Podcast drama performance features WOAPA student
Congratulations Nia!
WOAPA student Nia was recently selected to perform in two drama podcasts for Chipping Norton Theatre.
Before the Covid-19 Lockdown, Nia was about to make her debut with the prestigious National Youth Musical Theatre in the Timothy Knapman & Stuart Matthew Price Musical: "Imaginary" which was to go out on tour during summer 2020.
We were delighted to hear that Nia had been selected to appear in two drama podcasts being put together by Chipping Norton Theatre during the recent Lockdown (more details and links to the podcasts below).
Nia has worked with the Theatre at Chipping Norton before, having appeared in three pantomimes there: 'Puss In Boots', 'Robinson Crusoe & The Pirate Queen' and 'Sleeping Beauty'.
In summer 2019, Nia also appeared in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' at the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon.
In addition to appearing on stage, Nia is also an accomplished musician, playing Violin, and attends the Guildhall School of Music, Junior Department.
Nia, who lives near Faringdon, has been a Performing Arts student at WOAPA for seven years and in that time, has sung at Blenheim Palace and performed in a music video for 'The Yogscast' (which has had over 150 thousand YouTube views).
She was a featured dancer in Park Promotions' video of 'The Locomotion' & 'Reach For The Stars', took part in recording WOAPA's 'Winter Wonderland' CD and has performed with WOAPA in Witney's annual Christmas Lights switch-on events.
Nia has also been a member of WOAPA's 'Showchoir' (Witney Youth Choir).
For the "Speak as One" community writing project, Chipping Norton Theatre challenged writers to create a short piece of drama for voices. The project received almost 40 submissions from writers young and old and selected some of their favourites for recording and sharing, using a cast of professional actors.
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