Emily Duncan

Websitehttps://www.emilytessduncan.com/
Twitterhttps://@emilytessduncan

Emily Duncan (she/her) is an award-winning writer, dramaturg, and director based in Ōtepoti-Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.

She won the 2020 Bruce Mason Award, the 2021 Adam NZ Play Award, as well as the Best Play by a Woman Playwright, and the McNaughton South Island Play Award categories for & Sons, and the 2022 McNaughton South Island Play Award for her adaptation of Katherine Mansfield’s The Woman at the Store.

Emily holds a PhD in Theatre from the University of Otago and was the university’s 2019 Robert Burns Fellow. She received both the Friends of the Hocken Collections Award 2023 and the Arts Access Aotearoa Whakahoa Kaitoi Te Puna Toi Arts For All Fellowship in 2023.

In addition to playwriting and dramaturgy, she trained as an actor at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute (NYC) and has written, directed, and co-hosted podcasts.

 

 

 

Genre:

  • Drama
  • Plays
  • Scriptwriter

Skills:

  • Competition Judging
  • Editing
  • Freelance Writing
  • Manuscript Assessment
  • Mentoring
  • Playwriting
  • Proofreading
  • Public Speaking
  • Readings
  • Readings (adults)
  • Research
  • Workshops (adults)
  • Workshops (children/schools)

Branch:

Otago/Southland

Location:

Dunedin

Publications:

Here/Now: 8 Plays by Award-Winning NZ Playwrights

This anthology includes Emily's award winning play 'Eloise in the Middle' (Playmarket Plays for the Young 2013). Two kiwi boys take a road trip to Jerusalem while a seven-year-old girl deals with the divorce of her parents better than they do. New Zealand's youngest murderer meets public enemy No.1 and a vodka-swilling Nana helps her daughter fix her useless family for good. An expert teaches us how to feed our bellies and feed our hearts through baking Maori bread. A young woman loses herself in a map-world of paper roads, we are taken on an epic journey from colonial prostitutes to iPhones, and straight and gay bromance get confused while riding in cars - welcome to Here/Now! Contemporary kiwi drama at its best. All thanks to a bunch of clever young playwrights who have accumulated an impressive assembly of awards that include the Bruce Mason Award, Plays for the Young, Playwrights b4 25 and Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. They're so brilliant they make me sick. -Stuart Hoar, Playwright

Available at Playmarket https://www.playmarket.org.nz/bookshop/playmarket-play-series/herenow

100 New Zealand Monologues for Youth

This volume includes four monologues from Duncan's award-winning plays In Our Shoes and Le Sujet Parle. 
Available from Playmarket https://www.playmarket.org.nz/bookshop/playmarket-play-series/101-new-zealand-monologues-for-youth
 

Dark Dunedin

Seasons One - Three of the award-winning thriller podcast Dark Dunedin are available to listen for free on all major platforms including iTunes, YouTube, Google Play, and Spotify. 

https://www.prospectpark.co.nz/dark-dunedin