Blazey Best
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Blazey Best is an Australian actress. She has a long stage career[1] including performances as Cornelius and Emily in Then the Mountain Comes at the Australian Museum in 1994,[2][3] as Tessa in Chair in a Landscape at the Q Theatre in 1995,[4] as Cressida in Troilus and Cressida at the Playhouse in 2000,[5] as Sybil in Fawlty Towers: The Play at Roslyn Packer Theatre in 2016,[6] as Rose in Gypsy at Hayes Theatre in 2018[7][8] and as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie at the Ensemble Theatre in 2025,[9] She playe Medea in Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks's reinterpretaion of Medea at the Belvoir Downstairs Theatre in 2012[10] for which she won the best actress award at the 2012 Sydney Theatre Awards.[11]
She starred in the debuts of Brendan Cowell's early plays Men and Happy New at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in Woolloomooloo in 2000 and 2001 respectively[12][13] and ATM at the Sydney Festival in 2002,[14]
Her stage debut was as Katherine in Henry V with the Australian Theatre for Young People, for which she had originally asked if she could audition for the role of Henry.[15][16]
Best has performed in musical theatre including in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, touring in 2006[17][18] and B-Girl at the Playhouse, Sydney Opera House in 2015[19] both alongside iOTA.[20]
Best moved into directing with King of Pigs at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in 2018.[21][22] She directed Tell Me on a Sunday at the Hayes Theatre in 2024.[23]
Best featured in the films Ten Empty[24][25] and Powder Burn.[26] On TV she was in Good Cop/Bad Cop[27] and Between Two Worlds.[28]
References
- ^ Blazey Best, AusStage
- ^ Evans, Bob (10 November 1994), "Volcanic dust and soap", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Payne, Pamela (20 November 1994), "Theatre in the museum", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Waites, James (27 November 1995), "Take a seat for true-blue", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Hallett, Bryce (22 September 2000), "All's bare in this war", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Blake, Jason (22 August 2016), "BSome faults to this beloved farce", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Shand, John (24 May 2018), "Blazey Best chews up Rose's Turn and spits it at us", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Liston, Jo (11 May 2018), "Blazey Best's turn as Rose at the Hayes", Limelight
- ^ Cunningham, Harriet (31 March 2025), "Shattering take on a masterpiece", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ McCallum, John (16 October 2012), "Heinous crime in full view", The Australian
- ^ "Medea stages a sweep at theatre awards", The Daily Telegraph, 15 January 2013
- ^ Dunne, Stephen (11 December 2000), "Youngsters learn how to get along, While Men revel in their weaknesses", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Dunne, Stephen (14 July 2001), "Palaver and Happy New", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Dunne, Stephen (22 September 2000), "Fiscal Harmony", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Evans, Bob (22 July 1994), "Unto the Breach", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Evans, Bob (26 July 1994), "'Henry' as an epic adventure", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Jones, Deborah (15 August 2006), "Divas deliver the goods with panache", The Australian
- ^ Blake, Jason (20 August 2006), "A musical that moves you and grooves you", The Sun Herald
- ^ Hook, Chris (4 June 2015), "Creative duo back bending the rules", The Daily Telegraph
- ^ Elphick, Nicole (22 May 2015), "B-Girl's Blazey Best: my secret Sydney", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Shand, John (7 August 2018), "Pointing the giant finger of blame at men", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ McCallum, John (6 August 2008), "Uncompromising tales of domestic violence", The Australian
- ^ Gripper, Ali (9 April 2024), "Blast from past shows how far we have come", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Freebury, Jane (12 July 2008), "Dark look at suburban living", The Canberra Times
- ^ Hall, Sandra (5 July 2008), "Unhappily ever after", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Martin, Lauren (20 February 1998), "Small but perfectly formed", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Han, Angie (19 February 2025), "'Good Cop/Bad Cop' Review: Leighton Meester Headlines The CW's Charmingly Breezy Police Procedural", Hollywood Reporter
- ^ Groves, Don (24 July 2020), "Bevan Lee breaks the rules with 'Between Two Worlds'", if
External links
- Blazey Best at IMDb