Ylaria Rogers

Ylaria is a Sydney based director, actor, dramaturge and producer. Ylaria has collaborated across Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, London, Vietnam, this includes working with The Street Theatre, Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centre, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, National Capital Orchestra, National Opera, The Hayes Theatre, Victorian College of the Arts, The Universe - Hanoi, and her own production companies, Heart Strings Theatre Co and Freefall Productions. Across these productions and companies, she has worked on a significant amount of new writing work as a director, actor, dramaturg, and more recently, writer. In early 2021 Ylaria founded Canberra’s first semi-professional musical theatre company, Heart Strings Theatre Co. Its debut was a sell-out season of Urinetown The Musical, in Canberra September 2022. This led to a sell-out production at The Hayes theatre in Sydney, January of 2023. This was followed by a critically acclaimed production of The Hello Girls in 2024. In 2020 she was selected for The Street’s Early Phase creative development program for her piece advocating to change society’s perception of those who have suffered childhood sexual abuse. The piece aims to destigmatize and release shame in talking about these events and empower the voice of the survivor. She received Arts ACT funding for We Are Not Alone’s development in 2022 and again in 2023 with Australian Cultural Fund support in 2024. It’s journey has been at the heart of Ylaria’s work as a developing artist.