Jenny Wake is a New Zealand actor and theatre director. In 1991 she founded Calico Young People's Theatre.[1]
Biography edit
Wake completed a master's degree in children’s theatre at Humboldt State University in California.[1] She specialises in children's television and theatre productions and has worked on television series Play School and What Now.[1]
In the late 1980s Wake worked at the Downstage Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand as the youth activities director, and in 1991 she founded a theatre company focused on youth, Calico Young People's Theatre.[2] Wake has adapted stories for the stage, including Maurice Gee's The Halfmen of O and Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen.[2][3]
References edit
- ^ a b c "Jenny Wake". www.playmarket.org.nz. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ a b Smythe, John (2004). Downstage Upfront: The First 40 Years of New Zealand's Longest-running Professional Theatre. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press. p. 299.
- ^ "Wake, Jenny, active 2002". Wake, Jenny, active 2002 | Items | National Library of New Zealand | National Library of New Zealand. 1 January 2002. Retrieved 10 July 2021.