Nicole Morrall among prestigious company An article in The Garden Island six years ago described Nicole Morrall as someone who “does a million things we have not dreamed of.” She still does. Now 16, Morrall is attending the prestigious Mid-Pacific
Nicole Morrall among prestigious company
An article in The Garden Island six years ago described Nicole Morrall as someone who “does a million things we have not dreamed of.”
She still does. Now 16, Morrall is attending the prestigious Mid-Pacific Institute on Oahu, the only school in Hawai’i accredited in performing arts. It’s the Kaua’i teen’s latest adventure in a life forever pointed toward the stage.
“She’s always been this way – talented and driven,” said Morrall’s mother, Joslyn.
Since she was 2 years old, Morrall has sung and danced in local shows. She has studied with dance and voice instructors, performed last year in Europe with a Hawai’i Children’s Theater troupe, and had a taste of the movie business as an extra or stand-in in “Lost World,” “Six Days, Seven Nights” and “Legacy.”
Now her focus is on Mid-Pacific, a private school that isn’t easy to get into. Thursday was her second day of classes, and among other things, she already was noticing the students are “more motivated” than she’s been used to, something she attributes to all of them having a goal of becoming performers.
The school is international. Students are from Korea, Japan, Canada, “all over the place,” Morrall said. “You’ll be walking across the campus and hear one language, walk a little further and hear another one.”
A high school junior (she’d be attending Kapa’a High if she wasn’t enrolled at Mid-Pacific), Morrall will “wait and see” about attending the Oahu school next year. To raise money for her $10,000 tuition, she’ll sing at a champagne and pupus reception this Sunday at the Bamboo Bamboo Courtyard in Hanalei from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Morrall wants to study psychology in college (“I’m just really interested in that”) so she’ll have a career to fall back to if performing doesn’t turn out to be her life’s work. “There are so many talented people all over the world,” she noted.
While attending Mid-Pacific, Morrall is living with her godmother, Michelle Cole. Morrall said she’s missing Kaua’i and her parents (John is her dad), but she’s enjoying the new experience.
Editor Pat Jenkins can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 227) and mailto:pjenkins@pulitzer.net
