Jan Patricia Bolwell ONZM (born 1949) is a Wellington-based New Zealand playwright, choreographer, director, dancer and teacher of dance.

[1] Bolwell was born on the South Island in Oamaru but grew up in Dunedin where she was educated at Columba College.

[1] In 2018 she directed Kate JasonSmith in I'll Tell You This For Nothing: My mother the war hero, a play written by JasonSmith about her mother's experiences in World War II, performed at BATS Theatre in Wellington.

[2] In 1995, with Sunny Amey and Keri Kaa, she won Production of the Year in the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for Takitoru.

[3] Bolwell was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for "service to dance and theatre" in the 2020 New Years Honours.