Introducing the wonderful team keeping Stage Door running! Our team is made up of emerging and
established industry professionals in their field, dedicated to cultivating our community of theatre lovers!
Victoria Bullard
She/They/He
Co-Host
A performing artist, playwright and podcast presenter in their own right. A Bachelor of Music graduate (AIM), Tori has applied their performance skills across both stage and screen, with their TV Credits including the successful series ‘Love Child’. Most recently they have taken to the stage as the March Hare in a new Australian Musical ‘Alice’s Adventures’. A project that has seen their contribution from 2021 to the premiere performance in 2022. Other performance highlights for Tori have included their roles as Celeste II in ‘Sunday in the Park with George' and Abigail Williams in ‘The Crucible'. Over the past four years, Tori has harnessed their unique voice as a writer and performer, allowing them to dig deeper into their creativity and assist in sharing the realities of their world. As a queer non-binary artist, Tori has drawn from their own experiences and the community around them to form works reflective of a new era of writing. Tori's debut play 'The Shift' is a piece that encompasses the present journeys of the LQBTQIA+ community, alongside the negotiations of daily life which was brought to life by an incredible and diverse cast during the 2022 Sydney Fringe season.
Eliza Vine
She/Her
Co-Host
Hailing from the coast of Queensland, Eliza Vine is currently in her final year completing a Bachelor of Musical Theatre at The Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Eliza recently finished performing the electrifying role of Veronica Sawyer in QCGU’s Heathers the musical and her first third year show Working: Localised in the Cremorne Theatre QPAC. She is also set to play Mrs Vernon Williams in her third year major musical Cry Baby directed by Alister Smith. Her other credits include: Glady’s in The Pajama Game, Ensemble/Cover in 42nd Street alongside making her QPAC lyric theatre debut as an ensemble member in Grease (QCGU).
Following studies with Jennifer Murphy (EVITA, Eldgley International) at the Australian Institute of Music, she appeared in two workshop performances of original Australian works including soloist in VOWS and featured ensemble in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
When taking a break from podcast recordings you’ll find her furthering her creativity as an art studio assistant, belting out theatre tunes, or testing out her latest nail art.
Bridie Middleton
She/Her
Website and Review
Co-ordinator
Bridie is an emerging creative, currently studying Fine Arts (Drama) and Business (Public Relations) at the Queensland University of Technology. She is drawn to absurd, surrealist works or magical realism. She was assistant stage manager for The 39 Steps at La Boite with Vena Cava Productions in 2022. In 2023 she played Girl in A Lovely Violent Ghost Haiku, a part of Very Still and Hard to See. Her most recent projects are theatrePUNK.co's 2024 season of DOGHOLE by Grace Wilson and Flaming Carnations' Blow the Men Down for Anywhere Theatre Festival.
Off stage, you can find her at a thrift store or winning a game of scattergories!
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Gareth Isaac
He/Him
Special Guest Host
As a theatre dork of some experience, Gareth Isaac is thrilled to join Stage Door Podcast as a semi-irregular co-host for our Deep Dives! Gareth is a professional musical theatre performer with a Bachelor of Music (AIM, 2016) and a Masters of Voice (NIDA, 2021) who’s face you may recognise from Puffs (2018) or Mary Poppins (2022).
Gareth also runs his own voice coaching business, Tune-Up Voice Coaching. As our Deep Dive specialist, Gareth brings wit, humour, and more fun facts about your favourite musicals than you could ever imagine!
Michael Di Guglielmo
He/They
Audio Editor / Reviewer
Michael is a fourth year media communications student at Sydney University, having focused broadly on the field of Australian media but specialising in the craft of audio work and podcasting. Since high school he’s been a frequent audience member in theatrical productions, watching any and every type of play he can get tickets to. Reflecting this love of theatre is his current position as intern within the marketing department of Bell Shakespeare. Michael similarly has a love (and/or borderline obsession) with storytelling in the forms of literature and tabletop roleplaying games. Stage Door Podcast is his first venture into the field of podcast editing outside of university, but it has only reinforced his love for the genre.
Grace Cooper
She/Her
Reviewer
Grace has just graduated from UNSW with a Bachelor of Media (Communications and Journalism) and Bachelor of Arts (Theatre and Performance Studies). She is thrilled to be working with both her passions, journalism and theatre, to review for Stage Door Podcast. In her spare time Grace enjoys drinking a good coffee and playing netball as well as obviously watching lots of theatre.
Tayla Ham
She/Her
Reviewer
Tayla is a proud disabled, plus-sized, queer and indigenous woman who is currently pursuing her diploma in Entertainment Journalism at Collarts, located in Naarm/Melbourne. During her diploma, she wrote multiple theatre reviews and extensively on diversity in theatre.
When Tayla is not talking about, writing about, or performing some form of theatre, she enjoys reading, crocheting, and playing her Nintendo Switch. Sometimes, all three at once!
Fun Fact: Before this career change, Tayla was a Pharmacist.
Tayla is very excited to be joining the Stage Door Team and can’t wait to get started!
Victoria Luxton
She/Her
Reviewer
Victoria Luxton has sprinkled around the Sydney Theatre scene since 2017 after graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music (now The Academy)
Originally from Perth where she studied her cert at WAAPA, Victoria burst onto the Sydney independent theatre scene with little more than a pair of beat up tap shoes and a songbook of classics.
Since then, she has performed in many musicals in both ensemble and featured roles as well as a couple of tv series. Victoria is also the Creative Director/Producer and Host of La La Lounge: a monthly musical theatre cabaret featuring local Sydney artists. Victoria is passionate about new work, cabaret, Aussie theatre, Queer theatre and everything in between and believes everyone deserves a seat at the table. She is just ecstatic to be joining the team at Stage Door Podcast.
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Ashlyn Hunter
She/Her
Reviewer
Ashlyn is a final year Gender Studies student at Sydney University and is going on to do her master’s in art curating. She is heavily involved in the theatrical sphere and loves to get her teeth into any kind of theatre she can. She is specifically able to reflect this love in her job as an Agent Assistant for Shanahan Management; it has allowed her to be involved in the behind the scenes of the industry. In her spare time she is a yoga teacher and loves some reformer Pilates. Stage Door is Ashlyn’s first avenue in reviewing and writing for theatre but is extremely excited to get going.