Wake completed a master's degree in children’s theatre at Humboldt State University in California.^[1] She specialises in children's television and theatre productions and has worked on television series Play School and What Now.^[1]

In the late 1980s Wake worked at the Downstage Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand as the youth activities director, and in 1991 she founded a theatre company focused on youth, Calico Young People's Theatre.^[2] Wake has adapted stories for the stage, including Maurice Gee's The Halfmen of O and Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen.^[2]^[3]

In the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours, Wake was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to theatre and television.^[4]

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