Location: Auckland
Age Range: 18 - 28
Ethnicity: Ethnically Ambiguous, Maori, New Zealand, White
Hair Colour: Dark Brown
Eye Colour: Blue / Green
View on ShowcastKiriana is an actor, circus & stunt performer who has rapidly climbed the ranks as an emerging artist. She won the scholarship position into NZs prestigious acting school, The Actors Programme 2024, and completed advanced acting fundamentals at one of the most renowned schools globally: RADA in London 2023. Alongside her studies at TAP she booked a specialty performer contract on Spartacus: House of Ashur, working directly with the leads, and also worked on Netflix Production Timshel starring Florence Pugh. Kiriana is also a circus performer with the finest circus company in Aotearoa, The Dust Palace Circus Theatre Company, where she also entertained at Pinks pre-concert during her Eden Park tour. Kiriana has helped to pioneer a new genre of Māori circus in the arts industry, as well as pushing circus into more unknown spaces, including ATC youth company, directing circus into theatre shows, performing as an opening act for the whole of Auckland Pride Festival ‘24 and becoming the inaugural winner of CNZ takatāpui Residency, making her own circus short film: “Shallow Waters” that screened for the whole of February in 2023. She also works as a kaiako and developer for Te Kura Maninirau: Māori circus school, which won PAYPA emerging artist/company award in 2024.
Year | Role | Production | Company | Director |
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2025 | Club Dancer | Moss & Freud | GFC Films | James Lucas |
2025 | Specialty performer | Spartacus: House of Ashur | Starz | |
2025 | Kate’s prostitute | Timshel | EOE | |
2024 | Missy/Nicky | Rushes | The actors program | Caroline Bell-Booth |
2024 | Core cast | Siblings | Flock Productions | Pelenakeke Brown |
2024 | Te Kore | Te Tīmatanga | Auckland Pride | Pounamu Rurawhe |
2024 | Circus entertainer | P!NK Summer Carnival 24 Pre-Concert | The Dust Palace | |
2024 | Elizabeth Luke (Lead) | The Welkin | The Actors Program | Benjamin Henson |
2024 | Atawhai (co-writer) | Escape | Love, blood and rhetoric productions | Nicole Whippy |
2023 | Bree (playread) | For Country | Auckland Theatre Youth | |
2023 | Circus Ātua Goddess | EOS | Prowl Productions | Hayley- Walters Tekahika |
2023 | Core Cast | Siblings | Flock Productions | Barnie Duncan |
2023 | Actor/Fire Dancer | Takurua: Ti’iTi’i | Tala Pasifika | Justine Simei |
2023 | Party Girl | Ahikāroa Season 5 | ||
2023 | Solo Lead | Shallow Waters | Cuetone | Kiriana Sheree & Samuel Bailey |
2022 | Circus Director | Te manawa Ora: Te Hīhiri | Ngā Rangatahi Toa | Chris Graham |
2022 | Devisor / Workshop Performer | Te Tangi A Te Tui | The Dust Palace & Te Rēhia Theatre | Tainui Tukiwaho |
2022 | Actor & Acrobat | Manatees | Auckland Theatre Youth Company | Keagan Fransch Carr |
2022 | Jackie (Lead) | Nowhere, Baby | Auckland Theatre Youth Company | Gianni Mia & Cameron |
2021 | Sam | Racists Anonymous | Te Pou Theatre | Tainui Tukiwaho |
2021 | Actor / Circus Performer | Extraordinary Life | Dust Palace Professional Performance Class | Dust Palace Professional Performance Class |
2021 | Core Cast | The Ice-Cream Is Melting! | The Dust Palace | Eve Gordon |
2019 | Aerial Silk Siren | ASB Waterfront Event | Applause Dance | Jodi Russel |