Michela Meazza
(She/Her/Hers)
Dancer & Dance Artist
Overview
Michela Meazza [mee-keh-la meh-at-tza]
Joined New Adventures
1997
Awards
Best Contemporary Dancer (Critics' Circle Award 2012)
Michela was the recipient of the Outstanding Female Modern Performance Award as Miss Roach in The Midnight Bell at the 2021 National Dance Awards. She was also nominated for Best Contemporary Dancer at the Critics’ Circle Award 2012. Michela is currently an Associate Dance Practitioner with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures. She has also taken part in several research and development workshops for the National Theatre and has choreographed for music videos and short films by emerging artists as well as regularly teaching dance classes and workshops.
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a luminous stage presence that draws all eyes to her character whenever she’s on stage
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Training
London Studio Centre and Aterballetto (Italy)
Credits
For NEW ADVENTURES
- The Midnight Bell – Original Cast and 2025 revival Miss Roach
- Cinderella – Stepmother
- The Red Shoes – Original Cast Irina
- Swan Lake – The Queen
- Dorian Gray – Lady H
- Edward Scissorhands – Joyce Monroe
- Play Without Words – Glenda
- Nutcracker! – Sugar
- The Car Man – Lana
FILM
- The Car Man – 2003
- Matthew Bourne's Christmas – 2012
- Cinderella – 2017 The Stepmother
- The Red Shoes – 2020 Irina Boronskaja
OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Dry Write (Ann Yee) – 2010 Latitude Festival
- Electic Hotel (F. Reqardt & D. Rosenberg) King's Cross (site-specific performance)
- Really Old, like Forty Five (Anna Mackmin) National Theatre
- Pictures from an Exhibition (F. Requardt & D. Kramer) Young Vic
- Three and Russian Roulette (Lea Anderson) London & UK Tour
- Romeo and Juliet ENO at Royal Albert Hall
Recent Credits as Movement Director/Choreographer include:
- Piaf! – Watermill Theatre
- The Da Vinci Code – Salisbury Playhouse
- All’s Well That Ends Well – Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe
- The New Real – RSC in Stratford
- The Lightest Element – Hampstead Theatre
- Visit From An Unknown Woman – Hampstead Theatre
- First Encounters – Romeo & Juliet – RSC
- This Much I Know – Hampstead Theatre
- Vanya – Duke of York
- The Land of Might Have Been – Buxton International Festival
- The Vortex – Chichester Festival Theatre
- The Comedy of Errors – Mercury Theatre Colchester
- Hedda Gabler – Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
- The Starry Messenger – Wyndham’s Theatre
- The Phlebotomist – Hampstead Theatre Nominated for “Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre” at the 2019 Olivier Awards
- Murder Ballad – Arts Theatre
- Cymbeline – Globe Theatre
- The L Train – Hoxton Hall
Recent Credits as Associate Movement Director/Choreographer include:
- Rusalka – ROH
- South Pacific – Sadler’s Wells and UK Tour
- Julie – National Theatre
- The Two Character Play – Hampstead Theatre
- The L Train – Hoxton Hall