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Kia ora! Our Dentons Kensington Swan presents Back on the Boards festival celebrates the return of live theatre to the ASB Waterfront Theatre. Although we have hardly been idle during The Big Pause, it feels so good to have actors and creatives and production teams, and, of course, audiences energising the place once again. Over the next few weeks, you’ll be able to catch three very different Auckland Theatre Company productions. The hugely popular and award-winning Still Life with Chickens has toured extensively throughout New Zealand as well as international seasons in Sydney and Shanghai, gathering great reviews and awards for the cast. D.F. Mamea's intimate, heart-warming and very funny play touches on our need for love and connection and proves that some friendships are just clucking surprising. Black Lover, Stanley Makuwe’s gripping drama about war, dirty politics and colonisation, had its sellout season cancelled due to the global pandemic, so we’re delighted to be able to remount it to play in repertoire with Still Life with Chickens. This powerful new work celebrates the life of an

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extraordinary New Zealander, Sir Garfield Todd and the contribution he made to modern Africa. Storytelling is at the heart of what we do in the theatre and the third offering for this minifestival, 48 Nights on Hope Street promises an up close and personal, wild night of storytelling, song and music. Loosely inspired by Giovanni Bocaccio’s story-telling epic The Decameron, 48 Nights on Hope Street celebrates the talent and mahi of some of Aotearoa’s most exciting and diverse young theatre makers. Huge thanks to everyone involved for their generosity and goodwill; to our wonderful team at ATC for pulling this altogether and to you, our audience, for your support and appreciation of what we do. You’ll notice your front-of-house experience is a bit different in these times of COVID-19, constant change and contact tracing. Please know your health and safety is as important to us as your enjoyment. Auckland Theatre Company and our wonderful staff at the ASB Waterfront Theatre have taken every step to ensure your theatregoing experience is safe and stress-free. Welcome back! It’s a pleasure to have you here. 1

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CAST Mama — Goretti Chadwick Puppeteer — Haanz Fa’avae-Jackson Voice of Papa — Ene Petaia Cover for Mama — Anapela Polataivao

CREATIVE Playwright — D.F. Mamea Director — Fasitua Amosa Set and Costume Designer — John Parker Lighting Designer — Marcus McShane Sound Designer — Khalid Parkar

PRODUCTION Stage Manager and Operator — Andrew Furness Technical Manager — Kevin Greene Chicken Puppet Maker — Helen Fuller Set Builder — Frank Chekkets

Still Life with Chickens received development assistance from Playmarket and Auckland Theatre Company. Still Life with Chickens, as part of the Back on the Boards festival, opened on 9 September 2020 at ASB Waterfront Theatre. The production is approximately 1 hour with no interval. Please remember to switch off all mobile phones and noise-emitting devices. 2

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GORETTI CHADWICK

GORETTI CHADWICK Mama Goretti Chadwick has performed in fourteen productions with Auckland Theatre Company. Still Life with Chickens was Goretti’s thirteenth production with ATC and has toured throughout New Zealand and to Sydney, Australia and Shanghai, China. For the role of Mama, Goretti won Outstanding Performance at The Wellington Awards in 2018 and Excellence in Performance at the Auckland Theatre Awards 2018. Performance highlights with ATC include this year’s Zoom production of The Seagull, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Good Soul of Szechuan, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stepping Out, My Name is Gary Cooper, Where We Once Belonged, Doubt, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, A Streetcar Named Desire and Wit. Goretti’s directing credits for ATC include Sinarella and Polly Hood in Mumuland. Goretti has performed in various films including Vermillion, where her role as Sila won the Award of Excellence: Supporting Actress at The Accolade Global Film Competition in 2019. Her TV works include acting and writing for TVNZ's Fresh, writing and voicing HeiHei animation's Legendary Polynesia and Tales of the Moana. You can also see her playing the stroppy school receptionist Margot on Three’s second season of Mean Mums. 4

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HAANZ FA’AVAE-JACKSON Puppeteer Since graduating from PIPA (Pacific Institute of Performing Arts) in 2014, Haanz Fa’avaeJackson has had an explosive introduction into both the screen and theatre scene. The young actor has been working alongside many well established creatives such as Victor Rodger, Fasitua Amosa and Rachel House. Over the years, Haanz has performed with Fresh (TVNZ), as well as a few community shows such as Meet the Fakas and The Girl from Niue Island. For Auckland Theatre Company, he has performed in The Eel & Sina and Inky Pinky Ponky. Haanz has found his feet in the world of film and screen, featuring in commercials, short films, and tele-feature In Dark Places based on the book about Teina Pora. His biggest role to date is the feature film Hibiscus and Ruthless, in which he plays the pseudo intellectual Stephen Kalahi. Haanz continues to find and reach for new heights with his recently found passion for acting, hoping to inspire other young fathers who wish to pursue their dreams.

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ANAPELA POLATAIVAO Cover for Mama After graduating from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, Anapela travelled overseas to pursue her acting career. She spent her time in the United Kingdom performing Makerita Urale’s Frangipani Perfume, directed by Rachel House. In 2004, she travelled to New York with Island Divas to perform at Paradise Now?, an exhibition of New Zealand and Pacific Islands contemporary art. Anapela played the role of the formidable Mrs Lima in TVNZ’s The Market. She is also a founding member of Triangle Television’s Kila Kokonut Krew’s Ktv – a South Auckland theatre, television and music production house based in Anapela’s family back yard. Anapela's ATC credits include Where We Once Belonged and My Name Is Gary Cooper. Recently, she has featured in TV series' Filthy Rich and Pani & Pani, web series Baby Mama's Club and directed Silo Theatre's Wild Dogs Under My Skirt.

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D.F. MAMEA Playwright David Fa’auliuli Mamea has worked in theatre, radio, television and film. He has won the Adam Award for Best New Zealand Play (Still Life with Chickens, 2017), the New Zealand Writers Guild SWANZ Award for Best Play (Goodbye My Feleni, 2013), and the New Zealand Radio Award for Best Dramatic Production (Skyblue, 2013). Born and raised in Wellington, he now lives in Te Tai Tokerau with his lovely wife, cat, dogs, ponies, kunekune pigs, and innumerable chickens, including a rooster called Ghost Dog. www.dfmamea.com FASITUA AMOSA Director Fasitua Amosa has been an actor for 17 years. He graduated from the School of Performing and Screen Arts, UNITEC in 2002. Since then, having worked frequently for all the major theatre companies on mainbill shows and workshops, Fasitua has become a regular face in Auckland’s theatre scene, and has appeared in numerous television shows. He is a very busy voice over guy so if you haven't seen him, you've 6

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probably heard him on radio advertisements or on Auckland’s train network. In 2017 he directed a hugely successful season of Katori Hall’s Olivier Award winning play The Mountaintop. Still Life with Chickens is the second show he has directed for Auckland Theatre Company.

Ball, Bendon’s Next to Nothing, Bellsouth Pharaohs, Precious Legacy and Peru: Gold and Sacrifice for the Auckland Museum. John was awarded a Waitakere City Millennium Medal for Services to the Community, and in 2010 he was made an Arts Laureate by the New Zealand Arts Foundation.

JOHN PARKER Set and Costume Designer John Parker is an award-winning set designer with a long history of designing for Auckland Theatre Company. His set designs include Winding Up, Six Degrees of Separation, Red Speedo, Peer Gynt [recycled], Polo, A Shortcut to Happiness, Red, Mary Stuart, Stepping Out, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Wife Who Spoke Japanese in Her Sleep, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, End of The Rainbow, Sweet Charity, Doubt, Mum’s Choir, Taking Off, Equus, Caligula, The Bach, Middle Age Spread, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Noises Off, Waiting For Godot, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Into The Woods and The Glass Menagerie. John has also designed for The Louis Vuitton Ball and The America’s Cup

MARCUS McSHANE Lighting Designer Marcus McShane is one of New Zealand’s most prolific designers, having produced over 300 design and installation works. Still Life with Chickens is his first design for Auckland Theatre Company. In 2010, he designed Heat, a theatre piece lit by custom-built LEDs and was the world’s first emission neutral professional theatre piece. He has won five fringe awards for visual art, two DINZ awards, and five Chapmann Tripp awards, including lighting designer of the year for 2011, 2013 and 2017. In 2015, four of his works were installed as a part of the NZ New Performance Festival in New York. In 2016, he created Four Nests for the New Zealand Festival. In 2017, he completed a permanent installation, Wash, for the Tauranga City Council. Marcus has

a master’s degree in philosophy which he’s philosophical about. His interests include growing vegetables, building bicycles, and reading things worth reading. KHALID PARKAR Sound Designer Born and raised in Auckland, Khalid’s first involvement with Auckland Theatre Company was as a student operator in Youth Development Program, Young & Hungry (2010). Since then he has been involved in various roles with other ATC productions and tours. His recent credits include multi-operator for ATC’s My Own Darling, head of sound/vision and sound designer for NanoGirl Live!, an internationally touring production, assistant to the head of sound for Auckland Arts Festival 2018, and sound designer for Judge, Jury & Cookie Monster.

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CAST Garfield Todd — Cameron Rhodes Steady — Simbarashe Matshe

CREATIVE Playwright — Stanley Makuwe Director — Roy Ward Set and Costume Designer — Rachael Walker Lighting Designer — Rachel Marlow Sound Designer — Sean Lynch

PRODUCTION Stage Manager — Catherine Grealish Technical Manager — Kevin Greene Technical Operator — Spencer Earwaker Set Construction — 2Construct

Black Lover, as part of the Back on the Boards festival, opened on 9 September 2020 at ASB Waterfront Theatre. The production is approximately 1 hour 10 minutes with no interval. Please remember to switch off all mobile phones and noise-emitting devices. 8

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CAMERON RHODES Garfield Todd

SIMBARASHE MATSHE Steady

Cameron Rhodes is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School 1987. He has appeared in more than 90 productions, many with Auckland Theatre Company, including in the role of Harold Wilson in The Audience, and roles in Mrs Warren’s Profession, Lysistrata, The Importance of Being Earnest and Mary Stuart. Screen roles include the Magistrate in the The Luminaries for BBC One, the lawyer Jonathan Krebs in In Dark Places and Farmer Maggot in The Lord of the Rings; also, he has appeared in Rake, Blue Murder and Home and Away in Australia. Cameron is a founding artistic board member of The Actors’ Program drama school where he teaches regularly. He also directs theatre, and coaches voice and presentation skills in the corporate world. He divides his time between New Zealand, Australia and Los Angeles. Cameron has been an active and proud member of Equity New Zealand since 1988.

Simbarashe Matshe is extremely excited to be joining the Auckland Theatre Company family again. This is Simbarashe’s second production with Auckland Theatre Company as he has previously played the role of Walter in Filthy Business (2018). It feels very much like returning home for him. He has also featured in screen projects, including Frontiersman, Ash vs Evil Dead, Mortal Engines and AFK season 2. Born in Zimbabwe, Simbarashe found his love of theatre and the arts at a young age. After emigrating to New Zealand, he spent most of his formative years in Wellington before eventually moving to Auckland to pursue acting. Black Lover has allowed Simbarashe to reconnect with his birthplace in a uniquely marvellous way, and credits that to the Playwright Stanley Makuwe, Director Roy Ward and fellow cast member Cameron Rhodes. Simbarashe wishes to thank his family for supporting him through the years, as well as his soon-to-be fiancée Madeline, for loving and encouraging him, and allowing him to chase his dream. 9

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ROY WARD

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STANLEY MAKUWE Playwright Stanley Makuwe was born in 1972 in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. He grew up in rural Shurugwi and has lived in New Zealand since 2002. He won Zimbabwe’s 2016 National Art Merits Award for his play, Chimbwido, Girl of War. He was short-listed for the 2012 Adam New Zealand Play Award for Footprints on Ika’s Heart and the 2011 BBC International Playwriting Competition for The Coup. His plays have been staged in New Zealand and Zimbabwe, featuring at the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) in 2012 and 2017. He juggles family life with theatre and his full-time job in psychiatry. ROY WARD Director Roy Ward has worked as an actor, director, writer and script editor/advisor for for more than 30 years. He is a former Literary Manager/Associate Director for Auckland Theatre Company and has directed several ATC productions: notably, Victor Rodger’s My Name is Gary Cooper. His production of Rodger’s Black Faggot won Auckland Fringe Production of the Year and went on to tour nationally and internationally. 10

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Notable acting credits include The Crucible and Nell Gwynn for ATC and Think of a Garden for TAPA, and Resident Alien, a solo show in which he appeared as 90-year-old Quentin Crisp. His most recent stage appearances have been as a disgraced politician in Sam Brooks’ Burn Her and as British Prime Ministers John Major and Anthony Eden in The Audience for ATC. Recent screen credits include recurring roles on Shortland Street, Go Girls, Dirty Laundry and several series of The Brokenwood Mysteries in which he plays Reverend Lucas Greene. RACHAEL WALKER Set Designer With a passion for theatrical set and prop design, Rachael Walker has spent the past 19 years amassing more than 100 projects as a professional designer. She has collaborated with New Zealand Opera, Silo Theatre, The New Zealand Dance Company, The Court Theatre, Tim Bray Productions, Auckland Arts Festival, NZ International Comedy Festival, Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Canterbury Opera, The Actors’ Program and many many independent production companies. For Auckland Theatre

Company, her works include Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, which won an Excellence in Design award at the 2019 Auckland Theatre Awards, The Gangster’s Paradise for HERE & NOW, The Daylight Atheist and Joan, Under the Mountain, Last Legs, Nell Gwynn, Venus in Fur, That Bloody Woman, You Can Always Hand Them Back, Lysistrata, The Ladykillers, The Lollywitch of Mumuland, Other Desert Cities, Polly Hood in Mumuland, Anne Boleyn, Kings of the Gym, The Gift, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), Calendar Girls, God of Carnage, Who Needs Sleep Anyway?, End of the Rainbow, The Tutor, The Bach, The Vagina Monologues, Play 2 and Play 2.03. She also won Excellence at the Auckland Theatre Awards in 2017 for Nell Gwynn, in 2016 for ATC/The Court Theatre’s production of That Bloody Woman and in 2014 for Silo Theatre’s production of Angels in America. Rachael was named the 2008 URBIS Best Stage Designer. RACHEL MARLOW Lighting Designer Rachel Marlow is a lighting and production designer, and co-founder of design company Filament Eleven 11 (with Bradley Gledhill). Filament Eleven 11 works collaboratively to produce beautiful theatre, live event productions and light installations. Rachel regularly works with Silo Theatre (Boys Will Be Boys, Mr Burns, Here Lies Love, Peter and the Wolf), Red Leap Theatre (Dust Pilgrim, Kororāreka, Owls Do Cry) and Auckland Theatre Company (Red Speedo, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead) as well as a vast array of independent artists. Recent career highlights include an off-Broadway production at the SoHo

Playhouse New York of F.C.C’s Wild Dogs Under My Skirt (also seen at New Zealand Festival of the Arts 2018 and Auckland Arts Festival 2019), and a 2019 Auckland Theatre Award for the design team of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (ATC). Rachel hails from Lower Hutt, studied Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington and Royal Holloway, University of London, and relocated to Auckland in 2011. She continues to produce work that tours throughout the country and internationally. SEAN LYNCH Sound Designer Sean Lynch has been working in New Zealand professional theatre for more than 30 years. He is a musician, an actor, and a lighting and sound designer. Previous sound designs include Havoc in the Garden, Flintlock Musket, Yours Truly, I Love You Bro, Tribes, The Pitchfork Disney, The Heretic, Polo, Hir, Rendered, The Daylight Atheist, Joan, Six Degrees of Separation and Winding Up. Previous lighting designs include Brel, Speaking in Tongues, Chicago, Angels in America, Belleville, A Streetcar Named Desire, Once on Chunuk Bair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hudson & Halls Live!, The Book of Everything, Live Live Cinema’s Little Shop of Horrors, Hir, Rendered, The Daylight Atheist, Joan, The Audience, Winding Up and The Wolves.

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CAST Carrie Green, Trae Te Wiki, Ravikanth Gurunathan, Jess Hong and Patrick Tafa

MUSICIAN Kenji Iwamitsu-Holdaway

About 48 Nights on Hope Street

Boccaccio’s The Decameron, the storytelling epic written hundreds of years ago in the time of the Great Plague, was both a springboard and point of departure for the commissioning of 48 Nights on Hope Street. How would five leading young writers bring their diverse experiences and obsessions to a show grounded in storytelling for this new ‘now’ we are all living through? Each writer was given a day of The Decameron as reference and when the drafts of their pieces arrived it was thrilling to feel the intensity and life of the classic pulsing beneath their newly minted work. And now, these pieces have been shaped into an anthology show for your entertainment – a vivid, distinctive imaginative journey that reinvents places we think we know and transports us to the magical forests and starlit nights of our dreams.

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Philippa Campbell Literary Manager Auckland Theatre Company

CREATIVE Writers — Freya Daly Sadgrove, Leki Jackson-Bourke, Nathan Joe, Ana Scotney and Cian Elyse White Director — Jane Yonge Lighting Designer — Kevin Greene Costume Designer — Alison Reid Design Consultant — Rachel Marlow

PRODUCTION Stage Manager — Eliza Josephson-Rutter Technical Manager — Kevin Greene Technical Operator — Spencer Earwaker

Pieces featured in 48 Nights on Hope Street (in order of presentation)

WISH UPON A STAR - Cian Elyse White HOW TO WRITE A LOVE POEM IN 2020 - Nathan Joe POLARITY - Cian Elyse White FROM MC’SAUSAGE to MC’MUFFIN - Leki Jackson-Bourke MR WEE HAT DUPES A PRIEST WITH A FALSE CONFESSION AND DIES, AND HAVING BEEN AN ABSOLUTE BASTARD DURING HIS LIFE, IS MADE A SAINT AFTER HIS DEATH - Freya Daly Sadgrove

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INVISIBLE MAN - Nathan Joe DAY 1 STORY 9 - Freya Daly Sadgrove NATHAN - Ana Scotney THE AUTHOR’S CONCLUSION - Ana Scotney 13

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CARRIE GREEN Carrie Green (Ngāti Porou) graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 2012. Since then, she’s worked with Circa Theatre, Capital E, Centrepoint Theatre, Court Theatre, Radio New Zealand, Tawata Productions, Taki Rua, Silo Theatre and World of Wearable Art. Recent credits include Mr Burns – A Post-Electric Play, Bless the Child and Cellfish. Winner of 'Outstanding New Playwright 2016' and 'Actor of the Year 2019' at the Wellington Theatre Awards. TRAE TE WIKI Trae Te Wiki is an actor, theatre-maker and creative producer of Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngā Puhi descent. Born and raised in Taranaki and an honours graduate from Victoria University of Wellington, her recent work includes her performance in Second Unit: What We Do In The Shadows (2019). Trae won Most Promising Newcomer (2018) for her performance in Hine Kihāwai (Taki Rua Productions) and for her writing in Beneath Skin and Bone, which she also produced and starred in. Trae is also known for producing and project management work with Hawaiki Tū, New Zealand Festival of the Arts (Te Ata Festival), Mind Over Manner and Atamira Dance Company. 14

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RAVI GURUNATHAN Ravi Gurunathan has been in the Auckland theatre scene for five years and thoroughly enjoys the many styles of theatre in which he’s performed. Ravi believes in embracing each experience as a way to learn and excel as a performer. Theatre credits include For Pastor James (Legacy Six), Monster Mash (Dynamotion), I Ain’t Mad At Cha (WAITĪ Productions, directed by Jatinder Singh), Light vs Dark – The Adventures of Rama (Auckland Theatre Company, directed by Ahi Karunaharan) and A Fine Balance (Auckland Theatre Company and Prayas). Ravi received Best Newcomer (Collective) and Auckland Live ‘Free Your Mind’ awards, alongside the cast of I Am Rachel Chu in the Auckland Fringe Festival (2019). When not performing, Ravi indulges in quiet moments by listening to music – anything and everything. His recent discovery is the singer Daniela Andrade. JESS HONG Jess Hong is a New Zealander of Chinese descent and has a Bachelor degree in Performing Arts from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. Her short film credits include lead roles in Got Milk (which she also directed as part of Toi Whakaari’s Festival of Work in Development) and Bar

JESS HONG

PATRICK TAFA

Tricks, helmed by New Zealand feature film director Jonathan King. Jess’ other screen credits include short films Mise En Scene and Organic Matter which screened at the Rialto 48 Hour Film Festival. Jess has appeared on stage both as an actor and as a dancer and her theatre credits include Rushes, Grand Opening, Once On This Island, King Lear, Frankenstein, As You Like It, The Crucible and The Tempest. PATRICK TAFA Patrick Tafa first gave acting a go in high school. After gaining lots of laughs and positive reactions from the audience during his first performance, he knew that’s what he wanted to do. Hailing from Onehunga in Auckland, Pat joined Massive Theatre Company at 16 years old when his mum enrolled him for an acting workshop.He absolutely loved it and has been with the company ever since. He has featured in the company’s devised work The Wholehearted and Half of the Sky. You may recognise Pat as Falani from Three’s Westside.

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KENJI IWAMITSU-HOLDAWAY Kenji Iwamitsu-Holdaway is an award-winning musician and a member of Auckland band Yoko-Zuna. With Yoko-Zuna, he has performed sold out shows at Q Theatre (2015), Kings Arms (2016), Big Sound Festival in Brisbane (2017), Rhythm and Vines, Northern Bass and Splore (2016–2017). Yoko Zuna charted at number 12 in the official NZ music charts for album This Place Here in 2015. Kenji has recorded and performed with established NZ artists, such as P Digsss (Shapeshifter), Laughton Kora (Kora), David Dallas, Rodney Fischer, Tom Scott (Homebrew, @peace). He won ‘Best Young Guitarist’ award at the National Jazz festival in Tauranga (2012), was nominated for the Taite Independent music prize with Yoko Zuna in 2015, and nominated for ‘Best Song’ at the 2016 Silver Scrolls with Yoko-Zuna and Laughton Kora.

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FREYA DALY SADGROVE Writer Freya Daly Sadgrove is a writer and performer from Aotearoa New Zealand. She has a Master of Arts in Poetry from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and her work has appeared in various publications in Aotearoa, Australia and the US. She is the architect behind Show Ponies, hailed by Ben Fagan as “a watershed moment for poetry in performance in Wellington”. Her first poetry collection, Head Girl, was published in February with Victoria University Press.

LEKI JACKSON-BOURKE Writer Leki Jackson-Bourke is a creative/performing artist of Tongan, Niuean and Samoan descent. Leki worked as the dialogue editor for the New Zealand feature film, Born to Dance alongside Victor Rodger. Leki’s first play, Inky Pinky Ponky premiered at ATC’s Next Big Thing Festival (2015) and received the Playmarket NZ award for Best Teenage Script (2015). He won Outstanding Newcomer Award at the 2017 Auckland Theatre Awards and was the first Pasifika recipient of the CNZ Todd New Writer’s Bursary Grant (2017). Leki was the recipient of the inaugural Emerging Pasifika Writer’s Residency at Victoria University, Wellington. 16

NATHAN JOE Writer Nathan Joe is an award-winning Chinese-Kiwi playwright and performance poet. He has won the Playmarket b425 award twice (2015, 2016), and has also been previously shortlisted for the Adam NZ award. Later this year he will be taking up The Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing at the University of Canterbury. ANA SCOTNEY Writer Ana Scotney is a performer, musician and multidisciplinary artist of Māori, German, Jewish and Irish descent. A graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, she’s had roles on Shortland Street and in The Breaker Upperers and wrote and performed the awardwinning The Contours of Heaven at New York’s Soho Playhouse. CIAN ELYSE WHITE Writer Cian Elyse White is a wahine Māori artist of Te Arawa, Ngāti Pikiao, Tūhoe, Te Whānau a Ruataupare & Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa descent. Currently based in her ūkaipō of Rotorua, Cian’s works include the SWANZ awardwinning play Te Puhi and most recently a short film in NZIFF’s New Zealand’s Best 2020 which she wrote and directed, Daddy’s Girl (Kōtiro).

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JANE YONGE

JANE YONGE Director In 2015 Jane graduated with a Master of Theatre Arts (MTA) in Directing from Victoria University and Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School and in 2019 she graduated with a Masters in Arts Politics from New York University: Tisch School of the Arts on a Fulbright scholarship. Jane's directing work includes the Basement Theatre's 2019 Christmas Show, A Fricken Dangerous Space-mas, The Basement Tapes (Wellington Theatre Awards Best Director 2017, Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018), At the Wake, by Victor Roger (Circa Theatre 2018), WEiRdO (BATS Theatre Wellington 2017, Basement Theatre Auckland 2018), Hetero-perfomative (Auckland Pride Festival, Basement Theatre 2016), and Page Turners (New Zealand Festival 2016). Jane is an ISPA Fellow and the Creative Catalyst at Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi (Arts Regional Trust).

KEVIN GREENE

ALISON REID

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The Seagull, Winding Up, Six Degrees of Separation, The Audience, The Daylight Atheist, Shortland Street – The Musical, Rendered, Filthy Business, The Cherry Orchard and Red Speedo. 48 Nights on Hope Street will be Kevin's first Theatrical Lighting Design in New Zealand. ALISON REID Costume Designer Alison Reid is a photographer and designer. This is her second costume design for Auckland Theatre Company. She created The Cross Street Market and is the Proprietor of Search and Destroy on Ponsonby Road specialising in vintage denim, rock n’ roll, French, Japanese and New Zealand work-wear, vintage homewares and pottery. Her inspiration is drawn from annual buying trips to Tokyo and San Francisco. Alison has exhibited her extensive Crown Lynn Colour Glaze Collection in Gus Fisher Gallery Auckland and City Gallery Wellington.

KEVIN GREENE Lighting Designer Kevin Greene has worked in the theatre industry for 18 years as a Lighting Designer and as Technical/Production Manager. Kevin has designed in UK Regional Theatre throughout his career. Since being in New Zealand he has worked on many ATC productions as a Technical Manager including The Master Builder, 17

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FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

Chair: Vivien Bridgwater Karen Fistonich Isaac Hikaka Katie Jacobs Derek McCormack Graeme Pinfold Alison Quigan QSM

Head of Finance: Kerry Tomlin Senior Accountant: Nick Tregerthan Senior Accounts Administrator: Michelle Speir Executive Administrator: Natasha Pearce Administration Coordinator: Jade McCann ASB WATERFRONT THEATRE

LEADERSHIP Chief Executive Officer: Jonathan Bielski

ATC PATRONS co - chairs: Lady Dayle Mace and Anne Hinton QC patrons: Margot and Alastair Acland, Margaret Anderson, John Barnett, Betsy and Michael Benjamin, Mark and Louise Binns, Patrick Bourke, Adrian Burr and the late Peter Tatham, Anne and Richard Burton, Paul and Barbie Cook, Roger and Maryanne Dickie, Guy and Nicole Domett, Kim and Annette Ellis, Trevor and Jan Farmer, Stephen and Virginia Fisher, Liz Greenslade and Anah Dunsheath, Stuart Grieve and Antonia Fisher, Cameron and Ali Fleming, Rob Nicholson and Ruth Foreman, Michael Friedlander, Dame Jenny Gibbs, Michael and Stephanie Gowan, Ross and Josephine Green, Sue Haigh, Jessica Miles and Isaac Hikaka, Anne and Peter Hinton, Ros and Greg Hinton, Michael and Dame Rosie Horton, Rod and Julie Inglis, Sally and Peter Jackson, Len and Heather Jury, Anita Killeen and Simon Vannini, Roy Knill and Alister Hartstonge, Ross and Paulette Laidlaw, Philippa Smith-Lambert and Chris Lambert, Margot and Paul Leigh, Sir Chris and Lady Dayle Mace, Stella McDonald and the late Robert Johnston, Jackie and Phillip Mills, Andrew Gelonese and Michael Moore, Christine and Derek Nolan, Denver and Prue Olde, Matthew Olde and Jacqui Cormack, Peter Macky and Yuri Opeshko, Heather Pascual, Barby Pensabene, Maria Renhart, Robyn and Malcolm Reynolds, Fran and Geoff Ricketts, Mark and Catherine Sandelin, Janmarie Thompson and Joanna Smout, Jay and Robyn Stead, Lady Philippa Tait, Julie and Russell Tills, Pip Muir and Kit Toogood, Susan and Gavin Walker, Jo and Roger Wall, Sir James Wallace, Greg Blanchard and Carol Weaver, Ian Webster, Dona and Gavin White, Fran Wyborn, Annemarie Yannaghas and Andy Morris

Artistic Director: Colin McColl ONZM

ATC 2018/19 SUPPORTING ACTS standing ovation Sandy and Alan Bulmer, Rob Nicoll, Brian and Pam Stevenson, Scott and Louise Wallace curtain call Paul and Bev Le Grice, Marvellous Theatre Group take a bow Lex Forrest, Nick Francis, Sandra Greenfield, Rosemary Langham, John and Barbara Lindsay, Caroline List applause Selwyn Bennet, Geoff Dalbeth, Bernard Kendall, Anthea and Peter Springfield, Bruce Twaddle, Sylvana Whyborn

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE THEATRE FOUNDATION FOR THE PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT PROVIDED TO AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY.

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Executive Director: Anna Cameron

Head of Venue Operations: Sharon Byrne Events and Sales Manager: Tracey Rowe Events and Sales Manager (Maternity Cover): Lucy Gardner Ticketing Manager: Gary Barker Front of House Manager: Ralph Corke

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Ticketing Administrator: Joni Nelson

Associate Director: Lynne Cardy

Venue Technical Manager: Johnny Chen

Literary Manager: Philippa Campbell

Senior Venue Technician: Antonia Richardson

Youth Arts Coordinator: Mile Fane CONTACT ATC PRODUCTION Head of Production: Andrew Malmo Company Manager: Elaine Walsh Company Manager (Maternity Cover): Nicole Sarah

Head of Marketing and Partnerships: Natasha Gordon Marketing Campaigns Manager: Nicola Brown Graphic Designer: Wanda Tambrin Publicist & Content Producer: Vanessa Preston

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