- Dirk Weiler
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Dirk Weiler (Neunkirchen (Saar), Germany) is a German singer, actor and musical theatre actor.
Biography
Dirk Weiler was born in Neunkirchen (Saar), Germany. 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, Germany. While enrolled at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbruecken in German literature, linguistics and phonetics, he worked as an extra at the Saarländisches Staatstheater. He then studied Musical Theater 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 1999 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 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, 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 is 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 recently sang the role of Dutch Schultz in the American concert premiere of Eric Salzman and Valeria Vasilevski's The True Last Words of Dutch Schultz at Symphony Space in New York.
From 2010 unto late 2011 he played Frex/Ozian Official and Dr. Dillamond(u/s) as well as the Wizard (u/s) in the German production of WICKED in Oberhausen, Germany.
He is currently working in several theaters in germany as actor and in Musical Theatre.
External links
Categories:- German musical theatre actors
- German male singers
- German stage actors
- Living people
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