Mary Joy Weeks was Education Programme Director at the Westminster Theatre in London responsible for their popular schools' programme, 'A Day of London Theatre'. This offered pupils not only an insight into the art and techniques of theatre but the opportunity to consider the relationships and social and moral issues dramatised in the current production.
Trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama she taught Drama, Religious Education and English in secondary schools in London and the Midlands. Following this she went to India where she co-authored 'The Way Ahead' with Ann Rignall.
The interest in this work resulted in invitations to the authors to share their experiences and convictions with educators in many parts of the world and finally to their being asked to write 'The Other 3Rs'.
In 2003 she married Richard Pearce and lived in New Zealand until her death. She embraced NZ culture and took her oath of citizenship in the Maori language.
