Jorja Bentley
Jorja Bentley
Arts & Community Resume
EDUCATION
Master of Theatre (Writing), Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne, December 2021 Full-time Acting Training, Howard Fine Acting School, 2019 Bachelor of Psychology Honours, University of South Australia, First Class, December 2017
ACTING
Music Clark Griswold, Police Officer, Hilltop Hoods, 2018 Theater Norm Things - Queer Playwrights Award Finalist, Actor / Writer, Gasworks, Dir. Tansy Gorman, 2025 MOTHERLOD_^E, Sarah, Theatre Works, Dir. Belle Hansen, 2023 Norm Things, April, Actor/Writer/Producer, Lion Arts, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Dir. Tansy Gorman 2022 Sharehouse, Sam, Melbourne Fringe, Dir: Holly Robertson, 2019 Australian Shakespeare Company Graduate Players, Oberon, Midsummer's Night Dream, Dir. Claire Nicholls & Kevin Hopkin, 2020 Television Wanted, Prison Guard, Dir. Peter Templeman, 2018 The Gruen Transfer, Secretary, ABC, 2018 The Hunting, Teacher, SBS, Dir. Sophie Hyde, 2018 Short Film The Ninth Hole, Gi, Dir. Lauren Wells Jones, 2017 Radicalised, Georgie, Dir. Hugo Vadasz, 2017 Film Choices, Stacey, Dir. Warren Jarrett, Dir. 2017 Commercial Keno: Play the Numbers You Know, Lead, Dir. Carl J Sorheim, 2021 Training Toronto Project, Party Goer, Dir. Geoffrey Wright, 2020 Web Series 40-Minute-Limit, Actor/Writer/Producer - Jorja Bentley, 2020 Education How Sex Offenders Think, Emily, Dir. Geoffrey Wright, 2022
WRITING
Awards Blood in the Water: Shortlisted, Best New Play, Australian Theatre Festival NYC, 2022 Norm Things: Shortlisted, Queer Playwriting Award, Gasworks Theatre, 2025 Staged Works Sunni Sunday, La Mama Explorations, La Mama Theatre, Dir. Tansy Gorman, September 2024 Blood in the Water, La Mama Theatre, Produced by Flick Flick City, Dir. Tansy Gorman, June 2024 Norm Things, Lion Arts, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Dir. Tansy Gorman, March 2022 Programs, Residencies, & Developments Writer in Residence & Facilitator, Union House Theatre, Melbourne University, Selected work: Case Notes, 2025 Writer in Residence, Mothership Arts Collective, NYC, USA, selected work: Case Notes, June 2025 Darebin Arts Speakeasy Development Program, selected work: Case Notes, Aug 2025 La Mama Theatre Residency, selected work: Case Notes, November 2025 La Mama Pathways Writing Intensive, La Mama Theatre, 2024
COMMUNITY WORK
2025 Trainer and Facilitator, Better Futures, Brotherhood of St Laurence Residential Youth Worker, Anglicare Victoria Facilitator, Union House Theatre, Melbourne University 2022 - 2024 Victorian Community of Practice Coordinator, Better Futures, Brotherhood of St Laurence Highlights include: delivering State, Interstate, and International Training and Facilitation sessions about Better Futures, Victoria's Leaving Care Program, working closely with the Transitions from Care team from the Department of Fair Families and Housing as well as with youth expert advisors from CREATE, the National Body for Young People with Care Experience, travelling to London, UK, for an International Knowledge Exchange, and participation in the LGBTQI+ Steering Committee. 2022 Supervisor, Friends for Good Supervising a call-line focussing on providing support to vulnerable individuals experiencing loneliness. 2019 - 2022 Youth Worker, FY Accommodation Program, Melbourne City Mission (MCM) Direct crisis accommodation support for vulnerable young people (16-25) experiencing homelessness.