Award Winning Bronwyn Turei

Send us Fan MailWellington Theatre's 2024 Co-Actor of the year Bronwyn Turei (Ngāti Porou) drops into Penny's house to discuss all things fleshy. From being head girl at Gisborne Girls, to dealing with a lot of intense trauma as a teenager, to heading to London's Globe theatre to becoming a constantly jobbing professional actress, she and Penny covered how her body rode this rollercoaster.She talked of hitting the giddy heights of fame aged 24 when cast in the TV show Go Girls, of leaning into her "curvy" characters storylines despite how some of them felt, of how totally adorable her child is, (despite how traumatic her birth was) and how she once went on a blind date to Shanghai. Penny also thanked her being being a superstar in Penny's directorial debut with Sense & Sensibility where she was part of a stellar cast, and they laughed about how Bronwyn's toddler wormed her way into Penny's cold dead non maternal heart. CONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault, suicide ideation, Mental Illness. Photo Credit: Roc Torio Book for Give Way here: https://nz.patronbase.com/_Circa/Productions/2509/PerformancesPenny's Shows Book for Austen Found here: https://www.qtheatre.co.nz/shows/austen-found Book for The Tempestuous in New Plymouth here: https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2025/may/the-tempestuousBook for Stratford here: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/olive-copperbottom-a-dickensian-tale-of-love-gin-and-the-pox-tickets-1243841095199Book for Tasmania here: https://events.humanitix.com/promise-and-promiscuity-a-new-musical-by-jane-austen-and-penny-ashtonBook for Melbourne here: https://chapeloffchapel.com.au/show/promise-promiscuity/Book for Newcastle here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1342004Book for Sydney here: https://events.humanitix.com/promise-and-promiscuity-a-new-musical-by-jane-austen-and-penny-ashton-qvacnk7sBook for Canberra here: https://www.thestreet.org.au/shows/promise-and-promiscuitySupport the show