John Mairai

John Tapu Mairai (28 November 1945 – 22 December 2023) was a French Polynesian poet, actor, orator, playwright, teacher, journalist, and broadcaster.

[2] He was educated at Lycée Paul-Gauguin in Tahiti[2] before studying fine arts at Graceland University in the United States.

[2] In 1983 he founded the theater company Teata Maruao ("theatre of the dawn"),[4] and in 1987 produced Maro Putoto, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth in Reo Tahiti.

[3] In 1992 he produced Te Manu Tane, a Reo Tahiti adaptation of Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.

[3] He also produced other plays based on Tahitian history, including "Opuhara" and "Tavi roi et la loi".