It was my drama teacher, George Tsakisiris, who encouraged me to enrol at WAAPA [the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts]. I didn’t come from a performing arts family; I had no idea what WAAPA was. He directed our school musicals and would make us mix tapes of songs from Rent, Grease and Chess – shows he’d seen in New York – that I’d listen to non-stop.

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I didn’t have many relationships until I met my husband, [entertainer] Chris Horsey, at 24. Chris was brought in as a choreographer on my dear friend Matthew Lee Robinson’s Metro Street show in 2004 and had to choreograph me in one song. We met in a car park in Melbourne and I remember thinking that I’d want to do my hair nicely if I was to bump into him again.

We got together two years later, while doing 42nd Street, and married in 2014. We have two children: Polly, 7, and Theodore, 2½.

Our marriage works because we have the same passion and support each other. In our first few years together, I got the role of Glinda in Wicked in Melbourne and we had a long-distance relationship for 15 months while he was in Sydney. During the pandemic, his work took him to Sydney and I was on the Gold Coast. It’s about being there for one another.