Lexi Sekuless

Lexi graduated from London's Royal Central School of Speech and Drama from their Bachelor of Acting program with first class honours. During her time she learnt acting craft and technique from some of the UK's top tutors. Her career highlight was performing at the Globe as 'Lady Anne' in Richard III for the 2013 Wanamaker Festival. Lexi also performed in Appetite with Miriam Margoyles, Tamsin Greig, Jemma Redgrave and Jason Isaacs. Her Shakespeare credits include 'Julia' in Two Gentlemen of Verona, 'Imogen' in Cymbeline, 'Titania' in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and 'Kent' in King Lear. In London Lexi also performed as 'Clytemnestra' in the Oresteia, 'Florina' in Mad Forest, 'Imogen' in The Lightening Play, 'Darlene' in Balm in Gilead and in her own show about Marilyn Monroe, a version of which returned to Canberra. Her Australian performances include 'Viola' in Twelfth Night, Prime Minister's Chief of Staff in Secret City: Under the Eagle, 'Marianne' in Constellations, 'Beatrice' in Much Ado About Nothing, 'Raina' in Arms and the Man, 'Miss Cannon' in series 5 of Rake and as Dame Enid Lyons in the re-enactment of her maiden speech, 75 years after entering Parliament. Lexi will next appear as a Press Gallery Journalist in episode 6 of the ABC series Black B*tch and as the voice for Kerry McGinis' novel The Roadhouse. Lexi is Co-Producer and Co-Artistic Director of the free Shakespeare by the Lakes season. She works with Professor Duncan Driver on presenting the rehearsal room verse technique to educators in Australia. Lexi also submitted a proposal for a National Theatre of Australia to the Federal Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories' inquiry into Canberra's national institutions and continues to lobby for arts in Australia.