title: Jane Yonge
text: # Jane Yonge
  
  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 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 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 | |
  