Roz Turnbull^{Featured Popular}

Biography

Roz has been performing, singing and acting for …a very long time. Since the heady days of tap-dancing and singing at the tender age of 5 at community events, singing in Jazz and big bands from the age of 15, Cabaret in Japan at 20, a degree in Musical theatre from WAAPA to her varied ongoing career today. Acting credits include Rochelle in Outrageous Fortune, Valerie in The Almighty Johnsons, Cat and Megan in Shortland Street. She has performed with the Starlight Symphony and in Christmas in the Park. Music and performing live remain a passion and she regularly gigs at functions around Auckland with her guitar and covers band. .

Roz brings wit, comedy, spontaneous humour and professionalism to her MC gigs. Recent highlights include MC for the Blue Wing Honda NZ gala awards evening 2020 and in 2022 introducing guest speakers and award presenters. She also provided the background entertainment playing and singing with her guitar. 2022 MC for the Pukekohe Business Associations Christmas on the green. Performing as well as introducing acts and adlibbing to fill in time. Roz has also worked for IDX Radiology performing solo at their launch event and in the covers band Flow at their Christmas function 2022 at MOTAT. L’Oreal Product Launch spent an entire day as Patsy from AB Fab improvising and mingling with guests.  She has an intuitive ability to adapt to the theme of an event and to read a crowd, this gained from the years of supervising and running hospitality at corporate events both in NZ and Australia. Events at the Sydney football Stadium, in Bathurst corporate boxes and at Gala evenings featuring international acts like Cirque De Soleil. She understands how a corporate function works.  She is a regular MC at various events in South Auckland (where she now lives), is frequently employed by the Counties Racing club to run their Sponsors Lounge, auctions and Fashion in the Field.  Other regular roles include corporate and private parties, where she is able to provide the MC as well as the “Band” for the night.

Roz is also a guitar/singing teacher who loves working with kids having acted as MC at several fundraisers for local Playcentres, Schools, Day-cares - where she uses music, comedy and characters to bring the event alive. She enjoys speaking at schools as a Motivational Speaker to their graduating students.
She can sing an excellent version of the National Anthem too.

Testimonials

We have always found Roz to be professional and courteous, obliging and organised. She delivers what we have asked to an extremely high standard and we have encountered very positive feedback from customers on the way she engages the audience, particularly when comparing events.

Roz has worked with us on 2 National Conferences and we would highly recommend her as both an MC and musician; in fact she has seamlessly merged both roles on one occasion. She has a genuine knack of reading the room and is agile to introduce humour as appropriate. We have found Roz to always be professional, authentic and engaging and focused on delivering a successful event – in short she is a class act!

Skills

• Actor
• Entertainer
• Improvisor
• MC
• Motivational Speaker
• Singer