Joseph Musaphia (born 1935) is a New Zealand writer and actor who was born in
London.[1]
Biography
Joseph Musaphia was born in 1935 in
London and he has
Portuguese ancestry.[2] He moved with his family to
Melbourne, Australia and lived there from 1938 until 1946 when they moved to
Christchurch, New Zealand. He attended
Christchurch Boys' High School and left age 15.[2] He spent three years as an apprentice motor mechanic until he switched to art and cartooning, working in commercial art for ten years. Over a period of three years, while we was in his early twenties his cartoons were published weekly in
The Listener magazine.[1][2]
In 1971 Musaphia and
Roger Hall won a
Logie Award for best television comedy, Australia A – Z.[5]
The play Mother and Fathers first presented in 1975 at the
Fortune Theatre in Dunedin also had presentations in at the
Court Theatre and
Downstage in Wellington. Musaphia acted in the early productions. It was so popular in Wellington it transferred to the much larger theatre the
Opera House for three nights.[6] In 1979 he received the first
Victoria University of Wellington Writer's Fellowship.[7]
Circa Theatre chose the Musaphia play Mates to celebrate their tenth year in 1986 and it was directed and starred
Ray Henwood.[8] Musaphia wrote his first novel in 1997, has been a columnist for The Evening Post in
Wellington, and continues to write stage and radio plays.[9]
^
abc"Spotlight Joseph Musaphia". Playmarket News. 18. Playmarket: 13. 1998.
^Smythe, John (2004). Downstage upfront : the first 40 years of New Zealand's longest-running professional theatre. Wellington, N.Z.: Victoria University Press.
ISBN0-86473-489-1.
OCLC60386677.
^Circa 1976–1996. Reid, John, 1949–, Jeffrey, Ruth., Council of Circa Theatre. Wellington [N.Z.]: The Council of Circa Theatre. 1996.
ISBN0-473-04155-3.
OCLC37434951.{{
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