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Ylaria Rogers

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

In early 2021 Ylaria founded Canberra’s first semi-professional theatre company, Heart Strings Theatre Co. Its debut was a sell-out season of Urinetown The Musical, in Canberra in September 2022. This led to a sell-out production at The Hayes Theatre in Sydney in January of 2023.

In 2020 she was selected for The Street’s Early Phase creative development program for her theatre piece advocating to change society’s perception of those who have suffered childhood sexual abuse. The piece aims to destigmatize and release shame in talking about these events, and empower the voice of the survivor. It’s journey has been at the heart of Ylaria’s work as a developing artist since 2020. 

She was last seen onstage at the Canberra Theatre Centre as Suzanne in Hello Girls (Heart Strings) and her favourite role to date was Fran in Strictly Ballroom (Philo). Her first amateur show was with Free-Rain Theatre and this will mark her 25th year working with the company.

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