Professional Member Details

Michelanne Forster

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ContactPlease contact my agent: Playmarket
   http://www.playmarket.org.nz/home
Please contact my agent: New Zealand Writers Guild
   http://www.nzwritersguild.org.nz/

Please contact me direct:

027 424 8643

SkillsDramaturg
Playwright
Script writer
Writer-Performing Arts
playwright, dramaturg,scriptwriter, teacher

Biography

Michelanne began her career as a script editor/writer for Television New Zealand in the Children and Young Person’s Department. She has amassed a body of work that includes short stories, children’s television scripts, prize-winning plays and five books for children and one work of non-fiction. Her plays have been performed professionally by theatre companies throughout New Zealand, and in Australia, Canada and the United States. In 2010 she premiered three new works: Tic Tic, a one-man show about Tourette Syndrome (International Comedy Festival, Auckland), Don’t Mention Casablanca (Court Theatre, Christchurch), and The Secret of Dongting Lake (The Edge, Auckland). She is currently working with composer Anthony Ritchie on a new opera for the Southern Opera Company. Michelanne teaches Creative Writing courses for Continuing Education at Auckland University and is on the board of the New Zealand Writer’s Guild.

Recent mentions An exciting and inspiring challenge 17 May 2013
This year’s ensemble – Andrew Patterson, Ria Simmons, Carrie Green and Joe Dekkers-Reihana – directed by Emma Robinson, make manifesting 37 very different roles in excerpts from an eclectic selection of 16 plays look easy, such is their talent, skill and preparedness. The focus is therefore squarely on the characters, relationships and works in question. [more]

SHE’LL BE WRITE (2013) 14 May 2013
From the Classics to the Contemporary 16 Plays About Us Theatre in Schools – Your Schools She’ll Be Write to tour your town May – July 2013. The best of the best of Aotearoa – EnsembleImpact, in association with The Play Press and Playmarket, proudly announces a reprise season of She’ll Be Write, a fifty-minute schools’ programme devoted exclusively to New Zealand plays and playwrights. [more]

Disparate components flow smoothly 6 Oct 2012
The Otago Festival of the Arts starts with a bang. Two monkeys greet us at the door of the HMNZS Toroa Hall. We are seated beneath a tented ceiling and faced with a straightforward stage. Black curtains, some chairs, a piano. The set, much like the performance is straight to the point. [more]

Uplifting and optimistic humour 11 Dec 2011
“WE’RE BACK!” was the theme for the opening night of Roger Hall’s new comedy, the opening night of the Court Theatre’s new (temporary?) home ‘The Shed’, and the opening night of the first Court Theatre season since . . . well, since the intrusion of the even more realistic dramas that have upstaged professional theatre in Christchurch this year. [more]

Quite simply an inspiration 26 Oct 2011
Barrett is engaging with his audience, a good-sized crowd at Tauranga’s Art Festival. This one-man show never wavers in its clear narrative; a challenge considering how many characters Barrett brings to life, with an assortment of their own personal tics and accents. [more]

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