Angie Farrow is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University specialising in drama and creative processes. She has been writing plays since she was a student and her career as a playwright was launched when she won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award for her play, The Blue One. Several playwriting awards followed including a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1978 for her play, Privitus. After that, Angie began writing for professional theatre. Her play The Egg, written for Avon Touring Theatre Company toured the West Country and Lost Property, written for the Playwrights Company U.K. won first prize at the Birmingham Theatre Festival.

Angie has always managed to combine an academic career with a career in writing. Her research interests in the creative process and playwriting have led to the development of the annual Festival of New Arts, a forum for makers of new works in visual and performance arts held in the Manawatu. The Ph.D that she completed at Exeter University in 2000 was about community theatre in the Manawatu and traced the journey of her research into local history and the making of a full-scale community theatre play called Paradise. This play, which won the Minolta Playwriting Award (PANZ) in 2001 was produced in Palmerston North in 2006.

Angie has a special interest in theatre for young adults. She has written numerous plays for three young peoples theatre companies; Bush Telegraph and Travelling Light in the UK and Calico Young People's Theatre in New Zealand. Three of her plays for young adults are featured in her new anthology, Plays for Physical Theatre: Three plays for young adults with notes for their production published by Thomson Learning and Dunmore Press. The anthology is a response to the needs of the new NCEA syllabus as well as tertiary drama students and provides guidance both in playwriting and play production (contact Playmarket: info@playmarket.org.nz for enquiries).

Apart from theatre plays, Angie also writes for radio. Her first radio play, All Packed Up, was produced at the BBC. Angie continued writing for radio when she came to New Zealand in 1990. Having a young child at the time, she found the demands of radio were less rigorous than those of theatre. She wrote Carrion, which won a Mobil Award For Best Radio Drama in 1992. In 1993 her play New Zealand Lamb was a finalist in the radio suffrage competition and was subsequently broadcast on RNZ and the ABC. In the same year she co-wrote with Fiona Farrell Looking Forward, an exchange of letters between a woman who lived in 1893 and one who lived in 1993. Her two-part radio play The Beauty Business was produced in 1996 and was followed by Speed Of Light (1998) an adaptation from a theatre piece about teenage suicide.

Angie enjoys the poetry of physical theatre and discovering how to create words around moving pictures. Her recent works After Kafka and Amnesia create self-contained surreal universes, have strong choric elements and require physical athleticism and a choreographed interpretation for their success. Both of these plays were debuted at the Festival of New Arts. After Kafka received critical acclaim at the 2004 Wellington Fringe. Amnesia won the PANZ short playwriting competition later in the same year.

After the success of About Kafka at BATS in 2004, Angie worked on a collaborative project with Ryan Hartigan and Theatre Pataphysical in 2005 which was produced in Wellington in 2006. The play, about a high-flying Kiwi journalist who pursues the worlds danger zones but is terrified of her own inner world, is called Despatch.