AustLit

Professor Anne Pender is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT110100256).

This ARC Fellowship supported a major study of Australian actors 'Players: the lives and work of the actors who created the national theatre of Australia between 1950-2012'.

I gratefully acknowledge Ms Kerry Kilner, Director of AustLit, and the AustLit Team at the University of Queensland for their work in publishing this peer reviewed essay series.

I also acknowledge the generosity of the following individuals and organisations for their advice and support of this project:

Robert Alexander, Helmut Bakaitis, Elspeth Ballantyne, John Bell, Wendy Blacklock, Julia Blake, John Clarke, Lois Collinder, Barry Creyton, Max Cullen, Maggie Dence, John Derum, Andrew Gilbert, Alan Hopgood, Genevieve Lemon, Zika Nester, Malcolm Robertson, Lyndel Rowe, Denise Scott, Andrew Sharp, Tony Sheldon, Henri Szeps, Nick Tate, Jacki Weaver

Jonathan Bollen

The Black Swan State Theatre Company

Corrie Chen

Lana Cooper

Tim Battin, Thomas Carter, Julian Croft, Heiko Daniel, Kath Dougall, Sue Fell, Steve Harris, Wendy James, Adrian Kiernander, Elizabeth McClelland, Celia Munro, Louise Noble, Peter O'Donohue, Jane O'Sullivan, Berenice Scott, Janice Shaw, Julie Shearer, Nicola Speden, Ruth Thompson and Fiona Utley at the University of New England

Merron Doyle and Claire Nesbitt-Hawes of the Ensemble Theatre, Sydney

Simon Drake, Jennifer Gall, Heather Gill, David Hogan and Graham Shirley of the National Film and Sound Archive

Dean Ellis, Street Theatre, Canberra

Margarita Georgiadis

Margaret Leask

Susan Lever

Julia Mant, NIDA Archive

Ian Maxwell

John McCallum

Robert McFarlane

Vicki McLean

Edwina Menzies

Grace, Louisa and Peter Quiddington

Meredith Rogers

Lisa Savage, Channel 7

Judith Seeff, Sydney Theatre Company Archive

Mark Seton

Peta Tait

Karen Williams, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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