Location: Auckland, New Zealand | Height: 150 cm | Hair Colour: Black | Eye Colour: Brown | Ethnicity: Chinese
She / Her
Talia Pua, is a performer, theatre-maker and interaction and play designer. She is the co-founder and Creative Director of independent theatre company, Hand-Pulled Collective. In 2021, Talia made her award-winning playwriting and directing debut with ‘Pork and Poll Taxes’ - a Chinese family drama set during the poll tax era in Aotearoa. With a degree in Creative Technologies, Talia is interested in combining her passion for physical theatre and design practice to create compelling visual theatre.
| 2016 | Award: Direct Entry Award [workshop] | The National Shakespeare Schools Production | Dunedin September/October 2016 |
| 2016 | Dux Award | Award: For the Highest Academic Achievement | Diocesan School for Girls |
| 2024 | Tinā | Role: Mei-ling |
The Brown Factory - Director: Miki Magasiva Producer: Dan Higgins |
| 2017 | Into the Rainbow | Role: Sea Store Customer |
Beijing Tianrun Media - Director: Norman Stone Producers: Richard Fletcher & Iain Brown |
| 2023 | Yesterday | Role: Anna [lead] | Director: Zheng Wei Lu |
| 2022 | It Lies at Night | Role: Philly [supporting] |
Ruah Films - Diretor: Tema Pua Producer: Leah McVeagh |
| 2022 | Parked | Role: May [supporting] | Angle3 Pictures - Director: Léah McVeagh |
| 2018 | Majesty | Role: Daughter [supporting role] | Elam School of Fine Arts - Director: Pon Tortheinchai |
| 2018 | The Myth of the Model Minority | Role: Talia [supporting role] | WAYFR Productions - Director: Nahyeon Lee |
| 2023 | Asian 8 | Role: Fen |
Asian 8 Phoenix Limited - Director: Nahyeon Lee Pan Asian Screen Collective |
| 2023 | Happiness is the Path [pilot] | Role: Sandy |
Happiness is the Path Limited - Director: Chye-Ling Huang Pan Asian Screen Collective - Executive Producers: Shuchi Kothari & Bronwynn Baker |
| 2024 | The Valentina | Role: Ellen [lead] | Director: Anders Falstie-Jensen |
| 2023 | Heart Go... Boom | Role: Ensemble | Massive Theatre Company - Directors: Ebony Andrews & Jes’mine Palaaia |
| 2022 | The Whale Rider | Role: Nani Flowers | Tim Bray Theatre Company - Director: Tim Bray |
| 2019 | Babel | Role: Movement Artists & Ensemble | The Basement Theatre - Director: Amber Liberte |
| 2019 | Vagina Monologues | Role: 6 Year Old Girl & Ensemble | V-Day Auckland, TAPAC - Director: Amber Liberte |
| 2018 | A Space Oddity | Role: Astronaut | Short & Sweet Festival - Director: Mary Granfors |
| 2018 | Iron Eyes | Role: Ensemble Member | Jang Huddle - Director: Cindy Jang |
| 2017 | Romeo & Juliet | Tutor: Timothy Walker | Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand |
| 2016 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Role: Puck | Sheila Winn Shakespeare Festival |
| 2016 | Les Miserables | Role: Baptistine & Mademoiselle Gillenormand | TAPAC Youth Theatreworks - Director: Julian Harrison |
| 2015 | Romeo & Juliet | Role: The Nurse | Diocesan Shakespeare Festival - Director: Bess Reynolds, Merrin Fagan |
| 2015 | Tom Sawyer | Role: Narrator [Cindy] | TAPAC Youth Theatre - Director: Margaret Mary Hudson |
| 2014 | The Mikado | Role: Mini Mikado | Dilworth School Production - Director: Jason Te Mete |
| 2012 | Thoroughly Modern Millie Junior | Role: Ching Ho | Diocesan School for Girls - Director: Nancy Schroder |
| 2011 | Dracula Spectacular | Role: Transylvanian Airways Pilot | Diocesan School for Girls - Director: Linda Kitchen |
| 2009 | Cinderella Jones | Role: The Fairy Godmother [Pattie O'Dawes] | Diocesan School for Girls - Director: Bess Reynolds |
| 2008 | Dragonfire | Role: Turtule [chorus] | Diocesan School for Girls - Director: Bess Reynolds |
| 2004 | Mandy's Garden | Role: Flower [chorus] | Diocesan School for Girls - Director: Bess Reynolds |
| 2022 - 2024 | Mercury : Save Your Energy | Role: Yellow Wonder | The Sweet Shop |
| 2024 | Character Creation | Tutor: Elena Stejko | |
| 2024 | Massive Nui Ensemble | Massive Theatre Company | |
| 2023 | Massive Nui Ensemble | Tutors: Various | Massive Theatre Company |
| 2022 | Audition Preparation | Tutor: Elena Stejko | Actor's Studio |
| 2022 | Character Creation | Tutor: Elena Stejko | |
| 2022 | Massive Foundations Workshop | Tutors: Various | Massive Company |
| 2022 | Restart Workshop | Tutor: Various | Auckland Theatre Company - The Actors Program |
| 2020 | Fresh Crop | Tutor: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Chye Ling Huang, |
Sam Snedden, Jim McLarty, Cherie Moore, - Miriama McDowell, Sarah Wiseman, Proudly Asian Theatre/Pan Asian Screen Collective |
| 2018 | Drama & Storytelling Workshop | Tutor: Alice Canton | Auckland Women's Centre |
| 2016 | Introductory Course to On-Screen Acting | Tutor: John A Givins | South Seas Film & TV School |
| 2015 | Theatre Studies | Role: Student | Otago University Workshop - Tutor: Hilary Halba |
| Accents | American - Standard, English - RP |
| Dance | Dancing |
| Instruments | Handbells, Piano » Intermediate |
| Other | Art, Painting, Public Speaker, Self-Testing - Excellent |
| Singing | Alto, Choir |
| Sports | Badminton, Orienteering |
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