Age<\/strong>: 14<\/p>\n First Stage Credits<\/strong>: The Emperor\u2019s New Clothes<\/em> (2015), Monkey Goes West <\/em>(2016), Jane (and more!) in Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens<\/em> (2019)<\/p>\n Favourite Musicals<\/strong>: School of Rock<\/em>, Mean Girls<\/em>, Dear Evan Hansen<\/em>, Hamilton<\/em><\/p>\n Time to Dance<\/strong>: I\u2019ve been dancing for ten years! I started out with ballet classes, like every other little girl. But it was hip-hop that really hooked me. My mum signed me up for a hip-hop class when I was four years old. I remember how terrified I was. But, when I took the class, I absolutely loved<\/em> it. I\u2019ve been dancing ever since. I do hip-hop, jazz and<\/em> ballet now!<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n Taking The Stage<\/strong>: As a kid, I was always dancing and singing. And I love performing. Musical theatre combines all of that, which is the dream for me… and that\u2019s why I love it so much! I started doing musical theatre classes when I was seven, and I\u2019ve been taking singing lessons from the age of ten. I\u2019ve performed in several musicals with Centre Stage, a private arts school \u2013<\/em> but working with WILD RICE has been amazing, because it\u2019s given me the opportunity to perform in professional productions on the Singapore stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Born To Be Wild<\/strong>: I\u2019ve learnt so much from working with WILD RICE, especially about the importance of telling a story \u2013 I\u2019m not acting just because I really love doing it. I\u2019m acting to tell a story, a story that everyone, on stage and off, is working together to tell. I learned that from Ivan Heng, our director for Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens<\/em>, who is so passionate about what he does. He makes me want to work harder, do better and give it my all. And I always feel so included and at home when I\u2019m in a WILD RICE show \u2013 everyone is so nice to one another!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Playing Jane<\/strong>: I\u2019ve always loved the Peter Pan <\/em>story. I own the Disney movie and have watched it multiple times, and I played Tinkerbell in my grade-school production of Peter Pan Junior<\/em>. So it\u2019s such an honour for me to play Jane, Wendy\u2019s daughter, in Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens<\/em>. It\u2019s not a big role, like Peter Pan is. But it really matters as part of the story we\u2019re telling. I\u2019m so thankful that God has given me the opportunity to play this role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Flight<\/strong> of Fancy<\/strong>: We actually fly in the show, and the first time I did it in rehearsals, it was a spectacular feeling. I was literally flying and on top of the world. We had to practise for hours, but it was still really magical for me. My cheeks started to hurt, because I couldn\u2019t stop smiling! And it\u2019s just as magical whenever I\u2019m actually performing on stage with Auntie Pam as Peter Pan. Every time we take flight, with all the lights and the music and the audience all around us, it just makes me so happy. I almost want to cry with joy, because I feel so blessed that I get to do this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Triple threat Nanami Sweeney reveals what playing Jane in Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens means to her, and what she\u2019s learnt from being a part of WILD RICE\u2019s First Stage programme!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37,105,100,76],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/RB2019-Press-select-3.jpg\")
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Catch Nanami as Jane in Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens<\/em> from now until 10 December!<\/p>\n\n\n