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
Director - LAMDA Shakespeare Tragedies Project: King Lear 2026
Visiting Director - Arts Educational Schools BA Acting 2026-present
Artistic Director - Worlds Elsewhere: Shakespeare for the Many 2025-present
Project Lead - Shrew: The Experiment @ Shakespeare North Playhouse 2024-present
Assistant Director - National Theatre & Northern Broadsides Hamlet R&D 2025
Director - Hamlet by Candlelight (EDI focused schools tour R&D) 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 - 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, West End 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 2023-24
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 2022-25
Access Facilitator - Nancealverne SEN School 2021
Participation Assistant - Almeida Theatre 2021
Outreach Facilitator & Student Ambassador - Royal Central School of Speech & Drama 2019-22
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 2019-22
Advanced Certificate in Shakespeare - University of Birmingham / RSC 2019-22
Playing The Globe - Philip Bird & Tim Bennett 2019-23
Activating Powerful Voices - National Theatre Amplified 2025
Antiracist Shakespeare - Dr David Sterling Brown 2024
RSC Voice & Text - Patsy Rodenburg 2017
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Musicianship
Singing Lessons - Rhona Nolasco (Estill) + Pam Hick (ABRSM) 2013-23
ABRSM Singing & Piano Exams to grade 5 (Pass with Merit) 2013-15
Skilled Bluegrass Banjo player 2014-present
Basic cajon & guitar (7 years' experience) - left handed 2019-present
Learns music by ear since childhood
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Stage Combat & Sports
BADC Standard - True Edge (Unarmed & Single Handed Sword) 2024
Boxing - twice weekly training with Said Al-Saedi 2024-present
Archery including Teacher Training - Sherwood Forest & Hever Castle - 2024-present
Rapier & Dagger workshop - Hadley Smith 2024
Ballet x Smallsword - Carlotta De Gregori 2024
Found Objects workshop - Jess Hrabowsky & Dave Nolan 2024
Basic Quarterstaff training in Italy 2019
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Comedy
Clown x Shakespeare - Told By An Idiot 2023-4
Theatrical Clown - Stephen Sobal 2017-18
Advanced Commedia dell'Arte - International School of the Comic Actor 2019
Comedy Improv - Improbable/Angela Clerkin 2018-19
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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 2021-present
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Awards & Residencies
Straight 8 Top 8 (for Immodest) - Festival de Cannes 2025
Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant 2024-25
Best Shakespeare Film (for Hamlet) - Stratford on Avon Film Festival 2024
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 2023
Groundlings Choice Award for Outstanding Performance in a History Play 2021
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