Anne Browning B.A Dip. Act. Grad Dip. Ed. graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary College, and later, with a partner, started a youth theatre company in Perth, where they performed the first adaptation to the stage of works by Tim Winton. She taught at John Curtin Senior High School in Perth, before travelling internationally, which included stints teaching English in Belgium and working on a kibbutz in Israel. As a performer, Anne has appeared at La Mama, the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Queensland Theatre Company, the Playbox Theatre, and the Malthouse. She has directed for the Melbourne Theatre Company, Latrobe and Monash universities. She has been a teaching artist for the Victorian Arts Centre and ran VCE solo performance-making workshops for Malthouse Education. Anne teaches Drama, Theatre Studies and English at Alice Miller, along with coordinating the school’s productions.

Dr Bettina Lythgoe, Ph.D., B.Agr.Eng, Dip.Ed. grew up in Argentina, the daughter of European parents. After graduating from high school she backpacked through Europe for a year, and later cycled through Patagonia, and hiked across the Andes. Later still she hitched a ride with the Chilean Navy to the Antarctic, before coming to Australia, where she gained her doctorate from the University of Melbourne in plant physiology and agronomy. In 2015 she began teaching senior mathematics at Candlebark and now coordinates the Mathematics department at Alice Miller. Bettina is trilingual, speaking English, Spanish and German.

Dr Christine Mathieu, B.A. HON, Dip. Ed, PhD., was born and raised in France. She has lived in the UK, Australia, China, the United States and Spain. Christine is multilingual and is fluent in French, English, and Chinese, amongst others. She has taught at university level in the US and in Australia, as well as at Australian secondary schools. Christine is a professional anthropologist, educator, translator and author. Leaving Mother Lake, which she co-authored with Yang Erche Namu, was translated into fifteen languages. Her academic and professional fields are in ethnohistory and second language acquisition, Chinese studies, Chinese ethnic minority studies and art history, Aboriginal Australian Heritage, and Native Title research. Christine was one of the first western anthropologists to conduct fieldwork among the Mosuo people of southwest China. She is currently expert anthropologist for the Maduwongga people of the Kalgoorlie-Edjudina region in the WA Goldfields. Christine teaches French at Alice Miller.

As a teenager, Conan trained for the physics olympiad and travelled to Siberia to participate in an international mathematics competition. He graduated with an ATAR of 99 and completed a Bachelor of Science with first-class honours, before changing path and becoming a stage performer. Conan performed a mesmerising and visually spectacular soap bubble show accompanied by live improvised music that was a success at festivals and in theatres around Australia and internationally. As a teacher, Conan began his career at remote schools in the Northern Territory. More recently he established the mechatronics program at Gungahlin College in Canberra where he supervised student projects both modest and ambitious, including sending a student-designed electronic sensor suite to 30000m on a high altitude balloon. Conan has also been involved in curriculum design, being the lead course writer for the ACT Electronics and Mechatronics curriculum. On the sporting field, Conan won the inaugural Australian championships in both mountain unicycling and unicycle hockey. Conan teaches VCE Chemistry and Physics at Alice Miller School.

Conor grew up in the Macedon Ranges, attending school a stone’s throw away from Alice Miller. After close to ten years in Melbourne, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Screen and Cultural Studies, a Master’s in Global Media Communication and a second in Teaching with First-Class Honours from the University of Melbourne, Conor is back home, heading the P.E. department and coordinating the Alice Miller Sports Program. He is an AFL tragic, holding strong allegiance with the Geelong Cats—but we won’t hold that against him. Conor is a keen runner in his spare time, currently eyeing off his first marathon.

Danny has a passion for all things mathematics and digital technology, particularly statistics and data analysis. A Canadian native, he gained invaluable industry experience in research and analysis before embarking on a rewarding career in education. He has enjoyed working with inspiring teams dedicated to improving student outcomes and is excited to continue his journey at Alice Miller.

Joining the Alice Miller staff in a full-time capacity in 2018, Dave Vertigan teaches VCE Media and the popular Motion Media elective. Dave studied Animation at the Victorian College of the Arts and has had production, voice-acting and post-production roles on a number of independent film projects.  Two of Dave’s animated short films have been screened in international film festivals. His film “Undead  Forever – Past-Death Hypnosis” was nominated for Best Achievement in Overall Design at the 2011  Animazing Spotlight festival in Los Angeles. Dave also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Tasmanian  School of Art and a Bachelor of Teaching from the University of Tasmania, specialising in secondary  Visual Art and Multimedia. He has extensive and varied experience working in the disability support sector. A keen skateboarder, Dave also runs a small business producing limited and custom skateboard components.

Donna has been a well-loved staff member at Candlebark since 2009, where she taught English and Drama across the senior year levels. She teaches Drama, Theatre Studies, and Textiles for Years 7-10 at Alice Miller. Donna is passionate about the full gamut of theatre production, and her classes involve acting, set and costume design, lighting and sound. Donna has facilitated the participation of Alice Miller students in two Village Festivals, where students were involved in live performance, set building, festival set up and pack down, and pyrotechnics. Outside of school, Donna is heavily involved in theatre as a performer and puppeteer. She was a Lemony S Puppet Lab participant in 2024.