Sonny Hoadley

Pronouns: he/him
Hometown: Dartford/Kent
Returning
Attended Camp: 2023, 2024

I am so excited to be returning to camp once again!!! This will be my second year as a Down-The-Hill Division Head and Theatre Director!! I’m really looking forward to being reunited with all the staff and campers that made my camp experience so fantastic last year and directing some more incredibly exciting shows this year at camp. Camp Ballibay 2024 is gonna be fantastic and I’m really looking forward to getting back!!

Professional Bio:
Sonny has been performing since age 10, mainly specializing in Acting and Singing, and has had years of training from stage schools like Stagecoach and Pauline Quirke’s Academy. He has been in an array of different Musical Shows such as, Oliver!, The Wiz, Hairspray, Fame and Legally Blonde. He has also had training at the Miskin Theatre at which he studied Theatre and Production Arts for 4 years and graduated last year, during this time he performed in musicals and plays such as London Road, The Wizard of Oz, The Laramie Project and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as-well as multiple self written and devised pieces that were then put on stage. In this time he also began directing both film and theatre productions and began exploring more of the technical side of performance, he was also part of a small-scale tour to local primary schools to help inspire children to be more creative with his company’s self-devised Christmas Show. Other than this, Sonny has also begun exploring his interest in Mental Health First Aid and has taken courses to help him understand how to help young people and how he can use his love for performance to do just that. He also had the pleasure of directing several shows at Ballibay in 2023, standout shows such as “The Selfish Giant” and “Freaky Friday”.