Education
Currently completing Transpersonal Counselling (Advanced Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling - College of Complimentary Medicine)
NLP and Strategic Coaching Diploma (Institute of Applied Psychology)
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate (The Embody Lab)
Doing Dramaturgy - The Centre of Applied Dramaturgy - Lou Cope
Mind Body Therapy (300hr Certification) with Embodied Philosophy
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Acting (National Institute of Dramatic Art - 2005)
200 hr Yoga Teacher Certification (2017)
200hr Advanced Yoga Teaching (Mind and Body, Modules with Embodied Flow) (2018/19)
Arts and Community Engagement Graduate Certificate - (Victorian College of the Arts, 2015)
Performance Making/Directing/Dramaturgy
SCOMODO - Dramaturgical Support
POSSUM MAGIC - Monkey Baa Theatre - Movement Realiser
TEMPORARY ECOSYSTEMS - A new Site Specific performance exploring our relationship to ourselves, each other and the natural environment. (Director/Dramaturg)
ASCENCIO - Creative development on a new VR project at ARTIST IN RESIDENCE – CHATEAU ORQUEVAUX, Directed by Liberte Grace (Joyvolution 2020), Choreographed by Kate Sherman.
ANIMAL - A dark horror, a minute tale of epic proportions. In a remote town, two sisters hover on the edge of society. Dominated by their destructive mother and muted by the secret of a father not long buried, they begin a relentless quest to prepare for the predators circling outside. Through heightened physicality and visceral splendour, Animal explores the circumstance we are born into and the cycle of violence. Nominated for 6 Greenroom Awards and winner of 4.
ONCE UNDER A SKY – Kate is the co – founder of the Independent Theatre Company Cursing The Sea (2007). She co- wrote/created and performed in this work. It has toured to The Brisbane Under the Radar Festival in (2007), The Sydney Fringe Festival in (2010) and was programmed in the Main Stage program at The Old Fitzroy Theatre (2011).
GONE TO GROUND – Cursing The Seas new work. We have just done a two week creative development in Hobart funded by Arts Tas and Regional Tas.
VIA EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE EVERY LAST FRIDAY – Commissioned by The Campbelltown Coucil to create a short work for a short works night at the Campbelltown Arts Centre curated by Regina Heilman. There will be a residency two weeks prior to the performance which is on the 19th of November. (2011)
A WORKING MODEL OF THE WORLD - Intervention for Public Program A Working Model of the World. Curatorial Studio, Social Space, UNSW - Art and Design.
UNDER DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES– Currently creating a dance/theatre work with Ryuichi Fujimura for Performance Space’s 30 Ways with Time and Space, their 30th Birthday 2 week program. (2013)
UNDER HARRY’S CIRCUMSTANCES Exhibition - Expanded Architecture: Temporal Formal (Harry Seidler) collaboration with Ryuichi Fujimura (2014)
OUT OF ORDER– In development as part of NIDA INDEPENDENT – a new work based around the notion of home and belonging with Ryuichi Fujimura, Michael Pigott and Grace Huie Robbins (2015)
INSIDE OUT– A site specific live Art work set in a federation style mansion around the notion of Home with Jo Leishman, Amelia Ducker, Fiorella Cordella and mentored by Leisa Shelton.
Awards
Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship
Recipient of a highly competitive scholarship for actor training in 2013/2014 to study in New York with dance theatre company Witness Relocation in 2013, in 2014 worked with NYC Director DJ Mendel on a project entitled Out of Order, studied with Dance Theatre Company Les Ballet C de La b in Belgium, undertook a Gaga Intensive with The Batsheva Dance Company (Israel), a choreographic and improvisation workshop with Deborah Hay (USA), studied at LADA (The Live Art Development Agency in London) and observed Frantic Assembly rehearsing Othello in London.
Ian Potter Cultural Trust
Studied Clown and Bouffon at E’cole Philippe Gaulier in 2012.
Grants
Has received funding for various arts projects from Arts Victoria, The Besen Foundation, Arts Tasmania, Regional Tasmania and Hothouse Theatre.
Green Room Awards – Best Ensemble, Best Lighting Design, Best Sound Design and Best Direction – ANIMAL (co created and performed in)
Professional Development/Training
Dance theatre workshop with Eric Kaiel whose company arch8 productions resides in the Netherlands. (2013)
Trained with Born In A Taxi in Ensemble Improvisation (2012)
Ensemble Improvisation John Britton (UK) (2012)
Intensive workshop culminating in a public performance with Witness Relocation (NYC) Dance Theatre Company (2011)
Trained and worked with Legs On The Wall (Sydney’s most renown Physical Theatre Company) from 2006- 2011.
Studied Meyerholdts Biomechanics with Tony de Mayer and Clown with Anke Gerber at Mime Centrum in Berlin (2010)
Devising Theatre with text and physicality workshop - Scott Graham co - Artistic Director of Frantic Assembly (UK) (2010)
Devising Theatre workshop - Mike Shepherd from Kneehigh Theatre Company (UK) (2010)
The Body, our Instrument physical workshop - Marcello Magni the co- founder of Theatre de Complicite (UK) (2010)
Intensive Workshop with La Fura Dels Baus Director Younes Bashir (Spain) culminating in a public Performance (2010)
Clown and Quantum Theatre Workshops with Ira Seidenstein (former Circ Du
Soleil Clown) in (2008), (2009) and (2010)
Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company – Winter Stomp Intensive (2008)
Acrobat Master Class – (2007)
Body Weather classes and intensive - De Quincey Co (2007)
Ben Moroney - Acrobatic Master classes (2001), (2002), (2006), (2008), and (2010)
NSW Higher School Certificate at Newtown High School Performing Arts (2000)
st Ensemble, Best Lighting Design, Best Sound Design and Best Direction – ANIMAL (co created and performed in)
Live Performance History
RUBY’S WISH, Ruby, Puppeteer - Dir Jo Turner - Belvoir
THE REPUBLIC OF THE TREES, Battista - Dir Dan Mitchell
ANDANTE, Collaborator - Dir Younes Bashir - La Fura Dels Baus
MY BICYCLE LOVES YOU, Alice - Dir Patrick Nolan - Legs on the Wall
(The Sydney Festival and Perth Festival 2011)
FIREWATER, Boy - Michael Cohen - VIVID Festival
WINTER, Phoebe - Dir: Nick Marchand - Griffin Theatre
THE RED SHOES, Matilda - Dir: Kate Shearer - Jigsaw Prods
WILD BOYS, devisor - Australian Theatre of the Deaf
WAYFARER, Wayfarer - Dir: Kate Richards/ Martyn Coutts - Performance Space
AUSTRALIA, Dancer - Dirty Feet Dance Collective
GARGOYLES, Performer - Erth Physical Theatre Company
BEYOND BELIEF, Performer/Devisor - Dir: Debra Batton - Legs on the Wall
MACBETH, Malcolm - Dir: Robert Menzies, Arthur Dignam - Sydney Theatre Company (STC)
CHECKLIST FOR AN ARMED ROBBER – Book keeper - Dir Jessica Symes - B Sharp
Feature film
SUBTERANO, Angie - Dir: Ezban Storm - Becker Entertainment
Short film
THE PERFECT BOY, The Orator - Dir: Amy Tam (presented at The Cannes Short Film Corner in 2011 and Arts Basel Hong Kong) Touch Press Productions
Teaching
Head of Movement - The Actors Centre
Kate teaches performance creation and facilitates students creative process as well as teaches movement/yoga.
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)
Movement at NIDA
Kate teaches Acting 1 and Acting 2 movement and devising performance as part of the Embody and Duets projects for The Batchelor of Fine Arts.
NIDA Corporate – Kate has been teaching physical presence, vocal presence and communication skills with NIDA Corporate since 2014.
Open Program Youth and Adult
Kate has taught in the Youth program since 2003 and the adult program since 2010. She recently designed a program Body, Mind, Space - The Actor is Present.
Legs On The Wall
Kate taught physical theatre/ devising workshops to yrs 7 – 12 with Legs On The Wall since 2007. She taught, movement, devising theatre, improvisation, HSC group performance and an introduction to physical theatre.
2007 – Taught at ‘Catapult’ the Youth Circus Festival in Bathurst assisting in physical workshops with Legs on the Wall.
Belvoir Theatre - Education Program
Kate teaches a Group Devising Workshop to Senior Students, A Performing Monologues Workshop and an Improvisation Workshop and has most recently designed a program entitled The Mindful Performer.