Katie is a Naarm based director, theatre-maker, and teaching artist, and is co-founder of The Anchor theatre company with playwright Laura Lethlean. She has directed Within These Walls (NICA, 2023); Cactus (La Mama remount for VCE Playlist, 2023); Pillow Fight (Festival tour 2023 - Wellington, NZ/Castlemaine, Vic/Gasworks, 2022) Body Horror (La Mama, 2022); DREDGE (National Theatre Drama School, 2022); Cactus (La Mama, 2021; RAV tour, 2022); Sempiternal (National Institute of Circus Arts, 2022); HONEY (National Theatre Drama School, 2021); Hell’s Canyon (RAV tour, VCE Playlist, 2021/La Mama/Old 505, 2018; ) Circuit (Art Not aPart Festival Canberra 2020); The Three Graces (Theatreworks, 2019) and Two Hearts (The Butterfly Club, 2019). Katie was the Artistic Director of Canberra Youth Theatre from 2015 to 2018, directing SKIN; The 24 Hour Butoh Project; The Verbatim Project; The Greek Project – Antigone; poem every day; Filtered and Fading with the company. She studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Directing and is currently the Performance Studies Co-ordinator at the National Institute of Circus Arts.