ACTING & MC

Best known to Australian audiences as Senior Detective Tony Benjamin in Cop Shop, Greg has worked extensively as an actor, singer and master of ceremonies since graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art over four decades ago.

 

He has had leading roles on stage in many productions, including Godspell as John the Baptist/Judas in the original Sydney production, Don’s Party, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, One Day of the Year, Man of la Mancha, and regularly performed as Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music opposite Lisa McCune. More recently he starred in the contemporary musicals Lucky Stiff and A New Brain and excelled as Javert in Les Miserables.

 

Apart from Cop Shop, Greg’s television credits include sustaining roles in Bellbird, Prisoner, The Group and Ocean Girl. As a guest artist his appearances include Blue Heelers, The Secret Life of Us, Neighbours,  Skippy, Number 96, Division 4, High Flyers, The Anzacs, Matlock Police, Boney, Fergus McPhail, Henderson Kids 2 and Homicide.

 

Greg sang for 12 months at Sydney’s Bull ’n Bush theatre restaurant and has performed in cabaret in Australia, the USA and the South Pacific. He has sung on many television shows and, with the Bowman Sisters and his musical director son, Simon, presented his own show And The Beat Goes On at Capers Cabaret in Melbourne. Simon, Lee and Paula Bowman and Julian Sammut are now achieving local and international success as Golden Guitar winning country group Jetty Road.

 

As a Master of Ceremonies, he has worked throughout Australia, in Thailand, Taipei, Los Angeles and New Zealand, working with artists such as Dame Joan Sutherland and John Farnham. He has been MC at Rotary International conventions in Melbourne and Taipei, with audiences over 20,000, to compering and performing in Gilbert and Sullivan concerts at the Melbourne Town Hall, with David Hobson, Tiffany Speight and with the Australian Pops Orchestra and the Victorian Welsh Male Voice Choir.

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Curriculum Vitae

Tertiary Qualifications

National Institute of Dramatic Art (BDA Uni. NSW)
Graduate Diploma of Education (Monash Gippsland)

 

Professional Career

 

Stage (includes)

• Godspell (as John the Baptist/Judas in original production, Sydney)
• Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (original Australian production)
• One Day of the Year (Independent Theatre)
• Our Town (Independent Theatre)
• King Oedipus (Old Tote Theatre Company)
• Bull ’n Bush Theatre Restaurant (one year)
• Jane Street Theatre … season of Australian plays
• Don’s Party (national tour, Old Tote and Melbourne Theatre Companies)
• Absurd Person Singular (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and ?  (Melbourne Revue)
• Man of La Mancha (as Pedro, State Theatre, Melbourne/Lyric Theatre, Brisbane)
• The Sound of Music (as Captain Georg von Trapp, Princess Theatre, Melbourne and Lyric Theatre, Brisbane)
• Lucky Stiff (as Luigi Gaudi, Chapel Off Chapel)
• A New Brain (as Mr Bungee, Chapel Off Chapel)
• A Night at the Opera and An Evening of Music Theatre (GMVS productions)
• Cabaret work in Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin and the South Pacific
• The Beat Goes On (my own cabaret show at Capers Cabaret)
• An Evening of Gilbert & Sullivan (Melbourne Town Hall)
• Directed: Godspell (Chapel Off Chapel), Guys & Dolls (Adamson Theatre)
• A Bunch of Ratbags  (as Dad for Magnormos)
• Les Miserables (as Javert, National Theatre)

Television (includes)

• Sustaining roles
• Cop Shop (as Tony Benjamin for seven years, 7 Network)
• Bellbird (as Chris Gillian for four years, ABC)
• Motel (daytime series, six months, 7 Network)
• The Group (comedy series, 13 weeks, 7 Network)
• Prisoner (drama series, 13 weeks, Channel 10)
• Ocean Girl (children’s series, six months, Channel 10)

Guest roles

• Number 96 (six weeks)
• Neighbours (six and four weeks)
• Homicide (x two epidodes)
• Division 4 (x four)
• Matlock Police (x two)
• Blue Heelers (x three)
• Skippy
• Boney
• the secret life of us
• Bluestone Boys
• 26 Hill Street
• Catch Candy
• Spyforce
• The Anzacs
• Behind The Legend
• Henderson Kids 2
• High Flyers
• Fergus McPhail
• Scooter Secret Agent

Film

• Running From The Guns
• Puppy

Radio

• Hosted Young World on ABC radio for two years
• Extensive voice-over work, including corporate, advertising and film clients

MC

• As a Master of Ceremonies for many years, have compered events throughout Australia and overseas in the USA, Thailand, Taipei and New Zealand, with artists such as Dame Joan Sutherland, John Farnham, David Hobson, Dennis Olsen and Tiffany Speight. Locally, have compared musical programs from Hamer Hall to the Melbourne Town Hall while, in sporting and corporate events, have worked with the Melbourne Football Club at the MCG through to Telstra.
   
• Overseas & locally, have served as MC for Rotary International Conventions with audiences of over 20,000 (Taipei & Melbourne), and Rotary International Assembly (Los Angeles).
   
• Compered New Year’s Eve concert series for the Australian Pops Orchestra in Sydney and Melbourne (Opera House and Hamer Hall). Compered a concert for the Welsh Victorian Male Voice Choir (Hamer Hall).
   
• MC for Rotary Centenary Conference March 2005 Grand Chancellor/Hobart and, in July, at the  Sofitel with Xanana Gusmao & Sir William Deane, for the Xanana Vocational Education Trust.

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Please feel free to contact me directly :
Gregory Ross   idoido@optusnet.com.au   0407 891 048