About Bondi Performing Arts
Bondi Performing Arts is a school that champions creativity, builds confidence, and fosters independent and quick thinking.
We aim to enhance students' experiences across all performing arts disciplines, including stagecraft, acting, scriptwriting, improvisation, movement, and theatre sports,
By empowering children to create, perform, and think on their feet, often pushing them out of their comfort zones, we build confidence and equip them with life skills that extend beyond theatre and performing arts.
At our core, we are about developing an inner resourcefulness by equipping young people with theatre and media craft skills of a high standard, and that will be useful in all the professions they choose for the rest of their lives.
BPA Teachers
Alli Butler
Alli Butler is a producer, actor, writer, composer, singer-songwriter, and stand-up comedian. Her one-woman-show Forty-Year-Old Popstar, which had sell-out performances in Perth and throughout regional WA, was nominated at the Sydney Fringe Festival for ‘Best in Musical Theatre & Cabaret’. She has acted in TV, including All Saints, Crownies, Itch, Deadly Women and Bite Club. For theatre, her credits include the lead in The Chaos Fairy (Riverside, Zenith), Julie in Cosi (New theatre) the solo singer in Godspell (Regent Theatre). Alli was a semi-finalist in the in ISC Unsigned Only competition for her song, Fire in My Heart. Alli played the lead in the original production of The Hollow (York festival).
Alli has a passion for helping kids discover and utilise their creativity and is a co-founder of BPA.
Nicholas Flanagan
Nicholas Flanagan, an alumnus of NIDA (Acting) and postgraduate VCA (Film and TV), holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Sydney University and a creative-practice research PhD from the University of South Australia.
He has acted in film, television, and theatre; is a published playwright with multiple produced works, including books for musicals he composed. He has also directed numerous plays and short films and web series. As a coach and mentor, Nicholas has taught actors and directed at mainstream NIDA, taught writing at Melbourne University (VCA) and acting at WAAPA.
He has extensive experience mentoring and teaching drama to primary and secondary school students throughout Western Australia and Sydney. He is a co-founder of BPA.
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
— Albert Einstein
