PANZ Outstanding Achievement Award
2022: Tim Hambleton
- for community theatre productions of On the Right Track, Gone to Seed and Killer Boobs.
_________________________
Previous Outstanding Achievement Awards
2021: Rex McGregor
2020: Lindsey Brown
2019: Alister Emerson
2018: Elspeth Tilley
2017: April Phillips
From 1988-2016, the PANZ outstanding achievement award was known as the Doug Wrenn Award.
The Doug Wrenn Award was named after a former president of PANZ and energetic newsletter editor, and who was very active in the Association. The award, instituted in 1988, was presented annually to a member who had significant success in playwriting during the year.
Winners of the Doug Wrenn Award
2016: Rex McGregor
2015: Rex McGregor
2014: Graeme Webber
2013: April Phillips
2012: Jennie Turner
2011: Neil Troost
2010: Angie Farrow
2009: Peter Franklin
2008: Leo Cappel
2007: Thomas Sainsbury
2006: Denis Edwards
2005: Diane Francis
2004: Richard Prevett
2003: Rosalie Carey
2002: Richard Prevett
2001: Alan Williamson
2000: Campbell Smith
1999: Jean Dinnie
1998: Brian Turner
1997: Bronwyn Elsmore
1996: Daphne Calderwood, Bruce Goodman, John Dunmore
1995: NO AWARD GIVEN
1994: Andre Surridge
1993: Denise Walsh
1992: Bruce Goodman
1991: Harrison Bray
1990: Campbell Smith
1989: Suzanne Le Prou
1988: Nancy Kinkel, Leslie Pearce
Playwrights Association of New Zealand (Inc) 