Kate is a writer and theatre-maker who devises community writing, theatre and storytelling courses. Her debut novel, Broken Horses, published by Linen Press, is set in Southern Patagonia in 1921.

Kate began her theatre career at the National Theatre of Germany in Hamburg, toured with the English Shakespeare Company and was Community Director at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond before beginning a freelance relationship with National Theatre Learning which is still going strong nearly 30 years later.

As a Senior Artist and Practitioner for NT Learning, Kate has created and facilitated hundreds of theatre projects supporting learning and literacy across the UK. As an Associate Artist with Project Phakama, Kate worked with refugees on the streets of Paris and Athens, co-created a storytelling project for nursery age children set in a giant bed, and collaborated with a photographer to build pop-up darkrooms and pinhole cameras for community storytellers. She also spent two decades as a lecturer in Storytelling and Shakespeare Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts London.

Today, Kate supports limbless veterans to tell their stories of resilience, directing and facilitating writing and performance projects for wounded ex-servicemen and women. She runs creative retreats for writers and other artists in Northern Italy, and in between, she teaches Storytelling to senior executives worldwide.