KMC TEACHERS

Jane has lived in Queenstown for most of her life, watching all 3 of her children become involved in drama classes from a young age. And saw the effect it had on them. How drama helped to bring them out of their shells and find out who they are. To this day, two of her children have remained involved and addicted to drama. 

In 2018, when Jane found out that the local drama school was closing, she knew she had to do something. Jane wanted all the other children in her community to have the same chances that her children had growing up.  

Using her knowledge and past experience running Wakatipu Swim School and working as a swim teacher for over 20 years, Jane opened the Kate Moetaua Collective. Over the past years she has combined her teaching and business skills with her developing drama skills. 

She assists in some classes with our student teachers to help them develop their own skills as a teacher and recently showed off what she has learnt form them when playing The Mean Witch from the Storytelling Class's rendition of The Witches. 

Tasman has been involved in drama classes for as long as she can remember. 

During high school she was involved on and off stage in as many performances as possible. She loves working in many different areas of theatre not just on stage. In her final year of high school she was one of the student directors of the school's musical; Dusty, The Original Pop Diva while also leading the lighting crew. She also participated in the One Act Play and SGCNZ Sheilah Winn performances. 

She taught for Drama Queenstown for 2 years before it closed and on was on board with the KMC from day one. Teaching her own classes and having fun with her students. At the end of 2019 she stage-managed our End of Year Production while simultaneously directing her 4 classes. 

Now, in 2020 she is living in Wellington and studying Theatre at Victoria University. From there she is still working for the KMC, doing our admin and helping to keep our school running smoothly.