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Laura Mary Kruse Pro

New South Wales, Australia

Model, Actor, Musician, Dancer

www.LauraKruseActress.com

Professionally accredited film and stage actress/singer/dancer. AKA Laura Meldon in earlier film credits

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Laura Mary Kruse Actor Showreel 2012
Laura M. Meldon (stagename: Laura Mary Kruse) Screen Actor Showreel 2012 www.laurakruseactress.com
Laura Mary Kruse WCOPA Vocalist heats 20
Laura Mary Kruse Performer Profile at www.LauraKruseActress.com World Championships of Performing
Laura Meldon - Children's Entertainer
Laura M Meldon Children's Entertainer Showreel www.starnow.com.au/LauraMM SOME NOTABLE CREDITS Rac
The Light
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Bridezilla - Beaches.mov
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Physical Details

Height:165 cm / 5ft 5in Hips:81 cm / 32in
Weight:61 kg / 134 lbs Shoe size:6.0 UK / 7.5 US / 39.5 Euro
Ethnicity:White / Caucasian Hair color:Blonde
Skin color:White Hair length:Medium
Eye color:Blue Hair type:Wavy
Chest:91 cm / 36 in Dress Size:8 - 10
Waist:68 cm / 27in

Experience

2013

  • Touchstone - As You Like It : Oxford Shakespeare Company, London/Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
  • Helena - All's Well That Ends Well : Oxford Shakespeare Company, New York City, USA
  • Clowning & Caring in Ecuador : With Dr Patch Adams of the Gesundheit! Institute, Quito, Ecuador
  • Shakespeare's (S)Words : Stage Combat - York Shakespeare Company, New York City, USA

2012

  • International Artist - Two Months : Taj Hotel Group, Hyderabad, India
  • Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario : Summer Intensive - Shakespeare In Performance/Voice and Text, Stratford, Canada
  • World Championships of Performing Arts : Grand Champion Actor and Vocalist, Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA
  • Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble : Apprenticeship, Queensland, Aus
  • Adelaide Fringe Festival, 'Wilde Life' : REVIEW: Laura Meldon was also marvellous as the juvenile male as he pursued his love interests (himself and the lovely Rosanna Brennan) and Laura also gets the prize for the best delivery of a Wilde one–liner inducing a bursting cackle from the audience., Queensland, Aus
  • Australian Girls Choir - TUTOR : Providing musical/drama coaching to girls in the AGC youth choirs, Queensland, Aus

2011

  • Perform! Educational Musicals : National touring for Science Week musical, Queensland, Aus
  • Dreamscape Entertainment : Children's Entertainer & Party Character Host, Brisbane, Aus
  • Luna Park Sydney : Street Theatre, Sydney, Aus
  • All Shook Up - lead role of Natalie Haller : REVIEW: Laura Meldon's Natalie ... for me it was the performance I enjoyed most. FAVOURITE MOMENT: Everything Laura Meldon did. REVIEW: The lead singers (especially Natalie/Ed) had amazing voices., Queensland, Aus

2010

  • NIDA Young Actors Studio, Queensland, Aus
  • 'Or What You Will' adapted from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night : Black Fox Theatre Company, Queensland, Aus
  • MAD Dance House : Jazz, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Brisbane, Aus
  • National Institute of Dramatic Art : Young Actors Studio, Brisbane, Aus
  • Stagedoor Dinner Theatre : Company member - two seasons, Queensland, Aus

2008

  • Sandra Milliken Studio of Music : Singing (Sandra Milliken), Brisbane, Aus

2007

  • Sandra Milliken Studio of Music : Singing (Sandra Milliken), Brisbane, Aus

2006

  • Sandra Milliken Studio of Music : Singing (Sandra Milliken), Brisbane, Aus

Modeling

Modeling experience:Part-time model - paid commercial work
Bubbly, experienced and RELIABLE promotions model with over 5 years of brand representation in sales, sampling and corporate/trade events!

Please check out my profiles at Starnow, dare2audition and IMDB for photos.

Acting

www.imdb.com/name/nm4306516
Acting experience:Previous paid speaking roles

Languages spoken

EnglishFrench

Accents spoken

AustralianCanadianIrishUK Cockney
UK EnglishUK PoshUK ScottishUSA California
USA SouthernDutchFrenchRussian
Accolades:

July 2012 - represented Australia in the World Championships of Performing Arts for Acting and Vocals, awarded:

Senior Grand Champion Actor of the Year
Senior Grand Champion in Acting (Classical) .
Gold medal in Acting (Classical)
Silver medal in Acting (Dramatic)
Bronze medal in Acting (Contemporary)
World Championships Industry Award
$10,000 scholarship to the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts

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Theatre:

International performance credits in 2013 include New York City debut with the Oxford Shakespeare Company in the lead role of Helena in 'All's Well That Ends Well', in addition to clowning with Dr Patch Adams of the Gesundheit! Institute through hospitals and schools in Quito, Ecuador. Currently touring with Soren Bennick Productions in Sydney NSW with other recent appearances as Tinkerbell with Showtime Attractions and La La the Clown (freelance).

Recent Australian national touring and professional performance credits including musical theatre, dinner theatre cabaret, street theatre clowning at Luna Park Sydney, corporate shows, and the Starlight Children's Foundation, and performing as a professional children's entertainer for birthday parties and events in Sydney and Brisbane.

Other theatre includes 30+ shows with various Brisbane theatre companies for over seven years with genres ranging from children's theatre to adult comedy as well as operetta, musical theatre, Shakespeare and drama - details can be provided on request.

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Film:

See IMDB credits - notably, lead role of Rachel, 'The Verge' with John Jarratt and Ian McFadyen, and other lead and supporting roles in several QLD, NSW and VIC short and other film projects including some features to be released in 2012.

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Training:

Oxford Shakespeare Company, New York City 2013
QLD Shakespeare Ensemble Apprenticeship Program 2012
NIDA Young Actors Studio 2010
NIDA short courses and active involvement in theatre.

Music

Laura M Meldon - Life of the Party
From the off-Broadway hit, 'The Wild Party' by Andrew Lippa
Vocal ability:Lead singerLike to join a band:Yes
Vocal range:Soprano

Singing styles

PopRockClassicalOpera

Favorite genres

PopRockIndieJazz
Classical
July 2012 - competed in the World Championships of Performing Arts, representing Australia in Acting and Vocals, being awarded:

Senior Grand Champion in Vocal (Opera)
Gold medal in Vocal (Opera)
Gold medal in Vocal (Variety)
Silver medal in Vocal (Broadway)
Silver medal in Vocal (Open)
Bronze medal in Vocal (Contemporary)
World Championships Industry Award


About me: 3.5 OCTAVE RANGE - alto, jazz, contralto, mezzo soprano, pop, high belt, first soprano, musical theatre, descant, coloratura, dynamic ranges. In 2009, performed as an international singer in Asia's biggest rock music festival {Pulp Summer Slam} audience of 30,000. Grade 6 AMEB Honours in vocal, 3 first & 1 second places in the 2006 Enoggera Eisteddfod, 2nd in the 2006 Queensland Youth Music Awards. Received accolades for Vocal Excellency in 2006, performed in venues ranging from amateur theatre to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Suncorp Piazza, etc.

Dancing

Dancing ability:Intermediate

Dance styles

ContemporaryDiscoJazzRock & Roll
SalsaSwing
Jazz, contemporary, lyrical, musical theatre/broadway style at intermediate level with MAD Dance House and the Sydney Dance Company.

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