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Michael Sparks

Michael Sparks OAM is a Canberra-based actor, designer, and director having worked with a myriad
of theatre companies in Canberra. He has also been seen on television in the series The Prime
Minister is Missing, Rake, and Total Control. His film work includes the feature Light Switch, as well
as short films Men of Ice, No Trouble Here and Animal.

Recent stage performances have included Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar (Chaika Theatre 2025), The Man in Baby Jane (REP 2024), Charlie in August Osage County (Free-Rain, 2024 & 2014), Dorn in Seagull (Chaika, 2024), Gloucester in King Lear (Echo Theatre, 2023), Robin in The Children (Chaika Theatre, 2023), Andy in Love Letters (REP, 2023), George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Free-Rain, 2022 & 2010), Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (REP, 2021), Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath (REP, 2020), Korzh in The Woman in the Window (REP, 2019), Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (REP, 2019), Creature in Dr Frankenstein (REP, 2018),

His stage designs include Present Laughter (ACT Hub, 2025), Blithe Spirit (REP, 2025), Lord of the Flies (REP), Marry Me a Little (Everyman Theatre, 2023), Crimes of the Heart (REP, 2023), Our Country’s Good (REP, 2022), Hotel Sorrento (REP, 2022), The Woman in the Window (REP, 2019), Switzerland (Pigeonhole Theatre, 2018), The 39 Steps (REP, 2018), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Pigeonhole, 2017), Les Miserables (Free-Rain, 2017), Wait Until Dark (REP 2017), Macbeth (REP, 2016), The Crucible (REP, 2015), The Importance of Being Earnest (REP, 2015 & Free-Rain 2005), Steel Magnolias (REP, 2014), Cosi (REP, 2008), Room to Move (REP, 2007).

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