“I first started acting with the Masterton Theatre Company in 2010 and never looked back. I have acted in over 20 different stage shows, including musicals, since then. I focused on musicals for the first 8 years and then branched into stage shows when the chance to play Hugo Horton in the Vicar of Dibley showed up. I won the “best male performance in a musical” trophy in 2020 playing Goran in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I enjoy acting and find myself at nearly all local auditions. My work as a support worker keeps me local and I find myself bouncing around the three local theatre companies, playing whichever roles the director allows me to play.
“In 2018 I started the job as a support worker where I had many hours to kill at night time and chose to focus my time on becoming a playwright. In 2021 I successfully completed the NZ Writers College script writing course, picked up my copy of Roger Halls Theatre Writing Guide (as somewhat of a bible) and settled into my journey. I enjoy creating characters and finding inspiration from the ordinary. It really is incredible how often a simple conversation has become the basis of something written. I have many ideas in the works, as I have trouble writing one thing at a time. I seriously have that much time to kill.”
PLAYS
1 Acts
A GREAT KIWI ICON
New Zealand. Aotearoa. Home of the meat pie. Where did they come from? Who were the first people to make them? Mike and Wiremu are curious too. As they buy their pie for lunch, Joe the baker tells them everything he has learnt about the origin of meat pies.
As the story unfolds the three characters adopt different characters as they travel through time to bring history to life, exactly how it might’ve happened.
Cast of 3 males
22 minutes long
Entered into 2023 PANZ 1 act competition, yet to be performed.
THE STORY OF SAMUEL OATES – HOW GREYTOWN GOT ITS GUMTREE
A musical story of the journey Samuel Oates took when delivering gumtrees to the Wairarapa in 1856. This is written for Cobblestones Museum, Greytown as a fun little show aimed at educating the young visitors to the museum during their mid-winter festivities.
Cast of 4 males
15 minutes long
Performed in 2023 at Cobblestones Museum, Greytown
FOILED AGAIN
A story that takes place after the announcement of the level 4 COVID lockdown. A young couple flatting in Auckland try to convince their flatmates that it’s safer to wear a tin foil hat.
Cast of 5, 2 males and 3 females
8 minutes long
Written for the 2022 PANZ 1 act competition, yet to be performed.
2 Acts
THE ALMOST TRUE ADVENTURES OF HANSEL AND GRETEL
A pantomime version of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel published by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. Fairy G accompanied by some new characters and several of Grimm’s iconic characters come to the rescue when Nora Bones traps Hansel and Gretel in her house made of candy.
Cast of 16, 6 – 8 males, 8 to 10 females and a horse
1 hour and 20 minutes long
Yet to be performed.
CANDYCANE – A CHRISTMAS STORY
A Christmas story set around Sprinkles Gigglenose, a headstrong elfling who has just learnt the tale of the evil Candycane. The story goes that Candycane snatched a baby three hundred years ago, almost to the day, took him down into the Underpole and he has never been seen again. Sprinkles becomes trapped in the Underpole when she defiantly searches for Candycane and it’s up to Cinnabelle, the Christmas Fairy to put together a team and send them down into the Underpole to rescue Sprinkles, revealing the truth about what happened three hundred years ago.
Cast of 11, 5 males and 6 females
1 hour and 30 minutes long
First performed at Carterton Event Centre, November 2023.
Playwrights Association of New Zealand (Inc) 