Jo randerson biography

Jo Randerson

New Zealand writer, director, and performer

Joanna Ruth RandersonONZM (born ) is a New Zealand writer, director and performer. She is the founder and artistic director of Barbarian Productions, a Wellington-based theatre production company.[1]

Biography

Randerson was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in and moved to Wellington when she was four years old.[2] She studied at Wellington Girls' College, and then went on to Victoria University of Wellington to major in English, theatre and film.[3] She wrote, directed and performed in theatre productions for the Victoria University of Wellington Student Drama Club.

At the same time she also wrote for and performed at BATS Theatre Wellington, and made television appearances as a stand-up comedian. After graduating, She co-founded the theatre group Trouble in [3] In she finished her Master of Theatre Arts in directing from Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School and Victoria University of Wellington as well as participating in the Leadership New Zealand programme.

Randerson was a recipient of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award in [4]

Randerson's writing has been twice shortlisted for the IIML Prize ( and ), she has won Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards and was nominated for the Billy T Award in She has earned fellowships at home and abroad – she received the Robert Burns Fellowship in (Dunedin), Winston Churchill Fellow (Russia) and completed a CNZ/DOC Wild Creations Residency in at Cape Kidnappers'.[5] Randerson won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award in for her first play Fold (part of the Young and Hungry season at BATS).[6] She won the Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award for Literature in Her books The Keys To Hell, TheSpit Children, Tales From the Netherworld and The Knot have all been critically acclaimed.

Her work is characterized as dark social satire.[7] In a review for The Keys to Hell in Landfall , Anna Smith wrote

Randerson's world is a "holding tank" inside which we shriek, or remain terrified and mute witnesses to the despair that is life – a theme rehearsed over and over.

Provocation, not subtlety, is the writer's special effect.[8]

In the New Year Honours, Randerson was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the performing arts.[9]

Publications

  • The Knot (Wedge Press, )
  • "The Penguin People" in The Picnic Virgin, ed.

    Emily Perkins (Victoria University Press, )[10]

  • The Spit Children (Victoria University Press, )[11]
  • "Banging Cymbal, Clanging Gong" in Red Light Means Stop (The Women's Play Press, )[12]
  • The Keys to Hell (Victoria University Press, )[13]
  • Fold (The Play Press, ),[14] published with "shudder" by Pip Hall
  • "The Sheep, the Shepherd" in The Best New Zealand Fiction, Volume Three (Vintage, )
  • "Everything we Know" in Are Angels OK?: The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists, ed.

    Paul Callaghan and Bill Manhire (Victoria University Press, )[15]

  • Through the Door (illustrated by Seraphine Pick), Wedge Press[16]
  • The Unforgiven Harvest/ The Lead Wait (Playmarket, )[17]
  • Tales From the Netherworld (Steele Roberts, )[18]

References

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    Jo randerson biography images: ISBN Featured in Capital 54 Subscribe to get the real thing here. Randerson's world is a "holding tank" inside which we shriek, or remain terrified and mute witnesses to the despair that is life — a theme rehearsed over and over. Jo, with other locals, formed the Vogelmorn Community Group, and in they bought the bowling club building and land and turned it into a creative community space.

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  9. ^" Residency Winners". Department of Conservation. Retrieved 9 August
  10. ^"Bruce Mason Playwriting Award – Plays and playwrights – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand". . Retrieved 8 August
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  12. ^Smith, Anna (). "Landfall """. Landfall .
  13. ^"New Year honours list ".

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  14. ^Perkins, Emily (). Picnic Virgin, The. Wellington New Zealand: Victoria University Press. ISBN&#;.
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    Jo randerson biography wikipedia She reveals "Many people have said 'you should stick to one thing' - but I am a fidgety person and like doing many things. Core partner Wellington City Council - Black. Jo admits, with a grin, that working, living and sometimes performing with your husband can be challenging. But they largely make ends meet by renting office space to Barbarian and the Community Arts Trust, and by renting rooms to drama, exercise and other groups including the Foraging For Fungal Food club.

    Spit Children, The. Wellington: Victoria University Press. ISBN&#;.

  16. ^Plumb, Vivienne (). Red light means stop&#;: six super solos from Aotearoa New Zealand. Wellington New Zealand. ISBN&#;.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  17. ^Randerson, Jo (). Keys to Hell, The.

    Wellington: Victoria University Press. ISBN&#;.

  18. ^Randerson, Jo (). Fold / by Jo Randerson.

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    22. Shudder&#;: a play / by Pip Hall. Wellington New Zealand: The Play Press. ISBN&#;.

  22. ^Callaghan, Paul and Bill Manhire (eds) (). Are Angels OK? The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists.

    Jo randerson biography But what you might not expect is Randerson's love of science, and how it continues to inform her art practice. Spit Children, The. She and Thomas teach a Master of Fine Arts paper about arts management at Victoria University, to address the lack of small-business skills among artists. Publications [ edit ].

    Wellington New Zealand: Victoria University Press. ISBN&#;.

  23. ^Randerson, Jo and Seraphine Pick (). Through the Door. Wellington New Zealand: Wedge Press. ISBN&#;.
  24. ^Randerson, Jo (). The Unforgiven Harvest/The Lead Wait. Wellington New Zealand: Playmarket. ISBN&#;.
  25. ^Randerson, Jo ().

    Tales From The Netherworld. Steele Roberts Aotearoa. ISBN&#;.

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