Mr Mark Hadlow, of Martinborough, ONZM for services to the arts
Mr Mark Hadlow, of Martinborough, for services to the arts
Mark Hadlow has acted in more than 130 theatre productions. He performed his one-man show S.N.A.G. throughout New Zealand, in Australia, London and Fiji, and at the Edinburgh Festival, where he won Best Theatrical Performance and Entertainer of the Year. He recently toured another show, ‘MAMIL’, with profits going towards renovating the Martinborough Town Hall and constructing the Pauanui to Tairua Trail. His other charitable causes include the Christchurch City Mission, Multiple Sclerosis and prostate cancer. He has acted in television shows, including ‘Billy T. James Show’ and ‘Willy Nilly’, and films, including ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy and ‘King Kong’, and is a radio voice-over artist. Mr Hadlow is a Reservist officer with the Royal New Zealand Navy and led the creative programming component of the Navy’s 75th Anniversary