Your studio mentors ⭐️ Company Director, Marianna Psaltis ⭐️ Lead Mentor, William McLeod ⭐️ Mentor, Charlee Best 🙌 Our team mentors promote an inclusive and nurturing environment that encourages personal growth, confidence and performance skills. As avid child protection advocates, safety comes first and each student is valued, cared for and empowered 🙌 Founder...
Eisteddfod Results! Congratulations to all students who participated in the 55th Wynnum Manly Speech and Drama Eisteddfod! 👏👏👏 Performers scored highly and placed extremely well across all sections with high marks and lots of places. 3 of the 4 CHAMPIONSHIPS were won by our incredible performers – What an achievement!!! 🏆 Emmeline Le, Junior Speech...
We are thrilled to announce that our studio has been awarded Best Youth Performing Arts School 2026 – Brisbane. Presented by the International Private Education Awards (United Kingdom 🇬🇧), this recognition follows our 2025 State Award and our achievement as Queensland’s Most Empowering Performing Arts School for two consecutive years in 2023 and 2024. We...
Congratulations to all of our magnificent exam students for achieving stunning results in their performance exams with renowned examination body, Trinity College London 👏 For almost two decades our students have achieved collectively high exam results in both Speech and Drama and Acting and Performance, receiving high praise, awards and countless acknowledgements for their Graded...
Congratulations Comedy Performance Team! Our young comedians wowed audiences at the Brisbane Powerhouse Class Clowns shows, bringing their unique brand of sketch and stand-up, hosted by professional comedian Anisa Nandaula! We had items like Gentle Parenting, Romeo and Juliet (Abridged), PSAs about how to spot a Dramatic Child as well as a very informative kids...
Lead Studio Mentor and long-running student, William McLeod has graduated university! Congratulations to our talented William for graduating University! 🥳👏 The University of Canberra formally acknowledged their newest graduates as they took to the stage to receive their degrees in style 🎓 William received his Bachelor of Creative Industries Drama and Performance 🎭 We...
Brisbane Acting and Drama is proud to formally announce that we have been selected as a showcase school for Trinity College London! After over a decade of sterling performance examination results under the tuition of Studio Director, Marianna Psaltis and a slew of awards for both graded and diploma students, including state-topping and best-collective national...
SHAKESPEARE ABRIDGED 💀📚🎭 Our excursion to QPAC was wonderful and the show? AMAZING! We highly recommend seeing this hilarious show while it’s in town! We had an absolute blast! All of Shakespeare’s plays rolled into one hilarious, fast-paced and insane retelling! Highly-skilled actors under clever direction make for not only an entertaining show but also...
Studio Alumnus, Claire Dewar appears in Monsters on NETFLIX which has now been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award! Claire studied with Miss Psaltis for over a decade, winning countless awards at local and national Eisteddfods as well as being recognised for her exceptional exam results over many years. Claire consistently received among the...
Need a makeover? Look no further than the Optical Superstore! Their campaign features talented studio graduates and professional performers Ashlyn Tobin and Sarah Sprowles staring alongside Studio Director, Marianna Psaltis in this comedic, fun approach to advertising a new range of eyewear 🎬 Working with the talented teams from PHYD Creative and the Optical Superstore...
Which of these professional projects did you enjoy the most? Working with Channels 7 and 9? Making movies with The Steve Jaggi Company, Screen Queensland and Screen Australia or making commercials?! These are only a handful of amazing companies we have had the pleasure of working with over the years. We have also completed...
Hollywood based actor and studio alumnus, Claire Dewar is our guest teacher this week! 🙌 Before heading back to Los Angeles, Claire will visit our Acting and Performance classes to share her industry expertise, tips and tricks to becoming a working actor. We’re honoured to have the talented Claire back where it all began and...
