You Can’t Escape an Aussie Boy
Cast & Crew Bios
Shane Palmer as Stephen Doolan
Based in Melbourne, Shane has appeared in a wide range of roles on stage and screen, from Snow White to the notorious Bushranger Dan Kelly.
Shane has appeared in Neighbours as Felix Benson, as a tyre technician in a TVC for Mobile Tyre Shop, and featured as the Bellboy in the Korean-Australia feature film Road to Boston.
He wrote, produced and performed as Stephen in You Can’t Escape an Aussie Boy; which premiered at The Butterfly Club in November 2023.
He wrote, produced and performed in Echoes of Villers-Bretonneux, a solo theatre show that followed the journey of a reluctant volunteer to the nightmarish trenches of the Western Front in WW1. The show enjoyed a successful full-season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019.
Shane is represented by Bedford & Pearce.
Jeremy Harland as Dan Davies
Jeremy is a passionate Melbourne based performer that has been involved in the world of theatre and performing from a young age, discovering a love for storytelling and music. He recently completed his training at The Arts Academy.
There he has worked on various productions including ‘MOTORMOUTH LOVES SUCKFACE: An Apocalyptic Musical’ by Ant Crowley. Jeremy was also fortunate enough to premiere the role Lachlan Green in the Green Room nominated, ‘A Zoom Group Project: The Musical’.
He is an avid theatrical writer - writing 2 new Australian musicals, alongside premiering the role of Dan in ‘You Can’t Escape An Aussie Boy’, in November 2023, and is excited to premiere Fresno: In Concert - a new Australian musical co-written with Josh Connell - this March at The Butterfly Club.
Nathan Wright as Tim Bramwell
Nathan is an actor and improviser.
He most recently had a dramatic turn as Mark/Mia Price in Peridot Theatre Company's production of 'Things I Know To Be True.' His other theatre credits include Fred in Drama King Theatre Company's production 'Heads or Tails' and Jimmy in 'Spud' as part of PlaySix Festival for Birnam Wood Theatre.
His short film credits include the leading role of Jim in 'Dependency' and Father in 'Happy Birthday To Me.'
His acting training includes the '10 week essential program' at Howard Fine Acting Studio, 'US Sitcom Masterclass' at Tafta, 'The Foundation Year' at Film and Television Studio International, and Improv Levels 1-4 at The Improv Conspiracy.
Nathan is excited to be back to his comedic roots for 'You Can't Escape An Aussie Boy' as he gets to combine two of his loves, theatre and footy, with the role of Tim!
Riley Longworth - Director
Riley grew up in Frankston, right against a beach he couldn’t surf and dancing between more than several part time jobs instead of focusing on school. Any money he earned he took to my local video store and burned on as many overnighters he could afford. Anything he had left scored the requisite popcorn to see him through until next week.
Raised on a diet of action and horror films, he was constantly in awe of fights and guts getting sprayed across the screen, desperately trying to figure out how they filmed it. Leaving high school he knew he wanted to be in the film industry in any capacity, and with no money to afford a camera he committed to becoming a screenwriter. Pens are pretty cheap these days.
Going to VCA gave him the confidence to call himself a writer at parties, and working in the industry gave him perspective on how to showcase his writing. He learned more about his favourite movies from toes to nose working as a script assessor for production companies XYZ, Village Roadshow, and Zero Gravity Management.
To this day he’s still watching a lot of movies, and still buying a lot of pens.
You Can’t Escape an Aussie Boy is Riley’s directorial debut.