Uma Kali Shakti

Uma Kali Shakti has been involved in the Theatre for over 40 years. Falling in love with Shakespeare at high school, she went on to study Drama & Theatre at Murdoch University(WA) in the 70s and since then has had varied experiences in theatre and TV in Aotearoa/NZ, Australia and England. Uma has not only been a Writer/Director/Performer for a number of productions at the Imagine Festival, Mardi Gras, Crash Test Drama and for the Short & Sweet Festivals as well as gaining a Short & Sweet 5 year Participation Silver Award; but also co-ordinates the monthly DIY: New Directors Mentoring Project.

Her credits include the following:

Director “Haircut” & “People Like Us”; Actor/Director “Alex Returns”; Director/Stage Manager “A Girl Called Red”;  Actor “Unfinished Business”; Director “Haircut” & “All A Twitter”; Actor “Parramatta Girls”; Director “Nuns”&“Erlkonig”; Actor “Unfinished Business”; Writer “Recession”; Director “Car Trouble”; Performer/Producer “Feminist Fatalist Kabaret”; Writer/Director/Performer “What Are They Doing In There?!” ; Writer/Director/Performer “Ramona & Julz”; Director “Bread”; Stage Manager “Life After George”; Writer/Director/Performer “Piyaar ke Bhandan”; Stage Manager “Laughter on the 23rd Floor”; Director “Fencelines”; Writer/Director/Performer “Ramona & Julz”; Actor “Badjelly the Witch”; Sound & Light Operator Short & Sweet Festival;  Stage Manager/Actor “A Christmas Carol”; Stage Manager “Into the Woods”; Actor “Our Town”; Stage Manager “Falsettos”; Stage Manager “Hating Alison Ashley”; Stage Manager/Performer “Woman in a Tree on a Hill”; Stage Manager “Skylight”;Stage Manager “Assassins”;

Producer/Actor/Stage Manager “Cunning Linguists”; Actor “Coalface”, Channel One/Aotearoa –TVNZ; Performer “Leela - Divine Play”;   Actor “Naya Jamana”, short experimental film (NZ); Writer//Director/Actor "The Delicate Essence Cafe"  Desh Pardesh South Asian Arts Festival Toronto, Canada; Writer /Director/ Actor “Liquorice Allsorts” Red Zephyr Festival, Auckland University, (NZ); Writer/Director/Actor “Theatreworkshop” Red Zephyr Festival, Auckland University (NZ); Actor "The Crucifixion" St Andrews Cathedral March (NZ); Actor "No Bananas" Maidment Theatre August (NZ); Actor “Romeo & Juliet" University of Auckland Summer Shakespeare (NZ); Writer/Director/Producer "The Delicate Essence Cafe” Mixed Business; Black & Migrant Women's Theatre; Actor “Wizard of Oz” Mangere Theatreplayers  (NZ).