- Name
- Maree Sheehan
- Iwi/Ethnicity
- Ngāti Maniapoto/Māori
Ngāti Tūwharetoa/Māori
Ngāti Raukawa/Māori
Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whāoa/Māori - Date of birth
- 1969
- Gender
- Female
- Biography
- Dr Maree Sheehan is a sound artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, where she is also a lecturer in the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development and a postgraduate lecturer in the Faculty of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
Following a successful career as a singer and songwriter in the 1990s, Sheehan gained a Bachelor of Arts in English and Music, a Postgraduate Diploma in Māori Studies, and most recently a PhD from AUT in 2018.
Her original music appears in iconic films and television series such as *Once Were Warriors*, *Broken English* and *Shortland Street*. She has gone on to compose music and sound for film, dance and theatre, nationally and internationally.
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