Eleanor Bishop

It wasn't until New Zealand playwright Eleanor Bishop was on the New York Broadway scene that she heard about Chris Kraus.  Audio

History has just been made with the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award.   For the first time in its 40-year history, the $10,000 prize goes to a team - two writers who together have written several… Audio

Writer Janet Frame's time at Seacliff Mental Hospital in the 1940s and 50s has provided inspiration for a new operatic work premiering in Christchurch this month.  Audio

Eleanor Bishop is the inaugural Friedlander Foundation Associate Artist for NZ Opera, and Assistant Director in the female-led creative team for the company's upcoming production of 'The Marriage of… Video, Audio

For the next four weeks the Auckland Theatre Company is putting on its first ever play designed to be watched online.  Audio

High School students have been canvassed to help the writers of a new theatre show which addresses consent and healthy relationships. Working with 16 to 18-year-olds from three high schools, Eleanor… Audio

Consent in relationships has become a crucial topic in the #Me Too era, particularly for young people. Yes Yes Yes is a play devoted to the issue, looking at how teens navigate healthy partnerships. .

Eleanor Bishop is our Bookmarks guest today. She is a playwright and theatre director who divides her time working in New Zealand and the United States.  Audio, Gallery

New Zealander Eleanor Bishop is a theatre director and writer based in New York. She's back home for the upcoming world premiere of her adaptation of Greg McGee's Foreskin's Lament, BOYS, as part of… Audio