FRIENDS, OTHER DESERT CITIES, THE ANZAC PROJECT, RICHARD III, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, FRANKENSTEIN, MANAGING CARMEN, RED, THE SPEAR CARRIER and HAMLET. THE ODD COUPLE; The Comedy Theatre, Melbourne & Theatre Royal, Sydney for Crossroads Live Australia. Film: Co-writer and co-director of BEING GAVIN. Literature Illustration: CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS.

Andrew Hansen is best known as a member of the hugely popular Australian comedy group THE CHASER, whose hit TV shows include THE CHASER’S WAR ON EVERYTHING, THE CHASER’S ELECTION DESK, MEDIA CIRCUS, THE HAMSTER WHEEL, YES WE CANBERRA!, THE CHASER DECIDES and CNNNN. Andrew co-wrote, co-produced and starred in all those shows, as well as composing the songs. In 2023, Andrew’s documentary/comedy series Australian Epic premiered on ABC TV. Six very serious true stories – retold as musicals! Andrew was executive producer, co-writer, composer and lead actor. On the big screen, Andrew played ‘Dex’ in SANCTUM (Universal 2011). On Netflix he’s the voice of ‘Mr Mudwasp’ and ‘Alex the Stinkbug’ in BEAT BUGS (2017-18). On stage, Andrew composed and starred in the musical DEAD CAESAR (Sydney Theatre Company 2007), did two national tours with THE CHASER, and two national tours with Chris Taylor. In 2017, he starred in the play NEVILLE’S ISLAND (Ensemble Theatre Sydney). From 2020 to 2023, he toured three solo comedy shows of songs and sketches nationally. He also performs regularly at comedy venues around Australia. Andrew’s radio work includes composing and starring in the musical comedy series and ARIA Award winning album THE BLOW PARADE (triple j 2010). He presented RADIO CHASER daily on Triple M (2018-19). He has hosted many programs as a guest presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne, including summer, autumn and spring seasons of BREAKFAST (2019-present). Andrew narrated BAB SHARKEY AND THE ANIMAL MUMMIES, a series of four audio books that he co-wrote (W.F. Howes 2022-23). He plays various characters in the scripted podcast UNTRUE PRESENTS: THE UNDERDOGS (LiSTNR). He has also voiced many radio and TV commercials since 2002 for companies including Toyota, Commercial Radio Australia, and his sentimental favourite, Four’n Twenty Pies. In print, Andrew and his wife Jessica Roberts are the authors of the four volume junior fiction series BAB SHARKEY AND THE ANIMAL MUMMIES (Walker Books 2018-20). Andrew wrote for the humorous fortnightly newspaper THE CHASER (1999-2005), eleven Chaser Annuals (Text Publishing 2000-10), and occasionally the magazine Chaser Quarterly (2015present). He contributed short stories to BEST AUSTRALIAN COMEDY WRITING (Affirm Press 2016) and JOURNEY THROUGH HUMOUR (Oxford 2003). Andrew has presented guest lectures at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and the University of Melbourne. He has presented many readings of his junior fiction books at primary schools and school holiday events. In the corporate world, Andrew has been an MC for dozens of companies and organisations around the country.

Chris Taylor is a writer, performer and broadcaster who’s best known as a member of The Chaser team, responsible for ABC comedy shows such as CNNNN and THE CHASER’S WAR ON EVERYTHING, as well as numerous tv election specials. He co-hosted the drive show TODAY TODAY on Triple J, and also won a Best Comedy ARIA for THE BLOW PARADE, a radio mockumentary series he made with regular collaborator Andrew Hansen.  The pair also wrote the hit musical comedy DEAD CAESAR for the Sydney Theatre Company. For the Ensemble Theatre, Chris has appeared in the David Williamson play JACK OF HEARTS (2016) and NEVILLE’S ISLAND (2017). In 2019, Chris was the creator, co-writer and producer of the AACTA Award-winning television drama UPRIGHT for Foxtel and Sky Atlantic. In 2023, he and Hansen teamed up again to write and produce the musical comedy series AUSTRALIAN EPIC for ABC. Chris is a regular broadcaster on ABC local radio, and is currently developing a musical for the Bell Shakespeare Company.

Christie Whelan Browne is one of Australia’s most versatile stage and screen performers – “a musical and cabaret talent not to be missed”.  Christie was most recently seen on screen in COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS and ABC kids series KNEE HIGH SPIES. Her television credits include SPREADSHEET, MUSTANGS FC, NEIGHBOURS, THE WRONG GIRL, MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES, OFFSPRING and across seasons 10 – 15 of SHAUN MICALLEF’S MAD AS HELL. Christie also featured in popular mini-series PETER ALLEN – NOT THE BOY NEXT DOOR as Olivia Newton-John.  Christie has been delivering award-winning performances and delighting audiences since her iconic debut in GREASE – THE ARENA SPECTACULAR. Her indelible performances include roles in A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, and THE DROWSY CHAPERONE. As a mainstay of Melbourne Theatre Company, Christie has performed in several productions including LOSING FACE, AS YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH NIGHT, AN IDEAL HUSBAND and BORN YESTERDAY. In musical theatre, Christie has shown her triple-threat bona fides in many canonical works for all the major producers in Australia including defining roles in XANADU, MURIEL’S WEDDING THE MUSICAL and her award-winning turn in COMPANY.  Christie is the star of four one-woman cabarets all of which debuted at The Adelaide Cabaret Festival and toured to great acclaim.  In 2025 Christie stole her scenes as the antagonist in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of Australian musical BLOOM for Sydney Theatre Company and followed this as a co-star in the Australian Premiere of the Tony Award Winning Musical KIMBERLY AKIMBO for STC SA and MTC. On stage she was most recently seen in LOSING FACE for MTC.

Ensemble Theatre: THE SOCIAL LADDER, ULSTER AMERICAN, SWITZERLAND (set and lighting), THE GREAT DIVIDE (lighting), THE MEMORY OF WATER, RHINESTONE REX AND MISS MONICA, A BROADCAST COUP, THE CARETAKER, A DOLL’S HOUSE, NEARER THE GODS (set and costume). Lighting design credits; Belvoir St Theatre: THE JUNGLE AND THE SEA, TELL ME I’M HERE, THE WOLVES. Circa: SACRE. Darlinghurst Theatre Company: NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1912. Griffin Theatre Company: THE SMALLEST HOUR. Hayes Theatre Company: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. Outhouse Theatre Company: A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. Red Line Productions: BURN WITCH BURN, HAPPY DAYS, CHORUS, ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE. Pinchgut Opera: PLEASURES OF VERSAILLES.

Ensemble Theatre: THE ROOMMATE, THE DAPTO CHASER, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD, DIAL M FOR MURDER, THE LOVER AND THE DUMB WAITER, ARIA, UNCLE VANYA, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, BOXING DAY BBQ, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, A BROADCAST COUP, THE CARETAKER, NEARER THE GODS, DIPLOMACY, MURDER ON THE WIRELESS, ALONE IT STANDS, BENEFACTORS, SUMMER OF HAROLD. Bangarra Dance Theatre: WARU JOURNEY OF THE SMALL TURTLE, DUBBOO, ONE’S COUNTRY, OUR LAND PEOPLE STORIES, BLAK, BELONG. Duet Group: DIVAS. Hayes Theatre Company: SHE LOVES ME. Louise Withers and Associates: THE MOUSETRAP, A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED. Soft Tread: WHARF REVUE 2023: PRIDE IN PREJUDICE, WHARF REVUE 2022: LOOKING FOR ALBANESE, WHARF REVUE 2021: CAN OF WORMS. Sydney Chamber Opera: HIS MUSIC BURNS. Sydney Theatre Company: WHARF REVUE 2020; WHARF REVUE 2019; WHARF REVUE 2018; RUBY MOON. Tinderbox Productions: DAVID SUCHET, POIROT and more.

Ensemble Theatre: THE DAPTO CHASER, TRUE WEST, THE QUEEN’S NANNY TOUR, THE HEARTBREAK CHOIR, COLDER THAN HERE, THE GREAT DIVIDE, TODD MCKENNEY: PETER ALLEN AND ME. Belvoir St Theatre: LOSE TO WIN TOUR. Belvoir 25a: AN OX STAND ON MY TONGUE. Megan Bennetts: LOSING IT. Sport For Jove: THE PLAYER KINGS, VENUS & ADONIS, ROMEO & JULIET, TWELFTH NIGHT, MACBETH, RICHARD III, HENRY IV. Squabbalogic: HERRINGBONE. Company Stage Manager: Sydney Opera House & Caper & Crow: GATSBY AT THE GREEN LIGHT. Bar’d Work: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Assistant Stage Manager: Ensemble Theatre: UNCLE VANYA, MIDNIGHT MURDER AT HAMLINGTON HALL, ULSTER AMERICAN. Bell Shakespeare: THE LOVERS. Belvoir St Theatre: TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, SCENES FROM THE CLIMATE ERA. Opera Australia: LA TRAVIATA. Red Line Productions & Sydney Opera House: AMADEUS.  Film: 17 MINUTES, DISARMED, LIFE AFTER MAN, KAIROS, LONG STORY SHORT, PSEUDOMONAS, RITUAL, THIS TOWN AIN’T BIG ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF US. Music Video: AMALIA, IN HEART’S WAKE & RAYN.

Ensemble Theatre: BETTE & JOAN, DIAL M FOR MURDER, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, MCGUFFIN PARK, THE MEMORY OF WATER. The New Theatre: THE FLEA. Hayes Theatre Company: THE PIGEONS (With The Other Theatre). National Institute of Dramatic Art: 21 CHUMP STREET, EPHEMERA, MUSICAL THEATRE AND STAGE AND SCREEN SHOWCASE, TECHNICAL ARTISRTY SHOWCASE. Triple J: UNEARTHED PROJECT (with DICE). Frensham School: ME AND MY GIRL, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, GREASE, CLUE, THE BFG. Training: Diploma of Live Production and Technical Services at National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Ensemble Theatre: THE ELEVATOR, BETTE & JOAN,  FLY GIRL, HOW TO PLOT A HIT IN TWO DAYS, TRUE WEST, ARIA, UNCLE VANYA, MASTER CLASS, ULSTER AMERICAN, SWITZERLAND, ALONE IT STANDS, THE GREAT DIVIDE, THE MEMORY OF WATER, SUMMER OF HAROLD, MR BAILEY’S MINDER, BENEFACTORS, RHINESTONE REX AND MISS MONICA, THE CARETAKER, PHOTOGRAPH 51, THE ONE, OUTDATED, CRUNCH TIME, BABY DOLL, FOLK, LUNA GALE,
and many more. Bell Shakespeare: HENRY V, THE WINTER’S TALE,  MACBETH. Belvoir St Theatre: FANGIRLS. New Theatricals: DARKNESS. National Institute of Dramatic Art: THE GOVERNMENT
INSPECTOR, STAY HAPPY KEEP SMILING, THE TEMPEST, WOYCECK, A LIE OF THE MIND, PORT, THE THREESOME. Pinchgut Opera: THE FAIRY QUEEN, JULIUS CAESAR, RINALDO, MÉDÉE, PLATÉE and many more. Sydney Festival: BETTY BLOKKBUSTER RE-IMAGINED. Australian Chamber Orchestra: THE NUTCRACKER.