Meet the Alumni

ELANDRAH ERAMIHA

Elandrah Eramiha migrating to Melbourne from Auckland, New Zealand with her family in 2004, Elandrah danced for various dance crews as a hobby and only realised after graduating high school that her passion for dance grew and decided to pursue a career in Performing Arts.

Elandrah began her dance training at Patrick Studios Australia at age 18, she then moved on to study Musical Theatre at Patrick Studios Australia to expand her training in the Performing Arts, under the supervision of Andrew Hallsworth.

The following year she landed the lead role, Felicia Farrell, in the Australian Premiere Musical, MEMPHIS. Her other dance credit include events such as: Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, NBL Launch Event, Nitro Athletics, NAB Ball and Elly Lukas Ball to name a few. In February 2018 Elandrah released her first Ep, alongside James Elmer (ABC3, AGT, SYTYCD), who together have formed the new upcoming Urban Duo, 90/10, and are currently working on more original music to release this year.

Her theatre credits include Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz in Concert (Prospero Arts); Marta in Kiss of the Spider Woman (Melbourne Theatre Company); Disney’s Aladdin (Disney Theatrical), Danielle in Bring It On (David Venn Enterprises); Felicia in Memphis (Stage Art Australia); In the Heights (Stage Art Australia) and most recently Peggy/Maria in Hamilton (Australia Tour).

EUAN FISTROVIC- DOIDGE

The week before beginning his training at Patrick Studios, country boy Euan had doubts about leaving Mount Gambia in South Australia to begin his performing journey. Thanks to some heavy persuasion from Todd Patrick & Andrew Hallsworth, he moved to Melbourne and started his training.

Within just 6 months, he had successfully auditioned for ‘Anything Goes’ the musical. Euan has gone on to perform as a number of lead and starring roles, including Paul in ‘A Chorus Line’, Felicia in the national tour of ‘Priscilla: Queen of the Desert’, Marius in ‘Les Misérables’, and most recently as Tony in ‘Saturday Night Fever’.

SAMANTHA DODEMAIDE

Moulin Rouge! The Musical marks Samantha Dodemaide’s Broadway debut.

Her Australian and international credits include the original Australian cast of Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Nini), The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy), Violet (Violet), Wicked (Elphaba), Chicago (Roxie u/s), Evita (Eva Perón u/s), Singin’ in the Rain (Kathy u/s), Sweet Charity (Charity u/s), Anything Goes (Reno & Erma u/s), A Chorus Line (Cassie u/s), King Kong!, The Producers and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.

SOPHIA LARYEA

Trained in Performing Arts at Patrick School of the Arts under the direction of Todd Patrick. Sophia’s career has been very versatile as she has worked as a dancer, model and musical Theatre performer.

Her Theatre credits include The Lion King, Madiba the Musical, Cosentino and Cabaret De Paris. She has danced for Jessica Mauboy and Timomatic and PNAU. Sophia has also appeared on Australia’s Got Talent, Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell.

Modelling includes TVC’s for L’Oréal, Bonds, Kmart and Cherry Ripe and many more. Film includes THOR Creature Report for Marvel.

KARLI DINARDO

Karli Dinardo is a NYC based performer originally from Melbourne Australia.

Karli was most recently seen playing Cassie in A Chorus Line at the REV Theatre in New York. She was featured in the Revival of Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (OBC) and made her Broadway debut as the Dance Captain/Swing/understudy Nini in Moulin Rouge! The Musical (OBC). This position saw her to assist mounting the Australian Production, the North American Tour and remounting the show on Broadway when it reopened.

Some of her highlights include, Dance Captain/Swing/understudy Peggy/Maria in the original company of the First National Tour of “Hamilton”, Alex Owens in the National Tour of “Flashdance The Musical”, the Off-Broadway World Premier of “Revolution In the Elbow…”, multiple productions of West Side Story in America including Carnegie Hall. Regionally – “42nd Street”, “The Music Man”, and “The Pajama Game”. She also performed West Side Story in Australia receiving a Helpmann Award Nomination for the role of Anita. TV: Up Here (Hulu), Imaginary Friends (Paramount), 75th and 76th Annual Tony Awards Opening Number (CBS / Paramount+).

NICK PHILLIPS

With both parents performing for the ‘Australian Ballet’, Nick has known the Performing Arts all his life. Not interested in Classical Dance from a young age, Nick was only a Hip-Hop before training at Patrick Studios.

Our aim was to help him develop other dance styles including Jazz, Commercial and Contemporary, in addition to training in Acting and Musical Theatre. Nick has gone on to perform both nationally and overseas, supporting Brittney Spears for her Las Vegas residency, and Kylie Minogue for her US tour. Currently back in Australia, Nick is preparing for his next role in the musical ‘Magic Mike’.

Melanie Hawkins

Melanie’s most recent credit includes Ensemble in Crossroads Live Australian Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. Other roles include Stephanie in Saturday Night Fever, Oklahoma- Dance Captain, Singin’ In The Rain, Hugh Jackman:

Broadway to Oz, Strictly Ballroom the Musical, King Kong Live on Stage, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Rock of Ages, Into the Woods, Wicked The Musical – Witch’s Mother/Ensemble and Shout! The Legend of the Wild.

Nick Len

Before coming to Patrick Studios, Nick was a Hip-Hop Crew boy. During his training, he was battling with his desire for a career in the Arts.

Our very own Musical Theatre director Andrew Hallsworth recommended Nick for an audition in the Swan Song Tour. He was successful, and subsequently toured the UK, where he became the youngest Musical Director ever on the West End.

Nick has gone on to star in productions of ‘The King and I’, ‘Anything Goes’, ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’, ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Robin Hood’, in addition to a role in the film ‘Mamma Mia 2’. He has also appeared on ‘The Voice’ and ‘The 150 Year Television Special’ and is currently in the process of recording his first single.

Nick has most recently performed in Wicked, Midnight Cowboy and Matilda on the West End.

Alex Given

Coming to train at Patrick Studios all the way from Tasmania, Alex started his journey in our esteemed Performing Arts course, before successfully transitioning into our Musical Theatre course.

Since the completion of his training, Alex has gone on to perform in a number of shows, such as A-Rab in ‘West Side Story’, ‘Anything Goes’, ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’, ‘Guys and Dolls’, ‘Oklahoma’, ‘The Boy from Oz’, ‘Dusty’, ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, ‘South Pacific’, ‘Strictly Ballroom’, “Georgie Girl’, ‘Seekers’, ‘My Fair Lady’, and most recently ‘The Book of Mormon’, ‘Elf’ and ‘Guys and Dolls’ on the West End. He has also worked in the Film and TV industry with credits such as Nick Conigrave in ‘Holding The Man’, Stan in ‘Weavel’, as well as working on ‘The Wrong Girl’ and ‘Offspring’.

Taylor Scanlan

Starting his career as a Gymnast, offered to compete in our National team. Taylor redirected his passion to combine his love for dance with his acrobatics training.

Taylor has trained in all styles of dance, singing and acting for 6 years at Patrick Studios Australia. In 2015, he made his Musical Theatre debut in ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ for The Production Company. He was then cast as Bill Bailey/Mr Mistoffelees cover in ‘Cats’ The Musical’s 2015/16 Australian/New Zealand tour. Taylor then ventured overseas again to perform in ‘Viva La Broadway’ in Macau before joining the cast of Matthew Bourne’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ in his hometown of Melbourne. He was also Dance Captain for ‘Cats’ The Musical’s 2017/2018 Asia Tour.

Taylor’s most recent theatre credits include cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Swing/Dance Captain for CATS The Musical’s 2020 tour of South Korea, Asst. Dance Captain/Swing Mary Poppins the Musical and Dance Captain/Swing for Beetlejuice the Musical.

Julian Ardley

Growing up in Mount Eliza in far North-Queensland, young gymnast Julian was relentlessly bullied and harassed at school, with little to no action from his teachers.

Having never danced before the age of 19, he made his way to Melbourne to start training at Patrick Studios. Julian has gone on to work continuously in a number of musicals for ‘The Production Company’ and has modelled all over the world for many luxury brands, including Gucci, Dior, and Versace. Currently, he is the Dance Captain in the boy’s line at the ‘L’ido de Paris’, in France.

Adam Noviello

Adam made their professional theatre debut as Hanna From Hamburg in La Cage Aux Folles with The Production Company.

Theatre credits since include Derek Bell in The Girlie Show (La Mama Theatre/Tunks Productions), Funny Girl (The Production Company), Understudy Rudolpho in the Australian/NZ tour of Matilda The Musical (RSC/ Louise Withers and Associates), Farrah/Young Bernadette in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert (Michael Cassel Group), the 2019-20 Australian tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (GFO), Priest/Ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar (Crossroads Live) and most recently as ‘Yitzhak’ in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (GWB Entertainment). Adam’s cabaret credits include successful seasons of The Last Five Queers (Midwinta Festival), one-man shows There Was A Boy… and Songs For Girls (Chapel Off Chapel) and the lead role in the world premiere of The Muse, a one man song cycle by Shanon Whitelock (Chapel Off Chapel/ Melbourne Fringe).

Adam is also the co-author, co-producer and lead actor in the new Australian feature film Spencer, directed by Martyn Park, which made its world premiere as the Opening Night film at the PRIDE Queer Film Festival 2020. Adam is a proud member of MEAA.