CV
The work Kate co-creates uses stories from the Western canon as a Trojan horse for contemporary questions of connection, marginalisation & othering, challenging audience preconceptions across multiple media.
For acting credits, visit her Spotlight page.
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Shakespeare | 2015-present
Artistic Director - Worlds Elsewhere: Shakespeare for the Many, 2025-present
Project Lead - Shrew: The Experiment @ Shakespeare North Playhouse, 2024-5
Assistant Director - National Theatre & Northern Broadsides Hamlet R&D, 2025
Director - Hamlet by Candlelight (EDI focused schools tour), 2024
Arts Leadership Trainee promoted to Assistant Director - 1623 Theatre Company, 2023-5
Original Practices Research Company Member - Shakespeare Institute, 2023-4
Project Lead - Hamlet (Winner: Best Shakespeare Film, Stratford Film Fest), 2023-4
Director - Bard Bits Festival: The Taming of the Shrew, 2021
Associate Director - The Show Must Go Online, 2021
Assistant Director - Quandary Collective: Richard II National Tour, 2021
Core Company Member - Shake-Scene Shakespeare, 2018-present
Repertory Company Member - Chiltern Shakespeare, 2015-16
Actor inc. Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare North Playhouse, National Theatre, 2015-present
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Access Lead / Consultant | 2018-present
Neurodiversity Consultant - Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, 2025-present
Neurodiversity Consultant + Access Lead - The Sirrah Sisters, 2025
Ambassador - Lotus Collaborations CIC, 2024-present
Live Captioner - 1624 Theatre: The Winter's Tale, 2024
Creative Access Facilitator - Baby Sign & Sing @ Costa Del Croydon, 2024
Access Support Worker - Magical Women/Elinor Rowlands, 2023-4
Creative Facilitator - The Complete Works Alternative Provision School, 2023
Creative Access Lead - Magical Women: Christmas Coven, 2022
Creative Access Lead - Magical Women: Biodivergent Sites & Sounds, 2022
Medical Training Facilitator - SimActors/University of Surrey, 2022-5
Access Facilitator - Nancealverne SEN School, 2021 placement
Participation Assistant - Almeida Theatre, 2021 placement
Outreach Facilitator & Student Ambassador - Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, 2019-2
Creative Facilitator - Angel Shed Inclusive Theatre, 2018-19
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TRAINING
Performance
First Class Hons BA Contemporary Performance – Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
Ongoing Shakespeare training with Shakescene & the Factory
RSC Voice & Text - Patsy Rodenburg
Playing The Globe - Philip Bird & Tim Bennett
Antiracist Shakespeare - 1623 Theatre
Classical Text - National Theatre
Activating Powerful Voices - National Theatre Amplified
Musicianship
Singing Lessons - Rhona Nolasco (Estill teacher) + Pam Hick (ABRSM)
ABRSM Singing & Piano Exams to grade 5 (Pass with Merit)
Self-taught guitarist (7 years' experience). Currently learning the Banjo & Mandolin
Eli Gilbert 30 Days of Banjo course
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Stage Combat
BADC Standard - True Edge (Unarmed & Single Handed Sword)
Rapier & Dagger workshop - Hadley Smith
Ballet x Smallsword - Carlotta De Gregori
Found Objects workshop - Jess Hrabowsky & Dave Nolan
Basic Quarterstaff training in Italy
Boxing - twice weekly training with Said Al-Saedi
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Clowning
Theatrical Clown - Stephen Sobal
Advanced Commedia dell'Arte - International School of the Comic Actor
Comedy Improv - Improbable/Angela Clerkin
Clown x Shakespeare - Told By An Idiot
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Further
Rewrite the Bi-Line Writers' Fellowship 2025-2026
Lyric Hammersmith - Young Lyric Associates 2025-2026
Creating Spaces for Neurodivergent Minds Masterclass- Outside Voice, 2024
Joint Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Rep [with Kemi Coker] at R&V Management, 2021-4
Introduction to British Sign Language Certificate (Entry Level) - british-sign, 2020
Masterclasses with Justin Audibert, Yasmin Hafesji, Natalie Abrahami & Hammed Animashaun
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Awards & Residencies
Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, 2024-25
British Academy of Dramatic Combat Equality Award, 2024
April Shakespeare [Grand] Slam Winner (as Julia), 2024
October Shakespeare Slam Winner (as Juliet), 2023
September Shakespeare Slam Winner (as Benedick), 2023
Shake-Scene Award for Best Double Act (Beatrice & Benedick with Bridget Randolph), 2023
Shake-Scene Award for Best Choreography (Exorcism in The Faithful Shepherdess), 2023
Mainspring Arts SpringTide Artist in Residence, June 2023
Groundlings Choice Award for Outstanding Performance in a History Play, 2021
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