Tom Bradley

Tom has been acting since university where he spent most of his time performing. He played title role of Hamlet and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice both at the Alexander Theatre. He also appeared in Waiting for Godot and Euripides’ The Trojan Women.

After leaving university, Tom co-founded Stage Theatre appearing regularly in their repertoire including as Bosola in The Duchess of Malfi and Banquo in Macbeth performed in repertory at the Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre. He also appeared as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at the Grant Street Theatre. His last appearance for Stage Theatre was as the Duke in Measure for Measure at the Merlyn Theatre, St Martins.

Since then, Tom has performed on the screen with a small recurring role on Stingers. But he returned to the stage in productions of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and The Lion in Winter for the Australian Shakespeare Company. In 1999, Tom co-founded Touché Productions with Richard Aspel, and together they adapted The Three Musketeers which was initially performed at the Cromwell Road Theatre and subsequently outdoors at the amphitheatre at Albert Park Lake, in co-production with the Australian Shakespeare Company. Tom has also performed in Double Storeys at La Mama part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival and in a season of short plays at the Carlton Courthouse for the Melbourne Writers’ Theatre.

He is currently artistic director of Arrant Knaves, and he appears as Macbeth in the current production.

Christina Costigan

Christina is an actor, writer and theatremaker who has performed in countless plays over the course of a more than 30-year career. Highlights include Lady/Lord Capulet in a gender bending production of Romeo & Juliet, a terrifying priest in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, for Bloomsday in Melbourne at fortyfivedownstairs, and some exceptional monologues across several seasons of Madwomen Monologues with Baggage Productions, the independent theatre company she co-founded in 1999.

Christina has a BA Drama & Media from Rusden (Deakin University), and her extensive additional training includes improvisation at Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles, character and scene study work with Vincent Guastaferro (also in LA), and with Peter Kalos in Melbourne.

Christina appears as Lady Macbeth in Arrant Knaves’ production of Macbeth.

Lucy Norton

Since graduating from the National Theatre Drama School (St Kilda) in 2008, Lucy Norton has been involved in a multitude of independent theatre productions, corporate voice overs, short films, web-series, stand-up comedy, music videos, online ads and TVC. A recent highlight, Lucy & her partner had their short play performed Who Pooed It? An office comedy about, well yes, poo.

Lucy appears as the 3rd Witch, 1st Murderer & Young Siward in Arrant Knaves’ production of Macbeth.

Carissa McPherson (she/her),

Carissa is an actor and voiceover artist. She has studied under master teachers Mike Alfreds, Larry Moss, Patsy Rodenburg, Iain Sinclair, and Richard Sarell. Screen acting highlights include Nowhere Boys (ABC), Paper Giants: Magazine Wars (ABC), Neighbours and Conspiracy 365 (Foxtel FMC). She was nominated Best Supporting Actress at LA Film Festival for Janet in A Piece of Us (Dir: Justin Grant, 2020) and featured in multi-award-winning short TOMMY (Dir: Scott Dale, 2019).

Stage highlights include Teresa in The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson (Dir: Richard Sarell, Chapel Off Chapel, 2017), Olivia in Sex with Strangers by Laura Eason (Q44 Theatre, 2016) and Baggage Productions’ Madwomen Monologues (2012, 2020 & 2021 seasons). She is a Psychology graduate, currently completing post-graduate studies in Gestalt therapy.

Carissa appears as the 1st Witch & 2nd Orderly in Arrant Knaves’ production of Macbeth.

Nadia Andary

Nadia is an actor/singer whose stage credits include fabulous classics from Louis Nowra’s Cosi to various Shakespeare productions, to terrific contemporary works like Hotel Pedro, Ron and Isobel (La Mama), The Window Outside and Webley and Huxley (MWT), Play Six Festivals, and her own cabaret show at The Butterfly Club/Dantes. She has been involved with Baggage Productions’ Madwomen Monologues as director and actor over the past 10 years whilst also enjoying a role in their production of The Okinawa Hymen Repair Kit Factory.

Screen work has involved voiceovers and commercials, as well as appearances in short films, web series and television productions, including Neighbours, Aunty Donna’s Fresh Blood (ABC Pilot), Fergus in Hell and Sonnigsburg (Channel 31).

Carissa appears as the 1st Witch & 2nd Orderly in Arrant Knaves’ production of Macbeth.

Nadia appears as the 2nd Witch, Fleance & 1st Orderly in Arrant Knaves’ production of Macbeth.

Natasha Broadstock

Natasha has been acting since she was a child and directing theatre productions for over 25 years. Her favourite roles include two Australian premieres that hit the stage in 2022 – Julia in Ken’s Quest (at La Mama) and Barb in <i.Hostage (Melbourne Fringe at Gasworks) – as well as Volumnia in Coriolanus, Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Karen in The Wisdom of Eve and Jacko in the Channel 31 comedy series (Working) Holiday. She plays Elizabeth in the upcoming horror feature film Queen Evil.

Her directing highlights include the critically acclaimed demens, the hit ‘zom-com’ Anno Zombie, and her own swashbuckling, gender-bending adaptation of The 3 Musketeers (described by one critic as ‘an absolute masterpiece’).

Natasha appears as Malcolm in Arrant Knaves’ production of Macbeth.

Ross Larkin

Ross has been performing for two decades, appearing on stage and screen in Australia, the UK and USA, including an off Broadway run of Much Ado About Nothing, playing Benedick. Other roles have included Joe in Angels in America, Blore in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Parris in The Crucible, Jerome in Semi-Monde, Garcin in No Exit (In Camera) as well as fourteen different characters in Holding The Man.

Screen credits include TV shows Bloom, Rostered On, Fix Her Up and Tomorrow Tonight as well as numerous short films and web series.

Ross appears Macduff in Arrant Knaves’ production of Macbeth.

Ryan Rhys

Ex-chef turned theatre-geek, Ryan decided to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire which is the wonderful world of the Arts. He is a graduate of Verve Studios and a student of the VCA Music Theatre Studio 2016.

Ryan quickly became involved with a number of immersive experiences for The Burlesque Underground – and has toured several productions nationally and internationally with Hunted Interactive Experience & The Switch – Live Mystery Adventure.

Not long after, he debuted his original cabaret Life; Assembly Required for The Cabaret Showcases at Chapel Off Chapel to a sold-out crowd. When he isn't acting, he enjoys dabbling in the realms of voiceovers, singing, dancing and the occasional scribbling of a dramatic poem.

Ryan appears Hecate & Seyton in Arrant Knaves’ production of Macbeth.

Bruce Langdon

Bruce’s involvement in theatre began around the age of 14 and within a few years he was acting, directing and designing for some of the more progressive amateur ensembles which flourished in 1970s Melbourne. This internship was the catalyst for a journey that has seen him explore a myriad of styles and forms along with a repertoire of work as diverse and wide-ranging as NY’s Broadway and Off-Broadway, London’s West End, Chekhov, Shakespeare, Webster, Marlowe and, particularly in recent years, the new work of scores of local playwrights through projects for the likes of Melbourne Writers’ Theatre, Short And Sweet, Baggage Productions’ Madwomen Monologues, Ella Filar’s Krows Bar Kabaret and Play Six. It was after touring Australia in the ensemble of the Broadway version of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance over three years in the mid-80s that Bruce joined the Stage Theatre Company, an ambitious collective dedicated to the performance of Shakespeare and his near contemporaries. This was a particularly absorbing and enriching period of creativity which resulted in his first major staging of Macbeth, with Tom Bradley in the title role. Tom’s taut new edition of the text has allowed for an exhilarating reworking, refining and reimagining of that production, now featuring an ensemble of committed and outstanding performers drawn from the many companies Bruce has had the privilege of working with through the intervening years