Meet the Team…

Artistic Director
Amelia Burke

Amelia (she/her) is a theatre director who fuses her love of live performance with a passion for making work with young people. She has worked as a teaching artist and director for a variety of arts companies across the country. For NIDA Open, she directed and devised a new production of CompanyThree’s Brainstorm and Lachlan Philpott’s Bustown. For La Mama For Kids, Amelia directed and devised Meet My Grandies with a cast of teenagers. In 2023, she directed Maki Morita’s debut play Trash Pop Butterflies, Dance Dance Paradise for Theatre Works in Naarm/Melbourne. She also directed Frieda Lee’s All His Beloved Children for KXT on Broadway, for which she was nominated for Best Direction of an Independent Production in the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards. Amelia is a graduate of the BPA (Performance Making) from WAAPA and the MFA (Directing) from NIDA.

General Manager
Alexandra Baker

Alexandra Baker (she/her) is a Boorloo-based arts manager with a background in marketing, event and venue operations. She most recently served as Venue Manager at Subiaco Arts Centre, where she chaired the Artist in Residence Program across the Arts and Culture Trust. Alexandra is passionate about championing emerging artists and creating pathways into the arts. Alongside her management practice, she works as a freelance producer and publicist for independent theatre. Recent credits include producing Improv RPG: Dungeons & Dragons, Improv RPG: Call of Cthulhu, and Improv RPG: High Society (BS Productions, 2025), and publicity/PR for the Sydney Fringe Tour Ready Award-winning show The Wetness (Mummy’s Plastic, 2025).

Program Coordinator (Schools & Communities)
Jesse Vakatini

Jesse (he/him) is an actor and director who lives and works in Boorloo, Perth. He is currently studying at Curtin University, completing his Bachelor’s in Creative Arts (Theatre). His credits include: MEDEA (Black Swan State Theatre Company, 2019), Body Rights (WAYTCo, 2020), Beside (WAYTCo, 2021), Body Of Knowledge (WAYTCo, 2022), When The Rain Stops Falling (Hayman Theatre Company, 2023), The Persians (Hayman Theatre Company, 2023), Potluck For Penance (Hayman Theatre Company, 2024), The Lake (2023), Self-Preservation (2024),  Drug Money (2024),  Django (2024), All Boys (Every Other Theatre Company, 2024) and Manna (2025).

Social Media Manager
Leah Robyn

Leah (she/her) is a social media marketer, publicist and emerging artist based in Boorloo. She graduated from WAAPA with a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Honours with First Class) majoring in Performance Making. Leah is passionate about promoting local theatre, and has worked independently as a publicist for productions such as Everything Flickers (2023) and Leg Business (2025) at The Blue Room Theatre, UP THERE (Walyalup) (2024) at Fremantle Arts Centre, and The Game (2025) at State of Play.