Ken Duncum is a New Zealand

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and

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. His plays ''Cherish'' and ''Trick of the Light'' won best new New Zealand play at the

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in 2003 and 2004. His script for television drama series ''Cover Story'' won Best Script for Drama at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards and Best Writer - Comedy for ''Willy Nilly'' in 2002.
Profile, Playmarket New Zealand Playwrights' Agency. Retrieved 9 November 2009 Duncum's plays have toured New Zealand as well as internationally. He was awarded the New Zealand Post Katherine Mansfield Prize for 2010.
French Embassy New Zealand. Retrieved 9 November 2009 The prize is NZ$100,000 for a writing residency in France. Duncum was born in Napier, New Zealand, Napier and studied film, theatre and television at

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Profile, New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 9 November 2009

Plays

*''Blue Sky Boys'' *''Cherish'' (published 2004 by Victoria University Press) *''Flipside'' *''Flybaby'' *''Horseplay'' *''Jism'' *''Panic!'' *''Picture Perfect'' *''Polythene Pam'' *''The Great Gatsby'' *''The Temptations of St Max'' *''Trick of the Light'' (2002), in which two adult Pākehā children grieve their dead mother by returning to a motel that was important in her life. *''Waterloo Sunset''

Television series

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Willy Nilly ''Willy Nilly Show'' was a New Zealand television series originally based on a short film by the same name. It follows the lives of two middle-aged farming brothers, Eric (Sean Duffy) and Harry ( Mark Hadlow) who are catapulted into the modern wo ...

References

External links

Playmarket, New Zealand Playwrights' Agency
Living people 21st-century New Zealand dramatists and playwrights Year of birth missing (living people) Victoria University of Wellington alumni People from Napier, New Zealand New Zealand television writers 21st-century New Zealand male writers New Zealand male dramatists and playwrights 21st-century New Zealand screenwriters {{NewZealand-writer-stub