CAST and CREW
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CLAUDE JABBOUR
as Cardinal Theodore Claude Jabbour is an Australian theatre and film actor with a strong comedic background. Claude trained for over three years under Peter Kalos at the Melbourne Actor's Lab where he honed his skills in character work. He quickly built up a following online due to his popular comedy sketches, political satire and character impersonations - including Roger Federer, Tony Abbott and football commentator Ned Zelic. Claude first appeared on Australian television screens in a guest appearance on the Channel 9 production of Fat Tony & Co and became a regular guest on comedy football show B-League with Sam Mac and Jules. He also features in an upcoming Feature Film No Two Snowflakes, playing the comical Viv King - a cheesy Hollywood star. Recently Claude appeared on stage as Ralph in the Stephen Adley Gurgis play Motherf**ker with a Hat, by the Lab Theatre Company. Claude has also recently written and directed his own short films, Fernando and Vicky And Marissa's Hair Salon, which are currently on the festival circuit. |
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ANTHONY KUIPER
as Pope Stephen Anthony eagerly launched into life three-months premature, just as Miguel Indurain smashed the Tour-de-France, and hopefully not just as Asiana Airlines Flight 733 smashed into Mt. Ungeo. Formative years spent across Melbourne, Sydney and the Hunter Valley as an only-child meant that he went from talking with himself, to talking to adults, to talking before crowds of people. He developed a love for theatre, being on camera, literature and poetry. No longer believes in magic but he believes in the power of both humour and honest expression, on stage and on camera. Anthony has acted extensively within the Unimelb theatrical scene, in productions with companies like Union House Theatre, Melbourne University Shakespeare Company (Henry IV Part 1, and as Feste in Twelfth Night) & Four Letter Word (Don’t Bring Lulu; Sparkle Tits & Glitter Nips, and Apocalypse Tapes). He is a self-represented writer and actor. |
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NICHOLA VECCHIATO
as Imilia Under the guidance of Dulcie Lee, Nichola graduated a diploma in Performing Arts in 2003 and with a wide range of talents, including Illusionist; she has since enjoyed a successful career performing across the globe. Her first introduction to the professional stage was 2002 with The Production Company in ‘Hair’ directed by David Atkins. From here she fell in love with musical theatre also performing in ‘Rent’, ‘Sweet Charity’, ‘Grease’ and ‘Chicago’. Through her career has had the pleasure of working with Alannah Scanlan, Jason Coleman, Andy Hallsworth and William Forsith and Baz Luhrmann and has performed with renowned acts such as Kanye West, John Farham, Marica Hynes, Tina Arena, ‘The Veronicas’, Rickki Lee, Kimbra and Tina Cousins. Her versatility has seen her on stage in Musical Theatre, Magical Illusions and performing at Arias and AFI awards not to mention appearing in countless corporate functions, film clips, variety shows and on cruise ships. She has appeared in multiple films; ‘Jack’s Final Thrill’, ‘The Orchids’, ‘2am’, ‘Torn’ and even dabbled in Bollywood with feature film ‘Salaame Namaste’. Her TV credits include resident dancer for channel 9, ‘Neighbours’, ‘It Takes Two’ and TVCs for Australia and overseas. Producing and directing her own stage shows, Nichola gained more love and excitement for all aspects of the Performing Arts and is passionate to never stop growing as an artist. After working with Emma Buckley on ‘Jack & Jill’ and ‘Squizzy Taylor’s Ball’ Nichola is thrilled to once again fall under her direction and reunite with some familiar faces in ‘Horrendus!’ |
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HARLENE HERCULES
as Guida Harlene resigned from her proper job (teaching) at the end of 2012 because she wanted to perform somewhere…anywhere. Harlene first met the director Emma Buckley whilst working on her show 'Jack and Jill: The Poisoners of London'. Harlene knew she wanted to work with Emma again and so she did. She met the playwright and - parliamentarian Neil Cole, while volunteering at Channel 31 and subsequently was cast in 'Who Saved JFK?', 'Billy Possible', 'Where to From Here?' '1916' and 'Billy Thorpe and Leigh'. Some of these were under the direction of Emma Buckley and this made Harlene happy. She then performed in 'Jack and Jill: The Devil Chemists of Whitechapel', reprising her role as the Madame. She first performed in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2015 in the sell out show 'Centrelink the Musical'. This was well received and was invited to reprise her role in 2016 as the over-the-top method actress, Thyme. Harlene has had roles in various television shows and commercials such as 'Newton’s Law', 'The Ex-Pm' Season 1 and 2, 'Wrong Girl Season 2', 'Utopia Season 3', 'RU OK?', 'Catch Coupons' and 'Worksafe'. Harlene is looking forward to returning to theatre and working with Emma Buckley and the gang from 'Jack and Jill'. |
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CAMPBELL GRUITERS
as Ferante Campbell has been acting since he was 7 years old and has a passion for film and TV, and is not fussed if it is in front or behind the camera. No friends are safe when they visit his house and end up in a film production of some sort. Campbell has recently finished shooting a short film with Magnetizer TV called Ghost Turd which is released March 2018. Other credits include TV commercials for Target, Coles, BUPA and Origin Energy. He has also enjoyed extras roles with Little Lunch, Molly Meldrum miniseries and Shaun Micallef's ‘Mad as Hell’. Since starting High School Campbell has found his way on to the stage and played Jojo in Suessical the Musical and Cook in the stage play Mother Courage and her Children. He is also looking forward to this years school production of the musical, Godspell. Campbell has a love for behind the scenes film production and enjoys editing scenes he has directed and acted in with friends or fellow acting buddies. He is often found in his home editing suite learning new special effects techniques and music and sound editing. In 2016 Campbell won Active Performance Studios (APS) Short Film Festival Best Actor for his groups short film ‘Revenge’ and in 2017 received an APS Short Film Festival Achievement Award in Editing for his groups entry ‘In Touch’. Campbell is delighted to be cast in his first comedy festival production and is looking forward to working with an amazingly talented cast and crew. In his spare time Campbell enjoys soccer, tennis, trampolining and doing tail whips and bar spins on his scooter. His favorite singer is Bruno Mars and favourtie You-Tuber is Ali-A. And like all teenager boys he loves spending time playing on his PS4. |
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MATT HOOD
WRITER Matt is an artist, writer and musician, whose performance work has included stage acting, roving characters, puppeteering and voice acting. His previous writing work includes short fiction, poetry and song writing. A self-confessed serial hobbyist, Matt also creates his own puppets, creature costumes and stage props, and can often be found loitering suspiciously at various shows and events. Horrendus! is his first play. |
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EMMA BUCKLEY
DIRECTOR & PRODUCER Emma is a Writer, Director and Producer based in Melbourne. Completing her Masters in Film & Television Production at The Victorian College of The Arts (2006) Emma wrote and directed a number of award-winning short films including Paper Cut (2004), Fleabag (2006) and Anything You Can Do (2009); screening at national and international film festivals. A position as Head Puppeteer on Golden Owl Event’s Red Bird and Death (2012) Fringe Festival show turned her attention to theatre and she hasn’t looked back since. Jack and Jill: The Poisoners of London (2013) was Emma’s debut in writing and directing for the stage, followed byJack and Jill: The Devil Chemists of Whitechapel (2014). She wrote and directed the roving performance of Pop-Up Events’ Squizzy Taylor’s Ball (2014 and 2015). Emma later teamed up with award-winning playwright Neil Cole to direct several theatre shows: Where to From Here?(2014), Who Saved JFK?(2014 & 2015), Billy Possible (2014 co-director), and Songs From The Kop (2016). She also stage-managed Nina Simone: Black Diva Power at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015. Emma is completely stoked that Matt Hood has entrusted her with bringing Horrendus! to life, and she is thrilled to be working with such a talented and deranged team of creative geniuses. |
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MATT BROWN
MUSIC COMPOSER mbryo (Matt Brown) returns to the Horrendus team with an original score inspired by Byzantine chants, medieval instrumentation and a splash of distortion. Also at the Comedy Festival this year, his music features in Rod Lara’s Banjo at the Spiegeltent. 2017 saw mbryo working with Illumi-Nation Theatre on Sarah Cane’s 4.48 Psychosis (Melbourne Fringe) and Daniel Keene’s Lost: 5 (Poppyseed Festival), and with Owl and Cat Theatre for Erasers, INT, A Very Modern Marriage, Asylum and A Matter Of Life And Death, amongst others. For the screen his credits included Black Death (Global Mana Foundation, USA), Stella Dimadis’ Lifting Clouds (Medea Films), Polyamor and Wish (Kamizai Films) and The Phantom Frequency (NYFA Sydney). His interest in gaming and interactivity has led to working with Arludo on educational mobile games and, previously, with Tentative Games on Lamb Slam. Trained at La Trobe University’s infamously experimental music school in Melbourne, mbryo incorporates numerous styles, including art and orchestral music, metal, blues and electro, with a textural focus. He also creates interactive, aleatoric audio/visual works for his band XIBE8 utilising computer and voice. mbryomusic.com xibe8.com 
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OLIVIA DUVAL
PRODUCTION DESIGNER MARKETING MANAGER GRAPHIC DESIGNER Olivia Duval is like a Swiss-Army Knife of the arts world. She pretty much does it all. As a contralto trained in several dance styles Olivia has performed in nine musicals, including 'Fiddler on the Roof', 'Oklahoma', 'Pinocchio' and 'The Pirates of Penzance', and backstage-crewed on several further productions. Olivia directed the theatre shows 'Snow White Strikes Back' and 'The Red Bird and Death', the latter shortlisted to the "Top 10 Pick of the Fringe" for the 2012 Melbourne Fringe Festival. In the film world she's won two short film competitions and has worked on over 30 short film productions and a few features, including crewing on the blockbusters 'I, Robot' and 'Catwoman' in Canada. As a sculptor Olivia has won nearly a dozen awards and competitions and her exquisite fantasy sculptures have been showcased and sold to private collections around the world. Olivia absolutely loves puppetry and has built various creature effects and special props for film, theatre and burlesque performers. She's also worked for Wicked of Oz Studios making horror film effects and prosthetics. As a digital artist she's done plenty of graphic design and fashion photography production, and has created entire marketing packages for other major arts productions like 'The Goblin Ball' and 'Jack And Jill: The Poisoners of London'. In Melbourne Olivia is most well known as the founder and creative force behind Golden Owl Events. As the Events and Marketing Manager she has invented, designed and run nearly 30 public and private events over the last decade. Most recently Olivia appeared as a catwalk model for the Melbourne Alternative Designer's (M.A.D.) Fashion Showcase, and worked as 1st Assistant Director for 'Into The Limelight' - supporting people with Schizophrenia and mental illness. Olivia is currently working on several new events, sculptures and projects and is delighted to be part of the Horrendus! team. |
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GABRIELLE SAVRONE
LIGHTING DESIGNER Gabrielle completed her bachelor of creative arts Drama /Visual arts 2014 at Deakin University.
Gabrielle has created, directed multiple shows in many genres including RIOT (Starring Jonathan Peck) 2014, The Winners (Starring Ra Chapman) 2016, and After Party (World Premier SOLD OUT Season) 2015. She has been flown internationally for her directing twice with FleshEatingTiger 2016 and A Very Modern Marriage 2016 to showcase as featured performances at The Last Frontier playwriting Conference in Valdez, Alaska. Acting from a young age, Gabrielle has been on screen and stage, career highlights include Blue Heelers, The Gruen Transfer, and an award winning one woman theatre show at the Seymour Centre in Sydney written by Wendy Harmer and Sancia Robinson, What is the Matter with Mary Jane. Gabrielle owned and operated The Owl and Cat Theatre for 3 years, producing over 20 world premiere full length plays and participating in festivals such as MIFF and MICF. She also founded and curated 2 new festivals, ORGASM short play festival and PLATFORM new works festival. She has also teched on over 40 theatre shows. Gabrielle is currently the artistic director for Fresh Youth Theatre 2018 and works in casting at Highway Casting in Prahran. |
