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Deborah Abela
Author, Entertainer
Deb Abela is an ambitious author, with an impressive output of fifteen books in ten years. Her dedication to her craft, and sharing it with students across Australia, earnt her the role of National Literacy Ambassador for 2010.
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Rachel Berger
Entertainer, Author, Inspirational Speaker
Rachel Berger is one of Australia’s most highly regarded, adept, and adaptive comedic talents, working variously as a broadcaster, comic, novelist, columnist, agitator and television entertainer. Rachel’s dynamic presence and engagingly sharp observations have made her an extremely popular performer both live and on television, across Australia and overseas.
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Lola Berry
Author, Inspirational Speaker, Entertainer
Lola Berry’s Inspiring Ingredients is a renown health and cook book aimed to inspire you to control weight, boost energy and love food.
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Mark Carthew
Author, Storyteller/Performer, Entertainer
Mark Carthew is an award winning editor and children’s author well known for his many books and series exploring wordplay, music, movement, drama, jokes, rhymes and riddles! Mark’s recent picture book The Gobbling Tree was a winner of the Speech Pathology Australia’s Book of the Year.
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Jane Clifton
Author, Entertainer
Jane Clifton is the genuine show-business all-rounder. Actress, singer and, more recently, published crime novelist, Jane is often asked if there is anything she can’t do, to which she simply replies ‘Ballet and making money.’
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Li Cunxin
Author, Entertainer, Inspirational Speaker
Li Cunxin is a professional ballet dancer, stockbroker, and the author of Mao’s Last Dancer, which was adapted for film in 2009. The autobiography recounts his remarkable journey from rural China, to the US, the UK, and to Australia.
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Meyer Eidelson
Storyteller/Performer, Social Commentator, Author, Entertainer
Meyer has written over fourteen books and published a number of others as the publishing coordinator of the St Kilda Historical Society. All the books deal with the natural, cultural and social history of Melbourne. He is the founder of Melbourne Walks, which uses the performative and engaging format of a walking tour to impart social, cultural and historical knowledge.
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Anyone for Tennis?
Inspirational Speaker, Entertainer, Storyteller/Performer
This musical comedy duo has performed on the ABC, the Comedy Channel, Triple J, Triple M, in the Raw Comedy National Final and in sold out shows at the 2008, 2009 and 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Through songs and storytelling, the boys from Anyone for Tennis? inspire school students at defining points in their lives to always be true to themselves and follow their dreams. This requires determination, vision, goal-setting and a good sense of humour!
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David Stavanger: Ghostboy
Storyteller/Performer, Entertainer, Author
Ghostboy is one of Australia’s premier young adult and children’s spoken word presenters.
He has hosted workshops, performances, talks and poetry slams to wide acclaim from students & teachers at the likes of Voices on the Coast, Whitsunday Voices, Somerset Writers Festival, and Brisbane Writers Festival’s WordPlay.
A live hybrid of performance poetry, spoken weird theatre and surrealist vaudeville Ghostboy has been a hit at many major festivals including Brisbane Writers, Sydney Writers, Byron Bay Writers, Tasmanian Poetry, Broken Hill Poetry, Woodford Folk Festival, and QLD Poetry Festivals.
Ghostboy is the world’s only vaguely legal “literary cannibal”.
Ghostboy will tour schools in South Australia in March 2012
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Anna Goldsworthy
Author, Entertainer, Inspirational Speaker
Anna Goldsworthy is a prize-winning classical pianist and writer. She an engaging speaker and performer, and is passionate about bringing the lessons of classical music to the widest possible audience.
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Robert Greenberg
Author, Entertainer
Robert’s writing career began when he won the best sentence competition in Grade 3. Since then he’s written TV scripts for Round the Twist, Nickelodeon and has had three books published with Penguin.
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Andy Griffiths
Author, Entertainer
Andy Griffiths is one of Australia’s funniest and most successful children’s authors. Andy began as an English teacher and a publisher/editor of educational books and is now the author of over fifteen bestsellers including the Schooling Around series and the JUST! series, illustrated by Terry Denton.
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Fiona Harris
Storyteller/Performer, Inspirational Speaker, Entertainer
Fiona Harris is one of Australia’s top female comedienne’s and writers, having written and performed on television comedy shows Skithouse, Comedy Inc, The Librarians, Flipside, as well as drama programs such as Tangle, Rush, Offspring and the telemovie, Beaconsfield.
Fiona is currently the head writer for the third series of popular children’s ABC television show, Prank Patrol, and has written for comedy music panel show Spicks and Specks. Fiona has also written and performed in numerous Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows, including Footy Chicks, which won the Moosehead award in 2003.
Fiona (right)
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Sammy J
Storyteller/Performer, Entertainer, Inspirational Speaker
From Melbourne to Edinburgh, comedian Sammy J has earned a reputation as one of the most exciting and inventive performers on the international scene. You may have seen him on Spicks and Specks, Good News Week or Talkin’ Bout Your Generation and read his articles in The Age.
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Frank Jones
Storyteller/Performer, Entertainer, Curriculum Specialist
Frank Jones is one of Australia’s most gifted songwriters. He wrote Melbourne’s unofficial anthem, My Brown Yarra (Whirling Furphies), and currently writes for his new band, BiG FOLK, and for many other Australian performers.
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Russell McGilton
Inspirational Speaker, Entertainer, Author
Russell McGilton is a writer, comic performer, avid cyclist and adventurer. He has written travel narratives for The Australian, The Age, Big Issue and is an award winning playwright.
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Kate McLennan
Storyteller/Performer, Inspirational Speaker, Entertainer
Kate (left) is best known for her one-woman stage comedy show The Debutante Diaries. In the show Kate brings an entire school community to life as they plan their Year 11 debutante ball, pitting adult disaffection against teenage angst, with hilarious results.
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Tony Wilson
Author, Entertainer, Inspirational Speaker
Tony Wilson has written two hilarious satirical novels about celebrity and tabloid media. He is also the author of five picture books, and has worked successfully on television (Race Around the World and Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever!), radio (Triple R’s Breakfasters) and print media (The Age and The Monthly).
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Jan Wositzky
Entertainer, Storyteller/Performer
Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky is a writer, storyteller and musician, with a forty-year career in books, broadcasting, radio, television, bands, theatre, and solo performance. He came to Australia as a boy in 1956, with his Czech-Scots family, and has made a lifetime exploring this land, it’s music and stories.
All of Jan’s presentations for schools are designed carefully to match up with points along the VELS Curriculum for both Primary and Secondary levels. Ask an agent at Booked Out to forward you the full curriculum breakdown sheets if required.
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Sean Dooley
Author, Inspirational Speaker, Social Commentator, Entertainer
Sean Dooley is a Melbourne author who has worked as a television comedy writer. He is a contributor to The Age, ABC radio and 3RRR, writing and talking about birds, environmental issues, sport and, well, anything, really. But his greatest claim to fame is that in 2002 he broke the Australian birdwatching record for seeing the most species in the one year. He then wrote about it in The Big Twitch, thereby publicly outing himself as a bird-nerd.
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