Silver Noodle Soup is a Wellington based theatre and film making non profit organisation where young disabled people are fully included in the leadership and direction of all aspects of theatrical and cinematic creativity, development, production, promotion, and performance.

It is artistically led by Madeline McNamara, with Stevie Hancox-Monk and Hannah Kelly.

Silver Noodle Soup’s 48Hour Film Festival short, HEARTH, was nominated for four awards at the city finals for Te Whangaui-a-Tara, and took home the award for ‘Best Exit’. HEARTH is available to watch here.

Sex. Death. Love. Anxiety. Revolution. Tomatoes.

Massive Crushes is a morbid mixtape of murderous monologues about sex, death and everything in between.

A phenomenal and hauntingly relatable play.

Directed by Isobel MacKinnon

2019, BATS Theatre

The classic game of Werewolf enhanced with performance, sound design and live music. Perfect for professional teams, social groups, and the broadly bloodthirsty. Developed by Binge Culture Collective.

Made under the guidance of Wellington theatre-makers in collaboration with Active, a vocational service for youth with learning difficulties. Wake Up Tomorrow was created from the minds of these incredible young people.

Wake Up Tomorrow (2015) won 6 New Zealand Fringe Festival awards including Best Director, Best Ensemble, Best Production Design, Best Performer, and Best Production.

Directed by Isobel MacKinnon

2015, Circa Theatre

Barbarian’s immersive live experience across a huge, sprawling outdoor location, hosted by a cast of twenty-plus performers!

U R Here brought theatrical magic to a little-known park in Pōneke, Wellington, transforming it into an adventure that was part game, part show, and part nature-walk. U R Here is the first iteration of a recurring annual event, providing opportunities for many theatrical independents to work and develop their skills over time.

U R Here premiered in the NZ Fringe 2023 and was attended by 969 people over three afternoons.

An interactive performance game developed for Lōemis Festival 2023 where the world’s most prestigious sporting competition —the 57th World Circle Drawing Championship — finally comes to Newtown.

Created by Andy Laking and Duncan Sarkies

Performed and developed by Ian Harcourt, Stevie Hancox-Monk, and Stephen Templer.

A collection of five monologues by nonbinary and female writers, commissioned for TAHI Festival in 2022.

Directed by Sally Richards and Kerryn Palmer

An interactive performance work by Binge Culture Collective, where letters were written by guests and delivered to other guests by the performers.

Later developed into the collaborative writing game The Lost Art of Letter Writing.

Binge Culture’s collaborative writing game in which letters are addressed, written, sealed and delivered – but never by the same person.

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Conceived and devised by Joel Baxendale, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Ralph Upton and Lucas Neal.

Directed by Lisa Wolpe at Divadlo Na Prádle with the Prague Shakespeare Company in the Czech Republic, 2017.

A contemporary adaptation of Genet’s darkly classic French play.

Starring Batanai Mashingaidze, Keagan Carr Fransch, and Stevie Hancox-Monk.

Directed by Samuel Phillips, 2017

Tiny Dog is an improvised comedy troupe made up of Gabby Anderson, Alayne Dick, Lesa MacLeod-Whiting, Charlotte Glucina, and Stevie Hancox-Monk with Janaye Henry.

They’ve performed in the NZ International Comedy Festival, NZ Fringe, and used to perform regular monthly improvised comedy hours at BATS Theatre.

Tiny Dog were nominated in 2022 at the NZ Comedy Guild Awards for Best Improv.