Elspeth Tilley | |
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| Born | Elspeth Nina Tilley |
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| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
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| Institutions | Massey University |
Elspeth Nina Tilley is an Australian playwright,actor and academic and is a full professor at Massey University in Wellington.
Tilley earned a BA(Hons) in 1996 at the University of Queensland with a thesis called More than one and solo:subjectivity in contemporary Australian and Canadian monodrama,which she followed with a PhD in drama and literature in 2007. [1] Her doctoral thesis,also at Queensland,was titled White vanishing:a settler Australian hegemonic textual strategy,1789-2006. [2] [3] After this Tilley moved to Massey University,where she was promoted to full professor in 2023. [4]
Tilley's research covers theatre,performance,literature,media and public communication,examining ethics and social justice. [5] She has published four books,including White Vanishing and Creative Activism:Research,Pedagogy and Practice. [4]
Tilley's plays have been published in Canada,New Zealand,the USA and the UK,produced around the world. Her plays have featured in a variety of festivals including the British Theatre Challenge,Short + Sweet,Pint Sized Plays NZ,Climate Change Theatre Action,Stage-It 2 and have been translated into French,Italian,and Belizean Creole. [4] [2]
Tilley's has won the British Theatre Challenge three times,in 2017,2018 and 2019. [6] Tilley was an official playwright for Climate Change Theatre Action in 2015,2017,and 2019. [6] She has also been awarded the Playwrights’Association of New Zealand Outstanding Achievement Award (2018), [7] three teaching excellence awards,a Peking University Research Fellowship and a Prime Minister’s Group Scholarship to Latin America. [4]
Marie Clements is a Canadian Métis playwright, performer, director, producer and screenwriter. Marie was founding artistic director of urban ink productions, and is currently co-artistic director of red diva projects, and director of her new film company Working Pajama Lab Entertainment. Clements lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia. As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio, and television.
Playmarket is a not-for-profit organisation providing script advisory services, representation for playwrights in New Zealand and access to New Zealand plays. Playmarket was founded in 1973 to encourage the professional production of New Zealand plays. The organisation represents many of New Zealand's theatrical writers. Playmarket is also a script development service and a publisher of plays.
Short+Sweet is a multi-form arts platform presenting festivals in theatre, dance, music-theatre, comedy and cabaret co-ordinated in multiple counties globally. The unifying feature of all works presented at the festival is they must be no longer than ten-minutes. Their flagship festival is Short+Sweet Theatre Sydney, the largest ten-minute play festival in the world.
Hone Vivian Kouka is a New Zealand playwright. He has written 13 plays, which have been staged in New Zealand and worldwide including Canada, South Africa, New Caledonia and Britain. Kouka's plays have won multiple awards at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards, the 'Oscars' of New Zealand theatre. Kouka has also worked as a theatre director and producer. In 2009, Kouka was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to contemporary Māori theatre.
Briar Grace-Smith is a screenwriter, director, actor, and short story writer from New Zealand. She has worked as an actor and writer with the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari and Maori theatre company He Ara Hou. Early plays Don't Call Me Bro and Flat Out Brown, were first performed at the Taki Rua Theatre in Wellington in 1996. Waitapu, a play written by Grace-Smith, was devised by He Ara Hou and performed by the group on the Native Earth Performing Arts tour in Canada in 1996.
Renée Gertrude Taylor, known mononymously as Renée, is a New Zealand feminist writer and playwright. Renée is of Māori, Irish, English, and Scottish ancestry, and has described herself as a "lesbian feminist with socialist working-class ideals". She wrote her first play, Setting the Table, in 1981. Many of her plays have been published, with extracts included in Intimate Acts, a collection of lesbian plays published by Brito and Lair, New York.
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Barbara Ruth Holland is a New Zealand born Australian scientist. She is a Professor of mathematics and member of the Theoretical Phylogenetics Group at the School of Mathematics & Physics at the University of Tasmania. Barbara is also a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture. She has made substantial contributions to the methods for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA and protein sequence data. Holland has published over 50 journal articles, presented over 30 invited or keynote lectures, refereed five conference proceedings, 2 book chapters and 1 book review. She is a senior editor of the scientific journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Angela Rosina Farrow 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, for services to the arts, particularly theatre.
Stuart Hoar is a New Zealand playwright, teacher, novelist, radio dramatist and librettist.
Ameliaranne Ekenasio, previously known as Ameliaranne Wells, is a New Zealand netball international. In 2010 and 2011, Wells represented Australia at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2014 she switched allegiances to New Zealand. She represented New Zealand at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and was a prominent member of the New Zealand team that won the 2019 Netball World Cup. She captained New Zealand when they won the 2021 Constellation Cup.
Albert Alexander Amahou Belz is a New Zealand actor, writer and lecturer.
Whiti Hereaka is a New Zealand playwright, novelist and screenwriter and a barrister and solicitor. She has held a number of writing residencies and appeared at literary festivals in New Zealand and overseas, and several of her books and plays have been shortlisted for or won awards. In 2022 her book Kurangaituku won the prize for fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and Bugs won an Honour Award in the 2014 New Zealand Post Awards for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Emily Tess Duncan is a New Zealand playwright. She is co-founder of Prospect Park Productions, an organisation aiming “to create and produce original New Zealand theatre and collaborative projects that reach into other art forms." Duncan held the 2019 Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. She lives in Dunedin.
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The Playwrights Association of New Zealand (PANZ) is an incorporated society in New Zealand. The association was founded in 1958. It awards an annual Outstanding Achievement Award, which from 1988 to 2016 was known as The Doug Wrenn Award. Doug Wrenn was a former president of PANZ. The award, instituted in 1988, is presented to "a member who had significant success in playwriting during the year".
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