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HaBYT Company

The core principle of the HaBYT company is whanaungatanga - the treasuring of connection, community and trust. Throughout the year, members of the HaBYT Company work closely together to develop their craft as actors and performance, with a key focus on voice, movement and character work. Company members work towards a staged theatre work which is performed later in the year.  Commitment and communication is an essential value of the Company class which enables our group to thrive with confidence within their Performing Arts community. 

Our whānau is important to us, and trips away are organised occasionally and when possible to help bonding and friendships flourish. Additionally, the Company tours nationally and internationally every second year.

Latest

2024 upcoming play - 'Emilia' 

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Elizabeth Schafer

Creative NZ have granted HaBYT with two 

scholarships for māori and pasifika students 

to perform in Emilia this year.

 

"HaBYT gave me the empathy to understand; the love for humanity; the fire to challenge the status quo. My time at HaBYT helped to shape me into the person I am and discover the values I hold dearest.

 

To HaBYT and its wonderful tutors- thank you, a million times over, and over, and over again. I wouldn't be where I am without you."

Taygen Elliott
Student of Acting - Toi Whakaari

Holly Renwick, Taygen Elliott, Kaitlyn Peck.
Everyman 2020. Photo Angela Elliott

2022

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

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Everyman

Hawkes Bay Arts Festival 2020

From the expansive hub of London’s National Theatre, to Heretaunga, Hawke’s Bay Youth Theatre transplanted this new, energetic, and visceral 

production of Carol Ann Duffy’s Everyman for the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival.

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