Outside of work
Community Music Theatre
I love creating a community where people can tell stories together and I love the challenge of getting 200 volunteers to put something on stage in a very short space of time.
Why theatre
Community theatre is a place where people come together to develop and tell a story to a room full of strangers. I love both the community aspect and the challenge of bringing it to life: a fixed, immovable opening night, a couple of hundred volunteers with day jobs, a limited budget and a product that people pay to see.
Leading OSMaD
OSMaD is a completely volunteer-run community music theatre company that has been staging musicals in Melbourne for decades. I've been involved since 2016, on the committee since 2019, and held the Treasurer and President portfolios across that time.
| Role | Years |
|---|---|
| President | 2023 – 2025 |
| Treasurer | 2020, 2022 – 2023 |
| Production Manager | 2019 – 2022 |
| Committee Member | 2019 – present |
As President I invested volunteer experience to try and manage the decline in volunteerism and the growing demands on the company required to deliver a show of OSMaD size, overseeing annual volunteer numbers grew from 70 to 200.
As Treasurer I held the full financial governance portfolio for a roughly $150k budget. I delivered financial statements, budgeting, AGM reporting, managed bank authorities and insurance for an incorporated association with no external auditor. I also had to come up with strategies to support growing volunteerism, costs and manage risk without a growing income stream.
It's a smaller stage than a hospital network or a listed company, but the underlying problem is identical to the one I solve professionally: sustaining an organisation through declining volunteerism using process, technology, delegation and culture. Getting a group of people — most of them volunteers, all of them busy — pointed in the same direction, with enough structure that things don't fall over and enough trust that they don't have to be told twice.
You can read more about my committee work on the OSMaD committee page.
OSMaD seasons
Seasons I've contributed to since joining OSMaD, on stage, backstage or on the committee. The full company history is on the OSMaD past shows page.
| Year | Production |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Titanic |
| 2025 | Come From Away |
| 2024 | The Addams Family |
| 2023 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| 2022 | The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| 2021 | All Together Now! |
| 2019 | Miss Saigon |
| 2018 | Les Misérables |
| 2017 | Chess |
| 2016 | The Pajama Game |
On stage
On stage in an early production
| Year | Production | Role | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | The Wedding Singer | Featured EnsembleNominated for a Bruce Award for Best Cameo, as the Bum | OXAGEN Productions |
| 2015 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Senex | UMMTA |
| 2014 | O2 | Featured Ensemble | OXAGEN Productions |
| 2013 | Warped | Featured Ensemble | OXAGEN Productions |
| 2012 | Spamalot | Sir Dennis Galahad / EnsembleNominated for a Bruce Award for Best Supporting Actor | OXAGEN Productions |
| 2011 | Assassins | EnsembleNominated for a Bruce Award for Best Ensemble | UMMTA |
| 2008 | Into the Woods | Cinderella's Prince / The Wolf | Bendigo Youth Theatre |
| 2008 | The Little Mermaid | Sebastian's Voice (one performance) / Stage Manager | Sacred Heart College, Kyneton |
| 2007 | Into the Woods Junior | Rapunzel's Prince / The Wolf | Sacred Heart College, Kyneton |
The Bruce Awards are presented annually by the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria, recognising non-professional music theatre across the state.
Voice & training
Versatile baritone, D2 – A5. Some training in Bel Canto and Estill singing methods, substantial musical theatre vocal experience, and some operatic and choral experience. Extensive amateur experience with comic supporting roles and incidental characterisation. Minimal jazz and Broadway dance, incidental tap and ballet.