Kate Hennig

Kate Hennig is a Canadian actress and playwright, currently the associate artistic director of the Shaw Festival.

Early life and education Hennig was born in Harlow, Ontario near London. Her father was a Lutheran minister. She and her family moved to Edmonton when Hennig was 7. Hennig attended York University briefly before dropping out.

Career She was a shortlisted Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Actress in a Play (Large Theatre) in 2003 for The Danish Play, and won the Dora for Best Actress in a Musical in 2011 for Billy Elliot. Although predominantly a stage actress, she also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for her performance in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, and has appeared in the films Mrs. Winterbourne and The Claim, and the television series Bomb Girls, Saving Hope and L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.

As a playwright, she has written the plays The Last Wife, The Virgin Trial, and Mother's Daughter. She was nominated for Outstanding New Play at the 2017 Dora Mavor Moore Awards and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2017 Governor General's Awards for The Virgin Trial.

In 2019, Hennig directed Holiday Inn at the Shaw Festival.

Personal life Hennig married and later divorced Ian Prinsloo. She moved back Toronto from Calgary in 2001, after her run as Sally Bowles in Cabaret ended. 2001 Cabaret Sally Bowles Theatre Calgary 2003 data-sort-value="Good Life, The" | The Good Life Necessary Angel Staged reading 2007 data-sort-value="Penelopiad, The" | The Penelopiad National Arts Centre 2007 White Christmas Martha Watson Sony Centre 2008 Anyone Can Whistle 2008 Blue Note Nightswimming 2009 Billy Elliot Mrs. Wilkinson Broadway 2012 data-sort-value="Man and Some Women, A" | A Man and Some Women Rose Shaw Festival 2013 Romeo and Juliet Nurse Stratford Festival 2013 Fiddler on the Roof Golde Stratford Festival 2014 data-sort-value="Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, A" | A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur Bodey Shaw Festival 2014 Rifles Señora Carrar Praxis/Next Stage 2015 Little Death Claire Koffler Centre/Why Not Theatre/Riser Project 2016 Breath of Kings Mistress Quickly and Gower Stratford Festival 2016 Hedda Gabler Julia 2017 data-sort-value="Audience, The" | The Audience Margaret Thatcher Mirvish/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre 2019 data-sort-value="Doll's House, Part 2, A" | A Doll's House, Part 2 Anne-Marie Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre 2022 data-sort-value="Importance of Being Ernest, The" | The Importance of Being Ernest Lady Bracknell Shaw Festival 2022 Gaslight (adapted from Angel Street) Elizabeth Shaw Festival 2023 Gypsy Momma Rose Shaw Festival Plays The Eleventh David More Mother’s Daughter Cyrano de Bergerac (translation and adaptation) Wilde Tales