Nathan Joe

A new show sets a performer on a bike tied to the theatre's lights, and if they stop peddling, that's curtain. It's being called 'performance essay meets spin class'. 'A Short History of Asian New… Audio

It may be the fifth and final episode of Best of the Fest but festivals across Aotearoa have not been slowing down. 

Culture 101’s Perlina Lau in Tāmaki Makaurau is joined by playwright and… Audio

Cue the drums - The Auckland Arts Festival kicks off this week! 

This is the third episode of Best of the Fest; a brand new RNZ national five-week lively conversation series  about a feast of… Audio

Nathan Joe is the creative director of Auckland Pride, which is putting on another month-long programme of events to empower, celebrate and serve the queer community. Audio

Our guest picking their favourite songs - and curating their mixtape the award winning writer, playwright and slam poet Nathan Joe. Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.  Audio

In the digital age and the Covid era, how do you get people out to a play? Audio

Dubbed "a doom scroll described as a play", Scenes from a Yellow Peril is the latest offering from Chinese-New Zealand playwright and performance poet Nathan Joe. Audio

Going West, Aotearoa's oldest indy LitFest, used to be all about the bringing together of writers and readers in a room, even on a train, to chat about books. But that was then. After two disrupted… Audio, Gallery

It's been a tough secret to keep but we are delighted to announce the winner of this year's Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. The $10,000 prize goes to Chinese-Kiwi, Christchurch-based playwright Nathan… Audio

Nathan Joe is an award-winning Chinese-Kiwi playwright and performance poet. He joins us to sing the praises of what he regards is a unfairly neglected and under-appreciated artform, the Radio Play. Audio

Told by Gavin Rutherford

A very silly rabbit learns that having friends is
much more important than having things
Illustration by Rose, age 13.

For Little Kids

With music by Akash Dutta and Gus… Audio

Nathan Joe is a NZ Broadcasting School graduate who has become an award-winning playwright and a theatre critic. He's staged Hippolytus Veiled and Like Sex at Auckland's Basement Theatre (winners of… Audio

By 1916, the number of men volunteering to join New Zealand's military forces overseas in the First World war had fallen so dramatically that conscription was brought in. Twenty thousand soldiers had… Audio