Mark Darbyshire🌱🏳️‍🌈

@markd.nz

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He/him. Actor, analyst, and JP in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Cult survivor, atheist, vegan, gay. Chairing too many committees. Let's build a sustainable, just future! Web: https://markd.nz Blog: https://remarks.nz

Photo of Mark holding a British passport. He is wearing a floral top, blue glasses that look like stylised eyebrows, and standing in front of a pink fruity wallpaper.
Image showing comedians against a stormy sky. The main comedian has devil horns. Doomsday Comedy. The tour continues – two shows to go! Supported by Decult: raising cult awareness. Wellington: Thursday 29 January. Christchurch: Friday 6 February.
Merriam-Webster Your 2026 Word: sultry
Michael in a singlet really excited that the fundraiser is already 40% of the way there and it looks like Little Andromeda will open earlier in the year than we might have expected. He apologises that donation receipts might not be sent until just after Christmas.
Mark smiling and sporting a light-coloured moustache. He also has dark blond hair and is wearing dark pink tortoiseshell glasses. He is standing in front of floral wallpaper.
Poster with a black background. Only the red demonic eyes of a hound are visible. The white text says: Canterbury Repertory Theatre, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 2025, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted for the stage by Simon Williams, directed by Ross Gumbley, 7:30pm, 19–29 November, Elmwood Auditorium, www.repertory.nz, a community theatre production by special arrangement with Joseph Weinberg and The Play Bureau.
A silver-coloured metallic coat hook on the doorframe of a pub toilet. Big ears have been drawn on either side with a permanent marker to make it look like an elephant. The hook is its trunk and the two Phillips screws are its eyes.
Image showing Mark Darbyshire and the other people on the line-up: Eve, Vic, Tim, Jo, Tama, Ben, and Lark.
Photo of a business called The Milk Bar. The vegan soft serve cone costs $4.
Toddler Mark on a couch with his Gramps, Grandma, Nana, and Grandad. Everyone is smiling.
Poster with an illustration of a residential street at night. There is a dead dog in the foreground with a gardening fork lodged in its body. The poster says: Riccarton Players, presented in association with New Zealand Play Bureau Ltd. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. A play by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon. 9 to 19 April 2025. Directed by Caitlyn O'Rourke assisted by Luke Longworth. Book now! Phone 03 338 4699 or visit www.riccartonplayers.co.nz.
Photo of Gramps, Nana, and toddler Mark. Nana has a beautiful smile and is holding a puzzle toy that they have just given him (presumably for his birthday).
Plastic Rummikub tiles on a wooden coffee table in an apartment, but with black letters instead of coloured numbers. The following words have been made: peel, corn, rhythm, chord, clog, puff, text, sprawl, antidisestablishmentarianism, pantos, jute, quavering, week, duck. In the background are some colourful socks on a clothes horse and a glass sliding door leading to a balcony at night. My friend's arm is visible in the side of the photo.
A presentation slide with the following text: Definition: Held together by a shared commitment to a "charismatic" authoritarian leader. Upholds a transcendent belief system that includes a recipe for personal transformation. Requires a high-level of commitment in words and deeds.
Photo of a Woolworths delivery van parked at Pak'nSave.
Mark thoughtfully rotates his cocktail in a funky cocktail glass with a curved stem (getting it in the right position for a photo). It's a foamy white cocktail with a dried apple on top, a dusting of cinnamon, and a short metal straw. He's wearing a floral polo shirt, blue denim jacket with rainbow-striped sleeves, and pink tortoiseshell glasses.
Closeup of a little skink blending in and keeping very still on a dirt path. You can see it breathing. You can see a hole in the side of its head which is its ear. Its feet are spread like claws. Its tail winds blurrily into the distance of this macro shot.