Jo-anne Sarre has worked in the Performing Arts sector as a freelance director, actor, storyteller, writer and educator since her four-year Speech and Drama training at The Harkness Studio, Sydney in 1986. She has a Diploma of Teaching (Primary 1980-1982), A Diploma of Creative Speech and Drama (The Harkness Studio in conjunction with The Goetheanum School of Spiritual Science 1983-1986) and First-Class Honours in Drama (Flinders University 2009). Other trainings include with MICHA in the US and various Michael Chekhov practitioners in the UK and Europe (1997-2009).
Jo-anne has performed in local, national and international arenas as an independent performing artist including as a freelance Storyteller, with the Aphaia Eurythmy Group (Poetry Recitation), and as an actor with Ink Pot Theatre, The Rose Theatre Company and Portal Productions UK (The Soul’s Awakening). During her career she has trained Steiner/Waldorf teachers across Australia (Rudolf Steiner College, Sheoak College), UK (Emerson College), NZ, Germany, India and China. This includes supporting teachers in their own artistic development in poetry recitation, storytelling, acting and directing as well as assisting in classrooms, directing plays etc., with both Primary and High School students. In 2016, she was also Assistant Voice Coach at Flinders University Drama Centre with Dawn Langman.
As co-founder of Ink Pot Theatre (professional touring company) and founding Artistic Director of Ink Pot Arts Inc (a Community Arts not-for-profit), she has been actively engaged in bringing high quality theatre as a catalyst for personal transformation and Community Cultural Development inspired out of Anthroposophy. From 2022 – 2025 she has led and developed The Parsifal Project, with its presentation/performance at the 100th Anniversary international conference of the Speech & Drama course in Dornach 2024, and with its culmination in the theatre performance season in April-May 2025 in the Adelaide hills, South Australia.
Jo-anne has performed in local, national and international arenas as an independent performing artist including as a freelance Storyteller, with the Aphaia Eurythmy Group (Poetry Recitation), and as an actor with Ink Pot Theatre, The Rose Theatre Company and Portal Productions UK (The Soul’s Awakening). During her career she has trained Steiner/Waldorf teachers across Australia (Rudolf Steiner College, Sheoak College), UK (Emerson College), NZ, Germany, India and China. This includes supporting teachers in their own artistic development in poetry recitation, storytelling, acting and directing as well as assisting in classrooms, directing plays etc., with both Primary and High School students. In 2016, she was also Assistant Voice Coach at Flinders University Drama Centre with Dawn Langman.
As co-founder of Ink Pot Theatre (professional touring company) and founding Artistic Director of Ink Pot Arts Inc (a Community Arts not-for-profit), she has been actively engaged in bringing high quality theatre as a catalyst for personal transformation and Community Cultural Development inspired out of Anthroposophy. From 2022 – 2025 she has led and developed The Parsifal Project, with its presentation/performance at the 100th Anniversary international conference of the Speech & Drama course in Dornach 2024, and with its culmination in the theatre performance season in April-May 2025 in the Adelaide hills, South Australia.
