performer - PAMELA RABE (AUS)


Pamela has worked extensively in theatre in Melbourne and Sydney, as both an actress and a director. She has directed the Sydney Theatre Companies productions of IN THE NEXT ROOM or THE VIBRATOR PLAY, ELLING and THE SERPENT’S TEETH – CITIZENS and PORN. CAKE. for the Malthouse Theatre. As an actress, her recent theatre credits…



Pamela has worked extensively in theatre in Melbourne and Sydney, as both an actress and a director.

She has directed the Sydney Theatre Companies productions of IN THE NEXT ROOM or THE VIBRATOR PLAY, ELLING and THE SERPENT’S TEETH – CITIZENS and PORN. CAKE. for the Malthouse Theatre.

As an actress, her recent theatre credits with the Melbourne Theatre Company include HAMLET, BOSTON MARRIAGE and GOD OF CARNAGE. For the Sydney Theatre Company, THE WAR OF THE ROSES, THE SERPENTS TEETH – SOLDIERS, GALLIPOLI, A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, THE ART OF WAR and SEASON AT SARSPARILLA.

Pamela has also worked widely in television and film. She has worked in such films as Samantha Lang’s THE WELL, honoured by its inclusion in official competition at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and for which she won the 1997 Australian Film Institute Award for “Best Actress in a Leading Role”, Bruce Beresford’s PARADISE ROAD, Mark Joffe’s film version of COSI, Paul Cox’s LUST AND REVENGE, John Dulgan’s SIRENS and Margot Nash’s VACANT POSSESSION, as well as the acclaimed television series SEVEN DEADLY SINS, the ABC/BBC co-production THE BITE and the mini-series THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL.