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Acting, Featured, Work

Sally nominated for “Best Actress” at the 2018 Asia Web Awards! #acting #actor #nominee

I know I said that I was taking a break from the Internet and work in general in my last update, but this news is just too exciting to not…

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December 14, 2018
Acting, Featured, Musings, Producing, Writing

Awards, filming, writing – hello 2019, you’re starting with a bang! #actor #writer #director

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great break over the holiday period and are back and ready to go for 2019. I intended to have a…

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January 12, 2019
Acting, Featured, Producing, Work

May 2017 update: #ShakespeareRepublic #SpeakingDaggers & more …

It’s May already!? More the point – it’s almost halfway through 2017 already!? Where do I start? We filmed and released Shakespeare Republic: #LoveTheBard (Season Two) AND prepped, filmed, edited…

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May 8, 2017
Acting, Featured, Producing, Work, Writing

Meet Elsie and Charles – two characters featured in ‘Till The Boys Come Home

So much is going on right now, but … I’ve managed to fit in a blog post before February is over, so my idea of at least one blog post…

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February 22, 2019
Acting, Featured, Work

Sally wins Best Actress award at UVFF 2021

During 2020 I got used to being up early to perform Shakespeare, working with the fab The Show Must Go Online, who are based in the UK. So being up…

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May 16, 2021
Acting, Featured, Producing, Work

Jack Irish, Shakespeare Republic and other fun stuff!

Despite my good intentions to update this blog more often, once again nearly four months has gone by.  But my excuse is a good one, as I’ve been truly busy on…

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March 30, 2016
Acting, Featured, Work

NEW DATES: Playing The Bard returns to Howard Fine Acting Studio in May!

“Playing The Bard” at Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia will now be taking place from Tuesday May 21 until June 25, just before Howard Fine returns to Australia for his…

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April 22, 2019
Acting, Featured, Producing, Work

November/December Round Up – Shakespeare Republic Awards, Speaking Daggers Awards and new project launched!

So. Much. Going. On!! I know I start nearly every update with those words, but it really is true!! Happy New Year!! I’m going to start the year by rewinding…

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January 3, 2018
Acting, Featured, Producing, Work, Writing

Melbourne WebFest round-up and more news on the Shakespeare front – it’s still all go this July! #shakespeare #webfest #allthethings

So that’s another WebFest done for 2018, only this time I wasn’t just there as a creator, but primarily in my role as General Manager. Melbourne WebFest is over for…

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July 5, 2018
Acting, Featured, Work

“Preacher”, “Playing The Bard” update, festival and panel appearances and more …

As a friend said in an email to me earlier this week – “Where has the year gone!?”. November already! So much to share, so here goes … It’s been…

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November 8, 2019
  • Acting,  Work

    Sally receives Best Director & Best Ensemble Cast Awards at New Zealand WebFest for Shakespeare Republic

    April 7, 2022 /

    The end of 2021 was an absolute whirlwind of activity, and it only got busier with a new acting gig and a separate new directing gig in the first three months of 2022, which means I’m only just catching up on updating this news section! There is a lot to get through, so there will be a flurry of posts over the next few weeks – fair warning! I have to start the good news sharing with this amazing thing that happened in November over in New Zealand. In a night of amazing outcomes, I was so thrilled to be able to accept the awards for Best Ensemble Cast (International…

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    #MelbourneWebFest, #ShakespeareRepublic & more!

    July 11, 2016

    Sally invited to play “Zoraide” in rehearsed reading of Julia Britton’s “The Professor”

    May 5, 2010

    New website, Shakespeare and Alan Fletcher (among other things)

    June 3, 2015
  • Acting,  Work,  Writing

    Sally wins Creator Amets at Seriesland in Spain!

    October 26, 2021 /

    It has been a CRAZY time over the past 19 months. Despite my home town of Melbourne spending over 260 days in lockdown, which just ended, I somehow managed to be in more productions as an actor than I had been in the 2 years previous to 2020, performing exclusively Shakespeare in six productions – five of them based in the UK. And, because I can’t sit still, as I’ve written about before on this blog, I also created a new season of my web series, Shakespeare Republic – filming with 23 other actors (I was the 24th) based in seven different cities on three different continents – all working…

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    Sally receives Best Director & Best Ensemble Cast Awards at New Zealand WebFest for Shakespeare Republic

    April 7, 2022

    New website, Shakespeare and Alan Fletcher (among other things)

    June 3, 2015

    “Playing The Bard” returns to Howard Fine Acting Studio in August …

    July 26, 2019
  • Acting,  Work,  Writing

    Shakespeare Republic Season Three screening at SeriesFest

    July 1, 2021 /

    It has been a wonderful week of virtually attending SeriesFest in the USA, where my digital series Shakespeare Republic is screening at the moment as an Official Selection. As much as the pandemic has wreaked havoc, there have been some silver linings in respect to opening up the ability to virtually attend these events for those of us based outside of the UK and US, who might not usually be able to take part. Despite the VERY early mornings (most workshops have been taking place at 3am Melbourne time), I have found myself leaping out of bed to get onto the video conferencing calls, anxious that I don’t miss any…

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    “Preacher”, “Playing The Bard” update, festival and panel appearances and more …

    November 8, 2019

    May 2017 update: #ShakespeareRepublic #SpeakingDaggers & more …

    May 8, 2017

    Sally invited to play “Zoraide” in rehearsed reading of Julia Britton’s “The Professor”

    May 5, 2010
  • Acting,  Featured,  Work

    Sally wins Best Actress award at UVFF 2021

    May 16, 2021 /

    During 2020 I got used to being up early to perform Shakespeare, working with the fab The Show Must Go Online, who are based in the UK. So being up early to participate in a UK-based project was not a new thing for me. What was new, was the outcome of being up that early for that reason. Last Monday morning (at 3am Melbourne time), I had the great pleasure of being part of the UVFF Awards on the last night of the festival, which normally takes place in venues around Islington in London (in a normal, non-COVID world). This year, it was a virtual event attended by over 70…

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    Awards, filming, writing – hello 2019, you’re starting with a bang! #actor #writer #director

    January 12, 2019

    New season of Shakespeare Republic screening at eleven international film festivals!

    November 8, 2020

    #MelbourneWebFest, #ShakespeareRepublic & more!

    July 11, 2016
  • Acting

    Sally nominated for Best Actress & Best Director at the 2021 UVFF Awards in the UK

    May 2, 2021 /

    Last year was a really challenging year for all of us. And I added to this by deciding to create and direct a new season of Shakespeare Republic, set and filmed entirely in lockdown. It was the most wonderful, crazy, sometimes difficult but absolutely rewarding experience I could have had. The creative family that formed around the new season, made up of existing Republic ensemble joined by a whole new swathe of actors and regular Republic crew, creating a total of 24 episodes, was one of the best things about 2020 for me. It was an absolute privilege to work with these extraordinary actors, based in Melbourne, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh,…

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    Working with the Masters – Howard Fine Acting Studio, Australia

    May 10, 2013

    AFI Jury duty done and dusted …

    January 5, 2010

    Sally nominated for “Best Actress” at the 2018 Asia Web Awards! #acting #actor #nominee

    December 14, 2018
  • Acting,  Work

    Sally nominated for “Outstanding Performance in a Principal Role” for the Show that keeps on giving

    March 8, 2021 /

    Last year was, let’s be blunt, awful for the Performing Arts industries worldwide in so many ways. Theatres, film and TV sets, cinemas, anything that required human contact, closed. So many of us were suddenly left without any work and, in many cases, also went into hard lockdowns to try and stem the spread of the virus. But last year also brought about some amazing things. The Arts can often mean Innovation. And artists around the world began to clearly show that correlation in full. One such example (pretty much the first during the pandemic), created something that has now become an institution, and, I believe, holds an important place…

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    November/December Round Up – Shakespeare Republic Awards, Speaking Daggers Awards and new project launched!

    January 3, 2018

    Back on AFI jury duty – and loving it!

    January 2, 2011

    May 2017 update: #ShakespeareRepublic #SpeakingDaggers & more …

    May 8, 2017
  • Acting,  Producing,  Work,  Writing

    New season of Shakespeare Republic screening at eleven international film festivals!

    November 8, 2020 /

    It’s been a while since an update, for which I apologise, but this post will go a long way towards explaining my absence from this blog! At the start of the current pandemic, I was toying with the idea of doing a stand-alone season of Shakespeare Republic. All my other projects had to go on hold and I had no idea what I was going to do with all that free time. I could have learned to bake, and there were times this year where I thought maybe I should have, but as I am now heading into the final strait of directing and producing this latest season, I have…

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    Back on AFI jury duty – and loving it!

    January 2, 2011

    “Miss Julie” debuts, plus “D.A.T.E. Me” and “Why Must The Show Go On?”

    January 2, 2009

    Festivals, interviews, awards and more – that was the three months that was! #acting #actor #director #shakespeare

    November 3, 2018
  • Acting,  Work

    Live theatre in the age of COVID-19 – The Show Must Go Online

    April 3, 2020 /

    When I got the email about ten days ago that I’d been cast in the new online initiative, The Show Must Go Online, as “Katherina” (or “Kate” as I call her) in The Taming Of The Shrew, I’ll admit to an initial hesitation at saying yes. Not because I didn’t want to play her – I’d submitted to do the show in the first place, and I’ve been fascinated by “Kate” from the first time I saw her (as a Hollywood musical obsessed kid) portrayed by Kathryn Grayson in a late night TV re-run of the movie Kiss Me Kate when I was about 10 years old. Admittedly, that early…

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    The Medea Project, Shakespeare Republic and other reports from the classical world …

    November 24, 2015

    Sally wins Best Actress award at UVFF 2021

    May 16, 2021

    “Miss Julie” debuts, plus “D.A.T.E. Me” and “Why Must The Show Go On?”

    January 2, 2009
  • Acting,  Producing,  Work,  Writing

    Shorts Relief is nigh, This Wooden O and Chasing Pegasus is done and Dark Arcadia looms

    March 4, 2020 /

    Its been a VERY busy time since the end of last year, so this update is covering three projects that I’ve been involved in – one of which is happening this weekend in Melbourne and is going to be absolutely huge – Shorts Relief: Flicks For the Fires takes place at The Capitol Theatre, Swanston Street, Melbourne this Sunday March 8 and as Event Producer, I’m deep in the trenches for final prep for that, but more about that in a moment! Let’s do a quick round up of what’s been happening since I last posted here first … Chasing Pegasus (a play in ten chords) On December 11th I…

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    Speaking Daggers officially selected for St Kilda Film Festival among other amazing things! #shakespeare #webseries #shortfilm

    May 7, 2018

    The Medea Project, Shakespeare Republic and other reports from the classical world …

    November 24, 2015

    Sally wins Best Actress award at UVFF 2021

    May 16, 2021
  • Acting,  Featured,  Work

    “Preacher”, “Playing The Bard” update, festival and panel appearances and more …

    November 8, 2019 /

    As a friend said in an email to me earlier this week – “Where has the year gone!?”. November already! So much to share, so here goes … It’s been a big few months on the work front since August. I taught another round of Playing The Bard: Shakespeare in Performance at the fabulous Howard Fine Acting Studio, as well as spending three wonderful weeks with the Howard Fine Full Time ensemble in Melbourne, again teaching them Shakespeare, with some truly beautiful work being produced by the 30+ actors it has been my privilege to teach this work to over the past nine weeks. On the acting front, I had…

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    The Rehearsal Room – evolving the process

    May 14, 2013

    “Miss Julie” debuts, plus “D.A.T.E. Me” and “Why Must The Show Go On?”

    January 2, 2009

    New awards for acting and directing, new reel and more – hello June!

    June 10, 2019
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ABOUT SALLY

Award-winning actor, writer and director Sally McLean, began her work in the entertainment biz in her mid-teens and has since performed lead, guest and supporting roles in numerous Australian, US and UK film, theatre and television productions.

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Sally's Representation

Natalie Hall Management
Tel: +61 (0) 7 3871 0288
Email: submissions(at)nataliehall.com
Web: www.nataliehall.com

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Recent Posts

  • Sally receives Best Director & Best Ensemble Cast Awards at New Zealand WebFest for Shakespeare Republic
  • Sally wins Creator Amets at Seriesland in Spain!
  • Shakespeare Republic Season Three screening at SeriesFest
  • Sally wins Best Actress award at UVFF 2021
  • Sally nominated for Best Actress & Best Director at the 2021 UVFF Awards in the UK

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See Sally accept her Best Director Award from the 2021 New Zealand WebFest in real time below:

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I live, work and create on the lands of the people of the Kulin Nation. I acknowledge them and all Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognise their unceded and continuing connection to land, waters and culture. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and offer my gratitude for the rich tradition of storytelling and artistic expression originated by all First Nations peoples around the world, which forms the foundation of all modern creative work.

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