Lisa Warrington

Lisa Warrington is the director, and with about 130 plays under her director’s belt she is ideal. She has directed in a wide variety of genres, ranging from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy, to massive-cast pantomimes at the Regent Theatre, to contemporary solo shows. In April of 2009 she directed Emma for the Fortune. Four Flat Whites in Italy will be her 30th production for the Fortune. She is a long-time supporter of NZ drama, and has directed many NZ plays, as well as commissioning new work and acting as a director or dramaturg with Playmarket on many new play workshops and public readings. She has a passion for Shakespeare and has directed and adapted many of his comedies. Most recently Love’s Labours Lost. Favourite productions include: The Daylight Atheist, Old Times, Cherish, Bruised, Gulls, Arcadia, Wednesday to Come, Much Ado About Nothing, One Flesh and Dancing at Lughnasa. Warrington has been named in the NZ Listener as best director for The Daylight Atheist, Cherish, Auntie and Me and The Road to Mecca. Lisa is a senior lecturer in Theatre Studies at Otago University and is founder of WOW! Productions. WOW! Productions and the Fortune recently collaborated on Glorious. One of her current projects is Theatre Aotearoa, a database of all NZ theatre, from settlement to the present, which may be viewed and used at http:/tadb.otago.ac.nz.