Geraldine Brophy is one of New Zealand’s best known leading actors. She has an award-winning career that has spanned Theatre, Film and Television.
She performed and developed with Simon Bennett, the concept for Leah, the gender switching adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear for the Wellington Festival 2002.
Geraldine Brophy has been writing plays since 2003.
The Viagra Monologues her first work opened to critical acclaim in Auckland in July 2003 and a Wellington season at Bats Theatre 2008.
Mary’s Gospel premiered at the Herald Theatre, Auckland in March 2004.
Confessions of a Chocoholic played to a sell out season at it’s premiere in November 2004 and opened at Downstage Theatre Wellington in February 2005.It went on to tour nationally.
Real Estate played to full houses late 2005 and featured in the Wellington Fringe festival in 2006.
The Paradise Package premiered at the Fortune Theatre Dunedin in 2006.
Meat, about a celebrity chef and his autistic son, is yet to be produced.
The Merry Wives of Windsor Avenue was commissioned by Downstage and Centrepoint Theatres 2008 and was produced in 2010 by Playbox Theatre Hamilton.
Her latest work is a collaboration with fifteen year old daughter Beatrice called Ladies A Plate and is a whimsical exploration of recipes and ritual passed down through families .This piece has had three sell out seasons in Petone Wellington, and featured in 2010 Cadbury festival Dunedin at The Mayfair Theatre.
Geraldine has opened her own theatre called THE BOX in Petone Wellington which will show case her own work and other NZ theatre pieces in a 100 seat boutique setting.
Her new one woman show Mrs Merry’s Christmas Concert premiered there on 1 December 2010.
Geraldine Brophy
Karen is a self-confessed chocoholic. Chocolate. She can't get enough of its delicious, rich, velvety, sumptuous pleasure. Only, there's one thing Karen loves more. Today is a very important anniversary. Karen is marking it, as she has for the past 27 years, with a banquet of chocolate bars and a wedding dress.
This luscious play by highly acclaimed New Zealand actress and playwright Geraldine Brophy plumbs not only the depths of 'Nana's magic chocolate mud pudding', but also the pain and grief of lost love.
Cast: 1
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Mary is a mental health consumer. Her cousin, Lizzie is her daily caregiver. Both women are part of the O'Malleys - a large, Irish Catholic family, who control most of the construction business in the Hutt Valley. At 15, Mary had a baby boyÉ Christie. In the beginning there were no words Only the dark and the cold. Naenae dark, Little Fish, busted - light dark.
Cast: 3
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MEAT is inspired by the current western trend [huge in NZ] for attending cooking demonstrations by celebrity chefs, both local and international reinvigorating our taste buds for life.
The unsatisfactory depth of experience offered by the world of quick and easy makes us long for the slow and sensual indulgences that only time, care and skill can render.
MEAT takes a look at our attitudes to perfection and the new religion of self-improvement.
Cast: 3
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Norma and Lottie have been best friends for seventy-six years.
Cast: 2
Geraldine Brophy
The Merry Wives of Windsor Avenue is loosely based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor. Its chief concerns, namely, the poaching of wildlife, both animal and human, and political manoeuvring, in order to lose or gain reputations, are an attempt to see in a modern context how far we haven't come.
Cast: 10
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Three couples, two bures and a tropical island resort specialising in wedding packages...
Richard and Louise are married with a thirty year age difference in an open relationship that's not as straightorward as it seems.
They are here for a vow renewal ceremony...The Wedding of Joy Package.
Cast: 6
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What right does a woman have to depict men and their sexuality in all its vulnerable glory? You decide. Geraldine Brophy's Man Overboard traverses territory from the tragic to the sublime. In Brophy's outstanding first play three male actors bring to life fifteen males - from a toddler to a tormented priest - who explore relationships with love, manhood, sexuality and fatherhood.
Cast: 3