Musical Theatre Instructors

Timothy Bowles

By the age of 18, when Tim was studying Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts, he had already worked in show business for more than 10 years. During that time, he had appeared in “The Sullivans” for Channel 9, “Prisoner” for Channel 10, and “The Twenty Good Years” and “Lawson’s Mates” for the ABC, as well as being a regular character-performer on “Young Talent Time”. After leaving V.C.A. to appear in the ABC serial, “Home”, Tim travelled to New York, where he studied and performed at the HB Studio, directed by Herbert Berghof and, for a series of workshops on “Hamlet”, Anthony Hopkins. Fellow-students at HB Studio included Kerry Armstrong and Alexander Bernstein. After Tim returned to Australia, he worked in children’s theatre and television in Sydney and Melbourne before moving to Perth. Tim has been a founding member of ‘Moving Images Performing Arts Company’ (1987 – 1990); ‘The Edge Creative Arts Community and Performing Group’ (1991 – 1997) and Scripture Union Performing Arts Department (1998-2000). Tim has had some time out of performing while raising a young family, but is returning to his acting and performing roots.

Cara Phillips (nee Sutcliffe)

Cara first started singing in public at the age of 5. By the age of 12 she had the lead role in an Operetta, and was asked to sing a duet at the Perth Concert Hall. Studying singing for ten years, starting in classical (five years) and then moving into jazz, Cara has performed with numerous musical groups, from Gaelic ensembles to operetta to musical theatre. In 2009 and 2010, Cara worked full time as a jazz and contemporary singer in China. Cara has also worked extensively in theatre (see bio under Acting Teachers.) Cara is looking forward more to working in musical theatre as an art form, and in encouraging others to do the same.

Mahalia Bowles

Mahalia Bowles grew up in a performing family, with her parents running a touring theatre company since the time of her birth. Mahalia started dancing at a young age at Michelle Babicci’s school. In the last five years Mahalia has developed a strong interest in Musical Theatre, performing in numerous shows professionally and in community theatre. In the last three years Mahalia has performed each school holidays in Musical Theatre shows at shopping centres around Perth, for Just Promotions. Mahalia has a great passions for Musical Theatre and for the arts in general.