Acting Mentors

with Anthony Brandon Wong, Acacia Daken & Cat Jane Shepherd

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    Anthony Brandon Wong

    Chubbuck technique leading mentor
    Anthony Brandon Wong is an award-winning actor who has played a wide range of roles in numerous films and more than 40 hit television programs in the US, Canada, Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Africa.

    He has also played lead and major roles in over thirty stage productions, mostly in Australia. He is best known to international audiences for his role as 'Ghost', the Zen Buddhist assassin in "The Matrix Reloaded", "The Matrix Revolutions", and as the lead character (alongside Jada Pinkett Smith) in the "Enter the Matrix" video game, all written and directed by The Wachowski's. Wong spent 15 months working in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sydney, Australia, opposite Pinkett Smith, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Monica Bellucci, Harold Perrineau and Hugo Weaving.

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    Acacia Daken

    Acacia Daken is a voice and dialect coach, educator, and actor working internationally. Originally from Perth, she holds an MA in Acting and an MFA in Voice from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (UK). Acacia is currently a Professor of Voice at West Virginia University, having previously taught voice at Curtin University and on the Acting and Musical Theatre Bachelor courses at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

    Her coaching spans theatre, film, television, and voiceover, working with clients on productions for Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, and productions including ABC’s Itch, It Only Takes A Night, Kid Snow and Wise Children’s Romantics Anonymous. Founder of Vocal Chameleon, Acacia provides voice and accent coaching to performers and professionals globally, as well as self-tape and audition technique. She currently holds a position on the Junior Board of VASTA (the Voice and Speech Trainers Association) and her article, Transcreation of the Accent Class to the Online Platform, is published in the Voice and Speech Review.

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  • Cat Jane Shepherd

    Cat Jane Shepherd is an actor, model and costume designer based in Perth, Western Australia.  A graduate from WAAPA, Cat is a current Miss World Australia National Finalist and competitive track runner.

    Cat acted in the main cast for the feature film Remotely Famous (2025). Cat also starred in the short film Solidarity (2024), and has a number of exciting acting projects in production and post production, soon to be released. Cat is also currently completing her Master degree in Strategic Communication at UWA.

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