Verity Hunt-Ballard

Verity Hunt-Ballard is best known for her acclaimed performance as Mary Poppins for which she received a Helpmann and a Green Room Award.

Verity won her second Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Musical for her standout performance as ‘Charity Hope Valentine’ in Sweet Charity for Luckiest Productions, also winning a Sydney Theatre Award and a Green Room Award for her performance. In 2019 she won her third Green Room Award for her performance of Countess Charlotte Malcolm in Victorian Opera’s, A Little Night Music.

Verity’s other stage credits include the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Funny Girl at The Opera House; Vivid White (Melbourne Theatre Company); Hello Dolly!, Guys and Dolls (The Production Company); The Last Five Years (Vic Theatre Company); Shane Warne the Musical Concert (GWB Entertainment); Jersey Boys, The Rocky Horror Show (Dainty Co & New Theatricals); Eureka (Esgee Productions); Virgins (Malthouse Theatre) and Metro Street (State Theatre Company of SA) – winning a Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Female Performance. 

Verity is featured on many cast recordings and has appeared in ABC’s award-winning television series The Doctor Blake Mysteries. She is also an accomplished voice over artist. 

As well as performing, Verity is a passionate teacher of the performing arts, teaching voice, acting and movement throughout the country. She has lectured, choreographed and directed at Monash University and has been a teacher and mentor at Showfit, where she particularly focuses on incorporating mindfulness practices into her teaching. She was also the Movement Director for Melbourne Opera’s The Flying Dutchman and Norma. 

Verity is the co-creator of award-winning children’s podcast Story Kids and is a proud ambassador and producer for The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation.