Student & graduate profiles

Gavi Singh Chera

BA in Acting Degree (H Level)

Height 5′ 10″
Hair Black
Eyes Brown
Nationality British
Native accent London

Year of graduation 2020
Agent Sophie Austin, United Agents LLP
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Productions whilst at RADA

Alex
Hard Pass (short film) directed by Jim Larkin
Algernon Moncrieff
The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Neil Bartlett
Doc O’connor / Rob Debree / Stephen Belber / Lucy Thompson
The Laramie Project directed by Kristine Landon Smith
Keffiyeh Seller / Him
Keffiyeh / Made in China directed by Zoe Lafferty

Imogen
Cymbeline (Shakespeare for Young Audiences) directed by Federay Holmes
Sir Tunbelly Clumsey
The Relapse (Course Project) directed by Giles Havergal
Hamlet
Hamlet (Course Project) directed by John Gillett
Apollo
The Oresteia (Course Project) directed by Jonathan Humphreys

Voice reels

Modern 1

Modern 2

Shakespeare

Commercial 1

Commercial 2

Commercial 3

Commercial 4

Special skills

Stage Combat: BASSC (distinction) Best Unarmed Scene (RADA Henry Marshall Prize Fights 2019)

Awards: Warner Bros. Creative Talent Award, BBC Norman Beaton Fellowship Award

Good ear for accents: RP, General American, Indian (Punjab), Northern Asian (Bradford), MLE, New York (Queens)

Singing: tenor

Dance: period, waltz (basic)

Languages: Punjabi (basic), French (basic)

Other: microscope engineer (fully qualified), football, yoga

Driving licence: UK

Previous experience

Theatre: Rahul Wagehkar, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, dir. Rufus Norris (National Theatre); Freddy Eynsford Hill, Pygmalion, dir. Sam Pritchard (Headlong); M.K. Gandhi, Untouchable, dir. Kathryn Hunter; WW1 Sikh Soldier, Dr Blighty, dir. Ajay Chhabra (Nutkhut)

National Youth Theatre REP 2015
National Youth Theatre Playing Up
RADA Youth Company; Macbeth, Macbeth, Phil Sheppard

TV: Sahil Dabra, Vera, dir. Chris Baugh; Shai Azeem, Doctors, dir. Paul Gibson.

Radio: Norman Beaton Fellowship, BBC Radio Drama Company 2016: Bolli, Gudrun (Series 2), dir. Gemma Jenkins (BBC Radio Drama); Eric Clarke, Comment is Free, dir. Rebecca Ripley (BBC Radio Bristol); Bolli, Gudrun (Series 1), dir. Sasha Yevtushenko (BBC Radio Drama), Ben, My Heart in Hiding, dir. David Hunter (BBC Radio Drama); Brevis, Stardust, dirs. Heather Larmour/Dirk Maggs (BBC Radio Drama); Chaiwala, Journey to Pakistan, dir. Elizabeth Allard (BBC Radio Drama); Big Nev, Cooking in a Bedsitter, dir. Emma Harding (BBC Radio Drama); Silver, Watership Down, dir. Marc Beeby (BBC Radio Drama); Prussian Paperboy, Zola, dir. Kirsty Williams (BBC Scotland).

Film: Mohib, Give To Me The Life I Love (Short), dir. Matt Stokes (Whitechapel Gallery).