An Officer and a Gentleman - Sydney Lyric, The Star, Sydney from 18 May 2012

In 2004, Ben originated the role of Billy Kostecki in the world premiere production of Dirty Dancing at Sydney's Theatre Royal for Jacobsen Entertainment. He has since performed in every English speaking production of Dirty Dancing including the original Australian/New Zealand Tour, West End Premiere (London), North American Premiere (Toronto) and the U.S National Tour.

Other musical theatre credits include HAIR directed by David Atkins, the role of Stewpot in South Pacific, and the lead role of Billy in the original Side Show Alley workshop directed by Gale Edwards. Opera credits include The Pirates of Penzance, The Magic Flute, The Mikado and Don Giovanni. He performed as soloist for Opera in the Park in the Hunter and has sung the US national anthem for the Chicago Bears and the Boston Celtics.

As an actor Ben has appeared in guest roles on Australian TV dramas Blue Heelers and All Saints.

For The Production Company, Amanda has appeared in Mame, She Loves Me, Guys And Dolls, Oklahoma! and most recently as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes.

On London's West End Amanda has appeared as Ali in Mamma Mia! She was also an Original London Cast member of We Will Rock You. Amanda's TV appearances in the UK include Parkinson, Children In Need and guest roles in Oscar Charlie, Grange Hill and Casualty. As a finalist in the inaugural Voice of Musical Theatre for BBC Radio 2, Amanda featured in a BBC documentary about the competition Broadway Babies, which aired throughout the UK and Australia. In New York Amanda sang at Carnegie Hall in Australia Plays Broadway as part of G'day Australia Week in 2009.

Amanda is most well known for originating the role of Elphaba in the Australian production of Wicked for the Gordon Frost Organisation. For playing the role, Amanda was nominated for Green Room, Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. She is delighted to be appearing once again for GFO in their World Premiere of An Officer And A Gentleman.

Prior to that Alex starred in The Boy Friend (Tony), Camelot (Lancelot), Kiss Me, Kate (Gremio), Annie Get Your Gun and The Pajama Game for The Production Company. He played dual roles of Joe Kennedy Jr and Jerry in their final 2011 production, Grey Gardens.

Further theatre credits include the New Zealand and Korean tour of The Rocky Horror Show (Brad Majors), Fiddler on the Roof (TML), Sideshow Alley the Musical (QPAC), solo shows A Momentary Act and, for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Experiment; and a range of concert and benefit appearances including City of Stonnington's Musical Melodies in the Park and Very Special Kids remembrance days.

On television Alex has had roles on Channel Ten's Rush and the ABC's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

Alex is a graduate of The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

He is delighted to join Gordon Frost Organisation for the first time in the role of Sid Worley in their world premiere production of An Officer and a Gentleman.

Kate's theatrical work includes productions of Dust, Chicago, Miss Julie, Into the Woods, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Secret of Salvador Dali, The Vagina Monologues and Art & Soul.

In 2005, Kate starred as Stephanie in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Cheech, and then held the lead role of Beatrice in the Australian Shakespeare Company's Much Ado About Nothing. Then in 2007, she starred as Marguerite in the production of The Lover, which opened to rave reviews. Kate also appeared in Malthouse Theatre's production of Kitten and later starred in their production of Furious Mattress. In that same year, Kate played leading role of Ulrike Meinhof in Melbourne International Arts Festival production of Richter/Meinhof-Opera.

In 2011, Kate completed a hugely successful season of MTC's musical production Next to Normal and also started work in a recurring role for Conspiracy 365 television series for the Family Movie Channel.

Kate's film work includes King of the Mountain, On the Beach and more recently, the leading role of Katherine in the film Belladonna. In 2009, she filmed the feature Matching Jack and then this year finished working on Eliminated.

In 2004 Kate was nominated for the Most Outstanding Actress in a Television Series at the Logie Awards for her work in the television series Stingers. And in 2007, she was nominated for the Green Room Awards Best Solo Performance award for her work on The Lover.

Bartholomew has worked with Australia's leading theatrical producers and theatre companies including Gordon Frost Organisation, JC Williamson, Michael Edgley and the Victorian Arts Trust to name a few. Theatre credits include Jekyll and Hyde, Fiddler on the Roof, Titanic, A Little Night Music, Oliver, Man of La Mancha, The Sound of Music and I Love My Wife.

Bartholomew's repertoire further includes Side by Side, Company, Arsenic and Old Lace, Private Lives, Faces in the Street, Playbox and Mary Lives.

He has considerable television credits including some of Australia's most popular drama classics. These include Always Greener, All Saints, Heartbreak High, Murder Call, The Young Doctors, Skyways, Matlock, The Sullivans, The Challenge, Number 96, Tales of the South Seas, and Tough Nuts.

Bartholomew's film credits include Space and Beyond, Dynasty Behind the Scenes and the 2003 film Lucy - The Lucy Ball Story.

His voice can be heard behind several feature films and advertisements which include Superman Returns, Australia, Daybreakers and Mao's Last Dancer.

Musical Theatre credits include the critically acclaimed role of Mitch Mahoney in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2007) for which he received a Helpmann nomination. Bert appeared in both Melbourne and Sydney seasons for MTC/STC. Other musical credits are Next to Normal (2011), Kismet and Grey Gardens (2011) for The Production Company, Guys and Dolls (2008/09) for Shows Management, Leading Player in Pippin (2007) for Kookaburra, Full Monty (2004) for IMG, Jesus Christ Superstar (2000) for RUG UK tour and Showboat (1999) for Marriner/Livent .

For Adelaide Cabaret Festival he performed as a soloist in Songs for a New World (2003) by Jason Robert Brown and A Wild Party (2004) by Andrew Lippa. In 2011 Bert performed his critically acclaimed one man show written by Ross Mueller, When I Fall in Love - The Nat King Cole story to sold out audiences in both Adelaide and Melbourne.

Film credits include Animal Kingdom, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Rats and Cats, Evil Never Dies, Salem's Lot and the highly commended Australian short films The Cook and The Pugilist at Rest!

Television credits include Sea Patrol, Wilfred, Lowdown, Neighbours, God Guys Bad Guys, Blue Heelers, Simone De Beauvoir's Babies, Backberner, Flipper, City Homicide, Bogan Pride and twelve part television series Pirate Island :The Lost Treasure of Fiji.

Her television credits include Dance Academy Series 1&2, Home and Away, Answered by Fire, Blue Heelers, McLeod's Daughters, Loot, Second Chance, Salem's Lot, After the Deluge, Grass Roots, My Husband My Killer, Something in the Air, Dogwoman, Wildside, Water Rats, GP and as a presenter on Playschool.

Tara has performed for well respected theatre companies such as Bell Shakespeare, Sydney Theatre Company, Company B, Ensemble Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company.

Following the success of this production, Josh had his big break when in 2010/11, he played the lead role of Tony in the Australian national tour of West Side Story for Michael Brenner, BB Promotions GmbH, Howard Panter, Ambassador Theatre Group, The Bartner Group, Norman Tulchin, Lunchbox Theatrical Productions and David Atkins Enterprises.

Last year Josh played The Caliph in Kismet for The Production Company, Michael in Grease 2 for StageArt and performed his debut solo concert with John Foreman and his band in Sydney. Josh is thrilled to be a part of the An Officer and A Gentlemen cast, after performing the same role in the original workshop back in 2009. He would like to thank the team at Result Based Training and Dance Dynamics for getting him in shape for this role. He'd also like to thank his incredible family, in particular his beautiful wife Hayley, and his agent Liz Ellis, for their constant love, faith, support and never-ending belief in him.

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She then went on to study for a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting) at the VCA where, in her second year she was the recipient of the Richard Pratt Bursary for an Outstanding Actor.

Following her graduation in 2008, Zahra began a string of performances with the Melbourne Theatre Company, including Rockabye, Richard III, Clybourne Park and the Australian premiere of The Drowsy Chaperone performing alongside Geoffrey Rush and Robyn Nevin. She has also toured nationally with her critically acclaimed one woman show Random. In between her theatre commitments Zahra found time for a lead guest role in the Network 10 TV series Rush.

Josef's television credits include Home and Away, Spartacus - Gods of the Arena, the Logie Award winning Dance Academy and as Associate Producer and Camera on the documentary Art, During Siege for ABC TV.

As a choreographer Josef has worked with Sydney Dance Company, Newtown Performing Arts and in 2012 made his musical choreographic debut with the production of Every Single Saturday. In 2011 Josef was awarded grant from Voiceless, the animal protection institute, to produce The Funny Vegetarian webisode series.

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