Actors Benevolent Fund

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Through compassionate and confidential support, we help entertainment professionals throughout NSW maintain their health, dignity and ability to work

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EMERGENCY GRANT

If you are in urgent need of assistance with the unexpected costs of medical bills, pharmaceutical, home utility, car and grocery expenses, we are ready to receive your application and can respond quickly should you be eligible.

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CARING FOR OUR INDUSTRY

We are here to provide confidential support to our colleagues from across the entertainment industry at all stages of their careers.

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Barry Humphries, Australian comedian and creator of Dame Edna Everage, dies aged 89

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Entertainer whose outrageous caricatures Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson took the one-man show to new heights. Humphries was a master of provocation and glorious grotesquerie

VALE MAELIOSA STAFFORD

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A much loved and admired actor, director, educator and all round good bloke left the stage all too suddenly on April 10 at the age of 66.

VALE JOHN KRUMMEL OAM

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John Krummel OAM, actor, director and theatre administrator has passed away leaving another gap in our theatre pantheon.

VALE ANDREW MCKINNON

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The impresario Andrew McKinnon passed away suddenly on 21st February 2023 at the age of 70. His family released the following statement.

The Actors Benevolent Fund website was made possible by a generous grant from the Thyne Reid Foundation.

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of all the lands on which we live, work and create and pay our respects to Elders of the past, the present, and those emerging.

ABF NSW is a proud member of the the
Alliance of Australasian Performing Arts Benevolent Funds

+61 2 9333 0915

info@actorsbenevolentfund.org.au

245 Chalmers Street, Redfern, NSW, 2016

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