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Dean Hewison

DEAN HEWISON

  
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Dean has a degree in television production from the NZ Broadcasting School. His first play Head of the House was a winner of the 2002 NZ Young Playwrights Competition, getting him nominated for Outstanding New Playwright of the Year at the 2003 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. His second play Brain Power won Best Production Design at the Fringe 07 awards and an honourable mention for Best Theatre. His third play the Henchman premiered at BATS as part of the 2007 Young & Hungry Festival and was followed by 2008s Hypnotastic, which was performed in Auckland and Wellington. 2009 saw the premiere of Live at Six, which he co-wrote and performed in. In 2010 Dean wrote the stage show Giggles Live  a Theatre spin-off of a childrens TV show on TVNZ6. Other writing projects have included a feature film called Maintain, 25 episodes of Squirt, a staff writing position on Facelift 4, co-writing award-winning radio show Out of Bounds Sounds, and several short films (including 6 Wellington finalists in the 48HOURS film competition), one of which (Half a Horse) won four awards in two festivals, including Best Film at Flake Film Festival in NSW. Most recently, Dean co-revised the Live at Six script for its 2012 remount at Downstage Theatre, and co-wrote and directed the winning feature film in the Make My Movie competition: "How To Meet Girls From a Distance", which had its premiere in the 2012 NZ International Film Festival.

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below is a list of Dean Hewison's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Brain Power         Conversations (With My Penis)         Giggles Live         Henchman, The         Hypnotastic         Jingles - The Musical         Live At Six

Brain Power

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Conversations (With My Penis)

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The play explores 5 decades in the love/hate relationship between Tom (Aidan Grealish) and his penis (Carrie Green). It is an absurd buddy-comedy that tackles a lifetime of issues  from impotence to infidelity, men's health to Viagra. It has a lot of laughs and plenty of heart.

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Bats Theatre, Cnr Cuba And Dixon Sts , Wellington    30 Apr 2014

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NZ International Comedy Festival

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comedy play

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http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=3871

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Giggles Live

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Henchman, The

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Hypnotastic

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Jingles - The Musical

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Jingles - The Musical is an original musical comedy using only songs and jingles from classic NZ ads, incorporated seamlessly (and not so seamlessly) into a hilarious skewering of the age-old musical story: a small town girl perched on the edge of big city stardom. Featuring music from the best ads of the 80s and 90s, including "You Can Tell a Wella Woman", "Dancing the Columbine", McDonalds' "It's Gonna be a Lovely Day", and much more! Wella McDonald, a farmer's daughter from the small town of Rainbow's End, has a natural ability to predict the weather. When her father reveals the identity of her real mother as being the owner of TV3, Wella decides to travel all the way to the big city to meet her. Finding herself inside the TV3 building, Wella decides to win her mother's respect by excelling in the world of weather-presenting. What follows is a funny and subversive take on the musical genre

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BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce, Wellington    12 Mar 2015

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Live At Six

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"Truth is overrated" is the marketing tagline. Ratings are the only truth: that's the commercial television reality that underlies what happens in the 'real time' hour leading up to the six o'clock news on rival channels TV One and TV3 (real institutions with totally fictitious characters, of course). What makes Dean Hewison and Leon Wadham's Live at Six such compelling satire is its total credibility. their thorough research, aided by the channels in question, has paid excellent dividends in the characters they have created and in the way the rival teams handle a breaking 'news' story that involves one of their number.
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written by Dean Hewison & Leon Wadham

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Bats, Wellington    17 Oct 2009

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