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Andrew Whiteside

(He/Him)
Auckland
As seen in: Andrew Whiteside, Medium, Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand Herald, Post Independent, VMblog.com, An Eclectic Life with Andrew Whiteside
Covers:  Arts/entertainment, events, LGBT, philosophy, science, well being.
I love learning and asking questions. I'm a Secular Humanist, Journalist and Writer and passionately believe in human rights.

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Interviewer, writer, reviewer, journalist...
Some facts about me:

I don't believe in astrology but I'm a Pisces, I love swimming, cooking, the arts, my husband, the moon, and my three cats.

My career:

Since 2012 I have been interviewing and championing the arts and LGBT communities on this website and through social media.

From 2009 to 2019 I interivewed hundreds of actors, directors, writers, and producers for the website NZ On Screen.

1996 - 2004 I hosted New Zealand's groundbreaking lifestyl…

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Review: The Sons of Vao

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By Andrew Whiteside
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The Sons of Vao is a play by Vela Manusaute based on his own lived experience growing up on the island of Niue. The story which covers 34 years begins in 1970 with the birth of the eldest son To (Haanz Fa’avae-Jackson). His mother is only 15 at the time and over the next two years she has two more sons, Seki (Epine Bob Savea) and Sau (Brett Taefu). The boys father is Vao, a Samoan man who moved to Niue and settled in a small village. He is aggressive, dominant, boastful, and often cruel.
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Event: Dynamotion’s Sharp Teeth – Jul 2026

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By Andrew Whiteside
| An Eclectic Life with Andrew Whiteside
Tom Sainsbury, Lara Fischel-Chisholm and a cast of sparkly new Dynamotiondebutants present Sharp Teeth for a five-day fling at Q Theatre from 21 July – 25 July. Scientists have studied it. Poets have romanticised it. Musicians have written approximately 4.7 million songs about it. Yet nobody has successfully explained why humans continue to voluntarily participate in love. So, let’s take it to the dance floor.
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Movie Review: Disclosure Day

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By Andrew Whiteside
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Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg’s latest foray into the filmic exploration of aliens coming to Earth. This one feels a hell of a lot more grown up and less innocent than ET and far more tense than Close Encounters. There are two protagonists in this flick – Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor), a cybersecurity expert turned whistleblower and Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) a weather presenter on a local channel in Missouri.
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