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Joanna Hempel has shared her techniques as a drama and performance specialist for many years with students of drama and English, with teachers of drama and English in colleges, schools and at conferences inter-state & overseas. A graduate in Psychology and English from the University of Sydney, Joanna later trained in Theatre, gaining an M.Litt at the University of New England, Armidale. For many years she was Director of the Armidale School of Youth Drama, and her published plays for teenagers are now studied and performed in schools throughout Australia, Canada and the USA. With a Polish background, she combines multilingual skills with her coaching of Drama, English Language and accent coaching. For four years she was director of Soirees Litteraires with monthly talks on European and Australian culture at the NSW Writers' Centre in Rozelle. She is writing a series of historical novels set in Eastern Europe, based on her family's experiences from World War I to its arrival in Australia in 1950.