Jan Bolwell

Jan Patricia Bolwell (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.

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.

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.

Bolwell was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for "service to dance and theatre" in the 2020 New Years Honours.

Plays

Standing on My Hands Here's Hilda! – writer and performer, 2007 Double Portrait: Finding Frances Hodgkins – writer, first performed 2009 Dancing In The Wake: The Story of Lucia Joyce – writer, first performed 2012

Published work

Milord Goffredo (2002) - Published by Steele Roberts, Wellington, NZ, (pbk.) A pretty piece of driving : Hilda Gardiner, my grandmother (2005) - Published by Steele Roberts, Wellington, NZ,