Jennifer Ward-Lealand
Jennifer Ward-Lealand
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Female
46 years old
Auckland
New Zealand
Last Login: 7/14/2009
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OFFICIAL SITE:
www.jenniferwardlealand.com
Click here for more information on FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN
Click here for more information on THE LOOK OF LOVE
UPCOMING GIGS
SEE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR FULL DETAILS
18 July 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Guest artist for A Charmed Life--A Tribute to Russ Garcia
Raye Freedman Arts Centre
Tickets will be available from iTicket
24 July 2009
Singing with Jubilation
Prime Ministers Social Heroes Awards 2009
Robin Hood Foundation
St Matthews in the City
27 July 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Host of New Zealand/Montana Book Awards
Auckland Museum Events Centre
29-30 July 2009
Sings cabaret The Look of Love, Evocative/Provocative
Taranaki International Festival of the Arts
6 August 2009
Host, Women in Film and Television Awards
Skycity
3-23 September 2009
Tekla in Strindberg's The Creditors
Musgrove Studio (at Maidment Theatre)
15-17 September 2009
Tutor for 2nd year student solos, director of show
Toi Whakaari (NZ Drama School)
25 September 2009
Host of 2009 Montana World of WearableArt Awards Show
TSB Bank Arena, Queens Wharf, Wellington
Spring 2009
Louise Bouchet in eps. 2.4 and 2.5 of
Jaquie Brown Diaries
TV3
21 October 2009
Sings cabaret The Look of Love, Evocative/Provocative
The Hawkins Centre, 13 Ray Small Drive, Papakura
May 2010
Directing Tic Tic by Paul Barrett and Michelanne Forster
Details TBA
BIOGRAPHY
Since she first trod the boards at the age of 7, Jennifer has become one of New Zealand’s leading actresses. In 1982 she trained at Auckland’s influential Theatre Corporate, joining the main company soon after and appearing in plays including Hedda Gabler, The Trial, Top Girls, and King Lear.
Since then she has worked extensively in theatre, film, TV, musicals and radio. Theatre performances include Carousel, Agnes of God, Nana, The Irving Berlin Show (Mercury Theatre), Cabaret, Assassins (Watershed Theatre), Breaking the Silence, The Real Thing, Side by Side by Sondheim (Centrepoint Theatre), The Threepenny Opera (Downstage Theatre), Tell Me On a Sunday (Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra), Into the Woods, The Herbal Bed, The Graduate, The Bach, Twelfth Night, My Name is Gary Cooper (Auckland Theatre Company), Pinter’s Old Times, the title role of Marlene Dietrich in the sell-out production of Marlene ([potent] pause Productions), Decadence (Maidment)The Goat, and the sell-out production of Berlin (Silo Theatre), which she co-created.
In 1989/90, she toured NZ and internationally with The Front Lawn and in the mid 90s moved to Australia to appear in the comedy TV series Full Frontal and played Viola in the Adelaide International Festival’s production of Twelfth Night.
Jennifer’s film work includes The Footstep Man, Desperate Remedies, The Ugly, Fracture, Linda’s Body and The Painted Lady. Television includes Full Frontal, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Shortland Street, Duggan, and Interrogation.
Awards include Best Actress (Sitges, Spain) for Desperate Remedies; Best Actress (GOFTA, NZ) for Danny and Raewyn; Best Theatrical Performer (NZ Entertainment Awards), The Evening Standard Best Actress Award for Breaking the Silence (Centrepoint Theatre), and most recently Best New Zealand Actress in the Metro Readers’ Poll for her role as Stevie in Edward Albee’s The Goat.
Jennifer’s directing credits include Sister Wonder Woman, Arohaotearoa (Silo), Let Yourself Go (which she also devised), Big River and By Thunder for Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts, Handel’s Acis and Galatea for NBR New Zealand Opera, executive producer of Hamlet and assistant director (to Michael Hurst) on Macbeth, for The Large Group, A Christmas Carol for ATC, and The Mystery of Irma Vep and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris for Silo Theatre.
Jennifer devised and performed a one-woman cabaret Jennifer Ward-Lealand Sings Marlene for the AK03 Festival Club and Hamilton Gardens Festival (2004) and since 2005 has toured her cabaret Falling in Love Again to arts festivals throughout NZ including performances in Australia; at The Famous Speigeltent for AK07 and with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. She has also introduced the CD Falling in Love Again, a studio recording of 23 songs from her touring show. 2007 saw Jennifer introducing her new cabaret, The Look of Love – Evocative/Provocative.
This year Jennifer played Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera for Silo/The Large Group; played Dominique in Le Sud (ATC Next Stage) directed Top Girls for Unitec Graduating students, toured The Look of Love to Canberra, Nelson and Hastings; MC’d the Auckland Heritage Festival Opening Event, Women in Film and Television Awards, Montana New Zealand Book Awards and the New Zealand Institute of Architects 2008 Awards for Architecture Gala Dinner and is a member of the core cast voicing the animated series of Buzzy Bee.
Jennifer was awarded an ONZM for “services to theatre and the community” in the 2007 New Years Honours List and is President of NZ Actors Equity.
Jennifer’s official website is www.jenniferwardlealand.com
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