OUR ALUMNAE

EDEN COTTER-LONGWORTH STAGE MANAGER AND CREW MEMBER

Eden completed her final year at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in Melbourne in 2021 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts in Production. She chose this pathway based on her experience stage-managing productions at Rangi Ruru. Eden highlights Our House, the 2016 co-production with Christ’s College as inspiring her to continue production work as a career.

In her final year at Rangi Ruru, the Theatre Arts team were able to tailor a production course for her within the Drama class to allow her to pursue her passion alongside the students doing performance. She also stage managed our senior production Revenge of the Amazons, assessing her work on that against the NCEA standards in Performing Arts Technology.

Eden regularly returns to Christchurch to work as a crew member on events such as the buskers festival Bread and Circus, and stage-managed a production of Our House again in her final year at VCA.

Important Dates

FEBRUARY

Auditions for Senior Production, dance companies/dance and drama clubs and companies

APRIL

Otago University Sheilah Winn Regional Shakespeare Festival

MAY

Senior Production performed with Christ’s College

JUNE

Otago University Sheilah Winn National Shakespeare Festival

JULY

DanceNZMade regional festival. Local TheatreFest

Regional TheatreFest.

AUGUST

Auditions for Junior Production

SEPTEMBER

DanceNZMade National Festival, National TheatreFest

OCTOBER

Junior Production performed

*May be subject to change