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Ukulele Mayhem

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I'm Yours(ukulele)

Keep Your Eyes On The Hands

Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro
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Ukulele and guitar: a brief intermission.

Gary and GardenJazz and the late afternoon sun.

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Ukulele Playin' Fool!

I bought my first ever ukulele today, and I am going to make that baby sing!

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3 years ago

Peninsula: 8-min Trailer

Support material for CNZ proposal, Peninsula Galway

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Peninsula: 1-min Teaser

Support Material for the CNZ proposal Peninsula Galway.

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My Top Videos

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Global Pop Hit: Collaborative Music Project

Global Pop Hit: Drum track

Introducing New Zealand Playwright Gary Henderson

Two Free Scripts! Radio & Live Theatre.
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Global Pop Hit: Drum track

A collaborative music project.

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Two Free Scripts! Radio & Live Theatre.

Two free scripts from Gary Henderson:

THE MOEHAU (a scary radio play)

STRANGE OTHER PEOPLE (a stage play)

available for download at:

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Global Pop Hit: Collaborative Music Project

A collaborative music project.

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Introducing New Zealand Playwright Gary Henderson

A brief introduction to New Zealand Playwright Gary Henderson.

Me.

Check out my website: http://www.rocketman.co.nz

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About Gary Henderson

The channel of New Zealand Playwright Gary Henderson.

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Gary Henderson was born in Geraldine in the South Island of New Zealand, and gradually spiralled his way north to Auckland where he has lived for just over ten years.

Gary has had his work produced around New Zealand, and in South Africa, Australia, Great Britain and the United States. His most well-travelled play is "Skin Tight" which won a coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1998 during a sell-out season at the Traverse Theatre. In 2006 it was produced in New York.

Gary also received a Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for the best new short play in 1996 for "Mo & Jess Kill Susie," and a Fringe Award for Excellence for "The Big Blue Planet Earth Show" at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 1992.

Gary's recent work includes "Lines of Fire," for Dunedin's Wow Productions, staged at the Dunedin Railway Station in October 2006; "Peninsula," for the Christchurch Arts Festival in 2005 and "Home Land," for Fortune Theatre in 2004. The last two were were written in Dunedin while Gary was resident in the Robert Lord Writers' Cottage, and teaching at Allen Hall, the home of the Otago University Theatre Studies Programme. "Peninsula," which Gary also directed, played at Court Theatre in July 2005, at the Brisbane Festival in July 2006, and later, in October, at the Nelson Festival.

"Home Land" was produced by Circa Theatre in 2007, and won five Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards, including Production of the Year, and Best New NZ Play.

He has also written a children's play, "Stealing Games," commissioned by Capital E National Theatre for Children, and over the summer, wrote his first ever radio play, "The Moehau," as Radio New Zealand's contribution to the annual Worldplay series.

Last year Playmarket published Gary's first book of plays: a 3-play volume containing "Skin Tight," "Mo & Jess Kill Susie" and "An Unseasonable Fall Of Snow," all of which are being produced somewhere in the world during 2008.

Gary enjoys directing the work of other New Zealand playwrights; in 2000 he directed Ken Duncum's "Horseplay" for Dunedin's Wow! Productions at the Fortune, and in 2003, Carl Nixon's "The Book Of Fame," based on the novel by Lloyd Jones, at Downstage in Wellington. He has also served many times as a director and mentor in the development of scripts by new writers.

Gary currently teaches playwriting at the School of Performing and Screen Arts at Unitec New Zealand.

Country

New Zealand

Occupation

Playwright & Theatre Director.

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