Directing, producing and assisting roles, from open-air tours to digital and multimedia:
Much Ado About Nothing 2026
The Sirrah Sisters
In addition to playing Benedick, Kate Andrews leads audience and performer accessibility on The Sirrah Sisters' joyous all-female & non-binary Much Ado About Nothing as Co-Producer, playing at The Lady Garden Theatre for Brockley Max festival. Kate's offstage contributions include integrated access, social media marketing & show pack materials rooted in access and inclusion for D/deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent audience.
Co-Producers: Kate Andrews & Blioux Kirkby
Director: Nat Kennedy
Come, You Spirits 2026
K Squared
Comprised of 3 stories interweaved together in the structure of a seance, Kate Andrews and Kennedy Jopson bring a fierce intersectional feminist lens to Shakespeare's sonnets, embodying Emilia Bassano and the androgynous Fair Youth respectively in 'Shakespeare is a Black Woman' and 'No Man, No Muse', before coming together to summon the spirits of Shakespeares' women against modern-day oppression.
Co-created with Kennedy Jopson
Shrew: The Experiment 2025
Worlds Elsewhere
Worlds Elsewhere's debut production premiered at Shakespeare North Playhouse in 2025, cast by audience votes, and will return in 2027. This first-of-its kind theatrical experiment places the power in the hands of the audience, engaging their complicity to explore materialism, gender, class and power.
Concept: Kate Andrews
Director: Christina Paddon
Producer: Hasna Haidar
Performers: Ant Henson, Kate Andrews
Lighting Design: Rob Murtagh
King Lear 2026
LAMDA classical semester programme
Kate Andrews directs LAMDA's graduating Classical Semester students in an ensemble production of King Lear, exploring themes of power, family and loyalty through muscular verse and physical storytelling.
Director: Kate Andrews
Movement: Nicoletta Bonani
Voice: Frankie Aaronovitch-Bruce
Fights: Joseph Reed
Design: Kate Andrews
Hamlet R&D 2025
Northern Broadsides + NT Studio
NT Generate Assistant Director on the workshop development of Northern Broadsides' Hamlet at the National Theatre Studio, contributing to ensemble rehearsals & leading a separate room for in-depth text work.
Assistant Director: Kate Andrews
Director: Laurie Sansom
Movement: Jen Malarkey
Sound: Ben Nobuto
Cast Includes: Connor Curren, Cora Kirk
The Winter's Tale 2024
1623 Theatre - Midlands tour
Assistant to co-directors Sophie Stone and Ben Spiller for 1623 Theatre’s bilingual BSL/English production of The Winter’s Tale, playing at Attenborough Arts Centre and Derby Theatre.
Assistant Director: Kate Andrews
Directors: Sophie Stone and Ben Spiller
Movement: Kim Bormann
Producer: Jamie Brown
Design: Nikki Charlesworth
BSL Interpreter: Becky Barry
Cast Includes: Oliver Tunstall, Donna Mullings
Hamlet short film 2024
Little Attic Productions
Producer of the world's first explicitly Autistic Hamlet, a short film awarded Best Film at Stratford Upon Avon Film Festival and nominated for Best Film at Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Shakespeare Shorts Festival, commended by Sir Kenneth Branagh.
Concept: Kate Andrews
Director: Lorna McCoid
Cast Includes: Sojourner Hazelwood-Connell
Funding: Mainspring Arts
Richard II 2021
Quandary Collective - national tour
Assistant Director on Quandary Collective’s national tour of Richard II, a post apocalyptic vision with an all-male cast aside from Coco Maertens as Richard II, presenting as male to hold on to power in a patriarchal society.
Assistant Director: Kate Andrews
Director: Annie Mckenzie
Producer: Coco Maertens
Design: Jojo Fauchier
Fights: Alex Payne
Cast Includes: Danann McAleer, Marc Zayat
Two Noble Kinsmen 2021
The Show Must Go Online
Associate Director on Two Noble Kinsmen with The Show Must Go Online, a landmark digital Shakespeare project involving international ensemble performance during the pandemic era, tasked with collaboratively casting an inclusive cast which proportionately represents the Global Majority, and 1:1 trauma-informed text work on Jailer's Daughter scenes.
Associate Directors: Kate Andrews, Eugenia Low
Director: Matthew Rhodes
Producers: Hasna Haidar and Andrew Pawarroo
Fights: Alexandra Kataigida
Cast Includes: Gabriel Akamo, Heba Toulan
The Taming of the Shrew 2021
Golden Goose Theatre
Director of The Taming of the Shrew as part of Bard Bits Festival at the Golden Goose Theatre, creating an inventive, dynamic staging that played with text, form and audience engagement.
Director: Kate Andrews
Assistant Director: Kate Bauer
Lighting Design: Tricia Wey
Cast Includes: Rory Gradon, Nia Powell