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Griffin bio:

Griffin is pleased to be back at Centrestage, last seen as Raymond in Witches of Eastwick. Griffin is
a keyboardist, singer, and music director active in Central Illinois and NZ. In Auckland, most recent
credits include Sunset Boulevard (Playhouse, keys 1) and Nine (AMT, assistant MD, keys). He was
also assistant MD for AMTs NAPTA award winning Sweeney Todd. In America, he has MDed
Godspell and Urinetown (Illini Student Musicals), Bat Boy (Station Theatre), and American
Idiot and Peter and the Starcatcher (Twin City Squared), among others. His work at Twin City and
the Station garnered critical acclaim. Following Chitty, he will MDing Heathers at NSMT.

Griffin is also an award-winning linguist studying at the University of Auckland. In 2016, he received
the Ronald H. Filler award for Jewish Studies for his work in Yiddish opera reconstruction.

He would like to thank Billie Hart for her dedication to this show.

Band:

Keys 1: Courtney Noble

Keys 2: Fiona Chua

Trumpet 1: Tom Hulland or Holly Wright

Trumpet 2: Peter Anderson

Horn: Max Glazier

Trombone: Neil Lindsay or Po Chen Liu

Reed 1: Billie Hart & Leon Reynolds

Viola: Grace Lam

Reed 3: Christiaan Swanepoel or Michael Jessup

Bass: Andrew Tan or Tim Chia

Drums: Torrance Kam

Percussion: Bickio OCallahan

Keyboard programming by: Griffin Jenkins

Backup singers:

Bridget Morris, Jo Clayton, Verity Craft, Doris Jung, Jamie Lamb, George Keenan, Caleb Jamieson,
Karlo Valdez
Special thanks to Orewa College, Kingsway School, Katherine Peterson, and Aotea Youth Symphony
for use of their percussion equipment.

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