In Conversation: Jane Longhurst

Jane Longhurst is an award-winning actor, broadcaster with ABC Local Radio, voice artist and popular presenter of events big and small. She has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts. Her television credits include Rosehaven, Death or Liberty, Blue Heelers, A Country Practice, Neighbours, Janus, an AFI Award winning episode of GP and the forthcoming series Deadloch and Bay of Fires to screen later this year.

Recent theatre credits include the first two performances of her Black Bag Trilogy: Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, (Mona Foma 2021 Launceston and Hobart) and Request Programme by Franz Xaver Kroetz staged at Detached Cultural Organisation for Beaker Street Festival (2022), both directed by Robert Jarman. For Request Programme, Jane was awarded the Best Professional Performance in a Leading Role at the recent 2023 Tasmanian Theatre Awards.

Jane is also an emerging director of text and creator of live performance. In 2021, Jane directed a University of Tasmania third year drama student-devised performance, Set in Stone at the Inveresk campus, Launceston. Site specific work includes providing the voice over for Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey’s work The Shadows Calling, presented by Detached in association with Dark MOFO in 2015.

A keen sports lover and popular fill in presenter and producer on ABC Local Radio, (including ABC Rural, ABC Grandstand and ABC Classic), Jane also regularly presents concerts with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

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