Senior Tutor | Costume Construction – a Hawaiian-born actress and fashion & textile historian, with a BA from Mills College CA, USA moved to NZ in 2006 where she worked as the Museum of NZ Te Papa Tongarewa as Acquisitions and Loans officer eventually became Curatorial Assistant. She is know for authoring the popular fashion & Textile history blog thedreamstress.com, as well as, designing a pattern line, Scroop patterns, which includes both historical and modern garments.

Head of Department Design & Performing Arts Management – Dr. Sean is a performance designer, photographer, artist and educator. He is originally trained at Toi Whakaari (Technical Production0 and has since completed a Graduate Diploma in Dramatic Arts Design from VCA, an M.A in Art & Design from Auckland University of Technology and a PhD from the School of Creative Arts – University of Tasmania. He has been a designer for theatre and TV through out NZ and Australia for nearly 30 years.

Craft & Creative Practice Tutor – an award-winning performer, director and writer, who has worked in the New Zealand Arts Industry for over 15 years. She graduated from the Acting program at Toi Whakaari in 2007, having already studied theatre at Otago University, and has since completed an MA in script writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University. She is tutor of Craft and Creative Practice at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School.

Teaching Staff at Toi Whakaari for Bachelor of Design (Stage & Screen) – Sam Trubridge has a PhD in Creative Practice from Massey University College of Creative Arts. He has lectured in Performance Design and Spatial Design at Massey University (NZ) and programmed Massey’s Print Factory Performance Laboratory. He currently directs The Performance Arcade on Wellington Waterfront. In 2021 he initiated a bold new project called WHAT IF THE CITY WAS A THEATRE? involving the Wellington performing arts community working to create a festival of live art and performance across city spaces.