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Ylaria Rogers

Ylaria is a Canberra based director, actor, dramaturge and producer. Ylaria has collaborated across Sydney, Melbourne, London, and Vietnam, this includes working with The Street Theatre, Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centre, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, National Capital Orchestra, National Opera, The Hayes Theatre, Victorian College of the Arts, The Universe – Hanoi, and her own production companies, Heart Strings Theatre Co and Freefall Productions.

Earlier in 2026 she directed Well-Behaved Women for the Australian Musical Theatre Festival and appeared as Petruchia in Lakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Last year she had the joy of appearing as Cassie in Free Rain Theatre’s production of A Chorus Line.

In early 2021 Ylaria founded Canberra’s first semi-professional musical theatre company, Heart Strings Theatre Co. Its debut was a sell-out season of Urinetown The Musical, in Canberra September 2022. This led to a sell-out production at The Hayes theatre in Sydney, January of 2023. This was followed by a critically acclaimed production of The Hello Girls in 2024. In 2020, she was selected for The Street’s Early Phase creative development program for her piece advocating to change society’s perception of those who have suffered childhood sexual abuse. The piece aims to destigmatise and release shame in talking about these events and empower the voice of the survivor.

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