About Deborah Leigh-Russell
Performance History

Singer, Performer, Actor in Theatre/Stage,
Film & Television.

Former teacher/trainer of students in Acting, Voice and Movement for the camera, as well as teaching in the past Students with Special Needs – a blessed and challenging time!

Singing Teachers have included:

James Christiansen, previous Chorus Master of Opera Qld and
Vocal Coach: Fay Baker, formerly a Vocal Coach for Opera Qld.
Stage and Theatre Productions, Principal, lead and character roles, also with singing and dancing, and including various works from playwrights Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov and Pinter.

Film and Television Credits

  • Medivac (TEN Network); Flotsam and Jetsam (BBC)
  • Movies: Getting Square, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Komodo & Kansas City
  • Mini-series: Day of the Roses - working with actors such as Rena Owen, Grant Bowler, Nicholas Eadie, Geoff Brookes, Paul Mercurio, and Rebecca Gibney.

Personal Info:

  • Living on the Gold Coast 4 years
  • Last 2 years return to singing and performing after 3+ years absence
  • Bachelor of Creative Arts & Music in Vocal Performance, Acting, Movement/Dance & Voice – Graduated 1997
  • Graduate Diploma Education in Drama & Voice – 1998; Graduate Diploma Experiential Creative Arts – 2003
  • Over 20 years experience in performance, plus several years teaching and facilitating artists to realize their potential, excellence and talents

Performance History Summary:

  • Repertoire from Broadway Hits & Musical Comedy to Jazz, Cabaret, Operetta & Opera with Gold Coast’s:‘Four Season Soiree’s’
  • ‘Opera Eagles Nest’
  • ‘Emerging Artists’
  • ‘West End Theatre Management’
  • ‘Gold Coast North Shore Theatre Company’
  • Gold Coast Show Society
  • Paul Walden Productions
  • Friends of The GC Arts Centre

Venues on the Gold Coast in Singing & Performing:

  • Paradise Room, GC Arts Centre
  • Village Theatre, Sanctuary Cove
  • Beaudesert Community Hall, Beaudesert
  • Twin Towns Services Club – Guest Artist
  • G C Exhibition & Convention Centre – singing Australian Nat. Anthem for Opening of Female World. Title. Boxing. Championships.
  • Concorde Hotel, Surfers Paradise
  • Bourbon Street Restaurant/Café, Sanctuary Cove
  • Eagles Nest Restaurant, Tamborine Mountain
  • Gold Coast Showgrounds – Official Show Openings singing Anthem2004 & 2005 as well as featured singer in ‘Ned Kelly’ Show ‘04
  • The Country Club, Sanctuary Cove
  • The Villa, Nerang
  • Coolibah Downs, Nerang
  • The Sharks Club Convention Room, Southport
  • Annand Theatre, (TSS grounds) Southport
  • Bayview Shores Conference Room, Runaway Bay
  • The Crown Plaza Hotel, Surfers Paradise
  • The Watermark Hotel, Surfers Paradise plus Private functions in various homes

Recent & Previous Major Musical Productions:

  • Les Miserable
  • Timeless : The Music, Dance & Lives of Broadway Greats Gershwin & Porter
  • The Gondoliers (G&S)
  • Westside Story
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
  • The Magic Flute (Mozart)
  • Die Fledermaus (Strauss)
  • The Land of Shush (Children’s Introduction to Music Theatre & Opera) – toured Toowoomba, Warwick and Kingaroy)
  • Hansel & Gretel (Humperdinck)
  • Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
  • Yoeman of the Guard (G&S)
  • Our Nellie (Music Theatre Play)
  • The Teddy Bears Picnic (Children’sTheatre)
  • Pirates of Pensanze (G&S)
  • The Mikado (G&S)

Principle Roles in Major Run Productions:

  • Singer & Dancer in ‘Timeless’ Paradise Room, GC Arts Centre 2004
  • Giannetta in ‘The Gondoliers’ (G&S) The Powerhouse, Brisbane 2000
  • Anita in ‘West Side Story’ Empire Theatre, Toowoomba 1999
  • Woman in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Empire Theatre 1999
  • White Queen in ‘Snow White …’ Empire Theatre 1998
  • Queen of the Night in ‘Magic Flute’ Opera Studio, Toowoomba 1997
  • Rosalinda in ‘Die Fledermaus’ Opera Studio 1996
  • The Witch in ‘Hansel & Gretel’ Opera Studio 1995
  • Female Chorus in ‘Rape of Lucretia’ Opera Studio 1995
  • Gladys Moncrieff in ‘Our Nellie’ Arts Centre Toowoomba 1993
  • Cool Bear in ‘Teddy Bears Picnic’ Arts Centre 1993

For any further information or inquiries, please contact 0400 065 318 or Email Deborah

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