Lorae Parry
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Lorae Parry | |
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| File:Lorae Parry The Witch Project (cropped).jpg | |
| Born | 1955 Sydney, Australia |
| Education | Diploma in Acting, Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School, MA in Scriptwriting, Victoria University of Wellington |
| Known for | playwriting, performance |
| Notable work | Eugenia, 1996 |
| Style | Parry's plays often explore sexuality, gender, and class systems. |
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Lorae Ann Parry MNZM is a New Zealand playwright and actor.[1]
Biography and education
She was born in 1955 in Sydney, Australia and in 1970 moved to New Zealand. Parry has two qualifications, a Diploma in Acting from Toi Whakaari, the national New Zealand Drama School in 1976,[2][3] and a Master in Scriptwriting from Victoria University of Wellington.
Career
Parry is a performer including being part of the Crows Feet Dance Collective, a dance company for women with a lowest age limit of 40 years.[4][5] She is known for her stage impersonation of former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark.[6]
Plays
- (1986) Strip
File:Scarlet and Gold Circa Theatre 2016.jpg Season of Scarlet and Gold at Circa Theatre in 2016 - (1992) Digger & Nudger Try Harder, co-written by Carmel McGlone
- (1993) Frontwomen[7]
- (1994) Cracks[8]
- (1996) Eugenia[9]
- (2002) Vagabonds[10]
- (2003) The Truth About Loven, co-written by Pinky Agnew
- (2006) The Candidates, co-written Pinky Agnew
- (2008) Kate & Mrs Jones
- (2010) Bloomsbury Women & The Wild Colonial Girl[11]
- (2010) Sex Drive, co-written by Pinky Agnew
- (2014) Destination Beehive, co-written by Pinky Agnew
- (2016) Scarlet & Gold
Film
- (1988) Send a Gorilla as Sender of revenge gram
Honours and awards
- 1994 – Awarded Stout Fellowship, Victoria University of Wellington
- 1995 – The Reader's Digest PEN Stout Research Centre Fellowship
- 1998 – Writer in Residence, Victoria University of Wellington.[12] Parry was the first female playwright to achieve this award.
- 2004 – Appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the performing arts, in the 2004 New Year Honours[13]
References
- ↑ Forster, Michelanne; Plumb, Vivienne (2013). Twenty New Zealand Playwrights. Wellington: Playmarket. ISBN 9780908607471.
- ↑ "Graduate". www.toiwhakaari.ac.nz. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs named:1 - ↑ "Crows Feets Dance - C is for Climate Change". DANZ. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ↑ "The Witch Project". The Big Idea. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ↑ "WRITING WELLINGTON: TWENTY YEARS OF VICTORIA UNIVERSITY WRITING FELLOWS". NZETC. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ↑ Parry, Lorae (1993). Frontwomen. Wellington, N.Z.: Women's Play Press. p. 71. ISBN 0473021714.
- ↑ Parry, Lorae (1994). Cracks. Wellington, N.Z.: Women's Play Press. p. 76. ISBN 0473021714.
- ↑ parry, Lorae (1996). Eugenia. Wellington, [N.Z.]: Victoria University Press. p. 86. ISBN 0864733046.
- ↑ Parry, Lorae (2002). Vagabonds. Wellington [N.Z.]: Victoria University Press in association with Women's Play Press. p. 92. ISBN 0864734352.
- ↑ Parry, Lorae (2010). Bloomsbury women & the wild colonial girl. Wellington, N.Z.: Women's Play Press. p. 43. ISBN 9780958231015.
- ↑ Birch, Dinah; Drable, Margaret (2009). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. New York: Oxford University. ISBN 9780192806871.
- ↑ "New Year honours list 2004". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2003. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
Categories:
- Living people
- 20th-century New Zealand dramatists and playwrights
- New Zealand women dramatists and playwrights
- Victoria University of Wellington alumni
- Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
- 21st-century New Zealand dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century New Zealand women writers
- 21st-century New Zealand women writers
- 1955 births
- Toi Whakaari alumni