Tracy Bourne is a writer, director, performer and singing teacher.
Originally trained as a classical singer (Qld Con, Melb Con), Tracy also went on to train as an actor at the Victorian College of the Arts (Company 93). She worked professionally in new opera and theatre work in the 1990s including The Two Executioners for Chamber Made Opera, the ABC and Melbourne International Festival. She moved to Ballarat in 2000 to take up the position of Lecturer in Singing at the University of Ballarat, now Federation University, training many music theatre performers who have since worked professionally in Australia and overseas. During her time in Ballarat, Tracy wrote and directed new music theatre work in response to social and environmental issues, and established SEAM Inc. (Sustainable Environment Arts Movement), an organization that creates art projects that engage communities with issues of climate change. In 2016, she completed a PhD on the physiology and acoustics of music theatre voice through Sydney University. Since moving to the Canberra region in 2015 she has collaborated on new works with local artists including Mikelangelo (aka Michael Simic), Shortis and Simpson and others. She has directed many creative developments over the past five years, most recently Story of the Oars by Nigel Featherstone in 2024. In 2018 she premiered the role of Caroline in Exclusion by David Atfield at The Street Theatre. She maintains a busy teaching practice as Director of Voice at Radford College and in her private teaching studio in Canberra.