Well known for her roles as ‘Robin Swallows’ in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and as ‘Cousin Nikki’ in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Gia has a host of film and television credits in both Australia and the United States. Gia received an AFI Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her stand-out role as ‘Liz Holt’ in Strictly Ballroom, and an AFI Award nomination for Best Lead Actress for her performance in Brilliant Lies. Gia’s first feature film was Love Letters from Teralba Road, directed by Stephen Wallace. Her other film credits include the award-winning Bliss, Phar Lap, Backlash, Primary Colours, Bad Company with Laurence Fishburne, Stick It, Year One with Jack Black, and most recently Jonathan Teplitzky’s Burning Man. For Griffn Theatre Company: The Kid and The Heartbreak Kid. Other Theatre: Marriage of Figaro for the Sydney Theatre Company; Don’s Party for the Playhouse Opera House and Melbourne Atheneum Theatre; A.B.C. and Shakers for Belvoir Street; Fair and Tender Ladies for Ensemble Theatre; Dancing Partners for Stables Theatre; Rocket to the Moon for New York’s Soho Rep; Working Title for the American Jewish Theatre; and Kathy Lette’s Wet Dreams directed by Lex Marinos, for the Sydney Festival. Television: Gia most recently appeared in Movie’s Network’s Small Time Gangster and ABC TV’s East of Everything. She is well known for her role on Police Rescue and has guest starred in numerous shows including A Country Practice, Seven Deadly Sins, Acropolis Now and G.P. in Australia, and in ER, My Big Fat Greek Life, Family Law and Without a Trace in the US.

Arka Das

Performer

Arka’s interest in acting began in 2003 when he entered the regional Youth Shakespeare Festival, and in 2004, won first place in the duologue category. He went on to be involved in productions of The Woman in Black, The Club and Layla and Majnun for the Ashfield Youth Theatre. Whilst at University he appeared in various roles in That’s How, Comedy Review, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Underpants, Guards Guards! and culminating in References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot for the Griffin Theatre Company. His short films include The Silver Platter, The Perfect Girl and Jagdish Ji which was screened at Flickerfest 2009. Another short film Shoebox went on to win the Lebanese Film Festival in 2013. Arka Das made his debut with the Ensemble Theatre in 2010 with his performance as ‘Suresh’ in Animals Out Of Paper, for which he was nominated for ‘Best Newcomer’ at the 2010 Sydney Theatre Awards. Arka returned to the Ensemble in 2011, and played the role of ‘Rocco’ in Casanova by Russell T. Davies. He performed in a community project entitled Deep Suburbia, for the Sydney Theatre Company in conjunction with BYDS in 2012, and has appeared in Tricky Business for Channel 9.

Blake Davis

Performer