Exhibitions

Te Marae, Level 4, Te Papa

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The 2019 Creative New Zealand/Victoria University Writer in Residence Lynda Chanwai-Earle is a ground-breaking poet and playwright, whose work HEAT was the first-ever play to be powered by solar and wind power.

This year, she is working on the second and third plays in her ‘Antarctic Trilogy’, and co-writing a television drama drawing on the real-life murder of a Chinese student in Auckland that was also the basis for her play Man in a Suitcase.

Lynda is a well-known public broadcaster with RNZ, and has toured in a Māori theatre company visiting schools and prisons.

She explores her interlocking creative lives with producer/playwright Miria George.


For more information contact: Katie Hardwick-Smith

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