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Dirk Weiler is a German actor and singer. Biography Dirk Weiler is a German-born actor/singer. He showed an interest in the performing arts from a very early age on. He participated in school and community theatre productions. Dirk's first part in a production at a bigger theatre was the role of the bartender and prisoner Pudritzky in Der Hauptmann von Köpenick at the Saarländisches Staatstheater in Saarbrücken. While enrolled at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken in German literature, linguistics and phonetics, he worked as an extra at the Saarländisches Staatstheater. He then studied Acting, Singing and Dancing at the Folkwang Academy in Essen, Germany from 1990 to 1994 and graduated with a Diplom as Bühnendarsteller. Having already worked for two years as performer with the dance theater group of Claudia Lichtblau (he was one of the lead performers in her pieces: Rothegang/Untergrund; Sequenzen; Chrom-Rauten; Gewoell; Rus-Rums-Ravas), he then enrolled in the dance department of the Folkwang Hochschule where he studied for another year with Jean Cébron. He worked with Claudia Lichtblau until 1999 while teaching tap dance at Musical Theatre Department of the Folkwang Hochschule. In 1998, he went to New York City where he studied voice at Manhattan School of Music, City College of New York, and finally at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where he received his Master of Music in 2001. He was selected to participate in master classes with Walter Berry and Cord Garben. In New York he also studied acting with Bernice Loren in her "Expressions" Theater School and with Bennes Mardenn, who himself was trained be the famous Group Theatre. In 1999 he won 2nd prize at the Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers in the United States and became known as an excellent Kurt Weill interpreter (Three Penny Opera, Johnny Johnson, Wall to Wall Marathon Kurt Weill at Symphony Space New York) and was a member of the Kabarett Kollektif which won the 2006 Nightlife Award for Most Unique Cabaret Performance. His teachers include Judy Ann Bassing, Walter Nicks, Noelle Turner, Bennes Mardenn, Bernice Loren, Cornelius Reid, Ira Siff, and Ted Puffer. An active and versatile performer, he performed musical theater, opera as well as dramatic plays and cabaret shows in Germany, New York City, Australia and London. He was a founding member of thedramaloft, an entertainment incubator located in New York City, as well as an avid tap dancer and instructor. In New York, he has taught at the Alvin Ailey School (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater), Steps on Broadway, and at the Bridge for Dance. He played among many other roles Macheath in the Three Penny Opera, Psychiatrist in Johnny Johnson, Danilo in The Merry Widow, Schaunard in La Bohème, Papageno in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts The Magic Flute, Dutch Schultz in theUS Concert Premier of Eric Salzmann's The True Last Words Of Dutch Schultz, als Understudy Dr. Dillamonth and The Wizard of Oz in Wicked, as Understudy Joey and Monsignore O'Hare in Sister Act, King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar. Having worked between New York and London from 2006 to 2008, he then moved to London and lived there until 2009 from where he then went to Berlin. He is currently performing in theaters in Germany as actor and singer and works as freelance coach for actors and singers. Awards and Scholarships 1999: 2. Prize at the Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers of the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music in New York 2006: Night Life Award for Unique Cabaret Performance together with the Kabarett Kollektif in New York 2001: International Vocal Arts Institute – Full Scholarship: Summer Course Casalmaggiore, Italy Engagements Comedian Harmonists in Concert (Host); Deutsche Oper am Rhein, 2020 The Game of Love and Chance – Play (Monsigneur Orgon); Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall, 2020 Frau Luna - Operetta (Lämmermeier), Staatstheater Darmstadt, 2020 Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale Senior, Agent Branton), Staatstheater Darmstadt, 2019 The Producers - Musical (Roger DeBris); Staatstheater Mainz, 2019 Twelfth Night – Play (Feste, the Fool); Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall, 2019 Ewig Jung – Play with Music (Mr. Weiler) ; Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall, 2019 Catch Me If You Can – Musical (Frank Abagnale Senior, Agent Branton); Staatsoper Nürnberg, 2018 William Tell – Play (Baumgarten, Reling, Friesshardt); Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall, 2018 Frau Luna – Operetta (Theophil); Theater Dortmund, 2018 Moby Dick – Play with Music (Captain Ahab, Peleg a. o.); Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen, 2017 Don Camillo and Peppone – Play (Jesus); Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall, 2017/18 Die Wahlverwandtschaften – Play based on J.W. Goethe (Otto); Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall, 2017 Linie 1 – Musical ; Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen 2017 The Merry Widow (Franz Lehar) – Operetta (Njegus); Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen 2016-2017 The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chechov) - Play (Petja Trofimow); Gandersheimer Domfestspiele 2016 Highway to Hellas (Wolff/Schimkat/Doll/Lippmann) World Premiere - Musical (Jörg Geißner); Gandersheimer Domfestspiele 2016 Crazy for You - Musical (Bobby Child); Theater Magdeburg February 2015 - May 2015 La Cage aux Folles - Musical (Albin/Zaza); Oper Bonn September 2014 - April 2015 Sister Act- Musical (Ensemble, u/s Joey, Monsignore O'Hara); Stage Metronom Theater Oberhausen December 2013 - April 2014 Jesus Christ Superstar – Musical (King Herod/Apostle); Oper Bonn October 2013 – July 2014*Sister Act- Musical (Ensemble, u/s Joey, Monsignore O'Hara); Stage Apollo Theater Stuttgart December 2012 – September 2013 CHESS – Musical (Anatoly Sergievsky); Domfestspiele Bad Gandersheim 2012 – June–August 2012 Blond Girl Undercover (Dr. No); Domfestspiele Bad Gandersheim 2012 – June–August 2012 The Full Monty – Musical (Harold Nichols); Theater Dortmund October 2011 – June 2012 Wicked The Witches of Oz – Musical (Frex/Oz Official, understudy Dr. Dillamonth, Wizard of Oz); Metronom Theater Oberhausen March 2010 – September 2011 Gandersheimer Domfestspiele; Und Es War Sommer (Helmut Kaiser)/Im Weissen Rössl (Dr. Siedler); Gandersheimer Domfestspiele, Bad Gandersheim 2009 Berlin-Hanover-Express; Tap Dance Coach and Choreographer: Dirk Weiler; Hampstead Theatre, London 2009 The School For Scandal(Moses); Red Handed Theatre Company; Bridewell Theatre, London 2009 Song Interpretations Workshop; Musical Theatre Department, Folkwang Hochschule Essen, 2008 Tap Dance Workshop; Bridge for Dance, New York City, 2008 Film: Evil Eye (The Roommate-Lead); New York City 2008 Film: I'm Afraid I am Hitler (Officer Mohnke); New York City 2008 Song-Interpretation Workshop; Musical Theatre Department Folkwang Hochschule Essen 2007 Tap Dance Workshop; Nomadic College in Europe; Balaton, Hungary, 2007 Right Key ... 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