Loxlea Creative

Hello music lovers! I’m Laine Loxlea-Danann, a multi-faceted creative with an unwavering passion for music and the arts. My life is enriched by my full-time roles as an arts industry practitioner, vocal artist, performer, vocal and performance coach, talent manager, songwriter, composer, and musical director.

Music and singing have the unparalleled power to uplift and enrich our lives in ways few other experiences can match. It is my greatest joy to be deeply involved in and surrounded by music. I invite you to join me in celebrating our shared love for this incredible art form. Let’s revel in the magic of music together!

BIO

Laine Loxlea-Danann is an internationally acclaimed Musical Theatre writer with an unwavering passion for music, theatre, and art. Her Mono-Musical, The Critical Last Chance Years, recently enjoyed its second season at Theatre An Der Rott in Germany.

Laine holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University. She also possesses a Master of Music Studies in Vocal Pedagogy, majoring in Contemporary Voice, a Graduate Certificate in Performance, and a Diploma of Music majoring in Voice with a secondary focus on Composition. Additionally, she holds a Double Diploma in Vocational Education and Training, and Training Design and Development, as well as a Certificate IV in Training and Assessing.

Throughout her illustrious career, Laine has held various prominent roles, including Operations Manager for the Hayward Street Theatre Performing Arts Centre, Head of Music at the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA), and Head of Training and Singing at the Brisbane Academy of Musical Theatre (BAMT). She has also taught at the tertiary level as a singing, voice, and choral teacher for the Popular Music, Musical Theatre, Undergraduate Jazz, and Postgraduate Vocal Pedagogy Departments at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Currently, she runs her own arts business, Loxlea Creative, specializing in Talent Management, Music and Performance Lessons & Training, and Creative Productions.

Laine has completed an internship in Theatre Practices and Stagecraft at the Conservatorium Opera School under Giuseppe Sorbello’s tutelage. She has also undergone two years of sustainable arts business training with Briz Arts Makers at Metro Arts. Known throughout Brisbane and Queensland as a singer, actress, performer, theatre maker, teacher, music entrepreneur, producer, musical director, and composer, Laine’s original musical, Critical Last Chance Years, made its European debut in January 2022. She has also won the critics' award for The Gin and Sin Jazz Salon at the Anywhere Theatre Festival and the RADF grant-funded touring cabaret The Clints Come Again.

Laine’s eclectic career spans opera, jazz, and musical theatre, with a particular love for intimate cabaret where she performs her own compositions. Some of her notable credits include Danse Noir at the Judith Wright Centre, VoxOnyx at the Brisbane Powerhouse Visy Theatre, Fused for the QMF at the Brisbane Powerhouse, and her productions A Blind Date with a Diva and Other Shenanigans and Critical Last Chance Years at the Arts Centre Gold Coast and The Retro Bar. Her artist-in-residence project in Cairns for Musica Viva, musical direction for Soul Music/Souls Entwined at QPAC, and performances with her female a cappella ensemble Paisley Lane at the Q150 Shed Tour are also notable.

Other highlights include a sold-out season of her one-woman show Quintessential Songs of the Naffy Twee, the award-winning Gin and Sin Jazz Salon, appearances on the TV show Forensic Investigators, and working on short films such as Summer Camp, Yoke, and Carpool alongside renowned Australian actress Kerry Armstrong. She has performed as the fictitious opera starlet Esmeralda Walschtang in The Limelight Revue produced by the Queensland Folk Federation, as part of the Brisbane Cabaret Festival, and has released three CDs of original work—Miss Laine, Me and the Sky, and Barefoot—a collection of jazz, cabaret, and comedy songs.

As a musical director, choral conductor, vocal coach, and pianist, Laine has worked on productions such as Boadicea and The Limelight Revue for the Queensland Folk Federation, The Understudy for Dogs in the Roof, Cabaret, Bobcat Magic produced by the Queensland Music Festival and La Boite Theatre Company, and the Centenary of Federation production Voices and Visions. As a composer, she has written scores for six short films, two of which won Queensland New Filmmakers Awards and a Woodford Film Festival Award. She has also written string arrangements for performers such as The Ten Tenors and Brianna Carpenter.

For the past 31 years, Laine has been a highly successful music and theatre teacher, specializing in coaching versatile singers, musicians, and performers across all genres of vocal and musical performance, from classical and jazz to musical theatre, pop, and rock, as well as stagecraft from musical theatre, rock/pop performance, to straight dramatic theatre. Her students have included well-known singers, actors, and performers such as Thelma Plum, Patience from The Grates, Michael from Yves Klein Blue, Sean from Last Dinosaurs, and actor Elise Greig. Many of her students have gone on to secure places with The Ten Tenors, Melbourne State Opera, Sony Records (Japan), and popular TV shows.

Throughout her career, Laine has worked with outstanding musicians and theatre practitioners, including James and John Morrison, Wesley Enoch, Jessica Mauboy, Sean Mee, Kate Miller-Heidke, Azaria from The Art, Brian Lucas, Lewis Jones, Carita Farrer-Spencer, Stephen Helper, Elise Greig, Alicia Cush, Penny Mullen, Emma Dean, Dave Spicer, Kerry Armstrong, and Darren Percival. Thriving on music, theatre, and the creative arts, Laine is committed to working diversely, creatively, and always with a song in her heart.