Richard Campion (theatre director)

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Richard Meckiff Campion ONZM (13 December 1923 – 2 July 2013) was a New Zealand theatre director.[1]

Biography[]

Campion came from a family engaged in the Exclusive Brethren Christian Evangelical movement.[2]

He was a teacher, and theatre and opera director.[3][4][5]

He founded the New Zealand Players, New Zealand's first professional theatre company, with his wife and co-founder Edith Campion (née Beverley Georgette Hannah), an actress, writer, and heiress, paternal granddaughter of Robert Hannah, a well-known shoe manufacturer for whom Antrim House was built.[1][6][7]

Their children Anna, Jane, a year and a half her junior, and brother, Michael, seven years the latter's junior, grew up in the world of New Zealand theatre.[4]

In 1990, Campion was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[8] In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the theatre.[9] The Academy Award-winning screenwriter, producer, and director Jane Campion is his daughter. The Ngā Whakarākei O Whātaitai / Wellington Theatre Awards annually an award called The Richard Campion Accolade for Outstanding Performance.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Death of Richard Campion, theatre pioneer who founded NZ Players". Wellington Scoop. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  2. ^ Fox (2011). Jane Campion profile. p. 26. ISBN 978-0253223012. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  3. ^ Fox (2011). Jane Campion profile. p. 25. ISBN 978-0253223012.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b McHugh, Kathleen (2007). Contemporary Film Directors: Jane Campion. United States of America: University of Illinois, Urbana. ISBN 978-0-252-03204-2.
  5. ^ Canby, Vincent (30 May 1993). "FILM VIEW; Jane Campion Stirs Romance With Mystery". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "Story: Theatre companies and producers – The rise of professional companies". Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  7. ^ Dekker, Diana (13 July 2013). "All the world was a stage for NZ Players founder". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  8. ^ Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 90. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
  9. ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2004". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 7 June 2004. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  10. ^ "Wellington Theatre Awards 2019". The Big Idea. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2021.


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