Kate Hennig

Kate Hennig is a Canadian actress, playwright, and Shaw Festival associate artistic director. Born in Harlow, Ontario, and raised in Edmonton, she briefly attended York University before earning a master's at London's Central School of Speech and Drama in 2002. Though primarily a stage actress, she received a Genie Award nomination in 1993 for Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Her screen work includes Mrs. Winterbourne (1996), The Claim (2000), and the television series Anne of Green Gables (2016), Bomb Girls, and Saving Hope. On stage, she was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee in 2003 for The Danish Play and in 2011 took the Dora for her musical performance in Billy Elliot. As a playwright, she wrote Mother's Daughter, The Last Wife, and The Virgin Trial; The Virgin Trial earned a 2017 Dora nomination for outstanding new play and a Governor General's Award shortlisting. She directed Holiday Inn at the Shaw Festival in 2019.