Monday, July 17, 2006

88.9FM Radio Skid Row

“Find your voice through your artistic creative expressions”

Action Break Theatre have a radio show on community radio in Marrickville broadcasting live every Thursday from 4pm - 6pm. We interview a broad range of artists from different scopes of the art encouraging them to have a voice by sharing the experiences that inspired the creative expressions in their work. We promote a lot of our home grown artists and their work whether it be through music, books, stage or film productions.

“Hidden deep within you is a power so extraordinary that its infinite potential will reveal the possibility of being able to touch the stars”


Virginia & Jenny co-hosting the Action Break Theatre radio show.


“Find your voice with Taaleah and the girls of Action Break Theatre on 88.9 Radio Skid Row. Live and Sweet As”


An Interview with one of Australia's longest serving female prisoner, published author of "Ten Years" rated in the top 5 best sellers in the country, Roseanne Catt, on 4 May 2006. (2nd from the left)


An interview with singer/songwriter, poet, spoken word artist, feminist and film maker Soul Diva Aminah Hughes on 6 July 2006. Aminah was an assistant director on the set of Superman Returns at Fox Studios.


An interview with amazing Life Coach Leigh Scully and husband Peter Scully a Primary School Principal and President of The Songwriters'Society of Australia on 25 May 2006.


“Find your voice and make your mark by expressing the talents hidden deep within you”


An interview with published author of "Women in Crime", "Who's Rejecting Who", "Death Row" and "Brilliant Ideas" Xavier Waterkeyn. Xavier is also the co-founder of Flying Pigs.


An interview with the 2006 School Captain of Wagga Wagga Christian College Corallie Shaw and boyfriend Ross Malcolm.


“Before we can truly connect with others we must first make the connection with ourselves”


Hamish Walsh co-hosting and reading poetry written by his dear late friend.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Artistic Director


“Stay true to yourself and always nurture your Soul’s expressions”

Taaleah K. Jezierski trained as an actor and a theatre director and producer at the Lionel Long S.W.A.M Conservatory Studios for Screenplays, Writers, Actors and Movie Productions, graduating in 1993 with Honours.

Prior to graduation, Taaleah wrote, directed, produced and performed in a play called "Behind these walls" for the International Aids Awareness Day on 1 September 1992. Taaleah also wrote two screenplays called "Surgery" in 1994 and "Mascarade" in 1996.

Being a community minded artist Taaleah worked as a presenter and co-producer for CTV1 Television every week on "Saturday night live" from 7pm-9pm 1992-1996. Thoroughly enjoying being involved in community projects, Taaleah co-produced and was a weekly broadcaster for the very popular prisoners' request and parole program on Radio Skid Row from 6pm-10pm every Friday, 1992-1996.

"Our pigeon hole at the radio station was inundated every week with requests from prisoners from 4 different gaols in NSW. Most prisoners would tune in to hear if their application for parole was successful or to hear whose parole has been revoked. They enjoyed hearing their requests for their loved ones being played and listening to their poetry being read."

Taaleah graduated as a Justice Action Community Mentor in December 2003. Then on 1 March 2004, she co-founded Action Break Theatre Inc. on 1 March 2004 with the aim of using theatre as a mentoring tool and a creative healing tool.

About Mentoring



Action Break Theatre Inc. was founded by three Justice Action community mentors with theatrical backgrounds who decided to use theatre as a mentoring tool as well as a creative healing tool.

We empower women caught up in the justice system with skills and confidence to allow them to craft their real live stories for stage, radio, books, television and film.

A mentor is anyone that is a good role model i.e. good friend, advisor, parent/s, teacher, coach, sybling, relative etc.

We encourage women who have been caught up in the justice system to train to become Community Mentors and help those that are still caught up in the justice system to get over it, especially our Youth. Having been there and done that, qualifies us to actually be excellent nurturing mentors for the ones that are still stuck in the system.

So we like to do our part by helping to break the cycle of poverty by empowering women with skills and confidence that will help them to move on, and become a powerful voice in the community. As we all know, without a voice your opinion will not be heard.

We aim to reduce recidivism, by helping women that have been caught up in the justice system to channel their energies in a constructive and productive way, by becoming good community mentors.

Theatre Launch

Action Break Theatre was launched on 23 May 2004 with 28 sponsors from the neighbouring community businesses and organisations. When we started we had absolutely no money but a great passion to start using theatre as a mentoring tool and a creative healing tool.








Justice Action were very instrumental in making our day an amazing milestone for our community artists.


Sydney Wild Life founded by Peter Buckley sponsored our day by providing various reptiles for our amusement, which gave us a different perspective on these normally feared creatures.


The City of Sydney council also contributed by sending MP Marcelle to officially open our theatre launch.


Friends came to help make our launch memorable.


All the meat for our BBQ was donated from Sponsors.


“Once you learn that life is all about choices, you will simply take charge of your life again by first eliminating all the junk and replacing it with everything that makes you peaceful, happy and creative”


Taaleah & Dionne approached at least 30 different business'in the metropolitan area and 28 responded by sponsoring our launch with meat, alcohol and prizes for the great success of our theatre launch.


Many different artists also sponsored us for the day by freely sharing their talents to entertain our guests.






Soul Diva Rebecca Moore strumming up a storm.








Sweet Art in Paddington sponsored us with a cake which was cut by Justice Action founder Brett Collins and MP Marcelle.



Superstar Caberet Diva Sylvana from Stonewall Oxford Street giving our launch the thumbs up.





Sylvana singing a duet with R&B Diva Emma Donovan.

Survivors Theatre Workshop


Action Break Theatre Inc. provides a safe, non-judgemental environment for survivors of child abuse, domestic violence, mental health and the justice system to learn new skills and confidence.

Our aim is to empower these survivors with enough skills to help them craft their real live stories for stage, radio, books, television and film.


We help those at-risk of the justice system to channel their energies more constructively for the benefit of the community in our objective to help reduce recidivism.


“Before we can truly connect with others we must first make the connection with ourselves”


“The expression of love is by far our greatest expression whether it be through music poetry, visual arts, passion, or simply by a kind gesture”


"Once you remove that victim's mentality from your system, you will finally acknowledge your strengths as a Survivor"


“Life is all about choices, so consider the consequences before making the right decision”


“Allow yourself to be nurtured from the well of Spiritual Power within you to transform negatives into positives”


“A true Friend will reach out beyond boundaries whenever needed”


“Tune into the spiritual knowledge within you to turn Worry into Awareness and Regrets into inspiration”

About us

“Human relationships are not just there to extract temporary sensational feelings from, but are meant to be mirrors for learning and to give us a greater understanding about ourselves and others”


Taaleah - President / Secretary



Dionne - Vice President


Angie - Treasurer


Virginia - Assistant Treasurer









We are the executive committee of Action Break Theatre Incorporated. A couple of us are graduated Justice Action Community Mentors with theatrical backgrounds. We got together with a couple of other JA Mentors 1 March 2004 and decided to use theatre as a mentoring tool and a creative healing tool for women who have been caught up in the justice system web.

Action Break Theatre was launched on 23 May 2004, with 28 sponsors from the neighbouring community businesses and organisations.

Since commencing our weekly theatre workshops from 30 May 2004, we have discovered that most of our participants had something in common. We were all survivors of either child abuse, domestic violence, mental health or the justice system, or all of the above.