Helen Pearse-Otene

Helen Pearse-Otene (Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kuri, Ngāti Ruanui) is a playwright, actor and author.

Helen is currently a member of Jim Moriarty’s community theatre company, Te Rākau. In her role at Te Rākau Helen works as a playwright, programme facilitator, and a performer in prisons, on Marae, in CYF residential centres, in schools and mainstream theatres around the country.