	{"id":35051,"date":"2025-06-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/themooraboolnews\/?p=35051"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:09:05","slug":"call-goes-out-to-helpconnie-achieve-her-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/themooraboolnews\/living\/call-goes-out-to-helpconnie-achieve-her-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Call goes out to help Connie achieve her dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UP-and-coming Darley performer Connie Degnen has been presented with the opportunity of a lifetime \u2013 but she and her family need help to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>The talented 16-year-old has just received news that she has won a place at the prestigious American Musical and Dramatic Academy, along with an annual scholarship to help pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>But the US$25,000 scholarship only goes some of the way towards paying for the annual US$70,000 cost of the four-year course.<\/p>\n<p>So Connie and her family are beginning the search for a sponsor or sponsors willing to contribute to making the dream a reality \u2013 and gaining some high-level exposure along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The year 11 Bacchus Marsh Grammar student already has a long list of theatre, television, film and modelling credits to her name.<\/p>\n<p>She hopes to pursue a performing career and prepared a song and a monologue for submission to the academy&#8217;s auditions in Melbourne earlier this month, mainly for the experience and feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Connie was not necessarily expecting to be offered a place at the institution, which has campuses in New York and Los Angeles, but within days had received the offer of a spot in the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre course starting in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>To say she&#8217;s excited is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wanted to give it a shot to get some feedback and some experience of what it would be like,&#8221; Connie said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/06\/HSMPerformance-a_21849.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connie Degnen has a long list of performing credits to her name.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America seems like so far away, and when I got this email saying that I&#8217;d got in it was just huge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was like all the work that I&#8217;ve done, it must be doing something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Connie has been singing, dancing and acting &#8220;any chance I get&#8221; from an early age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I naturally gravitated to it when I was very young; it&#8217;s just developed into kind of my whole life,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely what I want to go ahead with after school. Probably musical theatre because that has the singing and acting and dancing all in one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If she is able to take her place at the academy, she will be among some of America&#8217;s finest young talent \u2013 performers such as Tyne Daly, Jason Derulo (most recently seen as a judge on The Voice Australia), Erik Estrada, Gretchen Mol, Paul Sorvino and Asia Kate Dillon are among its graduates.<\/p>\n<p>Connie&#8217;s mother, Lisa Degnen, agreed that having her daughter relocate so far away for four years would be a big move. &#8220;You only get one life to live, so we&#8217;d support her in whatever she wanted to do,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Degnen said the family was now investigating opportunities to attract support for the trip.<\/p>\n<p>She said businesses or companies may want to sponsor Connie, for example, with an option of her acting as a brand ambassador or something similar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anything&#8217;s worth a try right now,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We&#8217;re 18 months away and we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we try and we don&#8217;t succeed, then at least we&#8217;ve tried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Potential supporters or sponsors can email the Degnens at <a href=\"mailto:teamconnieusa@gmail.com\">teamconnieusa@gmail.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UP-and-coming Darley performer Connie Degnen has been presented with the opportunity of a lifetime \u2013 but she and her family need help to make it happen. 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