Mic Drop

Woven Productions presents MIC DROP🎤 A new hip-hop musical, created by Ayush Aditya and Marcus Savelio – Debuting at the 2025 Wellington Fringe Festival.

Mic Drop is set in Te Aro—the place where the streets are cold, and the bars are too damn hot. Enter the Aro boys, three high schoolers with only one goal: To conquer the Wellington Rap Scene. 

Woven Productions Vision statement:

To represent, inspire and cultivate a new generation of performing artists, storytellers and audiences; by bringing our stories to the stage with humour and heart.

Woven Productions – the one and only. A collective of young artists who hail from all over the nation. Stretching from the Top of the North Island, to like half way down the South. 

We weave together the talents of our multidisciplinary crew of playwrights, performers, screen artists, beat makers, tech wizzes

…to present to you

…our debut production

MIC DROP!

Our Amazing Crew:

Writer/Director -Marcus Savelio

Writer/ Producer - Ayush Aditya

Production/ Stage Manager - Amanda Joe

A/V Operator - Penny Neil

Lighting Designer - William Kelly

Music Producer - Alfram Head

And our Talented Performers:

Joshua Leota

Roy Clark

Tamahou Tehei

Waikamania Seve

Joel Washington

Our talented cast and crew dedicate much of their spare time to bringing this show to life. The money raised from Boosted will go towards paying our incredible team for all the hard work they are putting into this project. 

Artists specialising in

• Set design
• Technical Elements/ AV Design
• Music Production

We strongly believe that everyone in our team should be paid a living wage for all their hard mahi. Every contribution will help us ensure the success of Mic Drop and the careers of many emerging Artists!

Mic Drop is adapted from the 2021 mockumentary short film “Drop The Mic” by dir. Marcus Savelio, Isabella Taouma, Kyan Alo and Tamasa Lavea. Originally set between a fictional high school rap feud between schools in Mt Albert and Kelston.

This story was given to Ayush, who, through close collaboration with Marcus, has transformed this into the freshest theatre experience, with elevated comedy, incorporated epic live rap battles and brash showmanship. Now brought all the way to the streets of Te Aro, Wellington. Strutting a cast of graduate year level actors from Toi Whakaari. 

This production draws from all our personal experiences with rap in our upbringings. The influence of hip-hop culture right from the States to our own communities. We celebrate the way we’ve embraced what it means to drop the mic here in Aotearoa. 

Everyone involved with this project are new emerging artists. With a wide range of skill sets, most of the team are current students or graduates of Toi Whakaari, with the exception of three who are from Whitireia, Unitec and UoA. The opportunity this show presents will let these people perform skills they have learnt in their recent tuition and the chance to do it under real-life industry standard conditions while being paid a living wage. 

By putting this show up in Fringe, we hope to create a platform for our communities in Aotearoa to see themselves reflected on stage and create a space that feels empowering and relevant to these communities, where future storytellers can see theatre as a practical medium for creative expression. 

Your donation will make a massive difference in supporting young, up-and-coming artists. If you can, please donate! And if you can't, we'd still love you to join us at the debut of MIC DROP at Te Auaha from the 19th to the 22nd of February 2025!

https://tickets.fringe.co.nz/event/446:6153/