SGCNZ ALUMNUS

Carmel McGlone (SG IAF 2011)

Carmel McGlone has won Actress of the Year for Lady MacBeth (2004) and has been nominated Best Supporting Actress for Blood Wedding (2009). She has tutored on the acting programme at Whitireia Performing Arts Centre in Wellington. She played the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet with the Pop-Up Globe in Auckland, and Goneril for King Lear at Circa Theatre in 2014. 

“I went to school in Porirua, Viard College. Drama wasn’t taught then but I remember doing (studying would be too grand a term for what we did) Macbeth in 3^rd form and Hamlet in my 7th form English class. Dawn Sanders invited me to be an assessor for the SGCNZ National UOSWSF a couple of times, I’ve held workshops for the National Festival weekend a number of times now and I’ve also been a NSSP Selector. I was offered by SGCNZ to be part of the Shakespeare’s Globe International Actors’ Fellowship in 2011 (SG IAF). It was an extraordinary privilege. The experience is as alive in me now as if I were there yesterday. Straight after that experience I played Cleopatra in VUW’s Summer Shakespeare’s 30 year celebration production of Antony and Cleopatra.”