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This Theatrical Life with Carrie Green
Carrie Green is an award-winning actor, writer and director who has worked with likes of Auckland Theatre Company, Taki Rua, Tawata Productions and World of Wearable Arts. Carrie’s acting credits include Silo Theatre’s Mr Burns and Cellfish, Bless the Child, Public Service Announcements and TV's Under the Vines. She was awarded Actor of the Year in 2019 and Outstanding New Playwright in 2016 at the Wellington Theatre Awards.
Carrie is the director of Two Guitars which is at Circa Theatre 23 March - 13 April. Two Guitars is a musical journey that follows the winners of a kaupapa Māori music competition who are about to play their showcase gig. But an hour before the show, tension and cultural aspirations come to a head, forcing them to decide whether they should go through with the show or not.
Carrie took time out from her busy schedule to answer some questions about her theatrical life. -
My Top Five Writers Picks: Tracey Slaughter
Tracey Slaughter is an award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist, whose latest works include Devil’s Trumpet and Conventional Weapons (both from Te Herenga Waka Press). She is the editor Poetry Aotearoa, New Zealand’s longest-running poetry journal, and she teaches Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.
I asked Tracey to let me know what she's most looking forward to in the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts Writers Programme (23-25 February). -
GET TO KNOW AUTHOR SANDRA CISNEROS (MEXICO/US)
We are beyond delighted to be welcoming internationally acclaimed writer Sandra Cisneros to our shores for the first time for the 2024 WRITERS programme. An author of poetry, short stories, novels and personal essays, Cisneros is best known for her seminal 1984 novel “The House on Mango Street”. We are thrilled to be a part of the 40th anniversary celebrations for this critically acclaimed book.