Paul Dawber
Paul's Representation
Ian WhiteAgent at Ian White Management
ian@ianwhitemanagement.com.au • (61)(3) 9380 8444
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Few words about Paul
In 2019 & 2021 Paul Dawber toured Australia, NZ & Germany with Opera Australia's 'West Side Story' (as Lt. Schrank). He was seen on TV in the recurring role of Harry Sinclair in "Neighbours" (2017-2020).
Bio
Born in Liverpool England and resides in Melbourne Australia. A graduate of The National Theatre Drama School, Paul is a veteran of Stage & Screen and is represented in London, Melbourne & Los Angeles. His Feature Film credits include Erskineville Kings (Hugh Jackman, Joel Edgerton), Paper Planes (Sam Worthington, David Wenham), Underground: The Julian Assange Story (Rachael Griffiths, Anthony LaPaglia) and the title role in The Novelist (2017). His TV credits are numerous and include Prisoner, Sons & Daughters (series regular), Neighbours (over 100 episodes), Blue Heelers, Stingers, City Homicide, House Husbands and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Paul's Theatre credits include Count Dracula (QTC), Two (Malthouse), Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet, Merry Wives of Windsor (Los Angeles Shakespeare Co), The Sound of Music (National Tour, GFO), the critically acclaimed Parade (The Collective) and in 2019 & 2021 West Side Story International Tour (Opera Australia).
2019
Started work as Lt. Schrank in West Side Story
2019
Finished work as Lt. Schrank in West Side Story
2019
Finished work as Harry Sinclair in Neighbours
Experience
West Side Story
Company: Opera AustraliaRole: Lt. Schrank
Playing Lt. Schrank in this classic musical touring Melbourne, Wellington, Koln, Berlin, Dresden, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide.
Neighbours
Company: Fremantle MediaRole: Harry Sinclair
Playing recurring role of Harry Sinclair
Aperture
Company: Elemental Drive ProductionsRole: Harvey Stevens
Luke and Ella have been best friends for years. They know almost everything about each other. But when some events happen to their lives it challenges the strength of their friendship and how they truly see each other.
Neighbours
Company: Fremantle MediaAustralian soap opera exploring the lives and relationships of the residents of Ramsay Street in Erinsborough.
Night Shift
Company: Australian ProductionsRole: Officer Buddy
After the death of their mother, two destitute brothers rob a service station in an attempt to pay off the mortgage on their family home. But a time lock on the safe containing the money forces the would-be thieves to start taking hostages, as their simple plan spirals out of control.
In Love With Ally Barker
Company: Smellin Bros ProductionsRole: Richard
Ally meets Sara past and present collide when they seek revenge for their past abuse.
La Souffrance
Company: C & C International Media GroupRole: Marcel (voice)
Valerie has broken up with the love of her life. She begins a new existence of having to adapt to a single life and is not coping well. To help ease the pain, she has a string of one-night stands, indulges in drugs and self-mutilation.
The Novelist
Company: C & C International Media GroupRole: Lewis
Lewis was a good-selling writer once, a mid-list writer, as they call them in the industry, basically one who sells enough books to keep on-board, but not so many he becomes rich out of it. But now that he is older, his books no longer sells, and his girlfriend is tired of being with someone who is always broke. When his publisher takes his next novel without an advance and insists on publishing it as an e-book only, Lewis is forced to take on a creative teaching job at the local community college to make ends meet. He meets a young woman writer filled with talent who begins to take over his mind and his life. At the crossroad of possibilities, Lewis must decide to continue with writing or give it up forever.
Quanta
Company: Indimax ProductionsRole: Darryl
A physicist's life-long work comes to fruition when he is reluctantly partnered with a gifted young assistant. Ego divides them when they receive an unknown signal from space.
Mui Karaoke: The Trial and Execution of a Goddess and Her Son
Company: Vulcan 300 ProductionsRole: John
A Korean goddess and a sorcerer have been embroiled in a thousand year long argument with each other. They call upon seven different humans to decide for them once and for all which one of them is in the wrong. The god that the humans choose will be put to death.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Company: Every Cloud ProductionsRole: Tennis Official (1 episode, 2015)
Our female sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.
House Husbands
Company: Playmaker MediaRole: Matthew Graham (1 episode, 2014)
The lives of four Australian men who are raising their children.
The Colour of Eden
Company: Indimax ProductionsRole: Older Paul
When we turned toward ourselves, we were lost.
Please Like Me
Company: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)Role: Father Callahan (2 episodes, 2013)
Twenty something Josh is going through a number of big changes as he navigates his first decade of adulthood. After being dumped by his girlfriend, he comes to the realization that he is gay. After that shocker, he moves back into the family home to help care for his mother, who has previously attempted suicide. He later moves out and into a house with best friend Tom. With his life in disarray, big challenges await Josh in his immediate future, which are especially hard for someone like him, who with a natural aversion to drama and emotion. So he deals with it all; only in his own awkward, self-centered way.
Paper Planes
Company: ACTF, ArenamediaRole: America's Cup Commentator
An imaginative children's film about a young Australian boy's passion for flight and his challenge to compete in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan.
Dangerous Remedy
Company: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)Role: TV Interviewer
In 1969, Dr Bertram Wainer is called out to tend to a young woman dying as a result of a backyard abortion. When an angry Wainer investigates the illegal abortion racket, it leads him into the dark and murky world of criminals, paranoid doctors who operate illegally, and desperate women. Passionate, courageous and flawed, Wainer launched a campaign that both challenged and changed our society.
Underground: The Julian Assange Story
Company: Matchbox PicturesRole: Citibank Spokesperson
A look at the early career of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.
An Innocent Man?
Company: Indimax ProductionsRole: Pontius Pilate
Made in the style of "Australian Story" (ABC-TV), it imagines the original Easter story in a modern-day context and presents interviews with Pontius Pilate, John Caiaphas (Leader of the Opposition), & the Commissioner of Jerusalem Police.
Rush
Company: Southern Star ProductionsRush follows the lives of members of the prestigious Tactical Response team (TR), which is based on the real life Victoria Police Critical Incident Response Team, a highly mobile unit that fills the operational gap between general duties police and the SWAT-like Special Operations Group. The team is seen responding to violent incidents such as carjackings, suicides and armed offences. Rush focuses on the TR officers, their intelligence officer, Leon Broznic and Superindendent Kerry Vincent, head of the TR administration. It explores both the working and personal lives of the team.
City Homicide
Company: Southern Star EntertainmentSet on the Homicide floor of a police headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, detectives work to bring justice for the deceased.
Bastard Boys
Company: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)Role: Claude (unknown episodes)
The true story about the war on the Australian waterfront, when on the 7th April 1998, Chris Corrigan and the Liberal Government at the time, conspired and illegally dismissed the unionised workforce. The series tells the story from both sides, and how the Maritime Union of Australia fought diligently to get the some 2000 sacked workers their jobs back.
Satisfaction
Company: Universal Cable ProductionsRole: Hugh (1 episode, 2009)
A husband begins tracking his wife's extra-marital affair with a male escort.
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