Andrea Moor is an actor based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She is known for with roles in theatre, film and television. She is also a stage director and coordinator of actor training at QUT (Queensland University of Technology).

Early career to mid-2000s

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Moor was born in Melbourne,[1] raised in Queensland and moved to Sydney in 1979. At 19 she travelled to London to study at East 15 and returned to Sydney after a year. She enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and graduated in 1985.[2]

She appeared in productions by all the major Sydney theatre companies including, Sydney Theatre Company, Ensemble Theatre, Stables Theatre, Marion Street Theatre and Belvoir. She travelled to England with the Sydney Theatre Company production of David Williamson's play Emerald City.[3]

Moor was also appearing in films and on television including 59 episodes in the series Heartbreak High. She was also at times listed as Andrea Moore.[4]

Career

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Moor's parents were residents of Brisbane, and following her father's death she moved back to Brisbane with her family to be closer to her mother.[1]

She subsequently appeared in many productions for Brisbane-based theatre companies La Boite and Queensland Theatre Company.[3]

While continuing as an actor Moor moved into directing from 2007 as an assistant director. In late 2008 she had her first role as director with the production of Beautiful at the Loft. She directed plays for the Queensland Theatre Company and in 2014-2015 was appointed a Resident Director – a joint position with Jason Klarwein. The role included "working on a range of projects from mainstage productions to works in development, youth programs and repertoire meetings."[5] For the second half of 2015 Moor's role moved to being Artistic Associate.[5] Of the role of director Moor said, "While I love directing, and still find it incredibly challenging, at my heart I'm an actor."[1]

Teaching

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Moor had studied at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City, the acting school founded by David Mamet and William H Macy, which uses a technique known as Practical Aesthetics, the Atlantic Technique.[6]

Moor introduced this technique to Australia in 1994 and in 1998 she together with Melissa Bruder established “the official Sydney Annex of the NYC.”[7] She has run workshops on the technique at NIDA, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and Practical Aesthetics Australia (PAA) and in group settings.[8]

She had been offered teaching roles in institutions but wanted to investigate further on techniques to teach acting. In 2013 she was awarded her PhD as a Doctorate of Creative Industries.[9] Her thesis was entitled "Contemporary Actor Training in Australia: A comparative survey of the efficacy of the acting methodologies implemented at four leading Australian actor-training institutions - National Institute of Dramatic Art, Queensland University of Technology, Victorian College of the Arts, and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts."[10] She then accepted a five-year role as senior lecturer and head of acting at Queensland University of Technology.[1][11]

Moor describes her career as "reinventing myself or adding strings to my bow just in order to survive."[9] She said that the combination of acting, directing and teaching will not lead to a secure financial future where she would have sufficient money to retire while a permanent teaching position offers more financial stability. Her studies had the unexpected advantage of giving her greater insight into her own work as an actor and director.[9] She is on the boards of Queensland Theatre (formerly Queensland Theatre Company)[12] and Metro Arts.[13]

In 2014 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship. In her submission she wrote, "The purpose of this fellowship was to enlighten me as to current theatre practice in with particular focus on the work of outstanding female theatre directors, in order to enrich and challenge my own practice as theatre director and provide a benchmark for reflection of my own practice."[14]

Review acting

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Maureen Strugnell in a review in Stage Diary wrote of Moor's performance in Vincent in Brixton as the mother of Vincent Van Gogh,

Andrea Moor is compelling in this role, suggesting by everything she does the effort that it takes to keep on functioning in a world that has lost all meaning. Whether she is rushing manically about the kitchen as in the opening scene, or moving with achingly painful slowness as the depression takes hold again, we watch fascinated. When she sits still, head in hands, she personifies despair and prefigures later portraits by Van Gogh of sorrowing women.[15]

Awards

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2005 nominated Matilda Awards The Actors' Workshop Awards for Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role : Vincent in Brixton
2007 nominated Matilda Awards Best Actress : Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2008 nominated Matilda Awards Best Actress in a Lead Role : The Narcissist
2009 winner Matilda Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role : The Crucible
2013 winner Gold Matilda Award for directing Venus in Fur
2013 nominated Matilda Awards Best Director Venus in Fur
2015 nominated Matilda Awards Best Director : Grounded
2016 winner Matilda Awards Best Female Actor : Switzerland

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Personal life

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Moor lives in Ashgrove Brisbane with her husband and their teenage daughter Bella.[1]

Theatre (selected)

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As actor

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Year Title Venue
1984 (NIDA Training) Holiday Makers NIDA Theatre
1984 (NIDA Training) All's Well That Ends Well NIDA Theatre
1985 (NIDA Training) Chamber Music NIDA Theatre
1985 (NIDA Training) The Greeks Play 1 The War Parade Theatre
1985 (NIDA Training) Once in a Lifetime Parade Theatre
1986 Away Stables Theatre
1986 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Wharf Theatre
1986-87 Emerald City Sydney Opera House, Playhouse Adelaide, Canberra Theatre Centre
1987 Woman in Mind Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
1987-88 Emerald City Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
1988 The Game of Love and Chance Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1988 An Ideal Husband Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1988 Emerald City Lyric Theatre, Charing Cross, London with Sydney Theatre Company
1990 Siren Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1990 Crystal Clear Universal Theatre
1991 Witchplay Stables Theatre
1992 A Little Like Drowning Belvoir Street Theatre
1993 The Old Boy Ensemble Theatre
1993 Titus Andronicus Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1993 The Newspaper of Claremont Street Marian Street Theatre
1993 The Visit Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
1994 Furious The Space, Adelaide, Malthouse Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1994 The Gun in History Stables Theatre (Griffin Theatre Company)
1993 Barefoot Stables Theatre (Griffin Theatre Company)
1994 Flame Stables Theatre (Griffin Theatre Company)
1995 The Ninth Step Ensemble Theatre
1995 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Belvoir Street Theatre
1996 The Family Ensemble Theatre
2001 Borderlines Stables Theatre (Griffin Theatre Company)
2004 Myth Propaganda and Disaster Stables Theatre (Griffin Theatre Company)
2005 Vincent in Brixton Cremorne Theatre with Queensland Theatre Company
2005 Bitin' Back Cremorne Theatre with Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts
2006 Absurd Person Singular Cremorne Theatre with Queensland Theatre Company
2007 The Narcissist Roundhouse Theatre with La Boite Theatre Company
2007 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Cremorne Theatre with Queensland Theatre Company
2008 The Narcissist Roundhouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Jetty Memorial Theatre Coffs Harbour with La Boite Theatre Company
2009 The Crucible Playhouse, South Bank with Queensland Theatre Company
2010 Let the Sunshine Cremorne Theatre with Queensland Theatre Company
2010 Tender Sue Benner Theatre (and Moor Theatre)
2011 An Oak Tree Bille Brown Studio with Queensland Theatre Company
2011 Pygmalion Playhouse, South Bank with Queensland Theatre Company
2012 Romeo & Juliet Playhouse, South Bank with Queensland Theatre Company
2013 Design for Living Playhouse, South Bank with Queensland Theatre Company
2016 Switzerland Bille Brown Studio with Queensland Theatre Company

As director

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Year Title Role Venue
2007 Red Cap Assistant Director Roundhouse Theatre with La Boite Theatre Company
2008 The Ghost Writer Director Metro Arts Theatre (and Moor Theatre)
2008 Heroes Assistant Director Playhouse Canberra; Lismore City Hall with Queensland Theatre Company
2008 Beautiful Director The Loft, Kelvin Grove (and Moor Theatre)
2009 My Night with Harold Director Metro Arts Warehouse, Brisbane
2009 The Tempest USQ
2010 Tender Director & Actor Metro Arts Warehouse, Brisbane (and moor theatre)
2011 Water Falling Down Director Cremorne Theatre with Queensland Theatre Company
2012 Intimacy Director JUTE Theatre, Cairns
2013 Venus in Fur Director Cremorne Theatre with Queensland Theatre Company
2014 Australia Day Director Playhouse, South Brisbane with Queensland Theatre Company
2015 Boston Marriage Director Queensland tour with Queensland Theatre Company
2015 Grounded Director Diane Cilento Studio with Queensland Theatre Company
2016 Boston Marriage Director Queensland tour with Queensland Theatre Company

Filmography

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Film

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Title Year Role Type
1987 Travelling North Joan Feature film
1992 Over the Hill Jan (as Andrea Moore) Feature film
1993 Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship Maria (as Andrea Moore) Film short
1996 Shooting the Breeze Greta Film short
1997 Oscar and Lucinda Miss Shaddock Feature film
1999 Strange Planet Dating Agency Woman Feature film
2001 The Man Who Sued God Maxine Jeffrey Feature film
2005 Cool Nurse Josephine Film short
2008 Bitter & Twisted Pauline Praline (as Andrea Moore) Feature film
2009 Subdivision Woman (as Andrea Moore) Feature film
2010 Life Mother Film short
2012 Mental Barry Supporter Feature film
2013 Return to Nim's Island Minister O'Hare Feature film
2018 Follow My Way Genevieve Film short
2018 Road Train Victoria Film short
2022 Elvis Nurse Trish Feature film
2022 Mistletoe Ranch Ivy Feature film
2023 A Royal In Paradise Queen Patricia Feature film

Television

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Title Year Role Type
1987 Army Wives Ros TV film
1988; 1992 A Country Practice Christine Warner TV series, 2 episodes
1991; 1992 The Flying Doctors Teacher TV series, 1 episode
1991 Sex Doctor TV special
1992 A Country Practice Sarah Wild (as Andrea Moore) TV series, 2 episodes
1992 The Flying Doctors Jane McLaughlin TV series, season 9, 1 episode
1992 The Distant Home Forbes (as Andrea Moore) TV film
1993 G.P. Marilyn Delaney TV series, 1 episode
1994–99 Heartbreak High Di Barnett / Greta Stewart TV series, 59 episodes
1995 Good Morning Australia Guest TV series, 1 episode
1999 Water Rats Priscilla Conway TV series, 1 episode
1999 Airtight Elsa Conrad TV film
1999; 2003 All Saints Liz Thomas TV series, 2 episodes
2002 White Collar Blue Dr. Andrews (as Andrea Moore) TV series, 1 episode
2002; 2005 Home and Away Anna McMann TV series, 1 episode
2003 All Saints Alana Devlin TV series, 1 episode
2004 The Movie Show Herself TV series, 1 episode
2005 Home and Away Mrs McPhee TV series, 1 episode
2006 Mortified Miss Barnett (as Andrea Moor) TV series, 1 episode
2006–07 H2O: Just Add Water Mrs Geddes TV series, 3 episodes
2018 Safe Harbour AFP Officer Matera TV miniseries, 2 episodes
2020 The End Dr. Charters TV series, 1 episode
2021 Harrow Pat Vale TV series, 1 episode
2021 Sunshadow Meredith O'Toole / Eva Marinella Podcast series, 7 episodes
2022 True Colours Kristin / Katrin TV series, 2 episodes
2022 Darby and Joan Guest role: Gina TV series, episode 3
2022 Greenlit Jessica TV miniseries
2023 In Our Blood Guest role: Margaret TV series, 1 episode

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Actor rolls up sleeves for renovation work By Amanda Lucus". Courier Mail. 31 January 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  2. ^ "There's no place like home for actress Andrea Moor By Marie-Christine Sourris". Courier Mail. 12 June 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Andrea Moor". AusStage. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Andrea Moor Filmography". IMDb. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Queensland Theatre Company Annual Report pge. 38". Queensland Theatre Company. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Atlantic Acting School, About". Atlantic Acting School. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Practical Aesthetics Australia, About". Practical Aesthetics Australia. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  8. ^ "Practical Aesthetics with Angela Moor". Equity Foundation. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  9. ^ a b c "Doctors in the House Interview 38 Andrea Moor". Actors Green Room. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  10. ^ "Contemporary Actor Training in Australia Portfolio Thesis" (PDF). ePrints QUT. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  11. ^ "Dr Angela Moor". QUT. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  12. ^ "Board & Staff". Queensland Theatre. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  13. ^ "Metro Arts Board". Metro Arts. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  14. ^ "Andrea Moor Year of Award: 2014". Churchill Trust. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  15. ^ "Vincent in Brixton". Stage Diary. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  16. ^ "Matilda Awards Archive". Matilda Awards. Archived from the original on 7 February 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2017.