BIO
Working Singer and Actress. Resident jazz "chanteuse" at Prohibition Restaurant - see Gigs for current performances and projects.
Singing and Voice Tutor for South Seas Film and Television School and Toi Ora Live Arts Centre For Mental Health Clients.
Freelance Voice, Singing and Performance coach - see Voice Coaching.
Georgia Wood (nee Duder) is an Auckland, New Zealand-based singer, actress and voice coach. A graduate of The University of Auckland and Toi Whakaari- The New Zealand Drama School, she has toured international musical theatre for Cameron Mackintosh, and was part of the comedy girl-group “The Fabulous Singlettes” for the hugely popular modernized Australian Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. She has performed in numerous Auckland Theatre Company musicals, most recently as Nicky in Sweet Charity.
She recently wrote and performed her own show Highlights - the blondes & their songs. To find out more click the link at the bottom of the page.
Other vocal and performance experience is extensive - from jazz in Japan to soul in London, large outdoor events to intimate soirees; from cabaret and burlesque to session work and backing vocals, a one-woman rock opera to an album of lullabies; from a cappella quartets to big band harmony groups. She is the resident chanteuse for the sumptuous jazz era restaurant Prohibition.
Passionately interested in the human voice, she has trained in bio-laryngeal mechanics and is aware of the fundamental need for strong technique. In this capacity she has been a voice coach for music theatre productions, summer schools and for T.V and film projects including Disney's Bridge To Terebethia, shot in NZ. She also tutors voice and performance skills privately and for the South Seas Film and Television School
In 2009, she completed a Diplompa in Yoga in order to more fully understand the body as an instrument. A committed practitioner of Yoga, her particular field of interest is in strengthening and toning of the body and has designed yoga programmes specifically for singers. She is a firm believer in the human need and right to sing, believing that to sing, and to listen to song, is to be joyously alive.
