Alan Flower

Currently teaching at Screenwise

Alan is an actor, writer, teacher, and director and has a B.A. UNSW and trained in acting at the Ensemble Studios.

Theatre Credits include Peribanez and Rays Tempest for Company B. Tony Oursler’s Sydney festival 2006 piece Blue Invasion.  Stag for Sydney Theatre Company’s New Stages. A View from the Bridge and A Street Car Named Desire for the Ensemble Theatre. The ShorternSweeter National tour 08,  The Bamboo Flute for Canute productions, and The Secret of the 7 Marbles at the Seymore centre. The Roy Murphy Show at the Parade theatre Nida. Jesus Hopped the A Train, Frozen and La Ronde (B Sharpe – Belvoir). Road (The Tamarama Rock Surfers). The Disposal, Fidelity, and Cross Sections for TRS at Old Fitzroy Theatre. Blue Heart at the Stables. The Woolgatherer and Portia Coughlan (Darlinghurst Theatre). That Eye The Sky, for Richard Roxburgh’s Burning House Theatre Company. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll for the New Theatre. Macquarie  for Government House and Criminals in Love, Young Mo, and Wuthering Heights at the Cross Roads Theatre.

Alan’s appearances on television include roles in Scorched ,Chandon, The Silence, The Alice, Home and Away, All Saints  (as Morris the Florist), Bad Cop Bad Cop, Love Is A Four Letter Word, Farscape, Backberner,  Flipper, Above the Law, Water Rats, , G.P, A Country Practise, Big Sky, Roar, and Family and Friends. Feature film credits include The Venus Factory, A Wreck a Tangle, When Good Ghouls Go Bad, Danny Deckchair, Fat Pizza, Bitter and Twisted, Jewboy , and Gabriel, Mai Lei Thompson.

Alan has also featured in dozens of short films including 5 trop finalists and was also a presenter/comedian on the Fox Music Country channel. Alan is one of the founding members of Tamarama Rock Surfers. Alan has taught drama and story at Screen Wise, Brent Street, UNSW, NIDA, AADA, Q Theatre, Sing Over King, Toni Higginbothoms, After Care and the Ensemble Studios.

Biography

FEATURE FILM
2006     Alfonso TOUCHED BY FELLINI Chester Productions Paul Barry
2005     Jakes GABRIEL Hilt Productions Shane Abess
2004     RTA Passenger JEW BOY SBS Tony Krawitz
2002     Ray Vitalie DANNY DECKCHAIR Deckchair Productions Jeff Balsmeyer
2001     Sheriff Frady WHEN GOOD GHOULS GO BAD Fox Patrick Read Johnson

TELEVISION
2007     Giteau CHANDON PICTURES Shadow Fax TV Pty Ltd Robert Carlton
2005     Mick Begley THE ALICE Southern Star Ian Watson
2005     Darrly HOME & AWAY Channel 7 Various
2003     Morris the Florist ALL SAINTS Channel Seven Various
2002     Barry Kaiser BAD COP BAD COP ABC Cate Shortland

STAGE
2007     Eric BAMBOO FLUTE Chris Kanute Productions
2006     Benito/Various PERIBANEZ Company B Ltd Neil Armfield
2006     Mr Kern STAG Sydney Theatre Company/Wharf 2 LOUD Lee Lewis
2005     Alfeiri VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Ensemble Theatre Sandra Bates
2005     Duffy RAYS TEMPEST Company B Richard Roxburgh
2004     David (DJ) CROSS SECTIONS Tamarama Rock Surfers Chris Mead