| Nathania Ong | |||||||
| Years Active: | 2021–present | ||||||
| Mother: | Jenny Ong | ||||||
| Father: | Kevin Ong | ||||||
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Nathania Ong (born 24 July 1998) is a Singaporean actress and singer. A graduate of the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, she made her West End debut in 2021 as Jenna Rolan in Be More Chill.
Ong was born in 1998 to dentist and former a cappella singer Kevin Ong and homemaker Jenny Ong.[1] She has three older sisters.[2] [3] Ong enjoyed singing from a young age and often performed at City Harvest Church concerts,[1] [4] but only began to be formally trained at age 11.[2]
Ong received her primary education at Methodist Girls' School.[1] [5] She was a member of the Drama Elective Programme at Anglo-Chinese Junior College. After completing her Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examinations in 2017, she applied to study at several overseas drama schools, but failed to be accepted by any of them.[2] She then enrolled at Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore but dropped out after a year to reapply to schools in the United Kingdom.[6] In 2021, she graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts with a Bachelor of Arts in musical theatre.[7]
In 2010, Ong led the singing of "Majulah Singapura" at the closing ceremony of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.[2] She made her West End debut in 2021 as Jenna Rolan in Be More Chill.[8] The same year, she played Éponine in the UK and Ireland tour of Les Misérables, despite not having seen the musical prior to auditioning for the role.[9] In 2022, she began playing Éponine in the West End production at the Sondheim Theatre.[2] She returned to Singapore in 2023 to play Cinderella in a local adaptation of Into the Woods.[7] In 2024, she was cast as Eliza in the West End production of Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre.[10]
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | 2021 | Be More Chill | Jenna Rolan | Shaftesbury Theatre | ||
| scope=row | 2022–2023 | Les Misérables | Éponine | Sondheim Theatre | ||
| scope=row | 2023 | Into the Woods | Cinderella | Singtel Waterfront Theatre | [11] | |
| scope=row | 2024 | Les Misérables | Éponine | Arena World Tour | [12] | |
| scope=row | 2024–2025 | Hamilton | Eliza | Victoria Palace Theatre |