Valerie, a person of colour with dark but greying hair is smiling widely, looking straight at the camera, in front of a white wall. She is wearing a black blouse and black studded earrings.

Photograph by Alex Kwong.

Valerie Berry

Associate Artist (she/her)

Valerie Berry is a theatre maker and has performed nationally and internationally. Throughout her practice, she has focused on collaborative and interdisciplinary processes. Recent works include, Future World Hypothesis, with Performosa Theatre, performed at Cloudgate Theatre, Taiwan; Australian Performance Exchange’s (Sydney) development collaboration with Performosa Theatre (Taiwan), The Island Project, 2023; CAAP (Contemporary Asian Australian Performance) as a facilitator: 2021 and 2023, Artist Lab SA, and Double Delicious: writer and performer for Sydney Festival and AsiaTopia 2020, remount director/performer for OzAsia Festival 2021, and performer/co-director touring regional VIC and NSW 2022; North/Eastern States Tour of The Folding Wife (Urban Theatre Projects toured by Performing Lines); National Theatre of Parramatta (Swallow, 2016-performer) and directed (Let Me Know When You get Home, 2021). In 2022, Valerie was the Associate Director for State Theatre SA’s production of Single Asian Female.

In Adelaide, Valerie is an Associate Artist at ActNow Theatre and works as a coordinator, facilitator, mentor and collaborator.

Valerie’s film and television credits include, True Colours, Upright, The Matrix Reloaded, The Great Raid, (award winning independent film) Supposed the Night Tasted Like Sugar, Rope Burns (AFTRS), Spirited (Foxtel), Big Sky (Ch10), and A Difficult Woman (ABC).

Valerie’s radio drama credits for ABC Radio National include, The Folding Wife, Conversations through the Wall, Ancestry of my eyes, Rita’s Lullaby, Season to Taste and Lotus War.