Cindy Diver (Kāi Tahu) is an Ōtepoti based professional actor, director, writer, teacher, casting director and owner-manager of the production company Theatreworks Ltd.
She has worked full-time in theatre, television and film for over 30 years and is the principal teacher at her acting school interACT Drama Classes.
Cindy is a co-playwright and performer of the award winning The Keys are in the Margarine – a verbatim play about dementia, which toured from Invercargill to Whangārei over nine years. Her play Kereru Beats was selected for the UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival in 2019.
Her site-specific piece Resilience – a lockdown theatre response - won Production of the Year 2020-2021 at the Dunedin Theatre awards, and in 2024, she was awarded Outstanding Script at the same awards for her comedy drama Wahine Mātātoa, the Mostly True story of Erihāpeti Pātahi.
Cindy has a BA in History, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Theatre Studies (with distinction) from the University of Otago / Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka.