ARTLESS BASTARDS.
EPISODE 3.

Mark Salvestro

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Mark Salvestro is an award-winning Australian actor, writer and independent theatre producer, currently based in Cooma. He is best known for his self-written solo works and live performances of Buried at Sea and The Will To Be, and his digital one-man show A Covid Coming Out.

Mark has trained extensively as a performer in Sydney and Melbourne, and in 2014, graduated from the Full-Time Program at the Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia. In 2016 Mark was one of the founding members of North of Eight theatre company.

Mark’s theatre credits include The Will To Be performed at the Melbourne Fringe & Adelaide Fringe, Strata Inc. and Navy Pier with North of Eight, Comedy of Errors for Australian Shakespeare Co. at Prague Fringe and touring of Buried at Sea.

Mark has been a provocateur at the Malthouse Theatre, and is currently a Trust Member at the Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia and part of ‘Equity Pride’, a newly formed sub-committee within the Equity Diversity Committee.

SHARON MASON

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Sharon Mason is a Walbunja woman from the Yuin Nation. She grew up on the far south coast of NSW and La Perouse just south of Sydney. Sharon is an artist, creative producer, educator and dancer. She founded the Djaadjawan Dancers in 2015, a female traditional Aboriginal dance group featuring members from the ages of 5 to 75.

Sharon founded the dance group after attending an Aboriginal women’s camp in Narooma NSW where local Aboriginal women and children taught and shared their traditional knowledge.

Sharon helped run a workshop on traditional dance at the camp, and the overwhelming interest gave Sharon the idea that there is a need for a women’s dance group to share culture and traditions to the wider community.

Sharon runs group practice sessions on a regular basis with a gathering of strong Aboriginal women, children and elders who are enthusiastically committed to their traditional dancing and preserving cultural practices.

The dancers hunt and gather natural resources from the land to hand-make their traditional dance outfits, accessories and craft.

Djaadjawan Dancers have performed at many key festivals and events across NSW and ACT, including the National Folk Festival, Barangaroo and the Sydney Opera House.

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