Lori Dungey

Lori Dungey has been a professional actor, tutor, director and writer for over 35 years.  She has a BFA in Acting from the University of BC Columbia, Canada and specialises in Improvisation.  Twenty five years ago she came to Auckland to perform in the International Theatresports Festival, held in conjunction with the Commonwealth Games. She stayed on as the first Artistic Director for the Wellington Theatre Company, The Improvisors.

For the past 10 years she has been a Creative Director, performer, tutor and Emcee for ConArtists (formerly Theatresports Auckland).

She is a tutor and Emcee with the Theatresports Youth Programme (TYP) and has co-wrote the teaching manual that is used by the schools in the programme.  For the past nine years she has been a tutor at the National Youth Drama School in Hawkes Bay where she has taught Long Form improvisation to teenagers.  She has appeared on Shortland Street, Mercy Peak, Xena, Hercules, Lucy, Superfire, Amazing Extraordinary Friends and LOTR.