Acting

Alys Daroy trained at the Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (now the Australian Institute of Music). From 2006, she worked in London, Sydney and Melbourne (UK Royal National Theatre and Sunday Times Ian Charleson Award Commendation (Yelena, The Wood Demon) before completing her PhD in 2023. Alys specialises in Shakespearean performance and now works across theatre-making and creative research.

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Shakespeare work includes for Shakespeare's Globe, Cambridge Shakespeare, Shakespeare by the Sea, Heartstring, Shakespeare South, Theatre Royal Stratford East and others. Favourite past classical stage roles encompass Ophelia, Hamlet; Katharina, The Taming of the Shrew; the Queen, Cymbeline; Titania, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Mariana, Measure for Measure; Helen of Troy, The Complete Voyages of Falstaff; Thaisa, Pericles; Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing; Brutus, Coriolanus; Olivia, Twelfth Night; Touchstone, As You Like It; Livia, The Tamer Tamed, Lady Capulet, Romeo and Juliet; Emma, Madame Bovary; Anna, Anna Karenina; Margarita, The Master and Margarita; in addition to various contemporary plays.

Some of her screen roles in the past include: Fleur Simpson, Home and Away; Alexis, The Kangaroo Gang: Thieves by Appointment (BBC UKTV), Madeline Durst, Behind Mansion Walls and Amy Bosley, Deadly Women (both Discovery USA) and various others. Alys has worked extensively in commercials as well as editorial and runway modelling and voiceover, including as the voice of Sarah in feature film The Plex, and narrator of Melanie Joosten's Gravity Well (Audible books). She is represented in Australia by Ann Peters (SA Casting).