Get to Know the Guest Performers at SSSSPOTY 2024: JOAQUIN PEDRO VALDES

Joaquin Pedro Valdes to perform at the Stephen Sondheim student competition

"It's an absolute honour to be a guest performer at this year's SSSSPOTY competition. Sondheim is a modern Shakespeare of our time," says Pacific Overtures star Joaquin. "His profound ability to find where emotional truth, music and text intersect is uncanny and unmatched. It is not only a dream for any actor to live life through his work but it is a privilege. His work reminds me why I chose this profession in the first place." 

Joaquin is set to appear as Dominique alongside Lucie Jones and Clive Rowe in a much anticipated revival of Stephen Schwartz' masterpiece The Baker's Wife at the Menier Chocolate Factory in the summer of 2024. 

Theatre credits include: The Lover in A Song of Songs (Park Theatre); John Manjiro in Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures (Menier Chocolate Factory); Light Yagami in Death Note: The Musical (English language Premiere, London Palladium and Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue); Stephen Hayes in Then, Now & Next (Southwark Playhouse); Connor in Killing The Cat (Riverside Studios); Ram Sweeney in Heathers: The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Vanara: The Legend (Hackney Empire); Understudy Simba in Disney’s The Lion King (UK and Ireland Tour); Kralahome and Understudy Lun Tha in The King and I (UK and International Tour); Engineer and Thuy in Miss Saigon (UK and International Tour); John Stafford Fiske in Fanny & Stella The Musical (Garden Theatre, Vauxhall); Mr Wormwood in Matilda (Manila Premiere, Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group); Spike in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Manila, Philippines); Ken in John Logan’s Red (Manila, Philippines); Jamie Wellerstein in The Last Five Year (Manila, Philippines); Jack in Into the Woods (Manila, Philippines); Charlie Price standby in Kinky Boots and Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening (Manila, Philippines).

Concert credits include: West End Live (Trafalgar Square) and West End Musical Halloween (Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue).

Philippine television credits include: Red and Dagim (CinemaOne); Breakfast and Wazzup Wazzup (Studio 23); Pinoy (GMA 7) and ASAP (ABS-CBN)

Philippine film credits include: Niño (Cinemalaya) and I.T.A.L.Y (GMA Films).

Recording credits include: Death Note: The Musical (Concept Album, to be released later this year); The Jazzanova Project (Solo Album, Victor Music) and albums with Philippine boy band 17:28 (Star Records).