Associate Members
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Wow! Productions
Wow! Productions is Dunedin’s premiere theatre collective. It was formed in mid-1996 as a co-operative of actors, directors and other theatre & creative practitioners with a shared vision to provide a professionally-constituted creative forum. Wow! is overseen by a Charitable Trust and presents an eclectic programme of plays and events which respond positively to the theatrical climate of Dunedin.
Website address: www.wowproductions.nz
Contact Martyn Roberts (Board Chair): martyn.roberts@otago.ac.nz/
Phone: +64 3 479 8825
THETA
Vision: Stronger resilient communities.
Mission: The Theatre in Health Education Trust (THETA) uses applied theatre to promote well-being, equity, self-determination and to inform and strengthen communities.
The Theatre in Health Education Trust provides innovative and challenging health education programmes to the rangatahi/youth of Aotearoa-New Zealand through the experiential medium of theatre.
Our interactive theatre-based programmes use a combination of traditional theatre, educational drama, structured role play and decision-making activities to engage students in the exploration of issues relevant to their lives.
Website: https://www.theta.org.nz/
Operations Manager
Grant Millman: manager@theta.org.nz
Artistic Director
Evan Hastings director@theta.org.nz
Become a Trustee:
THETA is expanding to produce programmes for a wide variety of communities. We employ two full time staff, and contract actor/facilitators to tour for part of the year. THETA is looking for additional trustees to help guide the organisation through a period of growth and expansion. We are particularly interested in anyone with an interest and experience in:
- Businesses growth and development
- Celebrating and enhancing Pasifika resilience
- Youth advocacy
- Community development
- Rainbow community
- Applied theatre
- Health and wellness of communities
- Te Ao Maori
What do we offer:
- The opportunity to work collaboratively with experts from a variety of fields
- The chance to expand your governance experience
- The opportunity to apply your skills to improve outcomes for our communities
- Reimbursement for your time
mtnz - musical theatre new zealand
Otago Southland - Zone Five MTNZ
Email: zone5@mtnz.co.nz
Musical Theatre New Zealand - PO Box 1413, Wellington
For all general queries please contact:
Office Email: office@mtnz.co.nz
The Play Bureau
For over fifty years ‘The Play Bureau’ have been privileged to represent a number of the major publishing houses of the world and, in that time, have on their behalf distributed and licensed to customers within New Zealand some of the finest and most successful plays that are available anywhere.
Our mail order Bookstore houses play scripts, musicals and theatre books by authors of international acclaim, together with a selection of works by individual New Zealand and Australian writers. The extensive range of titles on offer covers a wide variety of interest groups from Primary School and College through to Repertory and Musical Theatre level and we are proud of our listings and proud of our reputation for good service.
This website is an extension of that service and an option we are pleased to be able to provide. Whether you access it from your classroom, your spare room or your board room, we hope you will find it a useful and rewarding resource and a convenient way to shop for scripts.
Perusals: As the agents in New Zealand for the performing rights for many of the titles you will find on our site, we offer a library perusal service (for New Zealand only) for your convenience. For perusals, please use our site as a catalogue reference only and order by email or phone. Not all titles will be available in our library.
To summarise, we provide an extensive range of scripts to peruse, hire or purchase and handle the performing rights on behalf of many publishers and play rights. We also have a range of theatre resource books in our bookstore.
Website: https://www.playbureau.com/
Email: info@playbureau.com
Catalogue link: https://www.playbureau.com/catalogue
Health & Wellbeing for Arts Education
The Otago Collective consists of:
Diane Dupres / Kimberley Fridd / Rachel Mcmillan / Gillian Towle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthandwellbeingforartseducation
Email: dramanzartsandwellbeing@gmail.com
DNZ resources available from: https://www.drama.org.nz/hawfae#hawfae-resources
Vision:
To be advocates for wellbeing in the arts education sector by providing quality resources, guidelines, and support. We want to empower arts educators to make positive choices around their health and wellbeing; with the hope that there will be a flow-on effect to their students and colleagues.
Mission Statement:
Our focus is to increase wellbeing in arts education in New Zealand.
latest news:
2022 - The second issue of UHO will be coming out in the first part of the year
2021 // Drama NZ Scholarship - The first issue of our brand new Arts & Wellbeing publication, 'UHO', was launched in April at the DNZ National Conference
2021 // PPTA Conference Wellington - We will be presenting on Arts & Wellbeing at the PPTA Conference in Wellington during the first school holidays at the end of Term 1.
REACHING THE EDGES - Online ZOOM Workshop. We will be leading a free Wellbeing workshop for Drama teachers online on Wednesday 24th June. Contact dramednz@gmail.com
We spent several days during the April 2020 holidays creating and facilitating a whole bank of resources focussing on wellbeing in the arts, as a response to the COVID-19 crisis.
These are available for members to download and use on the Drama NZ Website.
Get in touch:
Do you need help with beginning wellbeing initiatives in your performing arts department or supporting the one your school already has?
Contact us on: dramanzartsandwellbeing@gmail.com
A full list of DramaNZ associate members can be seen at this link