Actor

I'm mostly known as one of the regulars on Channel 10's 'The Wedge' - for playing Sandra Sultry, the newsreader parody and an inappropriate shopping-centre spruiker, but I also co-created, co-wrote and performed alongside the wonderful Curry brothers in the ABC TV comedy series 'Flipside'. My first major role was playing streetkid 'Mezza', the lead actress in a Channel 7 telemovie called 'Economy Class' by Kevin Carlin and Stephen Luby. The film also starred Bud Tingwell, Denis Moore, Marg Downey and Chris McLean. I appear as the Nurse in the original 'Saw' short film by Leigh Whannell and James Wan and I've played lead guest roles in a host of Aussie TV shows like 'Wilfred', 'City Homicide', 'All Saints', 'Blue Heelers', 'Prank Patrol' and others. I was a Moosehead Award recipient for the comic two-hander stage play 'Footy Chicks' at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and a regular cast ensemble member for the weekly ABC 774 Melbourne Radio serial 'The Breakfast Shift'. I won't try to list all the shorts, indie films, corporates, plays, readings, workshops, TVCs, web series, music videos and voice over jobs I've been involved with over the last 30 years or so.. suffice to say there's been a bunch. There's plenty more info on my regular website: katrinamathers.com/actor

Instagram: instagram.com/katminsky

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I'm also a filmmaker, artist, writer, mum and business owner. I live and work on Boonwurrung Country, in St Kilda in Melbourne, Australia in a fabulous rooftop apartment with my fella, dog and daughter. I run a digital media production company called Cherry Hands Media, and I work part-time as a multimedia producer for Monash University in the Education Development Unit (DVC Education Portfolio). I run a monthly writer's group called Bum Glue Club, and I'm one of the managers of a wonderful artist-run art studio and gallery, 106 Art: Studios and Gallery in St Kilda. I was represented by a fabulous acting agent on and off for over 20 years. Currently I'm freelance. I don't always have time to work an actor, but for an interesting role or ad-hoc days here and there, I'll find it hard to say no, so please always ask! Happy to audition, meet, chat, do self-tapes, VO subs, playreadings, workshops, or to help others with being a reader for their auditions and self-tapes. I also ran an animation studio for years and I absolutely love doing voice-overs for narrative animation. So definitely call if you need character voices, or straight narration, I do that too and can record from home. I try to keep my Showcast, IMDb and Casting Networks current, but my websites are often a bit out of date because I usually try to prioritise walking the dog and hanging with my family, over spending time online. But I'm always around if you want to use me an an actor,. 

Recently performed in 'Metropolis Monologues' at Meat Market for MWT and 'Skating in the Clouds' by Clare Mendes at Theatre Works. Over the last few years, I've done playreadings for playwrights Bill Marshall, Marty MonStar and Emily Farrell. I played the lead role of Jackie in an screenplay reading of 'Tanked' by Kerry Drumm. I  worked with Kerry as an emsemble actor to help develop a new play 'Nok'. I've performed in the 'Madwomen Monologues' at The Butterfly Club, and have also written some of the pieces. I filmed a role for Cam Faull's 'Swiping Right' Series 2; performed in 'Talking in Circles' a Keith Gow play for 'Play Six' (which won Best Production); a reading of Cerise de Gelder's play 'Hostage' and I played Olivia, (the mum) in Bill Marshall's "The Wild Nights of Youth", which won the Summer Readings Series at Cracked Actors. I'm Major Madeline Laughton in the multi-award winning web-series 'Incoming: Words of War' (as an ensemble cast we've picked up several awards). I appear in a 'Reflex Paper' TVC; scored a Best Actor nomination for the Mia'kate Russell short film "Maggie May"; play the depressed mum in the 'Tones & I' music video "Never Seen the Rain" (37m+ views); performed as B.D. Hyman in a rehearsed playreading of "The Last Days of Bette Davis" by Samantha Hill for Antipodes Theatre; appeared in the Fabiana Weiner multi-award winning web series "Help! The Series' and was invited to perform a piece I wrote, called "Holes in My Sunhat" for 'Memoria Podcast'. I've been an actor for 'Offspring' director's workshops; in a play called 'Doug Holcombe' at the Owl and the Cat directed by Kieran Carroll; acted in VCA films and indie shorts, done many VOs, taken US accent classes and the fabulous Greg Apps' Audition Technique course.