YES YES YES

Eleanor Bishop & Karin McCracken are an award-winning partnership of theatre makers from Aotearoa New Zealand who create socially engaged, contemporary performance focused on gender, sex, and violence.

Their work is formally innovative, blending technology, participation and documentary, and is developed through extensive research and in consultation with audiences, social agencies and academics.

Works include Jane Doe (2017), Body Double (2017), Yes Yes Yes (2019), Heartbreak Hotel (2023) and Gravity & Grace (2024).  

Eleanor Bishop is a stage director and writer working across theatre and opera. She is one half of EBKM, and the Co-Creator of Gravity & Grace, Heartbreak Hotel, Yes Yes Yes, Body Double and Jane Doe.

In 2021 she was the Friedlander Foundation Associate Artist for NZ Opera. She holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, where she studied as a John Wells Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. She is a former associate director for New York based multimedia theatre company The Builders Association/Marianne Weems.

Karin McCracken is an award-winning writer and performer based in Poneke, Wellington. Her most recent theatre work includes Heartbreak Hotel, which has gone on to be presented at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, RISING Festival Melbourne and Soho Theatre in London.

She co-wrote the large-scale theatre show Gravity & Grace (with Eleanor Bishop), and Yes Yes Yes (with Eleanor Bishop), a show for young people about consent and healthy relationships. Yes Yes Yes has been presented in Canada, the USA, Germany, Iceland and Australia, and has been translated into Hungarian, Catalan and Welsh. Karin and Eleanor were the recipients of the prestigious Bruce Mason Playwriting Award in 2022, the first time in its 40 year history that it was awarded to a creative partnership.

Karin is an associate member of Binge Culture, a contemporary new form theatre company, with whom she co-created the Edinburgh Fringe hit Werewolf. Karin was awarded Best Actor at the Wellington Theatre Awards 2024 for her work in Gravity & Grace, Heartbreak Hotel, and Binge Culture’s Disaster. In 2025 she received a prestigious MacDowell Fellowship (USA) to write a new work for stage.

Rachel Marlow is a lighting, production designer & creator. She is a Co-Director, with Brad Gledhill, of boutique design house Filament Eleven 11 who work collaboratively to create dynamic production designs and lighting environments for live events. They produce work that puts design and technology at the centre of storytelling in an inventive and unique way.