Movies, Acting, Television, Media and Theatre
Rogers has been involved with two movie soundtracks over the course of his career, producing the Idiot Box soundtrack, together with Nick Launay, in 1999, as well as producing the soundtrack for Dirty Deeds, in which he also had a cameo appearance, together with You Am I. On both soundtracks, You Am I contributed several songs.
Along with You Am I's cameo in Dirty Deeds, Rogers has made various forays into acting. His first acting experience was a small cameo role in Jane Campion's Holy Smoke!, while his television acting debut occurred on the 28 July 2005, in an episode of ABC TV's medical drama series, MDA. In MDA, Rogers played "Joel Palmer", a rock star who donates a kidney to a daughter he didn’t know he had fathered. Rogers also acted in a Michael Weisler short film called Hunter Finkelstein, which was shown at the 2005 Melbourne International Film Festival.
Rogers has often appeared as a guest on variety and entertainment shows, such as RocKwiz, Rove Live, Talkin' 'bout Your Generation and The Fat. Additionally, he appeared in sketches, as "himself", in both the second series of The Micallef Program and in the "Be a Rock Star" episode of Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure. Rogers' interview on Andrew Denton's Enough Rope (15 September 2008) coincided with the September 2008 launch of You Am I's eighth studio album.
In February 2009, Rogers made his professional stage debut at the Malthouse Theatre as 'The Entertainer' in its production of Woyzeck, a play directed by Michael Kantor, with music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
In 2012, Rogers composed the audio for Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding at the Malthouse Theatre. During November and December 2012, Rogers acts and composes the music for The Story of Mary MacLane By Herself, by Ride On Theatre‘s Bojana Novakovic (script adaptation) and Tanya Goldberg (director). Rogers performs originally-written compositions for the play, accompanied by musicians, Dan Witton and Andy Baylor. As with previous stage productions, the play's Melbourne, Australia, season is held at the Beckett Theatre of the Malthouse Theatre complex.
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