David Vatousios

First Year at BAPA

Having earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and Ancient World Studies at Melbourne University, David has now won a place at the Ballarat Academy of Performing Arts, where he will pursue his interest in acting.

This seems an appropriate direction for David to take, given the prodigious talents he displayed during his years at Wesley, where the ATC stage became his natural habitat beyond the realms of academia (where he also excelled). Cutting his teeth as an actor in War of the Worlds (2004), Romeo and Juliet (2005) and the musical Footloose (2005), his passion for theatre emerged as a driving force in his life. A succession of outstanding back-to-back performances in 2006 (Lysistrata, Ubu Rex and Les Miserables) confirmed his status as one of ATC’s rising stars.

David’s final year at school was notable for his tour-de-force performances in Hot Mikado and Stags and Hens. In the former, his role as Ko-Ko earned him an MTGV nomination for Best Junior Male Performer in a Leading Role and an invitation to perform at the Awards ceremony in December. In the latter, his portrayal of an embittered and misogynistic Liverpudlian would-be soccer star, a role so diametrically opposed to the comic dimensions of his Ko-Ko, proclaimed his dramatic range and potential resoundingly. In 2007 David was also St Kilda Road’s Performing Arts prefect and became Wesley’s recipient of a Malthouse Performing Arts Award for Excellence in Performance and Leadership.