Andrew Blackman

Blackman was born in Brisbane, Queensland and began acting at the age of seven in the play Dark of the Moon, staged by the Queensland Theatre Company.^[3][4]

He attended Dakabin State High School, where he performed in a high school musical production called Teen. He went on to study at Kelvin Grove College of Advance Education where he received an Associate Diploma in Performing Arts, received the Elizabeth Bequest Scholarship with TN! Theatre Company, and performed two seasons of Shakespeare with the Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe. He was then accepted into Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) where he further honed his craft. He graduated in 1990.^[5]

Blackman played the role of Dr. Harry Morrison in long-running medical series A Country Practice from 1991 to 1994, and Don Fry in multi-award winning children's series Mortified from 2006 to 2007.^[6] He also appeared in the Logie Award-winning show Utopia and the Stan original series Bloom.^[6][7]

Other television credits include police drama Blue Heelers, legal series Halifax f.p., long-running soap opera Neighbours, drama House Husbands, crime series Underbelly: Squizzy, Law of the Land, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Winners & Losers, Satisfaction and miniseries Barracuda. He also appeared in the 1987 thriller film Frenchman’s Farm.

Blackman founded the Complete Works Theatre Company (CWTC) in Melbourne in 1999, where he holds the role of Artistic Director. He has directed and produced numerous stage productions, including Medea, A Man for All Seasons, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Cosi, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Othello, Oedipus Rex, Richard III, and Hamlet. He has also starred in a number of Australian theatre companies' productions, including Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello and The Woman in Black.^[8][9]

Blackman is married to Caroline Williams, who is also his business partner. They share children and live in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy.^[10]

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