Hannah Wood

2010 - 2012

Actor and performer Hannah Wood specialises in theatre for young audiences, sharing stories with children and families across Australia and internationally. She studied Arts at the Australian National University, majoring in Drama and Japanese, and lived at John XXIII College from 2010 to 2012. During her time at Johns she was deeply involved in the College’s cultural life, performing in every college play and representing the College at Interhall Battle of the Bands and TheatreSports. As Cultural Representative for the Residents Association, she also directed a production of California Suite, one of the highlights of her time at college.

After leaving Canberra, Hannah continued her training at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), completing studies in Musical Theatre in 2015. Over the past decade she has worked as a professional actor, specialising in theatre for young audiences. She has toured extensively with multiple theatre companies across Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Dubai, performing to almost 100,000 children through productions designed to spark imagination and creativity. Most recently, she toured nationally in The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show with CDP Theatre Producers.

Alongside her theatre work, Hannah spent almost ten years as a Captain Starlight with the Starlight Children’s Foundation at Westmead Children’s Hospital, helping bring joy and creativity to seriously ill children and young people. She is now based in Aotearoa/New Zealand, continuing her work as a performer and touring artist.

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"As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us - a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live."

- Jim Henson

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