My productivity and organisation lives and dies by my calendar management. I have multiple calendars and Gmail accounts, views for each of my kids and projects, public holidays and weather updates all in the same place. It's colour coded. So when I realised after gathering interested parties, booking
A short list of things I took away from NZ Improv Festival 2026: * Work backwards when planning workshops. What is the end goal? What do you need in the room to achieve that? * Try focusing on the technical effects of shitty content rather than its ethical considerations. Not because those
Not to be extremely basic but: hell yes, it's springtime, friends. Wellington's seasonal seesaw-ing non-withstanding, I cannot wait for weather to be brighter and warmer, for events to be happening during daylight hours, and for my energy reserves to properly kick themselves up a
If your social media feed is full of arts organisations up and down the country sharing the shock of cuts and denials, join the club. Has the arts sector ever done it this hard? asks The Spinoff. We haven't even seen the results for Tier 1 and 2
Of all the workshops I've taught in the past, I think the ones that resemble coaching are my favourite. Meeting people where they are, seeing what they're working on and what they're trying to do, and helping them get over the humps or around
Welcome to a break from my usual improv programming to publish the data of my annual gender survey of the NZ International Comedy Festival. I'm not going to send this out as a newsletter, but I did want it on this website somewhere.
Improv round up and reflections, end of March 2026
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Long overdue improv roundup in Pōneke, Feb 2026
Pōneke improv round up Fringe 2025
Pōneke improv round up, Winter 2024
Improv catch up on Friday 6 October