Draft:Mary Sitarenos

Mary Sitarenos is an Australian film and television actor, theatrical actor,    theatrical director, librettist, and live world music venue owner and operator.

She appeared in the 1994 Australian movie Only the Brave, the 2001 Australian movie Sensitive New Age Killer, as well as the TV series The Fast Lane, Crash Zone, and The Flying Doctors, and the 1984 Australian mini-series The Young Wife.

Sitarenos was nominated for the 1994 Green Room Award for Female Actor in a Leading Role (Music Theatre).

She won two 2008 Green Room Awards for both Production and Direction in the Theatre - Independent category, for Oedipus, A Poetic Requiem (Inspired By Ted Hughes).

Sitarenos is also the co-owner and operator of Melbourne world music venue, Bar Oussou...

She has been active in pursuing intercultural dialogue through the arts, particularly between Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Greece and Senegal and her homeland of Australia.