Rose Hudson

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hudson, Rose (1937- ) is a writer, teacher, and performer.

Rose Hudson was born in Timaru. She was educated in Napier before attending Wellington Teacher's College and Victoria University of Wellington. Hudson spent 10 years living in the United Kingdom before she settled in Wellington. In the 1980s she spent a year living and working in the Falkland Islands.

During a life-time spent as a teacher, Hudson has also worked as an actor on television in England and New Zealand, and as a radio commentator for the Armed Forces Radio in the Falkland Islands.

A long-time contributor to the New Zealand School Journal, Hudson has also written drama and poetry. She spent 11 years as a Radio New Zealand scriptwriter for the Correspondence School's daily broadcasts. Most recently her work has been anthologised in 30 New Zealand Stories for Children (2000).

Hudson’s many awards include Director of the Best Wellington Musical of the Year (1994), the New Zealand Theatre Federation Award for Stage Craft and Direction (1997-98), a Merit Award from the New Zealand Federation of Musical Theatre for Contribution to Musical Theatre in New Zealand (1999), and in 2001, a Queen’s Service Medal for Community Service.

Packing Them In (2004) is an illustrated peek behind the scenes of an amateur theatre group's progress through the second half of the twentieth century.