Cheney Hossack
Actor
Cheney Hossack is a Meanjin based performer and writer. She recently appeared in The Virginmobile with Passion Production, Murder on the Nile with Nash Theatre, A Midsummer Nights Dream with Brisbane Arts Theatre, and Home for Christmas with Act 1 Theatre. In 2025, she made her directorial and playwriting debut with The Biggest Disappointment, performed at Act 1 Theatre.
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“Cheney Hossack gives Vicki a sweetness that makes her easy to love from the start. She's got her head in the clouds, romanticising America and frontier wives as though they might offer her a doorway out of her dull, sheltered life. Always imagining her marriage could be something grander than it is. Hossack’s lovely singing voice suits that softness, while still letting us see the frustration simmering beneath it. And Vicki is certainly no fool. She’s not getting the appreciation or love she deserves, and she’s starting to see that the issue isn’t that she “expects too much.” Nah girl. You expected the bare minimum, and even that was apparently too ambitious.”
Stage Buzz Brisbane | Read Review Here
You will simply fall in love with both these performers. Cheney is back into singing after a break to work in drama and some Shakespeare; and Isabel has been working in the US in multiple mainstage commercial musicals, happy to be back on home ground in a home-grown play. Together they are a powerhouse – in conflict and friendship – and create a perfect balance of realistic drama, with heightened and heartfelt tunes – a blend that one audience member described as “very refreshing” in the cast Q&A after the show. But these performers can do comedy too – and there are some great comic lines. These cowgirls feel true to the 1960s setting, enhanced by some wonderful costumes (by Erin Lowry), props (Wilson Kong), and a little bit of choreography too (Erin Lowry and Oscar Lowe).
Beth Keehn - Stage Whispers | Read Reivew Here
Much of the production’s charm comes from the ease with which Hossack and Kruse allow Vickie and Rae’s unlikely friendship to find its way from wary opposition to genuine affection. Hossack brings nuance to conformist Catholic housewife Vickie through her reactions and a physicality that conveys her character’s early self through defiant carriage, careful restraint and confident flick of her braids over her shoulders. She finds both the comedy and melancholy within Vickie’s contradictions, allowing glimpses of frustration and yearning to peek through the character’s propriety.
Meredith Walker - Blue Curtains | Read Review Here
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