19-476: The Basement Theatre is an Auckland theatre founded by Charlie McDermott in 2008. The theatre focuses on providing a venue for young people in the performing arts to enter the industry. Their priorities are making theatre accessible for both those who work in the industry and audience members. The building was previously occupied by Silo Theatre which vacated the premises in 2007. Charlie McDermott, Michelle Blundell, and Morgana O'Reilly were employed as bartenders at
38-520: A comedian on Conan O'Brien's talk show Conan on TBS on 9 May 2019. In 2019, Matafeo appeared on James Acaster and Josh Widdicombe 's show Hypothetical on Dave . She currently hosts the podcast Boners of the Heart with comedian and writer Alice Snedden on the Little Empire Podcast Network. She was a guest on Deborah Frances-White's The Guilty Feminist podcast and on
57-498: A flat with comedian Nish Kumar . Matafeo and Acaster broke up in 2017. One of Matafeo's interests is mukbang videos (in which the host eats large amounts of food while interacting with the audience), so in July 2018 she decided to make her own mukbang video using takeaways purchased from Double Happy Takeaways in Auckland. It was featured on The Spinoff . Matafeo is a supporter of
76-533: A six-part rom-com created by and starring Matefeo aired on the BBC (UK), HBO (USA), TVNZ (New Zealand), and ABC (Australia). Co-written by Matafeo and Alice Snedden, the cast included actor Nikesh Patel , as leading man and love interest Tom. Filming for the first series was delayed due to the COVID pandemic, however a second series of the show was commissioned before the first series had even begun filming. A third series
95-488: A solo show, and the first New Zealander. Only four other female solo stand-up comedians had won the award before her. She was a TV presenter and host of U Live , which ran on the TVNZ U channel from 13 March 2011 until 31 August 2013, when the channel came to an end. Upon TVNZ U finishing, she took on a new role as a writer for Jono and Ben at Ten , a satirical news and comedy sketch show. Matafeo co-created and starred in
114-533: Is Samoan and her mother is of Scottish and Croatian heritage. Her parents are Rastafarians and belong to the Twelve Tribes of Israel denomination. Matafeo has described her upbringing as "quite relaxed". At the age of 15, Matafeo started doing stand-up comedy through the platform of the "Class Comedians" programme put on by the New Zealand Comedy Trust, and went on to win the "Nailed It on
133-665: Is a New Zealand comedian , actress and TV presenter. She was a writer and performer on the New Zealand late-night comedy sketch show Funny Girls . In 2018, she won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her show Horndog . Matafeo grew up in Ponsonby, Auckland , and attended Auckland Girls' Grammar School , where she was head girl . She has two older brothers. Her father
152-490: The RHLSTP podcast with Richard Herring . In 2019, Matafeo directed five episodes in the first season of Golden Boy , a New Zealand sitcom for TV3 . In 2020, she returned to the set of Golden Boy in the second season as one of the supporting cast. In July 2020, Matafeo joined Guy Montgomery on the comedy show Tiny Tour of Aotearoa travelling across New Zealand. On 20 August 2020, Matafeo's comedy special Horndog
171-585: The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and was scheduled to host their campaign launch for the 2020 general election , but was later asked to step down from the role. The Green Party said this was due to a miscommunication within the party. U Live U Live was the flagship show of TVNZ U , airing live from 4pm - 7pm daily. The show featured music, interviews, and other general interest content. Viewers were invited to participate via Facebook to vote in psychic readings, take part in discussions, and view
190-499: The New Zealand sketch comedy show Funny Girls for three seasons from 2015 until 2018. She has been playing the role of Talia in the ABC comedy Squinters since 2018. Matafeo appeared on Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier as an investigator into worrisome topics, and also appeared with Richardson in 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (S19, Ep1), for Channel 4 TV in January 2020. She
209-547: The Night" award at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in 2007. She has been a regular at the festival since. Since graduating from the "Class Comedians" programme, Matafeo went on to win best newcomer at the 2010 New Zealand International Comedy Festival. She became a host of the popular comedy festival show "Fanfiction Comedy" in 2012. She has had success with her solo stand-up comedy shows at
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#1732869519532228-538: The end of the year they were able to stage a Christmas show, Le Basement XXXmas Cabaret . Current staffing includes Cat Ruka (Executive Director), Nisha Madhan (Programmer), and Trigg (Technical & Facilities Manager). Actor and director Michele Hine was a founding Board member, and chair for six years. 36°51′13″S 174°45′46″E / 36.85363°S 174.76282°E / -36.85363; 174.76282 Rose Matafeo Rose Matafeo ( / ˌ m æ t ə ˈ f eɪ oʊ / ; born 25 February 1992)
247-418: The festival was titled Pizza Party . In 2015, she performed a duo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Guy Montgomery titled Rose Matafeo and Guy Montgomery Are Friends . On 25 August 2018, Matafeo won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe , for her show Horndog , collecting a £10,000 prize. She was the first person of colour to win the prestigious award for
266-459: The festival: Life Lessons I've Learnt from the 60s Based on Things I've Seen on Television (2011), Scout's Honour (2012) and The Rose Matafeo Variety Hour (2013). Matafeo won the Billy T Award , which recognises the potential of up-and-coming New Zealand comedians, for The Rose Matafeo Variety Hour in 2013, having previously been nominated for her show Scout's Honour in 2012. Her 2014 show at
285-490: The show via a live commercial- and graphic-free stream, where comments and psychic readings would then be played live. U Live was hosted by Connor Nestor, Matthew Gibb , Kirsteen Mackenzie, Eli Matthewson and Monika Barton. U Live drew many parallels to TVNZ 's rival network Mediaworks ' youth-oriented show FOUR Live , which aired on FOUR . TVNZ teamed up with Facebook to create an application that would allow for user-generated content to be provided and presented on
304-428: The time and raised funds over the summer to take over the space. The theatre saw the debut of actors who have since rose to prominence including Rose Matafeo and Tom Sainsbury . They are funded by Creative New Zealand , Foundation North and Auckland City Council . In 2018 they had hosted over 600 shows. In 2020, The Basement Theatre was forced to close for around 6 months because of COVID-19 restrictions, but at
323-437: Was a contestant on series three of Richard Osman's House of Games and the ninth series of Taskmaster . Having toured as a stand-up comedian for ten years, Matafeo said in 2018 that she wanted to "take a break from hour long comedy" and instead act more, write more, and also direct. Matafeo went on to serve as director on five episodes of the 2019 New Zealand TV comedy Golden Boy . Matafeo had her US television debut as
342-615: Was released in September 2023. In 2023, Matafeo guest presented the British quiz show Pointless . In May 2023 it was announced that she will be taking on the role of Taskmaster in Junior Taskmaster , a Taskmaster spin-off for children aged 9–11, with Mike Wozniak as the assistant. Matafeo previously dated the New Zealand comedian Guy Williams . In 2015, she moved to London, where her then-boyfriend James Acaster lived; she shared
361-547: Was released on HBO Max . In March 2019, it was announced that Matafeo had been cast as the lead in her first feature film, Baby Done , alongside co-star Matthew Lewis , known for his role as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series. The comedy film was executive-produced by Thor: Ragnarok and Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi and was released in 2020. In April 2021, Starstruck ,
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