About

Jenae Ryan - Director / Sunshine Drama Teacher

After 15 years of working as a fully registered teacher in New Zealand primary schools, in 2016 Jenae returned to her roots as a Specialist Drama teacher, drawing on her training, expertise, skills and knowledge across a range of curriculum including NZ, Montessori, International Baccalaureate, Trinity College & New Zealand Speechboard.

With her own Speech and Drama Teacher as a mentor, Jenae started to teach and prepare students for drama exams at the age of thirteen. She gained her ATCL from Trinity College and went on to study acting, theatre history, scriptwriting and linguistics at Massey University, followed by a Post Graduate Diploma of Teaching.

Throughout this time, Jenae continued to teach creative drama classes and ran holiday workshops for children.

In schools, Jenae has run professional development workshops to support teachers with integrating drama into their classroom program, directed productions and held curriculum responsibility for the Arts.

Jenae has been involved in local theatre most of her life and recently is most happiest taking to the stage as an improviser with fellow actors from Basejump Comedy and Wellington Playback Theatre.

Supporting children to be confident, creative and effective communicators is at the heart of Jenae’s teaching and she welcomes the opportunity to work with your children.

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Samantha Romijn - Sunshine Sing Teacher

Samantha is a passionate performer and successful singer/songwriter and leads our Sunshine Sing Programme.  

In her final year at Wellington Girls’ College, she was awarded First in Music, First in Drama, Cultural Person of the Year, Choral singer of the year, and the Katherine Mansfield Cup for Contribution to Performing Arts.

Other achievements for her include joint Dux and Head Girl of the college.

Samantha is currently studying at Victoria University of Wellington and, when she’s not studying, she enjoys working as a singing/guitar teacher.

Her aim is to create a fun, inclusive, focused space where young people can explore their passion for music and develop their technical skills.