Biography

I've had great pleasure of working with some of the nicest comedians in the business including Steve Martin who came out to Melbourne to test drive his first play. Picasso at the Lapin Agile was wonderful. I worked with John Cleese more recently on Fawlty Towers Live on stage which was a hugely-wonderful thing.

I suppose it's quite an unusual show in as much as we've never had a historical, lavish melodrama that A Place to Call Home is, ever in this country.

Every time you work with people of that calibre and see how humble they are and yet how rigorous and self-critical they are, it's a real lesson, I suppose, in what it takes to make comedy work.

And it's been fantastic, an absolute highlight of my career in terms of television. To have the opportunity to create a character from the 1950s and travel with her for six years and see where she ends up. It's been the best crew I've ever worked with, wonderful writing, good directors ...everything you could possibly hope for, really!

I'm hoping to assemble a lot more information and try and get them in to the record books. Neither of them are known in Australia even though they travelled over to America and made their careers there all those centuries ago,