In Conversation with Nicola O'Haire
From\xa0the Mayo side of the Galway and Mayo border, twenty-three year old\xa0NICOLA O\u2019 HAIRE\xa0is a graduate of American College Dublin, where she earned her BFA in Musical Theatre. \xa0 To date, Nicola has appeared in productions of\xa0The Wizard of Oz\xa0(\u2018Dorothy\u2019),\xa0Guys & Dolls\xa0(\u2018Sarah Browne\u2019),\xa0Mosquitoes (\u2018Natalie\u2019), A Chorus Line (\u2018Maggie\u2019), and Into the Woods (\u2018Cinderella\u2019) to name a few. More\xa0recently, Nicola was involved in the Castle-Lake Arts Festival held in Wexford, as both\xa0actor and featured singer. She\xa0played\xa0Hermia & Quince in\xa0Shakespeare's classic play,\xa0A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her two years at\xa0the Mayo Vocal Academy saw Nicola receive a High Achievers Award from The Royal Irish Academy of Music. This talent would eventually see Nicola\xa0do\xa0backing vocals\xa0for Russell Watson in\xa0the Waterfront Theatre/ Ulster Hall, the National Opera House, and the Bord G\xe1is Energy Theatre. Nicola also performed as an ensemble vocalist on Phil Coulter's\xa0Scorn Not His Simplicity, a single that went to No.1 in the\xa0World genre iTunes Charts. Her current project is a recording of Brendan Graham\u2019s\xa0ORPHAN GIRL, a song\xa0to commemorate the relocation of over 4,000 Irish orphan girls who were shipped to Australia during Ireland's Great Famine of the\xa01840s. Nicola released this song on October 6th, that being the day the first Irish\xa0Orphan\xa0Girls arrived in Sydney\xa0Harbour.