APGS is excited to announce the arrival of our new Performing Arts Coordinator, Sally Clark. Bringing a wealth of real life experience Sally is set to spice up the curriculum and challenge the students like never before!
Also joining Sally as Assistant Co-ordinator and Musical Theatre teacher is Belinda Wollaston. Her current and past industry experience will be a great support to our curriculum and her connections with local industry will be an invaluable and dynamic asset to our programme.
Sally Clark
Sally has worked extensively in theatre, film, and television throughout Australia, South East Asia, Japan, Germany and the USA as a freelance dancer, singer and actor. She has performed in the musical theatre productions, Cats (Bombalurina) Follies (Young Phyllis), Anything Goes (Purity), Nine (Guillietta) and on television in Home & Away, All Saints as well as The Don Lane Show, The Bert Newton Show and Countdown. Her film credits as a performer include Bootmen and the US Tele-movie, The Three Stooges.
Sally is also recognised as one of Australia’s leading choreographers, with screen credits including So You Think You Can Dance, Magical Tales (Series 1 & 2 for Channel 9) The Three Stooges, Three Men & a Baby Grand (ABC TV) and the Australian Fashion Awards (Channel 7). Her role as a Show Director/Producer sees her creating corporate events and extravaganzas for clients such as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival-Brisbane, Schwarzkopf, Toyota, Lexus, Goldwell and more. Her educational roles include developing a teacher training course for the Brightstars franchise, teaching full-time students at Brent Street for the past 13 years, and teaching jazz, tap and musical theatre to young performers.
Belinda Woolaston
Belinda Wollaston has worked in Australia and overseas in musicals, cabaret, television, film and theatre. A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (Singer, Actor, Dancer) and the NSW Talent Development Program, Belinda was, in 2006, the inaugural recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers’ “Bound for Broadway” Scholarship and also the recipient of the performing artist’s grant from the NSW Government Department of Sport and Tourism.
Most recently, Belinda alternated the role of Lara in the Australian premiere production of Dr Zhivago, alongside Anthony Warlow, and was cast in the lead role of Lucy Harris in the Australian International tour of Jekyll and Hyde. In major commercial theatre, Belinda appeared in the Australian and Asia Pacific Tour of Mamma Mia where she understudied and played the lead role of Sophie. She also performed the role of Kate McGowan in Maury Yeston’s Titanic the Musical, Gloria in Mame for The Production Company and played Cathy Doyle in Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Nick Enright’s Summer Rain, directed by Robyn Nevin.
