Laine Loxlea-Danann

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Laine Loxlea-Danann has an absolute passion for music, theatre, and art. Performance is Laine’s motivating force that has propelled her successful career and keeps her inspired. She is currently enrolled in a Doctor of Musical Arts at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University. She holds the qualifications of Master of Music Studies – Vocal Pedagogy Strand majoring in Contemporary Voice, a Graduate Certificate in Performance and a Diploma of Music majoring in Voice, and a second study in Composition. She has a Double Diploma in Vocational Education and Training and Training Design and Development and Cert IV in Training and Assessing. Laine is the Head of Curriculum and Operation and the Head of Singing at the Brisbane Academy of Musical Theatre (BAMT) designing and writing the Vocational Education and Training curriculum and teaches theoretical Musical Theatre studies and Voice and Singing. Laine has taught at tertiary level as a singing and voice teacher for the Popular Music, the Musical Theatre, Under-Grad Jazz and the Post-Grad Vocal Pedagogy Department at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University. Laine has completed an internship in Theatre Practices and Stagecraft in the Conservatorium Opera School under the tutorage of Guiseppe Sorbello and has completed 2 years Sustainable Arts Business training with Briz Arts Makers at the Metro Arts. In the past, Laine has had the pleasure of being the Head of Music at the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) for 2 years as well as Music Genre Coordinator at ACPA for many years before that. She is well known throughout Brisbane and Queensland as a Singer, Actress, Performer, Theatre Maker, Teacher, Music Entrepreneur, Producer, Musical Director, and Composer. Her recent success includes originating the role of Bernadette Peanut in the new musical Misfits Schools of Arts, her original one-woman show Critical Last Chance Years, winning the critics award for The Gin and Sin Jazz Salon- Anywhere Theatre Festival, and the RADF grand funded Cabaret The Clints Come Again. Laine’s eclectic career as a professional has included everything from Opera to Jazz to Musical Theatre, however, her favorite style is intimate cabaret, performing her own compositions. Some of Laine’s credits include Danse Noir performed at the Judith Wright Centre, VoxOnyx performed at the Brisbane Powerhouse Visy Theatre, Fused for the QMF performed at the Brisbane Powerhouse and her own productions A Blind Date with a Diva and Other Shenanigan, Critical Last Chance Years original one-woman cabarets performed at the Arts Centre Gold Coast, and The Retro Bar, Artist in Residence Project in Cairns for Musica Viva, Musical Direction for Soul Music/Souls Entwined performed at QPAC and Q150 Shed Tour performing with her female a cappella ensemble Paisley Lane. Past credits include a sold-out season of her one-woman show Quintessential Songs of the Naffy Twee, The Clints Come Again and the award-winning Gin and Sin Jazz Salon, The TV show Forensic Investigators, the short films Summer Camp, Yoke, and Carpool working alongside famous Australian actress Kerry Armstrong, fictitious Opera starlet Esmeralda Walschtang in the Limelight Revue produced by the Queensland Folk Federation, performing her one-woman shows as part of the Brisbane Cabaret Festival and the release of her three CDs of original work–Miss Laine, Me and the Sky and Barefoot–a collection of jazz, cabaret, and comedy songs. Laine has worked extensively as a Musical Director, Choral Conductor, Vocal Coach, and Pianist in productions such as The Queensland Folk Federation’s Boadicea and The Limelight Revue; Dogs in the Roof’s The Understudy; The Fabulous Gooney Girls’ Cabaret, Bobcat Magic produced by the Queensland Music Festival and La Boite Theatre Company performed in Mt Isa, and the Centenary of Federation production, Voices and Visions, to name a few. As a composer, Laine has had the privilege of writing six short-film scores, two of which won Queensland New Film Makers Awards and one a Woodford Film Festival Award. She has also written string arrangements for performers such as The Ten Tenors and Brianna Carpenter. Laine has been a highly successful music and theatre teacher for the last 31 years. She specializes in coaching versatile singers, musicians, and performers capable of all genres of vocal/musical performance from Classical, Jazz, Music Theatre to Pop and Rock as well as all types of Stagecraft from Musical Theatre, Rock/Pop Performance, and straight Dramatic Theatre. During her career, Laine has been a vocal coach to numerous well-known singers, actors, and performers including Thelma Plum, Patience from the Grates, Michael from Yves Klein Blue, Sean from Last Dinosaurs, and actor Elise Grieg. Laine’s students have appeared in both Queensland Theatre Company and La Boite Theatre Company productions. Some of Laine’s students have gone on to secure places with The Ten Tenors, Melbourne State Opera, Sony Records (Japan), and popular T.V. Shows. Laine also facilitates strategic career planning for aspiring professional artists. During her career, Laine has had the pleasure of working with some outstanding musicians and theatre practitioners including James and John Morrison, Wesley Enoch, Jessica Mauboy, Sean Mee, Kate Miller-Heidke, Azaria from The Art, Brian Lucas, Lewis Jones, Carita Farrer-Spencer, Stephen Helper, Elise Greig, Alicia Cush, Penny Mullen, Emma Dean, Dave Spicer, Mark Gasser, Kerry Armstrong and Darren Percival. Thriving on music, theatre, and the creative arts, Laine is committed to working diversely, creatively, and with a song in her heart.