Characters

The Characters of TOWN CENTRE

Meet Stan, a city-bred graphic designer of Assyrian descent. After witnessing an arms deal going down in a petshop, he is plucked from his upper middle class Melbourne lifestyle and placed in the country town of Thathath. His new identity? (Reluctant) manager of Town Centre!
Stan: played by Zac Drayson
(Home and Away, Always Greener)

Cameron, a middle aged Farmer turned retailer, puts his over-active, misguided imagination to work as the manager of “Morph-A-Less”, a department chain.
Will new bloke Stan threaten Cameron's hard-earned position of top dog of Town Centre?

Cameron: played by Garry Who
(Housos, Hollowmen, Pizza, All Together Now)

Also working at "Morph-A-Less" are Peter and Emily, a lovely young couple who aren’t a couple but are united in fighting off the slow creep of insanity that is their working environment.

Emily: played by Hannah Bath
(Honourable Discharge, Everything Starts Somewhere, Ruby Moon)
Peter: played by Joshua Morton
(A Burning Thing

Keef, owner of “Keef’s Gaming Highway”, has a legitimate reason to play games all day. Michael works for Keef, and despite being poorly-treated, can never quite build the courage to quit. Plus there’s a cute chick, Mel, in the shop next door.

Keef: played by Adam Dunn
(Ca$h Cow, Clean and Jerk, Status Update: A Facebook Fairytale)
Michael: played by Rowan Davie
(Aislinn, Life Through a Lens, Player at Bell Shakespeare)

Fashion chain store “Vomèt” is the perfect workplace for Tamara who dreams to be a fashion designer, if only someone would tell her how to dress.

Tamara: played by Emma Griffin
(Home and Away, Offspring, Unwanted Friend)

Tamara's boss, Katriona, is already at the top of the local 'hot-factor' ladder. She loves her job, the fashion, the flirting...and the psychological mind-games.

Katriona: played by Millie Zinner
(Bekaa and Bella, The Justice Lease)

Spinster Sue has owned her giftware shop, “Fluff ‘n’ Stuff Boutique”, for thirty years and would be frightfully lonely without it. Having step-niece Steph work with her is both pleasing and worrying as Steph’s pro-am acting career often takes over her shop.

Sue: played by Gennie Nevinson
(Muriel's Wedding, Packed to the Rafters, All Saints)
Steph: played by Sarah Frost
(The Saviour, Txt, Silence)

Bored housewife Carly is at Town Centre every day. A shop-a-holic hoarder, she can’t go home - it's too full of the stuff she buys every day.
Carly: played by Hailey McQueen
(Power Games, The Perfect Place, Txt)

Mel, a Chinese Australian with Death Metal aspirations. works with Peter and Emily at Morph-a-Less.

Mel: played by Linda Ngo
(Teeth, Black Sambucca and the Girl Who Poured It)

When the safety of Stan's identity is left in the hand of craft-crazed Police Prosecutors Phill and Jeff he has every reason to be worried...!

Jeff: played by Mark McCann
(Home and Away, Grass Roots, All Saints)
Phill: played by Paul Ayre
(7 Days Later, The Justice Lease, BedHead, Skit Box)

Swinging between misguided enthusiasm and blatant opposition, the unpredictable retailers frustrate new manager Stan's every move. Maintaining a secret identity, saving the Centre and keeping his misfit shopkeepers happy will proves to be the challenge of a lifetime!

Despite their differences, Stanley and the shopkeepers slowly turn Town Centre around for the good of all. As long as no one discovers who Stanley really is...