
Acting
Paul Kean
Born 1954-05-12 · Christchurch - New Zealand
Christchurch New Zealand born and raised through the 1950’s and 60’s in a creative family household - not unfamiliar with stage appearances. Soaked in British culture for the year of 1966 when on family holiday in UK included Pop Culture through Pirate Radio Stations, Top Of The Pops TV, Carnaby Street, LOUD Duke Box in TheEarls Cout Overseas Vistors Club Cavern Bar with Troggs, Kinks, Marc Bolan's T-Rex ... and a reading a weekly BEANO Comic. Matured in the 1970/80’s into being a musician, potter, producer, enabler, father, event manager, sound engineer, band manager, video maker, curator of exhibitions, pretend farmer and a lover of cooking. Received a diploma in Film and Television Production in 1989. Resident of the NZ Music Hall of Fame with Toy Love who made their mark touring and charting both in Australia and New Zealand way back in 1979/80. This has been followed by 43 years performing and recording with his partner Kaye Woodward in the legendary Bats who have toured USA, EU, UK and Australasia more times than they can count. And now ... a late life morphing into acting in the Weed Eaters.
Acting credits
7.0Jules is on a New Year's Eve trip with her new boyfriend and his two stoner friends in the wops of North Canterbury when they stumble across a long-abandoned stash in an old shed. After a quick session and an accidental murder, the marijuana turns them into enthusiastic cannibals. To cover the evidence of their murder, they decide to keep toking so they can devour the body. What will happen when the meat runs out? Who will be the next victim?
The Weed Eaters
2026
NRIt’s 2026 Auckland, New Zealand, through the black-and-white lens of the German expressionist silent era. If it weren't for the online group chat and the overused electric heater, the city’s 100-year-old bungalows with no insulation would make you believe it’s the 1920s. The Ungrateful Tenant follows an anxiety-ridden millennial renter who dreams of one day buying his own house. When his paranoid frustration comes to a head, he kicks out his ‘nightmare’ flatmate, only to be struck back by instant karma, sending him on a cursed odyssey in and out of flats across Auckland. Experience the brutal absurdity of the housing crisis in slapstick fashion.
The Ungrateful Tenant
2026