{"id":8565,"date":"2013-03-11T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/?page_id=8565"},"modified":"2013-09-04T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T11:00:57","slug":"team-member-detail-2-3-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/pages\/team-member-detail-2-3-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitson Wellard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"two_third\">\n<h3 class=\"title\"><span>Profile<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Believe it or not Kitson first started in \u2018Theatreland\u2019 at 8 years old, as a noisy and annoying little munchkin, in a production of The Wizard of Oz with the junior Albany players. Some say, not much has changed apart from not being so little anymore!<br \/>\nSince then his love of singing and acting has lead him to perform in many local and international showpieces. Kitson lived in Canada through his early teenage years where he was involved with the touring theatre group \u2018Characters Incorporated\u2019, which boosted his confidence to sing and act. He has been involved with and performed in the \u2018Hastings Scout Gang Show\u2019 for the last 16 years, which he is now voice coach and assistant producer. It was through the Gang Show and the scout association that he gained a T.V credit in the BBC2 Documentary \u2018When We Were Scouts\u2019. In the summer of 2006, he attended a musical theatre and acting course at the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he obtained a diploma in musical theatre.<br \/>\nKitson is currently the lead singer in a successful,<br \/>\nsemi-professioanl, Rock\u2018n\u2019 Roll band called \u2018NOT GUILTY\u2019. More recently he has also been privileged to perform with the \u2018Phoenix Theatre Company\u2019 at the Stables Theatre in the following productions; Anything Goes, Hot Mikado, Pal Joey, Sugar, Jekyll &amp; Hyde, Sweeney Todd and The Bakers Wife including this years production of the European premier of the brand new musical &#8216;FRANKENSTEIN&#8217;.<br \/>\nIn autmun 2008 Kitson played \u2018Rooster Hannigan\u2019 in the Hastleons production of &#8216;ANNIE&#8217;.<br \/>\nKitson is a member of the stables theatre and in February 2009, is performing for the first time, with the Stables theatre group, the lead character in the Alan Ayckbourn comedy &#8216;Roleplay&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"height: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"one_third last\">\n<div class=\"member\">\n<div class='member-img'><img src='http:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wellard.jpg' \/><\/div>\n<h4>Kitson Wellard<\/h4>\n<div class=\"member-role\">Teacher<\/div>\n<p>Kitson first started in \u2018Theatreland\u2019 at 8 years old. His love of singing and acting has lead him to perform in many local and international showpieces<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"height: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"height: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profile Believe it or not Kitson first started in \u2018Theatreland\u2019 at 8 years old, as a noisy and annoying little munchkin, in a production of The Wizard of Oz with\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/pages\/team-member-detail-2-3-2-2-2-2\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8187,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8569,"href":"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8565\/revisions\/8569"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatresense.co.uk\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}