KIRIANA SHEREE

Location: Auckland

Age Range: 18 - 28

Ethnicity: Ethnically Ambiguous, Maori, New Zealand, White

Hair Colour: Dark Brown

Eye Colour: Blue / Green

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Bio

Kiriana 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.


Credits

YearRoleProductionCompanyDirector
2025Club DancerMoss & FreudGFC FilmsJames Lucas
2025Specialty performerSpartacus: House of AshurStarz
2025Kate’s prostituteTimshelEOE
2024Missy/NickyRushes The actors programCaroline Bell-Booth
2024Core castSiblingsFlock ProductionsPelenakeke Brown
2024Te KoreTe TīmatangaAuckland PridePounamu Rurawhe
2024Circus entertainerP!NK Summer Carnival 24 Pre-ConcertThe Dust Palace
2024Elizabeth Luke (Lead)The WelkinThe Actors ProgramBenjamin Henson
2024Atawhai (co-writer)EscapeLove, blood and rhetoric productionsNicole Whippy
2023Bree (playread)For Country Auckland Theatre Youth
2023Circus Ātua GoddessEOSProwl ProductionsHayley- Walters Tekahika
2023Core CastSiblingsFlock ProductionsBarnie Duncan
2023Actor/Fire DancerTakurua: Ti’iTi’i Tala PasifikaJustine Simei
2023Party GirlAhikāroa Season 5
2023Solo LeadShallow WatersCuetoneKiriana Sheree & Samuel Bailey
2022Circus DirectorTe manawa Ora: Te HīhiriNgā Rangatahi ToaChris Graham
2022Devisor / Workshop Performer Te Tangi A Te Tui The Dust Palace & Te Rēhia TheatreTainui Tukiwaho
2022Actor & AcrobatManateesAuckland Theatre Youth CompanyKeagan Fransch Carr
2022Jackie (Lead)Nowhere, BabyAuckland Theatre Youth CompanyGianni Mia & Cameron
2021SamRacists AnonymousTe Pou TheatreTainui Tukiwaho
2021Actor / Circus PerformerExtraordinary LifeDust Palace Professional Performance ClassDust Palace Professional Performance Class
2021Core Cast The Ice-Cream Is Melting!The Dust PalaceEve Gordon
2019Aerial Silk SirenASB Waterfront Event Applause DanceJodi Russel