The Victorian College of the Arts (BFA Theatre) 2019-2021
Sydney Theatre School (Diploma of Arts Acting) 2015-2016
Charles Sturt University (1st Year Bachelor of Stage and Screen Acting) 2014
NIDA Young Singers Studio 2013

2024
”MONSTER” (Director, Co-writer, Dramaturg and Pianist) Adelaide Fringe Festival
”Pram People (Hong Kong Edition)” (Directing Intern) WestK FunFest, Hong Kong

2023
”MONSTER” (Director, Co-writer, Dramaturg and Pianist) Melbourne Fringe Festival
Green Room Award Nominee – Cabaret: Outstanding Writing

2022
”cavemxn”, Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne, VIC Dir. Bronwen Coleman - Assistant Director
”Owl and the Albatross”, Theatreworks, Melbourne, VIC (Jack/Puppeteer) Dir: Sarah Branton and Paris Balla
”Tiny Beautiful Things” (Staged Reading), Bunjil Place, Melbourne, VIC (Ensemble) Dir: Bronwen Coleman

2021
”Alternative Futures”, Theatreworks, Melbourne, VIC - Assistant Stage Manager
”Thrive: Queer Voices Out Loud”, Black Apple Theatre, Melbourne, VIC (Max) Dir: Cheyney Caddy

2020
”Adam”, Midsumma Festival, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, VIC (Adam) Dir: Jacob Thomas

2017
”Intersection”, ATYP, Sydney, NSW (Understudy) Dir: Katrina Douglas

2016
”Design For Living”, SUDS, Sydney, NSW (Otto) Dir: Eugene Quinn
”Black Hands/Dead Section”, SUDS, Sydney, NSW (Peter) Dir: Margot Louisa
”Kaleidoscope”, Montague Basement, Bakehouse Theatre Company, Sydney, NSW (Gabriel) Dir: Finn Davis
”The Homosexuals”, Griffin Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre Company, Sydney, NSW (Workshop Actor) Dir: Lee Lewis

2015
”Who’s Afraid of the Working Class”, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland (Daniel) - Reprised
”Who’s Afraid of the Working Class”, Sydney Theatre School, Sydney, NSW (Daniel)

2024
”I’m Ready To Talk Now” Melbourne Fringe Festival
Winner: Best Experimental Work
Winner: Change Maker Award
Nominated: Best Work by an Emerging Artist

2023
”I’m Ready To Talk Now” Melbourne Fringe Festival
Nominated: Best Experimental Work

2022
”Resistible”, co-devised with Abigail Bannister-Jones, Butterfly Club, Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne, VIC

2021
“B**CH”, Water Closette Co, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, VIC
”Finished”, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, VIC
”Low Hanging Fruit - Die Bendigo”, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, VIC
”Puppet Mayhem”, A Blanck Canvas, Melbourne, VIC
”The Botanical Project”, Victorian College of the Arts, Royal Victorian Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, VIC

2020
”Whale Fall”, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, VIC Dir: Jolyon James
”Red Light”, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, VIC Dir: Robert Draffin

2019
”Shrine Time”, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne VIC Dir: Penny Baron
”I’m Ready to Talk Now”, Discord Festival, Melbourne VIC
”Getting Away With Murder”, Small Wonder Arts, Melbourne, VIC

2024
“No Seasons” Performing Arts/Creative Access Residency, Brand X, NSW
“Im Ready To Talk Now’” (Development), FUSE Fund

2023
Training Workshop for Born In A Taxi (Invite Only)
“Tiny Tests”, Melbourne Fringe Festival

2021
”The Bendigo Studio”, Arena Theatre Company, Bendigo, VIC
”PuppetLAB”, A Blanck Canvas, Melbourne, VIC

“This is such a difficult performance to describe properly. Everything that works does so because it is meticulously crafted, and many of the techniques are so subtle. If I described it in the best way possible and someone else came in to replicate it, the show would likely fail.
I’m Ready to Talk Now is the sort of audio-visual feat that might be better suited to the NGV than Fringe, will be difficult for many to experience, and worth taking the risk on.”
- Theatre Travels

"This leads to discussion of the actor playing Gabe, Oliver Ayres. It’s a wonderful thing to watch this artist. It’s not worthy or heartfelt or uplifting or any of the cliches around great performance. It’s a man. He’s real. He’s witty and happy and tortured and seeking all at the same time...Ayres’ work is crafted beautifully. Each movement natural yet absorbing...We will happily follow him to the breakdown that will break our hearts in a finely measured acting tour de force."
- Sydney Arts Guide

"Oliver Ayres, the solo performer, brings so much depth to Gabe; there is a very real, lived-in quality to him that keeps the audience captive for an hour and a half through deft use of poetry, comedy, and the tragedy of normality...Ayres’ superb performance evokes such a complex, deeply human character. I had forgotten what true empathy can do. This is not only a very important play, but also a very good one."
- Honi Soit