Lana Adamuszek is a highly experienced and versatile artist with an extensive background in theatre, film, dance, radio and performing arts education and industry. A respected performer, teacher and director, Lana’s passion for the arts began at the age of four, undertaking formal training in multiple disciplines of dance, acting and music. Lana holds an Advanced Diploma of Arts (Acting) from The Adelaide Centre of Performing Arts, completed the CSTD Advanced Theatrical Syllabus in various genres of dance and Musical Theatre and achieved the highest score in the Australian Radio School announcer’s course in 2024.

Known for diverse roles ranging from Shakespeare, pantomime and dramedy, some of her many theatre roles include Adelaide Fringe productions ‘The MotherFu*@er with the Hat’, ‘Chapter Two’, ‘Marat/Sade’ and ‘King Lear’. Standout performances include ‘Road’, ‘Julius Caesar’, ‘Don’t Dress for Dinner’, ‘Accommodations’, ‘Reservoir Dogs’, ‘Tom, Dick and Harry’, ‘Cactus Flower’, ‘Moon over Buffalo’ and St Jude’s ‘Wrong Turn at Lungfish’ winner of the 2014 ATG Best Comedy Award. Most recently Lana appeared as Jean Whittaker in ‘A Labour of Love’ and nominated by the Adelaide Critics Circle for the Outstanding Individual Award for Excellence in the Arts 2025.

Musical performances include ‘Godspell’, Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat’, ‘The Cradle will Rock’, ‘Candyland’ featured at Santa’s Wonderland, ‘Alice and the White Rabbit’, ‘Carols by Candlelight’ and choreographer for ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Oklahoma!’. Lana has featured in many short films and recently worked on training films for Emerging Minds mental health online resources. At present, Lana is a mother of two, works for the Education Dept. with The Music Education Strategy and is Vice President of Ausdance SA, serving 7 years on the board.

Taylor is a Chartered Accountant who holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) and Bachelor of Business (Finance) with 5 years’ experience as an auditor. 

Taylor has always had a love of dance and took classes in her hometown of Broken Hill from 5 years old. She is currently a student at Dragonfly Dance, where she enjoys participating in ballet, pointe and jazz classes.

Taylor is very excited to be working with the Ausdance SA board, and we are very grateful to have her.

Jayson is delighted to be back involved with AusdanceSA and contributing to the South Australian dance community once again. He has been involved in the world of dance since early childhood beginning his training in Adelaide with esteemed teachers Kay Cranwell, Gwen Mackey and Susan Taylor. He later broadened his studies internationally in London and New York before returning to Adelaide to pursue academic qualifications at the University of Adelaide, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) and a Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary). Jayson recently retired from the South Australian Department for Education (DECD)after a distinguished 33-year career. He has also been running own studio “Unlimited Feet Performing Arts” for over 30 years

Jayson is a fully registered member of the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD, London) and holds teaching diplomas in Classical, Theatrical, and Tap from the Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing (COMDANCE). He also holds the RAD Teaching Certificate and Diploma, and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Jayson has served in numerous leadership roles, including Chairperson of the South Australian Regional Advisory Panel of the RAD, Member of the Dance Subject Advisory Committee for SACE, and a previous representative of studio teachers and dance educators for Ausdance – The Australian Dance Council

In 2008, Jayson made history as the first male examiner appointed by COMDANCE. He now examines students across Australia and Asia in Classical Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Theatrical, and Hip Hop. He is also a Practical Teaching Supervisor for the RAD, assessing the final unit for teachers completing their RAD Teaching Qualification. Jayson was also honoured with the Leslie P. Newman Award for “Outstanding Service to Dance” by COMDANCE in 2018.

Malcolm has had a very successful career spanning 60 years in the entertainment industry from live theatre to Children’s Television (Here’s Humphrey between 1972-2002) and Adult TV in hundreds of programmes.

While his performing career began at the age of 3, his TV career at the age of 14 and since leaving school at the age of 16, Malcolm has been consistently employed in a huge variety of productions for local and international touring companies. He had been, and continues to be, the instigator of many local productions as a writer, producer and director of TV and theatre. He has produced, written and starred in 55 productions over the last 30 years at his Star Theatres in Adelaide. Malcolm has also had a parallel career in Ice Skating shows in Australia and Asia and in theatrical set design. For 7 years he was the Creative Programme Director of the Out of the Square (OOTS) Network of 7 Adelaide suburban theatres and arranged 100 performances annually for the venues.

Since 1978 Malcolm has been Managing Director of his own company ‘Mighty Good Productions’ and the ‘Mighty Good Talent School’ teaching both children and adults acting and speech for Stage, Film and Television. He developed the acting curriculum for his school and continues to oversee its operations. In 2019 Malcolm was awarded the Adelaide Theatre Guide’s Richard Flynn Curtain Call Award for sustained excellence and contribution within South Australia.

Since 2010 he has been the host, and more recently the producer, of the National TV programme “Our Time” on Channel 44 having interviewed over 1700 guests from every walk of life for which he has received an Antenna Award in 2023 and the Antenna CTV+ Program of the Year award in 2025. In 2021 Malcolm conceived and directed the show MENwhoDANCE which won 2 Adelaide Fringe Awards and had toured to 5 regional SA theatres, including 4 seasons at Star Theatres.