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Kate read Music and Drama at Hull University,
before serving her apprenticeship as actor, musician and
composer in fringe and community theatre companies including Theatre Kit,
Pentabus and the London Bubble.
Composer
and Lyricist
Kate has written music and
lyrics for ten pantomimes for Salisbury Playhouse (all now published by
Weinbergers) and pantos at Watford Palace, Liverpool Everyman and the
Belgrade,
Coventry. Other show include ALICE IN
WONDERLAND at Regent's Park, DOC FAUST for Forest Forge,
and three new family musicals for the Theatre Royal, Winchester, LITTLE RED
RIDING HOOD, SLEEPING BEAUTY and
PUSS IN BOOTS. She
has written three musicals
for children, DRAGON FIRE, WITCHWOOD and RUN, RABBIT, RUN, all of which have
been published and which are regularly performed by schools around the
country.
Television
Television
includes composing
theme tunes and incidental music for two HTV Wales comedy series, FFLAT
HUW PUW and SONANDANI,
and presenting and writing music for six series of LET'S
PRETEND. She wrote the music for the recent series of Roald Dahl
children's
stories for Penguin Audiobooks.
Director
Kate has
directed DOC FAUST for Forest Forge, PUMP
BOYS AND DINETTES at the New Vic, Stoke; BLUES IN THE
NIGHT at Birmingham Rep and Oldham Coliseum, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at York
Theatre Royal, ALADDIN at Liverpool Everyman, six
pantomimes at Salisbury
Playhouse and the three family musicals for Theatre Royal Winchester.
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Musical
Director
Shows as Musical Director
include:-SILVER LADY, and THE GOLDEN YEARS OF JACK BUCHANAN, Birmingham
Rep; LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS,
Basingstoke Haymarket; ARTURO UI at Sheffield Crucible; JOSEPH.. and KIP'S WAR, Leicester
Haymarket; CURSE
OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB,
Worcester Swan; JUDY, Oldham Coliseum; TRAFFORD TANZI, Chester Gateway; GODSPELL, Redgrave, Farnham; THIS IS MY SONG, Stratford East; COUNTRY and NICE
GIRLS, New Vic, Stoke; CABARET,
Watermill, Newbury; CABARET, INTO THE
WOODS,
TOM JONES and MOLL FLANDERS
(winner of the 1995 TMA Award for Best Musical) at
York Theatre Royal and Salisbury Playhouse; and KEAN, Watford Palace,
Kate was Musical
Director of
the Olivier Award-winning RETURN TO
THE FORBIDDEN PLANET in The West End, on
tour and in Australia, New York, South Africa and Japan. Other West End
includes FROM A JACK TO A KING,
CABARET, and THE THREEPENNY
OPERA at the
Donmar.
Teacher
Kate has always combined her
professional work with teaching at drama schools. Over the years she
has taught
at RADA, LAMDA, Rose Bruford, Mountview, GSA, Royal Welsh College of
Music and
Drama, and currently on the degree course at Italia Conti. This summer
she goes
to New York to MD the Conference of Drama Schools showcase for American
students who have been studying in the UK.
She also does private vocal
coaching and is Musical Director of THE INHIBITIONS, a twelve-piece
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