Kathryn has worked on a wide variety of theatre, TV, film, commercials, voice-overs and corporate projects in the UK, Australia and the US. She has worked with major industry leaders including multi award winning director Michael Winterbottom (with award winning actors Rachael Weisz and Ben Daniels), highly respected director/teacher Terry Schreiber, and at various international festivals and theatre companies. She has produced Off and Off Off Broadway shows, assisted in the development of new works, and ran her own award winning theatre company.
Key roles as a performer include Alice in a critically acclaimed production of Closer, Una in the highly lauded BLACKBIRD (part of the 2010 inaugural La Boite Indie theatre program), Viola in Twelfth Night for Australia's largest Shakespeare Festival, Emma Goldman in Stephen Sondheim’s celebrated musical Assassins, Grace Bassett in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, and Mistress Quickly in Henry IV Pt 1&2.
As a producer, Kathryn has helmed many critically acclaimed and award winning productions. Stand-out independent theatre (including a multi award winning production of The Pillowman), the first ever Indigenous opera with Opera Australia (Yarrabah! The Musical), LOCH LOMOND (a new musical written by Neil Douglas Reilly and Maggie Herskowitz, Directed by Broadway's Jeff Whiting and design by Tony Award-winning Beowulf Borrit), and a variety of new works at the Gloria Maddox and Laurie Beechman Off Off Broadway theatres.
Kathryn is also an experienced performance and voice tutor, public speaking coach, workshop facilitator, and licensed NYC tour guide.
Unique traits: Licenced New York City Tour Guide
Queens of the Sapphire Sea
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Radio
by Radio Room / Steele Filipek
Belle Bernassi (Lead) France. The 1930s. The Riviera is protected from high-flying brigands by the finest seaplane pilots-for-hire in the world: Belle Bernassi and her niece, Madeleine. The pair don't just have to worry about their mercenary arch-rivals, however. Overly amorous suitors, a (dis)organized crime syndicate, rumrunning monks, and belligerent revolutionaries all threaten to rob the Bernassis of the freedom and peace they’ve found in the air, but if there’s anybody who can ride the currents to safety, it’s the Queens of the Sapphire Sea!
Death of a Goodman
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Film
by Origami Gate
Script Developer / Project Development Manager
thirtywhatever
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Theater
by The Singers Forum
Producer thirtywhatever is a new musical revue filled with songs about what happens between the time you say goodbye to 29 and hello to 40. Featuring the music and lyrics of award-winning songwriter Patrick Dwyer, and starring James Seol (Broadway’s Naked Girl on the Appian Way, Off-Broadway’s Small Mouth Sounds), Correy West (Broadway’s Nice Work If You Can Get It, South Pacific), Erin Wegner Brooks (Young Frankenstein National Tour), as well as Booth Daniels (Seussical National Tour), Christopher Redding, and Kathleen Stuart (Inside Llewyn Davis). Conceived and directed by six-time MAC Award winner Eric Michael Gillett, with musical direction by Broadway’s Alvin Hough, Jr. (The Color Purple, Memphis, Motown).
Loch Lomond
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Theater
by Reilly and Herskowitz / Jeff Whitting (Musical)
Producer / Production Manager Loch Lomond tells the story of two brothers faced with an impossible choice. As the Scottish uprising of 1745 rages around them, Lyle and James must reconcile their desire for freedom with their love for the women they leave behind, a love which will inspire some of the most famous lyrics of all time: 'You'll take the high road and I'll take the low road,' a Scottish song sung the world over, begun in the hearts of heroes.
Summer and Smoke
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Theater
by Terry Schreiber (Drama)
Mrs Bassett Torn between emotional yearning and repression, between the spiritual and the sensual, Miss Alma Winemiller and Dr. John Buchanan, Jr. attempt to come to terms with their lives and future. Set in the Deep South in 1913, Summer and Smoke is a lyrical, tender, and deeply felt romantic story by a master playwright and a universal journey for everyone.
Henry IV Part 1 & 2
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Theater
by Moose Hall / Ted Minos (Comedy and Drama)
Mistress Quickly Shakespeare
Whitlam: The Power and the Passion
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Television
(Documentary)
Actress An extraordinary story of the hard-fought rise and dramatic fall of a visionary Australian Prime Minister during one of the country's most turbulent eras.
The Ugly One
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Theater
by 23rd Productions / Kat Henry
Fanny Lette has invented something revolutionary but discovers he is just too damn ugly to promote it. His wife admits he’s so ugly she can only look at him in his left eye. Enter a surgeon with a God complex and a talent for facial transformations and for a while Lette finally gets a life beyond his wildest dreams. Until everyone else changes their face to look like him…
Blackbird
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Theater
by 23rd Productions / Mark Conaghan
Una (Lead) In a debris-filled factory lunchroom, one-time lovers Ray and Una are reunited. As they sort through secrets and self-deceptions, it becomes clear that theirs was no ordinary love affair. Fifteen years ago when the 3-month relationship began, Una was just 12-years-old and Ray was her 40-year-old neighbour.
The Pillowman
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Theater
by 23rd Productions / Michelle Mial
Producer Katurian is in an interrogation cell, unsure of why he’s there. He thinks it might have something to do with the stories he’s written. Enter a pair of vicious cops and a child-like brother, and McDonagh’s tale unfolds with suspense and horror.
My Night With Harold
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Theater
by 23rd Productions / Andrea Moor
Producer A collection of 4 new works inspired by the life and writings of the master: Harold Pinter.
MOTORTOWN
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by 23rd Productions / Shane Jones
Marley / Helen Danny returns from Basra to a foreign England and a different kind of battle. He visits and old flame, buys a gun and goes on a blistering trip through the new home front.
Closer
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by 23rd Productions / Mark Mark Conaghan (Drama)
Alice Four lives intertwine over the course of four and a half years in this densely plotted, stinging look at modern love and betrayal. Dan, an obituary writer, meets Alice, a stripper, after an accident in the street. Eighteen months later, they are a couple, and Dan has written a novel inspired by Alice. While posing for his book jacket cover, Dan meets Anna, a photographer. He pursues her, but she rejects his advances despite their mutual attraction. Larry, a dermatologist, "meets" Dan in an internet chat room. Dan, obsessing over Anna, pretends to be her and has cybersex with Larry. They arrange to meet the next day at an aquarium. Larry arrives and so too, coincidentally, does the real Anna. This sets up a series of pass-the-lover scenes in which this quartet struggle to find intimacy but can't seem to get closer.
I Want You
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Film
(Crime, Drama, Music, Romance and 1 More)
Actress Helen is a young woman running a hairdressing salon; Bob is her boyfriend and local radio DJ; Honda is a mute kid who's secretly taping people's conversation and Smokey is Honda's sister who sings at local bar. New guy in town is the mysterious Martin, who shares some dark history with Helen and observes her from afar at first. Honda falls in love with Helen and starts taping her conversations with Bob, and that leads to reactivation of the Helen-Martin relationship. Written by Anonymous
Audio Verse Awards (nominee)
(2016)
Matilda Awards, Australia (production nomination)
(2010)
Matilda Awards, Australia (production nomination and winner)
(2009)
Arts Educational Schools, London
(1997-2000)