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Jerry Lewis, the American comedian whose unrestrained comic style has made him one of the most popular performers of the 1950s and '60s. Lewis was born into a vaudeville family, and, at age 12, he developed a comedy act in which he mimed to records. He dropped out of high school in order to perform his speciality in New York City theatres, burlesque shows, and nightclubs. He first met singer D ...
Illustrators such as Jock Macneish are members of a small group of people who work somewhere between organisational theory and creative expression. He asks company stakeholders, mostly employees and managers but also customers and suppliers, to examine what needs to be done to improve an organisation and what impediments there are to achieving it. He gets people to draw a representation of what th ...
Jodie Joy is a versatile, polished performer with a powerful voice. With over a decade of combined experience within TV, radio, music theatre and touring stage shows internationally and producing nationally within the corporate market, Jodie is a accomplished performer working in Australia and abroad. One of Australia's finest adult contemporary vocalists, bursting with versatility, entertaining ...
Between sell out comedy festival shows, national theatre tours and corporate events, Joel Ozborn averages close to 200 shows a year. Joel's clean and professional comedy has made him a hit with corporate clients across the globe, including Qantas, Heinz, Budweiser and Toyota to name but a few. Whatever the corporate occasion, whether it's an award ceremony, gala event, conference, client party or ...
Joel started as a street performer. He spent four years on the road in Australia, Thailand, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, France and the UK, honing his skills in front of the toughest audiences in the world. Already a killer juggler and comic improviser, Joel began developing new ideas, combining music and juggling. He unveiled his unique electronic big beat juggling in Sydney night clubs in ...
Recognised as a Living National Treasure, John Bell is a trailblazer in the development of Australian theatre, with leadership lessons to share of Shakespearian magnitude.
They come to experience a recreation of the most celebrated and durable performance of all time. With uncanny natural ease, John Regan LIVES Neil Diamond's music - the style, the intensity of expression, the rich gravel-edged timbre, the presence.
John Regan is not a "Diamond impersonator". His Hot August Night is a well-crafted and professional stage show, born of his respect for Neil ...
John Safran is an Australian documentary maker and media personality, well-known for pranks and indelicate handling of controversial issues. He is known for his outlandish stunts such as rummaging through Australian television personality Ray Martin's rubbish in John Safran: Media Tycoon (an early pilot for a TV series), placing a temporary fatwa on the life of Rove McManus and sneaking nine young ...
John Waters is one of Australia's most recognised and respected film and theatre actors. Son of Scottish actor Russell Waters, John’s childhood was spent around film studios and appearing in minor roles. Arriving in Australia in 1968 he was cast in the US film Adam's Woman, landed the lead role of Claude in the 1969 production of rock musical, Hair alongside Marcia Hines, and later the role of Judas in Godspell. This quickly led to a flourishing career on stage, film, and television with ABC TV's Rush in 1974 earning him a Logie Award for Best New Talent, and quickly followed by films such as End Play, Summerfield, Breaker Morant, All the Rivers Run, Nancy Wake and Alice to Nowhere. From 1972 he hosted the children’s ABC program Play School for a decade, and regularly appeared until 1991, endearing him to generations.
Some 25 years ago in Perth, singer-guitarist Mark Lizotte (aka Diesel) finalised the line-up for his band at that time, Johnny Diesel and the Injectors. Within a matter of months they were on their way across the Nullarbor, blitzing it live and heading for a national top 3 album chart debut. In those intervening years since leaving Perth, he has sold in excess of 800,000 records and become a hou ...
