Sally McLean
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Sally McLean is an Australian actress who has played leading roles on the London stage in various productions including Macbeth
, Hamlet
, Top Girls
, Uncle Vanya
and the World Premier of Annabel’s Requiem. She has appeared on UK television in The Bookworm,The 80’s, The Late Show and as "Angie Powers" in the BBC mini-series Bootleg
.
McLean is a graduate of The Actors Institute, London (UK). On the Australian stage, her credits include leads in On the Town, Song and Dance
, Annie
, Lovepuke and the professional Australian Premier of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at the Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne. Australian television credits include Lowdown
, Elephant Princess, Fast Forward, Blue Heelers
, Tonight Live and Comedy Inc.
Film credits include Without A Word, Interchange, Within and the UK features A Little Rain Must Fall, Ladybird and Secrets.
As a screenwriter, playwright, director and producer Sally has written, directed and/or produced a number of successful films and plays under the banner of her production outfit, Incognita Enterprises (formally Salmac Productions), which began life in 1997 under the honorary patronage of British actor, Sir Nigel Hawthorne
. These include the short films fixNATION and Brigit & Benny (a modern faerietale) and the plays Chasing Pegasus and P.S I Love You. Her most recent theatre project as writer/director was the WWII drama, Bayonets & Bully Beef, which was showcased at the Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, under her direction in July 2005.
McLean's recent work includes the film Why Must The Show Go On? as "Madeleine La Roy" (which she also co-wrote) and the role of "Dowsabel" in Robert Benedetti's adaptation of William Shakespeare
's The Comedy of Errors
for the Australian Shakespeare Company.
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
, Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
, Top Girls
Top Girls
Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It is about a woman named Marlene, a career-driven woman who is employed at the 'Top Girls' employment agency. The play examines issues of gender discrimination present in the Thatcherite society that it is set in...
, Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow première in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski....
and the World Premier of Annabel’s Requiem. She has appeared on UK television in The Bookworm,The 80’s, The Late Show and as "Angie Powers" in the BBC mini-series Bootleg
Bootleg (miniseries)
Bootleg was a 2002 miniseries for children, commissioned by the BBC and based on a book of the same name by Alex Shearer. It was made shown as a three-part series in the UK in 2002, was then broadcast in Australia and all over the world....
.
McLean is a graduate of The Actors Institute, London (UK). On the Australian stage, her credits include leads in On the Town, Song and Dance
Song and Dance
Song and Dance is a musical comprising two acts, one told entirely in "Song" and one entirely in "Dance", tied together by a love story.The first part is Tell Me On A Sunday, with lyrics by Don Black and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, about a young British woman's romantic misadventures in New York...
, Annie
Annie (musical)
Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...
, Lovepuke and the professional Australian Premier of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at the Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne. Australian television credits include Lowdown
Lowdown
"Lowdown" is a song written by Peter Cetera and Danny Seraphine for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their third album Chicago III . It was the second single released from this album, and peaked at #35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100....
, Elephant Princess, Fast Forward, Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...
, Tonight Live and Comedy Inc.
Comedy Inc.
Comedy Inc. was an Australian sketch comedy television series, which ran on the Nine Network from 1 February 2003 to 26 December 2007. The series was produced by Crackerjack Productions. It first premiered in February 2003 in the new wave of Australian sketch comedy shows being launched across the...
Film credits include Without A Word, Interchange, Within and the UK features A Little Rain Must Fall, Ladybird and Secrets.
As a screenwriter, playwright, director and producer Sally has written, directed and/or produced a number of successful films and plays under the banner of her production outfit, Incognita Enterprises (formally Salmac Productions), which began life in 1997 under the honorary patronage of British actor, Sir Nigel Hawthorne
Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role he won four BAFTA Awards during the 1980s in the...
. These include the short films fixNATION and Brigit & Benny (a modern faerietale) and the plays Chasing Pegasus and P.S I Love You. Her most recent theatre project as writer/director was the WWII drama, Bayonets & Bully Beef, which was showcased at the Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, under her direction in July 2005.
McLean's recent work includes the film Why Must The Show Go On? as "Madeleine La Roy" (which she also co-wrote) and the role of "Dowsabel" in Robert Benedetti's adaptation of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
's The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors is one of only two of Shakespeare's...
for the Australian Shakespeare Company.