| 2010
| - "Cleaning and Maintenance of Theatre Lights" with award-winning designer Nik Janiurek.
- “Impulse, Vocal Tune Up and Connection – a workshop for actors”, with leading professional actor, director and voice/acting tutor Cameron Rhodes, which focused on connecting impulse/instinct with breath, voice and script. Cameron covered various aspects of the actors’ craft, with a focus on objectives, inner truth and connection, and characterisation, using both modern and classical text.
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| 2009 | - "The Actor's Voice", with leading voice teacher and Unitec's Head of Voice Kirstie O’Sullivan. The workshop covered how the voice works; relaxation techniques; fundamental breath work; articulation; and pitch, pace and volume – three of the most important tools for any actor.
- “Let There Be Context”, with top actor, director and tutor Stuart Devenie. This workshop explored context and how it can assist the actor in the conscious creation of a company of actors on stage rather than a group of individuals performing in the same space, and workshopped scenes from different periods as a way to develop processes that the actor may apply to any script.
- "Lighting Design Workshop" for beginner and intermediate designers, with award-winning designer Nik Janiurek, explored the process and intricacies of lighting a theatrical production.
- "Directing Actors – enabling directors to get more out of a performance by developing acting craft", with professional actor/director and teacher Jennifer Ward-Lealand. This course took the form of a master class where participants were directed in scenes or monologues, with strong emphasis on identifying and developing acting craft and shaping scenes.
- "Bringing Your Performance to Life – An acting technique workshop", with leading acting coach Miranda Harcourt. Her workshop embraced a range of styles and techniques in order to maximize talent and develop skills, and drew on a wide range of new and established methodologies to tailor an approach specific to individual actors’ needs.
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| 2008 | - "Owning the Stage – Improvisation to Enhance Your Performance Skills" with professional actor/director and tutor Clare Kelso of ConArtists. The workshop explored improvisation techniques to help improve scripted, devised and improvisational performance.
- "The Actor's Voice" with Unitec's Head of Voice, Kirstie O'Sullivan. The workshop covered how the voice works; relaxation techniques; fundamental breath work; articulation; and pitch, pace and volume – three of the most important tools for any actor.
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| 2007 | - "Exploring the Actor's Craft" with professional actor/director and voice coach Cameron Rhodes. In this course Cameron explored connecting voice and movement, releasing character through physicality. He covered various aspects of the actor's craft, focusing on objectives, inner truth and connection, and characterisation.
- "Actors in Search of a Character" with leading New Zealand actor/director, TV and radio presenter Oliver Driver. The workshop taught actors to explore and discover characterisation through mannerisms, speech patterns, attitudes and body language.
- "Shakespeare in Action" with Jonathon Hendry, head of acting at Toi Whakaari/New Zealand Drama School and a leading interpreter of Shakespeare. The workshop focused on bring Shakespeare's characters to life with a dynamic "play" that brings confidence and energy to performance and helps to unlock the secrets inside his use of language.
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| 2006 | - "Acting Is Reacting -- Exploring and Developing Acting Craft in Scene or Monologue Study" with professional actor/director and teacher Jennifer Ward-Lealand. This course was in the form of a master class where participants were directed in scenes or monologue, with a strong emphasis on developing acting craft.
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| 2005 | - "Whatever Happened to Comedy? – a short course in acting", with professional actor/director and tutor Stuart Devenie. This course examined the serious business of comedy and looked at its changing nature and the acting questions that these changes reveal.
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| 2004 | - Professional director John Callen directed an HLT main production, Speaking in Tongues, working with the cast, crew and observers to improve directing/acting skills and knowledge.
- From Scratch: Creating Characters for Theatre – an acting workshop with acclaimed director/co-writer with the award-winning Indian Ink Theatre Company, Justin Lewis.
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| 2003 | - Shakespeare to Shortland Street – Acting in a Parallel Universe, with leading director/actor John Callen.
- Advanced Lighting Design and Special Effects, with award-winning lighting designer Bryan Caldwell.
- Improvisation with professional Theatresports Auckland actor/tutor Clare Kelso.
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| 2002 | - Acting and Devising with Ben Crowder of Theatre Stampede.
- Directing with Ben Crowder of Theatre Stampede.
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| 2001 | - Acting with Miranda Harcourt, Head of the NZ Drama School, Toi Whakaari.
- Set and Costume Design with Tracy Grant, an award-winning designer both in NZ and overseas, who works for the Auckland Theatre Company and NZ Opera, among many others.
- Lighting Design with David Seaton, Head of Technology for Auckland’s The Edge, incorporating the Aotea Centre, Herald Theatre and the Town Hall. David has extensive overseas experience ranging from rock bands to opera, and worked for a number of years at the Pumphouse on Auckland’s North Shore.
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| 2000 | - Acting with Christian Penny, co-founder of the acclaimed Theatre at Large and now a sought-after independent theatre practitioner and tutor at the NZ Drama School.
- Directing with Christian Penny.
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| 1999 | - Lighting Design with Steve Marshall, head of Performance Technology at Unitec, and formerly with the Maidment Theatre.
- Set Design with award-winning designer/architect Dorita Hannah, then head of department at Victoria University, Wellington, now back teaching in Wellington after studying in New York for two years.
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