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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. Her work has been commissioned by Shakespeare North Playhouse, Mainspring Arts and Dark Eye Theatre.
For acting credits, visit her Spotlight page.
Shakespeare | 2015-present
Director - LAMDA Shakespeare Tragedies Project: King Lear 2026
Visiting Director - Arts Educational Schools BA Acting 2026
Artistic Director - Worlds Elsewhere: Shakespeare for the Many 2025-present
Assistant Director - National Theatre & Northern Broadsides Hamlet R&D 2025
Project Lead - Shrew: The Experiment @ Shakespeare North Playhouse 2025
Director - Hamlet by Candlelight R&D (Dark Eye Theatre) 2024
Visiting Director - MetFilmSchool Brighton 2024
Arts Leadership Trainee promoted to Assistant Director - 1623 Theatre Company 2023-25
Original Practices Research Company Member - Shakespeare Institute 2023-24
Project Lead - Hamlet (Winner: Best Shakespeare Film, Stratford Film Fest) 2023-24
Director - The Taming of the Shrew (Bard Bits @ Golden Goose Theatre) 2021
Associate Director - Two Noble Kinsmen (The Show Must Go Online) 2021
Assistant Director - Richard II National Tour (Quandary Collective) 2021
Core Company Member - The Show Must Online 2020
Core Company Member - Shake-Scene Shakespeare 2018-present
Repertory Company Member - Chiltern Shakespeare 2015-16
Actor inc. Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare North Playhouse, West End 2015-present
Accessibility | 2018-present
Access Consultant - Royal Central School of Speech & Drama 2025-present
Access Support - Shuttleskull Productions 2025-present
Access Lead - The Sirrah Sisters: Much Ado About Nothing 2025-present
Ambassador - Lotus Collaborations CIC 2024-present
Live Captioner - 1624 Theatre: The Winter's Tale 2024
Access Support - Elinor Rowlands Artist 2022-3
Creative Access Facilitator - The Complete Works Alternative Provision School 2023
Participation Assistant - Almeida Theatre 2021
Creative Access Facilitator - Angel Shed Inclusive Theatre 2018-19
TRAINING
First Class Hons BA Contemporary Performance – Royal Central School of Speech & Drama 2019-22
Advanced Certificate in Shakespeare - University of Birmingham / RSC 2019-22
Core Curriculum Training - Heartland Intimacy Design (ongoing)
3-Day Directors Studio - Shakespeare's Globe - 2026
PTSD & Traumatic Stress Course - Solidarity Apothecary 2026
National Theatre Generate Programme 2025
Lyric Hammersmith - Young Lyric Associates 2025-26
Anti-Racist Shakespeare - Dr David Sterling Brown 2024
Creating Spaces for Neurodivergent Minds - Outside Voice 2024
Masterclasses with Justin Audibert, Natalie Abrahami & Ned Bennett 2021-22
Introduction to British Sign Language Certificate - british-sign 2020
Playing The Globe - Philip Bird & Tim Bennett 2019-23
RSC Voice & Text - Patsy Rodenburg 2017-18
AWARDS
Best Shakespeare Film - Stratford on Avon Film Festival (Hamlet) 2024
Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice Grant (Shrew: The Experiment) 2024-25
British Academy of Dramatic Combat Equality Award 2024
Mainspring Arts SpringTide Artist in Residence 2023
Groundlings Choice Award for Outstanding Performance 2021