Richard Campion (theatre director)


Richard Meckiff Campion was a New Zealand theatre director. He founded the New Zealand Players, New Zealand's first professional theatre company, with his wife and co-founder Edith Campion.
In 1990, Campion was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the theatre. The Academy Award-winning screenwriter, producer, and director Jane Campion is his daughter.