The Actors’ Hub Celebrates 14 Years of Actor Training, Theatre and Film in Perth
The Actors’ Hub turns 14.
Fourteen years ago, we began with a simple but ambitious belief: that actors in Western Australia deserved a place where they could train seriously, practise their craft consistently and be given genuine opportunities to turn that training into meaningful work.
What has grown from that belief is far more than an acting school.
The Actors’ Hub has become a long-term creative home—a place where actors, writers, directors and emerging filmmakers have been able to take risks, discover their voices, develop their craft and experience what it means to bring a story all the way from an idea to an audience.
Over the past 14 years, our community has created 107 stage productions, taken work on 17 tours, produced 13 short films and made our first feature-length film.
Behind every one of those numbers are countless rehearsals, early mornings, late nights, regional roads, opening nights, film sets, brave creative choices, missed lines, unexpected discoveries and people choosing to keep going when the work became difficult.
More importantly, behind them are people.
Students who walked through our doors uncertain of what they were capable of. Actors who found the courage to be seen. Emerging artists who discovered that their voices and stories mattered. Ensembles who learned to trust one another, take responsibility for their work and create something larger than any one individual could make alone.
During the past year, that work has continued to grow.
Our theatre and touring projects have included Much Ado About Nothing, The Seagull, Chrysalis, Clearly Influenced, Alice in Wonderland, Are You Real?, Stars and the creation of The Tech Trinity and continued journey of The Blind Eye Trilogy.
The trilogy travelled through metropolitan and regional Western Australia—including Esperance, Harvey, Narrogin and Carnarvon. Through these works, we have continued important conversations about violence prevention, resilience, social inclusion, wellbeing and the responsibility we share for creating stronger communities.
We are deeply grateful for the relationships and collaborations that have supported this work, including those with White Ribbon Australia, Stopping Family Violence, DVAssist, local governments and regional community organisations.
Our screen work has also continued to find its place in the wider industry.
In the past Paper Cranes received four Best Shorts honours. Touch, Beau’s End and The Storytellers received international Lift-Off selections, while In Sect was nominated for the WA Screen Culture Awards Innovation Award.
And this year we continued the slate. We completed filming on Footprints and began developing the next chapter of our screen-production slate—creating further opportunities for Perth actors and emerging filmmakers to keep practising, collaborating and building meaningful bodies of work.
These achievements belong to every student, graduate, teacher, creative, crew member, board member, volunteer, partner, family member and audience member who has contributed to this journey.
They belong to the people who gave their time, shared their knowledge, supported a production, attended a performance, travelled with us, helped carry equipment, sat in an editing room, encouraged an actor or believed that an independent creative organisation in Perth could continue to grow.
Our creative home in East Perth is also entering an exciting new chapter. This year, we welcomed The Creative Institute and its community of young filmmakers into the building, and we are already collaborating with them on several film projects that bring emerging actors and filmmakers together. We are also looking forward to welcoming a number of community theatre groups, with new productions and performance seasons being planned for the future. It is wonderful to see the venue growing as a shared home for training, filmmaking, live performance and creative collaboration.
The past year has also tested us.
It has reminded us that trust is not something any organisation can simply claim—it must be earned through clear standards, accountable conduct and a willingness to listen, reflect and improve.
As we enter our fifteenth year, we are strengthening the policies, consent practices, professional boundaries and complaints pathways that support everyone who trains and works with us. We remain committed to rigorous actor training delivered with dignity, transparency and respect for each person’s agency.
The Actors’ Hub has never been about making the work easy.
Acting asks us to become more present, more disciplined, more imaginative and more honest. It asks us to confront our habits, expand our creative range and learn how to work responsibly with other people.
But challenge must always sit alongside care. Creative courage must sit alongside consent. High standards must sit alongside dignity, fairness and professional responsibility.
That is the culture we are committed to carrying forward.
We also acknowledge everyone who has shared in this fourteen-year journey, including those whose paths have since taken them elsewhere. Each person brought something to The Actors’ Hub—their time, talent, ideas, energy, challenges and perspective—and helped shape the organisation we are today. We are grateful for what we created together and for all that those relationships and experiences have taught us, including lessons that have only become clear with time. We carry that learning forward with greater understanding, clearer standards and a renewed sense of purpose. We are proud of who we are, honest about the ways we must continue to grow, and excited by who we are becoming and the opportunities life is now presenting.
The next chapter of The Actors’ Hub will build upon everything these 14 years have taught us.
We will continue to train actors who are not simply waiting for opportunity, but who understand how to create work, build collaborations and take responsibility for their careers.
We will continue developing original theatre and screen stories that explore the questions shaping our communities.
We will continue building stronger pathways between training and industry—giving emerging artists opportunities to gain practical experience in rehearsal rooms, on stages, on film sets and in front of audiences.
And we will continue evolving.
Not by forgetting where we have come from, but by taking the strongest parts of our history—our courage, resilience, imagination, discipline and commitment to story—and carrying them into something even more focused, professional and sustainable.
To everyone who has been part of The Actors’ Hub during these 14 years: thank you.
Thank you for your work.
Thank you for your trust.
Thank you for every story you have helped us tell and every part you have played in building this extraordinary creative community.
Fourteen years is something worth celebrating.
Today, we honour everything that has brought us here—and look forward to the stories still waiting to be told.
Happy 14th birthday to The Actors’ Hub.
With gratitude,
Amanda Crewes
Founder, Director and Head Acting Coach
The Actors’ Hub Australia
On behalf of The Actors’ Hub team and creative community
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