Playwrights Association of New Zealand
The Playwrights Association of New Zealand (PANZ) is an incorporated society in New Zealand. The association was founded in 1958. It awards an annual Outstanding Achievement Award, which from 1988 to 2016 was known as The Doug Wrenn Award. Doug Wrenn was a former president of PANZ. The award, instituted in 1988, is presented to "a member who had significant success in playwriting during the year".[1]
Award winners[edit]
Outstanding Achievement Award winners include:[1]
2022: Tim Hambleton, "for community theatre productions of On the Right Track, Gone to Seed and Killer Boobs"
2021: Rex McGregor
2020: Lindsey Brown
2019: Alister Emerson
2018: Elspeth Tilley[2]
2017: April Phillips
2016: Rex McGregor
2015: Rex McGregor
2014: Graeme Webber
2013: April Phillips
2012: Jennie Turner
2011: Neil Troost
2010: Angie Farrow
2009: Peter Franklin
2008: Leo Cappel
2007: Thomas Sainsbury
2006: Denis Edwards
2005: Diane Francis
2004: Richard Prevett
2003: Rosalie Carey
2002: Richard Prevett
2001: Alan Williamson
2000: Campbell Smith
1999: Jean Dinnie
1998: Brian Turner
1997: Bronwyn Elsmore
1996: Daphne Calderwood, Bruce Goodman, John Dunmore
1995: no award given
1994: Andre Surridge
1993: Denise Walsh
1992: Bruce Goodman
1991: Harrison Bray
1990: Campbell Smith
1989: Suzanne Le Prou
1988: Nancy Kinkel, Leslie Pearce
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Outstanding Achievement Awards". Playwrights Association of New Zealand (Inc). 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "2022 Professorial promotions announced". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
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