Kim (she/her) is excited to rejoin the Creative Capital Arts Trust as the Chief Executive. Kim has worked in Theatre Management throughout New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Previous roles have included Regional Site Manager (Stage School Australia), Venue Manager (Turner Centre, Kerikeri), Box Office Manager (Assembly Rooms- Edinburgh Fringe). Kim currently produces for Primarily Dance and Kim Bailey Productions and since returning to New Zealand in 2020 has produced Grooves! mini tour (2020), The Nutcracker (2020 & 2021), Grooves! South Island Tour (2021), Comedy of Errors (2021), Macbeth (2021 & 2022), Pointe Shoes and ShowBiz (2022), Melodrama (2022) and premiered Mens Rea at NZ Fringe 2023. Kim was also a founding member of The Stage Door Community Theatre. Kim is an expert in harnessing the power of people to motivate, drive positive change and strategic direction, and inspires teams to exceed expectations while maintaining a happy, safe and supportive work environment.
Vanessa Stacey (she/her) is a Wellington-based Māori artist, producer, writer and director with over twenty years of experience in creative arts and education. She has worked extensively in the theatre, film, music, and television as an Actor, Singer, Producer and Director in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. She has previously been the coordinator and director of Whitireia's Screen Acting Course, Short Film Director of Film at National Youth Drama School for 8yrs, and guest tutor at UCOL, Whitireia and Massey. Vanessa has worked as an artist and tour manager with many well-known New Zealand bands, Vanessa produced stages for Home Grown, produced the TORA TORA TORA Festival, and has also performed at many festivals as a guest vocalist. She has also worked as an artist and festival publicist for festivals and events including NZ Fringe. Vanessa is excited to put her years of experience into her role and after the success 2023, looks forward to her third season at the helm of New Zealand Fringe.
Catarina Gutierrez (she/her) is a bicycle fanatic who lives in Wellington. She is an experienced freelance marketing/community manager with a keen eye on all things admin. She enjoys telling stories about incredible social enterprises in Aotearoa, having worked with and for many over the years since moving from the US over a decade ago. As a keen advocate of Wellington, she serves as Treasurer of Women in Urbanism Aotearoa and enjoys seeing people smile and laugh on the streets. Catarina likes her coffee slow while practicing her film photography and painting in her home studio.
Since Olivia's (they/them) first NZ Fringe back in 2017, they have been hooked on the adrenaline of arts festivals doing a range of different roles. Starting with technical mahi (New Zealand Comedy Festival, 6 Degrees Festival, New Zealand Improv Festival) to Creative Producing the HATCH programme for TAHI Festival of Solo Performance. Olivia has come back to Pōneke after two years as the Programme and Access Coordinator for the Nelson Arts Festival. In 2024, Olivia has jammed out as the Artist Liaison for CubaDupa and jammed ticketing printers as the Wellington Box Office Manager for the New Zealand International Film Festival. This role with Fringe, however, puts Olivia back in their favourite place to be; supporting artists. Olivia is beyond jazzed to be joining the Fringe team and working with incredible artists to present their phenomenal mahi!
Fay Van Der Meulen is a Freelance Performing Arts Manager based in Pōneke, Wellington. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Theatre from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington where she excelled in Producing and Production Management.
Since leaving university, she has performed at the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival; founded the Fringe-award-winning production company Blue Flicker Productions; produced and managed a touring production across the South Island; led marketing campaigns for TAHI New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance and The Performance Arcade; worked on the Stage Management team for WOW World of Wearablearts, managed the Box Office at Circa Theatre, and much more. Fay has produced a plethora of productions in the New Zealand Fringe Festival including most recently the award-winning Only Bones – Daniel Nodder. She is stoked to join the Fringe team again for the 2025 season.
Luke Eisemann is a New York born and trained theatre practitioner going into his third NZ Fringe Festival, and second as Operations Manager. Having navigated the financial and operational challenges of 2022, he helped deliver NZ Fringe festivals in 2023 and 2024 building internal systems and processes to track and reconcile a high volume of financial transactions, and paying out our participating artists and venues in record time. Building and maintaining external stakeholders ensured smooth communications between venues, box office staff, and the small army of volunteers deployed to keep the festival humming. When not on the NZ Fringe team, Luke has served as the Operations Manager for Whanau Marama: New Zealand International Film Festival for the past four years, allowing him to build his skills between contracts, and return to CCAT with practical insights and upgrades to the organisation, such as formatting ticketing data from previous years to better inform our artists what ingredients make up a financially successful production.
Huia (she/her) joins the CCAT team as Marketing Coordinator after beginning her Wellington festival journey with the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2023. Born and bred on the Pōneke art scenes, she has interests in music, film, theatre, and visual art. She grew up learning classical piano and completed her performance grades with Trinity College in 2016. At Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka, she earned a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Film and minor in Sociology. Most recently she’s been performing on-stage keys and backing vocals for artist Eli Superflyy. Huia has found a passion in working with digital content coordination and communications that complement her admiration of the arts and working at Aotearoa festivals.
Jared (he/him) is a freelance graphic designer joining the Creative Capital Arts Trust tīma once again for a third consecutive year, now as the Lead Designer working across both NZ Fringe and CubaDupa.
Freelance publicity & marketing consultant, working mainly across the music, arts and events industries. After working extensively in promotions, publicity and marketing in both the Australian and New Zealand markets, its such an honour to work with so many independent arts practitioners and organisations back in NZ. After spending nearly a decade in Australia working in the record industry, I returned to New Zealand in 2013 determined to work closely and collaboratively with my varied clients, ensuring each got the tailored and dedicated work they deserved from a publicist or marketing consultant. I work across all areas of media in New Zealand both on a national and regional scale and love the close relationships this allows me to form with both my clients and the industry. Working with the Wonderful team at the Creative Capital Arts Trust on their incredible events, is both an honour and a pleasure! Being given the chance to, allow the public to find out about, experience and enjoy Joy, through such a huge range of arts and culture, much of which is free or incredibly affordable, is amazing and is something I’m very passionate about.
