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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 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. In 1990 he returned to Dunedin.
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 · Lord’s most famous (adjust for inflation) plays include The Travelling Squirrel, Bert and Maisie, and his best play, perhaps the best family drama ever written in New Zealand, Joyful and...
Robert Lord - Robert Lord was writing full-time at a point when very few Kiwi playwrights made a living from their work. In 1988 he turned his play Bert and Maisy into a television series. He also had scriptwriting credits on 60s set TV show Peppermint Twist and big screen period drama Pictures.
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.
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Jun 4, 2018 · Robert Lord. A prolific playwright, Robert Lord’s work was seen throughout New Zealand as well as in Australia, Canada and the United States. He was instrumental in establishing the workshopping process within New Zealand, as well as many other things. In 1969 was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Young Writers Award.
