Writer Julie
Hill
Composers Jeff
Henderson & Rosie Langabeer
Video & Production Design Stephen Bain
(with tech. assistance from Drew McMillain)
Production/Admin Winning
Productions
Julie Hill
Julie Hill
is a writer in a range of media. Her plays include I Won’t Be Happy Until I
Lose One Of My Limbs, Die Henkel Spur,
The Arsehole, Stories Told To Me By Girls
(for which she was nominated Playwright of the Year at the Chapman Tripp awards
2008), Turbulent Flux and Try a Little Kindness With
Roger. She was a scriptwriter on beloved children’s TV
shows Emu, Zip & Mac and My Story.
As a journalist she contributes regularly to the architecture magazine Home NZ
and makes documentaries about music for Radio New Zealand.
Her documentary Music That Hurts was
nominated for Feature Programme of the Year at the New Zealand Radio Awards
2010. She has made several documentaries, including Broke But Sexy,
a feature-length film about NZ artists in Berlin. Her short fiction has been
published in JAAM, Sport and Turbine, and a collection of her stories On the
Lookout For A New Life is to be released in the New
Year.
Jeff Henderson
Recently he has composed and performed for contemporary
music ensemble Stroma, toured NZ and Japan with drummer Shoji Hano, directed the play ‘First
June’ by Melody
Nixon, composed and performed for When Animals Dream of Sheep with Winning Productions, and
collaborated with John Bell and Drew McMillain on the children’s theatre show Magic
Chicken.
He founded two performance venues in Wellington which he
operated and managed for ten years, founded and operated the Bomb the Space
Festival of
Experimental music, was artistic director of the Wellington International
Jazz Festival for
ten years and publishes recordings on two record labels.
His collaborators in New Zealand have included Alan
Brunton and Sally Rodwell, Madeline Macnamara, Anthony Donaldson, David Long,
Steve Roche, Janet Roddick and David Donaldson, Dugal Mckinnon, John Downie,
Kilda Northcott, Florian Habicht, Marc Chesterman, Leila Adu, Tom Callwood,
Paul Dyne, Roger Sellars, Campbell Kneale, Kieran Monaghan, Daniel Beban, Chris
O’Connor, John Bell and many others. In 2008 Henderson received an Arts
Foundation new generation award.
Rosie
Langabeer
Rosie
Langabeer is a composer, sound designer and performer who writes for musical
ensembles of various sizes, theatre, film, circus and dance and performs on a
wide range of instruments. A specialist in improvisation and devised
multi-disciplinary ensemble work her virtuosity lies in her versatility and
depth of musical knowledge. Langabeer graduated from Massey University
Wellington in 2002 with a BMus in composition and proceeded to work in NZ as a
composer, performer and music educator establishing the Zirkus
big band and collaborating with award winning New Zealand companies Awkward Productions,
Ake Ake Theatre Company, Hypnotical Hoodang,
directors Deborah Pope, Darcy Gladwin, Briar March, Jeff
Henderson, Jen MacArthur and Alyx Duncan.
In 2010 she was offered a commission from Pig Iron Theatre
in Philadelphia, USA, which led to subsequent commissions and further
collaborations in Philadelphia with Pig Iron, Subcircle
Dance Theatre, Ballet X, the WILMA Theatre
and Green Chair Dance Company. Langabeer has extended
her time in the Philadelphia to undertake an artist’s residency, with No Face Performance
Group and play music with a variety of local
musicians. (more info and full CV rosielangabeer.com)
Stephen Bain
Stephen Bain has been working as a theatre maker in NZ
since graduation from Toi Wakaari acting course (1991) and previously VUW
School of Architecture (1987). He has performed and directed many shows,
firstly as co-founder of Under Lili's Balcony Theatre Company from 1996 to 2002 in Wellington,
and in 2004 he founded Winning Productions (Auckland since 2006). His design work has
included numerous collaborations and are characterised by an adept use of
multimedia and a minimalist aesthetic often working in unconventional
performance spaces. Video work includes a dance-film, several music videos and
numerous video-for-live-performance projects. In 2006 Stephen established Luxembourg
Gardens in
Central Auckland, an experimental performing arts centre, in 2007 he created a
public space installation Baby, where are the fine things you promised me? which subsequently toured
internationally from 2008-2011. In 2010/11 he began a research-led course in
Advanced Scenography at a.pass in Antwerp, Belgium and in 2011 he was commissioned by
Oerol Festival in The Netherlands to create an outdoor dance-theatre
performance When Animals Dream of Sheep. This year Stephen curated an alternative festival
of performance called the New Performance Festival in collaboration with The EDGE in
Auckland.
Winning Productions
Winning Productions has been producing theatre and performance events
since 2004. Currently based in Auckland, New Zealand, under the direction of
Stephen Bain the company creates original theatre as well as site-specific
productions for unconventional theatre spaces, art galleries, museums, shop
fronts and warehouses. The work is highly visual and integrates video
technology, conceptual design and imaginative drama. Touring works include Turbulent
Flux (2005 Wellington & Auckland), Stories
told to me by Girls (2005 – 2007
National Tour & arts Festivals) Baby, where are the fine things you
promised me? (2007 – 2009 NZ arts festivals
including four tours throughout Europe, also to Canada, Singapore and
Australia), Die Henkel Spur (2008
Wellington & Auckland), My Heart is a Beast (2008-9 Auckland & Christchurch), The Wailing Chamber (Wellington 2011) and SOUNDIG (Auckland 2011, Perth WA 2012). Larger scale theatre
productions have included The Arsehole (Auckland 2006), Kafka’s The Trial (Auckland 2008) and When Animals Dream of Sheep (Auckland NZ, Oerol Festival in The Netherlands and
Chalon dans la Rue in France – co-comissioned by The EDGE and Oerol Festival).
Producing partners have included; Creative New Zealand, The Edge Aotea Centre,
The Living Room Auckland City, Wellington & Auckland Fringe Festivals,
Oerol Festival.
Visit for more information
visit www.winningproductions.co.nz
