Artistic Council
Caroline O’Connor - Head of Artistic Council
Caroline O'Connor is a multi-award-winning singer/dancer/actress who continues to grace the stages of Broadway, the West End, the Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House. As Nini in Baz Luhrmann's Oscar-winning film Moulin Rouge, Caroline came to the attention of music lovers all over the world. Some of her signature roles include Piaf, Judy Garland, Velma Kelly in Chicago,
Anita in West Side Story and Mabel in Mack & Mabel.
- As Velma Kelly in Chicago, Caroline won the celebrated Mo Award for Female Musical Theatre Performer of the Year and a Green Room Award.
- Her Australian productions include the one-woman play Bombshells, written especially for Caroline by acclaimed playwright Joanna Murray-Smith. She has since filmed Bombshells for ABC Television and toured the play to sell-out performances at the Edinburgh Festival (where she won the coveted Fringe First Award), London’s West End at the Arts Theatre (for which she received her second Laurence Olivier Award nomination), and at the World Stage Festival in Toronto, Canada.
- Caroline O’Connor has received rave reviews for her performance in Scenes from Follies in Chicago in September 2011 which was chosen as the No 1 theatre show in 2011 by the Chicago Tribune.
- In March 2012 Caroline O'Connor is starring in the musical Gypsy playing the lead role of Gypsy Rose in London, read the Guardian Review here.
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