AMELIA BURKE

Director & Theatre Maker

Amelia is a director and theatre maker with a passion for creating and directing new Australian work. She is currently the Artistic Director of the Western Australian Youth Theatre Company (WAYTCo). 

Amelia's new work highlights include directing Frieda Lee's darkly comedic play All His Beloved Children at Kings Cross Theatre on Broadway, for which she was nominated for Best Direction (Independent Production) at the Sydney Theatre Awards. For WAYTCo in 2024, she directed Grace Chow's The Comprehensive A to Z of Missing Persons Australia, a verbatim and multi-media exploration of the missing persons crisis. In 2023, she directed Maki Morita's fever dream Trash Pop Butterflies, Dance Dance Paradise a Theatre Works, a kaleidescopic  exploration of youth and climate change.

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Amelia loves fusing her love of performance with her passion for making work with young people. She has had the pleasure of working as a teaching artist and director across the country with WAYTCo, National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), Filmbites Screen Academy and Super Speak. In 2022, she directed and co-wrote Meet My Grandies alongside a young cast for La Mama & the Victorian Seniors Festival.

Amelia holds a BPA in Performance Making from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts from WAAPA and an MFA in Directing from NIDA.