Jane Yonge

Jane Yonge is a New Zealand theatre director of Fijian and Chinese descent.{{Cite web |title=Chinese-Kiwi identity explored on stage |url=https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/features/dealing-with-dragons/ |access-date=2022-06-11 |website=Asia Media Centre {{!}} New Zealand}}{{Cite web |title=Meet the Makers: Jane Yonge |url=https://www.festival.nz/article/meet-makers-jane-yonge/ |access-date=2022-06-11 |website=Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts |language=en}}

Biography

Yonge grew up in Auckland.{{Cite web |last=Yonge |first=Jane |title=Loose Canons: Jane Yonge |url=https://pantograph-punch.com//posts/loose-canons-jane-yonge,%20https://pantograph-punch.com//posts/loose-canons-jane-yonge |access-date=2022-06-11 |website=Pantograph Punch}}{{Cite web |last=Tang |first=Eda |date=2022-06-03 |title=Asian cast changes the lens on the New Zealand theatre scene |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/128802520/asian-cast-changes-the-lens-on-the-new-zealand-theatre-scene |access-date=2022-06-11 |website=Stuff |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Jane Yonge – Fulbright New Zealand General Graduate Awards |url=https://www.fulbright.org.nz/portfolio/jane-yonge-fulbright-new-zealand-general-graduate-awards/ |access-date=2022-06-11 |website=www.fulbright.org.nz |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |last=International Society for the Performing Arts |title=Fellowship Participants |url=https://www.ispa.org/page/fellow20_yonge}}

Career

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!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)

|{{Cite web |title=THE BASEMENT TAPES |url=http://zanetti-productions.com/the-basement-tapes |access-date=2022-06-11 |website=Zanetti Productions |language=en-US}}

2017-2018

|WEiRdO

|BATS Theatre, Wellington and Basement Theatre, Auckland

|Director

|{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Jane Yonge {{!}} Auckland Theatre Company |url=https://www.atc.co.nz/auckland-theatre-company/people/jane-yonge/ |access-date=2022-06-11 |website=www.atc.co.nz |language=en}}

2016

|Hetero-perfomative

|Basement Theatre, Auckland

|Director

2016

|Page Turners

|New Zealand Festival

|Director