Edward Skaines (He/Him) is a Sydney based actor, recently returning from Los Angeles.
He graduated from the Actors Centre Australia in 2012. There he developed a rich appreciation of skills and techniques in exploring the roles of Randyramoff in Gogol’s The Marriage (2011) directed by Jospeh Uchitel, Feste in Twelth Night(2011) directed by Simon Hunt and Williamson and Roma in David Mamets Glengarry Glen Ross directed by Gale Edwards in his final year.
Since graduating he has continued developing his skills under the mentorship of Joseph Uchitel and more recently, playwrights Stephen Sewell, Noel Hodda. Ed has been involved in several projects ranging from feature films, feature length shorts, creative developments, new experimental physical theatre performances and new Australian play readings.
For the past 6 years Edward has been working with U.S management and industry mentor Lilly Dawson, a casting director from Melbourne, Australia now based in Los Angeles and the Creative Director of the Hollywood Immersive Program. Ed’s work with Lilly, Wendy and Management has built his profile in the United States making Ed a regular name for auditions for episodic season, pilot season, and block buster studios call outs.
Edward has since been in the contending for roles in shows like Teen Wolf, General Hospital, Revenge, The Last Kingdom and Shadow Hunters to name a few.
Ed has been developing under the tutorship of acting coaches Howard Fine, Margie Haber, Ivana Chubbuck, Anthony Brandon Wong and Michael Petted at Beverly Hills Playhouse.
The establishing of Seer Productions has long been in development. Now with the current global landscape in all creative industries Ed saw this as the opportune time to begin creating from his base in Sydney, Australia and to draw on his experience and sow this momentum into constantly flourishing creative goldmine that is Sydney.