Author Archive
Erin Banks (SGCNZ NSSP 2000, SGCNZ YSC 2001)
Erin Banks is an award-winning Wellington based actor. She has received Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for performance on five occasions, three of which were awards for Actress of the Year. […] Read More
Kieran Rayner (SGCNZ NSSP 2004, SGCNZ YSC 2005)
Operatic baritone Kieran Rayner completed a Masters of Performance and Artist Diploma in Opera at the Royal College of Music in 2018, after graduating in 2011 from the NZ School of Music/Victoria […] Read More
Nikki Bleyendaal (SGCNZ NSSP 2005, SGCNZ YSC 2006, SGCNZ TGG 2018)
“‘Can one desire too much of a good thing?’ I think not! Where there is Shakespeare, there is wit, wisdom and a world full of wonders. What an outstanding opportunity […] Read More
Emmett Skilton (SGCNZ NSSP 2005)
Emmett Skilton performed in the SGCNZ UOSWSF every year he attended Mana College with productions including Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which he also directed, and […] Read More
James Cain (SGCNZ NSSP 2008 & 2009, SGCNZ YSC 2010)
James Cain is an actor, writer and director based in Wellington. In 2015 he graduated with his MA in Script writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. He first began […] Read More
Lesley Shepherd (SGCNZ TGG 2011)
As an English teacher, Lesley Shepherd’s life-long passion for Shakespeare manifested itself at Macleans College where her students participated in the annual SGCNZ Auckland Regional UOSWSF from 1999-2014. In that […] Read More
Sebastian Knoerr (SGCNZ NSSP 2001, SGCNZ YSC 2002)
Since arriving to London in 2002 at the age of 17 with the SGCNZ Young Shakespeare Company, Sebastian Knoerr has never left. A Wanganui boy from City College with a dream of […] Read More
Dane Dawson (SGCNZ NSSP 2003, SGCNZ YSC 2004)
Dane Dawson has been involved in the film, television and media industry for over 15 years. Early in his career he became a member of the SGCNZ Young Shakespeare Company […] Read More
