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Delahunty, Sarah
Sarah Delahunty was born and lives in Wellington. She is the author of over thirty works for the stage and focusses on  work for young people.

In 1984 she wrote of the motherhood experience in Stretchmarks a musical written with composer Michelle Scullion. The play premiered at Circa Theatre in 1985, and was performed throughout New Zealand. Delahunty and Scullion collaborated on a follow-up, Lifelines, which premiered at Circa in 2002. In 1987, Delahunty won the prestigious Bruce Mason Playwriting Award.

Since that time, Sarah has been teaching, directing and writing. Her works include two plays for the ‘Young and Hungry’ season at BATS Theatre in Wellington. Sarah has written and directed many adaptations of well-known stories for children

She has directed the premieres of her original work in the 2005, 2006 and 2008 Wellington Fringe Festivals, and she also wrote and directed two seasons of Playstory, a storytelling and performance series for children at Downstage Theatre.

In the past three years, two of Sarah’s plays have toured New Zealand secondary schools: Driving U Crazy, about driving safety for teenagers, and Another Planet, which covers issues around healthy and unhealthy relationships. In 2008, 2b or nt 2b was nominated for Outstanding New New Zealand Play in the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards.

2b or nt 2b
Drama/Physical Theatre, Cast: 6 (5 female, 1 male)

Another Planet (MSD Theatre Education Project)
Drama (for young people)/Youth, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

Beauty and the Beast
Children’s Theatre, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

Beauty and the Beast (Delahunty)
Drama/Flexible Casting

Blind Date
Comedy, Cast: 9 (9 female, 0 male)

Damage
Drama, Cast: 6 (3 female, 3 male)

Dear Felicity
Comedy, Cast: 3 (3 female, 0 male)

Driving You Crazy
Drama, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

Eating the Wolf
Black comedy/Physical Theatre/Play with music/Satire, Cast: 6 (6 female, 0 male)

Friends Forever
Children/Children’s Theatre/Expandable, Cast: 3 (2 female, 1 male)

Gifts
Comedy, Cast: 7 (5 female, 2 male)

Greener Grass
Comedy, Cast: 11 (4 female, 7 male)

Harry Under the Bed
Drama, Cast: 4 (1 female, 3 male)

Homework
Comedy, Cast: 10 (10 female, 0 male)

Loose Connections
Comedy, Cast: 5 (3 female, 2 male)

Magic in the Air
Children/Children’s Theatre, Cast: 3 (2 female, 1 male)

Puss in Boots
Children’s Theatre, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

Rumpelstiltskin
Drama, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

Second Sight
Drama, Cast: 7 (4 female, 3 male)

Snow White And Rose Red
Comedy, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

Stretchmarks
Drama, Cast: 4 (4 female, 0 male)

SuperBeast
Black comedy/Physical Theatre, Cast: 9 (5 female, 4 male)

The Adventures Of Toad
Comedy, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

The Emperor's New Clothes
Children’s Theatre, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

The Frog Prince
Drama, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

The Gingerbread Man
Comedy, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

The Last Gasp Cafe
Comedy, Cast: 21 (11 female, 10 male)

The Oddity
Drama, Cast: 12 (9 female, 3 male)

The Tinder Box
Drama, Cast: 4 (2 female, 2 male)

Time On Our Side
Drama, Cast: 5 (4 female, 1 male)

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