Andrea Moor graduated from NIDA as an actor in 1985 and worked extensively in theatre, film, television, and radio in Australia and internationally. As a theatre director she has been both Resident Director and Artistic Associate at Queensland Theatre Company. Andrea has won many awards including London Monthly Best Actress, Edinburgh Fringe, 1991, the Gold Matilda for direction of Venus in Fur and the Matilda for Best Female Actor for Switzerland. Andrea holds the award of Doctor of Creative Industries, is the Associate Professor in Acting at QUT, and is an Intimacy Coordinator (IOS UK).
Andrea’s film credits include Spit, Elvis, A Royal in Paradise, Mistletoe Ranch, Return to Nim’s Island, Subdivision, Travelling North, Round the Bend, Oscar and Lucinda, Strange Planet, The Man Who Sued God, Bitter and Twisted and many award winning shorts.
Her television credits are extensive and include Deadloch, Troppo, In our Blood, Darby and Joan, True Colours, Harrow, Passion, All Saints, Flying Doctors, GP, Country Practice, H2O, Mortified and her on-going lead role as the School Principal in the original Heartbreak High series.
Theatre credits include: La Boite: Yoga Play (also performed at Riverside Theatre Sydney), The Narcissist; QTC: Family Values, Hedda, Switzerland, The Crucible, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff?, Vincent in Brixton, Let The Sunshine; STC: Siren, Emerald City, Games of Love and Chance, An Ideal Husband, The Visit, A Woman in Mind, The Narcissist (La Boite), A Map of the World, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Titus Andronicus; Griffin Theatre: Away, Witchplay, Passion, The Return, Kayak, Flame; Pork Chop: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Ensemble: The Ninth Step, The Old Boy, Diving for Pearls.
As a Director Andrea has worked for QT: Quartet, Grounded, Boston Marriage, Australia Day, Venus in Fur and Water Falling Down. Other directing credits include The Ladies, Detroit, 3 Winters, The Laramie Project (QUT), The Roaring Girl, Furious (NIDA), Intimacy (JUTE), Tender, Ghost Writer and Beautiful (…and moor theatre), Festen andTop Girls (WAAPA), The Tempest (USQ), Mad Forest and A Dream Play (NIDA Young Actor’s studio) and Lysistrata (QUT Performance Studies).
Andrea holds a doctorate in Creative Industries (QUT), is a NIDA Acting graduate and has studied at East 15 in London and The Atlantic Theatre Co in New York. Andrea is a Churchill Fellow and HEA fellow.