Naomi Price
Encyclopedia
Naomi Price is an Australia
n stage
actress
, best known for her work in musical theatre.
in 2003. Since moving to Brisbane
, she has appeared in numerous productions including Matilda Women and Tashi Stories for QUT, Twelfth Night, The Wiz
, Arsenic and Old Lace
, Harvey
, Little Shop of Horrors
, Big Black Box, Into the Woods
, Children of Eden
, Alice
, The Best of Broadway and Beyond, the Matilda Award nominated Divas and The Awfully Big Adventures of Peter Pan for (Harvest Rain Theatre Company
), Rent
for Starlight-Schonell Productions, Tell Me on a Sunday
for Schonell Productions and The Wishing Well for Matrix Theatre/La Boite Theatre. In 2007, Price played the role of Cathy in Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years
co-starring Brisbane-based singer Luke Kennedy
and directed by Tim O'Connor for (Oscar Theatre Company
/Judith Wright Centre).).
Price made her directorial debut in 2008 with the Brisbane
season of High School Musical
(MAD Youth Theatre/Harvest Rain Theatre Company
) and is currently the General Manager of Harvest Rain Theatre Company
.
in the critically acclaimed production of Jesus Christ Superstar
at the QPAC Playhouse, which will have a return season in February 2011.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n stage
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
actress
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, best known for her work in musical theatre.
History
Price moved from England to Australia to study at Queensland University of TechnologyQueensland University of Technology
Queensland University of Technology is an Australian university with an applied emphasis in courses and research. Based in Brisbane, it has 40,000 students, including 6,000 international students, over 4,000 staff members, and an annual budget of more than A$750 million.QUT is marketed as "A...
in 2003. Since moving to Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, she has appeared in numerous productions including Matilda Women and Tashi Stories for QUT, Twelfth Night, The Wiz
The Wiz
The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...
, Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the...
, Harvey
Harvey (play)
Harvey is a 1944 play by American playwright Mary Chase. Produced by Brock Pemberton and directed by Antoinette Perry, the play premiered on 1 November 1944 at the 48th Street Theatre on Broadway where it was staged for 1,775 performances before closing on January 15, 1949. The original production...
, Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman...
, Big Black Box, Into the Woods
Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...
, Children of Eden
Children of Eden
Children of Eden is a two-act musical play with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John Caird. The musical is based on the Book of Genesis. Act I tells the story of Adam and Eve, Cain, and Abel, and Act II deals with Noah and the Flood...
, Alice
Alice
Alice may refer to:* Alice , including a list of notable people called Alice-Books and comics:* Alice , the heroine of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass...
, The Best of Broadway and Beyond, the Matilda Award nominated Divas and The Awfully Big Adventures of Peter Pan for (Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....
), Rent
Rent (musical)
Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème...
for Starlight-Schonell Productions, Tell Me on a Sunday
Tell Me On A Sunday
Tell Me on a Sunday is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black. A one-act song cycle, it tells the story of an ordinary English girl from Muswell Hill, who journeys to the United States in search of love...
for Schonell Productions and The Wishing Well for Matrix Theatre/La Boite Theatre. In 2007, Price played the role of Cathy in Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years is a one-act musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It premiered in Chicago in 2001 and was then produced off-Broadway in March 2002. Since then it has had numerous productions both in the United States and internationally....
co-starring Brisbane-based singer Luke Kennedy
Luke Kennedy
Luke Kennedy is an Australian performer best known for touring internationally with The Ten Tenors and performing the title role in Jesus Christ Superstar in various productions around the country.- History :...
and directed by Tim O'Connor for (Oscar Theatre Company
Oscar Theatre Company
The Oscar Theatre Company is one of Australia's theatre companies operating in Brisbane.- History :Oscar Theatre Company was founded by local performer Emily Gilhome in 2004 with a view to support and produce new works and productions for young Queensland theatre artists...
/Judith Wright Centre).).
Price made her directorial debut in 2008 with the Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
season of High School Musical
High School Musical
High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and...
(MAD Youth Theatre/Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....
) and is currently the General Manager of Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....
.
Recent news
In August 2010, Price played Mary MagdaleneMary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus' most celebrated disciples, and the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus. Jesus cleansed her of "seven demons", conventionally interpreted as referring to complex illnesses...
in the critically acclaimed production of Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
at the QPAC Playhouse, which will have a return season in February 2011.
Live performances
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971... |
Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus' most celebrated disciples, and the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus. Jesus cleansed her of "seven demons", conventionally interpreted as referring to complex illnesses... >Mary Mary (mother of Jesus) Mary , commonly referred to as "Saint Mary", "Mother Mary", the "Virgin Mary", the "Blessed Virgin Mary", or "Mary, Mother of God", was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee... |
Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... / QPAC) |
| 2010 | Songs for a New World Songs for a New World Songs for a New World is a work of musical theater written and composed by Jason Robert Brown. Its original off-Broadway production ran for 28 performances at the WPA Theater in New York City in 1995. The show sits on the boundary between musical and song cycle, but it is neither; it is an abstract... |
Woman Woman A woman , pl: women is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent... |
Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... / Judith Wright Centre) |
| 2010 | Divas | Naomi | Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... / QPAC) |
| 2010 | Harvest Rain 25 | Soloist | Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... / QPAC) |
| 2009 | Carols in the City Carols in the City Carols in the City , is an annual free Christmas concert event held at the Brisbane River Stage, in Brisbane, Australia. It is broadcast across Australia through the Nine Network with media partners being The Sunday Mail, 4BC and 4BH... |
Quartet Quartet In music, a quartet is a method of instrumentation , used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.-Western art music:... |
Produced by Leisa Barry-Smith (Nine Network Nine Network The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia... ) |
| 2009 | The Awfully Big Adventures of Peter Pan | Wendy Wendy Wendy is a given name generally given to females in English-speaking countries.The name is found in United States records from the 19th century; Wendy Gram, a female resident of Ohio, was born in 1828, and the name Wendy appeared over twenty times in the U.S. Census of 1880... |
Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... / QPAC) |
| 2008 | Carols in the City Carols in the City Carols in the City , is an annual free Christmas concert event held at the Brisbane River Stage, in Brisbane, Australia. It is broadcast across Australia through the Nine Network with media partners being The Sunday Mail, 4BC and 4BH... |
Quartet Quartet In music, a quartet is a method of instrumentation , used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.-Western art music:... |
Produced by Leisa Barry-Smith (Nine Network Nine Network The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia... ) |
| 2008 | Divas | Naomi | Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... ) |
| 2008 | The Wishing Well | Sarah / Bella / Lily / Jilly | Directed by Michael Futcher (La Boite Theatre) |
| 2007 | Carols in the City Carols in the City Carols in the City , is an annual free Christmas concert event held at the Brisbane River Stage, in Brisbane, Australia. It is broadcast across Australia through the Nine Network with media partners being The Sunday Mail, 4BC and 4BH... |
Quartet Quartet In music, a quartet is a method of instrumentation , used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.-Western art music:... |
Produced by Leisa Barry-Smith (Channel Ten) |
| 2007 | Divas | Naomi | Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... ) |
| 2007 | Best of Broadway and Beyond | Soloist | Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... ) |
| 2007 | Alice Alice Alice may refer to:* Alice , including a list of notable people called Alice-Books and comics:* Alice , the heroine of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass... |
Alice Alice Alice may refer to:* Alice , including a list of notable people called Alice-Books and comics:* Alice , the heroine of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass... |
Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... ) |
| 2007 | The Last Five Years The Last Five Years The Last Five Years is a one-act musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It premiered in Chicago in 2001 and was then produced off-Broadway in March 2002. Since then it has had numerous productions both in the United States and internationally.... |
Cathy | Directed by Tim O'Connor (Oscar Theatre Company Oscar Theatre Company The Oscar Theatre Company is one of Australia's theatre companies operating in Brisbane.- History :Oscar Theatre Company was founded by local performer Emily Gilhome in 2004 with a view to support and produce new works and productions for young Queensland theatre artists... /The Judith Wright Centre) |
| 2007 | Children of Eden Children of Eden Children of Eden is a two-act musical play with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John Caird. The musical is based on the Book of Genesis. Act I tells the story of Adam and Eve, Cain, and Abel, and Act II deals with Noah and the Flood... |
Yonah Yonah Yonah has several meanings is a variant transliteration for Jonah in Hebrew and means dove.Yonah means in Oromo language that is in Ethiopia “right now" in a sense of being hopeful*Yonah means bear in Cherokee... |
Directed by Tim O'Connor (Harvest Rain Theatre Company Harvest Rain Theatre Company The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre.... ) |
| 2006 | Carols in the City Carols in the City Carols in the City , is an annual free Christmas concert event held at the Brisbane River Stage, in Brisbane, Australia. It is broadcast across Australia through the Nine Network with media partners being The Sunday Mail, 4BC and 4BH... |
Quartet Quartet In music, a quartet is a method of instrumentation , used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.-Western art music:... |
Produced by Leisa Barry-Smith (Channel Ten) |
| 2006 | Rent Rent (musical) Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème... |
Mimi | Directed by Jack Bradford Jack Bradford Jack Bradford is an American / Australian stage actor and director. He is perhaps best known by many in Brisbane for founding the Brisbane Junior Theatre company which presented its first production - The Pirates of Penzance in April 2001. He also loves a good sneaky wink ;)Bradford, the son of... (Starlight/Schonell Productions) |