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Jennifer "Efa" Mackenzie

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Details

Height159cmJennifer "Efa" Mackenzie 
EyesDark Brown
HairDark Brown
Age16 - 26

Special skills

  • Singing (Contemporary, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Rap)
  • Song-Writing
  • Producing/ Composing
  • Guitar Playing
  • Dancing (Hip Hop, Jazz, Jazz Funk Hip Hop, Bollywood, Latin, Musical Theatre, Lyrical & Modern Contemporary)
  • Choreographing
  • Performer/Devisor
  • Acting (Stage & Screen)

Accents

  • Australian
  • American
  • Filipino English

Awards and recognition

  • 2022
    • PICA Contemporary Performance Award
    • Bachelor of Performing Arts Graduate (Performance Making)
  • 2021
    • International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist
    • Youth Off The Street Scholar (Sponsor: The Sony Foundation)
  • 2020
    • Youth Off The Street Scholar (Sponsor: The Sony Foundation)
    • Variety Heart Scholar
  • 2019
    • Excellence in the Creative & Performing Arts
    • Gold Awardee Honour Roll
    • RSL Sub-Branch Award
    • Variety Heart Scholar
    • Youth Off The Street Scholar (Sponsor: The Sony Foundation)
  • 2018
    • Excellence in the Creative & Performing Arts
    • RSL Sub-Branch Award
    • Variety Heart Scholar
    • Young Australian Citizen of the Year
  • 2017
    • Excellence in the Creative & Performing Arts
    • NSW Science and Engineering Challenge Finalist
    • RSL Sub-Branch Award
  • 2016
    • NSW Fire and Rescue Citizenship Awardee
    • RSL Sub-Branch Award

Additional training/skills

  • Ableton Live 101 (With Pataphysics aka Patrick Marks)
  • Sampling Found Sounds (With Olympia Henshaw feat. Rainbow Chan and Mookhi)
  • How to use DAWs in Live Performance (With Elise Reitze-Swensen and Alice Ivy)
  • Mixing Your Music (With Ben Murphy and Becki Whitton aka Aphir)
  • Crossing from Stage to Screen (With: Fiona Choi, Milo Martill & Tony Coombs)
  • How to Stand Out (With Amy Mete)
  • Acting for Camera (With Melissa David)
  • The Loungeroom project (Western Australian Youth Theatre Company)

Performances

High School representation – International

  • 2016:
    • NSW West of the Divide European Tour- Elite Choir Member
    • Salzburg, Vienna (Austria), Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia), Hodonin, Prague & Chlumec (Czech Republic), Munich (Germany)

High School school representation – State (NSW)

  • 2019:
    • School Spectacular (The Arts Unit) - Featured Solo Vocalist Finalist and Featured Dancer Finalist.
    • L-E-V (a joint project with The Arts Unit and the Sydney Opera House)
    • Workshop at the Academy of Music & Performing Arts Studio, Alexandria NSW. State Dance Representative - 1 of 19 state dancers who gained a place in Sharon Eyal’s workshop.
  • 2018:
    • School Spectacular (The Arts Unit) - Featured HipHop Dancer
    • School Spectacular (The Arts Unit) - Featured Vocalist (2nd audition round)
    • School Spectacular (The Arts Unit) - Musical Theatre Dancer (Callback)
    • Reimagined: Romeo & Juliet - GIHS Dance Representative. 1 of 2 rural students featured in a film documentary in cooperation with The Arts Unit and the London Symphony Orchestra (1 of 13 dance ensemble). Rehearsals were held at the Academy of Music & Performing Arts Studio. The performance was held at The Conservatorium of Music Sydney. Televised over ABC ME in September 2018.
    • State Solo Vocal Camp - Selection through video audition
    • Schools Spectacular - Qudos Bank Area, Sydney Olympic Park. Televised over Channel 7
      Performance Events: 23 – 24 November
    • State Dance Festival - Sydney Seymour Centre Performances: 11 – 14 September
    • Michael Clarke Dance Company - A joint project with The Arts Unit and the Sydney Opera House, February 2018. Workshop at the Academy of Music & Performing Arts Studio, Alexandria NSW
    • The Arts Unit - The Concourse, Chatswood – Culmination Concert. Workshop Camp at Eleonora Conference Centre
  • 2017:
    • State Dance Ensemble
    • School Spectacular (The Arts Unit) - Featured Vocalist (2nd audition round)
    • Schools Spectacular - Qudos Bank Area, Sydney Olympic Park. Televised over Channel 7 Performance Events: 24 – 25 November
    • State Drama Ensemble - Sydney Seymour Centre Performances: 26 – 27 October
    • State Dance Festival - Ensemble Sydney Seymour Centre Performances: 12 – 14 September
    • State Solo Vocal Camp - Selection through Video audition. The Arts Unit. The Concourse, Chatswood – Culmination Concert. Workshop Camp, Eleonora Conference Centre, 6 – 10 March

School representation – Regional NSW West of the Divide

  • 2017:
    • Creative Arts in Public Education Schools Spectacular- Featured Solo Vocalist & Featured Solo Dancer
    • Tamworth Recreation Entertainment Conference Centre
  • 2016:
    • Regional Dance Festival - Ensemble
  • 2015:
    • Creative Arts in Public Education Schools Spectacular- Featured Solo Vocalist & Ensemble Dancer
    • Tamworth Recreation Entertainment Conference Centre
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