Gavi Singh Chera
Productions whilst at RADA
- 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
- Apollo
The Oresteia (Course Project) directed by Jonathan Humphreys - Hamlet
Hamlet (Course Project) directed by John Gillett - Sir Tunbelly Clumsey
The Relapse (Course Project) directed by Giles Havergal
Voice reels
Special skills
Stage Combat: BASSC (distinction) Best Unarmed Scene (RADA Henry Marshall Prize Fights 2019)
Awards: Warner Bros. Creative Talent Award, 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: M.K. Gandhi, Untouchable, dir. Kathryn Hunter; Freddy Eynsford Hill, Pygmalion, dir. Sam Pritchard (Headlong); WW1 Sikh Soldier, Dr Blighty, dir. Ajay Chhabra (Nutkhut); Sir Lance Sergeant Walter Frederick Taylor, We’re Here Because We’re Here, dir. Rufus Norris (1418NOW); Rahul Wagehkar, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, dir. Rufus Norris (NT); Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights, dir. Emily Lim (NYT REP 2015); Lorenzo, The Merchant of Venice, dir. Anna Niland (NYT REP 2015); Rhys, Consensual, dir. Pia Furtado (NYT REP 2015); Siaf, Swipe, dir. Carolina Giammetta (NYT Playing Up 2014); Italian Waiter, Betrayal, dir. Jonathan Moore (RADA); Party Piece, Mercury Fur, dir. Donnacadh O’Briain (RADA); Macbeth, Macbeth, Phil Sheppard (RADA Youth Company).
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).