Writing & Performance CV
Education
Bachelor of the Arts, VUW 1994, major: Theatre/Film and English
Master of Theatre Arts, Directing, 2012, VUW and Toi Whakaari
Awards & Prizes
Topp Prize for Comedy, 2023
ONZM, 2020
Michael King Writer’s Residency, 2019
New Generation Laureate 2008, Arts Foundation (sponsored by Freemasons)
Shortlisted for IIML Prize in Modern Letters 2006, 2008
Shortlisted for Billy T James Comedy Prize 2005
Winston Churchill Fellowship (Russia) 2003
DOC Creative New Zealand Wild Creations Residency, 2002
Robert Burns Fellow, Otago University 2001
Bruce Mason Playwrighting Award, 1997
Phoebe Maunsell Award for artists, 1996
Best Portfolio, VUW creative writing course, 1997
Another Mammal, Writer, Best New NZ Play, Wellington Theatre Awards 2021
Most Original Production (Absolutely Positively Walking), Wellington Fringe Festival 2006
Golden Gibbo Award (Carry On Randerson), Melbourne Comedy Festival 2004
Best Comedy (Cracks in the Garden), Melbourne Fringe Festival 2003
Best Comedy (Peeling Back the Paint), Wellington Fringe Festival 2002
Most Original Production (The Unforgiven Harvest), Wellington Fringe Festival 2000
Publications
Secret Art Powers, Barbarian Productions 2024
The Wind Is Up And We’re On, Barbarian Productions 2019, (poems)
Tales from the Netherworld, Steele Roberts 2012, (short stories)
The Unforgiven Harvest/The Lead Wait NZ Play Series, 2010
Through The Door, Wedge Press 2009 (short adult’s story illustrated by Seraphine Pick) a Sunday Star Times Best Book 2009
Fold in ‘Fold/Shudder' (The Play Press 2003)
Banging Cymbal, Clanging Gong in 'Red Light Means Stop' (Women's Play Press, 2003),
The Keys to Hell, VUP 2004 (short stories and prose poetry)
The Spit Children, VUP 2000 (short stories, illustrations by Taika Waititi)
The Knot, Wedge Press 1998 (a short adult’s story, illustrated by Vita Cochran)
Teacher
Massey University
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School
Programme teacher on the MFA at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Performer
Speed Is Emotional - Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts, March 2026
Speed Is Emotional - SILO Theatre, 2025
Good Night – The End, Downstage Theatre, 2009
Absolutely Positively Walking!, Outdoor, 2006
Jo Randerson’s Skazzle-Dazzle, Bats 2005
Carry On Randerson, Bats 2004
Cracks In the Garden, Bats 2003
Peeling Back the Paint, Artspace and Wellington City Art Gallery 2002
Banging Cymbal, Clanging Gong, Odin Teatret, Denmark, 2001
The Girl Who Died, Bats 1996
Black Monk, Bats, 1996
Director
A Slow Burlesque written/performed by Freya Finch, SILO Theatre, 2024
45c an Hour, written/performed by Dominic Hoey, Basement Theatre, 2021
Vanilla Miraka, written/performed by Hayley Sproull, Taki Rua, 2016
No More Dancing in The Good Room, written and performed by Chris Parker, SILO Theatre, 2016
Cook Thinks Again, performed by Tom Clarke, Barbarian Productions
Sing It To My Face, Barbarian Productions, 2016
Carnival Hound with Maria Dabrowska, Sleep/Wake Research Centre 2009
Stories, Plays, Articles, and Creative Non-Fiction in the Following Books
The Journal of Urgent Writing, Volume 2, Massey University Press 2017
Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories, 2009
Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories 2008, VUP
Are Angels Okay? ed. Bill Manhire and Paul Callaghan, VUP 2006
Best NZ Short Fiction 3, Random House 2006
121 New Zealand Poems, VUP 2005
Great Sporting Moments, ed. Damien Wilkins, VUP 2005
Fold in Fold/Shudder, The Play Press, 2003
Banging Cymbal, Clanging Gong, in Red Light Means Stop, the Women’s Play Press, 2003
The Picnic Virgin, ed. Emily Perkins, VUP 1999
The Next Wave, ed. Mark Pirie, UOP 1998
Mutes and Earthquakes, ed. Bill Manhire, VUP 1997
Several Plays in the School Journal
Plays Premiered
Speed is Emotional, Silo, 2025
Another Mammal, Circa, 2020
Odd One Out, Capital E, 2016
Good Night – The End, Downstage Theatre, 2009
Absolutely Positively Walking!, Outdoor, 2006
Jo Randerson’s Skazzle-Dazzle, BATS 2005
Carry On Randerson, BATS 2004
Cracks In the Garden, BATS 2003
halo, with Douglas Wright and the Royal New Zealand Ballet
Peeling Back the Paint, Artspace and Wellington City Art Gallery 2002
Mahy Madness, Capital E Theatre, 2001
Banging Cymbal, Clanging Gong, Odin Teatret, Denmark, 2001
The Unforgiven Harvest, Downstage Theatre, BATS 2000
The Sojourns of Boy, with Briar Grace-Smith, BATS, 1998
The Flying Clouds, Silo, 1999
Mouth, Tory Street Carpark 1997
The Honey-Bear and the Reaper, Allen Hall 1997
The Lead Wait, BATS 1997
The Girl Who Died, BATS 1996
Black Monk, BATS 1996
Cow, BATS 1996
Fold, BATS and Downstage 1995
‘Aoterroroa’ with Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School, director Geoff Pinfield, Sep. 2008
Witches Over Wanaka with Flat Out Productions, premiered Wanaka Festival of Colour, May 2009
Left and Right, choreog. Ann Dewey, Juny 2009, Best Dance, Metro 2009
Carnival Hound with Maria Dabrowska, May 2009
Film Credits
Hey, Brainy Man, writer and co-director with Loren Taylor, 2024, NZIFF Patrons’ Award for Best NZ Short Film 2024
Nobody WINZ, (pilot) writer and co-director with Kathleen Winter, 2023
Things At Home, online series, 2020 lockdown (writer, actor and director) https://www.barbarian.co.nz/work/things-at-home
Several Ways of Getting Around, writer, dir. Rachel Davies
Other Achievements
Teacher at Toi Whakaari, Victoria and Massey University
Guest Speaker – Performance of Hope Conference, Auckland University, 2015
Co-chair of Big Live Arts Group – independent arts network, Wellington, 2015-11-04
Vogelmorn Community Group Trust, founding member
Posted Love – exhibition designer National Library (1999), Dunedin & Christchurch (2000), Tauranga (2001)
Bombs Away – artist, exhibition, 2002 in Christchurch, 2003 in Wellington
Fringe Arts Trust Board member, 2007-2008
CNZ Emerging Leaders’ Course, 2007-8
Curator: ’My House Surrounded By A Thousand Suns’ exhibition at TheNewDowse ’08
Writer: ’We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For’ commissioned radio feature on the current state of our environment (produced by the Royal Society and Radio New Zealand as part of In The Goldilocks Zone series)
Trustee, Wellington Artists' Charitable Trust 2003-2004
Tutor ‘Acting Up’: theatre company of actors with intellectual disabilities
Tutor Silver Noodle Soup: theatre company of young actors with disabilities
International Projects
‘Wat er gebeurde terwijl de mussen de polka dansten’- an adaptation of The Spit Children for HETPALEIS, Belgium’s largest Youth Theatre, 2014
M&A — collaboration with visual artists Goldin+Senneby, DPAG and Artspace 2013 and at Moscow, Venice and Istanbul Bienalle
Loose Promise, solo theatre performance by Kate McIntosh, premiere Berlin September 2007, Writer
Hair From The Throat, company Kate McIntosh, devisor/performer, premiere Brussels 2006 then Paris 2006
All Natural, solo theatre performance by Kate McIntosh, premiered Brussels 2004, Writer
REACT: Literature in the Everyday, Munich 2000, curated by Horst Konietzny, 2003, Writer (multi-media project)
Bleach: theatre collaboration with Boilerhouse theatre, Edinburgh, Writer, performed Edinburgh and Wellington 1998
A Big Big Room Full of Everybody’s Hope — by Amit Noy, dramaturg and co-director, Marseilles, Paris 2023
Periodicals
Landfall
Europe: NZ Edition 2006 (in translation)
Sport
JAAM
The Herald on Sunday
The Listener
Incommunicado (Melbourne)
White Fungus
Staple
Voiceworks (Melbourne)
Turbine
Playmarket News