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Selected Credits: The Swallow, The Happy Prince Arden-Wilde ("Hermione Presents"); Original cast Ragtime (Toronto), Phantom of the Opera (Toronto/International Tour); La Bohème, Hansel & Gretel, HMS Pinafore, (Vancouver Opera Touring Ensemble); Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival); Run for Your Wife (Stage West, Edmonton/Calgary); A Christmas Carol (Carousel Theatre); soprano soloist on various radio broadcasts, with Masterpiece Chamber Music, West Coast Performances (Vancouver), and the Kelowna Symphony. |
Jill was born . . . . . . and soon after, discovered performing!
She started both dance and piano studies at an early age and held out till
age 12 to begin singing lessons. She appeared in her first musical theatre
production, Oklahoma, at age 13, in a small feature dance
role "Pigtails". Since then Jill has done everything from chorus
dancer to leading lady to musical director to producer. While living in
Vancouver Hill appeared in many productions, favourite experiences
include: "Eliza" in My Fair Lady;
"Marion" in The Music Man; "Hodel" in Fiddler
on the Roof; "Valencienne" in The Merry Widow;
"Princess" in The Student Prince; "Graziella"
in West Side Story and "Mao Jones" in Street
Scene. For the Vancouver Opera Touring Ensemble Hill was cast as
"Musetta" in La Boheme, "Gretel" in
Hansel and Gretel and "Josephine" in HMS Pinafore.
On the main stage she played her one and only "pants" role to
date, "Jano" in Jenufa under the direction of
Lotfi Mansouri. Jill was co-founder and artistic director of West Coast
Concert Opera., which had the distinction of hosting the first ever
"Opera Quiz" broadcast from somewhere other than The Met! She
also sang the roles of "Adina" in the Barroom Floor.
Hill was asked to join the Touring Company of The Phantom of the
Opera in 1993 and subsequently invited to join the Toronto company
in 1994. During her "Phantom years" she performed all 6 of the
female ensemble roles as well as the deliciously-decadent
"Carlotta". She was asked to sing on the recording of songs from
Ragtime and then to be in the original cast. In the
2000-2001 season Jill appeared as "Nimue" in Camelot
co-produced by the Citadel Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre and Theatre
Calgary. Most recently she was seen as the saucy Kit-Kat girl "Frenchie"
in the Citadel’s highly acclaimed production of Cabaret as
well as playing second keyboard and castanets in the band! This summer
Jill will be performing in The Man of La Mancha at the
Drayton Theatre. Jill currently
teaches singing in her own studio as well for The Randolph Academy for the
Performing Arts. She is the soprano half of the vocal duo Wine,
Women and Song and still studies dance, in the form of flamenco
and classical Spanish. Ole!