About
Anthony is an MC for hire in Newcastle, NSW.
Anthony Burke started out as a marriage celebrant, which is a decent apprenticeship in reading a room full of nervous people. These days he works Newcastle and beyond as an MC and motivational speaker, covering weddings, parties and corporate gatherings. His pitch to audiences is about taking chances and treating change as something to work with rather than survive. As an MC his job is quieter than that: keep the day easy, keep it moving, let the people it's actually about enjoy it. Setup is about as simple as it gets. Give him a microphone and he's away, though visuals can come along for a longer keynote or presentation. He doesn't work from a script. He'd rather watch the room and build the night from what's in front of him.
The show
Anthony spent years as a marriage celebrant before this, and that shows in how he runs a room. The MC work is about keeping things moving without making it about him: guests know where to be, the running order holds, and you get to enjoy your own event. Weddings, birthdays and corporate nights all sit inside what he does. The speaking side is louder. There he talks about taking chances and treating change as something you can steer rather than something that happens to you, and he uses his own story to make the point. For a workplace audience that usually turns into team building rather than a lecture.
On the day
Give him a microphone and he'll work. That's genuinely the requirement for MC work, so there's nothing to hire in and nothing to build. If you've booked him to speak rather than host, a screen and a way to put slides up helps the message land, and that's worth sorting with your venue early. But he doesn't need it. He's happy standing up with nothing but a mic and a room to talk to.
Performance options
Nothing here is off a shelf. Tell him what the day looks like and he'll shape the job around it. That might be hosting one evening, start to finish. It might be a keynote to open a conference, then handing back to your program. Or it might be a full day with him running team building sessions between the speaking. Weddings, parties, corporate functions and conferences are all regular ground, and the format changes with each.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
