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Caden Scott
Co-director / Performer
He/him, she/herAs an actor, has performed with Auckland Theatre Company, across a broad range of New Zealand television series, and in smash-hit webseries Nothing Much To Do. As a director, assisted with Much Ado About Nothing at the Pop-up Globe, worked with Auckland Summer Shakespeare, was a founding member of Stray Theatre Company, and has a strong background in devised and immersive work.
Courtney Bassett
Co-director / Performer
She/herFresh off of her ‘excellent’ and ‘impeccable’ performance in EdFringe 2023 in Alone at Assembly, Courtney is eager to return to the Fringe. She has performed with New Zealand’s prestigious Auckland Theatre Company, as well as many productions at the beloved indie darling of Auckland, Basement Theatre. She holds a Masters Degree in Screen Writing and a morbid fascination with all things dark and fantastical.
Alex Medland
Key creative / Performer
She/herAlex Medland (Kai Tahu) is an actor and writer based in Edinburgh. In 2019, she trained at The John Bolton Theatre School in Melbourne and since then has performed on screen, TVNZ’s ‘The Doghouse’ and in several theatre shows including Touch Compass’s ‘AIGA’, GLORIANA’s ‘The Maid’s Tragedy’ and touring Aotearoa with Duffy Books ‘Duffy in Bubble Trouble’.
James Jennifer Wright
Artist / Designer
They/them, she/herCreature artist & artist creature. AUT Digital Design grad, technical assistant on the original season of Alone, and animated an ad campaign for Air New Zealand among other cool stuff. Illustrator, animator, game designer, web designer, seamstress, amateur biologist - fingers in so many different pies that the banquet had to be called off entirely due to breaches of food safety regulations.
Luke Thornborough
Producer
He/himKey producer on the award winning production of ‘ALONE’ that played at Assembly Studio One for a full run in 2023. With over ten years of experience, Luke Thornborough works as a producer for stage and screen in New Zealand and has successfully toured shows to the UK and Australia as well as having international success with a number of short films.
Projects
Upcoming & available for programming
The Faustus Project
5 actors + 1 guest, 60m
An actor has made a deal with the devil. One of theatre’s greatest roles, Dr Faustus, all theirs to perform. One problem: they’ve never rehearsed with the rest of the cast and things seem to be spiralling out of control.Carnage, chaos and comedy The Faustus Project is funny, a little dangerous, and an actor’s worst nightmare. With a fresh victim... I mean actor... every night... Faustus is the ultimate torture for all of your Fringe Favorites.A version of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus where there’s a new Faustus every night. They’ve never rehearsed with the cast, and have their script in their magic spellbook so they don’t get lost. But the company has devised challenging ways of staging the scene that force the guest to think on their feet. Sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying. This show was a hit in Auckland New Zealand in 2017 and is sure to delight Fringe audiences.
Antonio's Revenge
5 Actors, 60m.
Your dad is dead and your mum is shacking up with the guy who killed him. Your girlfriend is locked up, crazy. Worst of all, your dad’s ghost appears to you and tells you to avenge him. What else is there to do but start killing, immediately? A contemporary Elizabethan satire on Shakespearean revenge tragedies. Antonio makes Hamlet look like a little bitch.A rarely performed Early Modern hidden gem from that’s batshit insane. It’s got all your favourite tropes; feigned insanity, an evil duke, an all knowing fool, a slutty mum who should know better, ghost dad, sad girlfriend locked in prison, plucky kid who’s definitely gonna get murdered, and of course, cannibalism.In academia it has often been debated whether John Marston intended this work as a parody of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Regardless, we will be performing it as one. Our tone will be gory, irreverent and playful.
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