On tour from July to October 2025!

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What a joy it is to have Luke Joslin back to Direct Cruising with The Grandparents Club in 2025. 

Luke is an award- winning Actor and Director. A graduate of The University of Western Sydney and the Actors College of Theatre and Television, Luke has forged a successful career in both musical theatre and straight drama, as well as being highly sort after as a director.

Credits include the national tour of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Play That Goes Wrong, both for Lunchbox and Jon Nicholls, Brigadoon for Production Company, Machu Picchu for State Theatre Company of South Australia, Pinnochio for Windmill and Sydney Theatre Company, Threepenny Opera for Malthouse and Sydney Theatre Company, 25th Anniversary production of Les Miserables for Michael Cassel and Cameron McIntosh, Annie and Dr Zhivago both for GFO, Avenue Q for Arts Asia, Assassins for Neil Gooding, Dirty Dancing for Jacobsens, Titanic for Seabiscuit and Guys and Dolls for Dennis Smith.

Directing credits include Thank you for being a Friend for Neil Gooding and Matt Henderson, Annie and Les Miserable for Riverside Theatre, Songs for a New World (Melbourne and Sydney) for Blue Saint, Giggle and Hoot Live show for ABC and Live Nation, In the Heights (Hayes and Sydney Opera House) for Blue Saint and Sydney Opera House, Resident Director for Peter Pan Goes Wrong and Resident Director for Shrek the Musical for GFO. Luke was the  Resident Director on the national tour of Cinderella for Crossroads and Opera Australia. 

Most recently, Luke directed a new production of Grease the musical for John Frost and Crossroads which is currently touring Australia. 

Wendy Harmer wrote the original script for the 2024 show The Grandparents Club - a Comedy Musical. Grandparents and Great Grandparents everywhere declared it a massive hit, falling in love with the relatability, poignancy and sheer fun in her writing. It was such pleasure to have Wendy in our Creative Family.

Wendy Harmer is of course, one of Australia’s best-known humourists.

Her writing and performance skills have brought her success in a wide variety of mediums – as an author, radio broadcaster, TV host, playwright and stage performer.

Her memoir LIVES MY MIRROR TOLD ME was released in November 2023.

As a stand-up comedian she performed her one-woman shows LOVE GONE WRONG, PLEASE SEND MORE MONEY and UP LATE AND LOVING IT at the Melbourne and Edinburgh comedy festivals, in London’s West End and the Sydney Theatre Company.

Wendy enjoyed huge popularity leading Sydney radio station 2Day FM’s top-rating Breakfast Show from 1993 – 2004 and was the co-host of ABC’s 702 Sydney morning show from 2016 -2021. 

She is the author of seven books for adults, including the best seller FAREWELL MY OVARIES. She has also written for young adults and children. Her much-loved fairy character PEARLIE IN THE PARK, is the star of 17 books, which have sold more than a million copies world-wide. The stage musical of PEARLIE IN THE PARK toured nationally in 2007.

Wendy has penned two plays for young adults. She also wrote the libretto for LAKE LOST, a Baz Luhrmann production for Opera Australia.  

She has hosted, written and appeared in a variety of TV shows including ABC’s GILLIES’ REPORT and THE BIG GIG and a documentary series STUFF.

Beginning her career in journalism as a teenager, Wendy has continued to be a regular newspaper and magazine contributor with myriad publications. 

Wendy and her husband Brendan have two children and live on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

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In 2025 we are delighted that Richard Tulloch has come on board to write a brand-new show, Cruising with The Grandparents Club - A Comedy Musical. His award winning skills as a writer, his insights as a Grandad, and his cheeky sense of humour have inspired Richard to write an hilariously relatable 2025 adventure.

Richard Tulloch is one of Australia's leading writers of books, plays, film and television. He was the principal writer of the phenomenally successful Bananas in Pyjamas, screened in over 70 countries. 

His screenplay for the animated feature film, FernGully II: The Magical Rescue, was nominated by ASIFA Hollywood for an ANNIE award (Best Film and Best Script). 

He has written over fifty plays, been nominated numerous times for Australian Writers' Guild awards and has five times won ‘Awgies’ with Hating Alison Ashley, Talking to Grandma While the World Goes By, Body And Soul, Stella and the Moon Man and Snow on Mars. 

His 2010 stage adaptation of Dutch author Guus Kuijer’s novel The Book of Everything was produced by Belvoir Theatre, Sydney and the Melbourne Theatre Company. It also toured to New York’s New Victory Theater to rave reviews. It has since been produced by many amateur groups in Australia, the UK and the USA and by professional companies in New Zealand, Canada, Finland and Hungary. In 2024 it was released as a Dutch language feature film.
 

Richard Tulloch’s five plays based on Andy Griffiths’ 13-Storey Treehouse book series have toured Australia as well as the UK, USA, Singapore, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Belgium. His wordless play for family audiences, KloKwerk, an Australian/Chinese co-production, premiered in Beijing in December 2024.

Richard has four grandchildren and divides his time between Sydney and Amsterdam, his wife’s home town. 

John Field is bringing more  infectious musical hooks to Cruising with The Grandparents Club in 2025. He is a master at creating those 'ear worms' that see us all singing the tunes long after the show ends. 

John Field has enjoyed phenomenal success as a multi-award winning composer. His talents as a 'musical hooks genius' have seen him write more than 450 songs for global kids sensational The Wiggles and advertising jingles for companies as far afield as Brazil, Germany, the U.S and Russia.

John’s career highlights have also  included the penning of two full scale Musicals for grown ups and ten Top 40 hits for much loved party band, THE COCKROACHES.

John's achievements have been recognised with numerous awards for Gold and Platinum album and DVD sales;  the APRA International Achievement Award and the APRA Award for the Most performed Screen Composer Overseas.

Throughout her 35-year career Maree has Created, Directed and Produced an enormously diverse slate of broadcast, recorded, book and live performance content. Along the way, she has also assisted the careers of some of Australia’s most successful performers and writers. 

In 1983 Maree and her partner Tim assisted John Williamson in re-launching his country music touring career taking him from corner hotel bookings to sell out shows at Sydney’s State Theatre. In 1988 Maree and Tim launched their first record label, True Blue Records, (through Sony) assisting the careers of The Bushwackers, Bullamakanka, and a host of other country music performers.

In 1992 Maree stepped into the world of children’s entertainment, working with Play School superstar Don Spencer - a highly successful partnership that saw Don selling out three shows a day Australia wide to his adoring fans for more than a decade. Maree went on to assist The Hooley Dooleys in both the creation and Production of their phenomenally successful recording, touring, merchandising and broadcast content for both the ABC and Foxtel. 

In the year 2000 Maree was invited to create and produce the highly successful ABC For Kids Events and ABC Family Events for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a concept that saw major properties such as Bananas in Pyjamas, Blinky Bill, Thomas the Tank Engine and The Hooley Dooleys share the stage in the Sydney Opera House, the Victorian Arts Centre, the Myer Music Bowl and to capacity houses Australia wide. 

In 2010 Maree began managing the song writing interests of John Field and their collaboration has seen the staging of John’s full scale musicals throughout Australia and New Zealand, the release of two books for children through Scholastic Press, and John’s involvement as composer on numerous advertising and broadcast projects.

Maree’s highly successful partnerships with ABC Kids and ABC Commercial also continue to this day. In 2006 Maree created and produced SplashDance, a music dance series that brought some serious ‘cool into pre-school’ and in 2019 Maree created The Nannas and The Poppas broadcast and live performance concept, once again for the ABC. 

It was The Nannas and The Poppas that brought Maree and Lyndi Adler together as co-producers in 2020, working together to fully explore the wonderful world of Grandparenting.

Lyndi Adler is a seasoned Creative Producer in theatre, film, and publishing, with over 25 years dedicated to musical theatre. Her diverse experience spans script reading and development, dramaturgy, production and technical management, directing, and publishing, reflecting her deep passion for the live arts.

In 2006 and 2007, Lyndi devised and directed the stand-up comedy theatre show "One Night Stand," which played to sold-out audiences in venues such as the Capitol Theatre Sydney, the Civic Newcastle, and the Townsville Civic Centre. She has been an Australian Partner on Michael Cassel’s production of "Kinky Boots" and has collaborated on numerous major productions both internationally and in Australia. Her commitment and creativity have earned her recognition and respect in the industry.

Lyndi's involvement in film includes her role as Associate Producer for "Three Dollars" (2005) featuring David Wenham and Frances O’Connor, and as Producer for "Prey" (2009) starring Natalie Bassingthwaighte.

Her theatre production credits are notable, including "Death and the Maiden" (West End, 2011) as Associate Producer, "The Man In The Attic" (Eternity Playhouse, 2018) as Production Manager, and "The God of Isaac" (Eternity Playhouse, 2019) as Producer.

Before the pandemic, Lyndi co-produced a prospective Australian production of the West End hit "Everybody’s Talking About Jamie," in partnership with Nica Burns (Nimax Theatres), Garry McQuinn, and the Sydney Opera House, which was unfortunately shelved. She also co-produced "Stars of International Ballet," an international ballet ensemble project, with Century Entertainment as the producing partner and ballet director Maina Gielgud AO.

In 2022, as a director of the Friends of the Australian Ballet Gala committee, she produced and directed a celebration and farewell event for outgoing artistic director, David McAllister AM.

More recently, in 2019, Lyndi collaborated with Maree Kirkland-Morris to develop and co-produce "The Nannas and The Poppas," a musically driven program for pre-schoolers airing on ABC Kids TV. Together, they also created a series of children's storybooks titled "Toodle the Cavoodle."

Leanne Halloran is a treasured member of our Creative Family. She makes we grandparents look great on the dance floor and we love her for it!

A graduate of The Australian Ballet School and a member of the Dancers of The Australian Ballet and Sydney City Ballet company, Leanne was trained in all forms of dance.

Leanne is NSW and Australian Champion in Irish dancing and has her TCRG and ADCRG qualification.

Leanne entered the Musical Theatre world and toured nationally with SUGAR BABIES/ NINE/ EVITA/ The World’s Greatest Dance Spectacular /HUNTING OF THE SNARK and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

Leanne was the Original Choreographer of The Wiggles and was a part of all DVD’S /TV Series /Live Shows and The Feature Film as choreographer and performer.

Leanne has also choreographed for the highly successful ABC Kids series SplashDance and The Nanna’s and Poppa’s and has subsequently overseen the adaptation of each show's choreography to the live stage.

Leanne is Co-Principal of The Halloran Dance School and has had students travelling and working internationally at The Moulin Rouge / Classical Ballet Companies and as Lead dancers in Riverdance and Lord Of The Dance .

Ben’s natural warmth, sense of fun and sincerity has seen him working on both stage and television for the last 30 years. His passion for all things sound and lighting has also seen him in huge demand as a Technical Manager for touring acts and major venues. 

If all of this doesn't keep him busy enough, Ben has run his own music store, Max Music for over 30 years and a Music school that teaches the love of instruments to more tham 1000 young children every month.

Ben prides himself on being able to ‘put a smile on anyone’s face’ and we are delighted that he can share his skills with our Grandparents Club audience.