Christchurch-based actress, musician, song-writer, playwright and manager of Pacific Underground, Tanya Muagututi’a, is the 2010 Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and Creative New Zealand Pacific Artist in residence. During her residency Tanya will be researching and writing a first draft for a play called ‘Scholars’. Her preparations for the play will involve research about scholarships that were made available for Samoan students from the 1950s-1980. As part of her residency, Tanya will be conducting interviews and running workshops at the Macmillan Brown Centre at the University of Canterbury.
