Calling all year 12 drama and music students!
Join our upcoming masterclasses for tools and tips to help you create a dynamic and engaging devised performance.
These dedicated masterclasses, specifically designed for HSC students, draw on the skills already developed within school settings. Students will be challenged and creatively stimulated by through the music and drama program. Our interactive masterclasses will help to illuminate some of the unknowns, with aim of preparing Year 12 students to get the most from their HSC examinations.
Dramatic art
Monologues and Group Devising
Thursday 9 July 2026
Session 1: 10am–11:45am
Lunch: 11:45am–12:30pm (lunch provided)
Session 2: 12:30pm – 2:30pm
Presenter: Rouba El Hage
Cost: $ 20.00
Music
Music performance
Thursday 16 July 2026
Session 1: 10am–11:45am
Lunch: 11:45am–12:30pm (lunch provided)
Session 2: 12:30pm–2:30pm
Presenters: Lotte Latukefu and Daniel Wilkes
Cost: $ 20.00
ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS
Rouba El Hage
Rouba El Hage is a Lebanese-born Australian theatre artist and educator who has lived in six countries, including a recent seven-year period in the United States. During that time, she completed a Master of Fine Arts in Directing and taught theatre at Florida State University and East Texas Baptist University. Rouba is passionate about theatre’s unique ability to make us laugh, reflect, and feel deeply, viewing it as a transformative space where the invisible is brought to life.
In addition to serving as Artistic Director of Quench Theatre on the Central Coast, Rouba has more than two decades of experience as a drama teacher. Her students have been recognised with selections for OnStage in both Group Performance and Costume Design.
Rouba has also contributed extensively as an HSC Drama marker, assessing Performance, Video Drama, and Costume Design. She served as a Senior marker for six of her twelve years examining Individual and Group Performances.
Rouba has extensively written, directed, performed in, and produced theatre since 2007. In 2021, she was awarded the SETC Leighton M Ballew Directing Scholarship and Cagebirds, a play she directed at East Texas Baptist University, was selected as an invited production at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in 2024.
Lotte Latukefu
Associate Professor Lotte holds a PhD in Music Education from the University of Wollongong, Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music (NY) and a Bachelor of Music from the ANU School of Music. Collaborative Learning in Music, in particularly singing, has been a particular research interest for Lotte for about seven years. In her PhD thesis she examined the work of Lev Vygotsky and socio-cultural theorists who have followed in order to address questions concerning the nature of learning singing in collaborative settings. Her thesis demonstrated that there is a rich resource of learning to be found in the way that students interact with each other and learn from each other. Forming a nexus to this research is her own creative practice as a mezzo-soprano.
Daniel Wilkes
Daniel Wilkes is a Sydney-based musician and creative leader with both a Bachelor and Master of Music from Excelsia University College. A passionate jazz musician and performer, Dan has performed throughout Australia and overseas, including appearances at the iconic Sydney Opera House alongside fellow Excelsia graduates and collaborators. Alongside an active performance career, Dan serves as Music Director at Pittwater Uniting Church, leading worship, mentoring musicians, and contributing to Sydney’s contemporary and church music communities through performance, direction and creative leadership.
“I can’t express how helpful your sessions were, I gained so much inspiration and insight from your teaching. Thank you very much for all your guidance.”
Rebecca
Participant in HSC ‘Onstage’ showcase
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