Lisa Warrington Explained

Lisa Warrington
Birth Name:Lisa Jadwiga Valentina Warrington
Birth Date:14 February 1952
Birth Place:England
Occupation:Theatre studies lecturer
Notable Works:Theatre Aotearoa database
Awards:Lifetime Achievement Award, Dunedin Theatre Awards 2014
New Zealand Listener Best Director award 2004, 2005, 2007
Thesis Title:Allan Wilkie in Australia: The work of a Shakespearean actor-manager
Thesis Year:1981

Lisa Jadwiga Valentina Warrington (born 14 February 1952) is a New Zealand theatre studies academic, director, actor and author. She has directed more than 130 productions, and established the Theatre Aotearoa database. In 2014 she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Dunedin Theatre Awards, and was three times winner of a New Zealand Listener Best Director award, including one for Tom Scott's The Daylight Atheist.

Early life and education

Warrington was born in 1952, and spent much of her early life in England, Nigeria, and Australia. She is of English and Polish descent, her parents Jozef and Patricia (née McLean) having changed their surname to Warrington from Wawrzynczak. Her sister is Australian actress, songwriter and author Carmen Warrington (b. 1957); her brother Jan was a Multicultural Arts Officer and lighting designer based in Canberra (d. 2008).[1] [2] Warrington obtained a BA (Hons) from the University of Tasmania in 1973, with a thesis titled Dunbar, the concise artist: a study of aspects of language, structure and imagery in his poetry.[3] In 1981 she followed this with an MA, also at the University of Tasmania, titled Allan Wilkie in Australia: the work of a Shakespearean actor-manager.[4]

Career

Warrington taught at the University of Tasmania before being appointed as the William Evans Lecturer at the University of Otago in 1981. She initially had 30 students and was the University's only drama lecturer, with only three others in the entire country. In 1990, she led the introduction of a directing programme to the University of Otago's Theatre Studies programme. From 2011 she was appointed as Associate Professor there.[5]

Warrington is also responsible for the front door of the Allen Hall Theatre being painted red.[6] Many of Warrington's academic publications deal with indigenous theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand, particularly Māori as well as Pasifika practitioners and productions. With David O'Donnell, Warrington wrote Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa, a book based on interviews with practitioners over the course of seven years that, among other things, catalogues Pasifika theatre from 1984 to 2014. The book's title comes from an interview with Samoan playwright and filmmaker Makerita Urale.[7]

Warrington, a co-founder of Wow! Productions, directed more than 35 productions at Dunedin's Fortune Theatre, and was Acting Artistic Director of the Fortune for the latter part of 1985.[8] She was then Associate Director of the Fortune from 1985 to 1991. She has directed more than 130 productions in total, including many for Wow! Productions.

Warrington retired from the University of Otago on 30 June 2018, after 37 years of teaching, although she continues to work freelance and to maintain the Theatre Aotearoa database.[9] Warrington began the database in 2004, and as of July 2021 it contained details on 17,156 New Zealand theatre productions in New Zealand and overseas.[10] Her goal for the database is for it to cover all theatre productions in New Zealand from 1840 onwards.

Selected productions

Selected publications

Honours and awards

Warrington was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dunedin Theatre Awards in 2014.[24] The same year she was awarded a New Zealand Theatre Services honour medal.[25] Warrington has been created a Life Member of the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies.[26]

She received a New Zealand Listener Best Director award three times:

In 2018, Warrington won the Rob Jordan Book Prize, awarded by the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies, for Floating Islanders (joint award with David O'Donnell).[28]

In the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours, Warrington was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to theatre and educatio.[29]

External links

Notes and References

  1. "Her story," Carmen Warrington: Calm and creative. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. Web site: Carmen Warrington Books. 27 July 2021. www.hachette.com.au. 28 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210728030944/https://www.hachette.com.au/carmen-warrington/. live.
  3. Dunbar: the concise artist : a study of aspects of language, structure and imagery in his poetry. 1973. English. Lisa J. Warrington. 857719669 . 10 July 2021. 11 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210711234752/https://www.worldcat.org/title/dunbar-the-concise-artist-a-study-of-aspects-of-language-structure-and-imagery-in-his-poetry/oclc/857719669. live.
  4. Allan Wilkie in Australia: The work of a Shakespearean actor-manager. 1981. Hobart. English. Lisa Jadwiga Valentina. Warrington. 1178545822 . 10 July 2021. 11 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210711234746/https://www.worldcat.org/title/allan-wilkie-in-australia-the-work-of-a-shakespearean-actor-manager/oclc/1178545822. live.
  5. Web site: University of Otago. 3 December 2010. Otago academics made full professor. live. 23 July 2021. www.scoop.co.nz. 23 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210723075034/https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1012/S00020/otago-academics-made-full-professor.htm.
  6. Web site: McPhee. Elena. 13 July 2018. Stage of life for taking pride in dramatic direction. 6 July 2021. Otago Daily Times Online News. en. 9 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183533/https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/stage-life-taking-pride-dramatic-direction. live.
  7. Web site: Fox. Rebecca. 1 February 2018. Pasifika passion. 6 July 2021. Otago Daily Times Online News. en. 9 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210709191759/https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/theatre/pasifika-passion. live.
  8. Book: Fortune Theatre Trust. A Celebration of 30 Years Live Professional Theatre: the Fortune Theatre Dunedin New Zealand 1974–2004. Fortune Theatre Trust Board. 2004. Dunedin, NZ. 7.
  9. Web site: 30 July 2018. Her life in art: Lisa Warrington. 6 July 2021. The Big Idea. en. 9 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210709190955/https://www.thebigidea.nz/stories/her-life-in-art-lisa-warrington. live.
  10. Web site: Theatre Aotearoa. 1 August 2021. tadb.otago.ac.nz. 11 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210711022736/https://tadb.otago.ac.nz/theatre/Login/Index.php. live.
  11. Web site: ATL: Unpublished Collections. 6 July 2021. tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. 8 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210508030508/https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.543668. live.
  12. Web site: ATL: Unpublished Collections. 6 July 2021. tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. 8 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210508030508/https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.954534. live.
  13. News: Beresford. Rosemary. 11 January 1986. A room with no future. 38. NZ Listener.
  14. Web site: Past Shows Wow Productions. 2 August 2021. Wow Productions Premiere Dunedin Theatre. en. 11 April 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210411030510/https://wowproductions.nz/past-shows. live.
  15. Web site: ATL: Unpublished Collections. 6 July 2021. tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. 8 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210508030508/https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.526253. live.
  16. News: Frame. Barbara. 6 October 2006. Railway setting transports audience. Otago Daily Times. 28 July 2021. 28 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210728030945/https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=383. live.
  17. Web site: Playing with Fire. Staging Lines of Fire: A Site-specific Project. 27 July 2021. scholar.google.co.nz. 28 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210728030944/https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=sLqQieEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=sLqQieEAAAAJ:LkGwnXOMwfcC. live.
  18. News: Frame. Barbara. 16 November 2009. Discordant quartet in Italy. Otago Daily Times. 28 July 2021. 20 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920193820/http://tadb.otago.ac.nz/. live.
  19. Web site: 19 June 2014. Muddled approach to the golden world. 6 July 2021. Stuff. en. 9 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184326/https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/10181121/Muddled-approach-to-the-golden-world. live.
  20. Web site: FARLEY'S ARCADE: The Wildest Place in Town – Visceral, entertaining, indescribable. 28 July 2021. www.theatreview.org.nz. 28 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210728030947/https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=8415. live.
  21. Web site: PRODUCTION INFORMATION: THE END OF THE GOLDEN WEATHER. live. 2 August 2021. www.theatreview.org.nz. 2 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210802005438/https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=7285.
  22. Web site: MacTavish. Terry. 9 November 2020. THE END OF THE GOLDEN WEATHER – A luminous, compassionate production. live. 2 August 2021. www.theatreview.org.nz. 2 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210802005408/https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=12500.
  23. Web site: Otago University Press. Playlunch: Five Short New Zealand Plays. live. 2 August 2021. University of Otago. en-nz. 2 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210802000538/https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/books/otago068836.html.
  24. Web site: 16 December 2014. AWARD WINNERS FOR 2014 DUNEDIN THEATRE AWARDS. live. 6 July 2021. www.theatreview.org.nz. 9 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185432/https://www.theatreview.org.nz/news/news.php?id=1380.
  25. Web site: McAvinue. Shawn. 17 December 2014. Theatre puts on its own awards. 28 July 2021. Otago Daily Times Online News. en. 15 June 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210615041833/https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/theatre-puts-its-own-awards. live.
  26. Web site: ADSAHistory. 2021-11-30. www.adsa.edu.au.
  27. Web site: School of Performing Arts. Lisa Warrington. live. 7 July 2021. www.otago.ac.nz. en-nz. 7 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210707001218/https://www.otago.ac.nz/performing-arts/staff/otago016265.html.
  28. Web site: 2018 Joint Winners Rob Jordan Prize. 2021-11-10.
  29. News: King's Birthday Honours 2024: The full list of all recipients . 3 June 2024 . . 3 June 2024.

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