Renee Liang
Renee Liang MNZM | |
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Born | Renee Wen-Wei Liang 1973 (age 50–51) New Zealand |
Occupation | Writer |
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Renee Wen-Wei Liang
Biography
Liang was born in 1973.[1] She is a second generation Chinese New Zealander[2][3] and has two younger sisters, Rhea (a surgeon) and Roseanne (a filmmaker).[4]
She attended St Cuthbert's College[5] and graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery in 1996, a Master of Creative Writing in 2007 and a Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (Theatre) in 2009.[1] She also holds a specialist qualification as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.[6]
She has toured eight plays to festivals and venues nationally.
She has also run many community writing workshops, including a programme for migrant women called New Kiwi Women Write Their Stories,[9] and from these has produced a number of anthologies of migrant women’s writing.[1][7] The Kitchen is a writing workshop based around sharing stories in local neighbourhoods.[15]
As a paediatrician, she has a special interest in child health and adolescent health and leads the Asian Advisory Group for the longitudinal project Growing Up In New Zealand.[7][16][3]
Liang lives in Auckland.
Honours and awards
Liang's play The Quiet Room was shortlisted for the Adam NZ Play Award in 2014; it also won the teen section of Playmarket’s Plays for the Young in 2014 and the NZ Writers Guild SWANZ (Script Writer Awards New Zealand) Award for Best Play in 2016.[1] Under the Same Moon was a finalist in the SWANZ Best Play Awards in 2015.[17] Golden Threads won the Play by Play Award for Diversity in 2017.[18]
In 2010, Liang was the recipient of the Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leader Award for her achievements in arts, science and medicine.[6][1] In 2012, she won the non-fiction category of the Royal Society Manhire Prize in Science Writing for Creative Non-Fiction with her piece Epigenetics: navigating our inner seas.[19][20]
She received the NZ Chinese Society (Auckland Branch) Senior Achievement award in 2012[3] and won the Arts and Culture category of the NEXT Woman of the Year Awards in 2018.[1][21]
She was a recipient of the D’Arcy Writers Grant in 2018[22] and her resulting essay, A Kete Half Empty, was published in North & South in January 2020.[23][24]
In the 2018 New Year Honours, Liang was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts.[7]
Published works
- Poetry
- Chinglish (Soapbox Press, 2008)
- Banana (Monster Fish Publishing, 2008)
- Cardiac Cycle, illustrated by Cat Auburn (Monster Fish Publishing, 2008)
- Towards the Cyclone (Monster Fish Publishing, 2010)
- Plays, operas and musicals
- First Asian AB
- Lantern (2009)
- The Bone Feeder (2010) a play and an opera[10]
- The Quiet Room (2013)
- Under the Same Moon (2015)
- Dominion Road the Musical with music composed by Jun Bin Lee (2017)
- The Bone Feeder: adapted as an opera with music composed by Gareth Farr (2017)[25][11]
- Sofija's Garden (2019)[26]
- Digital
- Golden Threads (2017)
- Non-fiction
- When We Remember To Breathe: Mess, Magic and Mothering with Michele Powles (Magpie Pulp, 2019)[27]
- As editor
- New beginnings: new Kiwi women write their stories (Monster Fish Publishing, 2012)
- New flights: writing from Kiwi migrant women (Monster Fish Publishing, 2015)
External links
- Profile of Renee Liang on Playmarket website
- Profile of Renee Liang on Read NZ Te Pou Muramura website
- Profile of Dr Renee Liang on NZ Asian Leaders website
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Liang, Renee". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. June 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ a b "Renee Liang". Playmarket. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ a b c "Dr Renee Liang". New Zealand Asian Leaders. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "Screen Sisters: Renee Liang and Roseanne Liang in Conversation". The Pantograph Punch. 26 July 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ Liang, Renee (10 May 2009). "Making Their Mark". St Cuthbert's College.
- ^ a b "Dr Renee Liang, 2010 Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leader Award Recipient". The Governor General. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Dr Renee Liang, of Auckland, MNZM, for services to the arts". The Governor General. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ Liang, Renee (10 May 2019). "The Friday Poem: Contents of a mummy Tardis handbag by Renee Liang". The Spinoff. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ a b "About Renee Liang". New Kiwi Women Write Their Stories. March 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ a b Wilson, Simon (16 April 2017). "The last dance of Carla van Zon". The Spinoff. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ a b "The Bone Feeder". SOUNZ. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ Hooper, Michael (24 March 2017). "Moving libretto, genius musical amalgam". Theatreview. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "华夏人与长白云故乡 Being Chinese in Aotearoa: A photographic journey". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "Golden Threads | 黄金线索". Allan Xia. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "The Kitchen". Arts Whau. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "Theme Leads: Dr Renee Liang: Asian". Growing Up in New Zealand. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "SWANZ Awards". NZ Writers Guild. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "2017 Winners". NZ Games Festival. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing Announced". Scoop. 22 November 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "Creative Science Writing Prize". The Big Idea. 22 November 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ Wylie, Liz (16 October 2018). "Whanganui's Kotuku Foundation founder Merenia Donne named in Woman of the Year awards". NZ herald. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "Winners of the 2018 D'Arcy Writers' Grants – Renee Liang and Mary Paul". NZSA The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ Liang, Renee (15 January 2020). "A Kete Half Empty: Why poverty in New Zealand is everyone's concern". Write Up North. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ Liang, Renee (15 January 2020). "A Kete Half Empty: Why poverty in New Zealand is everyone's concern". Noted: North and South. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "Good to be here, Dargaville! Playwrights Jamie McCaskill, Renee Liang and Jess Sayer on Process". The Pantograph Punch. 9 March 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ "Sofija's Garden". Going West Writers Festival. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ^ Botur, Michael (3 May 2019). "Northland doctor Renee Liang launches new book 'When We Remember To Breathe'". Write Up North. Retrieved 15 August 2020.