Wentworth fans can rejoice as a convention celebrating the acclaimed TV drama will arrive in Melbourne for a two-day event.
Wentworth Con, created in partnership with Fremantle Media AU, will take place from September 17-18, 2022, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The event’s founder Kiana Clark has already hosted four Wentworth Cons across the US since 2019.
Clark said: “We are so excited and honoured to (finally) be able to bring this experience to the fans in Australia.”
This year’s convention is the organiser’s biggest event to date, with two days of cast panels, photo ops, meet and greets and autograph signings.
Among the stars taking part in the event include Katrina Milosevic, Kate Jenkins, Nicole Da Silva, Susie Porter, Robbie Magasiva, Danielle Cormack and Bernard Curry.
Wentworth finished airing in 2021, but the global television smash hit is available to Australian audiences on Binge with all nine seasons of the multi-award-winning series now available to stream.
After premiering in 2013, the show that is set behind the bars of Wentworth Correctional Centre, has become one of the most renowned original Australian dramas of all time and has been screened in 173 territories around the world.
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The series aired its 100th and final episode back in October 2021, and showed the brutal pressure cooker environment inside a women’s prison, where the inmates are forced to forge unlikely friendships and allegiances if they want to survive their time behind bars.
Wentworth featured a star-studded ensemble of Australian and New Zealand actors feature in the series including Danielle Cormack (Bea Smith), Nicole da Silva (Franky Doyle), Kate Atkinson (Vera Bennett), Celia Ireland (Liz Birdsworth), Katrina Milosevic (Sue ‘Boomer’ Jenkins) and Pamela Rabe (Joan ‘The Freak’ Ferguson).
The series also starred Robbie Magasiva (Will Jackson), Shareena Clanton (Doreen Anderson), Leah Purcell (Rita Connors), Susie Porter (Marie Winter), Kate Jenkinson (Allie Novak), Tammy MacIntosh (Kaz Proctor), Bernard Curry (Jake Stewart), Rarriwuy Hick (Ruby Mitchell), Kate Box (Lou Kelly), Jane Hall (Ann Reynolds), Zoe Terakes (Reb Keane), Vivienne Awosoga (Judy Bryant) and Marta Dusseldorp (Sheila Bausch).