Jeremy Elwood
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Acting
Skills
Accents
Acting Experience
Television
Great Southern TV Dir: Danny Mulheron
Power Rangers Productions Ltd
Two Heads TV Production
Two Heads Productions Dir: Josh Thomson
Greenstone Pictures Dir: Various directors
Greenstone Dir: Various
South Pacific Pictures Dir: Various directors
Theatre
BATS / Basement Theatre Dir: Stephen Sinclair
The Court Theatre Dir: Ross Gumbley
Dir: Cathy Downes
Dir: John Saunders
Allen Hall Theatre Dir: Lisa Warrington
Les Enfants Productions
Les Enfants Productions
Web Series
South Pacific Pictures Dir: Jesse Griffin
Television Appearances
TVNZ
TV3
Mediaworks
TV3
Mediaworks
MC / Speaker
MC / Speaker
Skills
Actor, After Dinner Speaker, Broadcaster, Business Speaker, Comedian, Debater, Director, Entertainer, Host, Improvisor, Journalist, Key Note Speaker, Live Performance Host, MC, Motivational Speaker, Musician, Panelist, Pod-caster, Radio Host, Satirist, Singer, TV Presenter, WriterBiography
Jeremy Elwood is a 25 year veteran of the New Zealand comedy scene. From solo shows to international festivals, private events to business awards evenings, Jeremy has done it all with his trademark combination of topical comedy, social commentary and political satire.
Formerly head writer on Three’s The Project, and a regular contributor to RNZ’s The Panel and Three’s 7Days, Jeremy has also appeared on numerous TV and stage productions both in New Zealand and internationally. He has headlined comedy clubs and festivals across New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Singapore and the UK, and performed in places as far-flung as Papua New Guinea, East Timor, Indonesia and the Chatham Islands.
He is a multiple NZ Comedy Guild award winner, including “Best Male Comedian” twice, and a former nominee for the Billy T Award. He has also worked in theatre as an actor, writer and director including lead roles at The Court Theatre (Christchurch), Fortune Theatre (Dunedin), Bats (Wellington) and The Basement (Auckland).
His speaking and MC career has covered awards nights, after dinner speaking, conferences and trade shows for a vastly wide range of companies and organisations. From barristers to baristas, mechanics to medics, politicians to panelbeaters, Jeremy Elwood will add entertainment and professionalism to any event.
Intelligent, professional and vastly experienced, Jeremy can fit his own style into any event, project or production, bringing with him all of the skills he has honed over his entire career.
Voice
Voice Characteristics
Hard Sell, Retail, Narrative, Comedy, Confident, Friendly, Kiwi, Upbeat, WarmComedy
Comedy
Biography
Jeremy Elwood is a 25-year veteran of the New Zealand comedy scene. From solo shows to international festivals, private events to business awards evenings, Jeremy has done it all with his trademark combination of topical comedy, social commentary and political satire.
Formerly head writer on Three’s The Project, and a regular contributor to RNZ’s The Panel and Three’s 7Days, Jeremy has also appeared on numerous TV and stage productions both in New Zealand and internationally. He has headlined comedy clubs and festivals across New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Singapore and the UK, and performed in places as far-flung as Papua New Guinea, East Timor, Indonesia and the Chatham Islands.
He is a multiple NZ Comedy Guild award winner, including “Best Male Comedian” twice, “Best Comedy” at the Dunedin Fringe Festival and a former nominee for the Billy T Award.
Link to his comedy here.
Testimonials
“Brilliant in the American sense of the word - meaning actually brilliant - with proof that great comedy still progresses in strange places.”
Doug Stanhope
“Elwood is an immensely skilled comic artist, and at the same time a very thoughtful humanist philosopher.”
Theatreview
“For a thought provoking night, you can't go better than Mr Elwood”
