Paolo Rotondo is an award-winning multidisciplinary storyteller working across theatre, film, and television. His playwriting career includes the sell-out national tour of Little Che (starring Taika Waititi) and the internationally acclaimed Strange Resting Places, which toured for nine years and earned him the Chapman Tripp Award for Best New Playwright. His most recent work, Kororāreka: The Ballad of Maggie Flynn, was toured nationally by Red Leap Theatre and is now a staple of the New Zealand school curriculum.
Beyond the stage, Paolo wrote and directed the award-winning feature Orphans & Kingdoms and is the co-founder of the Italian Film Festival NZ. For his significant contributions to the arts, he was bestowed a ‘Cavalierato’ (Order of Merit) by the Italian Republic. He continues to develop projects for film and stage from his base in Hawke's Bay.