Emily Duncan

Websitehttps://www.playmarket.org.nz/playwrights/emily-duncan/
Twitterhttps://@emilytessduncan
Emily Duncan is an Ōtepoti–Dunedin raised and based writer, dramaturg, and director. 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. In 2019 she was the  University of Otago’s Robert Burns Fellow. Emily is the co-founder of Prospect Park Productions, home of Ōtepoti Theatre Lab and Ōtepoti Writers Lab. She holds a PhD in Theatre from the University of Otago and trained at the Strasberg Institute in New York City. Her plays have been published in the anthologies Here/Now (2015) and 101 New Zealand Monologues for Youth (2019).
https://www.prospectpark.co.nz/
https://www.playmarket.org.nz/playwrights/emily-duncan/

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