Kunapipi Volume 31 Issue 1 Article 11 2009 ‘Rocking the Boat’: A conversation with New Zealand playwright, Lynda Chanwai-Earle Paloma Fresno Calleja Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Calleja, Paloma Fresno, ‘Rocking the Boat’: A conversation with New Zealand playwright, Lynda Chanwai- Earle, Kunapipi, 31(1), 2009. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol31/iss1/11 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library:
[email protected] ‘Rocking the Boat’: A conversation with New Zealand playwright, Lynda Chanwai- Earle Abstract Lynda Chanwai-Earle is a New Zealand performance poet, playwright and scriptwriter of Eurasian descent. Born in London in 1965, she lived in Papua New Guinea for a number of years before moving to New Zealand as a teenager. She obtained a Bachelor degree at Elam School of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Drama from the University of Auckland and more recently an MA in scriptwriting from Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters. This journal article is available in Kunapipi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol31/iss1/11 132 PALOMA FRESNO CALLEJA ‘Rocking the Boat’: A Conversation with New Zealand Playwright, Lynda Chanwai-Earle Lynda Chanwai-Earle is a New Zealand performance poet, playwright and scriptwriter of Eurasian descent. Born in London in 1965, she lived in Papua New Guinea for a number of years before moving to New Zealand as a teenager. She obtained a Bachelor degree at Elam School of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Drama from the University of Auckland and more recently an MA in scriptwriting from Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters.