Margaret Mills

MARGARET MILLS IS AN IN-DEMAND WORKING ACTOR, WRITER AND TEACHER WITH OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE.

Margaret Mills is a highly respected actor, voice practitioner, and educator with a career spanning over four decades across Australia’s leading theatre companies and training institutions. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, she also holds a Masters in Voice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, bringing both deep academic knowledge and extensive practical experience to her teaching.

As an actor, Margaret has performed in more than forty productions with companies including Melbourne Theatre Company, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, La Mama, Malthouse Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre, and Sydney Theatre Company. Her stage credits include When the Rain Stops Falling, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Afterplay, Escaped Alone, Top Girls, and Angels in America. She is a Green Room Award–winning performer, recognised for both her ensemble work and individual performances.

Margaret’s voice training is grounded in some of the most influential methodologies in contemporary voice practice. She has studied extensively with leading practitioners including Kristin Linklater, Catherine Fitzmaurice, and the Roy Hart Theatre, and continues to deepen her practice through ongoing international training.

Alongside her performance career, Margaret is a passionate and highly experienced teacher. She has taught voice, text, and performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Federation University, National Drama School, and Monash University. Her teaching integrates voice, physicality, and text, encouraging actors to develop a connected, expressive, and responsive instrument.

Margaret brings a rigorous yet intuitive approach to voice work, supporting actors to unlock freedom, clarity, and authenticity in their performance.

“You need to absorb the words of the character you are playing into your inner landscape. You need to be breathing the words in so that the underlying thoughts become feelings, and the cellular makeup of your body starts to rearrange itself in response.”

– Kristin Linklater