WELCOME TO MATRICS
Established in 2003, Matrics has launched the careers of some of Australia’s best young talent: Sophie Lowe (Beautiful Kate, Blessed); Rhys Wakefield (Sanctum, Black Balloon, Home and Away); Louis Hunter (US TV series Secret Circle, War of the Roses, Out of the Blue), Hayley McCarthy (All Saints, Mamma Mia The Musical, Rescue Special Ops, Home and Away, Out Of The Blue), Alex Thompson (Beneath Hill 60) Holly Fraser (War of the Roses, My Place), James Fraser (Devil’s Playground, December Boys, Double Trouble, Blackjack), Kenya Pearson (Looking For Grace) and Leonie Whyman (Redfern Now, Ready For This?, Melbourne Theatre Company, Mystery Road S3, Deadloch), Heath Ledger Scholarship winner Mojean Aria (Bronx Bull, Hybrids, Hara Kiri), Lola Bond (Upright S2, Last Days of The Spaceship); Martha Kate Morgan ( Reckoning, Class Of 07, Mercy Road, The Dam), Willow Speers (Back to the Rafters S1), Jeremy Blewitt ( Mate, The Dam, Lost Flowers of Alice Hart), Mischa Heywood ( Sebastian Tang (MaveriX, Barons, Klara and The Sun.
Matrics is currently developing a number of child and teen actors who are regularly booking TV and film roles…Braxton Smith, Mischa Heywood, Rudra Mehta, Shiva Mehta, Jye McCallum, Lexie Hallett and Jack Stephens
Several Matrics actors have gone on to train at some of Australia’s most prestigious acting and musical theatre institutions: Luke Haberacht (WAAPA Music Theatre Graduate 2017), Jack Wunsch (VCA Music Theatre Graduate 2017), Tom Alexander (WAAPA Acting Graduate 2018), Eleni Cassimatis (ACA Acting Graduate 2018), Philip D’Ambrosio (NIDA Acting Graduate 2020), Lochie Kent (NIDA Acting Graduate 2020), Lola Bond (QUT Acting Graduate 2022), Alexandra Jackson (ACA Acting Graduate 2022), Stella Everett (The Juilliard School Acting Graduate 2023)
Matrics offers its talent a personalised service to ensure they learn as much about the business that they are hoping to work in and a talent development programme, whereby young actors are offered industry related training, guidance and casting advice.
WHAT WE DO
Matrics submits its child and teen actors for a wide-range of featured extra and lead roles for Australian and overseas TV and Feature Film productions. Theatre experienced actors are regularly submitted for vocal and acting roles in productions staged by Opera Australia; acting roles in many of Sydney’s independent, fringe and major theatre companies. Many ‘triple threat” talent are submitted for roles in professional Musical Theatre productions
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Victoria Jackson has a Bachelor Arts degree with a Double Major in Theatre Arts and Journalism (Curtin University 1997). As a third year student she won an AFI Screen Producers Award (WA Chapter) in 1999 for a Documentary she produced starring Andrew Denton, Julia Morris, Kitty Flanagan, Tim Ferguson and Greg Fleet “Dying is Easy…Comedy Is Hard” sold to Foxtel Australia.
Victoria has over 20 years experience in sales, marketing, advertising and PR working in various roles for the media, government and corporate sectors. She has worked in TV production as a producer/presenter, produced corporate videos and has acting, voiceover and TVC experience.
Victoria is an Executive Producer of Indigenous Horror feature film ‘It Will Find You!’ currently in post-production and an Executive Producer of ‘Jeeney Ray’, currently in development.
