Justin Truloff
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Justin Truloff is an Australian stage
actor
, best known for his work in musical theatre.
Tourist Industry & Olympic Torch Ceremony in 2000.
He graduated from the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music in 2005 with a Bachelor of Music Theatre with credits that include Willy in Copacabana
, Willard in Footloose
, swing in Chicago
, Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera
, Tom Wallaby in Gjin Gjin, Ginger Mick in The Sentimental Bloke
, The Wiz
, My Fair Lady
, Aspects of Love
, Land of Smiles and Dale Kerrigan in the world’s first stage production of Australia's The Castle
.
Justin toured Queensland with Brisbane's Fame Theatre Company's production The Adventures of Captain Senses and made his Brisbane
debut in The Full Monty
at QPAC in 2006. He played Shem in Harvest Rain
’s production of Children of Eden
in 2007 and toured Queensland again with Fame Theatre Company’s Round And Round The Mulberry Bush.
In August 2007 he played Munkustrap
in Harvest Rain Theatre Company
's production of Cats
alongside Angel Dormer, Justin Geange and David Knijnenburg
under the direction of Tim O'Connor and with choreography by Callum Mansfield. Since then, he has appeared in Simon Gallaher's The Mikado
in both the Brisbane and Adelaide seasons, as a member of the male ensemble and understudy to Koko, played by The Umbilical Brothers'
Dave Collins. Justin is married to fellow performer Naomi Price
.
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, best known for his work in musical theatre.
Biography
Justin's performing career took shape at age 15 when he was selected to be a presenter in a promotional film for the MackayMackay, Queensland
Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....
Tourist Industry & Olympic Torch Ceremony in 2000.
He graduated from the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music in 2005 with a Bachelor of Music Theatre with credits that include Willy in Copacabana
Copacabana (musical)
Copacabana is a TV-musical, stage musical, and nightclub show written by Barry Manilow, based on the song of the same name. The show toured the United States and, as of 2006, became available to license to performing companies and schools for the first time....
, Willard in Footloose
Footloose (musical)
Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name. The music is by Tom Snow , the lyrics by Dean Pitchford , and the book by Pitchford and Walter Bobbie.-Act 1:...
, swing in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...
, Tom Wallaby in Gjin Gjin, Ginger Mick in The Sentimental Bloke
The Sentimental Bloke
The Sentimental Bloke is an Australian silent film based on the 1915 poem The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by C.J. Dennis.The film, from the Southern Cross Feature Film Company of Adelaide, was made by Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, at that time the best known partnership in Australian cinema...
, The Wiz
The Wiz
The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...
, My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...
, Aspects of Love
Aspects of Love
Aspects of Love is a musical/chamber opera with a book and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart. It is famous for the song "Love Changes Everything."...
, Land of Smiles and Dale Kerrigan in the world’s first stage production of Australia's The Castle
The Castle (film)
The Castle is a 1997 Australian comedy film directed by Rob Sitch. It starred Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Sophie Lee, Eric Bana and Charles 'Bud' Tingwell. The screenwriting team comprised Sitch, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Jane Kennedy of Working Dog Productions.The Castle was...
.
Justin toured Queensland with Brisbane's Fame Theatre Company's production The Adventures of Captain Senses and made his Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
debut in The Full Monty
The Full Monty
The Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber, and Hugo Speer. The screenplay was written by Simon Beaufoy...
at QPAC in 2006. He played Shem in Harvest Rain
Harvest Rain
Harvest Rain is the musical project of Jason Thompkins. Born and raised in South Carolina, Jason Thompkins created Harvest Rain to capture the Autumnal phenomena of Southern history inside of Harvest Rain's music. It has been labeled as neofolk music. Members include Axel Frank of the German...
’s production of Children of Eden
Children of Eden
Children of Eden is a two-act musical play with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John Caird. The musical is based on the Book of Genesis. Act I tells the story of Adam and Eve, Cain, and Abel, and Act II deals with Noah and the Flood...
in 2007 and toured Queensland again with Fame Theatre Company’s Round And Round The Mulberry Bush.
In August 2007 he played Munkustrap
Munkustrap
Munkustrap is a Jellicle cat, named in T. S. Eliot's poem "The Naming of Cats". He is a principal character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats.-The musical:...
in Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....
's production of Cats
Cats (musical)
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...
alongside Angel Dormer, Justin Geange and David Knijnenburg
David Knijnenburg
David Albertus Trelawney Knijnenburg is an Australian stage, television and film actor, best known for playing Alfred Hitchcock in his stage production Hitchcock & Herrmann and in assorted roles in Twelfth Night Theatre's numerous stage adaptations of classic BBC television series such as Dad's...
under the direction of Tim O'Connor and with choreography by Callum Mansfield. Since then, he has appeared in Simon Gallaher's The Mikado
The Mikado
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations...
in both the Brisbane and Adelaide seasons, as a member of the male ensemble and understudy to Koko, played by The Umbilical Brothers'
The Umbilical Brothers
-History:They met in 1988, at the University of Western Sydney in a jazz class, , where David swung around and broke Shane's nose...
Dave Collins. Justin is married to fellow performer Naomi Price
Naomi Price
Naomi Price is an Australian stage actress, best known for her work in musical theatre.- History :Price moved from England to Australia to study at Queensland University of Technology in 2003...
.
Theatre
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly... |
Levi Levi Levi/Levy was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi ; however Peake's commentary suggests this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite... / Butler Butler A butler is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some also have charge of the entire parlour floor, and housekeepers caring for the entire house and its... |
Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... /QPAC) |
| 2009 | The Mikado The Mikado The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations... Adelaide season |
Ensemble Ensemble cast An ensemble cast is made up of cast members in which the principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production. This kind of casting became more popular in television series because it allows flexibility for writers to focus on... /Understudy Understudy In theater, an understudy is a performer who learns the lines and blocking/choreography of a regular actor or actress in a play. Should the regular actor or actress be unable to appear on stage because of illness or emergencies, the understudy takes over the part... - Ko-Ko |
Directed by Craig Schaefer (Essgee Productions) |
| 2008 | The Mikado The Mikado The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations... Brisbane season |
Ensemble Ensemble cast An ensemble cast is made up of cast members in which the principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production. This kind of casting became more popular in television series because it allows flexibility for writers to focus on... /Understudy Understudy In theater, an understudy is a performer who learns the lines and blocking/choreography of a regular actor or actress in a play. Should the regular actor or actress be unable to appear on stage because of illness or emergencies, the understudy takes over the part... - Ko-Ko |
Directed by Craig Schaefer (Essgee Productions) |
| 2007 | Best of Broadway and Beyond | Soloist | Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... ) |
| 2007 | Cats Cats (musical) Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot... |
Munkustrap Munkustrap Munkustrap is a Jellicle cat, named in T. S. Eliot's poem "The Naming of Cats". He is a principal character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats.-The musical:... |
Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... ) |
| 2007 | Little Women Little Women Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869... |
Laurie | Directed by Joanna Butler (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... ) |