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Adam NZ Play Award
The Adam NZ Play Award is an annual award in New Zealand given to new plays. There are a range of categories and submitted plays are read blind by a panel of industry professionals. History The award started in 2008 and was initially called the Playmarket New New Zealand Play Award. The Adam Foundation support the awards with a total of $8,000 in prizes. The Adam Foundation was established by Denis and Verna Adam in 1976 initially for art and then for other creative endeavours. Denis Adam died in October 2018. There is also an Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. In 2019, Mitch Tawhi Thomas became the first playwright to win an Adam NZ Play award twice, the first for ''Hui'' in 2012 and then for ''Pakaru'' (in 2019). The winners are announced at a ceremony each year. Eligibility and conditions The panel accepts up to three new plays but only be submitted to the competition once. There are no style or length limits. The plays must not have had a professional pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annual
Annual may refer to: * Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year **Yearbook **Literary annual * Annual plant *Annual report *Annual giving *Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco *Annuals (band), a musical group See also * Annual Review (other) Annual Review or Annual Reviews may refer to: * An annual performance appraisal or performance review of an employee * Annual Reviews (publisher), a publisher of academic journals * The ''Annual Reviews'' series of journals is published by Annual ... * Circannual cycle, in biology {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Brunning
Nancy Brunning (1971 – 16 November 2019) was a New Zealand actress, director, and writer who won awards in film and television and made a major contribution to the growth of Māori in the arts. Brunning was of Māori descent from the tribes of Ngati Raukawa and Ngai Tuhoe. She won the best actress award at the New Zealand Film Awards for her lead role in the film '' What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?'' (1999), the sequel to cult classic ''Once Were Warriors''. In 2000, she won the Best Actress in Drama award at the New Zealand Television Awards for her lead role in the television series ''Nga Tohu''. She was the acting coach for the Oscar-nominated short film ''Two Cars, One Night'' directed by Taika Waititi. According to friend and frequent collaborator Temuera Morrison, she "paved the way" for Māori actors in New Zealand. Biography Brunning grew up in Taupo and attended Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School from 1990, graduating in 1991 with a Diploma in Acting. She lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miria George , an obsolete metric prefix.
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Renee Liang
Renee Wen-Wei Liang (born 1973) is a New Zealand paediatrician, poet, essayist, short story writer, playwright, librettist, theatre producer and medical researcher. She has been the recipient of several awards for her services to arts, science and medicine and is also noted for her services to the Chinese New Zealand community. She lives in Auckland. Biography Liang was born in 1973. She is a second generation Chinese New Zealander and has two younger sisters, Rhea (a surgeon) and Roseanne (a filmmaker). She attended St Cuthbert's College and graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery in 1996, a Master of Creative Writing in 2007 and a Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (Theatre) in 2009. She also holds a specialist qualification as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She has toured eight plays to festivals and venues nationally. Her poetry and short stories have been published in both New Zealand and overseas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Galvin
Michael Galvin (born 27 March 1967) is a New Zealand actor, singer and playwright, well known for his role as Chris Warner on the soap opera Shortland Street, a character he has played almost since the show's debut in 1992 until 1996 and again from 2000 to present, and remains as of 2020, the only original cast member. He is the longest serving television soap opera actor in New Zealand. Early life Galvin attended and graduated both Victoria University and Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. He graduated from Toi Whakaari in 1989 with a Diploma in Acting. Career Shortland Street In 1992 Galvin, a theatre actor at the time, auditioned for a role as Chris Warner in the upcoming Television New Zealand soap opera, ''Shortland Street'' alongside his flatmate Marton Csokas. Galvin won the role, with Csokas later going on to play Leonard Dodds. Galvin predicted the show would only last 12 months. Galvin portrayed Chris for four years, with the character picking up the nick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Brooks (dramatist)
Sam Brooks is a New Zealand playwright and dramatist. Brooks' works have appeared on stage in Auckland and throughout New Zealand, often produced through his company, Smoke Labours Productions. Brooks' work has twice earned him the Playmarket B4 25 New Zealand Young Playwright award. He has also been nominated for the Chapman Tripp award for Outstanding New Playwright and was highly commended for the Adam New Zealand New Play of the year award. In 2014, Metro Magazine named Brooks "Auckland's Most Exciting Playwright". He won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award in 2016. He currently works as the culture editor at The Spinoff, an online commentary and opinion magazine. He has also written for the Pantograph Punch, Metro Magazine, and the NZ Herald ''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation of all new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinky Agnew
Pinky Agnew, MNZM (born 1955 in Port Chalmers) is an actor, author, social commentator, and wedding celebrant based in Wellington in New Zealand . She has been a full-time performer and entertainer since 1990. In 2004 she appeared in the New Year's Honours list, becoming a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for her services to entertainment. Agnew has been a wedding celebrant since 1996 and has been part of several hundred weddings. As well as weddings, she officiates at civil unions, naming ceremonies, and funerals. Agnew appears frequently on radio in New Zealand and has featured in television shows impersonating Jenny Shipley, who served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1997 to 1999. Plays * Hens' Teeth Women's Comedy Company (1994–2002) * The Power Breakfast (1994–1998) * An Evening with Elvis-Anne * Pinky Pops In * The Truth about Love (2003) - a musical comedy * The Candidates (2005) - a political comedy * Party Girls (2011) - an election year comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg McGee
Greg McGee is a New Zealand writer and playwright, who also writes crime fiction under the pseudonym Alix Bosco. Biography McGee was born in 1950 in the South Island town of Oamaru. In his early 20s McGee played rugby as a Junior All Black and became an All Black trialist. He graduated from the University of Otago with a law degree in 1972. In 1980 his first play, ''Foreskin's Lament'', a drama set in Rugby football, rugby changing rooms and at the after-match party, became an immediate success. The play shows the player nicknamed "Foreskin" and his attempt to fit in with university liberals and with rugby-playing conservatives. In New Zealand a rugby player is an everyman, and the game and play present a model of society in the end of the 1970s on the eve of the 1981 Springbok Tour. The play has a stylistically unusual ending, with the main character directly addressing the audience with a very long speech — or rather interrogation — questioning their own values: "Whaddarya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Nixon
Carl Nixon (born 1967) is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer and playwright. He has written four novels and a number of original plays which have been performed throughout New Zealand, as well as adapting both Lloyd Jones' novel ''The Book of Fame'' and Nobel prize winner J. M. Coetzee's ''Disgrace'' for the stage. Early life and career Nixon was born and grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. He attended St Andrew's College. He has said that he had remedial reading lessons as a child and "didn't really get into books until I was ten or so". In 1992, Nixon graduated with a master's degree in Religious Studies from the University of Canterbury. His thesis was entitled ''For they shall be comforted : an examination of the liturgy, usage and adequacy of the funeral service in A New Zealand prayer book (1989) with reference to the grief of the bereaved.'' He briefly taught secondary school English before leaving to teach in Japan for two years. Nixon was one of the fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Muagututi'a
Tanya Muagututi'a is a New Zealand playwright and arts festival director. Biography Muagututi'a's father, Muagututi'a Pulusila Meafou Sagapolutele, was Samoan and moved to New Zealand in the early 1950s, aged 11, to attend school. She co-founded Pacific Underground, a performing arts organisation for Pacific artists, in Christchurch in 1993. In 2020, Muagututi'a won Best Play by Pasifika Playwright at the Adam New Zealand Play Awards for her script ''Scholars,'' which is based on her father's experiences as a Samoan scholarship student in New Zealand''.'' Recognition In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours, Muagututi'a was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Pacific performing arts. Personal life Muagututi'a is married to Posenai Mavaega, who co-founded Pacific Underground with her. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit New Zealand people of Samoan descent New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jess Sayer
Jess Sayer is a New Zealand actress and playwright. In 2015, she won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award, and in 2020, she won the Adam NZ Play Award. Biography Sayer attended Kamo High School in Whangārei, New Zealand. After high school, she began a degree in communications and journalism. She later became interested in theatre and moved into studying drama at The Actors' Program, graduating in 2012. Sayer has appeared in the television soap opera ''Shortland Street'' as nurse Maeve Mullins, ''Filthy Rich'', ''Dirty Laundry'' and the drama ''Runaway Millionaires''. In 2016, she both wrote and acted in the web-only series ''Auckward Love'', for TVNZ. In 2019, she appeared in the play ''Mr Red Light'' at Auckland's Aotea Centre. As a playwright, Sayer has won the Playmarket B4 25 competition three times and has been shortlisted for the Adam NZ Play Award twice. In 2015, aged 25, she won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. In 2019, she was nominated for three New Zealand Writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angie Farrow
Angela Rosina Farrow (born 1951) is a New Zealand academic and writer for theatre and radio. Born in the United Kingdom, Farrow was appointed professor emerita at Massey University in November 2022. She was promoted to full professor in 2011 and in the same year was awarded Massey University lecturer of the Year. Farrow has published books on the production of physical theatre as well as her own numerous plays for theatre and radio. In April 2015, her series of 10-minute-long sketches ''Together All Alone'' was performed at Bats Theatre in Wellington. In the 2021 New Year Honours, Farrow was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have rend ..., for services to the arts, particularly theatre. Awards *The Pen is a Mighty Sword Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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