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Robert Lord (18 July 1945 – 7 January 1992) was the first New Zealand professional playwright. He was one of the first New Zealand playwrights to have plays produced abroad since Merton Hodge in the 1930s (following Bruce Mason and James K. Baxter).
Robert Lord 1945 - 1992. Robert was born in Rotorua and studied for an Arts Degree at Victoria University. In 1969 was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Young Writers Award. His first full length play It Isn't Cricket premiered at Downstage Theatre in 1971.
Robert Lord was one of New Zealand’s first internationally successful playwrights. David Herkt talks to the editors of his explicit and revealing 1980s New York diaries.
- David Herkt
Nov 21, 2023 · Robert Lord was not our country’s first queer playwright, but definitely its most prominent queer playwright for his time, give or take a Renée. His work is not revived as often as it...
Oct 12, 2023 · A new book sheds light on the inner-life of playwright Robert Lord who left his small, red-brick cottage in the heart of North Dunedin to provide a temporary home for many writers over the past 20 years. Rebecca Fox talks to the book’s co-editors Chris Brickell, Vanessa Manhire and Nonnita Rees.
A pioneer of New Zealand playwriting, Robert Lord was a co-founder of Playmarket, the powerhouse of writing for theatre in this country. Based in New York throughout the 1980s, he held the University of Otago’s Burns Fellowship in 1987, returned to live in Dunedin in 1990, and died there on 7 January 1992.
Robert Lord, a pioneering gay playwright with a witty and sardonic style, lived in both New Zealand and New York during the 1970s and 1980s. These diaries tell of his complex expatriate life, his friends, and his work.
