Drew Forsthye

Co-creator, The Wharf Revue: Can of Worms

A graduate of NIDA, Drew Forsythe joined The Old Tote Theatre Co as a company member for four seasons which included the opening of the Opera House Drama Theatre. 

As a member of Nimrod Theatre Co, he has performed in the following: 

• Biggles (which opened the Nimrod, now Stables Theatre)
• The Bacchoi (which opened the New Nimrod, now Belvoir St. Theatre)
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Richard the Third
• Twelfth Night
• The Seagull
• Gone With Hardy
• Comedy of Errors
• The Club
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Venetian Twins
• Three Sisters
• The Servant of Two Masters

Most of these performances were with John Bell mentoring and directing.  

With Sydney Theatre Company, he has performed in the following:

• Most of the 26 Wharf Revues
• Shorts at the Wharf (which opened the Wharf Theatre)
• Hedda Gabler
• The Way of the World (1983)
• Amadeus
• Emerald City
• Big and Little
• The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus
• The Recruit
• Volpone
• Harbour
• The Republic of Myopia (which opened the Roslyn Packer Theatre)
• The Way of the World (2003)
• The Give and Take
• Under Milk Wood
• Mrs Warren’s Profession

He has also appeared in a number of musicals, including:

• Strictly Ballroom
• Big River
• Lasseter
• The Threepenny Opera
• The Mikado
• Pirates of Penzance
• HMS Pinafore
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• The Merry Widow

With the ACO, he has appeared in Michael Leunig’s Carnival of the Humans, and with The Song Company, L’Amfiparnaso, a concert.

He has also appeared in a variety of films and TV shows, including: 

• Stone
• Deathcheaters
• Caddie
• Newsfront
• Doctors and Nurses
• Ginger Meggs
• Burke and Wills
• Annie’s Coming Out
• Travelling North
• Billy’s Holiday
• Ned
• Devil’s Dust
• David Tench Tonight
• The Miraculous Mellops
• The Dingo Principle
• The Party Machine
• Whose Baby
• Three Men and a Baby Grand

He has won a number of awards, including: 

• Green Room Award, Best Actor in a Musical (The Mikado)
• Variety Award, Best Actor in a Musical (The Venetian Twins)
• AFI Award, Best Supporting Actor (Caddie)
• Penguin Award, Best Actor in a Mini-Series (Whose Baby)

As a writer, he has penned The Wharf Revue, The Republic of Myopia, Three Men and a Baby Grand and The Last Man Standing.