Education
She graduated from Australia"s prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1977.
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Sally McKenzie
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As a theatre actor Sally has appeared in leading and ensemble roles for the Belvoir Street Theatre, Griffin Theatre Company, Louisiana Boite Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Nimrod Theatre Company, Playbox Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, The Stables, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Sydney Theatre Company, Q Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and the T.N! Theatre Company. Stage performances for the Melbourne Theatre Company include title roles in Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill and The Good Woman of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht. Sally has appeared in over 20 productions for the Queensland Theatre Company including lead roles in Macbeth, Night and Day by Tom Stoppard and by David Williamson Top Silk and A Conversation.
Screen performances in television series include Mystic Marj in Mortified, Ms Cunningham in The Wayne Manifesto, Esme in Carson’s Law, Rosetta in Special Squad, Patsy Goldfisch in The Flying Doctors, Grace in A Country Practice and Roo Morgan in episodes 666 and 667 of Prisoner.
Feature film performances include Gail in With Love From The Person Next To Maine, Carrie in We Of The Never Never, Carol in Storage, Roz in Jucy and Warden Zelda in Redheads. As a playwright plays include Martha’s War On War, i dot luv dot u☺, A Safer Place, episodes and Scattered Lives.
Achievements
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Sally played Bertha Schippan in The Schippan Mystery and won Best Single Performance by an Actress in a Serial in the Penguin Awards as rape victim Lynne in a 2-hour special of Cop Shop. As a screenwriter Sally won the highest writing accolade awarded in Australia for performance writing, an Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Award for Best Documentary Public Broadcast in 2014.
