Raymond Hawthorne

Raymond Benjamin Thomas Hawthorne ONZM (born 3 May 1936) is a New Zealand theatre director, and is regarded as one of the country's most senior performing arts practitioners.

At age five he won a primary school singing competition judged by Emma Natzke, the mother of Russian New Zealand opera singer Oscar Natzka.

Hawthirne directed many play with Theatre Corporate including, The Fantastiks by Tom Jones, music by Harvey L Schmidt (1977), The Two Tigers by Brian McNeill (1977), Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1978), A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (1979), Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb (1984).

[2] He has acted and directed for Auckland Theatre Company numerous productions including Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Travels With My Aunt, The Judas Kiss, Waiting for Godot, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Crucible and Sir Roger Hall's Who Wants to be 100?

[7] His other directing credits include Angels in America, Three Tall Women, The Herbal Bed, Julius Caesar, Cabaret, Into the Woods, Travesties, High Society, Oliver!

He has acted in film and television projects including Children of the Dog Star, Mortimer's Patch, Bread and Roses, Shortland Street and As Dreams Are Made On.