Terry MacTavish | |
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 MacTavish on her investiture as MNZM in April 2019 | |
| Born | Terry Isobel MacTavish 1950 (age 73–74) Taiwan |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, drama teacher |
| Employer | Queen's High School, Dunedin |
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Terry Isobel MacTavish MNZM (born 1950) is an actor and teacher from Dunedin, New Zealand. [1]
MacTavish was born in Taiwan in 1950, where her parents MacDonald MacTavish, a Scottish Free Church minister, and Shona Dunlop MacTavish, were working at the English Presbyterian Church Mission in Tainan. [2] [3] Her mother taught English and ballet to the local children. [3] The family later moved to South Africa, where MacTavish's parents worked as missionaries: her father died there in 1957, and she returned to New Zealand with her mother and two siblings to live in Dunedin. [4]
MacTavish's acting career started with the Southern Players at age 18. She went on to perform in productions at the Globe Theatre and the Fortune Theatre. [5]
For 47 years MacTavish taught at Queen’s High School, Dunedin, including being head of drama. [5] [6] She was part of the educational group that developed drama in a new arts curriculum in New Zealand including establishing drama as an NCEA subject. [6]
MacTavish was also part of Allen Hall at the University of Otago in the 1960s. [7]
In 2008, MacTavish and Ross Johnston revived a play they had performed in 1975 at the Fortune Theatre, Pinter's Old Times , directed by Lisa Warrington. [8] MacTavish's 1975 performance had been described as "dark, textured and petulant", while her 2008 interpretation of Anna was "sophisticated and mysterious". [9]
In 2011, she played the "flamboyant medium" Madame Arcati, in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit at the Globe Theatre, Dunedin. [10]
In May 2013, MacTavish and Emerita Professor Jocelyn Harris presented Women Behaving Badly, a selection of readings from Jane Austen, at the Globe. [11]
One reviewer called MacTavish's performance as Elizabeth I in Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart at the Globe in 2016 "mesmerising". [12]
In the 2019 New Year Honours, MacTavish was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to theatre and education. [13] In 2021, she was recognised as a distinguished alumna of Columba College. [5]
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