Backstage at Short+Sweet
Carl feels that being a part of a stage production is one of the most exhilarating experiences anyone can have. Being surrounded by equally passionate and focused individuals all working together to move an audience. It truly satiates one's soul.
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
The Leaf Jar
Role: Peter
Company: Howick Studio
Director: Regan Crummer
Year: 2015
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
Peter is a man who seems to have it all. But the truth threatens to tear his seemingly perfect life apart and he wll be faced with a choice. Will it destroy his belief in the ones he loves?
Fold
Role: John
Company: The Basement
Director: Jessica Jeffries
Year: 2015
In the best New Zealand suburb, five of the best of friends each hold five of the best birthday parties, all celebrating what a wonderful thing it is to live lives like theirs. As they wallow in joyous disregard for the problems of others, or even each other, it becomes clear that there are some problems that cannot be solved with wine, presents and small talk.
God of Carnage
Role: Alain Reille
Company: Dolphin Theatre
Director: Annie Whittaker
Year: 2013
Two sets of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving into chaos.
Reading Lamouche
Role: Jamie
Writer: Finnius F. Teppett
Director: Calum Gittins
Company: Short & Sweet Festival 2013
Year: 2013
Review
The World's First Fight
Role: Adam
Writer: Robyn Paterson
Director: Patricia Vichmann
Company: Short & Sweet Festival 2013
Year: 2013
The Priory
Role: Carl
Writer: Michael Wynne
Company: Howick Little Theatre
Director: Adey Ramsel
Year: 2012
Following her split from her boyfriend, Kate decides to invite a group of her closest friends to a renovated and supposedly haunted priory, for a New Year's Eve party. However, as the drinks and drugs start to flow, personal revelations begin to emerge leading to near tragedy and a fraught morning after.
Mammals
Role: Phil
Writer: Amelia Bullmore
Director: Terry Hooper
Company: Howick Little Theatre
Year: 2010
The play depicts a marriage in crisis following husband Kev's revelation to his wife Jane that he is in love with someone else. The arrival of Kev's best friend Phil with his whirlwind of a girlfriend triggers a series of confessions which threatens to upturn all of their lives. Kev and Jane's increasingly desperate attempts to discuss their problems whilst hiding them from their two daughters makes for an insightful and often painfully amusing drama.
When the Reaper Calls
Role: Professor Victor Pierce
Writer: Peter Colley
Director: Barry Spring
Company: Dolphin Theatre
Year: 2009
Victor and Harlan are two young philosophy professors who have been friends, rivals and inveterate pranksters since their student days, but things have changed ...
Victor has turned into a wild hedonist in keeping with his belief that “when you’re dead, you’re dead”, while Harlan has become a dull stoic, leading a strict unemotional existence in preparation for the afterlife.
They are on holiday with their long-suffering wives in the Canadian wilderness, and Victor has devised a prank which he believes will prove the falseness of Harlan’s philosophy and shake him out of his passionless state — but the prank goes horribly wrong.
Secret Bridesmaids' Business
Role: James
Writer: Elizabeth Coleman
Director: Brian O'Connor
Company: Titirangi Theatre
Year: 2009
It’s the night before Meg’s wedding. She and her bridesmaids are planning to kick up their heels as the final hours before the big day tick down. However not everything goes according to plan as a last minute scandal threatens to ruin the whole affair.
Straight & Narrow
Role: Philip
Writer: Jimmy Chinn
Director: Kevin Murray
Company: Dolphin Theatre
Year: 2009
In this West End hit sex comedy the central couple is Bob and Jeff. Jeff is considering leaving Bob and for a woman so he can become a father. Meanwhile Bob contends with a meddling family that is ignorant of his living situation.
His mother, a domineering comic creation, complicates matters by pressing Bob to get married. She refuses to recognize that there is anything about her son which might upset her conventional sensibilities.
The happy ending finds Bob and Jeff together and mother having come to terms with the truth.