Caroline McKenzie is an Australian stage and screen actress. She is a member of the theatre and dance faculty at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University.[1][2]
Television
editHer television work includes Ship to Shore, The Shark Net and The Sleepover Club.
She appeared in two TV films about the 1982 theft of gold bullion from the Perth Mint : The Great Gold Swindle (1984) as Detective Cvijic and The Great Mint Swindle (2012) as Peg Mickelberg.
Theatre
editHer theatre work includes:
- The 20s and All That Jazz, The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Fen and Safety in Numbers[3] for The Hole in the Wall Theatre.
- Godspell, Chicago, The Jack the Ripper Show, On Our Selection, A Chorus of Disapproval, Company and Barnum for The Playhouse Theatre (Perth) (productions broadcast on Australian National Theatre Live).
- The Philadelphia Story for Sydney Theatre Company.
- The Man From Mukinupin for Q Theatre.
- Ridin' High (as Ethel Merman) for Griffin Theatre Company.
- Face to Face (on tour around Australia and Brazil) and The Turning for Perth Theatre Company.
- The Crucible for the Black Swan State Theatre Company[4]
- Coram Boy for the Midnite Youth Theatre Company.
Reviews
editIn The Turning, "a malevolent matriarch as corrosive in her effect on a family as any military dictator on a nation's destiny. Caroline McKenzie's Nan, steely and precise in gesture, is a fine study in understated menace."[5]
References
edit- ^ "Caroline McKenzie - Principal Academy of Dance & Theatre Arts". principalacademy.wa.edu.au. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "MIMMA". MIMMA. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "Adding style to The Crucible". PerthNow. 22 May 2007.
- ^ "Retooled Winton tales travel well | The Australian". Archived from the original on 15 December 2012.