The Creators


Writer                                          Julie Hill
Composers                                    Jeff Henderson & Rosie Langabeer
Video & Production Design                Stephen Bain (with tech. assistance from Drew McMillain)
Production/Admin                            Winning Productions

Julie Hill
 Julie Hill is a writer in a range of media. Her plays include I Won’t Be Happy Until I Lose One Of My Limbs, Die Henkel Spur, The Arsehole, Stories Told To Me By Girls (for which she was nominated Playwright of the Year at the Chapman Tripp awards 2008), Turbulent Flux and Try a Little Kindness With Roger. She was a scriptwriter on beloved children’s TV shows Emu, Zip & Mac and My Story. As a journalist she contributes regularly to the architecture magazine Home NZ and makes documentaries about music for Radio New Zealand. Her documentary Music That Hurts was nominated for Feature Programme of the Year at the New Zealand Radio Awards 2010. She has made several documentaries, including Broke But Sexy, a feature-length film about NZ artists in Berlin. Her short fiction has been published in JAAM, Sport and Turbine, and a collection of her stories On the Lookout For A New Life is to be released in the New Year.

Jeff Henderson
Jeff Henderson is a pivotal figure in New Zealand arts and music.  He is a multi- instrumentalist, improviser, composer and performance maker who regularly collaborates with theatre-makers, dancers, artists and performers. His long term collaborators include Taonga Puoro specialist Dr Richard Nunns, performance artist, musician Gerard Crewdson, theatre-maker Stephen Bain and pianist Marilyn Crispell to name a few.
Recently he has composed and performed for contemporary music ensemble Stroma, toured NZ and Japan with drummer Shoji Hano, directed the play ‘First June’ by Melody Nixon, composed and performed for When Animals Dream of Sheep with Winning Productions, and collaborated with John Bell and Drew McMillain on the children’s theatre show Magic Chicken.
He founded two performance venues in Wellington which he operated and managed for ten years, founded and operated the Bomb the Space Festival of Experimental music, was artistic director of the Wellington International Jazz Festival for ten years and publishes recordings on two record labels.
His collaborators in New Zealand have included Alan Brunton and Sally Rodwell, Madeline Macnamara, Anthony Donaldson, David Long, Steve Roche, Janet Roddick and David Donaldson, Dugal Mckinnon, John Downie, Kilda Northcott, Florian Habicht, Marc Chesterman, Leila Adu, Tom Callwood, Paul Dyne, Roger Sellars, Campbell Kneale, Kieran Monaghan, Daniel Beban, Chris O’Connor, John Bell and many others. In 2008 Henderson received an Arts Foundation new generation award.

Rosie Langabeer
Rosie Langabeer is a composer, sound designer and performer who writes for musical ensembles of various sizes, theatre, film, circus and dance and performs on a wide range of instruments. A specialist in improvisation and devised multi-disciplinary ensemble work her virtuosity lies in her versatility and depth of musical knowledge. Langabeer graduated from Massey University Wellington in 2002 with a BMus in composition and proceeded to work in NZ as a composer, performer and music educator establishing the Zirkus big band and collaborating with award winning New Zealand companies Awkward Productions, Ake Ake Theatre Company, Hypnotical Hoodang, directors Deborah Pope, Darcy Gladwin, Briar March, Jeff Henderson, Jen MacArthur and Alyx Duncan. In 2010 she was offered a commission from Pig Iron Theatre in Philadelphia, USA, which led to subsequent commissions and further collaborations in Philadelphia with Pig Iron, Subcircle Dance Theatre, Ballet X, the WILMA Theatre and Green Chair Dance Company. Langabeer has extended her time in the Philadelphia to undertake an artist’s residency, with No Face Performance Group and play music with a variety of local musicians. (more info and full CV rosielangabeer.com)

Stephen Bain

Stephen Bain has been working as a theatre maker in NZ since graduation from Toi Wakaari acting course (1991) and previously VUW School of Architecture (1987). He has performed and directed many shows, firstly as co-founder of Under Lili's Balcony Theatre Company from 1996 to 2002 in Wellington, and in 2004 he founded Winning Productions (Auckland since 2006). His design work has included numerous collaborations and are characterised by an adept use of multimedia and a minimalist aesthetic often working in unconventional performance spaces. Video work includes a dance-film, several music videos and numerous video-for-live-performance projects. In 2006 Stephen established Luxembourg Gardens in Central Auckland, an experimental performing arts centre, in 2007 he created a public space installation Baby, where are the fine things you promised me? which subsequently toured internationally from 2008-2011. In 2010/11 he began a research-led course in Advanced Scenography at a.pass in Antwerp, Belgium and in 2011 he was commissioned by Oerol Festival in The Netherlands to create an outdoor dance-theatre performance When Animals Dream of Sheep. This year Stephen curated an alternative festival of performance called the New Performance Festival in collaboration with The EDGE in Auckland.


Winning Productions
Winning Productions has been producing theatre and performance events since 2004. Currently based in Auckland, New Zealand, under the direction of Stephen Bain the company creates original theatre as well as site-specific productions for unconventional theatre spaces, art galleries, museums, shop fronts and warehouses. The work is highly visual and integrates video technology, conceptual design and imaginative drama. Touring works include Turbulent Flux (2005 Wellington & Auckland), Stories told to me by Girls (2005 – 2007 National Tour & arts Festivals) Baby, where are the fine things you promised me? (2007 – 2009 NZ arts festivals including four tours throughout Europe, also to Canada, Singapore and Australia), Die Henkel Spur (2008 Wellington & Auckland), My Heart is a Beast (2008-9 Auckland & Christchurch), The Wailing Chamber (Wellington 2011) and SOUNDIG (Auckland 2011, Perth WA 2012). Larger scale theatre productions have included The Arsehole (Auckland 2006), Kafka’s The Trial (Auckland 2008) and When Animals Dream of Sheep (Auckland NZ, Oerol Festival in The Netherlands and Chalon dans la Rue in France – co-comissioned by The EDGE and Oerol Festival). Producing partners have included; Creative New Zealand, The Edge Aotea Centre, The Living Room Auckland City, Wellington & Auckland Fringe Festivals, Oerol Festival.

Visit  for more information visit www.winningproductions.co.nz