Jim Moriarty

Jim Moriarty is an actor and theatre director in New Zealand who has worked on stage and the screen since the 1970s. His work has toured nationally and internationally. Moriarty is from the Māori tribes of Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Kahungunu.[1]

He is known for his performance as a Vietnam War veteran in John Broughton's solo work Michael James Manaia which toured New Zealand and played at the Edinburgh Festival in 1991.[2]

Moriarty is the Artistic Director of Te Rakau Hua O Te Wao Tapu Trust,[3] a performing arts organisation that works with at-risk communities, creating and performing theatre in schools, marae and prisons, as well as professional theatres.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Jim Moriarty". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 9 November 2009.
  2. ↑ Stachurski, Christina. "Michael James Manaia - The Personal is Political". Journal of New Zealand Literature: JNZL © 1999: 125.
  3. ↑ http://www.terakau.co.nz/
  4. ↑ "Scars on the Heart: Jim Moriarty, interview with Alexander Bisley". The Lumiere Reader. Retrieved 9 November 2009.