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!
Tori Bullard
They/Them
Co-Founder
Tori Bullard (they/them) is a queer, non-binary and neurodiverse performer, writer and theatre-maker based on Gadigal and Wangal land. A graduate of the Australian Institute of Music, they are passionate about bold, heartfelt storytelling and championing new Australian work.
Most recently, Tori appeared as Anne Bonny in the new Australian musical Bonny & Read and as Judas in Christ Almighty: A Comedy of Biblical Proportions. Previous stage credits include Abigail Williams in The Crucible, Celeste II in Sunday in the Park with George, and the March Hare in Andy Freeborn’s Alice.
As a writer and creator, Tori is drawn to stories that centre queerness, complexity and connection. Their cabaret Train of Thought premiered at the 2025 Sydney Fringe, where it received the LGBTQIA+ Storytelling Award, and returned for a successful 2026 season at Qtopia Sydney. They are currently in development on a new musical and are excited to be exploring this next chapter of their work.
Tori and Eliza co-founded Stage Door in 2020, building a platform that celebrates, critiques and uplifts the Australian theatre community.
Eliza Vine
She/Her
Co-Founder
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
Brisbane Reviewer
Bridie is a passionate arts coordinator and recent graduate in Fine Arts (Drama) and Business (Public Relations) from the Queensland University of Technology. She is drawn to live performance styles that experiment with non-traditional theatre forms. Credits include theatrePUNK.co's 2024 season of DOGHOLE by Grace Wilson, Flaming Carnations' Blow the Men Down (Anywhere Theatre Festival Award 2024) and Home in the Sun (QUT Potentia Festival). She was awarded Underground Theatre Company's Avalon Award for Best Actress in 2024. Her most recent project is assisting research into music-led creative practice through QUT's VRES program, supervised by David Megarrity.
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Michael Di Guglielmo
They/Them
Sydney Reviewer
Michael Di Guglielmo is a graduate from Sydney University currently writing across a variety of online venues. They have a love for the craft of theatre, and love watching actors on stage giving it their all (and usually also giving severe gender envy, alas). They're a D&D obsessive and a sucker for a good story, be it in books or on the stage. They've been reviewing for Stage Door for over two years, and have fallen in love with the Sydney theatre scene.
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Victoria Luxton
She/Her
Sydney 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
Sydney Reviewer
Ashlyn is a Sydney University graduate and will soon begin her Masters in Art Curating. Her connection to theatre runs deep, from attending a Performing Arts High School and long being surrounded by friends working in the industry. She throws herself into any production she can get her hands on. Her previous role as an Agent Assistant at Shanahan Management strengthened that passion, giving her insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of the performing arts world. Outside the industry, she’s a yoga teacher who also loves a Pilates class. Ashlyn has been part of Stage Door for a year now and has relished the chance to engage with theatre and the broader arts scene on a deeper level.
Grace Wilson
She/Her
Sydney Reviewer
Grace Wilson is a playwright living between Yidinji and Gadigal country, studying a Master of Fine Arts (Dramatic Writing) at NIDA after completing her Bachelor of Humanities (Western Civilisation) at The University of Queensland. At the age of 17, she was the runner-up for the Queensland Theatre Young Playwrights’ Award with her work MY NAME IS TOMMY and won the award in the following year with her work, GOODBYE, ELI ANDERSON. At 21, she was the runner up of the Australian Theatre Festival NYC New Play Award with her work BOGQUEEN.
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Grace has gone on to be a finalist in several other major awards including Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwrights’ Award 2023, Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2025, Griffin Award 2023, Queensland Writers Centre’s Stageable 2024 and Sydney Fringe’s Best in Theatre Award 2025, all of which she achieved before 20. She has been published by Jacaranda Journal, Regional Arts Australia, Queensland Writers’ Centre, Playlab, ATAR Notes Australia, highly commended for the ABC Heywire Competition and longlisted for the Griffin Award 2024, Premier’s Drama Award 2026 and the ATYP Foundation Commission. In 2024, she was commissioned by Queensland University of Technology to write VERY FINE PEOPLE, directed by Wesley Enoch for the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) graduates.
Grace has also undertaken several playwrighting training programs including JUTE WriteSparks, Queensland Theatre’s Young Writers’ Ensemble, ATYP Fresh Ink Mentoring and National Studio, and La Boite Assembly. She has also served as Co-Chair of ATYP’s Youth Advisory Board.
Natasha Dyson
They/She
Melbourne Reviewer
Natasha Dyson or Tash (they/she) is a Melbourne-based theatre performer and composer. Tash holds a Bachelor of Musical Theatre from the Queensland Academy of Excellence in Musical Theatre (QAEMT), formerly known as the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. They are a compelling multi-genre vocalist, having trained classically since the age of 5, privately and under institutions such as the Australian Girls' Choir (2005-2017). At QAEMT, Tash warmed audiences in roles such as Babe Williams (The Pajama Game), Mrs Vernon-Williams (Cry-Baby) and Rose Hoffmann (Working: Localised). She is passionate about inclusion in the arts, and currently facilitates the YourDNA Choir, as well as classes in Creative Writing and Song & Dance, for adults with intellectual and/or physical disabilities. Tash is also studying advanced Auslan (Australian Sign Language). When they're not at work, Tash loves all things thrifting, D&D, tea collecting and art history.
Tash is currently writing a new Australian musical, and is thrilled to begin sharing what she's been working on soon.
Catherine Gunther
She/Her
Sydney Reviewer
Catherine is a Sydney based writer. She loves storytelling in all forms, however, prefers to watch the stage rather than be on it.
Most recently, she released a short story collection called Summer at the Creative Chaos Collective online, a cosy collection of heartwarming stories set in Sydney featuring a charming golden retriever named Margs. She is currently working on a novel.
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She holds a Bachelor of Popular Music from the Queensland Conservatorium and a Masters Degree in Information Studies (Librarianship) from Charles Sturt University. With extensive writing experience reviewing live music and concerts for cultural magazine Blank, and a career in the publishing industry at Allen & Unwin and Bloomsbury before becoming a librarian, Catherine has always loved to highlight Australian stories.
Jacqui Dwyer
She/Her
Melbourne Reviewer
Jacqui Dwyer (she/her) is a warm, versatile performer from the Blue Mountains. A 2017 TDP graduate, she completed her Diploma of Musical Theatre at Brent Street and her Bachelor of Musical Theatre at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Recent credits include Falcon in Imagine LIVE (NCM), George/Swing in Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out LIVE (TEG Life Like Touring) Ensemble in Bearded (Theatre Works) and Swing in Disney’s Winnie The Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation (TEG Life Like/Rockefeller Prods.) She also features on the released EP of new Australian musical The White Rose (Isabella Dymalovski and Oliver Thompson, 2024) and is thrilled to have joined the theatre reviewing team at Stage Door Podcast!
Lola Kate Carlton
He/She/They
Sydney Reviewer
Lola Kate Carlton is a bona fide theatre baby. Having grown up doing voice overs with RMK, they have fallen in love and back in love with theatre for almost the past two decades. Currently, they run their own theatre company and busy themselves acting, directing, stage managing, and writing for theatre. Lola adores the strange and unusual in theatre, and loves watching actors dig their teeth into an interesting show. But generally, Lola’s slogan has and always will be - “put me in coach.” So anyone trying something new and different will always catch their eye.
Ellie Carragher
She/Her
Sydney Reviewer
Emerging Australian Musical theatre performer Ellie carragher is a recent graduate of both NIDA and the Queensland Conservatorium QU, where she earned her Diploma and Bachelor of Musical Theatre.
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Her recent work includes her debut as a featured singer in QPAC’s Spirit of Christmas in QPAC's Concert Hall, Featured soloist in John Milligan's Big Gay Piano bars cabaret series, Carrie White alternate in Carrie the musical in QPAC's Cremorne theatre and Connie Mackenzie in A Chorus Line in the QLD Conservatorium theatre. Earlier Credits include Muriel Heslop in her NIDA Diploma showcase and Dr Charlotte Understudy in Falsettos in the NIDA Theatres.
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Ellie is well known for her cheeky, down-to-earth stage presence and for diving into characters with wide emotional ranges. She loves Musical Theatre and cabaret work alongside straight plays and new Australian works. Ellie values the arts as a tool for bringing LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and Neurodiverse communities together and is passionate about being part of work that reflects the diversity of the world around us.
Belle Steinhardt
She/Her
Brisbane Reviewer
Belle is a graduate of Queensland University of Technology, holding a dual degree in Fine Arts (Drama) and Business (Marketing). With credits across acting, producing, and dramaturgy, Belle is deeply passionate about storytelling and embraces every opportunity to immerse herself in theatre. Currently finding her groove, this is Belle’s first gig as a reviewer, and she’s super keen to start conversations, share her thoughts, and bring your stories to life through her writing!