Blowing Whistles

Lindsay Farris ('Mark')

Lindsay commenced his professional career in 2002 in a production of Hello Dolly (The Production Company, dir Rodney Fisher). Other theatre work has included the title role in Hamlet (NIDA YAS); I'm not Rappaport (Ensemble Theatre); Seven Little Australians (New Theatre); Love of the Nightingale (NIDA); One in a hundred (The Street Theatre); Emergence (Synarcade); and a national tour with Brainstorm Productions. TV includes Sea Patrol, All Saints, Marking Time, Blue Water High and The Sleepover Club. Lindsay has had lead roles in the feature films Twists of Fate, Soul T.V, Drama, On the lurk with Roy and HG, and the short films The Ground Beneath and Splintered, which won much acclaim internationally, including a number of best actor awards, best film at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival and was a contender for the Oscars® in 2006

Lindsay Moss (‘Nigel’)
Lindsay graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts from ‘The Journey’ program at the Actors Centre. Since graduation he has appeared the numerous film and television productions including Jukebox Boys, Together Forever, Father Knows Best, Mortal Fools, Postcard Bandit, All Saints and Home and Away. His recent theatre work includes roles in Cosi (Newtown Theatre); Notes From the Underworld (Seymour Centre); 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress (Darlinghurst Theatre) and Aesop’s Fables (Q Theatre).

Neil Phipps (‘Jamie’)
Neil has appeared briefly on television (All Saints; Farscape), in the short film Happy Mother's Day for AFTRS and the series w0rk for Metro Screen, but his first love is the theatre. He has most recently appeared in The Cat Lady Of Bexley and There and Back with Theatre of the Deaf where he was able to utilise his Auslan signing skills; the world premiere of Any Port in a Storm at New Theatre; Nether at Wharf 2; Balm in Gilead with the Group Theatre at the Imperial Hotel; and This is a Play (Darlinghurst Theatre, 2007). His previous Mardi Gras appearances include the role of ‘Jamie’ in the staged reading of Blowing Whistles at the Imperial Hoteli 2007, and Metropolitan Operas at the Old Fitzroy. Last year he made the short film Switch for Diet Coke Films.