The Department of Conversation with Pat Brittenden

Anthony 'Blue Wiggle' Field is an Australian musician, actor, songwriter and producer. He is best known as an original...and current...member of the children's group The Wiggles, where he dons the blue skivvy, and a member of the 1980s and 1990s pop band the Cockroaches.

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After winning the Director's Award at the 2019 Comedy Festival, earning five star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and becoming Head Writer on Have You Been Paying Attention, Eli Matthewson returns with a brand new hour of comedy about all things 'Daddy'. Is he old enough to be a daddy yet? What does that even mean? After a bombshell revelation from his own father, it's been a wild few years...

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James Nokise is a Fred Dagg Comedy Award Nominee and 2 time Billy T Comedy Award Nominee, Welsh / Samoan comedian, he has carved out a reputation in New Zealand going after everything from gangs, to politicians, to stereotypes within Pacific Culture.

Nokise's RNZ podcast, Eating Fried Chicken in the Shower, is about a 'depressed alcoholic comedian James Nokise invites famous people into his mental health safe space for a finger-licking chat about headspace and happiness."

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Gavin Hewitson is working in Wellington whilst still holding tight to his American accent, and is working his way up in the city's comedy scene.

Gavin is doing the Fringe scene in 2921 with his comedy wife, Aaron Barber, hosting American Refugees, the spiciest American imports since Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

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Jimmy Neesham, is a New Zealand international cricketer, who plays all formats of the game. He was born in Auckland and plays first-class cricket for the Wellington cricket team.

Jimmy was just recently signed to the Mumbai Indians in the IPL and currently is slaying Australia in the T20 series happening in NZ

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Lydia Peckham is a performer who looks at her art through a lens of surrealism, playfulness and off-beat. She is influenced and inspired by her three favourite artists; Lewis Carrol, Charlie Chaplin and Hieronymus Bosch.

As well as making her own content, Lydia works in the film and television industry. You might have see her as 'Katerina' from Netflix's 'Cowboy Bebop' or 'Melinda' from Feng Xiaogang 'Only Cloud Knows'.

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Matt Powell is a Wellington-based improvisor, director, and writer with over 20 years' experience creating and performing shows. He has been part of The Court Jesters (Christchurch), PlayShop, WIT, and Soap Factory. He has been performing in the New Zealand Fringe Festival since 2014. The History Boy is his first full-length solo show, born from a development at the award winning Late Night Knife Fight.

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Oscar Kightley MNZM, is a Samoan-born actor, television presenter, writer, journalist, director, and comedian. He acted in and co-wrote the successful 2006 film Sione's Wedding. Knightley's latest work is directing the documentary Dawn Raid, where Oscar follows the story of two Manukau Polytechnic students, Andy Murane and Tanielu Leaosavai'i (aka Brotha D) who turned a bootleg T-shirt business and hip-hop night at a local bar in Otara into the influential Dawn Raid Entertainment empire.

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Jo Ghastly is a Christchurch New Zealand based comedian, improviser and actor.

Previous career highlights include being a Canterbury 3ZB cheerleader last century and being typecast on stage and screen as everyone's bitchy mother. Comedy provides welcome relief from peri-menopausal mood swings and the tortures of parenting teenagers.

Jo is the recipient of many Comedy awards including

2020 Audience Choice Award Nelson Fringe

2020 Best Solo Show Nelson Fringe

2020 NZ Comedy Guild Awards- nom Breakthrough Comedian SI

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Robett Hollis played both Basketball and Soccer for NZ, then became a Pro Snowboarder, travelled the globe and ended up with a Silver Medal at the World Finals.

Robett started a media company which was fully acquired by Saatchi&Saatchi / Publicis Groupe 3 years ago and also built NZ's Largest Network of Coworking Spaces for Tech Startups which he also exited in 2018. Robett now live between San Francisco, USA & Auckland, Aotearoa.

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