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Fellowship Participant – Vanessa Immink

Fellowship Participants

Vanessa Immink

Vanessa Immink

Creative Producer
Auckland Live
New Zealand

Vanessa is a wahine Māori/Pākehā (Ngāti Hāua, Ngā Wairiki Ngāti Apa) independent theatre maker and producer from Aotearoa New Zealand. With a degree in musical theatre, Immink found herself in the arts management world as a production assistant & tour manager on international touring shows like Singin In the Rain, Cats, Blue Man Group and Priscilla Queen of the Desert across 2014 – 2016.

Immink has previously held positions such as the Senior Programmer (Fringe Club) at Adelaide Fringe Festival (2019-2020), Senior Producer & Marketing Manager at Kia Mau Festival (2020-2021) and the Project Producer for Māori advocacy organisation Ngā Hua Toi (2020 – 2021).

In 2021 Immink created VOLT, a digital education arts management platform for independent producers and self-producing artists – a hub for independent creatives to learn practical producing and arts management skills.

In 2022 Vanessa was selected as one of 25 emerging BIPOC producers to attend Theatre Producers of Color programme, a 10-week programme for BIPOC producers focussing on commercial producing in the USA and other international markets.

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