Hannah Banks

Hannah (she/her) is a theatre practitioner and academic from Aotearoa New Zealand and is currently based on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. She has been teaching in tertiary education since 2011 and has worked as an actor, director, writer, producer, and production manager since 2007. Hannah is one of the founders and creative directors of My Accomplice Theatre. Since 2009 the company have made over twenty shows together, including the Fringe award-winning A Play About Space (2013). In 2014 she directed and co-wrote Everything is Surrounded by Water which won Best Solo at the New Zealand Fringe Festival and was nominated for Outstanding New New Zealand Play at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. In 2014 Hannah won The Richard Campion Accolade for Outstanding Performance at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for her performance in the My Accomplice STAB Production of WATCH, which reopened BATS Theatre at its original Kent Tce home in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). Hannah also completed her PhD in Theatre in 2018 at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. This ground-breaking research explored women in devised theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand.

With Trick of the Light she worked on The Engine Room and Broken River.