Kath Akuhata-Brown

No Ngati Porou ia.  Ko Te Aitanga a Mate, Te Whanau a Tuwhakairiora nga hapu.  Kei te tipu ia ki a Ruatoria.
Kathryn Akuhata-Brown is a writer, director, researcher, dramatist, amateur poet and kaikaranga .  She first started writing at the age of 12 adapting a Witi Ihimaera short story into a monologue set in a long drop, which she performed to a live and slightly bewildered audience in Ngati Porou.  In television she scripted the first series of Kaikorero, a six half hour sitcom starring George Henare, Annie Whittle and Tainui Tukiwaho.  She storylined Shortland Street, wrote and directed five episodes of the Taonga series for Greenstone Pictures and researched the documentary Children of the Revolution which won a Qantas award in 2009.  She is a graduate of the Binger Film Lab writing programme in Amsterdam, has completed the Arista Script Developers programme and has been mentored by Trevor Griffiths writer of Reds and Fatherland and Troy Kennedy-Martin writer of the original Italian Job.  She is a script editor and mentor.  Kath is the chair of Script to Screen, a board member on Nga Aho Whakaari, Auckland University and Te Paepae Ataata the Maori feature film development fund.  Kath is currently based on the East Cape.