Kirsty currently works teaching young actors across secondary school levels in NCEA drama and scholarship drama as well as private coaching actors. Alongside this she is developing a documentary short film, fundraising online in 2025 for it. Kirsty is developing other projects.
Kirsty’s previous short – Cold, starred Matthew Sunderland and premiered at the Sandy Dennis Film Festival, USA.
Kirsty graduated the New Zealand drama School at age 20, and went on to play the lead in Costa Botes feature Saving Grace, for which she received a best actress nomination at the New Zealand Film and Television awards.
Kirsty has worked extensively as an actor in theater and played numerous roles including Shakespeare’s Rosalind, Juliet, Silvia, Dromio of Ephesus, Maria, Lorraine in Little Gem, Valerie in The Weir, Joan in Patrick Graham’s Is, and Charlotte in Harold Pinter’s Party Time.
Kirsty was selected as one of two SGCNZ fellows studying at Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London in 2007.
Kirsty graduated from European Act, an acting and screen writing summer intensive, 2009, with London Actor’s Center & in association with RADA, showcasing at RADA.
She has an MA from the International Institute of Modern Letters in creative writing, script – at Victoria University in Wellington.
She holds an Honors Degree in Screen Production in 2016 where she directed her first two short films Kat and Breathe.
She holds a Dip Grad Sec Teaching degree in Drama and English and studied Te reo Māori papers at Vic Uni in 2006 and 2007.
Kirsty continues to act and do voice work when opportunities arise which feed into her work as a writer/director and into her teaching/coaching work with actors.
