Gary Henderson (playwright)

Portrait of New Zealand Playwright, Gary Henderson

Gary Henderson (born 1955) is a New Zealand playwright, director and teacher.[1] Henderson's work has been produced both nationally and internationally with his play Skin Tight having travelled to Edinburgh, New York City and Canada. Whilst at the 1998 Edinburgh Fringe Festival it won the Fringe First Award.[2] In 2013 Henderson received a $20,000 Playmarket Award, acknowledging his contribution to New Zealand theatre.[3]

Personal Life

Gary Henderson was born in Geraldine in South Canterbury, and travelled north to Auckland where he has lived ever since.

Plays

  • Things That Matter (Auckland Theatre Company 2023)[4]
  • Shepherd (The Court Theatre 2015)[5]
  • My Bed My Universe (Massive Company, 2014)[6]
  • Stealing Games (Capital E 2009)[7]
  • Sun Shower (in Mother Whaea Tama Son) (Musgrove Studio 2009)[8]
  • The Good One (in Mother Whaea Tama Son) (Musgrove Studio 2009)[8]
  • Lines of Fire
  • Peninsula (Court Theatre 2005)[9]
  • Home Land (commissioned by the Fortune Theatre, 2004), about an ageing Otago farmer who has to leave his farm due to failing health.[10][11]
  • Without Trace
  • An Unseasonable Fall of Snow (Downstage Theatre, 1998)[12]
  • Mo and Jess Kill Susie (BATS Theatre 1996)[13]
  • Spine-Tingle
  • The Judas Zoo (with Christian Penny and Anna Marbrook) (Theatre at Large 1995)[14]
  • Tigerplay (BATS Theatre 1994)[15]
  • Skin Tight (BATS Theatre 1994)[16]
  • Sunset Cafe (BATS Theatre 1993)
  • The Big Blue Planet Earth Show (with Emma Robinson, Shane Bartle, Toni Gordon and Tina Cook) (BATS Theatre 1991)[17]
  • Alien Kiss (Circa Theatre 1990)[18]
  • The Song of Bobby Zack (BATS Theatre 1989))[15]
  • Zippy and Gonk Meet the Hooded Mangler
  • Ziggy's Tribe (Parkway Intermediate School, 1987))[15]
  • Monsters

References

  1. ^ Forster, Michelanne; Plumb, Vivienne (2013). Twenty New Zealand Playwrights. Wellington: Playmarket. ISBN 9780908607471.
  2. ^ "Gary Henderson". Playmarket. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  3. ^ Grant, Nick. "Rise and Fall". No. 24 July 2014. Bauer Media Group. New Zealand Listner. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Things That Matter". Auckland Theatre Company. Auckland Theatre Company. 12 August 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Shepherd production page". Theatreview. The Theatreview Trust. February 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  6. ^ "My Bed My Universe". Theatreview. The Theatreview Trust. April 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  7. ^ "Stealing Games production page". Theatreview. The Theatreview Trust. July 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  8. ^ a b "MOTHER / WHAEA, TAMA / SON production page". Theatreview. The Theatreview Trust. March 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  9. ^ Court Theatre programme, July 2005
  10. ^ Till, Francis (15 October 2004). "National Business Review". Theatre Review.
  11. ^ Marc Maufort; David O'Donnell, eds. (2007). Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition. Brussels: Peter Lang. p. 466. ISBN 978-90-5201-359-6. ISSN 1376-3199. OL 23674269M.
  12. ^ Henderson, Gary (2007). Three Plays by Gary Henderson. Wellington, New Zealand: Playmarket. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-908607-30-3.
  13. ^ Henderson, Gary (2007). Three Plays by Henderson. Wellington,New Zealand: Playmarket. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-908607-30-3.
  14. ^ Hewitson, Michelle (11 March 1995). "THEATRE Briefs". New Zealand Listener.
  15. ^ a b c "Playmarket News". SPOTLIGHT Gary Henderson. 1998.
  16. ^ Henderson, Gary (2007). Three Plays by Gary Henderson. Wellington, New Zealand: Playmarket. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-908607-30-3.
  17. ^ Atkinson, Laurie (13 May 1993). "Evening Post". Theatre Review.
  18. ^ Atkinson, Laurie (9 May 1990). "The Evening Post". Henderson's Alien Kiss makes hat-trick.


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