Christine Morgan

Christine Morgan presented by Drama New Zealand President Emma Bishop at 'Meet me at the River' - 2016 National Conference, St Patrick's College, Silverstream, WELLINGTON.

This year's recipient has been a part of the Arts community of New Zealand for a number of years and is a well-known face and contributor to both Drama NZ and Dance New Zealand.

She began as a teacher in Northland and went on to be an Arts Advisor in the region until these roles were disestablished.  However, since this time she has continued as an advisor in an informal capacity both within her own region and through out NZ.

She is a guru when it comes to NCEA – having been a huge part of the writing of standards, creation of resources and the realignments. Even though she is no longer an advisor we on DramaNet always know that her advice is all knowing and to be listened too…

I first meet this person when I was a second year teacher with first contract for Dance with NZQA. At this time she was working in both the dance and drama area. She often used to arrive at meetings with her own printer… always helpful and thinking further than what was the obvious. Her contributions to discussions are always well considered and look at multiple perspectives and challenge our thinking.

She is very loyal to DNZ and worked very hard in many capacities over the years to support the organisation and the people in it. She has served the association for a number of years as an exec member, regional rep, publications officer and from 2012-2013 was our National President. She has also represented the association at overseas conferences including Hong Kong in 2012.

So this is a much deserved award recognising the years of service to drama in education in NZ. I would like you to put your hands together for the 2016 Presidents award recipient Christine Morgan.