Kerryn Palmer

E: performingartsypa@gmail.com

P: 0064 272457185

Kerryn is a Wellington-based freelance director, producer and teacher of drama. She has a PhD in devising theatre for and with young audiences. Since 2015 she has taught regularly in Victoria University’s theatre programme and teaches short courses in devising and directing at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. She is the coordinator for the MFA (Creative Practice) in Theatre at Victoria University and producer of the annual Six Degrees Festival.

Kerryn regularly directs at BATS and Circa Theatres. In 2022 she is co-directing Joy for Tahi Festival, Milord Goffredo by Jan Bolwell ( His/Herstory) at Circa and Wonderkind- magical theatre for young children, also at Circa. In 2021 she co-directed HOLE by Lynda Chanwai-Earle at Circa and presented two sold-out BATS seasons of The Secret Lives of 16-Year-Old Girls by Sarah Boddy.  She also devises and creates large scale site-specific/generic works, (Pandemic, Sniper, Adrift, My Shout- Another Round at the Thistle Inn, Black November 1918) often with large casts of young people. She has directed three solo plays ( She Danced On A Friday, Bill Massey’s Tourists and A Rare Bird) and co-directed three polylogues for the Tahi Festival of solo performance 

Kerryn has directed many touring shows that have traveled around New Zealand for; Duffy Theatre, Capital E National Theatre for Children, Handstand Productions, Ensemble Impact and Arts on Tour.

 She teaches social drama in the community and in Ryman Retirement villages for Voice Arts Trust, runs a programme in corrections called Bedtime Stories From Inside, and is the national facilitator for PAYPA ( Performing Arts for Young People Aotearoa).