Who Are Team M&M?
Team M&M are husband and wife production team Mark Prebble and Marion Shortt. We met in New Zealand in 2004 and soon started creating work together.
Since then we have produced many short films, mostly comedy, which can be seen on the "Videos" page. In November 2009 we produced the successful play In Transit and created The Pantry Shelf for Edinburgh Fringe 2010.
We lived in Edinburgh from 2008 to 2011 and moved back to New Zealand in August 2011. We are Staging a new production of The Pantry Shelf at Auckland's Basement Theatre in August 2012.
Since then we have produced many short films, mostly comedy, which can be seen on the "Videos" page. In November 2009 we produced the successful play In Transit and created The Pantry Shelf for Edinburgh Fringe 2010.
We lived in Edinburgh from 2008 to 2011 and moved back to New Zealand in August 2011. We are Staging a new production of The Pantry Shelf at Auckland's Basement Theatre in August 2012.
Mark Prebble - Writer/Director
In 1997 Mark won the NZ Young Playwright Competition and twice represented New Zealand at Interplay World Festival of Young Playwrights in Australia. Cabin Fever (writer & director) was a hit for BATS in the 2000 Fringe Festival. Rocketman (director only) was successfully performed at BATS, Carter Observatory and three provincial NZ festivals in 2002.
In 2005 Mark completed the self-funded comedy feature Futile Attraction. Post-production of Futile Attraction was funded through his website Make Mark’s Movie.com (now offline) which allowed people around the world to make online contributions and get their names in the credits. Futile Attraction was the first film completed using this method.
In 2007 he was Filmmaker in Residence at Massey University and for three years was Vice President of the New Zealand Writers Guild. In the UK he directed/co-wrote the plays In Transit and The Pantry Shelf and numerous short films as half of Team M&M. He was also a regular contributor to BBC Radio 7’s sketch comedy show Newsjack with Miles Jupp.
In 2005 Mark completed the self-funded comedy feature Futile Attraction. Post-production of Futile Attraction was funded through his website Make Mark’s Movie.com (now offline) which allowed people around the world to make online contributions and get their names in the credits. Futile Attraction was the first film completed using this method.
In 2007 he was Filmmaker in Residence at Massey University and for three years was Vice President of the New Zealand Writers Guild. In the UK he directed/co-wrote the plays In Transit and The Pantry Shelf and numerous short films as half of Team M&M. He was also a regular contributor to BBC Radio 7’s sketch comedy show Newsjack with Miles Jupp.
Marion Shortt - Writer/Actress
Marion graduated from New Zealand’s Unitec Performing Arts School in 2003. Over the next five years she acted professionally in theatre, film, TV and commercials. This included working on Tom Sainsbury's The Mall and Caustic, Auckland Playwrights’ Collective Motel Nights and SmackBang Theatre’s K Rd Project. In TV she had guest roles in Shortland Street and the first series of hit comedy The Jacquie Brown Diaries.
In the UK she performed at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe in Taming of the Shrew with Arkle Theatre and To Yourself Be True as part of the Free Fringe. Marion produced, script edited and acted in the devised ensemble drama In Transit. She then returned to the Fringe co-writing, producing and performing in The Pantry Shelf.
As well as theatre she has acted in numerous Scottish short films; Champagne Cigarettes and LOL, Mr Scott and The Guilt Sniffer which won Audience Favourite and Best Actor prizes (for Alex Donald) at the Edinburgh 48 Hour Film Competition 2009.
As half of Team M&M she co-wrote and performed in short films The Last Munnday, Snowdancing, The Wilkinson Test and Ambulance Chasers, a semi-finalist in American viral filmmaking competition - Filmaka.com.
In 2011 Marion studied clown at Philipe Gaulier’s summer school in Paris.
In the UK she performed at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe in Taming of the Shrew with Arkle Theatre and To Yourself Be True as part of the Free Fringe. Marion produced, script edited and acted in the devised ensemble drama In Transit. She then returned to the Fringe co-writing, producing and performing in The Pantry Shelf.
As well as theatre she has acted in numerous Scottish short films; Champagne Cigarettes and LOL, Mr Scott and The Guilt Sniffer which won Audience Favourite and Best Actor prizes (for Alex Donald) at the Edinburgh 48 Hour Film Competition 2009.
As half of Team M&M she co-wrote and performed in short films The Last Munnday, Snowdancing, The Wilkinson Test and Ambulance Chasers, a semi-finalist in American viral filmmaking competition - Filmaka.com.
In 2011 Marion studied clown at Philipe Gaulier’s summer school in Paris.
