CHRISTOPHER BROUGHAM

Christopher Brougham has been working in film, theatre and television for 20 years, and is best known for his major guest appearance as 'Robbie' in Shortland Street in 2003. In 2001 he won the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Best Newcomer for his role in Vick's Boy in Circa Studio, and in 2009 won Best Supporting Actor playing Charles Darwin's assistant in Collapsing Creation at Downstage Theatre. Recently he's featured in the touring play The Underarm, and this year at Circa with roles in Dead Man's Cell Phone and Parlour Song.
Christopher is also a photographer and last year completed a Masters in Scriptwriting at Victoria University.

PAUL McLAUGHLIN

Paul is a graduate of Otago University (B.A) and completed post-graduate papers in Community Theatre, Directing and Playwrighting. After a year in Gisborne as a QE2 Arts Council Artist in Residence, he spent two years at Toi Whakaari/The NZ Drama School. For the last 11 years he has been working continuously, appearing in over 30 theatre productions.
In 2004 he won the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Actor of The Year for his stunning portrayal of the title role in Albert Speer.
Some of Paul's stage credits include Cabaret, Macbeth, Fool for Love, Mouth, She Stoops to Conquer, Speed-the-plow, The Love of Humankind, Oxygen, The Bach, Drawer of Knives, and the Pullitzer Prize winning stage sensation Doubt (Chch Production of the Year 2006).
In 2006 he founded site-specific.co.nz, a devising theatre company. Paul directed Hotel, a show for 12 audience members at a time set in a real, luxury hotel suite. Salon was performed in a real hair-dressing salon.
Paul has over twenty film/TV credits to his name, the most enduring have been core-cast roles in Jacksons Wharf, Insiders Guide to Happiness and the hit comedy Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby as hapless principal Roger Dasent.

CONRAD NEWPORT

Conrad is a Wellington-based director, script advisor, writer and actor.
His most recent directing work includes the sellout season of Live At Six at BATS Theatre, Le Sud which also sold out at Downstage and is currently on the NZ Arts Festival circuit, Conjugal Rites for the Fortune Theatre and Entertaining Mr Sloane at Circa Theatre.
He has also directed a string of very successful productions including Niu Sila (which travelled NZ for four years and played in the UK in 2007), The Man That Lovelock Couldn't Beat and The Cape for Circa Theatre, King and Country which again toured the country and culminated in a much acclaimed season in Wellington for the International Arts Festival.
He directed Who Needs Sleep Anyway and Dirty Dusting for the Fortune Theatre and Unity (1918) for the 2008 NZ Toi Whakaari Graduation Season.

ROBERT McKEE

The eponymous Mr McKee is a creative-writing instructor who has traveled the world with his popular "Story Seminar" for scriptwriters, which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. He is also the author of the "screenwriters' bible" Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting. Many of Hollywood's active screenwriters claim him as an inspiration. Rather than simply handling "mechanical" aspects of fiction technique such as plot or dialogue taken individually, McKee examines the narrative structure of a work and what makes the story compelling or not.