SHERILEE KAHUI
Ko Taranaki te mounga
Ko Pungaereere te awa
Ko Kurahaupō te waka
Ko Taranaki te iwi
Ko Te Pōtaka te marae
Ko Ngāti Haupoto te hapū
Ko Sherilee Kahui tōku ingoa
Sherilee is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. She has lived and made theatre in Japan, Australia and New Zealand. After becoming a mum to her first son, Darby, Sherilee toured her solo show, (A Smidge of) Pidge both around Aotearoa and to the 2017 Melbourne Fringe Festival. She has served as a trustee of Ngā Whakarākei o Whātaitai (Wellington Theatre Awards) and as a board member for BATS Theatre.
Sherilee credits Maranga Mai and Tawata Productions with supporting her to find her own indigenous voice as a writer. After her second year with Maranga Mai (and while she was hapū with her second son, Jethro), Sherilee was invited to join Breaking Ground where she developed her new work Mokomoko, which was performed in development at BATS Theatre in 2022.