Claire Ahuriri-Dunning

Claire Ahuriri-Dunning (born 1989) is a New Zealand playwright.

Personal life Ahuriri-Dunning was born in Takapuna, Auckland, in 1989.

Plays Spilt Milk, a classroom play, published in "Stage Adventures: Eight Classroom Plays". A Midsummer's Nightmare, a short version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream, designed for teens. Alice's Revenge, in which an actress is murdered during casting for the role of Alice in Alice in Wonderland. Dracula Hercules, a 30 minutes interactive play for young children King Arthur the Pantomime. Shakespeare Junior, in which Shakespeare enters a playwriting competition. The Iliad, with James Dunning, with Homer's story in a World War I setting. Dunning-Ahuriri wrote, produced and directed the Iliad at the Pumphouse Theatre in Auckland in April 2018. Reviewer James Amos described it as "a fairly judicious (yet fun and very thought provoking) look at women's roles and stereotypes throughout history".

Ahuriri-Dunning has also published a board game, Cat Capers.

Awards Spilt Milk won Auckland Flip the Script in 2005, and later also received a Special Mention from Playmarket's Plays for the Young competition in 2010. Dracula was shortlisted in the Adam NZ Play Awards of 2018.