Lyndel Rowe - Biography
After joining the Union Repertory Company (now the Melbourne Theatre Company) - in productions including Patrick White's Season at Sarsparilla, Waltz of the Toreadors, Arms and the Man, Ghost Train - Lyndel toured Australia with J.C. Williamson's Goodnight Mrs. Puffin, with Irene Handl.Travelling to England she studied at The Royal Court Theatre Studio, with George Devine and Keith Johnstone. Then a production with the International Theatre Company of The Seventh Seal (Painting on Wood). From there into repertory and into the company of a West End lunch-time theatre, TheatreScope, doing weekly seasons of one act Tenessee Williams, Ionesco, Anouilh etc.
Invited back to the Melbourne Theatre Company at Russell Street; roles including: Nancy - The Knack, Raymonde - Flea in her Ear, Irina - Three Sisters, Mary Warren - The Crucible, Margery Pinchwife - The Country Wife, Sheila - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Sandy - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Clarice - Servant of Two Masters, Marina - Pericles, Pip - Moby Dick, Grace - London Assurance, Charlotte - The Magistrate, Celemene - The Misanthrope, Gwendolyn - The Importance of Being Earnest.
Productions with the Sydney Theatre Company including the roles of: Kate - The Taming of the Shrew, Rose Trelawney - Trelawney of the Wells, Sonya - Uncle Vanya, Marianne - Tartuffe, Charlotte - The Real Thing.
With the South Australian Theatre Company: Phoebe - As You Like It, Daphne - Old King Cole, Jill in David Williamson's, Handful of Friends.
At the Playbox, Sydney, Lyndel played Lucy in the musical - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. With Nimrod Street, Gwendolyn - in Stoppard's Travesties, and an Australian tour of Doctor in Love.
In England with the Liverpool Playhouse:
Anna - Old Times, Dianne - Absent Friends, Raymonde - Flea in Her Ear.
Films include:
Princess Kate, Short Changed, Playing Beattie Bow, I Cant Get Started.
Television:
In England, Lyndel played Fenichka, in BBC's classical series of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Guest Episodes of Z-cars, Gentle Touch, Kate with Phylis Calvert, BBC play of the month, Death of a Salesman, with Rod Steiger.
In Australia, the Mini-series, Melba. Guest episodes in ABC series, Crawfords, and she played Karen Fox in Grundy's Sons and Daughters. Lyndel was a member of Eric Tayler's, A.B.C. Television Repertory Company.
She has been awarded a Television Society Award, and a Logie.
Lyndel's other base has been London, where she has been absorbed in her writing - novels, short stories, a screenplay - which has become her new passion.
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