Helena is 48 years old, she is intelligent and caring. While touring university campuses with her son Noah, she picked up a pamphlet for creative writing. Despite her fear that her husband will think the pursuit is trivial, she has slowly become more concrete in her decision to attend University.

Maria Elisabet Nordenberg is Ostrich's lead actress. She is a Swedish-Australian actress having graduated from the Howard Fine Acting School in 2017.

Noah is 17, charming, intelligent, and athletic, well-liked by both teachers and students at school. Noah is very used to getting what he wants and is unaware of how easy his life has been due to the inherent privileges afforded to him.

Ronan Mummery is an experienced actor, appearing in a range of feature films, short films, and theatre productions. His debut feature film lead role is in the upcoming drama Kill Me, Heal Me.

Joseph is 62 and a senior partner at a prestigious law firm in Melbourne. Incredibly successful, Joseph subscribes to traditional gender roles and holds conservative views both politically and socially. Despite the whirlwind nature of their romance, he does genuinely care for his wife Helena but also holds to the traditional views that wives are caretakers rather than true partners.

Andrew Blackman is an experienced actor, theatre director, and producer. You may know him from his roles on A Country Practice, Mortified and Blue Heelers. He is currently Artistic Director of Complete Works Theatre Company.

An intelligent woman with real dreams of changing her private schools' backwards culture. Though, she soon learned that her goal may have been harder to achieve than initially realised with an army of conservative fathers heading up the board.

Emma Choy is an experienced actress and lover of the performance arts, having co-founded two theatre companies and being one of the Festival Directors for Melbourne’s Poppy Seed Theatre Festival.