With over 30 years in the performing arts industry in addition to 20 years of experience teaching voice and singing, Michaela helps people to reconnect with and find ease and flexibility in their natural voice. From beginners to advanced, singers to speakers, and for anyone who just wants to reconnect with their own voice.

As well as vocal technique, her experience as a performer and actress enables her to coach students in performance technique i.e. connecting with the text in their repertoire as well as expressing themselves through song.

Performing biography:

Michaela Burger has performed with one of Broadway’s most sophisticated writers, Jason Robert Brown, and has shared the stage with Australia’s own Tina Arena, Paul Capsis, Alan John, Meow Meow, Nancye Hayes, Mitchell Butel, Johanna Allen, Cameron Goodall, Tyran Park, Robyn Archer, John Thorn and Daniel Koek.

Her recent credits include Aftertaste (ABC TV & Closer Productions), Twelfth Night (Adelaide Botanic Gardens/Shakespeare South Australia), Apocalypse Meow (Brooklyn Academy Of Music, New York & Malthouse Theatre), Rumpelstiltskin (Southbank Theatre London/Windmill & State Theatre of South Australia), Simply Brill (Adelaide Cabaret Festival/Amplified Assembly), Driftwood (Umbrella Productions/Chapel off Chapel), Can You Hear Colour? (Adelaide Festival & Patch Theatre), Cranky Bear (Patch Theatre) and Passion (State Opera Studios).

Other performing credits include, Merry Widow (State Opera of South Australia), , Brel-The Immortal Troubadour (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), Juliet Letters (Flying Penguin Productions), Rouge (Highwire Entertainment), Otello (State Opera of South Australia), Réquiem (State Opera of South Australia), Marriage of Figaro (Co-opera of South Australia), Tosca (Co-opera of South Australia), (Warner Brothers) and as the host of Humphrey B Bear (Banksia Productions, Chanel 9).

Described by Kate Ceberano as “an asset to the cabaret community”, Burger is the recipient of the Frank Ford award 2019, Best Cabaret Adelaide Fringe 2019 weekly, Best Cabaret Adelaide Fringe 2016 and has been nominated for two Helpmann Academy Awards for Best Cabaret Performer 2016 and 2019.

In addition to winning the 2015 International Cabaret Contest, Burger is the co-writer and star of the world-renowned stage show Exposing Edith, about the life and songs of Edith Piaf and more recently a creative on the team of Simply Brill – premiered for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022. Her award-winning show, A Migrant’s Son - which explores Greek migration to Australia - has received critical acclaim and features original music written by Burger.