about us
Alexander Sparrow
Alexander is an award-winning comedian, MC, and director. He has performed in LA, New York, and Boston; Belgium; France; Scotland; England; and all over New Zealand. Alexander has featured on TVNZ’s Breakfast, TV3’s The Project, and PRIME TV’s Back Benches; and in The Wall Street Journal (US).
He directed Pat Goldsack’s Swingers Club & Brothel (2022 tour with Arts on Tour NZ), Macbeth (2021-22 NZ tour), King John (2020 with Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ), The Merry Wives of Windsor (2019 NZ tour), and A Collection of Noises (2013, 2015, 2020 seasons). He was character director for The Nutcracker at Nelson’s Theatre Royal (2021).
Alexander has presented his thoughts on the philosophy of comedy at conferences and universities in New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Belgium, Croatia, and the UK. He received the International Society of Humor Studies’ DANYS Award at their 2023 conference for his paper on cringe comedy. In 2024 he earned an MA Philosophy with Distinction for his thesis Humour and the Appearance of Authenticity. The thesis can be downloaded HERE.
Katie Boyle
Katie is the comic behind the multi-award-winning Pat Goldsack: New Zealand’s favourite swinging nana. Pat Goldsack has appeared at gigs in the USA, Belgium, France, and the UK, and performed a 20-date tour of New Zealand (2022 Arts on Tour NZ). Pat Goldsack won Best Comic at the 2023 Nelson Fringe Festival; the show Pat Goldsack’s Swingers Club & Brothel won Best Comedy at the 2022 Whangarei Fringe Festival and the 2018 Palmy Fringe Festival. For her work as Pat, Katie has won Best Female Comic at the 2021 and 2019 Comedy Hub Awards.
She is also one of New Zealand’s most noted Shakespearean actors, with 12 Elizabethan productions performed over the last nine years. Past shows include Hamlet at the Pop Up Globe (Guildenstern and Laertes), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Dr Faustus (Faustus), and Macbeth (Macbeth). She also undertook a 45-date solo tour of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (everyone). She co-produced and co-hosted the award-nominated comedy line-up show Sing It Wrong, and has MCed Armageddon (Auckland and Wellington).
IG: @pat.goldsack
