Siobhan Connors
- Actress
- Director
- Producer
Siobhan Connors is a Canadian Screen Award nominated actor, award winning producer and programmer. Originally from New Zealand, Siobhan moved to Australia in her late teens to study acting at the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Melbourne where she developed her craft as an actor and began her career as a producer. To date, Siobhan has been nominated and/or won three times for her performance in 'Headcase' and has been cast in over 50 film, TV and theatre productions including Leo award-winner 'Darkside', Fox's 'Animal Control' and iconic Australian TV shows 'Romper Stomper' & 'Neighbours'.
She is an award-winning film, theatre producer and festival producer, has coordinated hundreds of interstate tours throughout Australia and sat on various arts and culture advisory and programming panels for city councils, arts, and philanthropic foundations. Her various positions include Festival Producer for Poppy Seed Theatre Festival, Programming Coordinator for Regional Arts Victoria, Arts Advisor for City of Port Phillip Council and Artist Liaison for Showcase Victoria. She has sat on funding and programming panels for multiple council Cultural Development Funds, The Australian Children’s Theatre Foundation and Showcase Victoria. Siobhan was a participant mentor for Melbourne Fringe and was selected to be one of 12 women for Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women in Theatre mentorship program (Australia’s most subscribed professional theatre company) and her productions have been nominated for and won various Green Room Awards.
In 2025, Siobhan was the lead producer and actor on one of 6 films selected of over 150 pitches in the highly competitive Crazy 8s Film program. The ensuing short 'Headcase', had it’s World Premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival and has garnered headlines from publications like Variety and Playback. It has been nominated for, and won, various awards including nominations for both Best Short at the 2025 Directors Guild of Canada and Best Performance at the Canadian Screen Awards. It is slated for development into a feature by Emmy nominated producer Kevin Healy and Viral Nation's Head of Programming, Paul Telner.
'Siobhan Connors is fantastic' -The Fright Club
'played with disturbingly casual energy by Siobhan Connors... Her spiral is immediate and loud' -Cinema Crazed
'Connors’ portrayal of Karen walks the tightrope between parody and pathology. Her lack of remorse, constant self-curation, and performative vulnerability feel alarmingly real, even when her circumstances turn surreal.' -Cinema Crazed
'She’s one of those actors that you can just throw anything at and she can just nail it'- The Moveable Fest
She is an award-winning film, theatre producer and festival producer, has coordinated hundreds of interstate tours throughout Australia and sat on various arts and culture advisory and programming panels for city councils, arts, and philanthropic foundations. Her various positions include Festival Producer for Poppy Seed Theatre Festival, Programming Coordinator for Regional Arts Victoria, Arts Advisor for City of Port Phillip Council and Artist Liaison for Showcase Victoria. She has sat on funding and programming panels for multiple council Cultural Development Funds, The Australian Children’s Theatre Foundation and Showcase Victoria. Siobhan was a participant mentor for Melbourne Fringe and was selected to be one of 12 women for Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women in Theatre mentorship program (Australia’s most subscribed professional theatre company) and her productions have been nominated for and won various Green Room Awards.
In 2025, Siobhan was the lead producer and actor on one of 6 films selected of over 150 pitches in the highly competitive Crazy 8s Film program. The ensuing short 'Headcase', had it’s World Premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival and has garnered headlines from publications like Variety and Playback. It has been nominated for, and won, various awards including nominations for both Best Short at the 2025 Directors Guild of Canada and Best Performance at the Canadian Screen Awards. It is slated for development into a feature by Emmy nominated producer Kevin Healy and Viral Nation's Head of Programming, Paul Telner.
'Siobhan Connors is fantastic' -The Fright Club
'played with disturbingly casual energy by Siobhan Connors... Her spiral is immediate and loud' -Cinema Crazed
'Connors’ portrayal of Karen walks the tightrope between parody and pathology. Her lack of remorse, constant self-curation, and performative vulnerability feel alarmingly real, even when her circumstances turn surreal.' -Cinema Crazed
'She’s one of those actors that you can just throw anything at and she can just nail it'- The Moveable Fest
