Dr Ian Nisbet
Owner (he/him) $47.50/half-hour (inc GST) WWCC 1009054A |
Dr Ian Nisbet is one of Australia's leading Broadway musical theatre vocal coaches, the director of Ian Nisbet Talent Management, and a qualified Vocal Health First Aider. His award-winning students can be heard in professional and amateur productions across the country and around the world and have gained entry into many of the country's top training institutions. He holds a PhD in musical theatre, a bachelor's degree in drama, an AMusA in flute performance, and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. Ian has been an active member of the Melbourne theatre community for over 25 years in a variety of roles both on and off the stage including Jesus Christ Superstar (Flute), Chicago (Mary Sunshine) , Oklahoma! (Chorus Master), Finian's Rainbow (Flute/Piccolo), The Sound of Music (Flute/Piccolo), Barnum (Ringmaster - MTGV Commendation), Hook: The Pantomime (Flute), RENT (Musical Director), Into the Woods (MD), the Victorian amateur premiere of Parade (2007 Revised Version - MD), Sweeney Todd (MD), The Witches of Eastwick (Michael Spofford), The Producers (MD), Grease (Vocal Coach), Little Shop of Horrors (Flute), Sticks and Stones: A New Musical in Workshop (Vocal Coach), Ragtime (Flute/Piccolo), SPAMALOT (MD), Urinetown (MD), Jesus Christ Superstar (Annas), and multiple roles in Musical Mugwumps (for which all 23 companies received Green Room Award nominations). Ian teaches in Dandenong North, Brunswick, and online and can be contacted at ian@iannisbet.com |
Associate Coaches
Shelley Dunlop
Associate Coach (she/her) $42.50/half-hour (inc GST) WWCC 0284202A |
Shelley studied Music Performance (Voice) at the Victorian College of the Arts. An experienced singer, actor, and multi-instrumentalist, she has taught singing and piano for many years and performed all over Australia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music and studied acting as part of the NIDA Actors Studio in 2019. Shelley’s recent theatrical credits include Irene in Anna Bella Eema (Melbourne Fringe), Olivia in Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (NIDA Actors Studio), Deb in Ordinary Days (Life Story Theatre), Sarah in Decoration Day (T2 Productions), The Witch in Into The Woods (Aspect), and Anne Shirley in the Australian premiere of Anne and Gilbert (Beaumaris Theatre Co). She also recently musically directed two new original Australian works: Post (Something Blue Productions) and The Girl Green As Elderflower (La Mama). Shelley has played keys and woodwinds in many a pit orchestra, and her voice can be heard in several ads and indie animations. Shelley is currently studying her masters degree in music therapy at the University of Melbourne. Shelley teaches in Brunswick and online and can be contacted at shelley@iannisbet.com |
Omar Moustafa
Associate Coach (he/him) $42.50/half-hour (inc GST) WWCC 0882585A |
Omar is an experienced singer, having studied and performed across many genres, and is a qualified Vocal Health First Aider. His involvement in musical theatre began in the Victorian Youth Theatre’s musical theatre ensemble program. He has sung as a member of the Melbourne vocal ensemble Choristry, appearing on their albums, ‘Folksong’ and ‘Aurora’, and has worked under several of Australia’s most prominent choral directors, including Trevor Jones and Dan Walker. Omar also teaches voice at Gladstone Park Secondary College and his musical direction won consecutive Outstanding Vocal Performance awards at the Junior Theatre Celebration in 2018 and 2019. Omar has been involved in musical theatre for over twenty years, working both on and off the stage in shows including Oliver!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Reuben), Bugsy Malone (Knuckles), Return to the Forbidden Planet (Cookie), Finian’s Rainbow, Les Misérables, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Percy), Spamalot (Not Dead Fred), Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas), Into the Woods (Baker), Ordinary Days (Jason), The Wizard of Oz (Cowardly Lion), Seussical Jr. (Vocal Director), Mulan Jr. (VD), Seussical (co-MD), The Addams Family (VD) and Guys and Dolls (VD). Omar teaches in Dandenong North, Brunswick, and online and can be contacted at omar@iannisbet.com |
Tahra Cannon
Associate Coach (she/her) $42.50/half-hour (inc GST) WWCC 1990629A |
Tahra holds a bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre) from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. A strong vocalist, with a lot of musical and theatre experience, Tahra grew up singing with the Australian Girls Choir. With the choir, Tahra performed at multiple sporting events including the Men’s final at the Australian Open, she also toured around the world where a performance in Times Square, New York aired internationally on SBS. Tahra’s training further includes attaining a Diploma of Musical Theatre at APO Arts Academy, where during her final year she was the recipient of the 2016 Dance Scholarship. Highlights of her time at WAAPA include performing her self devised cabaret in the Julie Michael Musical Cabaret competition, playing the southern belle Susan in Stephen Sondheim’s Company and playing Shirley Hastings in the Australian classic Strictly Ballroom the Musical. Tahra teaches in Dandenong North, Brunswick, and online and can be contacted at tahra@iannisbet.com |
Akansha Hungenahally
Associate Coach (she/her) $42.50/half-hour (inc GST) WWCC 1476291A |
Akansha is a singer, actor, activist, and song-writer with a passion for diverse storytelling in Australian musical theatre. Akansha has been singing since age 7, beginning her training in North Indian Classical Singing and adopting Western styles of singing at the age of 12. She completed her Bachelor of Music Theatre at Federation University’s Arts Academy in 2019, and her Arts Academy credits include Moira (Number 3) in The Sovereign Wife, Bird Girl Understudy in Seussical, New Wave Girl in Heathers, and The Green Witch in the self-devised student cabaret Villains. Since graduating Akansha is proud to have featured in the award-winning musical short film Suddenly, and the Greenroom-nominated 2020 video phenomenon "I Need You To See Me" by Vidya Makan, alongside 100 other emerging performers of colour. When not performing Akansha has enjoyed teaching singing for over a year, and writing her own cabaret with original songs which will be performed in late 2021. Akansha teaches in Brunswick and online and can be contacted at akansha@iannisbet.com |
Industry Coach
Benjamin Colley
Industry Coach (he/him) $42.50/half-hour (inc GST) WWCC 1329018A |
Benjamin is an alumnus of the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). He made his professional debut with the Australian Shakespeare Company as Otter in The Wind in the Willows. Other professional credits include Treasure Hunt with Echelon Productions and Romeo and Juliet with Melbourne Shakespeare Company; as well as music directing MSC’s Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Taming of the Shrew. Most recently he appeared in the 40th anniversary production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the Australian national tour of Shrek the Musical, and the South Korean tour of Cats. Ben teaches online and can be contacted at benjamin@iannisbet.com |
