Sian Davis

After much stage experience, Sian turned to directing in 1998. (Not totally true as she had directed at school as a teacher.) The 1998 opener was Hedda Gabler and that really gave her a taste for the quality ‘stuff’. Since then she has directed a melange of the classical and most wonderful (in her book) and, occasionally, the not-so-entrancing – an eclectic mix in any case – from Shakespeare (Twelfth Night for the Auckland University’s Summer Shakespeare in 2004) to The Mousetrap for Company Theatre in 2012 – her ‘ditziest’ in her accounting. She has to admit that it was probably the most popular of her productions with audiences.

Sian is particularly interested in promoting the staging of New Zealand plays and over half of the 28 productions (up to the time of writing) have been of local plays she is proud to own.