{{Short description|New Zealand playwright, choreographer and dance teacher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Jan Bolwell | image = Jan Bolwell ONZM (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = in 2020 | birth_name = | birth_date = 1949 | birth_place = Oamaru | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = dance and theatre | education = Columba College and the University of Otago | employer = Dunedin College of Education then Wellington College of Education | occupation = academic | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Jan Patricia Bolwell''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM}} (born 1949) is a Wellington-based New Zealand playwright, choreographer, director, dancer and teacher of dance. She established the Crows Feet Dance Collective in 1999 and remains its director.<ref name=":0" />
== Biography == Bolwell was born on the South Island in Oamaru but grew up in Dunedin where she was educated at Columba College. She then completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Otago, majoring in history.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2020-01-02|title=Honour welcomed as recognition of the arts|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/honour-welcomed-recognition-arts|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515225831/https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/honour-welcomed-recognition-arts|archive-date=2021-05-15|access-date=2021-08-21|website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}</ref>
Having set up and run the dance curriculum for the Dunedin College of Education she was promoted to senior lecturer, before moving to the Wellington College of Education as head of performing arts from 1987 to 1997.<ref name=":0" />
In 2018 she directed Kate JasonSmith in ''I'll Tell You This For Nothing: My mother the war hero'', a play written by JasonSmith about her mother's experiences in World War II, performed at BATS Theatre in Wellington.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stevenson|first=Tim|date=2018-09-19|title=I'll Tell You This For Nothing: My mother the war hero – A mighty achievement|url=https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=11235|access-date=2021-08-21|website=theatreview}}</ref> [[File:Crows and The World of Wearable Art (WOW).jpg|thumb|Crows Feet dancers - Jan Bolwell, Helen Balfour, Meg Bailey, Jenny Cossey and Trish Stevenson in WOW (2019)]]
== Awards and recognition == In 1995, with Sunny Amey and Keri Kaa, she won Production of the Year in the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for ''Takitoru.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jan Bolwell|url=https://www.playmarket.org.nz/playwrights/jan-bolwell/|access-date=2021-08-21|website=Playmarket}}</ref>
Bolwell was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for "service to dance and theatre" in the 2020 New Years Honours.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-31|title=New Year Honours List 2020|url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2020|access-date=2021-08-21|website=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|language=en-NZ}}</ref>
== Plays ==
* ''Standing on My Hands'' * ''Here's Hilda!'' – writer and performer, 2007<ref>{{Cite web|last=Frame|first=Barbara|date=2007-02-14|title=Here's Hilda! – Otago character brought to life|url=https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=524|access-date=2021-08-21|website=theatreview|publisher=Otago Daily Times }}</ref> * ''Double Portrait: Finding Frances Hodgkins –'' writer, first performed 2009<ref>{{Cite web|title=Production Information: Double Portrait: Finding Frances Hodgkins|url=https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=1380|access-date=2021-08-21|website=theatreview}}</ref> * ''Dancing In The Wake: The Story of Lucia Joyce'' – writer, first performed 2012<ref>{{Cite web|title=Production Information: Dancing in the Wake: The Story of Lucia Joyce|url=https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=2389|access-date=2021-08-21|website=theatreview}}</ref>
== Published work ==
* ''Milord Goffredo'' (2002) ''-'' Published by Steele Roberts, Wellington, NZ'','' {{ISBN|187722863X}} (pbk.)<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2002-01-01|title=Milord Goffredo / Jan Bolwell.|url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/21132832|access-date=2021-08-27|website=National Library of New Zealand}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Here's Hilda! - Fertile memories of a matriarch|url=https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=386|access-date=2021-08-27|website=Theatreview}}</ref> * ''A pretty piece of driving : Hilda Gardiner, my grandmother'' (2005) - Published by Steele Roberts, Wellington, NZ, {{ISBN|9781877338816}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=A pretty piece of driving : Hilda Gardiner, my grandmother by Bolwell, Jan|url=https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/pretty-piece-driving-Hilda-Gardiner-grandmother/30428200859/bd|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827020813/https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/pretty-piece-driving-Hilda-Gardiner-grandmother/30428200859/bd|archive-date=2021-08-27|access-date=2021-08-27|website=Abe Books|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://janbolwell.com/}}
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