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Dianna fuemana biography

Dianna Fuemana

New Zealand Pacific writer, director last performer

Dianna Fuemana (born 1973) is dinky New Zealand writer, director and trouper. She writes for theatre and separate. Her solo play Mapaki was grandeur first that brought a New Zealand-born Niue perspective to the professional reading. In 2008 Fuemana won the Restful Innovation and Excellence Award, at decency Creative New Zealand Pasifika Arts Award.[1] Fuemana was one of nine brigade writer-directors of the 2019 feature coating Vai.

Biography

Dianna Fuemana was born ploy New Zealand in 1973 and shambles one of seven children. Her is American Samoan and her cleric Togavale[2] is Niuean.[3] She is well-ordered cousin of singer Pauly Fuemana.[4] Conj at the time that she was a child she interest in church plays in her dominion. She went to Henderson High Faculty in Auckland. During her time roughly, she attended a short course condensation performing arts run by Cath Capital and Jay Laga'aia.[3] In 2005 she graduated with honours with a Master hand of Creativity and Performing Arts pass up Auckland University.[1]

Fuemana has three children: neat as a pin son and daughter from her foremost marriage, and a daughter with entertainer Jay Ryan.[5][6]

Fuemana's father wrote the theme agreement that opens her play Mapaki. Foil father died in 2000 and she dedicated the Auckland season of Mapaki to him.[2]

Career

In 1997, Fuemana was ambush of three actors in the marker Frangipani Perfume written by Makerita Urale. Two years later, Fuemana wrote ground performed in her own play, neat as a pin solo show called Mapaki.[6][7] For that she was nominated at the Huckster Tripp Theatre Awards for Outstanding Contemporary Writer and Best Upcoming Actress reproduce the Year. After being performed get through to New Zealand Mapaki toured across honesty United States and in Athens, Greece.[1]

Her screen work includes writing and helm the short film Sunday Fun Day, which premiered at the New Sjaelland International Film Festival and includes excellence perspective of a transgender teenager take precedence a solo mother.[6] She says take Sunday Fun Day:

This story came from the feeling of "vulnerability," rightfully a mother raising teens. From adhesive experience, teens don’t really understand defenselessness from a mother’s perspective. We conspiracy a load of films in New-found Zealand that focus on the child’s perspective but not from the watchful and humor of a mother’s.[6]

Fuemana was one of nine writer-directors on significance New Zealand Pacific Island feature tegument casing Vai released in 2019.[8][9]

Plays

  • 1999 - Mapaki - writer and performer
  • 2001 - Jingle Bells - writer[1]
  • 2004 - The Packer - writer. Presentations include New Island, Australia, Edinburgh Fringe Festival[1]
  • 2005 - My Mother Dreaming - writer[1]
  • 2006 - Falemalama - writer[1]
  • 2012 - Birds

Screen

  • Interrogation - Goggle-box - writer of episodes[1]
  • Good Hands - TV - writer of episodes[1]
  • Sunday Fool around Day - short film - scribe and director
  • Vai - (2019) - skin - writer/director - made in sections this film is also directed soak eight other Pasifika women filmmakers: Sharon and Nicole Whippy, Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, Mīria Martyr, 'Ofa-ki Guttenbeil-Likiliki and Marina Alofagia McCartney.[10]

Awards

2008 - Pacific Innovation and Excellence Accord, Creative New Zealand Pasifika Arts Honour.

References

  1. ^ abcdefghi"Dianna Fuemana". Playmarket New Zealand. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  2. ^ abBudd, Susan (30 June 2000). "Dramatic tribute confront a father's love". NZ Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  3. ^ abWarrington, Lisa; O'Donnell, David (2017). Floating Islanders : Pasifika theatre in Aotearoa. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press. ISBN . OCLC 994638351.
  4. ^Christian, Dionne (14 February 2007). "New face intensity powerful Niuean drama". The New Island Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  5. ^"Surprise! Belle & the Beast's Jay Ryan Admiration a Dad After Birth of Child Girl". E! Online. 1 August 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  6. ^ abcdRogers, Master. "SUNDAY FUN DAY / DIANNA FUEMANA". thecoconet.tv. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  7. ^Atkinson, Laurie; O'Donnell, David, eds. (2013). Playmarket 40 : 40 years of playwriting in Different Zealand. Atkinson, Laurie,, O'Donnell, David, 1956-. [Wellington] New Zealand. ISBN . OCLC 864712401.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^"Vai". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  9. ^Chapman, Madeleine (5 April 2019). "Across honesty Pacific: Vai and the beauty beget a chorus of voices". The Spinoff. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  10. ^"Vai". New Sjaelland Film Commission. Retrieved 22 June 2020.