ANGIE FARROW | "We’ve got a lot of issues to deal with. We need to think about global warming and what happens when we run out of oil. There are big, creative problems that we’ve got to try and solve and I do think that theatre, the arts, those kinds of public forum are a way of bringing people together and getting them to look at these issues. Not always necessarily through cognition, but often through emotion and the connection." |
The works of playwright and Associate Professor Angie Farrow have been performed in her native UK, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Singapore, Australia, and India.
In addition to being critically acclaimed, she has won numerous awards for her theatre plays including The Pen is A Mighty Sword International Play Competition in 2007 and The Bruce Wrenn Award for Outstanding Contribution to New Zealand Writing for her her community theatre play Before the Birds (2009). Her short plays have won many awards on the international stage including Peoples' Choice at the Inspirato Festival in Canada for Tango Partner (2011) and Best Script for her play Lifetime at the Short and Sweet Festival in Singapore (2010). Angie is the author of two anthologies of plays for young adults: Plays for Physical Theatre (2005) and Plays for Physical Theatre II (2010).
In addition to writing for the stage, Angie writes for radio. Her first radio play, All Packed Up, was produced by the BBC; Carrion won a Mobil Award for Best Radio Drama in 1992 and New Zealand Lamb, The Beauty Business, Speed of Light and Despatch were broadcast on Radio New Zealand and the ABC.
Angie has won several awards for her teaching. These include a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award and the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2011, she was voted Lecturer of the Year by Massey University- Manawatu students. Angie was instrumental in setting up the Visiting Artists Scheme, jointly sponsored by Massey University and the City of Palmerston North. She also runs the biennial Festival of New Arts, Summer Shakespeare, and Arts on Wednesdays, a weekly showcase of film and live performance.
"I thought I’d stay a year or two. But I got caught up in the environment; I love it here. I love the students and I just love the freedom that I have to invent things. I stayed 18 years and I’m still here."
