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Christine Newell
THE FULL STORY (ALMOST)
As a professional musical theatre performer, Christine has always been a storyteller. She made her first stage appearance on the day of her eighteenth birthday in the role of Sleeping Beauty for Storybook Theatre Company.
A few years later, she made her musical theatre debut in the ensemble of the 1999 – 2001 Australian production of The Sound of Music starring Lisa McCune & John Waters. Under the direction of Broadway Director & Tony Award nominee Susan H. Schulman, Christine also understudied the role of Liesl Von Trapp, which she performed on several occasions.
Christine's other musical theatre credits include Anything Goes (The Debutante), for The Production Company, The Wizard of Oz (Ensemble/Dorothy understudy), for GFO/SEL and Morning Melodies at the Victorian Arts Centre and Adelaide Festival Centre. Her television appearances include Good Morning Australia, Carols in the Domain and Full Frontal.
In 2005, Christine relocated to South Korea to perform with LATT Children's Theatre, a multi-lingual repertory theatre company producing world-class Korean and English musical productions.​ In 2016, she wrote and produced her own one-woman show, Places I Have Been, which premiered to a sold-out audience at the Kew Court House in Melbourne and inspired her to write her memoir, Five Seasons in Seoul. ​
Five Seasons in Seoul was longlisted for the 2024 Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize (under a different title) and was published by Affirm Press in March 2025.​​ It was chosen as Dymocks Non-Fiction Book of the Month and the Non-Fiction Pick of the Week in The Age Australia/Sydney Morning Herald.
Christine has appeared on panels at the Manly Writers' Festival and the inaugural Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival. She has also spoken about her memoir and journey to publication at the Korean Cultural Centre Australia. Her writing has been featured in Escape, Onya Magazine and The Age Australia.
Christine has a Bachelor of Creative Arts from Australian Catholic University (Music) and is currently studying a Master of Arts in Writing and Literature at Deakin University.
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