Alumni
Brittany Rees-Thomas (SGCNZ NSSP 2014)
Brittany Rees-Thomas attended Newlands College in Wellington and was selected for SGCNZ NSSP Direct Entry in the SGCNZ Wellington Regional UOSWSF 2014 for her performance in a Romeo & Juliet scene. At the […] Read More
Civic Cruz (SGCNZ NSSP 2014, SGCNZ YSC 2015)
Originally from the Philippines, Christopher Cruz attended Kuranui College in the Wairarapa and was selected to attend SGCNZ NSSP 2014 in Dunedin where he performed in an abridged version of Hamlet. […] Read More
Teone Kahu (SGCNZ NSSP 2010, SGCNZ YSC 2011)
Teone Kahu is a Maori actor and father from Aranui in Christchurch. He was a student of Matua Robert Gilbert at Aranui High School where he studied at the Drama […] Read More
Candice Visser (SGCNZ NSSP 2000 & 2001, SGCNZ YSC 2002)
“I have a great love of Shakespeare and it all stems from my time with the Sheliah Winn Shakespeare Festival in Schools (now UOSWSF) when I was a student.” Candice […] Read More
Miryam Jacobi (SGCNZ NSSP 2011, SGCNZ YSC 2012)
Miryam Jacobi attended Napier Girls’ High School, playing Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, which was selected for the SGCNZ National University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival in 2011. From there, she was […] Read More
Elliot Blakely (SGCNZ NSSP 2009)
Elliot Blakely‘s first experience with Shakespeare was in his first year at High School in Gisborne 2005 as an understudy for a teacher-directed entry in the SGCNZ Sheilah Winn Festival […] Read More
Erin Banks (SGCNZ NSSP 2000, SGCNZ YSC 2001)
Erin Banks is an award-winning Wellington based actor. She has received Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for performance on five occasions, three of which were awards for Actress of the Year. […] Read More
Kieran Rayner (SGCNZ NSSP 2004, SGCNZ YSC 2005)
Operatic baritone Kieran Rayner completed a Masters of Performance and Artist Diploma in Opera at the Royal College of Music in 2018, after graduating in 2011 from the NZ School of Music/Victoria […] Read More
