TRIPLE THREAT

Rebekkah leads the creation of the curriculum for the year, and sets the outcomes for each term, providing a framework for our other teachers to work to.

Rebekkah is an in-demand professional dancer, choreographer, singer and actress, having trained in New York at Broadway Dance Centre. Founder of dynamic dance theatre company Luck & Schooney; and co-artistic director of the spectacular queer cabaret Night of the Queer.

Rebekkah's theatre credits include ATC Shortland Street the Musical and Chicago. Other credits include Pleasuredome the Musical, Artemis, Gifted, Anything Goes and 42nd Street. She has appeared on television on the X-Factor and Jono and Ben and in multiple music videos (Marlon Williams, Stan Walker, William Waiiru & San Holo).

In 2015 she received the ‘Stand out Female Performer Award’ at Short and Sweet Dance Festival for her contemporary piece "The Crickets Have Arthritis" and in 2016 completed a month at the Banff Arts Centre in Canada as part of the contemporary Indigenous Dance Residency. Rebekkah is currently finishing her Postgraduate Diploma in Dance Studies at Auckland University.

Ben Kubiak maintains a busy musical work life spanning multiple disciplines. A multi-instrumentalist, as a pianist he is currently a Dame Malvina Major Foundation Studio Artist with New Zealand Opera, alongside work at the University of Auckland and New Zealand Singing School. As a singer, he has performed roles on stages from the Court Theatre in Christchurch to the Civic Theatre in Auckland. He can currently be found playing, music directing, singing, composing and teaching all over Auckland, while also trying to finish off a PhD in musicology at Auckland University.

Isabella has been in the performing arts world since the age of 8, her first three shows being with NYT. A month after completing high school, she moved to Paris where she obtained a three year undergraduate diploma in Performance (Acting). She was taught bilingually and as a result is now fluent in French. A few months after completing her undergraduate, she auditioned and was accepted into the competitive Masters course at Mountview Academy in London. She received training in several areas of performance, including stage combat, screen acting, radio and commercial work, and accents, which are all areas she now excels at. She moved from London back to Auckland late last year and landed a gig touring with the Ugly Shakespeare Company, helping to revitalise the company and has been offered the opportunity to write, adapt and perform next year's Shakespeare play. After tutoring the AllStars school holiday programme, Isy became Assistant Director for Oliver! and is now a regular tutor for us.