Vaosa ole Tagaloa Makerita Urale, of Wellington, MNZM, for services to Pacific arts
Vaosa ole Tagaloa Makerita Urale wrote ‘Frangipani Perfume’, the first Pacific play written by a woman with an all-female cast, which was listed in the Top 10 Plays of the Decade by the New Zealand Listener. This play became a key text in theatre studies and toured nationally and internationally to Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. She directed the award-winning documentary ‘Children of the Revolution’, which explored the 1970s and 1980s protest movement. She directed and produced ‘Savage Symbols’, which looked at the traditional art of Samoan tattooing (pe’a) for men. A Fulbright New Zealand alumni, Ms Urale led the development of Creative New Zealand’s inaugural Pacific Arts Strategy.