Michelanne Forster
Michelanne is a published author, playwright and script writer. She spent a decade with TVNZ writing and directing for Play School, Spot On, After School, What Now, Once Upon A Story, Sesame Street and Bumble. After a 15 Year career at CPIT as a tutor in film and television department at the NZ Broadcasting School, she moved to Auckland to continue free-lance work as a dramaturge and teacher for Playmarket, and Auckland University Continuing Education. Her plays have been produced nationally and in the USA, UK and Australia. She moved to Nelson in 2016 and runs a variety of writing classes at Volume bookstore.
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Branch:
Top of the South
Location:
Nelson
Publications:
Twenty New Zealand Playwrights
Co- author Vivienne Plumb
Downfall
Three NewZealand History Plays
Playlunch
Five Short NZ Plays
Don’t Mention Casablanca
A play based on the true history of the authors grandparents, film director Michael Curtiz and screenwriter Thilde Forster.
When It’s Over
Real stories from the lives of ordinary men and women about the experience of separation and divorce. Out of print
Daughters of Heaven
The story of the Parker Hulme murder
Rodney Rat and the Sunken Treasure
Out of print. First in a series of three.