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Bringing Writers, Directors & Actors together.

A core cast – max. six actors – together with a writer + director team OR writer/director will collaborate on each script-in-development table read. The script must have a director attached and have been through a development process.

VIRTUAL TABLE READS

NZWG and DEGANZ are once again offering Virtual Table Reads for 2023.

Table Read One:1st April 2023

Submit Scripts by 24th March 2023

Table Read Two: 3rd June 2023

Submit scripts by 26th May 2023

Table Read Three: 19th August 2023

Submit scripts by 10th August 2023

Table Read Four: 11th November 2023

Submit scripts by 2nd November 2023

How to submit:

Writer & Director team OR individual who is the sole Writer/Director

Submit Script via Email to GuildHQ@nzwg.org.nz 

Actors who would like to take part in a Table Read, please submit your details HERE.

Please check these details before you enter:

  • In a Writer/Director team, the Writer must be a member of NZWG and the Director must be a member of DEGANZ.

  • A solo Writer/Director must be a member of both NZWG & DEGANZ. 

 

When you enter, please include this information:

  • Name of writer and if they belong to NZWG

  • Name of director, and if they belong to DEGANZ


NZWG members are invited to apply for the script component. 

Submit full-length draft feature film script for your name to go into the draw for a table read (names remain for subsequent draws). The draw will take place the week before the Read, if your script is drawn you will be contacted by NZWG.

ACTORS - Link to apply: https://www.deganz.co.nz/events/#!event/register/2023/6/3/2023-table-reads-two

 

A Joint Initiative brought to you by:
NZWG & DEGANZ
With warm thanks to the New Zealand Film Commission

Past Table Reads

Table Read Date

1 April 23

5 November 22

13 August 22

 

28 May 22

12 March 22

20 November 21

18 September 21

3 July 21

15 May 21

14 November 20

8 August 20

16 May 20

30 November 19

 

 

18 May 19

23 February 19

10 November 18

 

 

18 August 2018

19 May 2018

 

 

24 Feb 2018

 

9 Dec 2017

8 Jul 2017

13 May 2017

11 Mar 2017

5 Nov 2016

6 Aug 2016

30 Apr 2016

Writer(s)

Alex De Vries

David Hay

 

 

Bob Moore

 

Aruna Po-Ching

Kelly Kilgour

Rebecca Tansley

 

 

Alex Galvin

Daryl Belbin

 

 

Tim Tsiklauri

Fiona McKenzie

Alex Lodge

 

 

Nick Ward

Linda Niccol

 

 

Jason DeBoer

 

 

Tim Tsiklauri

 

 

Rochelle Bright

 

 

Dean Hewison & Richard Falkner

Siobhan Marshall & Anna Nuria Francino

 

Cian Elyse White

 

 

Catherine Bisley

Michele Powels & Alyx Duncan

Pip Hall

Kirsten Gauthier & Lee Tolley

Paula Jones

Joe Lonie

Barbara Sumner (Sumner Burstyn)

Director

Alex De Vries

David Hay

Kath Akuhata-Brown

Aruna Po-Ching

David Stubbs

Rebecca Tansley

Alex Galvin

Anton Steel

 

 

Tim Tsiklauri

Fiona McKenzie

 

 

Alex Lodge

Kath Akuhata-Brown

Linda Niccol

 

 

Jason DeBoer

Tim Tsiklauri

Zoe McIntosh

 

 

Dean Hewison

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cian Elyse

White

Catherine Bisley

Alyx Duncan

Peter Burger

Kirsten Gauthier

Paula Jones

Joe Lonie

Thomas Burstyn

Script Title

Pinky

The High Road

Amy

 

You Know You

Got It

Released

 

 

Persistence

Before the Darkness

Escape

Tamada

Caroline

A Lake with no Name

 

The Card Game

Poppy

 

 

Dehydro

 

 

Love Forty

Petrol Head

 

 

Tough Crowd

 

 

Bara

 

 

 

Daddy's Girl

 

December

The Underwood

Ache

The Last Caribou

Sins of the Mother

Flagfall

How to Make a Baby

Actors

Becky Kuek, Sahil Arora, Hamish Boyle, Florence Hartigan, Talia Hazelwood, Renee Sheridan

Kalyani Nagarajan, Mark Matthews, Olivia Monks, Meg Sydenham, Matt Wilson, Alice May Connolly

Tim Carlsen, Claire Chittham, Esmee Myers, Hamish Boyle, Matt Ruglys, Chloe Brash

Romy Hooper, Esmee Myers, Keporah Torrance, Becky Kuek, Hamish Boyle, Kirsty Bruce

 

Peter Feeney, Grant Roa, Jamie McCaskill,

Romy Hooper, Timmie Cameron, Grace Feltham-Roa

Kirsty Hamilton, Ella Hope-Higginson, Kirsty Bruce,

Caleb Wells, Maté Lagae, Chantal Claret

Tim Carlsen, Helen Murphy-Reid, Tai Berdinner-Blades, Frith Horan, Mark Clare

Grant Beban, Stephen Lyell, Tim Carlson, James Crompton, Jodie Hillock, Stephen Papps

Hilary Norris, Hamish Boyle, Jamie Irvine, Mate Lagae, Jo Clark

Amy Bowie, Annica Lewis, Loren Black, Amalia Calder, Tim MacDonald, Joseph Cooper

Haydn Carter, Carisse Utai, Marilyn Ollett, Jonathan Briden, Sherry Zhang, Dryw McArthur

Hilary Norris, Lawrence Wharerau, Will Hall, Steven Lovatt, Stephen Butterworth, Claire Chitham, Victoria Abbott

Tim Carlson, Clare Marcie, Jamie Irvine, Ryan Dulieu, Jocelyn Christian, Ashleigh Hook

Fiona Armstrong, Kirsty Bruce, Lucy Wigmore, Ariki Erby, Jonathan James, Mana Davis

David Capstick, Serena Cotton, Jamie Irvine, Ruth Wyne, Simon Ward

 

Alex Ellis, Genevieve Kent, Melissa Lawlor, Ana Corbett, Neill Rea, Caleb Wells 

 

James Roque, Keporah Torrence, Lucy Wigmore, Greg Smith, Olivia Mahood, James Crompton

Aaron Ward, Antonia Prebble, Serena Cotton, Donogh Rees, Jeff Szusterman, Dan Musgrove

 

 

William Davis, Romy Hooper, Simone Walker, Laura Hill

 

 

Ella Gilbert, Claire Chitham, Romy Hooper, Mel Odedra, Joe Dekkers-Reihana, Neill Rea

Sarah McLeod, Romy Hooper, Stuart Shacklock, James Crompton, Lucas Haugh, Renee Sheridan

Renee Lyons, Tim Carlsen, Shoshana McCullum, Luanne Gordon, Joel Toebeck, Colin Moy

Miryam Jacobi, Romy Hooper, Jarrred Blakiston, Colin Moy, Neill Rea, Genevieve McClean

Brenda Kendall, Kimo Houltham, Krystal-Lee Brown, Tahei Simpson, Borni Te Rongopai Tukiwaho, Barry de Lore

Peter Elliot, Aidee Walker, Morgan Albrecht, Anapela Polataivao, Dominic Ona-Ariki, Italia Hunt

Neill Rea, Steven Lovatt, Lucy Wigmore, Ban Abdul, Renee Sheridan

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