Andrea Moor

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 Moor was born in Melbourne, 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.

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.

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.

Career 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. For the second half of 2015 Moor's role moved to being Artistic Associate.

Moor introduced this technique to Australia in 1994 and in 1998 she together with Melissa Bruder established “the official Sydney Annex of the NYC.” 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.

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. 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." She then accepted a five-year role as senior lecturer and head of acting at Queensland University of Technology.

Moor describes her career as "reinventing myself or adding strings to my bow just in order to survive." and Metro Arts.

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."

Review acting 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.

Awards 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

Personal life Moor lives in Ashgrove Brisbane with her husband and their teenage daughter Bella.

Theatre (selected)

As actor YearTitleVenue 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 YearTitleRoleVenue 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

Film 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