Brea Macey

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Brea Macey is a multi-disciplinary artist working across writing, directing, producing, and acting. A graduate of Actors Centre Australia (2023), Brea’s performance work has received significant critical attention. In 2025, she was praised for her titular role in Ophelia Thinks Harder (Fingerless Theatre – KXT), with reviewers noting her “commanding stage presence” and “sharp emotional nuance.” Her self-directed, one-woman play, A Thing of Hope, swept the 2024 Short+Sweet Sydney Festival with six awards including Best Actor, while the nationally-touted cabaret she featured in, Noel and Gertie, Down and Dirty (2024) earned the Adelaide Fringe Critics Circle Award. Additional credits include the Cannes-screened feature film From All Sides (dir. Bina Bhattacharya - Gemme de la Femme Pictures), Peking Duk Music Videos The Paradise Films ( dir. Omen Trevor - Rabbit Productions), Penpals (Qtopia – The Little Big Theatre Co.), The House of Bernarda Alba (FranticMuse – FlowSpace), and the drag-cabaret Shakespeare performance at Senseless and Fitz (The Old Fitz). She is currently performing as Portia in the original musical Omen: Shakespeare’s Women by Jocelyn Moen. She is the co-founder of Harvey Family Co., a Sydney-based production company that produced the acclaimed Harvey Comedy club — one of the city’s most talked-about independent comedy nights throughout 2024 — and is now developing a slate of original short films. Since graduating, Brea has produced and directed a wide variety of cabarets and independent theatre all across Sydney. As a director, most recently helming Traffic Light Party, an original work premiering at the 2025 Sydney Fringe. She also serves as Assistant Production Manager on We Aren’t Kids Anymore (Little Big Theatre Co.).