ANDREW SHARP
ACTOR
Welcome!
The purpose of this website is to introduce my work to you.
Between 1966 and the mid-1980s I worked extensively as an actor in all media in both Australia and the UK. For the last 30 years or so I have acted less, concentrating on other paths, including opera directing, teaching English through drama and owning and operating a boutique hotel in a small NSW country town.
Now, older and more unwise, I'm returning to my first passion - acting.
I hope you will enjoy these samples of my work. My agent is Yasmin Horner at Storm Actors, Sydney.
Andrew
Some scenes from earlier film and tv work
Andrew Sharp - Actor's biog
STAGE
1966. The Artful Dodger in Oliver! (J.C.Williamson’s, Theatre Royal, Sydney)
1971. Billy Crocker (lead) in Anything Goes! (South Coast Summer Theatre, Nowra,dir. Colleen Clifford)
Hal in Loot (South Coast Summer Theatre, Nowra, dir. Terence Clarke)
James in The Miracle Worker (South Coast Summer Theatre, Nowra, dir. Colleen Clifford)
1971 -2. Numerous university productions as part of the Drama course at UNSW.
Various roles in French Folly, (a theatre restaurant review at Sydney’s “Whisky A-Go-Go”, dir. David Mitchell)
Various roles in Julius Caesar (Old Tote Theatre, dir. Richard Wherrett)
1973. Theatre in Education touring with Pageant Theatre Company
Various roles in The Legend of King O’Malley (Revival, Richbrook Theatre, Sydney, dir. Michael Boddy)
Jack Shannon in Peter Kenna’s A Hard God (Nimrod St Theatre, dir. John Bell)
Various roles in Peter Handke’s Kaspar (Nimrod St Theatre, dir. Richard Wherrett)
1974. Jack Shannon in three state tour of A Hard God (Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane)
Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Show (Original Sydney production, takeover cast. Harry Miller, New Arts Cinema, Glebe, dir. Arthur Dignam, Jim Sharman) (6 months)
1975. The Kid in Sam Shepard’s The Unseen Hand (Technical Smile, Stables Theatre, dir. Mark Gould)
Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (Harry Miller, New Arts Cinema, Glebe) (For final 6 weeks of Sydney production.)
1976. A brother in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Paradine Paterson, Seymour Centre, dir. Rufus Collins)
Roy Child in Patrick White’s The Season at Sarsaparilla (Old Tote, dir. Jim Sharman)
1977. Marcellus, Rosencrantz, Gravedigger in Hamlet (Hunter Valley Theatre Co, dir Terence Clarke)
Sports commentator in Alex Buzo’s The Roy Murphy Show (HVTC, dir John Tasker)
Les’s boxing coach in Jack Hibberd’s The Les Darcy Show (HVTC)
Various roles in Victoriana (Theatre restaurant review, HVTC)
Orlando in As You Like It (Opp. Angela Punch-McGregor as Rosalind, Jane St Theatre, dir. Aubrey Mellor)
1978. Father Sylvester (lead) in Beyond the Rainbow (Harold Fielding, Adelphi Theatre, London)
1978/9. Hermann in Simon Gray’s four-hander Stagestruck (Michael Codron, Vaudeville Theatre, London, dir. Stephen Hollis) Original cast, 12 month run, opposite Alan Bates.
1979. The Boy in Stephen Holt's Men (Lunch-hour theatre, The Soho Poly, London)
1979. Clifford Anderson in Ira Levin’s Deathtrap (Garrick Theatre, London – take-over cast, dir. Michael Blakemore)
1981. Henry VIII in Royal Gambit (All Soul’s Players, Off-Broadway, New York)
1985. Peter in Louis Nowra’s The Golden Age (Playbox Theatre, Melbourne, dir. Rex Cramphorn, original production)
Ligurio in Machievelli’s The Mandrake (Harold Park Hotel, Sydney, dir. Alex Galeazzi)
1987. Colin (lead) in David Williamson’s Emerald City (NSW Regional tour for New England Theatre Company, dir. Murray Foy)
Various roles in Traveling Light, (a dance piece created by Meryl Tankard for Melbourne Festival)
1996. Joseph Garcin in Jean-Paul Sartre's No Way Out (Brighton Actors Theatre, dir. A. Sharp)
2014/5. Various Roles in The Gielgud Memorandum, Orators and An Evening Without Clive James, three “anthology theatre” pieces compiled and directed by Bob Ellis and performed at Gleebooks, Sydney and at Sydney Writers Festival
2016. Harold Slocum in Nick Enright and Terence Clarke's Summer Rain (New Theatre, Sydney, dir. Trent Kidd)
FILM
1976. Steve in Summer of Secrets (Prod. Michael Thornhill, dir. Jim Sharman)
1982. Peter in Buddies (prod. John Dingwall, dir Arch Nicholson)
1983. Arthur Burley in Undercover (Prod. David Elphick, dir. David Stevens)
Julian in Mirror on the Moon (Prod/dir Leandro Katz, New York)
1989. Major Tim Swift in Outback (Dir. Ian Barry)
1993. Ross Delhunty in The Custodian (Prod/dir John Dingwall)
TV
1974. Class of ’74 (Channel 7, pilot only)
Shannon’s Mob (Guest, 1 episode) (Fauna Productions)
A Hard God (ABC TV, dir Alan Ashbolt)
1975. Homicide (Guest, 1 episode) (Crawfords)
Bobby Dazzler (Guest, 1 episode) (Crawfords)
1977. Andrew Baxter in The Young Doctors (Continuing role, 10 months) (Grundy’s)
1982. Keith Drysdale in Taurus Rising (Continuing role in 13 part series) (Grundy’s)
1985. Michael Craig in Glass Babies (Mini-series) (prod. PBL)
Joe in Sword of Honour (Mini-series) (prod. Simpson Le Mesurier)
1993. Dr Rickman in Time Trax (Aust'n/American co-production)
2002. Dr Alan Simpson in All Saints
Various TV commercials, including McDonalds, Domestos, Cadbury's, Holden, British Airways etc
Also numerous training films and student films.