Martyn Roberts

Martyn Roberts (born 1965 or 1966) is a New Zealand lighting and set designer and photographer, and founder of the arts collective afterburner theatre productions.

[4] Past collaborations have included Airport Conversations, which afterburner developed together with The Company of Pleasure based in Melbourne, Australia, with funding from Creative New Zealand.

[8] In 2014 Roberts received a service honour medal from the Dunedin Theatre Awards in recognition of completing 'more than 50 professional shows'.

[12] The Telescope involved composers Sebastian Morgan Lynch and Steve Gallagher present on stage while their music interacted with light and the performers' actions.

[13] When presented at the FUEL Festival, reviewer William Peterson described it as fitting in with the New Zealand tradition of theatre practice of "a willingness to cross interdisciplinary boundaries".

[13] The Singularity received mixed reviews; the design rated highly with the set and light "telling a story of its own" and the soundscape by Matthew Hutton adding value, but the script was described as "too cryptic".

The first workshop was in December 2016 with Rua McCallum (theatre-maker and Māori researcher), Megan Wilson (dancer), Roberts, Anna van den Bosch (technician), Hilary Halba and David O’Donnell (theatre directors) and scientists David Hutchinson and Dr Ian Griffin.

[19] A summary of the research in the creation of Fission is stated in a paper published in The Theatre Times: In this work, a scientific theory such as quantum entanglement can also become a dramaturgical and aesthetic principle.

Fission also demonstrates the considerable potential of collaborative devised theatre in opening up connections between Indigenous knowledge and scientific theories.