Biography:

Brian McNeill is a New Zealand actor, playwright and theatre director born in 1939. He spent the 1960s and early 1970s working as an actor and theatre director in England. He is the author of three major stage plays: The Two Tigers, The Naval Officer, and Twin Messiahs. He resettled in New Zealand in 1972, where he worked as an actor. He later was a scriptwriter for Television New Zealand's children's programmes.