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Briar Grace-Smith ONZM is a screenwriter, director, actor, and short story writer from New Zealand. She has worked as an actor and writer with the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari and Maori theatre company He Ara Hou.
Briar Grace-Smith is a highly regarded playwright, screenwriter, poet and short story writer. Belonging to the Ngati Hau hapu of Nga Puhi, her work is at once lyrical, political and wickedly funny.
It’s been decades in the making, but Briar Grace-Smith has finally given life to a screen adaptation of best-selling novel, Cousins. She talks to Aroha Awarau about the significance of the film and the wonderful wāhine who helped make it happen.
Briar Grace-Smith, ONZM, has written for stage, page and screen. The Listener labelled her 1996 play Purapurawhetu "a new classic of New Zealand theatre". It was later filmed for TV's Atamira. After writing for Being Eve and Mataku, Grace-Smith created quirky TV movie Fish Skin Suit.
Briar descends from Ngāti Hau and Ngāpuhi iwi. She is a filmmaker and writer of award-winning plays, screenplays, short fiction and television scripts. She works as a mentor to screenwriters in New Zealand and overseas. Her plays include Ngā Pou Wāhine, Purapurawhetū and When Sun and Moon Collide.
Briar Grace-Smith is an award-winning writer of plays, television scripts and short stories. Her plays have toured nationally and internationally to Australia, Canada and Greece. Her first play Ngā Pou Wāhine won the 1995 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award and Purapurawhetū won Best New Zealand Play at the 1997 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards.
Among the writers is acclaimed artist Briar Grace-Smith (Ngā Puhi and Ngāti Hau). Best known as a playwright and screenwriter, Grace-Smith wrote, starred in and co-directed hit feature film Cousins, and also recently directed Emmy award-winning Rūrangi.
