We’re Gonna Kill Billy

Northland Youth Theatre is thrilled to present the national premiere of We’re Gonna Kill Billy by Alex Medland (Kāi Tahu), winner of the 2025 Adam NZ Play Award, Best Play by a Māori Playwright, and Best Play by a Woman Playwright.

Centred on four friends driven to take drastic action against a local billionaire’s next big development, the play dives into the messy collision of activism, morality, and consequence in an age where crisis is constant and everyone is extremely online. Accusations mount, panic rises, and the vibes are… not great.

Northland Youth Theatre is uniquely placed to tell this story – by staging this bold, funny, and deeply contemporary work, we are giving our young actors the chance to stretch into professional-calibre material, explore politically relevant themes, and bring their own voices and perspectives to the forefront.

For our community, this production offers rare access to a multi-award-winning New Zealand play in its first-ever staging, performed by the talented young people of Te Tai Tokerau, and directed by a returned NYT alumnus. We’re Gonna Kill Billy is a powerful reminder that youth voices matter, and that theatre can challenge, provoke, and inspire real conversation about the world we are inheriting.

This work is double-cast, so casts will alternate performance nights.

Led by Lutz Hamm, Summer Millet & Penny Fit and starring Maddy Amosa, Pearl Cullen, Ciara Elliot, Jasmin Fisher-Johnson, Bella Irving, Stella Moreton, Sorcha Tracey, Pẽowhairangi Witana, JJ Wellington, Stuart Devenie, Ngariki Ngatae and Quinn as Billy.