Verity Hunt-Ballard

Biography
As one of Australia’s most versatile leading ladies, Verity is best known for her Helpmann Award winning performances in the title role in Mary Poppins and as Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity, for which she also won a Sydney Theatre Award and a Green Room Award.
In 2019 she won her third Green Room Award for her performance of Countess Charlotte Malcolm in Victorian Opera’s A Little Night Music.
Verity was most recently seen in Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Dear Evan Hansen, which also toured Melbourne. Verity’s other stage credits include: Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Funny Girl in Concert; Vivid White (Melbourne Theatre Company), Midnight – The Fairytale Begins (Joint Ventures), Hello Dolly!, Guys and Dolls (The Production Company), The Last Five Years, Shane Warne the Musical, Jersey Boys, The Rocky Horror Show, Eureka, Virgins, and Metro Street, winning a Theatre Critics Award for Best Female Performance. Verity is featured on many cast recordings and has appeared on television in The Doctor Blake Mysteries. Verity is the Co-Creator of award-winning children’s podcast Story Kids, and is a proud ambassador and producer for The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation.