Judi Crane

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Judi Crane
ACT
Judi has worked throughout Australia and in the USA as an actor, director, dramaturg, adjudicator, voice coach and drama teacher. Judi's most recent appearances for Rep were as Marie, in Calendar Girls and as Janette Howard in Pig Iron People. Other roles for Rep include Mrs Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer, Lady Markby in An Ideal Husband, Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals, Isobel Sorodin in Nude with Violin, Clairee in Steel Magnolias, Violet in Steaming, Dot Cook in The One Day of the Year, and Mrs Eynesford-Hill in Pygmalion.
Appearances for other companies include Lady Bracknell (The Importance of Being Earnest) and Mrs Jennings (Sense and Sensibility), for Free-Rain, Mama Morton (Chicago for Canberra Philharmonic) Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Irene Ruddock in A Lady of Letters (UNE/Armidale Playhouse), Äsa in Peer Gynt (New England Theatre Company), Molly Ralston in The Mousetrap (Williamsburg Players) and Queen Eleanor (Lion in Winter) for Peninsula Community Theatre.
Since cutting her directing teeth on student productions of The Drunkard, Antigone and Lysistrata at Copland College, and le médecin malgré lui for Armidale's Stage One Theatre School, she has worked as Assistant Director on Rep's productions of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, with Walter Learning, Black Comedy, with Aarne Neeme, and Proof with Tony Llewellyn-Jones, and as Director on Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize winner, 'night, Mother for Rep, and The Pink Panther Strikes Again for Free-Rain.
Judi has been seen most recently as Big Mamma, in the ABC TV miniseries, The Boffin, The Builder and The Bombardier.
Judi has been Convenor and Member of Rep's Play Selection Advisory Committee, has served on Rep's Council as a Council Member and Vice-President and President. She is currently Rep's Vice-President.
Training; The Independent Theatre School (Sydney), University of New England (Armidale), Trinity College (London), The Australian National University (ACT). Media

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