Jenny Wake is a New Zealand actor and theatre director.
In 1991 she founded Calico Young People's Theatre.
[1] Wake completed a master's degree in children’s theatre at Humboldt State University in California.
[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.