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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).
Gay during a time of immense sexual and social changes, Rotorua-born Lord was one of New Zealand’s most important professional playwrights the author of numerous stage and radio plays,...
- David Herkt
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.
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature called Lord "New Zealand's first professional playwright". Born in Rotorua in 1945, Lord studied arts at Otago and Victoria Universities. In 1969, he won the Katherine Mansfield short story contest, but soon shifted his attention to writing stage plays.
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.
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.
Nov 21, 2023 · Sam Brooks, a messy gay playwright himself, reads the newly-published diaries of Robert Lord, a pioneer of queer theatre in New Zealand. He finds relatable moments, hilarious anecdotes, and a portrait of a brilliant but troubled artist.
