: Producer, Writer & Day Player

Shuchi is a screenwriter, producer and academic. Her credits as writer/producer include short films such as Fleeting Beauty (2004), Clean Linen (2006) Coffee & Allah (2007); features such as In Such Times (2008) and Apron Strings (2008), which she also co-produced; and television shows such as A Thousand Apologies (2008). Shuchi has a Masters in Screenwriting, and a PhD in International Communications from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland. She founded the Thousand Apologies Collective in 2002 and had no idea that she would end up acting in the series.

: Producer & Director

Sarina is a producer and an academic. She became interested in film as an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, went on to study at the University of Southern California, and completed her PhD in Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland where she is currently a Senior Lecturer. In addition to producing A Thousand Apologies with Shuchi Kothari (and directing several sketches), Sarina has produced 3 internationally recognized short films and nationally broadcast television documentaries.

: Writer, Director & Day Player

Roseanne has written and directed a number of dramatic short films which have taken her to several prestigious international film festivals. Her latest short film, Take 3, won a Special Mention Award at this year's Berlin Film Festival. Her award-winning first feature-length documentary, Banana in a Nutshell, was one of the most notable local successes of the New Zealand International Film Festival 2005, and garnered her the SPADA New Filmmaker of the Year Award. Roseanne's work forms an eclectic mix of love stories, drama, noir and kung fu action all spiced with a healthy sprinkling of absurdist humour.

: Writer & Director

Since graduating with a Masters in Directing and Scriptwriting, Ange has worked professionally in the NZ film and television industry. She¼s directed several of her own short films and for the last five years has explored her passion for visual storytelling while working in the art department of major New Zealand and international productions. Currently, Angeline is co-writing the feature film Banana in a Nutshell for South Pacific Pictures. As a dedicated member of the ATA collective she¼s determined to show that Asians can be funny too dammit! Funny haha that is, not funny weird.

: Director & Day Player

Zia immigrated to New Zealand in 1996 and is an Auckland-based writer and director. Her work has screened nationally and overseas and won her a host of awards including Best Short Film Script at the NZ Screen Director's Guild Awards (2005) and Best Director and Best Short Film at Fitzroy Shorts in Melbourne (2006). Last year she was selected to attend the Berlinale Talent Campus and her latest short film Clean Linen premiered at the 2007 Melbourne International Film Festival. Apart from being a dayplayer, Zia also worked on A Thousand Apologies as a director.

: Writer & Core Cast

Tarun began his comedy career at school entertaining his classmates, but it wasn¼t until 1996 that he first performed live at Kitty O¼Brien¼s comedy evenings.

In 1998 he won the New Zealand Comedy Festival Quest of the Fest Competition. Since his early days he has performed at such clubs as The Comedy CafÈ and Jongleurs in London, Lafflines, Yuk Yuks and Urban Well just to name a few in Canada, The Comedy Store in Los Angeles along with the Improv on Melrose. Tarun also performs on a regular base in and around New Zealand and Australia at various comedy venues.

Tarun¼s theatre credits include D¼arranged Marriage, for which he was nominated for a Billy T Award, and From India with Love which have both toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. Cornershop Confessions is Tarun¼s latest one-man-show, slated to open later in 2008.

In 2003 he was a core founding member of the Untouchables Collective, New Zealand¼s first South-Asian theatre company. Untouchables premiered its first production at the Wellington Fringe Festival to great acclaim. Tarun was also a core cast member in The Millen Baird Show along with being a core cast member and co-writer for A Thousand Apologies. In January 2008 Tarun worked alongside 11 other performers on a live sketch show for CBS in Los Angeles.

: Writer & Day Player

Sunil graduated with a Master of Creative and Performing Arts from the University of Auckland in 2004. He wrote and acted in The Customer is Always Trite, which was selected for the Homegrown Short Film Programme at the 2006 New Zealand International Film Festival. He has also performed improv as part of the Covert Theatre. When he wrote for A Thousand Apologies he knew he¼d be the third Indian guy on the show, so slim pickings!

: Writer

Chris started learning Japanese as a third former and went on to be an exchange student. After minor detours (two university degrees, producing an award-winning short film, production work in the domestic film and television industry), his increasing debt to Auckland¼s Renkon and Kura restaurants convinced him that Japan wasn¼t quite done with him. So after wrapping on No.2 and Sione¼s Wedding he headed back to Japan in March 2006, where he headed the development section of Tokyo-based 100 Meter Films until August 2007. Chris has since returned to Auckland to write for A Thousand Apologies and to develop other feature and television projects.