SillyBilly Productions

16/03/2026

If you saw Pas de Trois in Lunchtime Theatre - you certainly haven't seen what we're bring to Fringe. Limited tickets remaining, so book quickly before they're gone!

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15/03/2026

MEET THE CAST: Megan Bowker as Colette

Megan is a third year Bachelor of Performing Arts student at the University of Otago. She is a deaf and disabled artist who is passionate about advocating for greater accessibility within both theatre and music. Originally from West Auckland, she spent time performing in ballet, gymnastics and various high school productions like Hairspray (2015) and Blood Brothers (2016).

Megan is highly involved in backstage roles, designing the makeup for Alice in Wonderland (2025) and the lighting for What the #%!& (2025), she is currently interning at the Regent.
Megan was recently nominated for Dunedin Theatre’s Emerging Artist award (2025) for her work in design and she has won the Colin McDonald Memorial Prize (2024) for music performance.

Recently she has performed in Honey Bear and the Reaper (2025), Beyond the Binary (2025) and various musical gigs around Dunedin.
Megan feels deeply privileged to play the role of Collette, bringing her to life in a show that has become increasingly important to her.

15/03/2026

MEET THE CAST: Grace Johnston as Sylvie

Grace is a fourth-year Law, Communications and Māori Studies student at the University of Otago. She has extensive theatre experience performing for Dunedin Repertory Society, Taieri Dramatic Society, DKCM Ltd, Taieri Musical Society and Musical Theatre Dunedin.

She was a semi-finalist in Speech and Drama at the PACANZ National Young Performer Awards (2022 and 2023) and placed 2nd in the New Zealand Lions International Young Speechmaker Contest (2022 and 2023). Grace directed and performed in a rendition of Love’s Labour’s Lost which won Best Ensemble and Best Costuming at the Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Competition 2022. She was also awarded an NCEA Scholarship in Drama and a University of Otago High Performance Scholarship in 2022.

Most recently, she played Tess in Familiar Instruments (2024) a short film project for international film festivals. She is delighted to be performing in Pas De Trois and hopes you enjoy the show.

15/03/2026

MEET THE CAST: Ella Court as Aurélie

Ella is a fourth year Bachelor of Arts and Science student at the University of Otago. She is primarily a theatre technician and designer, participating backstage in over 40 productions. Ella has designed for post-graduate work like Drowning Ophelia (2024) and Vœrtices (2025), as well as community theatre like SBZ’s Invisible (2024). She is often part of the Regent’s local crew, assisting touring productions like the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

She has dabbled in directing with Beyond the Binary (2025) and playwrighting with The Dearest Things I Know (upcoming 2026).
Ella has recently won two prestigious awards, the FAME Emerging Practitioner Award (2025) and the Dunedin Theatre Emerging Artist (2025).
Alongside extensive technician work, Ella also performs. She played a leading role in her high school musical, Hairspray, (2020) and participated in Geronimo’s Broadway Smash (2022) where she won the Senior Musical Theatre Award. Recently she primarily acts within Allen Hall’s Lunchtime Theatre programme in shows like Beyond the Binary (2025) and Nameless (2025).

14/03/2026

See you soon!

14/03/2026

Wondering if you should see our last show at 2 pm tomorrow? Read our glowing review here!

Two-time and two-bit director of Goon Show scripts, Harry Almey marches back into Allen Hall with a well-tested troupe of troublemaking performers at his back. And this time, they’re armed with two scripts! Namely, The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea) and Ye Bandit of Sherwood For...

14/03/2026

Our last silly sketch for Fringe '26!
Enjoyed our content? Well we have a show today at 7 pm, another tomorrow at 2 pm. See more zaney comedy!

Slightly slapped together in a dash before today's show (can you tell?) but it would be a waste otherwise. Probs to Broadhead for editing our first two sketches, props to Harry for putting together the last two in record speed.

13/03/2026

The "Steps Beyond" season at the Dunedin Fringe Festival features three young Dunedin directors presenting three plays at the Allen Hall Theatre.

https://www.odt.co.nz/the-star/trio-plays-centre-young-directors

(PHOTO: KEA PHOTOS)

13/03/2026

Today, The Goon Show opens. To celebrate, meet Bluebottle, and see a day in his life!

Oisin Benn has been playing this little cardboard cut-out cretin, this little schoolboy-always-playing-truant, since 2024!

Practice makes perfect. Oisin's energy is infectious. If you enjoy this sketch, I think you'll enjoy our show 😉

12/03/2026

Breaking news: It's the Steps Beyond Season - read all about it!

Mutual support and the chance to share ideas and resources prompted three young Dunedin directors to come together and present their three plays as...

12/03/2026

For the first time ever, Spike Milligan's Goon Show is being performed in Dunedin!
Check out our show - $20 because we perform not one, but two scripts from the classic radio comedy.

Come to the only theatre celebrating 75 years of The Goon Show (1951-1960) :)
Come to support students in their first professional production.
Come have a laugh for once.
https://www.dunedinfringe.nz/events/the-goon-show