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Briar Grace-Smith is an award-winning writer of scripts, screenplays and short stories from New Zealand. She has worked as an actor and writer with the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari and Maori theatre company He Ara Hou. Early plays ''Don't Call Me Bro'' and ''Flat Out Brown'', were first performed at the Taki Rua Theatre in Wellington in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=New Zealand Book Council )〕 ''Waitapu'', a play written by Grace-Smith, was devised by He Ara Hou and performed by the group on the Native Earth Performing Arts tour in Canada in 1996. Her first major play ''Nga Pou Wahine'' earned her the 1995 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Grace-Smith won Best New Zealand Play at the 1997 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for ''Purapurawhetu'', called "a new classic of New Zealand theatre" by New Zealand Listener.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=NZ On Screen )〕 The play also toured to Canada and Greece.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=The Arts Foundation )〕 In 2000, she received the Arts Foundation Laureate Award. In 1993 she was Writer-in-Residence at Massey University, and in 2003, she was Writers' Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington.〔() NZ Electronic Text Centre.〕 Screenplays include ''Fresh Meat (film)'' (2012), ''Nine of Hearts'' and the New Zealand feature film ''The Strength of Water'' (2009).〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=IMDB )〕 Her plays have toured in New Zealand and internationally. ''The Strength of Water'' was selected for the 2006 Sundance Screenwriters' Lab in Utah, and premiered at the Berlin and Rotterdam Film Festivals in 2009.〔() Laureate, Arts Foundation New Zealand.〕 She was a finalist at the 2009 Qantas Film and TV Awards for Best Screenplay for a Feature Film for ''The Strength of Water''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=NZ On Screen )〕 Grace-Smith's work for television includes drama ''Fishskin Suit'', which won best drama at the NZ Television Awards〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=NZ On Screen )〕 and was nominated for Best Script - One off Drama.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=NZ on Screen )〕 and ''Charlie The Dreaded'', one of six Maori language stories produced for the Aroha series. Grace-Smith has also worked as a writer and storyliner on various television drama series. These have included ''Being Eve'', and ''Kaitangata Twitch'', a series adapted from the Margaret Mahy novel. She co-wrote ''Billy'', a tele-feature about the life of comedian Billy T James, with Dave Armstrong (2011). Grace-Smith is also a writer of short stories. Her short story ''Te Manawa'' appeared in The Six Pack, a sampler of New Zealand writing from New Zealand's inaugural Book Month publication (2006). Grace-Smith's short stories have been broadcast on Radio New Zealand National and appeared in anthologies including ''Penguin New Writers'' (1998), ''Tangata, Tangata'' (1999), ''Toi Wahine'' (1995), ''Huia Short Stories'' (1995) from Huia Publishers and ''Lost in Translation'' (2010).〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Arts Foundation )〕 Grace-Smith is of Nga Puhi and Ngāti Wai descent. She lives on the Kapiti Coast of Wellington with her husband and children. ==Published== *2012 ''Haruru Mai/Strange Resting Places'': Playmarket, 160 pages, ISBN 978-0-908607-44-0 *2007 ''When Sun and Moon Collide'': Huia Publishers, 115 pages, ISBN 1-86969-316-7, ISBN 978-1-86969-316-9 *1999 ''Purapurawhetu'': Huia Publishers, 111 pages, ISBN 0-908975-78-3, ISBN 978-0-908975-78-5 *1997 ''Nga Pou Wahine'' : Huia Publishers, 44 pages, Huia Publishers, ISBN 0-908975-26-0, ISBN 978-0-908975-26-6 ==Screenplays== *2012 ''Fresh Meat'' (feature film) *2012 ''When Sun and Moon Collide'' (television) *2012 ''Purapurawhetu'' (television) *2011 ''Billy'' (television, with Dave Armstrong) *2011 ''Nine of Hearts'' (short film) *2010 ''Kaitangata Twitch'' (television) *2010 ''Lily and Ra'' (short film) *2008 ''The Strength of Water'' (feature film) *2005 ''Mataku'' (television) *2002 ''Fishskin Suit'' (television) *2001 ''Being Eve'' (television) *1998-2000 ''The Big Chair'' (television) List from Playmarket's Twenty New Zealand Playwrights 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Briar Grace-Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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