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33a Lord Street, Port Macquarie NSW
Special thanks to our Major Sponsor
Port Macquarie Hastings Council
proudly supporting our 2025
One Act Play Festival through
PMHC Community Grants
One Act
Play Festival
Players Theatre is proudly hosting the One Act Play Festival again in 2025! Join us for an incredible showcase of theatre talent from all around Australia. Submissions are currently open and close 5pm April 11th. For more information, please see the Information Pack below:
Adjudicator - Jo Bloom
Jo has worked as an actress, director, producer, educator and playwright in Sydney, Melbourne and London and across the UK. Her passion for Shakespeare and classical theatre has seen her
perform in principal roles in over 20 productions, including to critical acclaim as Hedda in Hedda Gabler and Rosalind in As You Like It. She joined the Australian Shakespeare Company in 2009 performing in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors and Macbeth and set up the education program for them performing in all Victorian and NSW school incursions. She has performed and toured in leading roles playing at the Minnak Theatre UK, the Edinburgh Festival, the Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon, and has also worked with the British Shakespeare Company on their national tour.
Jo wrote, produced and toured the live children’s show Alphabet Avenue across Victoria and Sydney, which developed into the TV series The McKenzie Sunshine Show currently shooting with AI Films Studio for international release in 2024. Jo also works as a massage therapist and energy healing practitioner and is a proud mum of 2 young boys.