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Ben Target is an artist and comedian. He won the national stand-up accolade Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, got nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer, and has been nominated twice and won once the Chortle Award for Comedy Innovation as a core member of the adored cult collectives Weirdos Comedy and the Alternative Comedy Memorial Society.

“A true original and a legend in the making”  The Guardian

Julia Croft is a live artist and performance maker based in Auckland, New Zealand. Julia’s practice draws on feminist and queer theories to create performance works that explore representational politics, violence, the body and increasingly feminist futurisms and world building. She has created 8 full length works including 3 solo works: If There’s Not Dancing at the Revolution, I’m Not Coming, Power Ballad and Working On My Night Moves. These works have toured extensively throughout NZ as well as Australia, the UK, Singapore and Canada. Her newest solo Working On My Night Moves was awarded a prestigious Total Theatre Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Other works include The Plastic Orgasm, This was Supposed to be the Future (created and presented in Guadalajara, Mexico), Body Double (presented as part of the Auckland Arts Festival 2018), and Medusa. Julia is part of a 3 year arts residency curated by The Basement Theatre (NZ), Forest Fringe (UK) & West Kowloon Cultural District (HK). Julia was also part of the Time Place Space residency (Arts House Melbourne). Julia is currently developing a new solo work with the support of Battersea Arts Centre, London and The Marlborough, Brighton.

Nisha Madhan is a performer and director of contemporary theatre. She has toured internationally with Theatre Beating and Indian Ink. Her company, The Town Centre has produced many works inc. LIES, TITLED, and What Have You Done To Me? which toured to Finland. Her work receives consistent critical acclaim, often nominated for Original Production at Fringe, Auckland & Wellington Theatre Awards. She made Power Ballad with Julia Croft which won several Auckland Fringe awards, the Melbourne Arts Festival Discovery award and was nominated for the prestigious TOTAL Theatre Award in Edinburgh. She is part of a 3 year arts residency curated by The Basement (NZ), Forest Fringe (UK) & West Kowloon Cultural District (HK) and her writing will be published for the first time in Undisciplining Dance in 9 Movements by Cambridge University Press. She recently co-created Medusa performed to massive critical acclaim in Auckland and Wellington, as well as Working On My Night Moves which won a TOTAL Theatre Award in Edinburgh. She is currently working as the Programming Co-ordinator at Basement Theatre, Auckland.

Zanetti Productions presents innovative and groundbreaking creativity, with a focus on work that invigorates social change, celebrates otherness and sends audiences out into the world with a spark in their hearts. 

In 2018 & 2019, we are presenting a plethora of artists in both Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas including: Julia Croft and Nisha Madhan (TOTAL Theatre Award winner Working On My Night Moves, If There’s Not Dancing at the Revolution, Power Ballad, Medusa); Fringe First winner The Basement Tapes; Trick of the Light (The Road That Wasn’t There); Jane Doe; My Best Dead Friend; Auckland Fringe festival and more. Tours included to Battersea Arts Centre, Cambridge Junction, Tron Theatre, The Marlborough, The Cultch (Vancouver) Blue Room (Perth), Esplanade (Singapore), Auckland Arts Festival, Imaginate Children’s Theatre Festival, Summerhall and Assembly as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Zanetti Productions is the leading independent producer of contemporary performance in Aotearoa New Zealand.