Arthur Meek

Audio

The Bad Luck Battalion. A verbatim war story. Audio and eBook about three lucky survivors of Otago Infantry Battalion. Based on Voices of Gallipoli by Maurice Shadbolt.

Short Film

My Eyes Are Up Here. BBC/BFI funded. Screened at 30+ festivals including London Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Slamdance. Winner Beeston Film Festival.

Remembrance Project

Voices of Gallipoli. Its purpose is to remember the experiences of kiwis at war by speaking their words out loud at Anzac commemorations and events. Based on the oral histories by Maurice Shadbolt.

Play

Erewhon. Based on Samuel Butler's classic NZ novel Erewhon (1872). Script commissioned by Creative New Zealand. Production commissioned by Christchurch Arts Festival.

Film & Play

On the Conditions and Possibilities of Hillary Clinton Taking Me as Her Young Lover. "Low-brow and brilliant" - New York Magazine.

Book

The Young Lover Activity Guide. Philosophical analysis and fun activity picture book.

Play

Trees Beneath the Lake. Commissioned by Auckland Theatre Company. "matches its big themes with big drama and big laughs. Meek has my complete confidence; give him yours too." - Metro.

Story Table

Shortland Street. New Zealand's longest-running soap opera, about the doctors and staff at a fictional Auckland hospital.

Play, Playscript & Audiobook

On the Upside Down of the World. "The play is one which will enter the pantheon of great New Zealand theatre." - National Business Review. Available to buy as a playscript and as an audiobook.

Television Series

Feedback. Arthur Meek co-creator and star. Late-night reporters try to win a primetime slot by fabricating outrageously watchable fake news. "Head spinningly excellent." - The New Zealand Herald.

Play

Dark Stars. Best Non-Fiction Script, United Solo Theatre Festival New York. Two black performers, a century apart, face the costs and questionable value of becoming famous entertainers.

Play

Charles Darwin: Collapsing Creation. A sick genius has to find the courage to change the world, and the strength to face the fallout. Chapmann Tripp Theatre Awards Best Production and Best New Play.

Play

Richard Meros Salutes the Southern Man. The second theatrical dissertation of Richard Meros, BA helps a semi-soft nation to rediscover its Pioneering Hardness. "Virtually indistinguishable from genius." - Salient.

Play & Playscript

Sheep. Seven snapshots of New Zealand history linked by family and the journey of wool from sheep's back to wearable product. Published in Here/Now - 8 Plays by Award-Winning New Zealand Playwrights.

Play

On the Conditions and Possibilities of Hillary Clinton Taking Me as Her Young Lover. "Absurd, brilliant, delightful" - NZ Listener. "Slick and wickedly clever" - The Dominion Post.

Musical Comedy & Radio Series

The Lonesome Buckwhips. Billy T Nominated, Winner Best Comedy Wellington International Fringe Festival. "Smart, sharp and viciously funny" - Capital Times.

Short Play

The Eeneid. Immortal Athena defies her father Zeus by spiriting an ANZAC soldier away from the Gallipoli battlefield - echoing actions she took on the other side of the Dardanelles at the Battle of Troy.

Short Play

Fight the Fat. Commissioned by Allen Hall Theatre at Otago University. Two broke TIE performers crusade to save the nation's arteries using the power of theatre.

Play

Yolk. A sixteen year old's life takes a dramatic twist when her mother falls terminally ill. Commissioned by Young & Hungry Theatre.

Play

The Cottage. "Probably the most original production so far in this year's Fringe Festival... very funny and very entertaining." - Ewen Colman, Theatreview.

Play

Mando the Goat Herd. A second generation goatherd tries to save his wretched farm from the clutches of Splendid Pete - their metaphysical bank manager.

Plays

Land of the Moa and Land of the Moa by George! Commissioned by Toi Whakaari: the New Zealand Drama School.

Film Script

The Wanker. Recipient of New Zealand Writers Guild Seed Grant.

Play

Make Some Noise. A theatrical adaptation of the film It's All Gone Pete Tong. Commissioned by Belluscious (US).

Film Script

Counter Intelligence Based on the book 'Spy' By C. H. Kit Bennetts. A young kiwi secret service officer tries to prove that a beloved old man is actually an incredibly dangerous Russian spy.

Film Script

Deus Ex Otto. Recipient of New Zealand Writers Guild Seed Grant.

Television Series

Thin Ice. Developed by TVNZ and South Pacific Pictures.

Television Series

New Gold Mountain. Commissioned by Great Southern Television.

Play

An Eye for an Eye. A modern take on a grand guignol commissioned by The Flea Theatre Company in New York. Pretty grisly.