Actor

My first key 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'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'. 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 

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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 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 at 106 Barkly Street, St Kilda. I was represented by a fabulous acting agent on and off for over 20 years, but 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. I also ran an animation studio for years and I absolutely love doing voiceovers 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,. 

I'm about to start rehearsing for 'Skating in the Clouds' by Clare Mendes, 4-14 December 2024 at Theatre Works. In the meantime, this year I've been doing playreadings for playwrights Bill Marshall, Marty MonStar and Emily Farrell. Standby for info about a public playreading of 'The Ransom Letter' by Marty MonStar in Septmber 2024. In the last couple of years, I've played the lead role of Jackie in an screenplay reading of 'Tanked' by Kerry Drumm. I also worked with Kerry as an emsemble actor to help develop a new play 'Nok'. Prior to that, I performed in the 'Madwomen Monologues' at The Butterfly Club. I also wrote one 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 play 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've appeared in a 'Reflex Paper' TVC; received a Best Actor nomination for the Mia'kate Russell short film "Maggie May"; played the depressed mum in the 'Tones & I' music video "Never Seen the Rain" (36m+ 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 also been an actor for an 'Offspring' director's workshop; 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 Greg Apps' Audition Technique course.