SUDS Winter Festival 2026; Workshop - Audition Prep with Pollyanna Nowicki

SUDS 2026 Winter Festival - July 28th

Workshop: Audition Preparation with Pollyanna Nowicki

All you need to know about auditions.

From an actor who auditioned 10 years in a row for NIDA and finally got in.

Please bring a short monologue of your choice with you clearly printed on paper. Extra points if memorised but not a necessity.

When: 2pm on Tuesday July 28th.

Where: Those who RSVP will recieve information about where on campus to meet in an email the night before the event!

About the creative:

Pollyanna Nowicki -  She/They graduated with a BFA in Acting from NIDA in 2019 and completed the NYC Atlantic Theatre Co. Summer Intensive in 2013. Born on Darug Land, has been a teaching artist for 2 decades sharing their craft around acting.

Pollyanna Teaches for: Bell Shakespeare, NIDA, MilkCrate Theatre, APIA, Sydney Theatre School, SUDS, Midnight Feast and Imagination Theatre.

Acting Credits include; Night Bloomers dir. Undi Andrew Lee for SBS On Demand, VO for A Royal In Paradise dir. Adrian Powers, Method In Madness for Bell Shakespeare, Short Film Wigilia for AFTRS, It’s Still Her Voice for Siren Theatre Co dir. Kate Gaul, Featurette Film Witkacy i Malinowski at the 2019 Sydney Film Festival, Taste Of Australia with Hayden Quinn S2 Ep10, Tragedy Of Antigone dir. Shy Magsalin, Hamlet as Hamlet at the Old Fig Tree Theatre, On Hold The Short Film Musical dir. Matthew Predney & Jake Neilson which won Flickerfest 2017, Ruby Moon at the Seymour Centre, Twelfth Night as Viola dir. Sarah Goodes. 

In 2009 Pollyanna received the NSDF Sunday Times Emerging Artist Award For Acting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Please RSVP to this event if you wish to attend. There are a limited number of spots available.

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, on which this event takes place. As a society that exists to tell stories, it is important to acknowledge that stories were being told on this land for thousands of years before colonisation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.