Kate Andrews is an award-winning actor & director with over 10 years' experience using Shakespeare to surprise, delight & encourage social change. Trained at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, she enjoys co-creating work which innovates while leaving nobody behind, including the first explicitly Autistic portrayal of Hamlet and groundbreaking interactive piece Shrew: The Experiment.
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"Grounded yet effervescent"
Antonio Fava - ArsComica
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"Stellar"
​Lizzie Conrad Hughes - ShakeScene
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"Intelligent, playful, hardworking, perceptive & always willing to take a risk - a joy to work with!"
Stephen Sobal - All In Theatre
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"Bold, intelligent choices & instincts"
Philip Bird - Shakespeare's Globe
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Kate's credits include 37Plays (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Merchant of Venice (★★★★★ Mobile Theatre) & As You Like It (Shakespeare North Playhouse) as well as Hamlet (Northern Broadsides/NT Studio) & Richard II (★★★★★ BN1 Magazine) as assistant director. Offstage, she directs student actors at ArtsEd and LAMDA and is an ambassador for Hire Survivors Hollywood.