Joseph Musaphia
Joseph (Joe) Musaphia (born 1935) is a New Zealand writer and actor who was born in London.[1]
Biography
Joseph Musaphia was born in 1935 in London and he has Portuguese ancestry.[2] He moved with his family to Melbourne, Australia and lived there from 1938 - 1946 when they moved to Christchurch, New Zealand. He attended Christchurch Boys' High School and left age 15.[2] He spent three years as an apprentice motor mechanic but then switched to art and cartooning, working in commercial art for ten years. Over a period of three years, while we was in his early twenties his cartoons were published weekly in the The Listener magazine.[1][2]
Musaphia switched from commercial art to writing and acting for stage, screen and radio after his first play was produced by the New Zealand Theatre Company in 1961.[3][4] He was inspired to write after attending the Unity Theatre production of Look Back In Anger by John Osborne.[2]
In 1971 Musaphia and Roger Hall won a Logie Award for best television comedy, Australia A – Z.[5] In 1979 he received the first Victoria University of Wellington Writer's Fellowship.[6] Musaphia wrote his first novel in 1997, has been a columnist for The Evening Post in Wellington, and continues to write stage and radio plays.[7]
Circa Theatre chose the Musaphia play Mates to celebrate their tenth year and it was directed and starred Ray Henwood.[8]
Plays
- 1971 - The Guerilla
- 1973 – Victims - premiered at Downstage 1973[9]
- 1974 - Obstacles - premiered at Downstage 1974[1][10]
- 1975 - Mother and Fathers - premiered at the Fortune Theatre,[9] revised in 2005
- 1980 - Hunting - premiered at Circa Theatre[11]
- 1983 - A Fair Go For Charlie Wellman[9]
- 1983 - The Plague
- 1986 - Mates - premiered at Circa Theatre
Film and television
- 2019 - Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy, Subject - Television
- 1986 - Between the Lines, Writer - Television
- 1983 - Comedy Playhouse, Writer - Television
- 1975 - 1976, Today at One, Writer, Actor - Television
- 1974 - 1975, Buck House, Writer - Television
- 1973, Richard John Seddon - Premier, Actor - Television
- 1971, Noel Ferrier's Australia A-Z, Writer - Television
- 1969 - 1970, In View of the Circumstances, Actor, Writer - Television
- 1967 - 1968, Joe's World - Presenter, Writer - Television
- 1966 - Don’t Let It Go - film [12]
References
- ^ a b c "Spotlight Joseph Musaphia". No. 0113–9703970. Playmarket. Playmarket News. 1998.
- ^ a b c d McDonnell, Gabe (30 August 2019). "Joe Musaphia". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Brasch, Charles (ed.). "Free". Landfall. 68: 348–369.
- ^ Harcourt, Peter (1978). A Dramatic Appearance: New Zealand Theatre 1920 - 1970. Wellington, New Zealand: Methuen.
- ^ "Roger Hall". NZ on Screen. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ "Writer in Residence". International Institute of Modern Letters. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ "Joe Musaphia". Playmarket. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ Cooke, Pat (August 1986). "Act Reviews - Mates". Act. 11. ISSN 0110-0106.
- ^ a b c "Spotlight Joseph Musaphia". Playmarket News. 18. Playmarket: 13. 1998.
- ^ Smythe, John (2004). Downstage upfront : the first 40 years of New Zealand's longest-running professional theatre. Wellington, N.Z.: Victoria University Press. ISBN 0-86473-489-1. OCLC 60386677.
- ^ Circa 1976-1996. Reid, John, 1949-, Jeffrey, Ruth., Council of Circa Theatre. Wellington [N.Z.]: The Council of Circa Theatre. 1996. ISBN 0-473-04155-3. OCLC 37434951.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Don't Let It Go". NZ on Screen. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
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