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BIO: Paul Robertson has been a professional actor for over 25 years with multiple stage and screen credits, national campaign advertising, voice over and narration work. He has sung solo, choral, and character, and learnt choreo for musicals. He has been engaged in role play business training work for the Melbourne business school and the Mt Eliza centre for executive learning for over 10 years. He has experience as a writer for new Australian theatre and has coached actors for auditions and in character development and has trained actors in actor process.

BIO: Paul Wanis is an eloquent, charismatic, sophisticated and versatile actor. A physical comedian with unboundless energy, Paul can keep up with the best but also be very serious and dramatic when required. Paul speaks French fluently and can also do a wide range of accents.

Paul is highly expressive and is also a qualified Sign Language Interpreter.

Coming from a highly diverse ethnic background (a mix of Greek, French, Armenian, Syrian and Macedonian - and that's just his grandparents!), he is able to channel the vibrant emotions that embodies these cultures. He is a father to three (20, 18, 10) and has been working as a high level executive in the food industry for the past 20 years. He now runs a group of small busnesses that afford him the flexibility to pursue his passion for acting.

Recently, he's returned to amateur theatre after a 20+ year hiatus.