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David O'Donnell was born on 1956 in New Zealand, is a director. Discover David O'Donnell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?
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O'Donnell is currently a full professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History at Victoria University of Wellington, having been promoted to professor in 2019.
He has been the editor of the Playmarket New Zealand Play Series since 2010, editing to date 17 play collections and theatre books.
O'Donnell co-edited the 2007 book Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition with Marc Maufort. In 2017, he co-authored Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa with Lisa Warrington. He co-authored Playmarket 40: 40 Years of Playwriting in New Zealand in 2013 with Laurie Atkinson.
O'Donnell began his academic career as an assistant lecturer in Theatre Studies at Allen Hall, Otago University (1992 -1998), and has taught at Victoria University of Wellington since 1999, where he is now a full professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media Studies and Art History. He has won several Excellence in Teaching Awards.
He has directed many plays, with a strong focus on Shakespeare and works from New Zealand, both professionally and with student performers. Shakespeare productions include several outdoor Summer Shakespeare productions for Victoria University of Wellington, including A Midsummer Night's Dream (1991), Richard III (featuring Jonathan Hendry in the title role) in 1998 and Hamlet, featuring a female 'hero' (Stevie Hancox-Monk) in 2019. He had previously directed Hamlet in 2005 at Dunedin's Fortune Theatre, and has also directed the Henry VI trilogy for Toi Whakaari/NZ Drama School at Te Whaea in 2006. Plays by New Zealand writers he has directed include Take Me Home Mr by William Walker (2002), Te Karakia by Albert Belz (2009), Heat by Lynda Chanwai-Earle (2010), The Great Gatsby adapted by Ken Duncum Circa Theatre 2010, and Hole by Lynda Chanwai-Earle (2020), amongst a number of others. (See Awards below for more.)
O'Donnell has a diploma in Acting from Toi Whakaari/New Zealand Drama School (1979), where his contemporaries included Lani Tupu and Simon Phillips. He is a graduate of both Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago, where he was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (PGrad Dip) and an MA. His 1999 Master's thesis was titled Re-staging history: historiographic drama from New Zealand and Australia.
David John O'Donnell (born in Nelson in 1956) is a theatre director, actor and academic based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has been a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington since 2019.
