SALLY McLEAN

Sally McLean: Actor. Writer. Director. With a bit of a thing for Shakespeare.

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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, Work

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

It has been a crazy month of May, which has been wonderful and brilliant and I am so grateful to everyone who made all of it possible! Firstly, the team…

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June 10, 2019
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, 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

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

It’s been a crazy few months, with interviews, more filming, a couple of acting gigs and the Shakespeare projects continuing to screen at film festivals around the world – much…

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November 3, 2018
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

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
Featured, Work, Writing

Sally McLean 2019 Director/Writer Reel now online

A quick update in between more substantial updates (some great news coming later this month … *excited*!) to share my new Director/Writer Reel for 2019, featuring the various projects I’ve…

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March 5, 2019
Acting, Featured, Work, Writing

Sally Interviewed on “How Do You Do You” Podcast

It was an absolute honour to be invited onto Matt Smolen’s How Do You Do You Podcast recently to chat all things Shakespeare, acting, creative process and more. And he…

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October 28, 2018
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,  Producing,  Writing

    Howard Fine, A Life Unexpected and ABC TV

    August 12, 2013 /

    Things have been busy as usual for Sally over the past few months. On the acting front, she has been filming a recurring Guest role for a new ABC/BBC TV comedy series to be released later this year, as well as working again with the wonderful Los Angeles-based, Howard Fine (pictured below – on the right – with Sally and HFAS full-time course alumni, Shane Savage) at the Howard Fine Acting Studio (Australia). Sally had the great pleasure of working with fellow actor and scene partner, Mike Smith, as a participant at the Howard Fine Masterclass in July, and continues her study with the Studio with ongoing Scene Study, firstly with Howard and then Karen Ludwig. On the writing and…

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    2018 In Pictures – Howard Fine Acting Studios, Shakespeare Republic, Melbourne WebFest and more #acting #webseries #Shakespeare

    December 3, 2018

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

    November 3, 2018

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

    April 7, 2022
  • Musings

    Fun things done this year – White Night Melbourne 2013

    May 31, 2013 /

    On a warm Summer night early in 2013, Melbourne came out to play en masse for twelve breathtaking hours, enjoying lights, performances, displays and pure magic all over town. The inaugural White Night Melbourne event, which took place from 7pm Saturday February 23rd to 7am Sunday February 24th, was attended by an estimated 300,000 people (I heard reports of half to three quarters of a million) who wandered around the 80+ free events, displays and performances spread over eight precincts around the city. This footage only covers two precincts and was shot between 3am and 6am on the 24th (when there were still fair few people out!). It was an…

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    Working with the Masters – Howard Fine Acting Studio, Australia

    May 10, 2013

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

    January 12, 2019

    The Rehearsal Room – evolving the process

    May 14, 2013
  • Acting,  Musings

    The Rehearsal Room – evolving the process

    May 14, 2013 /

    Last week I wrote about my experiences working with the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Australia and this week I’d like to acknowledge the other influence on my life as an actor here in Melbourne – Richard Sarell at The Rehearsal Room. I met Richard back in 2005 when an actor friend suggested I look into the classes he was running to get me back into the swing of acting training. I hadn’t taken ongoing acting classes since graduating from the Actors’ Institute, London in 1997, and although I had done the odd workshop, I was still looking for a teacher in Melbourne that I could relate to and who…

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

    April 3, 2020

    New Showreel!

    April 30, 2013

    Shakespeare Republic Season Three screening at SeriesFest

    July 1, 2021
  • Acting,  Musings

    Working with the Masters – Howard Fine Acting Studio, Australia

    May 10, 2013 /

    The last few months of 2012 was a busy time.  I had been cast in two films “V for Vienetta” and “Raymond Taylor’s Earnest Adventures in Love” in a supporting and lead role respectively, had the privilege once again to be a Juror for the AACTA Awards, was organizing the Investors’ Launch for my documentary “A Life Unexpected” with my brilliant Executive Producer, Bobby Galinsky and fellow Producer Melanie Brunt and was also accepted as a participant in the Howard Fine & David Coury Masterclass here in Melbourne. To say my schedule was slightly insane would be an understatement! But I wouldn’t have missed being a part of any of…

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    Culture Pigs galore

    October 9, 2009

    Sally wins Creator Amets at Seriesland in Spain!

    October 26, 2021

    Sally Interviewed on “How Do You Do You” Podcast

    October 28, 2018
  • Acting

    New Showreel!

    April 30, 2013 /

    Collection of clips from Sally McLean’s recent screen acting work. The reel includes clips from “Killing Time”, “V for Vienetta”, “Evie Wants A Baby”, “Lowdown”, “The Bazura Project”, “Why Must The Show Go On?” and “Light Bringer” with actors such as David Wenham, John Brumpton, Adam Zwar and Paul Dawber. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Edited by Incognita Enterprises. For full information about Sally McLean, visit sallymclean.com.

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

    January 3, 2018

    “Light Bringer” and “Why Must The Show Go On?” now wrapped

    July 14, 2009

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

    April 3, 2020
  • Acting,  Producing

    “V for Vienetta”, “Raymond Taylor’s Earnest Adventures in Love”, AACTA Awards, Howard Fine and more!

    February 10, 2013 /

    Been a while since the last update! Here’s what you missed … The latter half of 2012 got very busy for Sally with two film lead roles: “Lynette” in Micha Couell’s V for Vienetta, alongside John Brumpton, Bruce Kerr, Don Bridges & Susan Turner and playing the romantic interest of “Sylvie” in Jemma van Loenen’sRaymond Taylor’s Earnest Adventures in Love alongside Sarah Hallam and Benedict Kazlauskas. That same period also saw her undertaking further study with the fabulous Howard Fine, participating in the Howard Fine & David Coury Four Day Masterclass (always a pleasure and a joy), once again undertaking duties as a Juror for the AACTA Awards (formerly AFI Awards) and…

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

    April 3, 2020

    August 2017 Round up – Awards, Reviews & More!

    August 5, 2017

    Jack Irish, Shakespeare Republic and other fun stuff!

    March 30, 2016
  • Acting,  Producing

    Offspring and Evie Wants a Baby … I’m seeing a sort of theme here …

    October 5, 2012 /

    As per our last update, Sally was appearing on ABC Television in the semi-regular role of “Lee’s Mum” in The Bazura Project, directing and producing her first major docudrama A Life Unexpected: The Franz Stampfl Story(yes, it’s been re-titled) and waiting for the greenlight for a couple of acting gigs. So, what’s happened since then? Sally has played “Astra” in Evie Wants A Baby (see above photo) for Lollapalooza Films, ooh-ed and ahh-ed over bargins for the recent series of K-Mart commercials, played a Journalist for Offspring (Channel 10) and is currently giving her Shakespeare brain another workout with Banyai Theatre. She is also still producing and directing her first major docudrama (the next donation round…

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    Sally returns to Australian Shakespeare Company to reprise role in “The Comedy Of Errors” in 2011

    December 15, 2010

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

    April 3, 2020

    AFI Jury duty done and dusted …

    January 5, 2010
  • Acting,  Producing

    Hello Europe and “The Bazura Project”

    February 5, 2012 /

    2011 turned out to be a great year, with some fabulous acting roles for Sally, but also providing her with the opportunity of donning her director’s cap again for the first time in five years. As per our last update, Sally was appearing on ABC2 in the semi-regular role of “Lee’s Mum” in “The Bazura Project” when the call came through – the money had been raised via donations to enable her to start filming her docudrama project “A Life Unexpected: The Franz Stampfl Story“! Within a few short weeks, Sally, along with her Director of Photography, Tim Egan and Gaffer/Sound Op., Saraj Alkemade were winging their way to Europe to…

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    2018 In Pictures – Howard Fine Acting Studios, Shakespeare Republic, Melbourne WebFest and more #acting #webseries #Shakespeare

    December 3, 2018

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

    January 12, 2019

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

    April 7, 2022
  • Acting

    “The Rogues Gallery” meets “The Bazura Project” or Web TV meets ABCTV

    September 5, 2011 /

    2011 has been a busy one for Sally so far – starting with the Summer Season of “The Comedy of Errors” as Dowsabel with the Australian Shakespeare Company in the Royal Botanic Gardens until March, then straight into researching for the documentary “Franz Stampfl: The Man Behind the Miracle Mile“, followed by filming and performing live in “The Ken & Barbie Killers” for The Rogues Gallery (an Incognita Enterprises/ Cinema Viscera co-production) in June. She then played the semi-regular role of “Lee’s Mum” (or “Mrs Zachariah” – not sure yet how she’ll be credited) for the new ABC2 comedy series “The Bazura Project” (which airs on September 29th) and is now in pre-production for the aforementioned Franz…

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

    February 22, 2019

    Sally Interviewed on “How Do You Do You” Podcast

    October 28, 2018

    #MelbourneWebFest, #ShakespeareRepublic & more!

    July 11, 2016
  • Acting

    Back on AFI jury duty – and loving it!

    January 2, 2011 /

    Well, 2010 finished off with a bang! Sally again accepted the invitation to be a Juror for the 2010 AFI Awards, juggling watching and assessing nearly every Australian feature film released over the past 12 months with her rehearsal and performance commitments with the Australian Shakespeare Company’s The Comedy Of Errors (now running as the ASC’s 2010/2011 Shakespeare Under the Stars season at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne! Plug, plug!). The AFI Awards night itself was a blast, with a slick awards ceremony presentation at The Regent Theatre and fun after party at the Regent Theatre Ballroom. Sally attended with her partner, Billy Smedley (both pictured left at the After Party on the night) and was…

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    The Rehearsal Room – evolving the process

    May 14, 2013

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

    June 3, 2015

    Shakespeare Republic now streaming on Ozflix – and already breaking records!

    April 12, 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 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 interviewed on No Rest For The Weekend in NYC
  • Sally wins Best Actress award at UVFF 2021

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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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