CV
2025
NGAMBAA by Amelia Jean O’Leary presented at Abbotsford Convent as part of Melbourne/ Deadly Fringe, October 2025
Published a short closet drama: MUM A QUEER PHONE CALL
Created sound for Carmen Yih’s ‘How to Disappoint a God.’
Choreographed for NASAC’s 30th anniversary celebration dances, September 2025
DHARIWAA YULUGI EVENT AUGUST 2025: Created and performed new work in-development
GENERATION WTF, along side TO-GATHER collective and guest artsits performances
Together Residency in Geelong April & August
En Masse, RAWCUS, choreographer March
SAD EYES by Amelia Jean O’Leary presented at Dancehouse March
Peggy Sue presented in Yirramboi by Melbourne Theatre Company Deadly Creatives Program. Writer and sound designer: Amelia Jean O’Leary
Movement Consultant for Dirty Pennies Theatre, ‘Our Monster's Name is Jeryy,’ Feb 2025.
‘CODED: A NIGHT OF QUEER STORYTELLING,’ January 2025 at Abbotsford as part of Midsumma O’Leary presnted her own tripple bill, including three-fifteen minute new dance works, ‘CODED,’ ‘NGAMBAA’ and ‘I LOVE YOU.’
Chunky Move teaching artist, 2025.
2024
Trainee at The Australian Ballet in the Education and Outreach team June 2024-December 2024.
Performed ‘From the Gadhu’ The Australian Ballet ‘s education show; choreographed by Ella Havelke 2024.
Performed ‘Cello Dance’ in Sydney Fringe 2024 choreographed by Ella Havelka.
TOGETHER development residency in collaboration with Karlia Cook, Danni Cook and Bella Waru; at Australian Dance Theatre June 2024
Developed a new work CODED for the Queer Development Program by Performance Space in Sydney May 2024.
Nominated for a Breaking Ground Dance, Green Room Award for her work STAUNCH ASF, 2024
Movement consultant for Melbourne Theatre Company’s new work World Problems, 2024
Invited to Vancouver hosted by Raven Spirit dance company to attend Matriarchs Uprising, 2024
Guest teacher for Melbounre Theatre Company’s Youth Programs , 2024
SAD EYES development and showing at Lucy Guerin Inc January 2024.
Chunky Move teaching artist, 2024.
2023
Curated and performed in her own 'Now Pieces' at Dancehouse, 2023
Awarded the Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Indigenous Artist Award 2023 for STAUNCH ASF
STAUNCH ASF presented in Melbourne Fringe 2023 performed at the Meat Market as part of Deadly Fringe's Blak Lodge.
Against the Wind, an Immersive Meditation on Country, 2023
By Jody Haines, Choreographed by Amelia O'Leary
Yirramboi Chunky Move teaching artist, 2023
ONE DAY by Melbourne Theatre Company’s First Nations Young Artist program, presented in
Yirramboi festivals 2023. Choreographer.
Ngali/Richmond fashion show performance. Choreographer March 2023.
A Certain Mumble by Amelia O’Leary
Presented in Frame Dance Festival 2023, supported by Darebin Speakeasy program.
Dancer, choreographer and soundscape artist
2022
Garabari by Joel Bray, presented by Chunky Move and Joel Bray Dance
1-10 Dec at Arts House
Collision by Jo Lloyd presented at Junction Arts Festival 2022
Yinarr performed in Dancehouse Season 2, 2022.
A Certain Mumble development supported by LGI through a studio residency at WXYZ Studios.
Multitude by Tamara Cubas
Participant in Risings Festivals Multitude by Cubas
Yinarr the Film, Presented in the Wyndham Art Gallery 2022.
Selected as a finalist in the Wyndham Art Festival.
Yinarr by O'Leary, 2022
O'Leary's first full length work, Adelaide Fringe 2022.
2021
WAX by Daniel Riley, 2021
As part of Atlas | gadhaba kurrawan. VCA 2021 graduate season.
Chapter Seven by Danielle Micich, 2021
As part of Atlas | gadhaba kurrawan. VCA 2021 graduate season.
Victorian College of the Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance), 2019-2021
Studying Contemporary dance with subjects such as improvisation, dance lineages, choreographic skills, career planning and classical ballet.
10 degrees created by VCA dance students, 2021
Yinarr by Amelia O’Leary presented in Dance (Lens) Festival, running from 29 July—29 August 2021
Awarded Best Editing Award for No Correct Way from Mudfest 2021
No Correct Way Presented in Mudfest 5-13 August 2021
Dance North Secondment Participant 2021
Boonwurrung Ngargee
Engaged as Workshop Assistant, Mentor and Performer working with program participants developing their own original content for learning and performance
Evoke by Evocative Feminine Architecture (Amelia O’Leary, Molly Mckenzie and Gabrielle Fallon) 2021.
Performed at Out of Bounds presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and Phillip Adams BalletLab, 2021.
Yinarr 2021 by Amelia O’Leary
Performed at Out of Bounds presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and Phillip Adams BalletLab 2021
Spotlight on Shadows by Shinjita Roy as part of The National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial Extra 2021. Performer in Spotlight on Shadows
2020
an episode of inconveniences by Amelia O’Leary and Molly McKenzie
Original short Film created as part of Student Works 2020
Two Rooms Directed by Gilda Jones, 2020
Choreographer and dancer for Graduate Student film Two Rooms
WOW by Alice Dixon and Caroline Meaden, 2020
Dancer in WOW, VCA Second Year’s end of year performance season
Nuti by Meryl Tankard, 2020
Dancer in the VCA Second Year’s remount of Nuti
Micro Toxic, 2020
Original short Film created as part of Independent Contract 2020
Yinarr, 2020
Successful in receiving a Resilience in Isolation grant through YIRRAMBOI FESTIVAL to develop a 5 minute video content of original solo dance piece
After Time, 2020
Created a short dance film including all sound, editing and performance
Drmngnow’s Survive, 2020
Performer/Dancer in music video
2019
Crunchy, 2019
Original creation and presentation for Victorian College of the Arts Student Works
Melbourne Theatre Company’s First Peoples Young Artists Program, 2019-2022
Engaged as Workshop Assistant, Mentor and Performer working with program participants developing their own original content for learning and performance
The Object Is the Sound by Anna Smith, 2019
As performer in Victorian College of the Arts Four Directions series
Tanderrum 2019
Performer in opening presentation of Melbourne International Arts Festival
Yinarr, 2019
Creation and public presentation of an original dance piece, including video projections, for The Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development’s Fan the Flames as a part of the Deadly Fringe Festival
Dance Training and Awards
Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Indigenous Artist Award 2023 for STAUNCH ASF.
Insight Intensive Force Majeure November 2024
Victorian College of the Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts Dance 2019-2021
Awarded the Choreographic Grant Scholarship from the Victorian College of the Arts 2021
Awarded Best Editing Award for No Correct Way from Mudfest 2021
Melbourne Theatre Company's Indigenous Scholarship program 2017
Dance Network 2010-2017
2025
NGAMBAA by Amelia Jean O’Leary presented at Abbotsford Convent as part of Melbourne/ Deadly Fringe, October 2025
Published a short closet drama: MUM A QUEER PHONE CALL
Created sound for Carmen Yih’s ‘How to Disappoint a God.’
Choreographed for NASAC’s 30th anniversary celebration dances, September 2025
DHARIWAA YULUGI EVENT AUGUST 2025: Created and performed new work in-development
GENERATION WTF, along side TO-GATHER collective and guest artsits performances
Together Residency in Geelong April & August
En Masse, RAWCUS, choreographer March
SAD EYES by Amelia Jean O’Leary presented at Dancehouse March
Peggy Sue presented in Yirramboi by Melbourne Theatre Company Deadly Creatives Program. Writer and sound designer: Amelia Jean O’Leary
Movement Consultant for Dirty Pennies Theatre, ‘Our Monster's Name is Jeryy,’ Feb 2025.
‘CODED: A NIGHT OF QUEER STORYTELLING,’ January 2025 at Abbotsford as part of Midsumma O’Leary presnted her own tripple bill, including three-fifteen minute new dance works, ‘CODED,’ ‘NGAMBAA’ and ‘I LOVE YOU.’
Chunky Move teaching artist, 2025.
2024
Trainee at The Australian Ballet in the Education and Outreach team June 2024-December 2024.
Performed ‘From the Gadhu’ The Australian Ballet ‘s education show; choreographed by Ella Havelke 2024.
Performed ‘Cello Dance’ in Sydney Fringe 2024 choreographed by Ella Havelka.
TOGETHER development residency in collaboration with Karlia Cook, Danni Cook and Bella Waru; at Australian Dance Theatre June 2024
Developed a new work CODED for the Queer Development Program by Performance Space in Sydney May 2024.
Nominated for a Breaking Ground Dance, Green Room Award for her work STAUNCH ASF, 2024
Movement consultant for Melbourne Theatre Company’s new work World Problems, 2024
Invited to Vancouver hosted by Raven Spirit dance company to attend Matriarchs Uprising, 2024
Guest teacher for Melbounre Theatre Company’s Youth Programs , 2024
SAD EYES development and showing at Lucy Guerin Inc January 2024.
Chunky Move teaching artist, 2024.
2023
Curated and performed in her own 'Now Pieces' at Dancehouse, 2023
Awarded the Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Indigenous Artist Award 2023 for STAUNCH ASF
STAUNCH ASF presented in Melbourne Fringe 2023 performed at the Meat Market as part of Deadly Fringe's Blak Lodge.
Against the Wind, an Immersive Meditation on Country, 2023
By Jody Haines, Choreographed by Amelia O'Leary
Yirramboi Chunky Move teaching artist, 2023
ONE DAY by Melbourne Theatre Company’s First Nations Young Artist program, presented in
Yirramboi festivals 2023. Choreographer.
Ngali/Richmond fashion show performance. Choreographer March 2023.
A Certain Mumble by Amelia O’Leary
Presented in Frame Dance Festival 2023, supported by Darebin Speakeasy program.
Dancer, choreographer and soundscape artist
2022
Garabari by Joel Bray, presented by Chunky Move and Joel Bray Dance
1-10 Dec at Arts House
Collision by Jo Lloyd presented at Junction Arts Festival 2022
Yinarr performed in Dancehouse Season 2, 2022.
A Certain Mumble development supported by LGI through a studio residency at WXYZ Studios.
Multitude by Tamara Cubas
Participant in Risings Festivals Multitude by Cubas
Yinarr the Film, Presented in the Wyndham Art Gallery 2022.
Selected as a finalist in the Wyndham Art Festival.
Yinarr by O'Leary, 2022
O'Leary's first full length work, Adelaide Fringe 2022.
2021
WAX by Daniel Riley, 2021
As part of Atlas | gadhaba kurrawan. VCA 2021 graduate season.
Chapter Seven by Danielle Micich, 2021
As part of Atlas | gadhaba kurrawan. VCA 2021 graduate season.
Victorian College of the Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance), 2019-2021
Studying Contemporary dance with subjects such as improvisation, dance lineages, choreographic skills, career planning and classical ballet.
10 degrees created by VCA dance students, 2021
Yinarr by Amelia O’Leary presented in Dance (Lens) Festival, running from 29 July—29 August 2021
Awarded Best Editing Award for No Correct Way from Mudfest 2021
No Correct Way Presented in Mudfest 5-13 August 2021
Dance North Secondment Participant 2021
Boonwurrung Ngargee
Engaged as Workshop Assistant, Mentor and Performer working with program participants developing their own original content for learning and performance
Evoke by Evocative Feminine Architecture (Amelia O’Leary, Molly Mckenzie and Gabrielle Fallon) 2021.
Performed at Out of Bounds presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and Phillip Adams BalletLab, 2021.
Yinarr 2021 by Amelia O’Leary
Performed at Out of Bounds presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and Phillip Adams BalletLab 2021
Spotlight on Shadows by Shinjita Roy as part of The National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial Extra 2021. Performer in Spotlight on Shadows
2020
an episode of inconveniences by Amelia O’Leary and Molly McKenzie
Original short Film created as part of Student Works 2020
Two Rooms Directed by Gilda Jones, 2020
Choreographer and dancer for Graduate Student film Two Rooms
WOW by Alice Dixon and Caroline Meaden, 2020
Dancer in WOW, VCA Second Year’s end of year performance season
Nuti by Meryl Tankard, 2020
Dancer in the VCA Second Year’s remount of Nuti
Micro Toxic, 2020
Original short Film created as part of Independent Contract 2020
Yinarr, 2020
Successful in receiving a Resilience in Isolation grant through YIRRAMBOI FESTIVAL to develop a 5 minute video content of original solo dance piece
After Time, 2020
Created a short dance film including all sound, editing and performance
Drmngnow’s Survive, 2020
Performer/Dancer in music video
2019
Crunchy, 2019
Original creation and presentation for Victorian College of the Arts Student Works
Melbourne Theatre Company’s First Peoples Young Artists Program, 2019-2022
Engaged as Workshop Assistant, Mentor and Performer working with program participants developing their own original content for learning and performance
The Object Is the Sound by Anna Smith, 2019
As performer in Victorian College of the Arts Four Directions series
Tanderrum 2019
Performer in opening presentation of Melbourne International Arts Festival
Yinarr, 2019
Creation and public presentation of an original dance piece, including video projections, for The Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development’s Fan the Flames as a part of the Deadly Fringe Festival
Dance Training and Awards
Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Indigenous Artist Award 2023 for STAUNCH ASF.
Insight Intensive Force Majeure November 2024
Victorian College of the Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts Dance 2019-2021
Awarded the Choreographic Grant Scholarship from the Victorian College of the Arts 2021
Awarded Best Editing Award for No Correct Way from Mudfest 2021
Melbourne Theatre Company's Indigenous Scholarship program 2017
Dance Network 2010-2017