Career Highlights as an Actress


Alannah can be engaged for radio recordings, stage, television and film roles through The Pennyfarthing Partnership.

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Career Highlights as an Actress

Theatre

  • Kate in the 'Taming of the Shrew'
    Court Theatre, Christchurch - Best Actress 1975

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    Alannah as Dorothy Parker.
  • Atholl Fugard's 'Hello and Goodbye'
    The Mercury, Auckland - Best Actress 1976

  • Stas in 'Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi'
    Circa Theatre, Wellington - Best Actress, 1977

  • Female leads in the theatrical duologues: Fanny Stevenson, Clarinda, Jane Austen; also Lord Alfred Douglas to John Cairney's Oscar Wilde

  • Dorothy Parker in Alannah O'Sullivan's one woman show - 'As Dorothy Parker Once Said'.
    Debuted in Wellington in 1975 and performed worldwide until 1990.

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    Alannah as Barbara in Eastenders.
  • Joy in 'Shadowlands'
    Court Theatre, Christchurch, 1992.

Radio

  • Reads New Zealand books for radio for Word Pictures, Auckland, notably 'Portrait of An Artist's Wife' by Barbara Anderson.

Television

  • Katherine Mansfield in 'All That I Write'
    Four Corners, London, 1984

  • Barbara in 'Eastenders'
     
     
    Alannah in Loveday.
    BBC, London for a three month run, 1989 - 90

  • Loveday in 'Moonacre'
    Edinburgh Films/BBC, 1993

  • Anna Virtue in 'Shortland Street'
    South Pacific Pictures, 2001

  • Pat Hesketh in 'Last Man Standing'
    Burberry Productions, Melbourne, March 2005
 

 


 

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