Toi Whakaari

We celebrate collaboration and innovation.

We embrace the talents of designers, directors, technicians, actors, managers, costumiers, playwrights, film makers, dramaturges and scholars. We encourage collaboration among disciplines. We promote new and exciting work.

Our staff are practising theatre and screen professionals and our kura provides a stimulating and supportive learning environment. We are students. We are teachers. We learn from each other.

Drawing upon a wealth of expertise and collaborative talent, we use a process of skills development, provocation, reflection and analysis to encompass a structured, interdisciplinary approach to the work of making theatre.

We are the pre-eminent theatre and screen training facility in Oceania.

We are a catalyst for change.

We are Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School.