Biography
Trung Ly is one of Australia’s top and award-winning martial arts fight choreographers who started out on short films such as "Enter The Dojo", "Gaffa", "Hit Girls" as well as on Hollywood legend Roger Corman's martial arts movie "Fist Of The Dragon". In 2014, he was the Action Fight Choreographer on ABC's TV series “Maximum Choppage” – Australia's much-publicised first Kung Fu comedy set in Cabramatta. He also choreographed the battle scenes in David Bradbury's ABC1 documentary "The Crater" in 2015.
Trung is the founder, owner and Master Instructor of Dong Thanh Martial Arts Association, Australia's largest and one of the oldest Vietnamese non-profit martial arts schools based in Western Sydney. Dong Thanh has been a catalyst of cultural diversity since the late 80’s and has been a crucial place for young people streaming in from refugee backgrounds to develop and therefore adhere to traditions in martial arts skills, specialising in XMA (Extreme Martial Arts) classes. Because of his integrity and authenticity in staging fight movement, he has become one of the influential proponents in this field today.
Trung has studied martial arts since 1984 and is skilled in Shaolin, Kung Fu and Vo Vi Nam, to name a few. He is a current master in Hapkido and has mastered martial arts weaponry such as the nunchucks, staff, swords and hand-to-hand combat. He leads the Xtreme Martial Arts team and also choreographs the lion and dragon dance team, which is renowned for its lively and spectacular performances across Sydney particularly during Chinese New Year Festival.
In addition, Trung has 16 years experience as a QANTAS aircraft engineer and holds a pyrotechnic license, making him very qualified to handle practical, stunts-based effects such as blood splatter, explosions and weaponry.
Biography
You cannot find a more dedicated and flamboyant dancer than Suppakorn Chuwongwut, who trains for four hours a day, six days a week in Ballroom and Latin styles. He is a Ballroom teacher who worked with Thailand Dance Sport Association and had the privilege of extensive training with Marcel De Rijk (former President of the Dance Sport Association in Holland). When he moved to Australia, he continued his employment at The Promenade Dance Studio, under proprietor Leanne Bamptom (acclaimed "Dancing with the Stars" choreographer).
Whilst he graduated from accounting at University of Thailand where he had learnt about financial management, his true passion lies in dance. Suppakorn’s leadership skills and choreography of variety of dance styles—both socially and professionally—are faultless, attentive and punctual. Alongside his ageless, leathery smooth and approachable looks as a model, he treats the stage as an intimate and flirtatious partner, which is why people tend to gravitate towards him and all the best moves.
Suppakorn’s performance on “So You Think You Can Dance”, which saw him finishing in Top 100 was his first foray into television. However, it was not until at the start of 2015 that he had the great pleasure of acting as Nutt in “Down Under”, a satirical feature about the Cronulla riots. He hopes that the screen will be the start of his lifelong love affair with screen entertainment.
Biography
Stefo Nantsou is an actor/writer/director. He has acted in feature films, short films, web series, on TV and in over 200 theatre productions worldwide, playing a broad range of ethnicities such as Macedonian, Lebanese, Greek, Italian, Anglo-Australian, South American, North American, Samoan, Spanish and Russian respectively. He is adept at both comedy and drama, can play a variety of genres, and is best described as a versatile character actor. He has also directed over 130 theatre productions worldwide and written over 50 plays, having 3 books published in his almost 40-year career.
Born in Newcastle, Australia from Macedonian parents, Stefo co-founded the Ship-O-Fools in 1980, was an ensemble actor/writer with Freewheels Theatre (1983-84) a full-time ensemble member of Sydney’s Sidetrack Theatre (1985-87), and founded Zeal Theatre in 1989, now celebrating 30 years of touring original theatre worldwide receiving critical acclaim and numerous awards for their powerful and thought-provoking productions dealing with contemporary social issues with biting humour and empowering truthfulness. Under Stefo’s accomplished directorial leadership, Zeal has created over 50 original productions, notably “Joyride” (600+ performances throughout Australia & New Zealand ‘92-‘96) and “The Stones” (performed with co-writer Tom Lycos 1400+ times worldwide, also translated in more than 30 countries). Zeal Theatre received the prestigious ASSITEJ President’s Award for ‘outstanding services to the theatre for young people industry’ in Montreal, Canada in 2005.
Stefo was resident director at Sydney Theatre Company 2009-2013 where he wrote, directed and acted in 10 original productions. He has also directed his plays for companies around Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Norway, Hungary, South Africa, New Zealand and Wales.