Oliver DavidsonModels,Actors / Male Adult

Experience & Skills

Performance Experience:

2019 Feature Film 'Black Christmas' Feature Extra

2017: ANZACS - French Museum Immersive Film and Vignettes; Wild Bear Entertainment; Feature

2016: ‘Evita’; dancer & ensemble, Showbiz Christchurch 

2016: ‘Hairspray’; dancer & ensemble, Showbiz Christchurch  

2016: ‘Mamma Mia!’; dancer & ensemble, Showbiz Christchurch   

2016: Stage Challenge with St Bedes College competition troupe

2016: The Big Sing competition, and Widor Mass with St Bedes College Senior Choir, Obedeance

2015: ‘Pippin’, St Bedes and Marion College

2013: ‘Guys and Dolls’, St Bedes and Marion College

Since 2011: Southern Ballet productions including ‘Cinderella’, ‘The Wizard of Oz’, ‘The Ballet Competition’, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Four Seasons’, ‘The Snow Queen’, ‘The Four Elements’, and ‘Halloween’ seasons x4

Since 2013 Obedeance; Senior Choir, St Bedes College

2009-2011 Imagine Youth Theatre, Helen Moran pantomimes including ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Hansel & Gretel’

Tuition:

2016 Music Theatre tuition: Trinity College Grade 8, Mrs Zara Ballara

2016 Drama and Speech tuition: Trinity College Grade 8, Mrs Penelope Henstock

2016 American Jazz: NZAMD Advanced 2 -awarded Distinction (95%-100%) & Nomination to NZAMD Scholarship Awards (to be held Nov. 2016).

2016 Became an Associate (Jazz), New Zealand Association of Modern Dance

 2016 Showbiz Vocal Studio- group class with Mr Ravil Atlas

2016 Christchurch International Musical Theatre Summer School (CIMTSS) with Mr Luke di Somma

2015 American Jazz: NZAMD Advanced 1- awarded Distinction (95%-100%) & Nomination to NZAMD Scholarship Awards

2015 Speech and Drama: Trinity College Grade 7- Distinction -included: contrasting pieces from ‘Blood Brothers’, ‘The Servant of Two Masters’, ‘Pickwick Papers’ by Charles Dickens and ‘Our Sea, our Saviour’ by Hone Tuwhare

2015 Ballet: BBO Advanced One- awarded Merit

2015 Christchurch International Musical Theatre Summer School (CIMTSS) with Mr Luke di Somma

2014 NCEA Level 1 Drama-first in class, and Music (merit endorsement)

2014 Phoenix Dance Workshop, Palmerston North (The American Jazz Dance Affiliation International)

2012-2015 Voice lessons with Mrs Helen Charlton, St Bedes College

2008 -2015 Piano lessons & performances with Mrs Mimi Griffiths and Mr Richard Chandler, St Bedes College

2013-2014- Guitar lessons with Mr Michael Summer, St Bedes College

2008-2012- Hip Hop- Grade 4-awarded Honours, Southern Ballet

Other Opportunities:

Jan 2017: Attended (following successful audition) IFAC Handa NZ Singing School: Te Wananga Toi Waiata, Napier (Musical Theatre Stream).

Nov 2016: Auditioned and offered a place in the New Zealand ‘Black Stars’ team to compete at the World Championship of Performing Arts (WCOPA) in Los Angeles, USA, June-July 2017.

Oct 2016: Offered and accepted a University of Otago Performance Entrance Scholarship (value $16,000 over 3 year tenure). http://www.otago.ac.nz/study/scholarships/database/otago014656.html

Oct 2016: Auditioned and offered a place in Bachelor of Performing Arts vocal course for 2017, University of Otago.

Feb and Oct 2016: Offered Modelling Contracts by Portfolio Models, Christchurch and Ican Models and Talent, Dunedin. (At this point I have not been able to take this up due to onstage performance commitments).

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