Radical changes have happened to the way we train our future screen and performing arts stars at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in Wellington.
With his staff director Christian Penny has incorporated approaches of tikanga Maori on marae to deeply change the way artists are trained. Christian has led Toi Whakaari since 2011, and prior to that was head of directing for nine years.
Now he prepares for a big career change - taking his learnings about theatre and business training to sport, working from the new year with elite coaches for organisation High Performance Sport New Zealand.
Christian says that a new drama school director won't appointed until well into next year with an interim director in the role until then.
