Author Archive
Candice Visser (SGCNZ NSSP 2000 & 2001, SGCNZ YSC 2002)
“I have a great love of Shakespeare and it all stems from my time with the Sheliah Winn Shakespeare Festival in Schools (now UOSWSF) when I was a student.” Candice […] Read More
Miryam Jacobi (SGCNZ NSSP 2011, SGCNZ YSC 2012)
Miryam Jacobi attended Napier Girls’ High School, playing Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, which was selected for the SGCNZ National University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival in 2011. From there, she was […] Read More
Elliot Blakely (SGCNZ NSSP 2009)
Elliot Blakely‘s first experience with Shakespeare was in his first year at High School in Gisborne 2005 as an understudy for a teacher-directed entry in the SGCNZ Sheilah Winn Festival […] Read More
Erin Banks (SGCNZ NSSP 2000, SGCNZ YSC 2001)
Erin Banks is an award-winning Wellington based actor. She has received Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for performance on five occasions, three of which were awards for Actress of the Year. […] Read More
Kieran Rayner (SGCNZ NSSP 2004, SGCNZ YSC 2005)
Operatic baritone Kieran Rayner completed a Masters of Performance and Artist Diploma in Opera at the Royal College of Music in 2018, after graduating in 2011 from the NZ School of Music/Victoria […] Read More
Nikki Bleyendaal (SGCNZ NSSP 2005, SGCNZ YSC 2006, SGCNZ TGG 2018)
“‘Can one desire too much of a good thing?’ I think not! Where there is Shakespeare, there is wit, wisdom and a world full of wonders. What an outstanding opportunity […] Read More
Emmett Skilton (SGCNZ NSSP 2005)
Emmett Skilton performed in the SGCNZ UOSWSF every year he attended Mana College with productions including Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which he also directed, and […] Read More
James Cain (SGCNZ NSSP 2008 & 2009, SGCNZ YSC 2010)
James Cain is an actor, writer and director based in Wellington. In 2015 he graduated with his MA in Script writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. He first began […] Read More
