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David Geary

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ContactPlease contact my agent: Playmarket

SkillsActor
Critic
Director
Dramaturg
Film maker
Playwright
Script writer
Writer-Performing Arts
Teacher - Storytelling & Scriptwriting

BiographyAll-rounder : Professional screenwriter, playwright, fiction writer, actor, poet and teacher of scriptwriting from 1988 to the present.

Latest Play - MARK TWAIN & ME IN MAORILAND

Latest Teaching - Victoria University IIML - SENIOR LECTURER in SCRIPTWRITING

Latest Fiction - GARY MANAWATU [1964-2008] : DEATH OF A FENCE-POST-MODERNIST

Latest Poem - Haiku for the Recession : Tea stained fingers / Two cups squeezed from one bag / I am my mother

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]

SHORT/SHARP/SCRIPT (2) at CIRCA, 27 SEPTEMBER Five more funny, fast and furious mini-dramas by MA scriptwriters are delivered fresh and hot. Charlie Blake, Samuel Burt, Nathan Crocker, Maya Hammarsal and April Phillips are on show with David Geary at the helm. 24 Sep 2010
SHORT/SHARP/SCRIPT (2) at CIRCA, 27 SEPTEMBER Five more funny, fast and furious mini-dramas by MA scriptwriters are delivered fresh and hot. Charlie Blake, Samuel Burt, Nathan Crocker, Maya Hammarsal and April Phillips are on show with David Geary at the helm. [more]

Absorbing quest a very special experience 15 Jul 2010
From a highly entertaining concoction of popular /poor (as in penniless) /people’s theatre conventions, David Geary and company with director John Bolton distil the story of European colonisation to a piquant essence. And they conscript a subversive American wit, on a fund-raising tour to pay his debts, to do the trick. [more]

Simultaneously compelling, entertaining and thought-provoking: this is what theatre’s all about 24 May 2010
“School sucks!” is a perfect line to start a high schools tour show with, especially in places where theatregoing as a relatively foreign concept. It’s from Thomas Sainsbury’s Loser and is the first extract from the 13 plays sampled to create A Baker’s Dozen: a veritable ‘taste treat’ smorgasbord of scenes to which the target audience cannot help but relate. [more]

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