CREATIVES / RINGATOI

Geoff Nunn OPERATOR

Originally from Manchester, Geoff has been in New Zealand for 23 years. He is a qualified baker and at first worked in the hospitality industry as a chef and then restaurant manager. He then decided on a complete change in career and went to Circo-Arts for a year and then studied for two years with The Hagley Theatre Company.

Geoff joined The Court Theatre on a casual basis in 2000 and has since worked as an actor, teaching artist, designer, technician and stage manager, becoming a full-time technician in 2005 and taking over the head technician position in 2008.

Geoff has also directed shows for Original Scripts Theatre School; The Hurunui Theatre Group and Christchurch Boys High School.

Julian Southgate PROPERTIES MANAGER

Julian has designed numerous Court Theatre sets including Babylon Heights; Year of the Rat; Skin Tight; Baghdad, Baby!; Blackbird; Kiss of the Spiderwoman; The Tutor; Heartbreak House; Angels; The Perfumed Garden; Side by Side by Sondheim; Much Ado About Nothing; Pacific Post; The Women; Amadeus; End of the Rainbow; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Plum; Le Sud; Romeo and Juliet; Exit the King; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; The Wind in the Willows; A Streetcar Named Desire and Sense and Sensibility. His other stage set designs include Cats; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Showbiz Christchurch) and the national tour of Pinocchio (Royal New Zealand Ballet).

Julian has also made props and sculpture for numerous festivals, operas and outdoor and street theatre.