As a theatre practitioner, Kate loves working with like-minded creative people to bring stories to the stage, and to try and make sense of our world through sharing them. She also likes to have fun, play with characters and drink bubbles after the show.
Kate was last seen on stage as Gayle/ Laura in Consent for Mockingbird Too in 2025. Canberra acting highlights have included Twelfth Night (Maria), Gaslight (Bella), Our Country’s Good (Dabby Bryant) (CAT Award) for Canberra REP, as well as 1H6 and 2H6 (Gloucester/ Salisbury) for Mill Theatre, In Loco Parentis (Dr Bryce) for the Street Theatre (Canberra Critics Circle Award) and Vinegar Tom (Joan) for COUP: Canberra. She also performed in the award-winning short film With Little Hope (Cinema New York City Film Festival Best Short Film).
In life before Canberra, Kate appeared in, among other things, Emma (Mrs Elton), Macbeth (Witch 1), Richard III, (Queen Elizabeth), Hair (Dionne), The Crucible (Elizabeth Proctor), The Devils (Sister Jeanne), Necessary Targets (Jelena), Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (Lucy), and The Full Monty (Jeanette).
Since moving to Canberra in 2013, Kate has directed Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Ovations Award for Outstanding Production of a Play – Community) and Love Letters, Neighbourhood Watch and Blithe Spirit for Canberra REP Theatre. For Crouching Giraffe Productions, Kate has directed The Penelopiad (in association with papermoon theatre) and an International Women’s Day performance of excerpts from Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife.
Kate wrote and directed Scene Stealers and promenade performances Shakespeare on Location and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gardens in Queenstown, and a Shakespearean compilation, An Error of Comedies, which toured the South Island of New Zealand. For the 150th anniversary of the discovery of gold in Arrowtown, she was commissioned to write a series of site-specific theatre pieces. She has also published a novel, Mornington Crescent.
