FLORA DRYBURGH

INTRODUCING FLORA DRYBURGH

• National Tour Capital E National Theatre for Children - "Seasons" - 2021
• New Zealand Bachelor of Creativity at Te Auaha Institute of Creativity – 2020
• New Zealand Diploma in Musical Theatre at Te Auaha Institute of Creativity - 2019
• Meredith Marshall Scholarship for Excellence - 2018
• Meredith Marshall Scholarship for Excellence - 2018

A love of stories and song led Flora to complete a Bachelor of creativity in Performing arts from Whitireia Performance Centre (Te Auaha) in 2020.

Specialising in Musical theatre, Flora has had the honour and privilege of playing such roles as Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family: A New Musical 2018), Alison Vernon-Williams (Cry Baby: The Musical, New Zealand Premiere 2019) and Pontius Pilate (Jesus Christ Superstar 2020). Flora has enjoyed professional success in "Heroes and Villains" with Orchestra Wellington (2019) and completed a National Tour in 2021 with Capital E National Theatre for Children's "Seasons." Her biggest achievement to date, however, is having her own show 'Hiraeth' which she wrote and directed, featured in the 2021 Fringe Festival's season of 'Lift-off' (Te Auaha 2021)

Musically minded, Flora enjoys playing piano, guitar and ukulele however first and fore-most, her voice is her instrument. She has had training in classical, musical theatre and a range of diverse styles for over 10 years.

Flora has experience directing, crewing and performing in a wide variety of shows and looks forward to imparting this knowledge onto the students of DAPA