Dirty Dancing

Kate is the Artistic Director of her own dance-theatre company Force Majeure based in Sydney. She has also worked as a director/choreographer/performer for Sydney Theatre Company, DV8 Physical Theatre, Australian Dance Theatre, Opera Australia, Belvoir Street Theatre, Legs on the Wall, NIDA and The English National Opera.

For DV8 Kate has worked on: Strange Fish; Enter Achilles; The Happiest Day Of My Life and The Cost of Living.

In 1996, Kate was awarded the Robert Helpmann Scholarship enabling her to create her first solo work Face Value which was awarded a Green Room and a MO Award.

In 1997 she directed Under the Influence for Legs on the Wall, which premiered in Sydney and toured to the Edinburgh Fringe and Riverside Studios.

In 2001 she created a new solo show - About Face and in 2002 directed Same, Same But Different for Force Majeure. Both these productions won Helpmann Awards.

Kate choreographed the world premiere of the stage version of Dirty Dancing which opened in Sydney in November 2004.

Since 2005 Kate has directed Already Elsewhere; The Age I'm In and Not In A Million Years for Force Majeure. These productions have toured extensively internationally and won Australian Dance and Helpmann Awards. In 2010 Kate choreographed the premier production of Opera Australia's Bliss which subsequently toured to the Edinburgh Festival.

In 2012 Kate will direct the premiere of Never Did Me Any Harm, a collaboration between Sydney Theatre Company and Force Majeure as well as the play FOOD for Belvoir Street.

Kate will be Associate Director of Opera Australia's 2013 production of Wagner's Ring Cycle.