Michelanne Forster

Michelanne Forster (born 26 April 1953) is a New Zealand playwright and scriptwriter who was born in California, US. Her writing career began in the 1980s at Television New Zealand where she worked on the popular pre-school programme Play School. Her plays have been performed both nationally and internationally and are often based on historical accounts. In 2011 Forster was the writer-in-residence at the Michael King Writer's Centre.

Forster graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Arts and also holds a Diploma in Teaching from the Auckland Secondary Teachers College. In 2014 she completed her honours in Drama through the University of Auckland.

• Always My Sister
• Don't Mention Casablanca
• Tic Tac (with Paul Barrett)
• The Great Storm of 1868
• My Heart is Bathed in Blood
• This Other Eden
• The Rosenberg Sisters
• Larnach – Castle of Lies
• Songs My mother Taught Me (Music by Felicity Williams)
• Daughters of Heaven
• A Dream Romance (Musical)

• Sapai and the Yam Snatchers (with Leilani Unasa)
• The Butcher and The Bear of kirstyn
• The Secret of Dongting Lake
• In the Deep End
• Mean Jean the Pirate Queen
• The Bungling Burglars (music by Felicity Williams)
• Rodney Rat and the Sneaky WeaselGang
• Rivals and Idols
• Arabella and the Amazing Wardrobe
• Musical Beasts

• 2011 Writer-in-Residence Michael King Writer's Centre, University of Auckland
• 1997 Best Radio New Zealand Drama, The Rosenberg Sisters
• 1996 Best Radio New Zealand Drama, Larnach – Castle of Lies
• 1994 Buckland Memorial Award for Literature, Daughters of Heaven
• 1993 Writer-in-Residence University of Canterbury

• Daughters of Heaven (Polish translation) in Dwa Oceany (Agencja Dramatu i Treatru ADiT, 2013)
• When Its Over: New Zealanders Talk about Their Experiences of Separation and Divorce (Penguin, 1998)
• The Rosenberg Sisters in Playlunch: Five Short New Zealand Plays (Otago University Press, 1996)
• Daughters of Heaven (Otago University Press, 1992)
• Rodney Rat and the Space Creatures (Hodder and Stoughton, 1989)
• Rodney Rat and the Sneaky Weasel Gang (Hodder and Stoughton, 1985)
• The Four-Legged Prince (Hodder and Stoughton, 1985)
• Rodney Rat and the Sunken Treasure (Hodder and Stoughton, 1983)