Danielle Antaki
Artistic Director/ Executive Officer
Danielle Antaki graduated from UWS Nepean with a BA in Theatre. Since then she has had a wide and varied career as a performer, director, teacher and writer. She is a member of Version 1.0, the contemporary performance ensemble, with whom she has performed, collaborated and directed. She has taught and directed for Studio Q – the education/training arm of the Q theatre. She recently co-directed Destination: Where? a collaboration with Version 1.0 and the Q Youth Company at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. She has also worked as a performer, writer and director with Milkcrate Theatre – using forum style theatrical productions to engage and collaborate with members of the homeless communities in and around Sydney. She has directed productions for Shopfront Theatre, Ashfield Youth Theatre, AIPAH (Australian International Performing Arts High) to name a few and has performed for such companies as Opera Australia, Darlinghurst Theatre, Sidetrack Theatre, The Stables, PACT, Troubadour Theatre, Young Australia Workshop (TIE) as well as appearing on TV films and shows including So Close to Home (SBS), Four Door Mansion (Channel 10) and Allsaints (Channel 7).
Naomi Lane
General Manager
Naomi Lane is a passionate arts administrator who has worked in many interesting roles including General Manager of Jigsaw Theatre Company in Canberra.
Naomi commenced her career in arts management volunteering for organisations including the Sydney Festival and the Short & Sweet Theatre Festival. In 2006 Naomi worked as a producer for independent theatre company Square the Circle for their production at the Darlinghurst Theatre. Other experience includes managing sponsorship, philanthropy and event activities in the Business Development Department’s of both Musica Viva and Sydney Theatre Company.
Naomi has a Bachelor of Media from Macquarie University and a Graduate Certificate in Arts Management from the UTS School of Business. Naomi is proud to be a Board Member of the East Coast Theatre Company and the peak body Young People and the Arts Australia.
Andy Ko
Creative Producer
Andy Ko is a performance artist, writer, facilitator and producer.
He has been a freelance stage manager for theatre, dance and community cultural events since 2005.
He has contributed writing to the Bankstown Youth Development Service Westside publications and has read his works at Sydney Writer’s Festival events (2007, 2008, 2009).
Between 2006 and 2009, Andy was a Learning Support Officer at the Fairfield High School Intensive English Centre, facilitating with teachers the delivery of a Drama & Spoken Literacy program.
He was a performer in PYT’s performance/game CityQuest (2007); and since 2008, with the support of PYT, he has been developing the Wareabouts Ensemble initiative, an ongoing street theatre training and production program for young emerging performance artists.
Previous initiatives include Landing (2007), a performance project with young people from newly-arrived backgrounds; and Stage It (2008), a showcase of short new plays by young people in Fairfield.
He was Lighting Designer and Associate Director for PYT’s production Forever-ever? (2009).
In 2010, Andy will be delivering Up Stage It!, a creative and professional development program for students and teachers in High Schools with Intensive English Centres across South West Sydney.
Aaron Woo
Company Administrator
Janet Diane
Bookkeeper
Khoa Do
Patron
Young Australian of the Year 2005 and Award Winning Filmmaker
Khoa is an actor and writer who has worked in film, theatre and stand-up comedy. He worked extensively with theatre companies PYT, UTP and Citymoon Vietnamese Australian Youth Theatre. He was nominated for a 2001 AFI Award for ‘BEST SCREENPLAY IN A SHORT FILM’ for his half-hour drama script, Delivery Day.
Delivery Day also won ‘BEST ACHIEVEMENT WITH AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY’ at The St Kilda International Short Film Festival in Melbourne, June 2001. He has worked in South West Sydney, as a volunteer street worker and tutor for two years, where he wrote and directed The Finished People .His first feature film, Footy Legends hit cinema screens in August 2007. Khoa is currently working on his next feature film, Missing Water and will be directing his second PYT production, Mother Fish at Parramatta Riverside Theatres in May 2008.
“It’s such an honor to be Patron of Powerhouse Youth Theatre. PYT is a youth theatre company whose work is extremely important to the youth of south-western Sydney. Powerhouse Youth Theatre gives an artistic voice to the young people from the area, giving them the chance to express their creative spirit and voice their artistic talents.”
- Khoa Do
