Bruce Stewart (playwright)

Bruce Stewart
Tawatawa Ridge sculpture
Born	Bruce Richard Stewart (1936-08-05)5 August 1936 Hamilton, New Zealand
Died	28 June 2017(2017-06-28) (aged 80) Wellington, New Zealand
Occupation	Playwright
Education	Wairarapa College
Subject	Anger, confused loyalties and spiritual aspiration of late-20th-century Māori
Notable works	Tama, and Other Stories

Bruce Richard Stewart (5 August 1936 – 28 June 2017) was a New Zealand fiction writer and dramatist of Ngāti Raukawa Te Arawa descent. Stewart's work often expresses the anger, the confused loyalties, and the spiritual aspirations of late-twentieth-century Māori. He set up a marae called Tapu Te Ranga in the 1970s in Island Bay in Wellington, and lived there until his death.