Tami Mansfield is a Teacher of Drama and English at Nayland College (Nelson NZ)  but prior to that she has been an actor in tv and theatre in New York City. She worked (for 7 years) at Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Company, as a Theatre Teaching Artist. Tami has an MFA in Drama from The Old Globe Theatre and she studied at Shakespeare’s Globe in London too. Some television credits include Law and Order SVU, Hope and Faith, and she has been featured in Colgate and Sony television commercials. In New Zealand, Tami has played lead roles in Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet with Nelson Summer Shakespeare Company and Shanitary in the touring production of Femme Natale.

Jessi trained at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles and is a graduate of The Actors’ Program in Auckland. Recent screen credits include Shortland Street, Filthy Rich, The Reading, Find My Killer, The Gone & Pike. She won Best Actress at the Los Angeles Film Awards for Upside Down & The Reading. Stage credits include Meet Me at Dawn, 8-The Play, Antigone, Macbeth, Vernon God Little and Precious Little. She’s a proud member of SAG-AFTRA & Equity NZ.

Lydia is an actor and writer who was born and grew up in Pōneke. She has performed on many stages there and in Australia, before moving to Tāmaki Makaurau to start her career in screen acting. She has landed roles in the Danish/Kiwi TV drama Straight Forward and as Talia Fraser on Shortland Street. She has toured Aotearoa and Australia with Pop Up Globe, and won ‘Best Play’ for Manless a comedy show she wrote for the Short and Sweet Festival in 2018. She currently writes for Shortland Street. 

Renaye Tamati is a British-born, New Zealand Māori actress who graduated from highly regarded Auckland training institution The Actors Program in 2018. Since then, Renaye has gone on to star in numerous theatre productions, including the lead role of Titania/Hippolyta in the Pop Up Globe's acclaimed Māori-language adaptation of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. Renaye is thrilled to be a part of this exciting new piece.

Gabriela Chauca is from Tāmaki Makaurau and is of NZ European and Peruvian descent.  She graduated from The Actors Program in 2020 where she discovered a deep love of theatre. Shortly after, Gabriela landed a guest role on Shortland Street playing fiery single Mother 'Lana Hoffman.' She has also been involved in various short films, as well as writing and featuring in her own short last year which is now in post-production. Earlier this year she took on the role of 'Carmen' - a struggling playwright turned spy in Lucy Dawber's sold-out season of No Time To Dry at the Basement Theatre; and will be making an appearance on Maori Television's Ahikāroa (Season 6), playing the cashed-up and impressionable  'Vienna'.  Gabriela is a passionate storyteller with an eager excitement when it comes to exploring human connection and relationships.

Jane Benney is a Zimbabwean Born Actress, Singer, and Creative entrepreneur. She has performed in Film, Theater, Television and Radio and behind the lens has produced and written numerous productions in a career that has seen her working and living in South-Africa, Hawaii, and Los Angeles. She currently resides in New Zealand. 

Flynn Smith, a born and bred native of New Orleans, is an attorney, a designer of bespoke men's fashion and a painter/sculptor, began his professional acting career 2 years ago. His first feature, Queen of the Ring, premiers in theatres in July, 2024, Stage credits include: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,  The Rogue Theatre in Door County, WI, USA; The Diary of Anne Frank, National WWII Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Snowpants Don't Lie will be his debut stage appearance in NZ/Aotearoa.