Jenny Wake Explained

Jenny Wake is a New Zealand actor and theatre director. In 1991 she founded Calico Young People's Theatre.^[1]

Biography

Wake completed a master's degree in children’s theatre at Humboldt State University in California. She specialises in children's television and theatre productions and has worked on television series Play School and What Now.

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.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jenny Wake. 10 July 2021. www.playmarket.org.nz. en-US.
2. Book: Smythe, John. Downstage Upfront: The First 40 Years of New Zealand's Longest-running Professional Theatre. Victoria University Press. 2004. Wellington, New Zealand. 299.
3. Web site: 1 January 2002. Wake, Jenny, active 2002. 10 July 2021. Wake, Jenny, active 2002 Items National Library of New Zealand National Library of New Zealand. en.