Weslee Lauder
Balloon Man / Sergei
TRAINING: B-Tech (Hons) in Musical Theatre (Cum Laude) Tshwane University of Technology.
THEATRE CREDITS INCLUDE: Sergei / Balloon Man and 1st cover Miss Trunchbull in Matilda The Musical (International Tour / RSC); Rock of Ages (SA); The Mystery of Irma Vep (SA Tour); Dr. Jonas Fogg and 1st cover SweeneyTodd in Sweeney Todd (SA Tour), Dust in the Big Hopper in Starlight Express (SA), Assistant Director and 1st cover Big Bopper in Buddy Holly – The Buddy Holly Story (SA), Call Me Lee (SA Tour), African Adventure (SA), Pantomimes (SA); Janice Honeyman’s Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk and Dame Clementina Coconut in Peter Pan.
CHOREOGRAPHIC CREDITS INCLUDE: ROSA (Netflix), Xpats (Amazon), Grease (SA), Rock of Ages (SA), Edges (SA), A Chorus Line (SA), Songs for A New World (OKLAHOMA & SA), Saturday Night Fever (SA), Spring Awakening (SA), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (SA).
COMMISSIONS: Hot August Night (SA & Botswana), Bang Bang City: A Broadway Ballet (SA), J’Zel (SA).
DIRECTING CREDITS INCLUDE: Aesop’s Fables (SA), Mr. Gay World 2022/2023, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (SA), Great Balls of Fire: The Tale of Jerry Lee Lewis (SA), One More Night: The Ultimate Phil Collins Experience (SA), Jonathan Roxmouth: The Musicals in Concert (SA), Jonathan Roxmouth: Back in Lights (SA), Doringrosie: Die Slapende Skone (SA), Sneeuwitjie (SA), Aspoestertjie (SA), Stage by Stage (SA), Jonathan Roxmouth-From the Footlights (SA).
INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL FILM, TELEVISION, AND COMMERCIAL CREDITS INCLUDE: Lacoste, Kerrygold, MTN, DStv, Legacy, IBM, Fluit Fluit, Die Vlieënde Springbokkie S1/2/3, Zee World, Garden Day, Elke Skewe Pot, Show Max, High Rollers, ‘nHondelewe, M Web, Standard Bank, Chicken Licken, Sterlopers, Robbie Wesse ls Super Gees, Vodacom, Super Rugby, Wimpy, SARS, CityVarsity.
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