Biography
Sophie Stephens is a young and accomplished performer. In 2011 she competed at the Dance Worlds in Orlando, Florida, winning 4th place in the National division. After successfully auditioning for entry into the QCGU Musical Theatre course, she has had the pleasure of playing roles such as Jack’s Mother in “Into the Woods”; Edith Middleton in “The Wishing Well”; Mrs Mullins in “Carousel” and Rose Ritz in “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”. Sophie also sang the iconic song Aquarius in the production of “Hair”. Sophie is excited to enter the world of Musical Theatre and aboard.
With an Irish-English background, Sophie grew up in a large, boisterous, cricket-watching family with three brothers and a sister. She began singing from a very young age in school choirs and performed at various carol gigs with artists such as Normy Rowe, Rikki-lee Coulter, Paulini and Shelley Craft over a 3-year period. Most of all, she is a huge Beyoncé fan and actually got to meet her in 2009.
If Sophie were to describe herself in one word, it would be quirky. She never misses a chance to have a laugh and make jokes. She believes that she is exactlylike the character Chandler from the TV show “Friends”! Her crazy dream in life is to star in an action movie and play Wonder Woman (though any superhero will do).
However Sophie often can also be deep in thought, understated and studiously apprised of current affairs, pop culture and youth issues. For instance, she ran a radio show on 4ZZZ called “Alphabet Soup” in 2011, where they basically had a letter for each show and played an artist or song starting with that letter, before discussing topics on whatever letter it was. Running on graveyard fumes (from 2am till 6am) and going to school straight afterwards, it’s no wonder that she has the work-life balance down pat!
With a British passport, Sophie plans to move to London later on in life as she loves everything about the scene.
Biography
Melbourne based, international dancer, model and actor Erinn Arnel has emerged as one of the most outstanding and contiguous graduates to come out of Australian Ballet School. Born in the central Victorian town of Bendigo, Australia in 1992 and started dancing at the age of 3. She was accepted into the Australian Ballet School at the age of 10.
While studying, in 2009 she danced with The Dancers’ Company (regional arm of the Australian Ballet Company) Tour of Australia, headlining “Poems” by Robert Ray and “Nutcracker” (Act 2) by Leigh Rowles. Again in 2010 she acted and danced corps de ballet in “Don Quixote”, choreographed by Ai-Gul Gaisina (influenced by Petipa). Graduating in 2010 with an Advanced Diploma of Dance with Distinction she was awarded the Graeme Murphy Award for Excellence in Contemporary Dance.
In 2011 Erinn featured in the Australian band My Disco’s music video “Turn” (part of the album My Little Joy) as lead dancer, which was received very well on Pitchfork. She also performed with Chunky Move in “It Sounds Silly” at Signal and has modelled for “We Are Handsome”, a swimwear label photographed by Stephanie Bailly. More recently Erinn has returned to Australia after performing musicals with Royal Caribbean Productions in “West End to Broadway”, “City Of Dreams” and “Tango Buenos Aires”. She gained the lead role of Sally Say So in ”Bada Bing… Bada Boom” and in 2013 has been proud to perform in Opera Australia’s “The Ring Cycle”.
When she is not a timeless and atmospheric mover, she is acting. Erin switched to stints like university graduate Danielle Caltabiano’s short “Inside of Me” (2013) about a visiting lesbian couple’s repercussions from a drunken one-night stand with a handsome male bartender, as well as a celebrity-laden, indie feature “The Sunset Six” (2010) about an ageing rock band’s desperate last attempt at reclaiming stardom by Jeremy Stanford. Similarly she has been cast in an acting role for the 2014 production of Opera Australia’s Rigoletto.
Meanwhile Erin continues to traverse between hip-hop, burlesque and contemporary shows with Melbourne’s SCIMM Dance Company.
From classy and free-flowing long splits and pirouettes in classical and neoclassical ballet to barefoot techniques to contemporary and orchestral music, alluring and sensual to burlesque, conscious and topical movements in hip-hop and shimmering, shadowy and frenzied to laser-infused, strobe rock, this multi-disciplined, award-winning artist definitely knows how to listen to her body.
It is not just her life: in effect, Erin’s body is the music.
Biography
Emma Jones is a Sydney-based actress and voice artist with a passion for bringing flesh and blood to storytelling and will go beyond the call of duty and niche to make it happen. Although Emma is a multiplatform actress enjoying film, TV and voiceover, she is particularly drawn to the theatre and its exposed immediacy — the energetic interaction between the stage and the audience as well as the honour in being able to deliver those stories with all of her guts, glory and raw nerves. She especially delights in breaking down rarefied assumptions between perception and reality, between verve and pragmatism, and between farce and gravitas.
In 2022, Emma thrilled audiences and critics alike with her performance as Dr. Emma Brookner in State Theatre of South Australia’s acclaimed production of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart”. Her impassioned speech during the second act was remarkably singled out for a standing ovation every single time. Limelight magazine said ‘Jones is absolutely glorious’. The Adelaide Advertiser said ‘A special shout out to Emma Jones as the dangerously determined Dr. Brookner”; meanwhile Heckler called her performance a ‘stand-out’.
In 2021, Emma completed filming for the STAN series “Joe vs. Carole” starring Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon, as well as a new promotional campaign for “Red Cross”.
In 2020, with the pandemic in full-swing Emma discovered a renewed and deep love for the art of voiceover and very quickly built up a formidable body of work in the commercial, corporate and narration voiceover arenas.
A quick look at Emma’s skills reveals an intimidatingly command of American and European accents and dialects. Meanwhile, she keeps herself very busy on pursuits ranging from Pilates to indoor skydiving to trivia nights and skiing.
Emma’s biggest theatrical dream is to play Shakespeare’s bent king “Richard III” with cackling, vengeful, arrogance transcending gender and even humanity whose hate and rage has engulfed them. What a meaty role that would be!