Kate is a multidisciplinary artist working as a director, set designer, costume designer, visual artist, and floral designer. She is the Co-Artistic director and Co-CEO of feminist experimental performance company THE RABBLE. Kate has directed and designed for THE RABBLE – YES (Arts House/Vitalstatistix), UNWOMAN (The Substation/Dublin Fringe Festival), My Dearworthy Darling (Malthouse Theatre), Lone (Arts House), In the Bleak Midwinter (Malthouse Theatre), Deathly, Death, Dead (Curator - Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Writers Festival), The Bedroom Project (Linden Gallery), Cageling (Carriageworks/45 downstairs) and Corvus (Carriageworks). She co-created and designed for THE RABBLE – Joan (Theatre Works/Wuzhen Festival/ Vitalstatistix), Cain & Abel (The Substation/Belvoir St Theatre), Frankenstein (Malthouse Theatre), Room of Regret (Melbourne Festival, Theatreworks), Story of O (Neon Festival, Melbourne Theatre Company), Orlando (Melbourne Festival, Malthouse Theatre/Brisbane Festival/Dark MOFO), Special (Carlton Courthouse), Salome: In Cogito Volume III (Carriageworks). For THE RABBLE she is currently working on WAKE, a new work co-authored with an ensemble of women over 65 in the western suburbs of Melbourne.
Kate is also an award-winning Set and Costume designer and has worked for many companies across the country including: Chunky Move, Melbourne Theatre Company, State Library of Victoria, Fraught Outfit, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Belvoir St Theatre, Carriageworks, Malthouse Theatre, Dance House, Griffin Theatre, La Mama, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Shopfront Theatre, Melbourne Workers Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company and many more.
Kate has taught and mentored for VCA, Arts House, Frankston Arts Centre, Australia Council JUMP Mentorship program, Monash University, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne Festival Directors Lab and Dublin Fringe Festival. She co-founded THE RABBLE internship program and also facilitates workshops on Design and Dramaturgy, Feminist Collective Practice and Performance Creation through THE RABBLE workshop program.