About the playwright

Katie Wolfe Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama Writer and Director of The Haka Party Incident

Katie Wolfe is well known to audiences as a director and actor who works across theatre, film and television in both drama and documentary.

Her most recent documentaries are He Māngai Wāhine and for the Artefact series - Te Hokinga Mai and Road to War Katie was one of the directors of the acclaimed film Waru. Her films Redemption, This Is Her and Kawa (an adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain) garnered many awards internationally. Katie directed The Mooncake and the Kumara for the 2015 Auckland Festival and notable other NZ works are Rendered for ATC, Anahera for Circa, Luncheon for Basement and The Women for Silo. Katie portrays the popular character Nanny Fanny for Maori Television’s hit comedy The Ring Inz and returns to TVNZ screens this year in the landmark action series Vegas.