Actor · Singer · dancer

Caryl is a musical theatre performer based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Since her surprise first performance at the age of three during a screening of Pocahontas, Caryl has performed in musicals onstage at Walt Disney World, at the TSB Bank Festival of Lights in New Plymouth, and in her home of Wellington. She has also performed in Christchurch and Napier as a student at the Christchurch International Musical Theatre Summer School and the New Zealand Singing School, where she worked with top international tutors, directors, and choreographers. Recently she has begun performing online in livestreamed plays, working with both her fellow Kiwis and international actors.

Caryl holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, Film, and Second Language Education from Victoria University of Wellington. Being Filipina, she was born with a karaoke mic in her hand, and has refined her performance skills with classical training as a mezzo soprano specialising in musical theatre, pop/rock, and rap, and dance training in a number of styles.

credits

Musical theatre

Year	Show	Role	Director	Company
2019	Between the Lines	Sleeping Beauty	Alexander Garside	Drama Christi
2017	DinoRock: A Musical for Kids at TSB Bank Festival of Lights	Snarl	Aaron Blackledge	Kapitall Kids' Theatre
2016	DinoRock: A Musical for Kids original production	Snarl	Aaron Blackledge	Kapitall Kids' Theatre
2015	The Sword in the Stone	Merlin	Aaron Blackledge	Kapitall Kids' Theatre
2014	The Marvellous Adventure of Jack and Daisy	Daisy	Aaron Blackledge	Kapitall Kids' Theatre
2010	Alpha Male the Musical	Jill understudy, waitress	Daniel Kaplan	S.T.A.G.E.

theatre

Year	Show	Role	Director	Company
2021	A Study of Bad Accents in New Zealand Fringe Festival	Gabriel, Sarah, Reski	Natania McLeod Roberts and Saffron Quinn	South Road Directing
2020	Sara in rEMOTION Online Play Festival (video)	Alex	Daniel Moore	Asian Creative Network
2020	After Death in rEMOTION Online Play Festival (video)	Jackie	Sharon Park	Asian Creative Network
2020	Cheap and Perfect Does Another One in New Zealand Fringe Festival	collaborator	Joanna Divett, Pája Neuhöferová, Susan Williams	Cheap and Perfect
2019	The Big Blue Planet Earth Show	Liana, Lt. Scott, Bonita	Chris Fisher	Drama Christi
2018	Potted Austen: Sense and Sensibility	Marianne Dashwood, Lucy Steele	Alexander Garside	Drama Christi
2018	Potted Austen: Pride and Prejudice	Lydia Bennet, Charlotte Lucas, Caroline Bingley	Alexander Garside	Drama Christi
2018	Sticky Fingers in New Zealand Fringe Festival	collaborator	Eunji Park	Palette Theatre

staged readings

Year	Show	Role	Director	Company
2020	Head Space in rEMOTION Online Play Festival (video)	Faith Bolton	John Primavera, Irinola Mėgrėłishviłi	Asian Creative Network
2020	Strawberry Milk (video)	Mel	Ryan Thornhill	Thornhill Theatre Space
2016	The Roaring Girl	Moll Cutpurse	Ania Upstill	The Lord Lackbeards
2016	The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex	Almada, groom	Matt Powell	The Lord Lackbeards

Singing

Year	Event	Performance
2020	Vegan Vault	market musician
2020	GGWP - Great Games With Pals	4K Cabaret (videos)
2019	Cosplay Stage Festival	"Speechless" from Aladdin 2019 (video)
2018	*Fluster Cluck; A Chaotic Curation of Cabaret and other such entertainments* in New Zealand Fringe Festival	The Mezzo Mixtape EP (video)

Dance

Year	Event	Performance	Choreographer	Company
2019	New Zealand men's vs. Barbarians handball exhibition match	Disco jazz opening entertainment	Lorna Rosevear	Spiritus Dance Company

training

Christchurch International Musical Theatre Summer School 2020: James Madison in Hamilton's "The Room Where it Happens" music dir. Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer and chor. Leslie Garcia Bowman. Florinda in Into the Woods' "Prologue: Into the Woods" dir. Peter Flynn and music dir. Geoffrey Castles. Ensemble in Edwin Drood's "There You Are" chor. Leslie Bell. Vocal masterclass with Geoffrey Castles. Dance classes with Leslie Bell and Michael Ralph.
New Zealand Singing School 2019 musical theatre stream: Masterclasses with Irene Bartlett, Pat Wilson, Nick Hollamby, Laine Loxlea-Danaan, and Jane Keller. Music dir. Mark Dorrell and Karen Grylls. Group and ensemble performances dir. Sara Brodie.
The VoxBox: Nine years private vocal tuition with Megan Corby.
Victoria University of Wellington: Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, Film, and Second Language Education. 300 level shows dir. David O'Donnell, Rachel Lenart, and Kerryn Palmer.

dance

Intermediate tap (ongoing): Spiritus Dance Company (formerly LL Dance)
Three years jazz (ongoing): Spiritus Dance Company, Jennifer Evans Dance Academy
Five years ballet (ongoing): Spiritus Dance Company, various
One year hiphop: Jennifer Evans Dance Academy
One year Latin and ballroom: The Studio

instruments

Trinity College Grade 3 piano
Basic guitar
Basic orchestral percussion

skills

Cartwheels
Rollerblading
Mute fur-suited mascot characters
Kapa haka
Swimming

Workshops

Make Soup from a Stone: Devising with Paula Van Beek at the Annual BATS Summit
Performing the World: Community theatre with Nicola Pauling at the Annual BATS Summit
Sandpit Workshops 2017 blocks 3 and 5 at BATS Theatre
Nil By Mouth: Physical theatre, communication, and language with Saran Goldie-Smith and Jen McArthur at Barbarian Productions
Characterization through improvisation with Jamie Irvine at Hutt Repertory Theatre

media

0:00: "Don't Wanna Be Here" - Ordinary Days (Adam Gwon)
1:37: "Angels, Punks and Raging Queens" - Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Bill Russell)
3:23: Helen of Troy - The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood)