Kathryn’s passion for theatre grew from early work experience at the Playhouse Theatre WA, where she was captivated by the energy and collaboration of live performance. This formative experience led to formal training in Performing Arts, Drama, and English Literature, then refined through a Master’s in Education with a focus on Theatre Practitioners at the University of Melbourne.
For over 25 years, Kathryn has taught Drama and IB Theatre across Australia and internationally. Her work in the IB space is a particular passion, developing practitioner-based performance work in both collaborative ensembles and solo projects. She is known for guiding students to create rigorous, original theatre that explores global traditions, contemporary practices, and critical thinking.
A dedicated director and published educational writer, Kathryn has also worked as an examiner of Drama and Theatre on a global scale. More recently, she has begun building her own theatre consultancy, supporting non-profit and emerging community theatre groups with creative development, direction, and production insight.
The Prom at Teatro at the Italian Forum is not a modest production. This is musical theatre with confidence, comic bite, heart, and a visual pulse that screams the arrival of the newest powerhouse of Sydney’s musical theatre scene.
Built …
Above- Left to right Meg Bennetts and Zachary Aleksander. Pic Phil Erbacher
There’s something irresistibly joyful about watching a young company throw themselves headlong into AS YOU LIKE IT.
Shakespeare’s comedy thrives on mischief, disguise, and romantic confusion, and …
The theatre company CODA (Company of Dramatic Arts) closes Qtopia Sydney’s 2025 season with a luminous revival of Jonathan Harvey’s masterful play, BEAUTIFUL THING, a work that feels not only timeless but urgently contemporary. Director Finn Stannard, affectionately calling …
Martin McDonagh’s, A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE (2010) stands as a sharp exemplar of black comedy, a genre that thrives on turning the grotesque and painful into moments of biting wit and uneasy laughter. Set in the fictional town of Tarlington, …
Some productions revisit the past. Others reframe it. This RENT, directed with clarity and emotional precision by Shaun Rennie, does something far more arresting: it reclaims the present. It doesn’t merely revive Johnathan Larson’s musical, it ignites it, demanding …
When you walk into the theatre, the performers are already there, lined up across the stage, one performer is giggling, another stretches a leg, the performance hasn’t started yet, but the energy is already electric. What follows is Mass Effect,…
As Opera Australia’s RENT is about to hit the Opera House mainstage, CODA (Company of Dramatic Arts) offers something rawer, more intimate, and arguably more revealing: TICK, TICK…BOOM! is the lesser known musical by the late Jonathan Larson which premiered …
TICK, TICK BOOM…! a raw, electric, and heartbreakingly real musical by Jonathan Larson, coming to Flight Path Theatre in Marrickville this week as part of the 2025 Sydney Fringe Festival.
Just as Opera Australia launches its season of Rent, …
LA BOHEME, Opera Australia’s current offering at the iconic Joan Sutherland Theatre is more than just an operatic and theatrical triumph. In the depths of human experience, some emotions transcend words, finding solace in the universal language of …
The Americas, A Theatre Company is an American led theatre company, based in Australia, formed by artistic director Kai Paynter in 2023. Her vision to, “bring authentic American stories to life in Australia” and this Australian premire of Neil Labute’s 2016 play certainly