Leon Wadham is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, where he received the Museum Hotel Scholarship Award in his final year of training. Wadham’s credits as an actor include theatre projects for Auckland Theatre Company (Lord of the Flies), Silo (Tribes), Circa (The Cape), Q Theatre (The Pitchfork Disney), BATS (Tinderbox) and Basement Theatre (Essays In Love). He also created and performed two solo shows in the NZ comedy Festival, Funk and Giddy, which Won the Auckland Theatre Award 2018.
He was a series lead in TV2’s Go Girls and has appeared in numerous New Zealand television projects, including Bad Seed, Brokenwood Series 5, When We Go To War, Terry Teo and Pirates of the Airwaves. His film projects include Under The Mountain, Shopping and Pork Pie.
Leon Wadham is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, where he received the Museum Hotel Scholarship Award in his final year of training. Wadham’s credits as an actor include theatre projects for Auckland Theatre Company (Lord of the Flies), Silo (Tribes), Circa (The Cape), Q Theatre (The Pitchfork Disney), BATS (Tinderbox) and Basement Theatre (Essays In Love). He also created and performed two solo shows in the NZ comedy Festival, Funk and Giddy, which Won the Auckland Theatre Award 2018.
He was a series lead in TV2’s Go Girls and has appeared in numerous New Zealand television projects, including Bad Seed, Brokenwood Series 5, When We Go To War, Terry Teo and Pirates of the Airwaves. His film projects include Under The Mountain, Shopping and Pork Pie.
Wadham’s international screen credits include Power Rangers Beast Morphers and Roman Empire Series 2. Leon co-wrote the play Live At Six with Dean Hewison, which played three seasons in Wellington and went on to a national tour. He co-created Tom Keeper Passes for Long Cloud Youth Theatre and both Outsider’s Guide and Milky Bits for comedy outfit The Bakery.
He was a staff writer on the TV3 sitcom Sunny Skies, for which he and his fellow writers were award-nominated by the New Zealand Writers’ Guild, and he co-wrote and directed the short films School Night and Moving. More recently, Wadham completed a year as the Silo Theatre and Basement Theatre Director in Residence Intern, which saw him work on mainstage and development projects for both companies. He has since gone on to direct a handful of New Zealand television series, including Golden Boy Series 1 and 2, The Male Gayz, Citizen’s Handbook and Bad News (Series 1 and 2), the latter of which Wadham co-created and has received nominations at both the 2019 and 2020 NZ TV Awards.
