# Jan Bolwell
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{{Short description|New Zealand playwright, choreographer and dance teacher}}
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{{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2021}}
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| birth_date = 1949
| birth_place = [Oamaru](/source/Oamaru)
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| known_for = dance and theatre
| education = [Columba College](/source/Columba_College) and the [University of Otago](/source/University_of_Otago)
| employer = [Dunedin College of Education](/source/Dunedin_College_of_Education) then [Wellington College of Education](/source/Wellington_College_of_Education)
| occupation = academic
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'''Jan Patricia Bolwell''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM}} (born 1949) is a [Wellington](/source/Wellington)-based [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand) [playwright](/source/playwright), [choreographer](/source/Choreography), [director](/source/Theatre_director), [dance](/source/dance)r and teacher of dance. She established the [Crows Feet Dance Collective](/source/Crows_Feet_Dance_Collective) in 1999 and remains its director.[{{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](/source/Otago_Daily_Times) |language=en}}]
Having set up and run the dance curriculum for the [Dunedin College of Education](/source/Dunedin_College_of_Education) she was promoted to senior lecturer, before moving to the [Wellington College of Education](/source/Wellington_College_of_Education) as head of performing arts from 1987 to 1997.[{{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}}]
[[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](/source/World_of_Wearable_Art) (2019)]]
== Awards and recognition ==
In 1995, with [Sunny Amey](/source/Sunny_Amey) and [Keri Kaa](/source/Keri_Kaa), she won Production of the Year in the [Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards](/source/Chapman_Tripp_Theatre_Awards) for ''Takitoru.''[{{Cite web|title=Jan Bolwell|url=https://www.playmarket.org.nz/playwrights/jan-bolwell/|access-date=2021-08-21|website=Playmarket}}]
Bolwell was appointed an [Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit](/source/New_Zealand_Order_of_Merit) for "service to dance and theatre" in the [2020 New Years Honours](/source/2020_New_Year_Honours_(New_Zealand)).[{{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}}]
== Plays ==
* ''Standing on My Hands''
* ''Here's Hilda!'' – writer and performer, 2007[{{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](/source/Otago_Daily_Times) }}]
* ''Double Portrait: Finding Frances Hodgkins –'' writer, first performed 2009[{{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}}]
* ''Dancing In The Wake: The Story of Lucia Joyce'' – writer, first performed 2012[{{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}}]
== Published work ==
* ''Milord Goffredo'' (2002) ''-'' Published by Steele Roberts, Wellington, NZ'','' {{ISBN|187722863X}} (pbk.)[{{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}}][{{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}}]
* ''A pretty piece of driving : Hilda Gardiner, my grandmother'' (2005) - Published by Steele Roberts, Wellington, NZ, {{ISBN|9781877338816}}[{{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}}]