Jenny Wake

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Jennifer Mary Wake ONZM 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. [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]

In the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours, Wake was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to theatre and television. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Jenny Wake". www.playmarket.org.nz. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "King's Birthday Honours: Dai Henwood, Tim Southee and Jude Dobson among those recognised". RNZ News . 2 June 2025. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
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