ScatterGun

ScatterGun is an original work of solo performance written and performed by multi award-winning actor and artist Ana Chaya Scotney aka Kōtiro (Millie Lies Low, Cousins, The Breaker Upperers, The Contours of Heaven, High Def Multinational.)

About ScatterGun 

Joyfully and honestly exploring themes of diaspora, marvelling at the forces of tectonic power and the natural world, ScatterGun explores what binds us, as people, tangata, beneath the divisive architecture of the modern time, here in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This show has been developed over the past two years, including as an Ideas In Residence piece, alongside Basement Theatre, in 2020, mentored by Eleanor Bishop. During this residency, Ana and Eleanor travelled to Te Urewera to ask Ana's whānau at home in the ngahere (forest): what is the meaning of the word ūkaipō?

Help us get to BATS!

We need help to get our show to BATS for this season and world premier of the first iteration of ScatterGun on March 5 and 6 at 7pm.

The resources raised through this Boosted campaign, will go directly towards venue and rehearsal space hire, funding key collaborators across the rehearsal and development period, and towards marketing the show.

Thank you for your support!

More about the Team behind ScatterGun

Haz Forrester

Haz Forrester is based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and works between design, film and music. Haz writes and performs with the band Womb, utilising synths, samplers, and guitar. With design he has worked as play_station’s designer since 2020.

He has also previously supported projects with Meanwhile Gallery and MESH. His work in film has been primarily as a videographer on projects with various artists including Christopher Ulutupu, Sam Hamilton, and Elisabeth Pointon.

Outside of creative roles Haz works part time at the Green Party as an administrator for the executive team. Haz has Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies, Minors in Biology and Māori Studies, from Victoria University, Wellington and a Diploma in Visual Arts and Design from Massey University, Wellington.

Charlotte Forrester

Charlotte Forrester is a musician and writer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Alongside siblings Georgette and Haz, Charlotte makes music in the band Womb, using a range of instruments including guitar, cello, piano, and voice. The band has performed throughout the country, as well as abroad in China and Australia.

Charlotte’s sound work has been featured at Bats, Circa, and Blue Oyster. They completed their Masters in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2018. Their work has been featured in a range of art galleries throughout Aotearoa, including Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Parasite, and Blue Oyster. 

Stella Reid (Directing, dramaturgy)

Stella Reid is an inventive theatre and film artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. She is humble lover of her whānau, a long time supporter of black coffee, and a dog person.

Her interest in film can be traced back to her first feature role at age four in The Last Tattoo, where the boredom and repetition of set was translated into magic on screen.She’s been obsessed with making art look magical ever since.

Ana Chaya Scotney (Writer, performer, music)

Since graduating from Toi Whakaari in 2016, Ana has worked tenaciously across the platforms of cinema, television, zine making and illustration, music and live performance.

The original piece of theatreThe Contours of Heaven she developed alongside fellow story-teller and director Puti Lancaster, won Best Theatre, Best Performance, The Basement Migration Award and The Auckland Arts Fesitval award, as well as Best Overall Production, at the 2018 Auckland Fringe and Auckland Theatre Awards.

The EP she released under her music conjuring moniker Kōtiro, with collaborator Thomas Arbor, won Best EP/Mixtape at the SRN Awards, 2021

Ana is of Tūhoe, Jewish, German and Irish descent.

Ana is pretty analog-core, and chooses not to have social media- you can follow her art practise here:  https://kotiropublishinggiant.com/