Rangimoana Taylor

Rangimoana Taylor is a Māori actor, theatre director and storyteller from New Zealand with more than 35 years in the industry.[1] He has performed nationally and internationally including appearances on BBC.[2] He is affiliated with the iwi Ngāti Porou.

Biography

A graduate of Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School in the 1970s, Taylor was one of the key people who developed the influential style of Marae-Theatre, incorporating cultural concepts and values into the performance space.[3] Taylor founded contemporary Māori Theatre company Te Ohu Whakaari in the 1980s which was a collective that created shows based on their experiences and issues they felt important.[4] He was also one of the founders of Taki Rua Theatre in Wellington which became a venue for bi-cultural contemporary theatre in the country during the 1980s and 1990s and is a national platform for contemporary Māori performing arts.[5][6] In the 1990s Taylor collaborated with Cindy Diver, Awatea Edwin and Hilary Halba to form a bi-cultural theatre company Kilimogo Productions in Dunedin, with Māori and Pākehā traditions present in the process and the performance form.[7]

Taylor's first screen acting role was on the first funded New Zealand television series Pukemanu in 1972.[8] Taylor acted along Kirk Torrance and Temuera Morrison a recurring role in the BBC America Mystery drama mini-series Tatau.[9]

Personal life

Taylor is the brother of leading Māori poet and performance artist Apirana Taylor and writer Riwia Brown, the award-winning screenwriter of the cult classic New Zealand movie Once Were Warriors. He is married to Wellington activist, counsellor and celebrant Bill Logan, who helped lead the campaign for Homosexual Law Reform in the early 1980s.

References
  1. "ADSA Conference: Turangawaewae A Sense of Place". University of Otago. Retrieved 9 November 2009.
  2. "Rangimoana Taylor - Storyteller at Festival of Colour 2009, Lake Wanaka". Retrieved 9 November 2009.
  3. Christopher B., Balme (1999). Decolonizing the stage: theatrical syncretism and post-colonial drama. Oxford University Press. p. 64. ISBN 0-19-818444-1.
  4. Performing Aotearoa : New Zealand theatre and drama in an age of transition. Maufort, Marc., O'Donnell, David, 1956-. Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang. 2007. ISBN 978-90-5201-359-6. OCLC 165412282.CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. Keown, Michelle (2007). Pacific Islands writing: the postcolonial literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania. Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English. Oxford University Press US. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-19-927645-5.
  6. "Home". Taki Rua. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  7. Halba, Hilary. "DeepSouth - Theatre". Otago University. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  8. "Rangimoana Taylor". GCM. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  9. Moore, Debi. "BBC America's Tatau". DC.


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