Pamela Rabe
 

A graduate from the Playhouse Acting School, in Vancouver, Pamela Rabe is one of Australia’s most highly regarded and awarded actors.

Pamela’s work for the Melbourne Theatre Company spans almost 30 years including God Of Carnage, Things We Do For Love, Blithe Spirit, Dinner (Helpmann Award Nomination and Green Room Award), The Misanthrope, The Marriage of Figaro, The Taming of the Shrew, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Heidi Chronicles, The Cherry Orchard, Little Murders, Separation, As You Like It, Tristram Shandy, A Servant of Two Masters, Heartbreak House, Too Young For Ghosts, Visions, The Curse of the Werewolf, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Medea, Top Girls, The Maid’s Tragedy, 84 Charring Cross Road and The Winter’s Tale.

Pamela Rabe

For Sydney Theatre Company Pamela’s work includes, The War of the Roses (Helpmann Award and Sydney Theatre Award Nominations) The Serpent’s Teeth, Gallipoli, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Art of War, Season at Sarsparilla (Green Room Award), Le Bourgeois Gentleman, The Lost Echo (Sydney Theatre Awards Nomination), Mother Courage and Her Children (Helpmann Award Nomination), The Cherry Orchard, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Salt, Holy Day (MO Award Nomination), Private Lives, A Little Night Music, The Rover, Private Lives, Three Tall Women, Lost in Yonkers (Green Room Award), Much Ado About Nothing, The Secret Rapture and The Ham Funeral.

Other theatre credits include Stronger and Miss Julie For the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Woman Bomb for The Malthouse, A Room of One’s Own (Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle Award and Green Room Award) as well as The Apple Cart for Shaw Festival Canada and The Wizard of OZ for The Victorian State Opera (Green Room Award).

For Company B, Pamela has played in The Little Cherry Orchard, A Little Night Music and Misalliance, and performed in Cho Cho San, The Marriage of Bette & Boo and Blue Window for Playbox Theatre.

For The Vancouver Playhouse, Pamela has been in numerous productions including See How They Run, The Hunchback of Notredame, Wings, The Notebook of Trigorin, The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Red Devil Battery Sign.

For Film, Pamela has starred in The Well, which was in official competition at Cannes Film Festival and garnered Pamela an AFI for Best Actress as well as the Variety Club Heart Awards, Stockholm Film Festival Best Actress, and a best actress nomination from the Film Critics Circle of Australia.

She has also starred in Paradise Road directed by Bruce Beresford, Lust and Revenge, Cosi, Sirens and Vacant Possession. Her television credits are also extensive as is her work for ABC radio.

More recently Pamela directed for the Sydney Theatre Company including The Serpents Teeth and Elling in 2009.