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2009 Summer School Dates announced!
24/04/2008 03:34
Our 2009 Summer School will run from Monday 12th January through to Saturday 24th January 2009. Our registration form is now available to download from our Register tab on the left. If you would prefer an application form to be emailed to you please email info@ccmt.org.nz
2009 School Directors announced!
25/06/2008 02:31
We are delighted to announce our School and Performance Directors for 2009. Russell Pickering will be our Education Director and Grant Meese will be our Performance Director. For more on Russell and Grant visit our news section
Russell Pickering - Eudcation Director 2009
Russell is a professional actor and director. After completing his BA in Drama at the University of Waikato, he won the BobHope Scholarship to study for his MFA in Acting at Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, TX. He has appeared on commercial television and on regional theatre stages throughout the US and NZ, including Dallas Theatre Centre, Dallas Shakespeare Festival,in New York at the Flea Theatre and Jean Cocteau Rep, in Auckland, Silo Theatre and Herald Theatre.
Russell has worked with Patsy Rodenburg (head of voice for the Royal National Theatre in London), three time Tony award winning actress Zoe Caldwell, and renowned performance artist Tim Miller. He has taught acting at Meadows School of the Arts, The University of Auckland's community education department, and at various summer programmes throughout the US. He worked for over a year as an assistant agent representing actors at The Henderson/Hogan Agency in New York .
He produced and co-directed '4.48 Psychosis' at Silo Theatre and starred in The Rebel Alliance's 'Night of French Mayhem' and 'The Bomb' at the Herald Theatre. Russell also runs 'SpeakEasy' – a company specialising in presentation training for corporations. www.speakeasy.co.nz
Grant Meese - Performance Director
Grant’s vast involvement with theatre started in Auckland as a 12 year old, and some 25 years on, his contribution now extends to the full theatrical spectrum, from performer to choreographer, musical director and director.
His most recent projects have been directing Cats in Wellington, My Fair Lady, Beauty and the Beast and Salute to Broadway in Auckland.
Earlier highlights for Grant include performing in 42nd Street and La Cage Aux Folles, choreographing Jesus Christ Superstar and Nunsense, Musical Director for Big River, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Chess, and Directing Jesus Christ Superstar, Company, and the Auckland Premiers of Crazy for You and Aspects of Love.
In recent years, Grants work has received acclaim at the NAPTA’s - The Northern Area Performing Theatre Awards. His productions of Chess, Suessical the Musical and Beauty and the Beast were named ‘Best Overall Show’, and for Company and Beauty and the Beast he was awarded ‘Best Director’.
Grant has also received countless other NAPTA nominations that are a rewarding appraisal of the consistently high standard of high work that he achieves.
Increasingly, Grant is now in demand for special corporate or entertainment events. This is an obvious extension to his passion for Musical Theatre and he enjoys the creative challenges that these new ventures provide.
2008 Upcoming Productions
25/06/2008 03:00
Visit our news section for information on shows by the Schools and Theatre Companies of many of our students
22 September - 3rd October - Pumpkin Pie (Panto) - Papakura Theatre Company
23-25 September - ACG Parnell College present 'The Wiz'
4-18 October - The Full Monty - Playhouse Theatre - Glen Eden
31st October - 15th November - Relatively Speaking (Play) - Harlequin Music Theatre, Howick
November 7-8 Kristin Junior School present 'Seussical Jnr' at the Kristin School Auditorium
November 8-22 - Nunsence - North Shore Music Theatre
November 8-22 - The Producers - Pukekohe Light Opera
22-29 November - Christmas Show TBA - Playhouse Theatre, Glen Eden
27-29 November - The Wiz - NYTC - Dorothy Winstone Theatre, Auck Girls Grammar
29th November - 13th Dec - Something's Afoot - Centrestage Theatre Company
2009 Tutors Announced!
16/08/2008 19:30
We are excited to announce the Tutors for our 2009 School! Click the Tutors button on the left to read all about them...
2009 Tutors are;
Grant Meese - Performance Director
Russell Pickering - Education Director/Drama Tutor
Michael Williams - Music Director
Louise Britzman - Vocal Tutor
Kenneth Cornish - Vocal Tutor
Jacque Drew - Drama Tutor
Taane Mete - Dance Tutor
Russell Pickering - Drama Tutor
Sandra Rasmussen - Dance Tutor
Nicholas Forbes - Repetiteur
William Green - Repetiteur
Terence Penk - Repetiteur
Audition dates confirmed for 2009 school
28/09/2008 20:56
Audition dates have been confirmed as Saturday October 18th and Saturday November 22nd. Visit our 2009 school page on the left to see audition guidelines from Russell Pickering our Education Director.