Bronte Charlotte is a Naarm based performer, writer, director, dramaturg and producer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Since graduating in 2018 she has been working in different fields within the arts, writing and performing in her own award-nominated works alongside creating films, web series’ and podcasts.

Her first play, Pieces of Shit (dir. Nick Clark) , was nominated for 3x Green Room Awards (Independent Theatre: Best New Writing, Best Ensemble, Best Production). Co-written and performed together with Leigh Scully, Pieces of Shit had 3 seasons across 2022/23 in Melbourne and Brisbane. She has a new play, Clementine, which after participating in the La Mama Pathways program running in partnership with Australian Plays Transform (APT) in 2023, a creative residency at La Mama in 2025, she finally presented the piece as part of La Mama Explorations in 2026 and is heading towards a full season in 2027.

In 2022, Bronte finished principal photography on the Melbourne based independent feature film In The Meantime (dir. Nicholas Anthony) in the lead role, for which she was also casting and co-producing. This film is now available to watch on Amazon Prime. For Melbourne Fringe Festival ‘22 Bronte performed in Charlie Josephine’s Pops, directed Spinning Plates Co. award-nominated new play Shut Up I’m a Vampire, and was the dramaturg for Ellen Marning’s one woman show Nu-Disco! Bronte has collaborated with Marning on several pieces, including Strange Locutions for La Mama Explorations and the satirical sketch show Shticky Business for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival '22.

In 2020, Bronte released the first season of Chats with Creatives, a podcast she created as a platform for artists in creative spaces around the world to have conversations about all facets of living as creative humans, and sharing sustainable creative practices.

Bronte toured throughout regional Victoria with Complete Works Theatre Company in 2019, for which she played both Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Juliet in Romeo & Juliet (dir. Mark Wilson). She then ended the year with a production of Where’s My Money (dir. Beng Oh) with 7th Floor Theatre Company, completing a return season in February of 2020.

While studying at the VCA, Bronte performed on stage as Henry in Henry V (dir. Leith McPherson), Mrs. Antrobus in The Skin of our Teeth (dir. Dean Bryant), and Rev. Parris in The Crucible (dir. Adena Jacobs). Bronte travelled to the Shanghai Theatre Academy to take part in the Asia Pacific Bond Theatre Schools Festival and received the Pratt Bursary for Excellence in Acting in 2017.

Bronte is originally from Brisbane, Meanjin Country. She acknowledges the Turrbal People and that sovereignty was never ceded. She is a yoga teacher, has worked in the wine industry alongside the arts for several years, and is passionate about mental health and human rights. Bronte is an avid theatre goer, and aims to be making theatre that is provocative and charged with discussions surrounding personal, social and political issues.

Captured by Sarah Clarke Photography

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