Ed Dolista

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Ed's acting career began performing alongside Guy Pearce and Portia De Rossi in The King & I, soon after which he joined GSODA for 7 years.

Over the years, his roles have included Grantaire in Les Miserables, the Artful Dodger in Oliver!, Doody in Grease, Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet, the Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors, Darcy in Scenes from a Separation and the Sheriff of Nottingham in The Robin Hood Trilogy Special Edition, that he co-wrote with long time collaborator,  Ian Nash-Gilchrist. 

Ed was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role by the Theatre Guild of Victoria for his role of J. Pierrepont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Other notable shows included leads  in Les Miserables and Theatre of the Winged Unicorn's Hayfever.

Ed was also seen in the role of Tobias in the hit television series, The Secret Life of Us and has guest roles in Stingers: Undercover and most recently Neighbours

In 1996 Ed co-founded Comic Genius Productions with Ian Nash-Gilchrist.

When he's not writing or performing on stage, you can hear him on his disco show Disco Fever on 94.7 The Pulse from 10pm till midnight Saturday and acting as a judge for the KUDOS II programme. 

Ed's writing career began in GSODA when he began writing to send ups to shows he had performed in.

This soon lead to the creation of many scripts such as Club Kookabungabinga and The Great Santa Swindle co-written with David Mackay and Be Our Guest with James Edwards.

Solo efforts include the radio serials Tumbleweeds and the Captain Digital series, Boogie Fever as well as numerous sketches and  short plays.

Ed's most prolific work is that with his long time friend and writing partner Ian Nash-Gilchrist who have written all four of the Robin Hood plays, the series "Groovyman" and its sequel "Groovyman Forever", "The Buccaneer Stops Here" plus a back catalogue of send ups to musicals as well as the past seven KUDOS II awards nights.

Tthey worked on Pirates of Penzance and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and most recently Little Shop of Horrors for Lyric Youth Theatre and co-produced and starred in the hit Steve Martin Play Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Boeing Boeing for Geelong Repertory Theatre Company.

Ed and Ian are currently working on a new disco musical called Lucky Stars.

Ian Nash-Gilchrist

Ian's performing career began late in his life (some would say not late enough). It all started with a small, yet award winning role as Sgt Hilda in Bats. From there Ian has starred in such productions as Anything Goes, Annie, Les Miserables, Boogie Fever and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Spectacular.

 In recent times, he starred as  Danny in Grease, Romeo & Juliet, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, Pippin, A Chorus Line and Stepping Out.

He co-write and starred in the original production of Robin Hood the Untold Story, Robin Hood 2: The Sheriff Strikes Back and Robin Hood 3: The Third One and Robin Hood 4: Flogging a Dead Horse.

From these humble beginnings his writing career took off in leaps and bounds when he teamed up with Ed writing the send up of Anything Goes cleverly titled Go Pick Your Nose. This preceded a myriad of witty and comical parodies such as Les Miserables (Way Miserable), Pippin (Crappin) and Romeo and Juliet (Julio and Romeit).

His writing credits continued with the series Groovyman and its sequel Groovyman Forever .

They recently co-produced and starred in the hit Steve Martin Play Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Boeing Boeing for Geelong Repertory Theatre Company.

Ed and Ian are currently working on a new disco musical called Lucky Stars and they recently worked on Pirates of Penzance and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for Lyric Youth Theatre.

Most recently Ian can be seen as The Scarecrow in LYT's The Wizard of Oz.

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