NZIF 2025: Over and out!

And with that, NZIF 2025 comes to a close!

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for a PACKED week-and-a-bit of shows, workshops, social events, magic, mischief and mayhem.

We're so grateful to every performer, director, audience member, workshop participant, teacher, team member and volunteer who came together to make this event happen.

Thank you also to our amazing sponsors: Wellington City Council, New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT), Insight to Action Consulting, The Performing Arts Foundation, and the Berwyn Gibbons Theatre Trust.

We're also so grateful to our partners who helped make things happen: our home at BATS Theatre, Resene for making Scene Painting possible, Sweet Mother's Kitchen and Deluxe Cafe for the delicious food, Cambridge Hotel for hosting our artists, and The Big Picture and Phantom for helping us get the word out.

This is also the final NZIF for co-directors Jim and Matt (the ones writing this post!) We're honoured to have been able to guide this festival for three years, and we can't wait to see what comes next.

NZIF 2026 will be back from 2–11 October. Watch this space for more information soon!

Mā te wā xx