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	ATOD Staff     Shauna Wolifson GENERAL MANAGER               Caroline Conlon ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Caroline is a director, actor, translator and performer who began her acting career with ATOD in 1991. She has performed all over Australia as well as internationally in New Zealand, Austria, Singapore and the US. Two appearances on “All Saints” were highlights given TV opportunities for deaf performers are few and far between. She has become a legend as a sign-singing performer at many Sydney social and cultural events. She co-wrote the cabaret show “Dislabelled” which was staged at the Seymour Centre in Sydney, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival followed by a two-month Australian-wide tour. Caroline became artistic director of ATOD at the beginning of 2005. She has developed a very strong bond with ATOD’s patron and supporter Todd McKenney, who, with her guidance is learning his second language, Auslan (Australian sign language).               Jane Patton FINANCIAL AND OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR   Jane started with ATOD back in 2003 as the Schools Booking Co-ordinator. A few years later she moved into the position of Office Manager. When she returned to the company after one-year maternity leave she moved into the role of Financial and Office Administrator.                     Michael Ng ACTOR Michael came out to Australia from Hong Kong with his partner on a 1 year working holiday in 1999. He took part in a 2 week acting workshop with ATOD and that was the beginning of his acting career. Every year since 2000 he has been flying back from Hong Kong to perform to school students around Australia. We get return bookings from schools just because Michael is coming back. I get calls from teachers and students asking “Is Michael coming back this year?" How Michael communicates and functions in Australia is both a mystery and extraordinary to the hearing world: his first language is Chinese sign language, his second language is Cantonese, his third language is Auslan and his fourth language is written English. Bethany Robinson ACTOR   Bethany is a 20 year old Deaf girl from Melbourne. She was profiled in a documentary on SBS last year called “Welcome to My Deaf World”. It’s a great profile of a young, vibrant, intelligent girl with a dynamic personality, a gorgeous smile, doing the HSC, coping with boyfriend troubles, separated parents (both hearing) and basically living the life of your average teenager with the added complication of it being in a deaf world. She is now in her first full time job as an actress and living in Sydney.   Jonathan Chan ACTOR   Jonathan is a hearing actor from Sydney. He first started his training as a singer at the age of 10 where he was a boy soprano in St Mary’s Cathedral Choir and through this discovered a passion for performing throughout school, appearing in all the school productions. After high school, he decided to pursue his dreams of being a professional performer. In 2003 he graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Theatre – Performance) from the University of Wollongong. Since then, he has worked as a singer/actor/dancer in Theatre, Musical Theatre, Opera, TV and Children’s Entertainment. Jonathan is extremely excited to be part of the Australian Theatre of the Deaf and is deeply honored to be working with Michael and Bethany, two of the most inspiring people he has ever met! His favourite aspect of touring is learning Auslan.

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