Producer - Talisa Pariss-Proby

Over the course of an almost twenty year career in the arts, Talisa has developed a foundation of unique experience in arts education, management and programming, with a heart for seeing powerful storytelling embolden the creative and diverse voices of young artists, impacting audiences for a lifetime. She has developed and managed theatre programs in multiple leading schools across South-East Queensland - developing original works, producing over one hundred and fifty stage works with hundreds of students of all ages, conducting weekly classes, popular theatre workshops and screen acting expert intensives and managing large teams of teaching artists. She has headed up multiple in-school Speech, Drama and Communication programs under the banner of her company The Louder Voice Co. (an affiliate of the Creative Brisbane Collab), voice lectures on a locum basis for the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting) at JMC Academy, coached local and international speakers and actors in voice training and acting craft, and has worked with multiple arts organisations around QLD and NSW to deliver eisteddfods and play festivals to support the next generation of young artists.

Talisa currently sits on the Board of the English Speaking Union (Queensland Branch), co-coordinating their state-wide Public Speaking Competition which runs in North Queensland, the Darling Downs and South-East Queensland, ensuring students from rural and regional areas have access to development opportunities for public speaking. She also sits on both the development and judging teams for their national literary award, The Roly Sussex Short Story Competition, celebrating writers from all over Australia. Talisa has also sat on the Committee for the state representative body for performing arts educators, the Communication, Speech and Performance Teachers Association (CSPT Inc), overseeing their Barbara Sisley Awards at Parliament House that celebrated students who topped the state in their performance examinations, co-edited their teaching publication The Quarterly Voice, and guest lecturing for their state-wide conferences.

She holds a Bachelor of Journalism/ Bachelor of Arts (UQ), an Associate Diploma of Performance Teaching (AMEB) and an Associate Diploma of Performance (Trinity College of London). With expertise in acting and voice craft, developing performing arts curriculums, neurodivergence in creative classrooms and developing performing arts education programs, Talisa has forged a career with young artists at the centre.