Kate is a graduate of the NIDA Director’s Course (1996). In 2005 Kate attended a month long Summer Intensive with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in New York. In 2004/5 Kate was the Associate Director at the Ensemble Theatre where productions include The Violet Hour, Kimberly Akimbo and Lobby Hero. Other directing credits include Carmen (Oz Opera), Camarilla (Merrigong Theatre Co) Coup D’Etat (MTC), The Gates of Egypt, Our Lady of Sligo, Run Rabbit Run,

The Laramie Project, Svetlana in Slingbacks (Company B), Wicked Sisters (national tour), Rabbit (Griffin Theatre), Phaedra’s Love (atyp), and projects for all major drama schools around Australia. Kate is the Artistic Director of Siren Theatre Co: productions include – and adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Human Resources (by Chris Aronsten), Duck (by Stella Feehily), eeni meeni mini mo (devised by the company), Hard Swallow (by Mirra Todd),

Polly Blue (by Belinda Bradley), Wanna Go Home, Baby? (devised by the company), Connie and Kevin and the Secret Life of Groceries (by Noelle Janaczweska), Blue Heart (by Caryl Churchill) and Frozen (by Michael O’Brien). Kate has also written and directed two short films Embrace and Cake.