Socratis Otto is one of Australia's most diverse film, theatre and television actors. Roles range from the ground-breaking transwoman Maxine Conway in the global hit Wentworth, Charles Darwin in the ABC mini-series docudrama Darwin's Brave New World, Home & Away, I, Frankenstein, The Matrix Reloaded, Stockholm (with UK's Frantic Assembly), Woyzeck, and as Francis Bacon's muse George Dyer in Jim Sharman's Helpmann award winning Three Furies. He recently directed the innovative fictional web-series Homespun about regional outback Australia featuring real life shearers, and Sydney fringe festival hit and now virtual adaptation of The Hope Song which examines real life stories about people with mental health struggles.