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Matt Short
Matt began his career working in marketing for a major London record label. He has since worked as a senior camera operator in broadcast television and other media platforms.
Matt returned to New Zealand to co-film, record sound and compose music for an adventure guide series for TVNZ. Over the last ten years he has composed music and designed sound effects for many major brand advertising and marketing films.
Matt’s previous Court Theatre credits include Things I Know to be True; Easy Money; In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play; The Littlest Ninja; Stephen King’s Misery; Mum’s Choir; Hansel and Gretel; Thumbelina; Elling; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; The Arsonists; The Pink Hammer; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Girl on the Train; Flagons and Foxtrots; Sense and Sensibility and Appropriate.
Giles is a graduate of Hagley Theatre Company (Diploma in Performing Arts), where he concentrated on technical production. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Canterbury.
Currently Head Technician at The Court Theatre, Giles has worked on more than 50 Court productions including Amadeus; When the Rain Stops Falling; Constellations; Educating Rita; Waiora: Te Ū Kai PŌ - The Homeland; The Events; Ropable; Venus in Fur; Titus Andronicus; In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play; Stephen King’s Misery; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; The Father; Fresh Off the Boat; The Wind in the Willows; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Girl on the Train; Sense and Sensibility; Rēwena and Be Like Billy?
Joshua is a Christchurch-based Sound Engineer currently working for BounceNZ. He has been designing and operating sound around New Zealand for the past four years.
His most recent theatre credits include Chicago (NASDA, 2022); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (NASDA, 2021); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (NASDA, 2021); Twelfth Night (Top Dog Theatre, 2021) and On The Town (NASDA, 2020).
Scott is a graduate of Hagley Theatre Company and Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School (Bachelor of Performing Arts Management).
His previous Court Theatre credits as Assistant Stage Manager include Hedwig and the Angry Inch; The Wind in the Willows and Jersey Boys; and as Stage Manager The Pink Hammer; Crash Bash: What’s the Rush?; Things I Know to be True; Once; Whā; Little Shop of Horrors; Potted Potter, Māui Me Te Rā; RENT and the double billing of Rēwena and Be Like Billy?
As a freelance Stage Manager, Scott has also worked with Victoria University of Wellington - New Zealand School of Music on their shows Eat Your Heart Out; A Feast of Opera Scenes (Stage and Production Manager) and Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi (Production Manager); New Zealand Opera’s touring production of 8 Songs for a Mad King (Stage Manager) and Blackboard Theatre Collective’s production of UGLY: The Untold Story of the Stepsisters (Stage Manager).
Haydon has worked on and off camera for both stage and screen. He starred in the short film Mr Savant (Winning Film, Somedays Stories Film Challenge 2019), and starred in and worked behind-the-scenes on the short film Truth.exe (Official Selection: Boston SciFi Film Festival; Science Fiction Film Festival (Sydney); Monthly Finalist - Changing Face International Film Festival; and Winner - Best Student Film, Miami International SciFi Film Festival). He is also a producer and actor in the yet-to-be released feature film based on Truth.exe, entitled The Bostrom Scenario.
Haydon was a member of The Court Youth Company 2019 / 2020 and stage managed the Company’s 2021 productions of Boys and The Unauthorised Biography Of…. He was Assistant Stage Manager for RENT and Appropriate and Stage Manager for Cinderella. Haydon has also worked with New Zealand Opera.
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