Sergio Giacomelli

About Sergio Giacomelli

Sergio is a choreographer, movement director, actor and Voiceover artist who has appeared in London’s West End and all over Europe on stage, television and film productions.

Sergio has most recently appeared as Bernardo in West Side Story for Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Prior to this, Sergio played the role of Munkustrap in the Teatro Sistina production of Cats, where he was also Dance Captain. Sergio performed in the Chichester Festival Theatre production of South Pacific and he was part of the Royal Exchange production of West Side Story. His most recent West End appearance was in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, London.

Born in Rome, Italy, Sergio trained locally before receiving the prestigious Rudolf Nureyev Foundation Scholarship securing him a place at the English National Ballet School in London where he graduated in 2007.

After completing the sell-out 2013-14 UK tour of West Side Story as Bernardo u/s and Pepe, Sergio spent some time in New York City where he trained at Steps on Broadway with esteemed tutors such as Manuel Vignoulle, Richard Pierlon, Chet Walker and Gustavo Zajac.

Sergio made his West End debut in 2009 as the Alternate Older Billy and Ensemble in ‘Billy Elliot the Musical,’ which he performed until 2013. During this time he also performed the role of Older Billy at RADA for the Great Ormond Street Hospital charity in the presence of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Previous theatre credits include Derek Deane’s ‘Swan Lake’ with the English National Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall; Kerry Nicholls’ ‘Cicatrice’ at Sadler’s Wells; ‘Carmen’ at the Royal Albert Hall for Raymond Gubbay; Understudy Prince in ‘Cinderella’ (Theatre Royal, Nottingham) for Paul Elliot and Qdos Entertainment; Soloist roles in ‘Amoroso’ and ‘A Pair of Wings, please?’ both by Carolina Constantinou, ‘Sirens’ by Antonio Colandrea and ‘Rhapsody’ by Julien Ficely, all for Dancecyprus.

Film and Television Credits include ‘Matteo Bianchi’ in Call The Midwife, ‘Lilliputian Soldier’ in Rob Letterman’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (20th Century Fox, 2010); Alesha Dixon’s ‘Let’s Get Excited’ music video (Atlantic Records UK); The One Show (BBC); Featured backing singer for the guest performance of ‘Rhydian Roberts’ at the launch of his debut album on the XFactor 2008 (ITV and SyCo Productions); Salsa dancer with Strictly Come Dancing’s Camilla Dallerup on GMTV’s launch of her ‘Dancing Queen Diet’ (ITV); Louie Spence’s comedy ‘Dream Sequence’ on Pineapple Dance Studios (Sky 1 HD).

In addition to his stage and screen career, Sergio works as a choreographer and multi-lingual Voice Over artist.

Voice Over work includes Saclà (TVC), HSBC, Moovit, Motif Photobooks, Kinder, Reebok, Boundless (Amazon Studios), Barilla, SAS Rogue Heroes (BBC), Roche Pharmaceuticals, Primark, Lidl as well as several other projects including audiobooks.

To broaden his knowledge and understanding of movement and its technique, Sergio qualified as a Certified PBT Teacher in 2020.