Writing 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
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)
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
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
The Honey-Bear and the Reaper, Allen Hall 1997
The Lead Wait, BATS 1997
Cow, BATS 1996
Fold, BATS and Downstage 1995
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
G&S – writer for their project M+A 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
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