By CASEY NEILL
A Springvale actor will soon share the small screen with big names in the ‘biz, including Hugo Weaving.
But audiences can catch Alex Litsoudis on-screen at the Drum Theatre on Friday 3 June.
The inaugural Short Cuts Film Festival will feature comedy, animation, documentary and drama from new and experienced filmmakers.
The six-minute movie Who Is He? stars Mr Litsoudis and shares his story, from his migration to Australia from Greece when he was five months old, to his mild intellectual disability, overcoming prejudice and pursuing his acting dreams.
“I asked myself ‘who am I? Where do I come from?’,” he said.
“That’s how I wrote the story.”
Mr Litsoudis is a key player in Fusion Theatre, the Dandenong-based drama group for people of different abilities, formerly called Dramability.
Earlier this year he appeared as Tom, a Greek-Australian with a disability, in Understanding Abuse by National Disability Services.
“Now I’m just recently got a part at ABC TV,” he proudly told the Journal.
“There’s a new series that I cannot say anything about at the moment.
“The actual scene is very special and important.”
The Journal did some digging and discovered that he’ll appear as Roger, a mentally disabled man living in an old-folks home in six-part psychological mystery series called Seven Types of Ambiguity.
It’s based on the Elliot Perlman novel and also stars Alex Dimitriades and Susie Porter.
“I’m hoping to get some more work on TV or in film,” Mr Litsoudis said.
But he said that the stage is his first love and he is working on a piece combining an ancient Greek tragedy with modern-day events in Syria and Europe.
“It took us almost a year to do research. Now we’re just starting to do rehearsals,” he said.
It’s likely to debut in Federation Square in the first week of December.
Short Cuts Film Festival tickets are free but bookings are essential.
Visit drumtheatre.com.au.
See a clip from Alex Litsoudis’s film Who Is He?
