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Katie Wolfe (born 1968) is New Zealand actor and film and stage director. She was in the New Zealand television series Marlin Bay in the 1990s, Shortland Street in the late 1990s and Mercy Peak for two years (2000 - 2001). Her screen directing work has won several awards including Redemption at the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival and This Is Her at the Prague International Short Film Festival. Her current creative work is writing and directing a stage play called The Haka Party Incident, produced by the Auckland Theatre Company and programmed by festivals through New Zealand across 2020 - 2022.

Biography

Katie Wolfe was born in New Plymouth in 1968, the daughter of Neil and Raewyn Wolfe and has three siblings. She is affiliated with the Taranaki iwi Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama.[1] In 1986 she enrolled at Victoria University and graduated with a BA in English. She graduated from New Zealand acting school Toi Whakaari in 1990.[2]

Career

Wolfes first professional acting job was at Dunedin's Fortune Theatre, followed by several episodes of NHNZ's children's nature series Wild Track, as the presenter.[2]

Her first television role was in 1992 as Ginny Gannaway on the series Marlin Bay, a role which lasted three years, and her big screen debut was in The Last Tattoo (1994) directed by John Reid, in which she played the New Zealand missing girlfriend of an American World War II soldier .[2]

Wolfe has directed film and theatre. Her first two short films This is Her and Redemption both premiered at Sundance, and went on to screen in Berlinale, New York and Telluride. Her first feature-length film, titled Kawa, was an adaptation of Witi Ihimaera's book, Nights in the Gardens of Spain.[2]

Wolfe joined seven other Māori women to direct the omnibus film, Waru (2017). Each woman contributed a 10-minute segment of events circling around the tangi of a boy named Waru. After its debut at the 2017 New Zealand International Film Festival, Waru screened at the Toronto Film Festival and ImagineNATIVE festivals.[3]

Live plays Wolfe has directed include The Haka Party Incident a play about race relations based on a true event at Auckland University in 1979 when a group of engineering students doing a mock haka were finally challenged Māori activists. Wolfe also wrote this work and first showed a development of it in 2017. It is programmed in the New Zealand Festival in 2022.[4][5] It has been programmed by a number of festivals throughout New Zealand (Te Tairāwhiti Festival, Auckland Festival, Tauranga Arts Festival, RESET Festival in Taranaki, Nelson Arts Festival) but has not always been able to be presented due to Covid 19 restrictions.[6][7][8][9]

Filmography - screen credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	The Last Tattoo	Rose Mitchell
1994	La vie en rose	Audrey Foggin
1995	Lemming Aid		Short
1996	Planet Man	E.T.	short
2000	The Irrefutable Truth About Demons	Bennie
2011	The Off Season		Short
2016	Ukaipo Whenua		Short

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Marlin Bay	Ginny Gannaway	TV series
1992	The Ray Bradbury Theater	Anna (age 18-22)	"Some Live Like Lazarus"
1996	Cover Story		TV series
1997-98	Shortland Street	Dr. Bridget Hastings	Regular role
1999	Duggan	Brenda Marshall	"Food to Die For"
1999	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys	Arciana	"Be Deviled"
2001-03	Mercy Peak	Amanda Masefield	Recurring role
2016	The Brokenwood Mysteries	Nicole	"The Black Widower"

Other work

Year	Title	Notes
2003-07	Shortland Street	Director (3 episodes)
2004	Living the Dream	Director, TV series
2008	This Is Her	Director, short film
2009	Go Girls	Director (4 episodes)
2010	Redemption	Director & Writer, short film
2010	Kawa	Director
2010-12	Shortland Street	Producer (59 episodes)
2017	Waru	Co-Director & Co-Writer

Theatre

Directing

Wolfe has directed a number of plays including:

• Luncheon (2014) by Aroha Awarau, at the Basement Theatre, Auckland.[10] Starring Jennifer Ward-Lealand[11]
• The Haka Party Incident (2017) written and directed by Katie Wolfe. Verbatim theatre, produced by Auckland Theatre Company.[5]
• Anahera (2017) by Emma Kinane. Circa Theatre, Wellington.[12]
• The Haka Party Incident (2020) (revision) written and directed by Katie Wolfe. Produced by Auckland Theatre Company.[13]

Acting Roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	The God Boy	Molly	Downstage Theatre
2000	Haruru Mai	Paloma	NZ International Festival
2001	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Hermia	NZ Actors Company
2002	Queen Leah	Edgmar	NZ Actors Company

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
1995	New Zealand Film and TV Awards	Best Female Performance in Supporting Role - Film	The Last Tattoo	Nominated
1995	New Zealand Film and Television Awards	Best Female Performance in a Supporting Role - Television	Marlin Bay	Nominated
1997	TV Guide Television Awards	Best Actress	Cover Story, episode 7	Won
2008	New Zealand Film and TV Awards	Film Award for Best Short Film	This Is Her	Nominated
2008	Antipodes Film Festival, St Tropez	Nicolas Baudin Award for Best Short Film	This Is Her	Won
2008	Prague International Short Film Festival	Best Audience Film Award	This Is Her	Won
2009	Filmets - Badalona Short Film Festival	Venus de Badalona for Best Short Film	This Is Her	Won
2009	Aspen Shortsfest	Jury Award for Best Comedy	This Is Her	Won
2009	Hamptons International Film Festival[14]	Audience Award for Best Short	This Is Her	Won
2009	Palm Springs Shortfest	Future Filmmaker Award		Won
2010	Show Me Shorts Film Festival	Best Film	This Is Her	Won
2010	ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival	Jury Award for Best Short Drama	Redemption	Won
2010	ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival	Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Emerging Talent	Redemption	Won
2011	Sundance Film Festival	Short Filmmaking Award in International	Redemption	Nominated

Personal life

Wolfe married fellow actor Tim Balme in 1994, and together they have two children; daughter Edie (b. 2001) and son Nikau (b. 2006). Wolfe also has a step-son, Sam (b. 1987).[15]

References

External links

• Katie Wolfe at IMDb

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