Monday, 20 August 2012
6.30pm — 8.30pm
The Dolphin Hotel, Surry Hills
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Guest Speaker: Kate Gaul
Kate GaulKate graduated from NIDA (Directing) in 1996 and trained with the Anne Bogart SITI Company in 2005. In 2004–05 Kate was Associate Director at the Ensemble Theatre where productions included The Violet Hour, Kimberly Akimbo and Lobby Hero.
Other directing credits include The Cunning Little Vixen (Sydney Chamber Opera), Carmen (Opera Australia’s Oz Opera), Beautiful (Mudlark Theatre), The Altar Boyz (Ovations Live), Camarilla (Merrigong Theatre Co), The Laramie Project, Svetlana in Slingbacks (Company B), Wicked Sisters (Griffin/National tour), Rabbit (Griffin Theatre).
Kate is now the Artistic Director of Siren Theatre Co. Productions include The Lunch Hour (Chris Aronsten), The New Electric Ballroom (Enda Walsh), FOX (Monkey Baa/National Tour, 2010), The Seagull (Chekhov), the company-devised eeni meeni mini mo, and Hard Swallow (by Mirra Todd). She has also taken on Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Richard III, and Twelfth Night.
Kate has also written and directed two short films: Embrace and Cake.