DIRECTING

PROJECTS

2023| Rōmeo rāua ko Hurieta – He Pānuitanga. Te Pou Theatre (September 15) 

Fracture for The Actors’ Program 

Hanna by Sam Potter. Starring Cassandra Woodhouse. New Zealand Theatre Company. Arts on Tour throughout NZ (1-31 March), Hamilton Arts Festival (1 March), Coromandel (2 March), Waihi ((3 March), Whangamatā (4 March), Tauranga (5 March), Gisborne (6 March), Upper Hutt (8 March), Kaikōura (10 March), Lake Hāwea (12 March), Alexandra (14 March), Queenstown (15 March), Invercargill (16 March), Dunedin (18 March), Ashburton (19 March), Christchurch (21 March), Picton (22 March), New Plymouth (25 March), Matamata (26 March), Kerikeri (29 March), Whangārei (31 March), Q Theatre, Auckland (29-30 April), Waiheke Island (17 June), Titirangi 25 June, Te Oro Glen Innes (21 October).

2022| Whakapaupākihi (workshop, 11-17 July)
Poniponi (children’s TV series) Cinco Cine 

Grand Horizons by Bess Wohl, Auckland Theatre Company

Hanna by Sam Potter. Starring Cassandra Woodhouse. New Zealand Theatre Company 

Dolphin Theatre, Auckland (28 April-7 May) 

Baycourt Theatre, Tauranga (2-3 June)

PumpHouse Theatre, Auckland (31 Oct-6 November) 

2021| Disrupt (short film) Written by Aroha Awarau. Te Koru Media. Selected for NZIFF/Whānau Marama & Hawaii Film Festival. Wairoa Festival (Winner, Tinirau Award), Puerto Rico Film Festival (Winner, Best International Short Film), Show Me Shorts Festival,  Down Under Festival (Berlin), Native Spirit Festival (London), Beverly Hills Film Festival, Rotorua Indigenous Film Festival, Polish International Film Festival, Reel Recovery Film Festival (Los Angeles), Greenwich Village Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival (Best Female Director Award)

2020| Exclusive by Aroha Awarau. Development workshop (16, 18, 25 November) 
Provocation by Aroha Awarau. Te Koru (12-15 February)

2019| Disrupt by Aroha Awarau. Fresh Shorts Development Lab (8-10 November)
Wahine Purotu by Aroha Awarau (workshop). Kōanga Festival, Te Pou Theatre (9-14 September)

2018| Conversations with Dead Relatives by Phil Ormsby and Alex Ellis. Nelson Arts Festival
Whakapaupākihi by Ani-Piki Tuari (workshop). Kōanga Festival, Te Pou Theatre
Super HUGH-Man by Rutene Spooner (tour) 
Q Theatre, Auckland
The Meteor, Hamilton
Globe Theatre, Palmerston North
A Gambler’s Guide to Dying by Gary McNair. Burrowed Time at The Basement
Conversations with Dead Relatives by Phil Ormsby and Alex Ellis: Flaxworks Theatre Company
Super HUGH-Man by Rutene Spooner. NASDA Theatre, Christchurch
Madame Butterfly by Puccini. Festival Opera at Art Deco Festival, Napier

2017| The Landing (co-director). Akaroa French Fest
Super HUGH-Man by Rutene Spooner. Auckland Live International Cabaret Season
Provocation by Aroha Awarau (workshop and playreading). Koanga Festival
That Bloody Woman by Luke Di Somma and Gregory Cooper (2017 tour). Tour-Makers
Conversations with Dead Relatives by Phil Ormsby and Alex Ellis (workshop). Flaxworks Theatre Company
And So It Goes by Callie Castill and Ruby Lyon. Auckland Fringe Festival
Cabaret at the Tabard (Napier). New Zealand Singing School

2016| Hudson & Halls Live! by Kip Chapman with Todd Emerson & Sophie Roberts (Wellington season). Silo Theatre

The Choice by Darlene Mohekey and Jess Sayer. The Blue Baths

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2015| Te Puhi by Cian Elyse White. Kōanga Festival/Going West Festival

Fallout: The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. 

The Large Group/Last Tapes Theatre Company

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Black Dog Relief – A Cabaret for Robbie Tripe (1 March). Sharu Loves Hats

Cabaret at the Tabard (Napier, 13 January). In conjunction with New Zealand Singing School

2014| Speak by Jess Sayer. Last Tapes Theatre Company (workshop)

2012| The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown. Last Tapes Theatre Company

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2010| Tic Tic by Paul Barrett and Michelanne Forster. Strata Creative

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2009| Directed voiceovers for tv public service announcements Church of Latter Day Saints

2008| Top Girls by Caryl Churchill. Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts

2007| The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam. Silo Theatre

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2006| Flying Solo closing show. Performing Arts School of New Zealand
Pygmalion and Galatea (nano opera) Opening of sculptor Terry Stringer’s exhibition at Webb’s Gallery, Auckland
The House That Jack Built by Fiona Samuel. Urbis 24 Hours Deadline Theatre

2005| Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Silo Theatre

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Flash of Blonde by Craig Thaine. Urbis 24 Hours Deadline Theatre

Closing show for ‘Star Turn’ (voice & musical theatre course)

Performing Arts School

2004| A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Dave Armstrong. Auckland Theatre Company

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Assistant Director). The Large Group

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Arohaoteaora by Kip Chapman, James Milne, Paul Rothwell

part of Season of One (A Festival of Solo Performances) at the Silo Theatre

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2003| By Thunder by Murray Hutchinson. Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts
Acis and Galatea by Handel. NBR New Zealand Opera

2002| Big River based on Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, music by Roger Miller. Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts
Angel Eyes by Tom Bradley (workshop production)

2001| Sister Wonder Woman by Josie Ryan (one-woman show; co-directed). Silo Theatre
Let Yourself Go – a Musical (devised and directed). Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts