Riwia Brown

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Emerging from a creative Māori family and educated at St Joseph’s Māori Girls’ College, she affiliates with the Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Taranaki iwi. Beginning her theatrical career in the 1980s with the Māori theatre collective Te Ohu Whakaari, she debuted the play Roimata in 1988 and later saw Nga Wahine transition from stage to television, starring Nancy Brunning. Her screenwriting…