About

Theatrecomrades is committed to bringing quality, innovative theatre to Hawke’s Bay.  We are offering an opportunity for audiences to experience professional theatre and we wish to support and foster local
emerging and established performers, and employ professional theatre makers to provide mentoring and experience.

Theatrecomrades was launched in 2006 by Sally and Megan as a data-based website to promote theatre collaboration in Wellington. It also presented theatre productions, in collaboration with The Amazing Orange Tricycle, including the award-winning Porcelain Grin at BATS Theatre, The Vagina Monologues at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School, and premiered Winter by Diane Spodarek, directed by Sally Richards.

Sally is a director, actor, teacher, producer and writer. She is a graduate of the Master of Theatre Arts in Directing at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School and Victoria University of Wellington and has a Bachelor of Theatre with Honours and a Diploma of Secondary Teaching in Drama. She has been free-lancing in Wellington since graduating, directing the award-winning Porcelain Grin for the Fringe Awards,
producing for Young and Hungry Youth Arts Trust and the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards 2007 – 2008 and tutoring at both Massey and Victoria universities. She moved to the Hawke’s Bay in 2009 to undertake preliminary PhD research in solo theatrical performance.

Megan is currently the Arts Programming Manager for the Hawke’s Bay Opera House.  Megan is a director, lighting designer and producer and has a Masters of Theatre Arts in Directing at Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School and Victoria University, a Bachelor of Theatre from the University of Waikato and a Diploma in Performing Arts Drama.  Megan directed The Vagina Monologues  and Red, Hot and Cole in Hastings in 2008 and has been lighting designer for many local and out-of –town productions. She was also art director for a TV film and 3rd AD for a short film The Winter Boy directed by Rachel House.

 
Andy Brigden is the latest addition to the Theatrecomrades team.  Andy returned to Hawke's Bay from the UK in 2006 where she gained a BA Honours Degree in Performance Writing and Visual Performance from Dartington College of Arts and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Secondary Drama) before working as a teacher of Drama and Theatre Arts in one of the UKs most prestigious schools. She now works as Theatre Events Coordinator at the Hawke's Bay Opera House and is delighted to be collaborating with Megan and Sally through Theatrecomrades both on stage and behind the scenes.