Geraldine Brophy

KAREN KAY MANAGEMENT [N.Z]
Geraldine Brophy is one of New Zealand’s best known leading actors. She has an award-winning career that has spanned Theatre, Film and Television.

AWARDS

2009 Outstanding Performance of the Year Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards
2008 Best Actress Film Qantas Film and TV Awards
2008 Finalist Bruce Mason Playwright of the Year Award
2007 Best Supporting Actress Finalist Chapman Trip Award
2000 Best Actress Finalist New Zealand Film and Television Awards 2000 Shortland St
1998 Best Actress New Zealand Film and Television Awards 1998 Home Movie
1996 Best Actress Chapman Tripp Award

TELEVISION

2009
Dancing With The Stars	Celebrity Competitor	TVNZ
2008
Wizards First Rule	Queen	The Walt Disney Company
2006\2007
Time Hackers	Maude	Gibson Group
Welcome to Paradise	Mother	Gibson Group
Outrageous Fortune	Mrs Haggerty	SPP
2003/20042005
Madigan’s Fantasia	Ida	South Pacific Pictures
Insider’s Guide to Love	Trish	Gibson Group
Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby 2	Marion	Direct Hit Productions
Serial Killers	Agent	Judith Trye Productions
Spin Doctors	Various	Commedia Productions
Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby	Marion	Direct Hit Productions
1997/2001 Shortland St. Core cast	Moira	South Pacific Pictures
FILM 2008
Second Hand Wedding Winner Best Actress		Qantas Film and TV Awards
Life’s A Riot	Mrs Clancy	Life’s A Riot
Underworld 3 Productions	Noble Woman	Feature
2007
Second Hand Wedding	Jill	Feature
Official selection Shanghai Film festival 2008
2006
The Waterhorse	Gracie	Feature
2005
King Kong	Maude	Feature
2004
In My Father’s Den	Det. Donleavy	Feature
2004
Wrestling with the Angel	Janet Frame	Documentary Film
Zeuss	Short Film	Selected for 2005 Cannes Film Festiva
THEATRE
2009
Blood Wedding	Mother	Circa Theatre
Ladies A Plate	Woman	Stage Door
2008
Kiss of the Spider Woman	Director	Court Theatre
Under Milkwood	Director	Court Theatre
2006\2007
Finding Murdoch	Director	Downstage Theatre
The Graduate	Mrs Braddock	Downstage Theatre
Flagons and Foxtrots	Aunty Ina	Downstage Theatre
The Viagra Monologues	Author/Director	Bats Theatre
Doubt	Director	Court Theatre
The Rivals	Mrs Malaprop	Circa Theatre
The Paradise Package	Author/Director	Fortune Theatre
Real Estate	Norma/ Author	Fringe Festival
2003/2004/2005
Wrote and performed as Norma in Real Estate No. 8 Theatre Co.2005
2005 Director, Wednesday to Come, Downstage Theatre
Wrote and performed, Confessions of a Chocoholic, Downstage Theatre. 2004 Played Felicity in Up For Grabs, Downstage Theatre, conflated roles of both Capulets in the Downstage production of Romeo and Juliet and as Lizzie in her own work Mary’s Gospel at the Herald Theatre in Auckland
2003 Elizabeth in Auckland Theatre Company’s production of Roger Hall’s Middle Age Spread, toured with The World’s Wife, by Carol Ann Duffy. Previous theatre work includes the critically acclaimed Small God, Noises Off, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Arcadia and Molly Sweeney, all produced by Auckland Theatre Company.
Leah ,with the New Zealand Actor’s Company for 2002 International Festival, Ricordi for the 1996 International Festival,Tzigane at Downstage Theatre, NZ tour of Farewell Speech. Geraldine spent ten years in the company at Court Theatre in Christchurch where she played many roles including, Medea, Shaw’s  St. Joan, Sonia from Uncle Vanya, Shakespeare’s Portia, Beatrice, and Gertrude, Stella in Streetcar, and Maggie in Dancing at Lughnasa. She directed the Court’s production of Alan Bennetts’ Single Spies.
She performed and developed with Simon Bennett, the concept for Leah, the gender switching adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear for the Wellington Festival 2002
Geraldine Brophy has been writing plays since 2003.
The Viagra Monologuesher first work opened to critical acclaim in Auckland in July 2003 and a Wellington season at Bats Theatre 2008.
Mary’s Gospel premiered at the Herald Theatre, Auckland in March 2004.
Confessions of a Chocoholic played to a sell out season at it’s premiere in November 2004 and opened at Downstage Theatre Wellington in February 2005. It went on to tour nationally.
Real Estate played to full houses late 2005 and featured in the Wellington Fringe festival in 2006.
The Paradise Package premiered at the Fortune Theatre Dunedin in 2006.
Meat, about a celebrity chef and his autistic son, is yet to be produced.
The Merry Wives of Windsor Avenue was commissioned by Downstage and Centrepoint Theatres 2008 and was produced in 2010 by Playbox Theatre Hamilton.
Her latest work is a collaboration with fifteen year old daughter Beatrice called Ladies A Plate and is a whimsical exploration of recipes and ritual passed down through families .This piece has  had three sell out  seasons in Petone Wellington, and featured in 2010 Cadbury festival Dunedin at The Mayfair Theatre.
Geraldine is a partner in THE BOX theatre which opened recently in Petone, Wellington which will show case her own work and other NZ theatre pieces in a 100 seat boutique setting. Her new one woman show Mrs Merry’s Christmas Concert premiere’s there on 1 December 2010.