Help Connor Realise His Dream of Being on The West End!

Kia Ora,

My name is Connor Charlesworth, an 18-year-old student from New Zealand, and what I want more than anything in the world is to be a full-time performer on the stage or screen. I am a singer and actor and my goal and cause for this Givealittle page is to be able to attend a London academy of performing arts. Ultimately, I want to find work in musical theatre - on the West End, Broadway, wherever it takes me!

I have performed in a broad array of productions, both musicals and non-musical, including leading roles in ‘Assassins’ and ‘A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream’ and most recently in the title role of ‘Sweeney Todd’. I have been selected for the 2018 National Secondary Schools’ Shakespeare Company. Now, with five years of singing and acting at a high standard under my belt, I want to take my performing to the next level.

I am featured below:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stage-and-theatre/94416602/three-teens-from-aucklands-north-shore-selected-for-shakespeare-company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeu7OjzXb3k

Although there are good theatre schools in New Zealand, the prospective schools that I am looking at in London and the wider United Kingdom are in a class of their own. The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, for example, has many notable alumni such as Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, and Ewan McGregor just to name a few.

Auditions for places at these schools will take place in May and June 2018. I plan to travel to the UK in December to get established and audition for local theatre productions. Because I have not lived in the United Kingdom for three full years before applying, I am ineligible for funding from the UK Government. Funding from the New Zealand Government to study abroad, is not possible. I am, therefore, forced to front up the cost of everything myself to grasp at the opportunity to use the talents that life has given me. My family and I simply cannot afford it, so I am asking for your help for me to achieve my dream.