Drama is an invitation to create and share story, to
explore and express our responses to the world and to
celebrate the fundamental human act of play. Drama and the
craft of acting hone our communication, cultivate our
confidence and self-expression, and challenge us to find
ourselves truly in the moment.
Blue Mountains Drama is a broad-reaching
resource for the Blue Mountains community and delivers
workshops in a range of locations. It is our hope to build
a community of children with common interests and to
provide adults with a place to play again. Improvisation
is at the heart of much of our work and students with an
interest in performance are also given the opportunity to
stretch themselves in rehearsed productions.
Our teachers are professional actors,
theatre makers and experienced tutors.
Our Tutors
Georgia Adamson - Principal
Georgia is a
professional actor who has performed for many
Australian theatre companies, including Sport for
Jove, Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company
and the Ensemble Theatre. In 2015, she received the
Sydney Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in an
Independent Production for her portrayal of Elizabeth
Proctor in Sport for Jove's production of The
Crucible. Georgia has appeared in numerous
Australian television shows including Peter
Allen - Not the Boy Next Door, Love
Child, The Code, Hiding, Rescue Special
Ops, All Saints, Gangs of Oz, McLeods Daughters, Out
of the Blue and A Country
Practice, as well as the films Footy Legends
and Hacksaw Ridge. Most recently, Georgia
played Sal Thornhill in Sydney Theatre Company's
production of The Secret River at the 2017 Adelaide
Festival.
Georgia began
teaching in 2004, running workshops for high school
students for Bell Shakespeare Company. Since 2009,
she has taught for Sydney Theatre Company on their School Drama
program, a partnership program run with Sydney
University that uses drama strategies to increase
literacy outcomes in primary school students. Since
2011 Georgia has also run drama classes in the Blue
Mountains, working with home school and school
students and in 2014 she founded Blue Mountains
Drama.
Tahmour Bloomfield - Teaching
Artist
Tahmour has a
broad range of experience creating, producing and
touring theatrical shows.
She graduated with a
BA in drama and film, and then went on to study circus.
The last few years have
seen her busy creating and touring shows, initiating and delivering
social circus and drama programs in the Blue Mountains and abroad, and creating exciting one of a kind theatre
experiences
locally and throughout Australia. She has
performed in over 15 countries,
in 5 languages, touring solo shows,
educational theatre and street theatre.
Tahmour has over 10 years experience with diverse groups
from professional circus, school sport and drama, outreach work including in
Indigenous and refugee communities, and in juvenile justice
centres. She has
been teaching with Blue Mountains Drama for a year and
loves the creativity of
the students.
Claire Jones - Principal
Claire
is
a professional actor who has been working in Australian
theatre since 1989.She has worked with a number of Australia’s
foremost directors and performed and toured nationally
and internationally with many of Australia’s major
companies including; Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir
Theatre, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Black
Swan Theatre Company.
Claire
is
President of Weatherboard Theatre Company based in
the Blue Mountains. In 2003 she founded The Green
Room, a network of Blue Mountains performing
artists, to support local playwrights in developing
and promoting their work.
Claire has
taught acting and voice at a number of secondary and
tertiary performing arts institutions including NIDA,
Adelaide College of
the Arts, The Actors Centre and John Curtin College of
the Arts. From 2004-2007, Claire ran the acting
program for adults and youth at the Q Theatre (Joan
Sutherland Performing Arts Centre). Claire has also
taught extra-curricular drama at a number of Sydney
Schools.
Claire
is
President of Weatherboard Theatre Company based in
the Blue Mountains. In 2003 she founded The Green
Room, a network of Blue Mountains performing
artists, to support local playwrights in developing
and promoting their work.
Claire has
taught acting and voice at a number of secondary and
tertiary performing arts institutions including NIDA,
Adelaide College of
the Arts, The Actors Centre and John Curtin College of
the Arts. From 2004-2007, Claire ran the acting
program for adults and youth at the Q Theatre (Joan
Sutherland Performing Arts Centre). Claire has also
taught extra-curricular drama at a number of Sydney
Schools.
Eliza Logan - Principal
Eliza graduated
with a BA (Performance) from UWS Nepean in 1994.
Eliza’s extensive theatre credits include The
26-Storey Treehouse World Premiere & The 13-Storey
Treehouse Australian Tour (CDP), Circle Mirror
Transformation (Ensemble Theatre), Cloudstreet
(Australia, UK, USA), The Underpants, The Laramie
Project, & Run Rabbit Run (Belvoir), Twelfth
Night, Frozen, Wanna Go Home, Baby?, Polly Blue,
(Siren Theatre Co. / Belvoir/ Griffin / ATYP), The
Wild Party (Sydney & Melb Int. Comedy Fest), Fast
Cars & Tractor Engines (Urban Theatre Projects),
Crestfall (Griffin), Ruby Moon (STCEd), Rope (Cabin
Crew/Old Fitz) and ten years (also writing and
directing) for Milk Crate Theatre (for Sydney's
homeless and disadvantaged). Eliza’s film highlights
include The Amber Amulet , After the Credits, Miracle
Fish, The Square, Black Balloon, Ali & the Ball.
On television, Eliza has appeared in The Moodys, The
Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting, Rake 2,
(Akmal's) Members & Guests, Changi, Secrets of the
Jury Room, Jessica, All Saints, Water Rats.
Eliza has also worked in animation voiceover on Hairy
Legs, Bananas in Pyjamas, Sea Princesses, Tracey
McBean, and The Kangaroo Creek Gang, and has also
written for animation on The Naughty Puppy (for
Bananas In Pyjamas).
Eliza also writes and directs plays, teaches group and
private lessons in theatre and screen, and creates
performance/theatre-making workshops for all ages for
various regional art centres, acting institutions,
schools, and in the corporate arena. From 2006, Eliza
taught both After School and Trinity Speech and Drama
lessons and later was Head of the Co-curricular Drama
Department for many years at St Catherine's School
Waverley.
Eliza (a resident of Katoomba since 2013) is delighted
to be joining the team at Blue Mountains Drama for
some fun, creative and dramatic exploration! Let's go!
Sophie Prior - Teaching Artist
Sophie has a BA degree in Theatre & Performance, a
Masters in Teaching Drama and trained with Lyn Pierse,
becoming a certified Advanced Theatre Sports Teacher.
In 2001
she founded a physical theatre company ‘Mimic
Octopus’ specializing in mime, movement &
circus skills. From 2003-2006 she performed with
Sydney Playback, a story-telling impro group,
before joining Impro Australia to coach, judge,
and co-host the Theatre Sports School Challenge.
Sophie has
been teaching extra-curricular Drama at Blue
Mountains Grammar School for the last 6 years and
previously worked at Kambala Girls School for 10
years directing plays for years 3 to 9 and
coaching students for yearly exams, the annual
Shakespeare competition, and the National Theatre
Sports competition.
Sophie loves encouraging the creative art
of play and story-telling in people of all ages, taking care to build trust
and confidence while always having fun.
