Trent Baker

A graduate of W.A.A.P.A. (Acting) and the V.C.A. – (Direction) Trent has over 15 years experience in the Australian entertainment industry Teaching, Acting and Directing. He has taught for MTC, Bell Shakespeare, The VCA, The National Theatre, St Martins Youth Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe Australia and Drama With A Difference. As a personal acting coach he has helped students attain entry to the country’s top drama schools. For MTC Trent has three times played the title role in MacBeth and in 2008 was seen in Scarlett O’Hara at the Crimson Parrot. One of the original twelve actors to begin Red Stitch Actors Theatre, in 1999 with Nancy Cato he created the Chapel Loft theatre and in 2008 with Richard Stables formed West East Theatre. Trent has worked for MTC, Bell Shakespeare, The Malthouse, The Athenaeum, Railway Street Theatre, Red Stitch, La Mama, The Storeroom and Human Sacrifice. He was assistant director to Simon Phillips on the MTC productions Festen and Scarlett O’Hara at the Crimson Parrot. Most recently he starred in the 2008 trop fest finalist film Beggars Belief and directed A Man For All Seasons for MTC education. 

Danielle Carter

Danielle Carter graduated from NIDA. Her theatre credits include Status Update (Explorations La Mama), Midsummer Night’s Dream ( Theatre Works and for the Original Shakespeare Company), Shadow Passion ( Chapel off Chapel), Europe ( VCA Director Season), Still ( La Mama/Malthouse), Face to Face (Ensemble), The Quartet from Rigoletto (Cue/Ensemble), All Things Considered (Marion St), Property of the Clan (Theatre 20/20), Away & Hypothalamania (STC), Here Comes a Chopper, Uncle Vanya, Hamlet, Road, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NIDA) and the national tour of Dags. 

Danielle’s TV credits include Underbelly, All Saints, Elephant Princess, City Homicide, Stingers, Salem’s Lot, The Secret Life of Us, Blue Heelers, Lost World, Halifax fp, Something in the Air (series 1 and 2) , Beast Master, Fearless, Flipper, Murder Call, Tales of the South Seas, Medivac (series 1 and 2), GP, Heartland, Home and Away, Neighbours and Richmond Hill (series 1). Danielle has also appeared on film in Knowing, Eustice Solves a Problem, The Blue Lady, The Fortune Teller, A Few Things I Know About Her, Kid in a Bin and Sweet as a Peach. Danielle’s book Racing Against Time – The actor’s handbook for film and television is essential reading for actors interested in pursuing a career in front of the camera.  

Scott Gooding

Scott Gooding has been a director, actor and tutor for over 16 years. He has worked for many of Melbournes theatre companies and has been running courses in filmmaking, animation and acting throughout the city. He has been working at the National Theatre Drama School for the past year, and is also Artistic Director of Vicious Fish Theatre.  

Anne O’Keeffe

Anne O’Keeffe is a teacher, choreographer and performer with a B.Ed in Dance and Drama (Deakin University, 1983) and a Grad. Dip. of Choreography (V.C.A, 1997). She has worked as a freelance artist for the past 21 years, creating work for the Victorian Arts Centre, Australian Choreographic Centre, Dancehouse and numerous theatre groups and community events. Anne has taught Movement to actors at the National, Ballarat University and the Victorian College of the Arts. She performs regularly in Melbourne as an improviser and her company, Sirensong, has produced Walk on Water at the Melbourne City Baths (2000) and her full-length solo work Sex and Death (2002/3).  

Anna Boulic

Anna Boulic is a Voice Coach living and working in Melbourne. She currently teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music (VCAM) for the the Wilin Centre (Indigenous faculty for Melbourne University) and the National Theatre School. With previous coaching experience at the school of Journalism and Communications at Charles Sturt University, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), TAFE and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Anna is also a freelance corporate voice coach specialising in media training for sporting identities and presentation for speakers with English as a second language. Anna Boulic was trained at NIDA and the University of Tasmania. Anna recently won the 2010 Short and Sweet Cabaret with her show Chants Des Catacombs.