About Prospect Park Productions
Prospect Park (NZ) are producers of professional theatre and podcasts based in Ōtepoti-Dunedin. Established in 2016 by producer, H-J Kilkelly, and writer, director, and dramaturg, Emily Duncan, Prospect Park is the home of Ōtepoti Theatre Lab and Ōtepoti Writers Lab.
The Prospect Park team specialise in new work development and creating and facilitating platforms for local theatre artists and writers at all stages of their careers.
H-J Kilkelly
Co-Director
H-J Kilkelly is an Ōtepoti-raised producer. Her experience is extensive, producing shows, festivals, practitioner development platforms and workshops for companies such as Tawata Productions, Kia Mau Festival, Barbarian Productions, BATS Theatre, Playmarket, Toi Maori, and NZ Young Writers Festival. She is the co-director and producer for Prospect Park Productions, and its development platforms Ōtepoti Theatre Lab and Ōtepoti Writers Lab, which were launched as responses to needs within the rohe.
H-J is also involved in a number of external projects centred around addressing infrastructure, strategy, advocacy and professional development for the sector, including the recently launched Ringatoi Pōneke : Artists Initiative.
A previous resident of Te Hau Tūtū, an independent Māori Theatre Producers’ Room based at Te Haukāinga in Wellington, H-J is now back in Ōtepoti, and can found at the Prospect Park offices.
Contact h-j@prospectpark.co.nz
Emily Duncan
Co-Director
Emily Duncan is a multi-award-winning writer, dramaturg, and director. She held the 2019 University of Otago Robert Burns Fellowship and received the Bruce Mason Award in 2020. Emily’s other awards include Playmarket’s Plays for the Young (2013, 2014), The Robert Lord Outstanding Script Award (2018, 2019), the Adam New NZ Play Award, Adam NZ Best Play by a Woman Playwright and the McNaughton South Island Play Award (all 2021). Her writing has been published in the anthologies Here/Now (2015) and 101 New Zealand Monologues for Youth (2019).
Emily holds a PhD in Theatre, trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City, leads writing seminars, and presents keynote, research, and conference speeches.
Emily is represented by Playmarket
Contact Emily at: emily@prospectpark.co.nz
