In our repertoire, Ciarán O’Riordan plays Romeo, Lysander-Puck-Quince, Ferdinand and MacDuff. Recent other credits include Waiting For Godot for ACA Company, Grain in the Blood for Virginia Plain Theatre at KXT, Mel Stanwyck in Chimerica (New Theatre), and original plays What Have You Done (Chippen St. Theatre) and Sydney The Folk Musical (Newcastle Fringe, Sydney Folk Festival). He has also devised and directed a pop-up production of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Past Shakespeare credits include Pistol in The Merry Wives of Windsor (New Theatre), Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Acting Factory), Pericles in Pericles of Tyre (The Acting Factory), Ned Poins in Henry IV Parts One and Two with Streamed Shakespeare, as well as Silvius in As You Like It and Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night as part of ACA’s Graduating Company of 2020.
Charlotte Edwards plays Juliet in our Romeo & Juliet. She grew up in Tasmania, where she discovered her love for performance through dance. From a young age, she knew she wanted to move to the mainland to attend acting school, and in 2023, she graduated from the Actors Centre Australia with a Bachelor’s degree in Stage and Screen Acting.
While at ACA, Charlotte was Irina in Three Sisters, Natalie in The Business, Clarence and Prince Edward in Richard III, Nola in The Boys, Elena Popova in The Bear, Juror 7 in 12 Angry Men, and Sentry 2, Boy Young, and Chorus in Antigone.
Since graduating, Charlotte has played Boy in Waiting for Godot (ACA Wheelhouse), Fox/ Footman/Dance Captain in Cinderella (Strathfield Musical Society), and John Webster in Shakespeare in Love at the New Theatre.
In our repertoire Jo Bloom is our Cleopatra, Tybalt and the Nurse, Lady Macbeth, Caliban, and Helena, and has performed Shakespeare across the UK and Australia in castles, theatres, cathedrals and botanical gardens. She’s worked with the British Shakespeare Company, Australian Shakespeare Company, and has performed in every production by Come you Spirits, which she founded. Jo also works as an energy healer and plant medicine practitioner.
Dallas Reedman plays Mercutio in our Romeo & Juliet. He trained at the Actors Centre Australia, graduating the full-time course in 2017. His recent theatre credits include performances at the New Theatre as: Diego in Atlantis, directed by Tiffany Wong (2024) and Niko in Breaking the Code, directed by Anthony Skuse (2022). He also has performed at Flow Studios as Bergetto in Tis Pity… directed by Harry Reid (2022). In 2023, Dallas completed a year of touring for Bell Shakespeare as part of The Players, performing in schools around the country.
In our repertoire, Charles Mayer is our Lord Capulet and the Friar, Antony, Macbeth, Demetrius-Oberon-Bottom, and Prospero. He is a graduate of London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama and a former infantry commander in the British Army. He has performed in many TV and film productions and on the West End stage, Shanghai, and across Australia and New Zealand with State Theatre Company of South Australia and Pop-Up Globe, and is co-founder of Come you Spirits, performing with the other actors in all five productions.
Charley Allanah, who plays Charmian in Antony & Cleopatra, trained at Adelaide College of Arts, NIDA, and with SITI Company NYC. She founded and was artistic director of Adelaide collective Early Worx, winning the Adelaide Critics Circle’s Emerging Artist of the Year 2011. In 2015, she co-founded House of Sand with choreographer Eliza Sanders, creating multi-artform contemporary performance. She was understudy to the author in the lead role of Glace Chase’s Triple X for Sydney Theatre Company, and her play Stable was long listed for the ‘24 Griffin Award. Must Go On, a near-future sci-fi musical with Nick Delatovic is in development with Canberra Theatre Centre.
Art Director of Come you Spirits Theatre is Letitia Hodgkinson, the creator of staging, costumes and overall aesthetic vision. She is an artist and lover of all things pre-loved, a champion of giving new life to goods that would otherwise end up in landfill.
Nearly all props and costumes used across the repertoire are sourced from council recycling programmes or charity stores. When not developing art for Come you Spirits she is sourcing and creating “treasure” for her own vintage store, Ziggy & Skunk.