Jayne Giordanella, a Gozo based British actress, was awarded gold this week for her participation in the World Monologue Games competition.

The Games has seen around 5,000 performers from over 100 countries register since its inception last year. Only 95 competitors won a spot in the Global Finals, which consisted of six categories broken down by age group, experience level and monologue duration.

The event is judged by industry experts from around the world including renowned actors, film directors and heads of international acting schools.

Representing Malta in the global games Jayne impressed the judges with a high ranking score of 14 points to comfortably secure the top position in the Endurance category (8 – 10 minutes) with her adapted monologue from ‘Going Fishing,’ a play written by her and her husband.

“It has been a very rewarding experience,” says Giordanella, “I initially stumbled across the competition call on social media in June and thought it would be a good project to focus on whilst theatres and performances were restricted, I had no idea I would still be focusing on it come November!”

She explained that, ”as the qualifying stages progressed and I was still in the running, I found that it became quite the challenge to present the same monologue whilst trying to up the level in order to impress the judges once again. It was a really good discipline and study and I would certainly recommend it for any actor. Obviously I am absolutely thrilled to have won, a personal achievement is a wonderful thing!”

World Monologue Games was set up last year by Australian Pete Malicki, who wanted a lockdown-friendly platform for performers.

Malicki says, “It’s definitely special to have our second season take place in an Olympics year. We have the best performers from 51 countries all getting together to show the world what they’re made of. I’m not sure where else you can see such a diverse range of actors all in the same place.”

For more information on World Monologue Games visit https://monologues.com.au/WMG

Photo credit: Penny Brennan

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