Louise Brehmer

 

Louise Brehmer is a multi award winning actress, Voiceover artist, Clown, MC and teacher. She has been a professional improviser for more than twenty years and has twice represented Queensland in the National Theatresports Championships. She has used her improvisational skills to work for such companies as Theatresports QLD, Troupe Du Jour (Melbourne), Edge Improv, Sit Down Comedy Club, IZIT Entertainment and Interactive Theatre Australia.
 

Louise has worked extensively in Australian theatre and is a two time Matilda Award winning actress for her performances in Therese Raquin, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, for which she has also won a Del Artè Award. She has received a further five Del Artè awards for her outstanding performances in The Bitterling, The Miracle Worker, Lovejunk, Lions in the Streets, and Boy’s Life.
 

She has appeared in Film and Television productions such as A Heartbeat Away, Hildegard, Slide and Mabo, among others and is an accomplished Voice Over Artist and Professional Clown. She has worked as a Clown Doctor at The Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane since 2001, where the children, staff and families know her as Dr. Wobble.

Louise Brehmer is a graduate of the Acting Program at QUT and has trained with Shakespeare and Company (USA), Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, Society of Australian Fight Directors, DeBase, Angry Mime & NIDA Open Program.

 

Her theatre credits include Australia Day (Queensland Theatre Company), A Midsummer Night's Dream - Matilda Award Winner, Del Artè Award Winner (Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble), The Lost Property Rules (Queensland Theatre Company- QLD tour), Tall Man (Real TV/ La Mama Theatre Melbourne), Therese Raquin - Matilda Award Winner (Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre),"After All This" (Elbow Room/ Brisbane Festival), Tales of the Underground (Creative Regions- North QLD tour), Spring Awakening (Oscar Theatre Company), Secret Bridesmaids Business (Mixed Company), Cribbie (4MBS Classic FM), An Oak Tree (Queensland Theatre Company), What are the Odds? (JUTE Theatre Cairns), Richard The Third (QLD Shakespeare Ensemble), The Bitterling - Del Arte Award winner (La Boite Indie/ Pentimento Productions), The Miracle Worker - Matilda Award nomination, Del Arte Award winner (Crossbow Productions), Popping Lead Balloons (DeBase Productions- QLD & VIC tour), The Works 2009 - Taking Aim (Queensland Theatre Company), Children of the Black Skirt (Real TV - national tour), MicroTrip 2 (Dennehy&Thomas/Metro Arts), The Ghost Writer (...and moor theatre), Private Fears in Public Places (Queensland Theatre Company - NSW tour), Cooking with Elvis (Queensland Theatre Company - national tour), MoDD- Romeo & Juliet (Queensland Theatre Company), Summer Wonderland (La Boite Theatre Company), Crèche and Burn (La Boite Theatre Company - national tour), New Royal (Metro Arts/SOOB), Lovejunk- Del Arte Award winner (DeBase Productions), He Died with a Falafel in his Hand (Someone Productions/La Boite Theatre), The Greater Plague (Restaged Histories Project), The Comedy of Errors (Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble), Mrs Klein (Crossbow Productions), Anne of the Thousand Days (Crossbow Productions), The Pacific Solution (Brisbane Festival Theatre Fringe), Hermes and the Naked Flame (La Boite Theatre Company/QAC), Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations (rolling jaffa), The Man Who Sold The World (Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre - national tour), In No Particular Order (BDP), Or you can get out and walk! (Farrago Productions), Chicago (Forte Theatre - QLD tour), Amadeus, Witness for the Prosecution (Forte Theatre), Lion in the Streets- Del Arte Award Winner, The Cherry Orchard, Kakos, Romeo & Juliet, Boy's Life - Del Artè Award Winner, The Rover, Road (QUT). She has performed in public readings of new works including The Wiredancers' Waltz & Australian Gothic (National Playwrights Festival), Cigarettes and Chocolate (23rd Productions), The Bitterling, The Life of Hypatia, The Stiff, Harvest (QTC The Works),Faith (QLD Poetry Festival), Big Things (DeBase Productions), The Narcissist (La Boite/ Noosa Long Weekend Festival), Baited & The Critic (Duende/ Metro Arts Creative Development Season ), Hoods (Real TV/ NAADA), as well as new works in QTC's Young Playwrights Awards.