Peripatetic Acting Tutors
Peripatetic acting tutors are professionals who offer acting lessons, workshops, or coaching sessions instructors who provide their services on a casual basis. Our tutors can work with students who are aspiring actors – and can work with all Year levels and skill levels.
One of the key benefits hiring one of our Peripatetic acting tutors is that they tailor their lessons to your specific needs and goals. They can help you play to your strengths and provide tips to improve on any of the areas where you may need development.
Our Peripatetic tutors have extensive experience in different acting techniques, styles, and genres. They can share their knowledge and insights, offering a unique perspective on the craft of acting.
If you’re interested in hiring a peripatetic acting tutor, take a look at the profiles of our teachers below and get in touch to discuss availabilities and rates.
Get in touch with our Head of Acting
greg.friend@mcdonald.nsw.edu.au
02 9752 0617
Hannah Barlow
Hannah Barlow is an actress and filmmaker born and raised in Sydney, Australia. Since graduating from NIDA (2013), Hannah has been nominated for the Australians in Film ‘Heath Ledger Scholarship’, awarded Australia Council for the Art’s Artstart Grant, and has starred in various theatre productions, TV series, music videos, short & feature films. Hannah currently works between Australia and Los Angeles, both in front of and behind the camera.
Romy Bartz
Romy graduated from NIDA (Acting) in 2002 with a BA in Dramatic Arts. She has worked as an actor for Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Railway Street, Melbourne Arts Centre, The Seymour Centre, The Old Fitzroy, Belvoir and toured extensively with The Theatre of Image and ATOD. She has performed in a variety of short films, TV, Radio plays and TVCs.
Romy has taught drama for over 20 years in Australia and the UK, most of this time at The McDonald College, where she has taught acting for stage and screen and directed many student productions. She has directed several adult productions and in 2016 she wrote, produced and directed her first full length musical, Battlers and Dreamers for the Sydney Fringe Festival. In 2021 she directed her first music video D&Q for Bird Signs that has since been a finalist in over 6 international film festivals and won best music video at Lacorne International Film Festival. Romy privately coaches actors of all ages in technique, audition prep (theatre/TV/Film), and HSC drama.
David Molloy
David is a multidisciplinary artist for stage and screen. His practice spans writing, directing, performing, design and videography, developed over more than 15 years across diverse creative forms.
A collaborative and adaptive creative, David’s recent theatre work has focused on bespoke video projection for live performance, created in close partnership with lighting and set designers. For screen, he works primarily as a screenwriter and is also highly regarded for his versatility within production teams.
David has been selected for the Bundanon Artists-in-Residence program (via Accessible Arts), the Arts Front Under 30 Symposium, and the National Theatre of Parramatta’s Playwrights of Parramatta program. His videography work with Inner West Council contributed to the Leo Kelly OAM Arts and Culture Award–winning Gadigal Wangal Wayfinding Project. He is a graduate of the University of Wollongong, AFTRS, and the University of East Anglia (UK).
David teaches primary level students at the McDonald College.
Mary Vasey
Mary is a RADA trained actor who also studied at the Trinity College UK. She worked for many years as a professional actor in the UK, Europe and Australia including roles in All Saints, Home and Away and New Tricks amongst many others. Mary has been teaching drama for over thirty years including preparing students for auditions for film,TV and theatre. She is well-known as an expert in preparation of students for Eisteddfod and AMEB drama exams as well as HSC monologues with outstanding results.
Mary teaches Theatre and Screen Acting and prepares students for AMEB examinations and Eisteddfods.