Bailey Poching

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Profile

Hair Brown - Dark
Eyes Brown
Height 176cm
Age 26
Location New Zealand - Auckland
Notes

Photographs by Amanda Billing.

Notes

Photographs by Amanda Billing.

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Acting

Skills

Artist, Comedian (Stand-Up), Director, Learners Licence, MC, Presenter, Theatre Sports, Voice Artist, Writer

Accents

American (standard), Australian, Birmingham, British, Canadian, Cockney, Liverpool, Manchester, Maori, Mid-Western, New York, Newcastle, Polynesian, RP, Samoan, Scottish, Welsh, Yorkshire

Acting Experience

Television

2024North of North, 'Colin'

Netflix Dir: Various
2024Raised by Refugees: Season II, 'Daryl'

Kevin & Co Dir: Various
2024Kid Sister: Season II, 'Raymond'

Greenstone Dir: Aidee Walker
2024My Favourite Dead Person: Season II, 'Wiremu Toetoe'

TVNZ Dir: Jamaine Ross

Web Series

2025Don't, 'Bailey'

TVNZ+

Short Film

2020Atua, 'Kahu'

Māoriland Film Dir: Bailey Poching &Chantelle Murray
2020Ultro! A SuperheroDocumentary, 'Ultro'

Dir: Michael Strachan
2018Maxine, 'Officer Conway'

South Seas School of Film and Television Dir: Sabina De Lange
2018Western Spaghetti, 'Jimmy Joe Brown (Voice)'

South Seas School of Film and Television Dir: Joshua Strawbridge
2018Nancy From Now On, 'Ngaru'

South Seas School of Film and Television Dir: Keely Meechan
2018Grover Fitch, 'Grover'

South Seas School of Film and Television Dir: Joseph Kennedy
2018BAZ GENTLE Ghost Catcher, 'Baz'

Dir: Michael Strachan

Television Commercials

2025Sorbent

NZ
2023ASB

NZ, 12 months
2023Ministry of Pacific Peoples - Covid awareness campaign

NZ, 4 months
2023MPI 'Chicken Scene Investigation'

NZ, 6 months
2022Briscoes - Masterchef

NZ, 7 weeks
2021Sky Broadband, 'Sky Tech'

NZ
2020Coke Meals, 'Uber Driver'

NZ
2020Vote Ghost, 'Dancing Partygoer'

NZ

Television Appearances

23-247 Days, 'Panelist '

TV3 Dir: Various

Stand Up Comedy

2025On The Shoulders of Giants, 'Comedian'

NZ International Comedy Festival
2025Doing Great, 'Comedian'

NZ Fringe Festival
2024Doing Great, 'Comedian'

Basement Theatre, Auckland
2023Hot Filthy Garbage, 'Comedian'

NZ International Comedy Festival

Training

2016Liverpool Comedy Improv


14-16A-Level Drama and Theatre Preforming Arts - Acting Studies

with NEW College Pontefract
14-16Preforming Arts

with YEW TREE YOUTH THEATRE
10-14BTEC Diploma in Performing Arts, GCSE Drama and TheatreStudies

with Horbury Academy

Comedy

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Comedy

Biography

Bailey Poching (Ngāti Whatua ki Kaipara, Sāmoa) is an award-winning comedian, improviser, writer and filmmaker, who is fast becoming a fixture in the NZ comedy scene. He was raised in Wakefield, England and now resides in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. After making his TV debut on The Comedy Mixtape, he has gone on to appear on multiple episodes of New Zealand’s longest running panel show 7 Days. He has appeared in multiple hit New Zealand comedy shows, including Kid Sister, Raised by Refugees and My Favourite Dead Person, and most recently stars in Netflix series ‘North of North. 

Poching, alongside Anthony Crum, took home “Best Debut” at the 2023 NZ International Comedy Festival for their outrageous duo show Hot Filthy Garbage!
Their most recent show ‘On The Shoulder of Giants’ made its debut at the NZ International Comedy Festival 2025.

Poching has also performed improv as part of Aotearoa’s most successful improv group Snort as well as their successor improv team Bull Rush which can be found delighting audiences every week at The Basement Theatre in Auckland.

His show ‘Doing Great’ was nominated for the following:

2025, NZ Fringe, ‘Outstanding Solo Performance
2025, Dunedin Fringe, ‘Tour Ready’ Award
2025, SYNZ Fringe ‘Tour Ready’ Award
2025, The International San Diego Exchange