Lyndel Rowe

Lyndel Rowe
Nationality Australian
Occupation Actress

Lyndel Rowe is an Australian actress who is best known for her work with the Melbourne Theatre Company,[1] the Sydney Theatre Company[2] and the State Theatre Company of South Australia.[3]

Theatre

Ms. Rowe joined the Union Repertory Company (now the Melbourne Theatre Company) - in productions including Patrick White's Season at Sarsparilla, Waltz of the Toreadors, Arms and the Man, Ghost Train; toured Australia with J.C. Williamson's Goodnight Mrs. Puffin, with Irene Handl.

Travelling to England she studied at The Royal Court Theatre Studio, with George Devine and Keith Johnstone. Then a production with the International Theatre Company of The Seventh Seal (Painting on Wood). From there into repertory and into the company of a West End lunch-time theatre, TheatreScope, doing weekly seasons of one act Tennessee Williams, Ionesco, Anouilh etc.

Invited back to the Melbourne Theatre Company at Russell Street; roles including: Nancy - The Knack, Raymonde - Flea in her Ear, Irina - Three Sisters, Mary Warren - The Crucible, Margery Pinchwife - The Country Wife, Sheila - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Sandy - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Clarice - Servant of Two Masters, Marina - Pericles, Pip - Moby Dick, Grace - London Assurance, Charlotte - The Magistrate, Celemene - The Misanthrope, Gwendolyn - The Importance of Being Earnest.

Productions with the Sydney Theatre Company including the roles of: Kate - The Taming of the Shrew, Rose Trelawney - Trelawney of the Wells, Sonya - Uncle Vanya, Marianne - Tartuffe, Charlotte - The Real Thing.

With the South Australian Theatre Company: Phoebe - As You Like It, Daphne - Old King Cole, Jill - David Williamson's Handful of Friends. At the Playbox, Sydney,[4] played Lucy in the musical - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. With Nimrod Street (now Belvoir St.[5] ), Gwendolyn - Stoppard's Travesties, and an Australian tour of Doctor in Love.

In England with the Liverpool Playhouse: Anna - Old Times, Dianne - Absent Friends, Raymonde - Flea in Her Ear.

Films

Television

Ms. Rowe has been awarded a Television Society Award, and a Logie Award.

In 2004 appeared with Lewis Fiander in Afterplay under the direction of Malcolm Robertson, a UTRC veteran, at FortyFive Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne[7]

Present Interests

Lyndel's other base is London, where she has been writing novels, short stories and a screenplay. She has essays published in Meanjin, and twice chosen for publication in The Best Australian Essays [8]

Notes

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