David Whiteley

David Whiteley is the Artistic Director of Red Stitch Actors Theatre and has been a part of the company since its inception.  He has appeared in many of its shows, including the award-winning Howie the Rookie by Mark O'Rowe (Red Stitch Season, Sydney Tour and Victorian Regional Tour), Some Voices by Joe Penhall (Red Stitch Season and Victorian Tour), The Night Season by Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Arts Centre, Melbourne International Festival), the Green Room Award winning production of Harvest by Richard Bean, Pool (No Water) by Mark Ravenhill, Farragut North by Beau Willimon and The Grönholm Method by Jordi Galcerán Ferrer.

His film and TV credits include appearances on City Homicide, The Hollowmen, Stingers, Good Guys Bad Guys, the US Beastmaster series, Ponderosa and The Man From Snowy River. He also appears in the feature films Exit and The Killer Elite.

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Brett Cousins

Brett has a degree in Drama from Rusden University.  His career highlights include seasons with the Bell Shakespeare Company and the Australian Shakespeare Company as well as being a founding member of Red Stitch Actors Theatre. In 2005, he was awarded the Green Room Award for Best Actor in Independent Theatre for his performance as Ray in Red Stitch's production of Some Voices. Other Red Stitch credits include:  The Night Season, the Green Room Award nominated The Shape of Things, This Is How It Goes, Jack Goes Boating, Motortown and Marie Antoinette – The Colour of Flesh. Brett's film and television work includes roles on The Games, Bootmen, JAG, My Brother Jack, MDA, The Secret Life Of Us, Stingers, Marshall Law, Blue Heelers, Good Guys Bad Guys, Disney Channel live UK and the regular lead role of Ben Atkins on Neighbours (1998-99).

Kat Stewart

Kat Stewart has been an ensemble member of Red Stitch Actors Theatre since 2002 and has appeared in over a dozen plays for the company including The Little Dog Laughed, The Shape of Things, Rabbit Hole, Bug and Loyal Women. She has also worked with MTC on Festen and Frost/Nixon.   Kat received Green Room Awards in 2004 and 2006, and nominations in 2004 and 2008.    

For television, Kat is best known for playing Roberta Williams on the highly acclaimed first series of Underbelly for which she received the AFI Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama and the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress.  More recently Kat has appeared in the acclaimed Southern Star/Showcase drama series, Tangle and in Andrew Denton’s comedy series, 30 Seconds.  Other television credits include 3 series of Shaun Micallef’s world affairs satire, Newstopia (SBS), the BBC2 comedy series, Supernova for which she earned a Logie nomination (Most Outstanding New Talent) as well as recurring roles on City Homicide, Kick, and Last Man Standing, many guest roles and short films.   

Kat made her feature film debut in Alkinos Tsimillios’ Em for Jay and played Lady Macduff in Geoffrey Wright's contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth.  In 2010 Kat will appear in the new Southern Star/Channel 10 production, Offspring.

Daniel Frederiksen

Daniel studied at NIDA and has been a member of Red Stitch since 2002.  Red Stitch credits include: The Play about the Baby, The Day Room, the 2007 national touring production of The Shape of Things, and After Miss Julie and The Pain and the Itch. Daniel has also appeared for the MTC in Francois LeTourneau’s Cheech, Or The Chrysler Guys Are In Town (2005), Don Juan in Soho (2007) and Rockabye (2009) .  He was a series regular on Channel 9's Stingers and appeared in the Hollywood film Ghost Riders (featuring Nicholas Cage). In addition to many other guest roles (Young Lions, Blue Heelers), Daniel was nominated in 2007 for an AFI in the award winning miniseries Bastard Boys (Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama).  In 2009, he appeared in Leaves of Glass and Lobby Hero at Red Stitch.

Sarah Sutherland

Sarah Sutherland graduated from the National Theatre Drama School in 2000. Since then she has appeared in Little Time Bombs, The Dam, The Mary Project, Dirty Angels and The Opportunity Shop (all at La Mama) and a solo show, Can't Help Myself (45 Downstairs). Television and film credits include The Director, In Your Dreams, The Academy, Stingers and Blue Heelers. Sarah appeared as a guest actor at Red Stitch in Fewer Emergencies and joined the company as a new ensemble member in 2007. Her other Red Stitch credits include After Miss Julie, Motortown, The Pain and the Itch and Red Sky Morning.

Andrea Swifte

Andrea is a graduate of  the VCA  School Of Drama and has worked as an actor, director, writer and teacher in theatre, film and television for 30 years.  She has established a wide and varied body of work with many companies including La Mama, the Courthouse and Theatreworks including Storming Swanston St by Tram, The Normal Heart, and Branch Theatre's recent production of Ibsen's Ghosts.  Andrea has also appeared in MTC productions: Nana, Heart For The Future and Julius Caesar; Playbox/Malthouse: All Souls, Face To Face and The Fortunes Of Richard Mahoney, for QTC and Malthouse.  TV credits include; The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, Stingers, The Secret Life Of Us, Phoenix, Janus, The Last Of The Ryans and The Hollowmen.  Her film work includes many shorts and the feature films Lonely Hearts, Till Human Voices Wake Us and, most recently Torn. In 2008 she appeared as a guest actor for Red Stitch in The Pain And The Itch by Bruce Norris, and shortly after accepted an invitation to join the company as a permanent ensemble member. Since then she has appeared in the Red Stitch productions This Wide Night by Chlöe Moss, On Ego by Mick Gordon & Paul Broks and the upcoming production of Fatboy by John Clancy.

Erin Dewar

BA (Performing Arts) (BAPA), B.Teach (Primary) (University of Melbourne).  Theatre credits include Women of Troy, Julius Caesar, The Girl Who Wanted to be God (Dancing With Strangers, Theatreworks), A Walk Through the Life of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes (Women of Asia for the Melbourne Writers Festival) and Macbeth (Blue Rose).

Erin joined Red Stitch as an ensemble member in 2006 and has appeared in Harvest, Crestfall, Rabbit Hole, The Pain and the Itch, Marie Antoinette – The Colour of Flesh, Yellow Moon and The Rites of Evil. This year, Erin received a Green Room Award nomination for her body of work in theatre before appearing in the return season of Red Sky Morning at the Victorian Arts Centre as part of the 2009 FULL TILT Season. 

Erin's film and TV credits include Blue Heelers, Holly's Heroes, Wicked Science, The Floating Brothel (ABC/BBC), Underbelly, Neighbours and City Homicide.

Ella Caldwell

Ella is a founding member of Red Stitch. She appeared in the company’s first production, Extremities, and has since appeared in numerous Red Stitch productions including Yellow Moon, The Winterling, The Little Dog Laughed, Jack Goes Boating, Crestfall, The American Pilot, The Night Season (including a season at the Victorian Arts Centre for the Melbourne International Arts Festival), Bug, The Day Room, Loyal Women, Outlying Islands, Red Shorts, Push Up, and Dirty Butterfly.

Ella has also worked with Phunktional Dance Theatre, touring the company’s production of Love Drunk.

Television and Film credits include Blue Heelers, Neighbours, and the award winning short film Yellow Brick Dreams

Dion Mills

Dion studied at the University of WA (1984-88) before being accepted into NIDA. Moving to Melbourne in 1995, Dion has appeared in many theatre productions, including The Tempest (Horned Moon Productions, CUB Malthouse), Marat Sade (Athenaeum Two), The Lover (Wax Studio), (Artifice Productions, The Warehouse, North Melbourne), Betrayal, The Maids, and Love, Valour, Compassion! (Gasworks Theatre, midsumma festival). He appeared on TV as the long-running killer, Conrad, in Stingers. He joined Red Stitch officially in 2003, after having appeared in The Lights as a guest actor, and has subsequently appeared in Outlying Islands, Under the Whaleback, The Night Heron, The Day Room, Pugilist Specialist, The Country, Fewer Emergencies, Harvest, Hellbent, Motortown, the Green Room Award nominated Pool (No Water), The Work of Wonder, Yellow Moon, In a Dark Dark House and Fatboy.

Tim Potter

Bachelor of Dramatic Arts (VCA), BA Melbourne University (English and Creative Writing). Tim is a published author of both poetry and non-fiction. In 2003 he was awarded a scholarship with the St Martins Arts Centre Performance Ensemble, and the following year represented Victoria in the National Finals of the Melbourne Comedy Festival 'Raw Comedy' stand-up competition. Whilst at the VCA, he was the recipient of the George Tallis Award. He was selected to join Red Stitch in the inaugural year of the company's Graduate Programme in 2008.

His theatre credits include: Too Young for Ghosts, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Who’s Afraid of the Working Class, The Perjured City, The Venetian Twins and Yes. In 2008 he appeared in Love Lies Bleeding and The Work of Wonder at Red Stitch and in 2009 played the leading role, Jeff, in Kenneth Lonnergan’s Lobby Hero and Xavier in The Rites of Evil. His television and film credits include: City Homicide, Balls, and King Penguins.

Karen Sibbing (Graduate Program)

Before studying at the VCAM, Karen graduated as a Drama teacher and Theatre maker in The Netherlands, and worked with several Dutch directors: both in traditional and experimental productions.

Karen graduated from the VCAM with a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts in Acting in 2009. And has joined Red Stitch as a Graduate Program ensemble member in 2010.

Her theatre credits include: The women of Troy, The Seagull, Julius Caesar, Vinegar Tom, Peer Gynth, The Bourgeous gentlemen and Invisible stains.

Karen is currently working on The Colour of Glass, for La Mama. 

Olga Makeeva

Olga trained in the Stanislavsky Method at the State Academy of Theatrical Arts, Moscow. On graduating in 1986 she joined the Soviet Army Theatre doing classical and contemporary works by Lope De Vega, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Mayakovsky, Goldoni, Shakespeare, and Duma amongst others, performing in Moscow as well as on tour throughout the USSR. The coming of ‘perestroika’ saw her active at the ODD & EVEN Theatre reviving the avant-garde OBERIU movement -suppressed by Stalin in 1930’s. Invited to the 1990 Zurich International Theatre Festival she played Donna Matrioshechka in Vladimir Kazakov’s Don Juan. Olga came to Melbourne in 1999 and her Australian debut was in Playing the Victim at Red Stitch Actors Theatre (2005). This was followed the next year as the mother in The American Pilot. She was in History of Motion Pictures (2007) and The Three Oaks (2008) both at LaMama. At the Gasworks Theatre in 2008 she played Maniefa in The Scoundrel That You Need. Olga worked at Red Stitch as an assistant director on Yellow Moon, In A Dark Dark House and On Ego in 2009 and has designed many costumes for the company in recent years. She appeared in Fatboy before joining the company as an ensemble member in 2010.