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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 was playwright in residence at Auckland's Mercury Theatre and Burns Fellow at Otago University in 1987. Robert wrote numerous television programs as well as the screenplay for the New Zealand feature Pictures. At the time of his death, he was working on the screenplay The Big Ditch.
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...
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.
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.
Lord’s diaries tell a story of seeking and making a home, a story of belonging. He was a queer man, a queer playwright, a queer New Zealand artist with ‘an abiding ambivalence about being a New Zealander’, as the book’s introduction notes.
