Orewa College alumni Lachlan Buckley, Emma Searle, Geena Hutton and Victoria Clark took part in the international Broadway Dreams performing arts programme.
Alumni performers participate in intensive training with international theatre professionals
Orewa College alumni Lachlan Buckley, Emma Searle, Geena Hutton, and Victoria Clark recently took part in the Broadway Dreams programme, an intensive performing arts training initiative designed to prepare young performers for professional pathways in theatre.
Broadway Dreams brings together youth and young adult performers for a week of workshops and masterclasses led by experienced industry tutors. Participants develop skills across acting, singing, and dancing while working alongside professionals from the United States, Aotearoa New Zealand, and other international theatre communities.
This year’s tutors included Warren Egypt Franklin, known for Hamilton and American Sports Story on Prime Video, and Reagan Kennedy, who performed in the Mean Girls U.S.A. National Tour.
The programme concludes with a showcase performance where one participant, known as a Dreamer, is selected to travel to New York to perform alongside international performers in front of casting directors and industry professionals.
Geena Hutton was selected for this opportunity. Geena completed her final year at Orewa College in 2018 before studying Musical Theatre at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Her professional credits include touring with G&T Productions in Jersey Boys, understudying Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins at The Civic, and she has recently been cast as the Juliet understudy in the upcoming G&T Productions season of & Juliet. This is the second time Geena has been selected for the New York Broadway Dreams opportunity.
The college also acknowledges alumna Billie Hart, Head Girl in 2018, who returned to the programme this year in a professional capacity as a répétiteur.
These achievements reflect the continued success of Orewa College alumni pursuing careers across the performing arts.
Content Credit: Georgia Aitken, Sarah Searle