Geoff Cartwright

Geoff Cartwright is an actor, director, award-winning audio book reader, poet, author and high school teacher.

Career Cartwright is notable for his recurring role as Dr. Rob Bowen in the Australian drama All Saints, and for his roles in White Collar Blue, Water Rats and Murder Call.

In 1996 Cartwright won a TDK Australian Audio Book Award for his narration of Tim Winton's The Riders.

Cartwright is also notable in the live theatre scene, in both Brisbane and Sydney. Formerly an English & Drama teacher at a Catholic college on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, he was also the artistic director of the Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe, which called the Star of the Sea Theatre, Manly as its home. Geoff directed numerous Rough Hewn productions, offering a stepping stone opportunity to many young actors who have since studied at and graduated from prestigious drama schools in Australia and abroad. He now resides in Queensland and is actively involved in Calanthe Poetry.

Filmography

Films Year Title Role Type 1969 Age of Consent Newsboy Feature film 1996 Whipping Boy Pathologist TV movie

Television Year Title Role Type 1984 Special Squad Dusan Narros Episode 29: "Killer" 1987 Sons and Daughters Doctor Episode 870 1988 A Country Practice Clem Barker Season 8, episode 6: "Learning the Lessons: Part 2" 1989 Rafferty's Rules Carl Jensen Season 5, episode 4: "In for a Penny" 1990 Fresh Start Episode: "Mick" 1992 G.P. Andrew Mason Season 4, episode 30: "A Question of Survival" 1992 Police Rescue Drunk Driver Season 2, episode 7: "Sugar" 1994 Sky Trackers Photo Journalist Season 1, episode 15: "Tree's a Crowd" 1996 Water Rats Chris Walsh Season 1, episode 15: "Eyewitness" 1997 Home and Away Peter Episode 2224 1997 Murder Call Ted Heffernan Season 1, episode 12: "Wages of Sin" 1998–99 All Saints Dr. Rob Bowen Seasons 1–2, 8 episodes 2002 White Collar Blue Colin Meredith Episode 10

Theatre

As actor Year Title Role Venue / Co. 1978 Flight Path Understudy SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1978 When We Are Married Fred Dyson SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1978 Don't Piddle Against the Wind, Mate Phillip Sutton SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1978 Point of Departure Mathias SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1978–79 Clowneroonies The Great Weevil Valley Uniting Church Hall, Fortitude Valley, SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1978 King Lear Knight / Servant SGIO Theatre, Brisbane, Seymour Centre, Sydney with Queensland Theatre & Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust 1979 The Coroner's Report / The Flaw The Man / Husband TN! Theatre Company 1979 Christie in Love Christie TN! Theatre Company 1979 Taurua of Tahiti Tuiterai ABC Radio Brisbane 1979 Miracles Father Davidson ABC Radio Brisbane 1979 Happy End Dr Nakamura Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane with TN! Theatre Company 1979 Travesties Henry Carr Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane with TN! Theatre Company 1979 The Les Darcy Show Father Coady Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane with TN! Theatre Company 1979 The Man Who Came to Dinner Richard Stanley SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1980 The Threepenny Opera Narrator / Filch / Rev Kimble / Smith Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane with TN! Theatre Company 1980 Alex, or, the Automatic Trial Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane with TN! Theatre Company 1980 The Playboy of the Western World Christopher Mahon SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1980 Waiting for Godot Estragon Cement Box Theatre, Brisbane with TN! Theatre Company 1980 Outside Edge Understudy SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1980 Candida Eugene Marchbanks SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1980 Crushed by Desire Inspector Corcoran SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1981 Hamlet Hamlet Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane 1981 The Choir Colin Cement Box Theatre, Brisbane with TN! Theatre Company 1981 Skitz 'n' Frenzy Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane with TN! Theatre Company 1981 Crossing Niagara Carlo Marian Street Theatre, Sydney 1981 Every Burglar Has a Silver Lining / La Veniexiana Seymour Centre, Sydney 1981 Once Upon a Mattress Jester Marian Street Theatre, Sydney 1982 Saturday Sunday Monday Federico, Giulianella'a fiance SGIO Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1983 Macbeth Phillip Street Theatre, Sydney with Peter Williams Productions 1984 An Act of Settlement Sydney Opera House with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust for Sydney Festival 1984 Isadora Universal Theatre, Melbourne with TG Williams Productions 1985 Woyzeck Wayside Theatre, Sydney 1987 Desdemona and Othello Sydney Opera House with Grin and Tonic for Sydney Festival 1988 Measure for Measure Opera Theatre, Adelaide, Playhouse, Perth, Seymour Centre, Sydney with Associated Artists 1988 Hard Times Ensemble Theatre, Sydney 1989 A Doll's House Ensemble Theatre, Sydney 1989 Arms and the Man Playhouse, Newcastle with Hunter Valley Theatre Company 1990 Simpson, J. 202 Ensemble Theatre, Sydney 1990 The Ring Cycle Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane with QPAC 1991 Kurtz Crossroads Theatre, Sydney 1991 Marina: Journey to the End Seymour Centre, Sydney with Carnivale 1992 Murder by Misadventure Marian Street Theatre, Sydney 1993 The Caretaker Lookout Theatre, Sydney 1994 Zima Junction Studio 202, Kelvin Grove 1994 Dancing at Lughnasa Suncorp Theatre with Queensland Theatre 1999 Eyes to the Floor Superintendent Naylor Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 1999–2000 Face to Face Ensemble Theatre, Sydney, Riverside Theatres Parramatta, Playhouse, Canberra, Bruce Gordon Theatre, Wollongong 2000 Seven Stories Stables Theatre, Sydney with Ensemble Theatre 2001 Men of Honour Ensemble Theatre, Sydney 2001 A Conversation Ensemble Theatre, Sydney 2009 Macbeth King Duncan Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2023 Under Milk Wood Zamia Theatre with Tamborine Mountain Little Theatre (also director)

As director Year Title Role Venue / Co. 2007 Look! Out There Beyond the Waves Director Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2008 The Virtuous Burglar Director Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2008 Phaedra Director Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2009 Tartuffe Director Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2010 Our Country’s Good Director Star of the Sea Theatre with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2011 The Taming of the Shrew Producer Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2012 A Clockwork Orange Director Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2013 The Fantasticks Director Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2015 Miss Julie Director Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2015 Jigsaws Director Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2017 Parramatta Girls Director Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2017 Write Young Women Director Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2019 Eyes to the Floor Director / Set Designer Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2019 Morning Sacrifice Director Star of the Sea Theatre, Sydney with Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe 2023 Under Milk Wood Director Zamia Theatre with Tamborine Mountain Little Theatre The Crucible Co-Director Stella Maris College, Sydney