Producer
Passionate about fulfilling creative visions, I enjoy working with creative teams to help realise projects.
I have experience in general management, scheduling, contracts, hiring and training staff, coordinating projects, facilitating meetings, booking venues, arranging travel, creating call sheets, budgets, invoicing, payouts, event management and implementing new management systems.
Kavanah Productions is focused on creating uplifting works that nurture personal and community wellbeing, through celebrating diversity, intergenerational and interfaith relationships, aiming to inspire unity not uniformity.
Kavanah Productions aim to gently bridge gaps, offering new perspectives for cross-cultural understanding in Aotearoa, New Zealand, by using theatre and the arts as tools for social growth and change.
STAGES
FIND YOUR LIGHT
a play by Yael Gezentsvey
When a restless Kiwi actress and mother, Yael, is drawn into a book of the renowned Maria Dronke, she finds herself travelling through space and time, weaving past and present together through a series of fantastical one-on-one acting classes with Maria that explore their ancestry and craft, forcing Yael to face her fears in order to find hope, purpose and inspiration to carry her through.
Maria Dronke was a star of the European stage who fled Nazi Germany for the safety of New Zealand and went on to train the first generation of NZ theatre icons.
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
Producer & Publicist
Sold out season, Circa Theatre, Wellington 2023
NZ Tour 2024,
Clarence St Theatre, Hamilton Arts Festival | 29 Feb - 2 March
Carterton Events Centre | 26 April
Centrepoint Theatre, Palmerston North | 10 - 25 May
TSB Theatre, Winter Fest, New Plymouth | 7 June
Circa Theatre, Wellington RETURN SEASON | 10 - 28 Sept
Theatre Royal, Nelson | 31 Oct - 1 Nov
Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch | 6-8 November
Directed by Lyndee-Jane Rutherford, Starring Mel Dodge
Co-Producer | HOW IT WAS TOLD TO ME | A Collection of three Animated Short Films for Full Dome | OHU Domes
Originally created as part of the upgrade of Auckland’s Stardome Planetarium Fulldome show MATARIKI DAWN. The three shorts THE CREATION STORY, RONA AND THE MOON and THE GREAT WAKA are now a stand-alone collection HOW IT WAS TOLD TO ME, screening locally and internationally.
The Auckland based music school grew from my passion for teaching kids guitar in the comfort of their own home, where they can be free to express themselves and learn music of their own tastes, at their own pace. The company ran for over 15 years, with a diverse teaching staff, delivering private in-home lessons and presenting annual end of year concerts to pupils’ friends and family.