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19-487: Auckland Theatre Company (ATC) was established following the bankruptcy of Mercury Theatre Company , Auckland's original professional theatre company which had been the largest subsidised company in the country. Founding Artistic Director was Simon Prast who was there from March 1992 until February 2003. In his time he directed and produced over 60 plays. The first season presented by ATC was in 1993. The season consisted of two New Zealand plays. The first play produced by ATC

38-610: A branchless banking service that provided service via phone, online , EFTPOS and ATMs only. ASB was established in 1847 as the Auckland Savings Bank. The first meeting was held in the store of Campbell and Brown , and was attended by John Logan Campbell, Dr John Johnson, Rev Thomas Buddle , John Jermyn Symonds , John MacDougall, David Graham (a brother of Robert Graham ), Robert Appleyard Fitzgerald , Thomas Forsaith , John Israel Montefiore , James Dilworth , Alexander Kennedy , and William Smellie Graham. During

57-476: A new advertising campaign featuring Brian Blessed playing a fictionalised version of himself encouraging New Zealanders to be proud of their achievements whether big or small. The bank also supports the ASB Community Trust, which was formed in 1988 with an endowment from the sale of ASB to Australia's Commonwealth Bank . The Trust has distributed more than $ 745 million since 1988, mostly giving grants to

76-585: Is also used as a space for hire for conferences, onstage dinners, awards nights and graduation ceremonies the Villa Maria Gallery is a secondary function space. The ASB Waterfront Theatre was the recipient of Small Venue of the Year in 2018 presented by EVANZ . Mercury Theatre, Auckland Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

95-560: Is an electronic payment service that allows anyone with a New Zealand bank account to send cleared funds via mobile phone or the internet to another person or participating retailer in real-time. The technology has not succeeded in the way ASB hoped, with very little use and virtually no significant updates since 2010. ASB Securities, launched in 1999, remains the largest online broker in New Zealand in terms of trading volume and active customers. The bank has found significant success by being

114-968: The Kenneth Maidment Theatre (commonly known as The Maidment) in the Auckland University campus and the Sky City Theatre . Other theatres ATC performed in were Q Theatre , Civic Theatre , Herald Theatre and the Basement Theatre . Auckland Theatre Company offices are located in the lower ground floor of the Mt Eden War Memorial Hall in Balmoral, New Zealand . ATC refit the space to include their administration offices, box office and two rehearsal spaces and moved to this Dominion Road space from Quay Street in December 2010. In 2020

133-757: The Wynyard Quarter . Auckland Theatre Company and Eke Panuku Development Auckland were project partners. Other contributions are the Foundation Partners Auckland Council , ASB Bank and AUT University . Major funders include Creative New Zealand and Foundation North . The project funders are the Edmiston Trust , The Lion Foundation and Lotto NZ . The Founding Corporate Partners are Kensington Swan and Villa Maria , and Platinum Corporate Partners are Cooper and Company , ECC Limited , and Moller Architects . The premier show presented in

152-587: The 1980s the association of savings banks amalgamated the local savings banks throughout New Zealand with ASB at their head, and adopted the name, ASB Trust Bank. In 1986, ASB withdrew from the Trust Bank and in 1987 became a full-fledged commercial bank under the name, ASB Bank. In 1988, the Government passed the Trustee Banks Restructuring Act, which enabled ASB to become a public company. In 1989,

171-674: The ASB Waterfront Theatre was the Auckland Theatre Company production of Billy Elliot the Musical , presented by ASB . The first preview was on October 7, 2016, and the official opening was on October 13, 2016. The ASB Waterfront Theatre space is also a venue for hire, with other users including Auckland Arts Festival , Pacific Dance New Zealand, Tempo Dance Festival , New Zealand Opera , New Zealand International Film Festival and touring international productions. The venue

190-571: The Auckland Theatre Company presented an on-line production during the COVID-19 lock down, using the device of a Zoom meeting for the stage. It was adapted by Eli Kent and Eleanor Bishop, who also directed it, with rehearsals and performances carried out online. Auckland Theatre Company has presented co-productions with numerous other organisations, including Auckland Arts Festival ,  Te Rēhia Theatre Company, Prayas, Proudly Asian Theatre, Pacific Underground and Hāpai Productions. For example in 2022

209-488: The campaign ended in 2010 as the bank moved to a new advertising agency from TBWA /Whybin. In October 2011 the bank introduced the Experience ASB campaign with new advertising agency Droga5 . The campaign featured voice overs by English actor Dame Judi Dench and allowed potential customers to "test drive" the bank before joining. In July 2012 ASB left Droga5 for Saatchi & Saatchi . In February 2013 ASB launched

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228-692: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.151 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 388220165 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:34:34 GMT ASB Bank This is an accepted version of this page ASB Bank Limited , commonly stylised as ASB , is a bank owned by Commonwealth Bank of Australia , operating in New Zealand. It provides a range of financial services including retail, business and rural banking, funds management, as well as insurance through its Sovereign Limited subsidiary, and investment and securities services through its ASB Group Investments and ASB Securities divisions. ASB also operated BankDirect ,

247-554: The first to introduce innovative services and features to the New Zealand market. ASB was the first bank in New Zealand to offer: ASB has become known for using well-known characters in its advertising. The bank had a series of highly successful, award-winning commercials with the Ira Goldstein character (played by American actor Steve Mellor), a bumbling American banker sent to New Zealand to find out "what makes that bank different". The ads were popular over an 11-year period. However,

266-521: The owner of the bank, ASB Community Trust , sold 75% of the shares to Commonwealth Bank . In 1994, ASB purchased and amalgamated Westland Bank , another former savings bank, located on the South Island's west coast, which enabled it to operate on a truly national basis. In 1999, ASB Group acquired Sovereign Limited , a life insurance company, and the retail stockbroking and fixed income operations of Warburg Dillon Read . In 2000, Commonwealth Bank bought

285-437: The play Scenes from a Yellow Peril written by Nathan Joe and directed by Jane Yonge was co-produced with SquareSums&Co and Oriental Maidens. Scenes from a Yellow Peril was about exoticisation and prejudice of East Asians living in New Zealand, made by East Asian artists. Joe says the benefit of the co-production for 'ATC, which is predominantly Pākehā', was it was able to trust relevant communities will be able to inform

304-894: The remaining 25% of ASB's shares from the Trust. In 2005 the bank changed the ASB Bank brand to ASB to reflect the more integrated financial services provider that it had become. In early July 2020, ASB announced that it would be closing nine branches while 25 branches would be moving to three day weeks due to a shift in demand for online services. The company will also hire 150 additional staff to provide specialist online support. The bank has won awards including NetGuide Award for best financial services site in 2006 and 2007, TUANZ Innovation Award for Financial Service in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005, and recently Canstar's inaugural annual 'Best Online Banking Award' in 2012. ASB launched pago in November 2006, which

323-525: The role until 2021. Jonathan Bielski who has been on staff as CEO since 2019 has been the Artistic Director since 2021, seeing through McColl’s final season. Bielski’s programming began from 2022. Since November 2008, Philippa Campbell has been the ATC's Literary Manager. In September 2016, Auckland Theatre Company opened a purpose built 660-seat performing arts venue, the ASB Waterfront Theatre located in

342-528: The work. Auckland Theatre Company runs a creative learning and youth arts unit. ATC have about 30 staff in leadership, production, marketing and administration. The creative teams and casts for production come in on contract. After Simon Prast’s departure in February 2003, Oliver Driver stepped in as the interim-Artistic Director until the role of Artistic Director was taken over by Colin McColl . McColl held

361-610: Was Lovelock’s Dream Run , written by David Geary and Directed by Raymond Hawthorne . The first international work produced by ATC was presented in 1994; a production of Angels in America , written by Tony Kushner , and directed by Raymond Hawthorne . Raymond Hawthorne also directed the first musical produced by ATC, Kander and Ebb's Cabaret . Before the opening the ASB Waterfront Theatre , ATC presented their shows in many venues around Auckland. The most-used venues were

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