Sarah is an award-winning writer/director best known for her play ANACONDA, her film YOU ME & HER and her VOD series TWO BLUE LINES. Sarah spent last decade directing actors in Los Angeles, and prior to that was Phillip Seymour Hoffman's assistant for theatre workshops in New York City. As an actor and improviser Sarah has trained with LA's Upright Citizen's Brigade, Eric Morris and Leslie Kahn, and as a playwright she has workshopped with NYC's The Wooster Group, LAByrinth Theatre Company and New Dramatists. Sarah is alum of American Film Institute (Directing) and Macquarie University (Creative Arts/International Studies majoring Visual & Performing Arts).
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Christopher is an award-winning actor with 18 years of professional experience. Onscreen he is best known for THE WATER DIVINER with Russell Crowe, THE BUREAU OF MAGICAL THINGS (Netflix) and recently acted alongside Tom Hanks in ELVIS, directed by Baz Luhrman. Christopher has trained with acting coaches considered the best in the world (Ivana Chubbuck, Larry Moss, Elizabeth Kemp, to name a few). He is considered the best acting coach in Queensland.
Rupert has had a profound career as an actor. From the original HEARTBREAK HIGH, to BLUE HEELERS, to MATRIX, and with many international credits since, Rupert is currently playing 'Pav' on THE HEIGHTS. With his decades of international television and film success, as well a post-grad in Directing at AFTRS and a Tropfest-winning film, Rupert brings a contemporary tapestry of understanding into what it is that makes onscreen performance captivating.
Emma Dillon Hill is a visual artist working in an abstract style of painting and drawing. Her work focuses on the materiality of her chosen mediums and the connection and communication of colour. Emma has maintained an art practice and exhibited regularly since graduating from the National Art School in 2016, and her work has been privately collected. Emma’s teaching practice is broadly focused across the visual arts, with a particular passion for textile pattern design, photography, and shape and colour in abstract repetition.
Active and successful in TheatreSports during her time at Caringbah High School, Jasmine has spent the last two years involved in multiple productions with Sydney University’s Drama Society SUDS, performed at the Opera House in a production of ROMEO & JULIET, and was selected for the prestigious Onstage to perform his monologue from Doug Wright’s I AM MY OWN WIFE. Jasmine is a passionate teacher and actor with ongoing experience in improvisation, auditioning, film acting and stage craft. She is a class favourite.
Irelish is an enthusiastic and young emerging theatre maker, director, writer and actor. She obtained her bachelor’s in Performance from the University of Wollongong in 2021 and has been working and collaborating with fellow artists since. She has participated in multiple artist lead workshops and community lead theatrical works. At the end of 2024 she participated in an artist residency with Shopfronts Arts Co-Op’s emerging artist festival Artslab WNW while she was mentored by industry professional Emma Saunders. Irelish is passionate about TheatreSports and working with young people in creative and educational environments, especially within the theatre medium.
Acknowledgement of Country
In the spirit of reconciliation The Performance Workshop acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.