Director Archives - Page 6 of 8

Maria Dronke

Maria Dronke made a significant contribution to the theatre in her adopted country of New Zealand.

Bathia Stuart

She was one of the first New Zealand women to enter the male-dominated field of film-making.

Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.

Bernie Dwyer

Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist

Ninette de Valois

Irish ballerina, choreographer, and founder of the Royal Ballet

Margaret Anglin

American actress, director and producer

Assia Djebar

Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.

Nola Leigh Millar

First director of the New Zealand Drama School

Daisy Bannard Cogley

Irish theatre director and producer, actor and singer

Kathleen O’Brien

For most of the 1950s Kathleen O’Brien was the only woman directing films in New Zealand.