Theatre Journalist Guest Blogger: Dearna Doglione has written 3 articles for BroadwayWorld since 2001, covering Musical theatre.
Dearna is in her last year at New Zealand's National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art, and an aspiring actress and playwright. She most recently studied alongside Kiwi up-and-comers at Chch Int'l Musical Theatre Summer School, being tutored by Broadway greats such as Sutton Foster and Andréa Burns. Dearna can be seen as Elisabeth Hauptmann in NASDA's season of The Collective by Jean Betts, opening the 13th of May, and as a vocalist for Showbiz's Hairspray June 8th.
The last two Sundays, Christchurch's Court Theatre has been filled with the shared stories and boisterous laughter of two solid staples of New Zealand theatre.