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Shop - About the Designer - Sally McLean
Actor, screenwriter, director and producer,
Sally began her work in the entertainment industry as an actor
in her mid-teens and has since performed leading roles in Australian
and British film, theatre and television.
In addition to her own acting
work, she recently produced the Melbourne and regional seasons
of her play Chasing
Pegasus (a play in ten chords) as writer/director,
starring Bridget Neval and Jennifer Hansen and is currently producing
two independent feature films - Water Deep (working title) and Dalny (working title).
And, in her spare time (LOL),
she also works as a web & graphic designer for a variety
of entertainment industry clients such as Australian actor Alan Fletcher,
Australian Director/Acting Coach Richard Sarrel and UK comic/actor, Alistair
Barrie. She also volunteers as designer for the Heritage-listed
Mt
Martha House and GWS Sports Medicine First Aid.
SALLY THE
ACTOR
As an actor, Sally has tended
the sick in Flying
Doctors, modelled on
Bingles, sung and thrown up for The D-Generation, solicited for customers on Totally Full Frontal, been Kylie's schoolyard mate
and Guy Pearce's model student in Neighbours, been very annoyed with Nick Giannopoulous on
Acropolis
Now!, had a knight
in shining armour, a priest and water dumped over her in the
name of the A-Z
Homeguide
series of commercials,
sold cars for Nissan, sold beds for Sleepy Sam's, pretended she knew about engines for Repco Autos, demonstrated and was arrested on
Blue
Heelers and eventually
got into bed with Steve Vizard on Tonight Live - after which, she left the country.
She then studied at The Actor's
Institute, London, completing her Degree in Dramatic Art, and
beginning her MA in Drama & Education, before going on to
play roles in UK theatre, television and film, including the
lead roles (written specially for her) in the London premier of Annabel's Requiem, and the films A Little Rain Must Fall (selected for the Cannes Film Festival
and invited to screen at the Venice Film Festival) and Just Move Your Lips, as well as being the voice for the
relaunch of UKGold
TV.
She also snogged a stranger
in a phone box in the middle of Piccadilly Circus for The Bookworm and mourned at a grave for Poetry Nation, amongst other roles for BBC television.
A highlight was playing a decidedly male "King Duncan"
in the all-female Macbeth, described as "... an utterly
convincing performance as the old Scottish King, belying the
fact that McLean is not only young and a woman, but also Australian."
- Time Out.
Upon her return to Australia,
she interviewed cops on Blue Heelers,
played a primary school teacher with a social conscience in the
film Joining
The Dots, been everybody's
favourite girl-next-door in the award-winning play Lovepuke and sung and danced her way across
the stage with Julia Morris in the Australian premier of the
Broadway comedy review I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at
the Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne. On screen, she was most recently
seen on US Television in the role of 'Angie Powers'
in the BBC mini-series Bootleg.
Recent
stage appearances include the duel roles of "Josie/Mindy"
for La Mama Theatre in the moved reading of Young Turks, then the role of "Judith" (a young
woman with MS) in the World Premier performance of The Clairvoyant, followed by a woman who spends her
days living under her house, in The Auxiliary and the role of battered wife, "Katherine"
in Chasing
Pegasus (a play in ten chords)
- both at Gasworks Theatre for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Recent film roles have included playing the supporting
role of "Dema" in Rachel Blackwood's Dancing With Delight (working title) and "Aunt Jamie"
in The
Forrest Blog's - episode
#15 "No Love Lost".
SALLY THE
PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTOR
When not on stage or screen,
Sally has worked as a Casting Assistant with Prototype Casting and
a Theatrical Agency Assistant with Barry Michael Artists in Melbourne, as well as three years in production
with the BBC
in London. Since her return
to Australia, she has worked in production for Channel 9, Southern Cross Broadcasting,
Endemol Southern Star and
Grundy
Television.
In the late 1990's, she
created her own feature film production outfit, Salmac Productions, under the patronage
of respected British actor, Sir Nigel Hawthorne, known internationally
for his roles as "Sir Humphrey Appleby" in Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister and his Oscar nominated performance in the title
role of The
Madness Of King George.
She now additionally runs Incognita Enterprises - a business dedicated
to Arts Education and professional theatre production.
Sally has written and produced
three film projects, one in the UK (A Little Rain Must Fall - selected
to screen at the Cannes Film Festival) and two in Melbourne (which
she also directed) (fixNATION - screened on Foxtel and
Brigit
& Benny (a modern faerietale) - 2005 Cannes Film
Festival entrant). She has also written and directed the plays
Chasing
Pegasus (a play in ten chords) and P.S. I Love You, both of which were
successfully staged in Melbourne, as well as her current work-in-progress
Bayonets and Bully Beef, excerpts
from which were performed under her direction at the Victorian
Arts Centre in July 2005.
She is currently working on
a new Australian sitcom and docu/drama for broadcast.
SALLY THE
WEB & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Sally is also a web and graphic
designer under the name Incognita Design (formally Salmac Multimedia). She finds this pursuit
relaxing and a creative venture that gives immediate gratification
- that of seeing her work online, being shared with the world,
whenever the fancy takes her! Her online shop, Incognita Enterprises' Online Store, came out of this interest
and one of her biggest ambitions in this area is to be simply
walking down the street and seeing someone passing by wearing
one of her t-shirts. (Although, if someone would like to wear
one of her t-shirts on national television or in a film, she'd
be happy with that too!).
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John Warren 2007 @ Warren Photography |
