Amber Curreen

Amber Curreen
Bornc. 1985
Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Occupations
  • Actress
  • theatre producer

Amber Curreen (born c. 1985) is an actress and theatre producer based in Auckland, New Zealand.[1] She played character Shannon Te Ngaru on Shortland Street. She is a producer with Auckland theatre companies Te Rēhia Theatre Company and Te Pou Theatre.

Life and career

Curreen grew up on Waiheke Island.[1] She is of Māori and Pākehā descent. Her father who died in 2017 was Ngāpuhi.[1]

From 2001 to 2006, Curreen was an actress in the television soap opera Shortland Street playing the character Shannon Te Ngaru. She was originally cast for a short period as a 16-year-old but her role was extended.[2][3]

Curreen is creative producer of Te Rēhia Theatre Company, a theatre company established in 2012, alongside Tainui Tukiwaho.[1][4] Te Rēhia co-produced a comedy play Black Ties with the ILBIJERRI Theatre Company[5] as an "exploration of what happens when two First Nations cultures collide".[6] The play was presented in 2019 in Australia at the Sydney Festival, Perth Festival and Asia TOPA[7][8] and then in New Zealand in 2020 at the Auckland Arts Festival[5] and the New Zealand Festival.[9]

Curreen is a founding director of Te Pou Theatre (Te Pou) in Auckland founded in 2015.[10][11] Te Pou programmes Māori theatre and prior to Covid-19 restrictions in 2020 programmed four shows and two festivals annually.[12] Curreen said the goal was "to provide opportunities to make sure there are Māori artists onstage and audiences seeing are seeing Te Ao Māori onstage."[12]

One of the projects at Te Pou that Curreen produces is the annual Kōanga Festival which fosters Māori playwrights and started in 2015.[1][13] In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic the festival was hosted online, which Curreen said she hoped would enable "the best of both deep listening and hearing, and being able to share it throughout the world, and at the same time people communing with art".[14] She also produced Te Pou's Front Yard Festivals, putting on short live performances for isolated and vulnerable people.[15]

In a collaboration between Te Rēhia and circus performance company The Dust Palace, Curreen co-wrote and developed Te Tangi a te Tūī, a show featuring circus performances. The show's story is inspired by the song of the tūī and by Curreen's whakapapa. It premiered at Canadian theatre The Cultch in October 2023 and is being performed at Te Pou Theatre, Auckland, in March 2024.[16] Curreen, her partner and their two children are performers in the show.[17]

Selected productions

Theatre

Screen

  • Shortland Street – television soap opera – actress playing the character Shannon Te Ngaru (2001–2006)
  • Waru – film produced by Kerry Warkia & Kiel McNaughton – actress playing the character Titty (2017)[25]

Memberships

  • Executive board of the Performing Arts Network of New Zealand (PANNZ)[26]
  • The national Māori theatre committee He Waka Ūrungi[26]
  • The Tri-Nationals Indigenous Performing Arts Council[26]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Amber Curreen: Changing the narrative". The Big Idea. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Native Affairs – Shorty turns 25". Māori Television. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  3. ^ "All 30 years of Shortland Street, ranked". The Spinoff. 27 May 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Te Rēhia Theatre". The Big Idea NZ. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  5. ^ a b Live, Auckland. "BLACK TIES". Auckland Live. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  6. ^ Karamjeet, Jess. "REVIEW: Black Ties (Auckland Arts Festival)". Theatre Scenes: Aotearoa New Zealand Theatre. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Black Ties unites First Nations cultures across the Tasman". ABC Radio National. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  8. ^ Wrong, Suzy (10 January 2020). "Review: Black Ties (Ilbijerri Theatre Company / Te Rēhia Theatre)". Suzy Goes See. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  9. ^ Smythe, John (5 March 2020). "BLACK TIES - Surprising insights". TheatreView. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  10. ^ "Te Pou Theatre showcases Māori performing arts". The Trusts. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  11. ^ "Elevating Māori voices through performing arts". Foundation North. 16 March 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  12. ^ a b Powell, Kate (2020). "Leaning into Liveness". Playmarket Annual. 55.
  13. ^ "Amber Curreen: te reo and the arts in NZ Theatre Month". RNZ. 26 August 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  14. ^ "Koanga Festival - now a theatre festival goes on-line". Radio New Zealand. 23 August 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  15. ^ "Te Pou Theatre holds Front Yard Festivals". The New Zealand Herald. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  16. ^ Hill, Natasha (3 October 2023). "A traditional Māori performance infused with circus acrobatics will have its world premiere in Canada". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  17. ^ Ruru, Karanama (3 March 2024). "Whānau hopes to inspire with Māori circus, Te Tangi a te Tūī". Stuff. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  18. ^ "Mahuika!". Te Pou Theatre. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  19. ^ "Masked adventurers". Manawatū Standard. 26 September 2014. p. 9. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  20. ^ Townend, Lucy (20 October 2014). "Te reo show a boost for young". Manawatū Standard. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  21. ^ Ali, Mahvash (14 June 2017). "A play that reminds of the long summers, the Goodnight Kiwi and all things retro". Stuff. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  22. ^ "Kororāreka – Red Leap Theatre". Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  23. ^ "12 Questions: Former Shortland Street child star Amber Curreen". The New Zealand Herald. 19 March 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  24. ^ Luke, Candice (11 May 2023). "Theatre review: Kōpū – a celebration of wāhinetanga". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  25. ^ "Waru review – death, guilt and Māori life lessons in eight acts". The Guardian. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  26. ^ a b c "Amber Curreen". Australian Performing Arts Market. Retrieved 3 July 2022.

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