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New Zealand theatre director

Jane Yonge is a New Zealand theatre director of Fijian and Chinese descent.

Biography

Yonge grew up in Auckland. Her father is Fijian and her mother was Chinese-Fijian. Yonge's mother died when she was 23 years old and Yonge travelled to China to explore her mother's culture.

Yonge graduated from the University of Auckland in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in drama. In 2013 she moved to Wellington and studied theatre at Victoria University of Wellington and Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, graduating in 2015 with a master's degree of theatre arts in directing. In 2019 she studied in New York under a Fulbright Program award, graduating with a master's degree in arts politics from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Career

Year Production Company Role Awards and nominations Notes
2022 Scenes from a Yellow Peril Auckland Theatre Company Director
2021 Slay the Dragon, Save the Dragon or Neither BATS Theatre, Wellington Director
2019 A Fricken Dangerous Space-mas Basement Theatre, Auckland Director
2018 At the Wake Circa Theatre, Wellington Director
2017-2018 The Basement Tapes Co-creator and director Fringe First, Week One (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018)

Best Performance Award - The Stage (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018)

Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award (New Zealand Fringe Festival 2017)

Best Director (Wellington Theatre Awards, 2017)

2017-2018 WEiRdO BATS Theatre, Wellington and Basement Theatre, Auckland Director
2016 Hetero-perfomative Basement Theatre, Auckland Director
2016 Page Turners New Zealand Festival Director

References

  1. ^ "Chinese-Kiwi identity explored on stage". Asia Media Centre | New Zealand. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  2. "Meet the Makers: Jane Yonge". Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  3. ^ Yonge, Jane. "Loose Canons: Jane Yonge". Pantograph Punch. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  4. ^ Tang, Eda (3 June 2022). "Asian cast changes the lens on the New Zealand theatre scene". Stuff. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  5. "Jane Yonge – Fulbright New Zealand General Graduate Awards". www.fulbright.org.nz. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  6. International Society for the Performing Arts. "Fellowship Participants".
  7. ^ "Jane Yonge | Auckland Theatre Company". www.atc.co.nz. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  8. "THE BASEMENT TAPES". Zanetti Productions. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
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