Kate is a highly sought after creator, director and dramaturg for theatre and live entertainment.
She specialises in creating commercial work for family audiences, and is known for her expertise in the field of new musical theatre.
Kate is currently the Head of New Work for the National Youth Music Theatre.
She is also an Associate Artist of the Singapore Repertory Theatre, for whom she has developed and directed a catalogue of children’s shows over the last ten years, seen by around two hundred thousand primary school aged children.
Kate works as a dramaturg and development consultant, and as a mentor to young creatives.
Training: Liverpool Institute For The Performing Arts.
Memberships: SDUK
Kate is a recipient of funding from Arts Council England’s Develop Your Creative Practice fund.
Currently:
Show writer and director of Disney: The Castle for Balich Wonder Studio and Disney Music Group.
Writing and creating concepts for large scale theme park and location based entertainment projects with Balich Wonder Studio and Cirque du Soleil.
Preproduction for Thrive: UK Tour with Dr Rangan Chatterjee. Kicking off in Spring 2025.
Arts Council England funded R and D for Miss Moore Thought Otherwise, a hyper-portable show for 3 – 7 year olds which takes place in children’s libraries and is free to attend.
Credits:
2024
Principles of Deception (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Dave Gorman and Ali Cook
SMART Entertainment
Northampton Royal and Derngate
Errol’s Garden (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Jen Green and Caroline Wigmore
Golden Toad Theatre
UK Tour – redirected by Associate Director Extraordinaire Michelle Payne
Unfortunate – the Untold Story of Ursula the Seawitch (Dramaturg)
Written by Daniel Fox, Tim Gilvin and Robyn Grant
Laura Elmes Productions
Ongoing work as Dramaturg and Development Consultant for i.e. Productions, and as Head of New Work for the National Youth Music Theatre
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2023
Disney: The Castle (Show Director and Writer)
Produced by Balich Wonder Studio, Propeller Live, TML Enterprises and Disney Music Group
Riyadh Boulevard.
Pigs Might Fly (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Jen Green and Caroline Wigmore
DEM and Golden Toad Theatre
UK Tour
Lovestuck (Dramaturg)
Written by James Cooper, Bryn Christopher and Martin Batchelor
Laura Elmes Productions
Ongoing work as Dramaturg and Development Consultant for i.e. Productions
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2022
Claus (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Andy Collyer and Simon Warne
ARIA Entertainment/ Katy Lipson
Lowry Theatre
The Keyworkers Cycle / Assembly: The Teacher’s Play (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Sonali Bhattacharyya
Almeida Theatre
Jack and the Beanstalk (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Pete Rowe
New Wolsey Theatre
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Jen Green and Caroline Wigmore
Golden Toad Theatre
Arts Council Funded R and D
Ongoing work as Dramaturg and Development Consultant for i.e. Productions
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2021
Ceilidh (Director and Dramaturg)
Writen by Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie aka Noisemaker
Goodspeed Digital Festival/ The Hartt School
Henrietta (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Katie Lam and Alex Parker
National Youth Music Theatre
Errol’s Garden (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Jen Green and Caroline Wigmore
Golden Toad Theatre
The Albany and Touring
Playmakers (Co writing and Directing with Ellis Kerkhoven)
A COVID safe play-anywhere first introduction to theatre for very little people!
Singapore Repertory Theatre
Then, Now & Next (Dramaturg)
Written by Jon Robyns and Christopher J Orton
Delfont Room, Prince of Wales Theatre
Ongoing work as Dramaturg and Development Consultant for i.e. Productions
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2020
Aladdin – the Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Pete Rowe
The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Arts Council England’s Develop Your Creative Practice.
Mentored by Ned Glasier, Geinor Styles.
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2019
Legend Trippers (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie –
National Youth Music Theatre
The Other Palace
The Gingerbread Man (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Jen Green and Caroline Wigmore
Singapore Repertory Theatre
Ongoing work as Dramaturg and Development Consultant for Jamie Hendry Productions
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2018
Midnight (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Timothy Knapman and Laurence Mark Wythe
Union Theatre
Nursery Crimes (Co-Writer and Director with Ellis Kerkhoven)
Singapore Repertory Theatre
Don’t Tell Me Not To Fly (Director and Dramaturg)
Underbelly
McEwan Hall, Edinburgh
Super Hero (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Adam Johnson and Henry Roadnight
UK Tour, National Youth Music Theatre
Growl (Dramaturg and Workshop Director)
Written by Timothy Knapman and Laurence Mark Wythe
National Youth Music Theatre
My Marcello (Dramaturg and Workshop Director)
Written by Rosabella and Dina Gregory
Corey Brunish
Theatre Royal Stratford East, BEAM 2018
Ongoing work as Dramaturg and Development Consultant for Jamie Hendry Productions
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2017
Chicken Little (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary
Singapore Repertory Theatre
Billy the Kid (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Ben Frost and Richard Hough
Leicester Curve
National Youth Music Theatre
That’s Jewish Entertainment (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Chris Burgess
Katy Lipson/ ARIA Entertainment
Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Legally Blonde (Director)
Written by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin and Heather Hach
Chichester University
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2016
Impossible (Associate Director)
Associate Director to Lloyd Wood
Noel Coward Theatre and World Tour
Jamie Hendry Productions
Charlotte’s Web (Co-Director with Ellis Kerkhoven)
by E.B. White
Singapore Repertory Theatre
The Battle of Boat (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Ethan Lewis Maltby and Jenna Donnelly
Kingston Rose
National Youth Music Theatre
Red Riding Hood (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary
Paul Taylor Mills
Pleasance Theatre and international tour.
Snow White and Me (Dramaturg and Workshop Director)
Written by Pippa Cleary, Ronald Kruschak and Philip LaZebnik
Delfont Room, Prince of Wales Theatre
The List (Dramaturg and Workshop Director)
Written by Tamar Broadbent
Park Theatre, BEAM 2018
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2015
Prodigy (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary
St James Theatre Main House
National Youth Music Theatre
Treasure Island (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary – 2015
Jerry’s Girls (Director and Dramaturg/ Adaptor)
From the original work of Jerry Herman
St James Theatre Studio and Jermyn Street Theatre
Aria Entertainment/ Katy Lipson
The Queen and I (Dramaturg and Workshop Director)
Written by Karl Lewkovic and Amy Rosenthal
Arcola Theatre
Grimeborn Festival
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2014
Junior Claus (Director)
Written by Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond
Singapore Repertory Theatre
The Emperor and the Nightingale (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Mike Kenny and Ruth Ling
Singapore Repertory Theatre
Stroke of Luck (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Larry Belling
Starring Tim Pigott-Smith
Park Theatre
Back to Before (Director and Adaptor)
A song cycle based on the work of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens
ArtsEd
Celeste (Dramaturg and Workshop Director)
Written by Francesco Gasperoni
Capitol Club, Rome
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2013
Red Riding Hood (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary
Singapore Repertory Theatre
Passport to Pimlico (Director)
Written by Graham Whitlock and Alan Berlyn
Promenade musical on location in and around Pimlico
The Road to Qatar (Director)
Written by Stephen Cole and David Krane
Katy Lipson/ Aria Entertainment
Landor Theatre, Page to Stage Festival and Edinburgh C Too
Associate Artist at Singapore Repertory Theatre
2012
The Wizard of Oz (Resident Director)
Associate to Jeremy Sams
The London Palladium
Really Useful Group
Fantastic Mr Fox (Director)
Written by David Wood
Singapore Repertory Theatre
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (Director)
Adapted by James Huntrods
UK Tour & Edinburgh Festival
2011 and earlier
Daisy Pulls It Off (Director)
Written by Denise Deegan
Lost Theatre
Carmen (Director)
Georges Bizet
Site Specific, Opera La Goziniere
Betwixt! (Director and Dramaturg)
Written by Ian MacFarlane
King’s Head & Ambassadors Theatres
Sweethearts (Director)
W.S. Gilbert
Finborough Theatre
Newsrevue (Director)
Canal Café
Be The Star You Are (Director and Writer)
Young Vic Taking Part
Six Women With Brain Death (Director and Dramaturg)
National Student Theatre Company
Edinburgh Pleasance & Soho Theatre Studio
Directing Credits as Associate Artist of Singapore Repertory Theatre:
Playmakers (co writing and directing with Ellis Kerkhoven) 2021
The Gingerbread Man 2019
Nursery Crimes (co writing and directing with Ellis Kerkhoven) 2018
Chicken Little 2017
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White – Co-Director with Ellis Kerkhoven 2016
Treasure Island 2015
The Emperor and the Nightingale 2014
Junior Claus 2014
Red Riding Hood 2013
Fantastic Mr Fox 2012
Directing Credits for Drama Schools:
Legally Blonde by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin and Heather Hach – Chichester University, 2017
Back to Before – a song cycle based on the work of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens – ArtsEd, 2014
Parade by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry – London Studio Centre, Pleasance Theatre, 2013
Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter – Mountview, 2013
Once On This Island by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens – Trinity College of Music, 2012
The Sunshine Gang by Annemarie Lewis Thomas and Nick Stimson – The MTA, Bridewell Theatre, 2012
Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater – London Studio Centre, Pleasance, 2012
Footloose by Dean Pitchfork and Walter Bobbie – ArtsEd, 2010
A Hollywood Party adapted from the work of Richard Rodgers – Trinity College Of Music, 2009
Honk by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe – Trinity College of Music, 2008
Princess Ida by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan – ArtsEd, 2009
Readings and Workshops:
Then, Now & Next by Jon Robyns and Christopher J Orton – Delft Room, 2021
Ceilidh by Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie aka Noisemaker – Goodspeed Digital Festival/ The Hartt School, Connecticut, 2021
Henrietta by Alex Parker and Katie Lam – National Youth Music Theatre, Summer 2019.
Yes, Miss! by Chris Burgess – Guildford School of Acting, 2019
Growl by Timothy Knapman and Laurence Mark Wythe – National Youth Music Theatre, 2018
Snow White and Me – Pippa Cleary, Ronald Kruschak and Philip LaZebnik, Delfont Room 2018
My Marcello – Rosabella and Dina Gregory, Corey Brunish, Theatre Royal Stratford East, BEAM 2018
The List – Tamar Broadbent, The Park Theatre, BEAM 2016
The Queen and I – Karl Lewkovic and Amy Rosenthal, Grimeborn 2015
Celeste – Francesco Gasperoni, The Capitol Club, Rome, 2014
It’s Been Nice Knowing You – James Robert Moore, The Hospital Club 2014
Claus – Andy Collyer and Simon Warne, Page to Stage 2014
As Associate/ Resident Director:
Impossible – Jamie Hendry Productions, West End and International Tour 2016 – 2017
The Wizard Of Oz – The Really Useful Group, London Palladium, 2010 – 2012
Sweet Charity – Menier Chocolate Factory & Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2009 – 2010
Educating Rita – Menier Chocolate Factory & Trafalgar Studios, 2010
Shirley Valentine – Menier Chocolate Factory & Trafalgar Studios, 2010
Bridgetower – A Fable Of 1807 – English Touring Opera, 2007
As Assistant Director:
Salome – Dir: David McVicar, Royal Opera House, as project assistant, 2008
Daddy Cool – Dir: Andy Goldberg, Shaftesbury Theatre, 2006
Julius Caesar – Dir: Deborah Warner, Barbican, as project assistant, 2005
The Doorway Project – Dir. Phyllida Lloyd, Young Vic, 2004
Get Carter – Dir: Jonathan Holloway, Red Shift Theatre Company, 2005
Specific skill areas:
Musicals – particularly development of new work.
Making work with and for young people.
Presenting and Public Speaking
Mental Health First Aider and Trainer
Copywriting
Mentoring
Client pitches
