Nadia Komazec

Nadia Komazec was born to entertain. She trained in Adelaide at her mother’s dance school, Barbara Jayne Dance centre up until the age of 17 when she made her professional debut in 2006 as Meg Giry in the Australasian touring production of The Phantom of the Opera (RUG).

Most recently, Nadia has most notably earned critical acclaim and was nominated for a Green Room Award for best supporting Actress for her portrayal of the vivacious Holly in The Wedding Singer (David Venn Enterprises). The show toured nationally from 2021 to 2022 and in-between lockdowns it was on this production that Nadia met and fell in love with her onstage love interest and now offstage husband Haydan Hawkins.

Previous to the devastation of the Covid 19 Pandemic, Nadia played Patti Di Marco on the International Tour of The School Of Rock (GWB) in Australia, China and New Zealand.

Other career highlights include Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show (GFO/ GWB); Campbell in Bring it On The Musical (David Venn Enterprises); Matilda The Musical (Royal Shakespeare Company/Louise Withers) where Nadia understudied both Miss Honey and Mrs Wormwood; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (James Anthony Productions); Legally Blonde the Musical (Howard Panter/ GFO); Maggie in A Chorus Line (TML Enterprises); Cat Steven’s World Premiere Moonshadow; The 10th Anniversary tour of Mamma Mia! (Louise Withers and associates.) And on screen Nadia appeared in ABC3’s Season 2 of Dance Academy.

Nadia first auditioned for Tina! The Tina Turner Musical for the role of Rhonda at 39 weeks pregnant and completed her final audition for the role one week after giving birth. Nadia would like to dedicate her performance to her son Benedict Lee Hawkins. “Mummy loves you and couldn’t have done it without you.”