Katy studied at Manchester University and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She was Head Of Acting at Performance Preparation Academy in Guildford for two years and continues to teach and direct  across the Musical Theatre and Acting programmes there.  She teaches audition technique at Peer Productions in Woking and has taught for Ruthie Henshall’s CAST academy in Bury St Edmunds. 

 

Katy believes in the transformative power of Drama in schools and has worked extensively in Theatre In Education, performing in “Twelfth Night” for the National Theatre which went to The Lincoln Centre in New York.She  co- founded Pandora’s Box and Rhapsodia Theatre companies that toured schools with “Burglar Bill”, “Katy And The Nurgla”, “Tales Of The Greek Myths And Legends”and “World War One- 1914”. 

 

Katy has also worked as a Globe Education Practitioner and Storyteller at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre where she has run workshops and adapted Shakespeare for young audiences.

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Theatre Credits include: Widow Corny in Oliver! (Gielgud Theatre); Mrs Paroo in The Music Man; Bird Seller in Pickwick (Festival Theatre); Antonia in Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay(Minerva Theatre);  Hot Box Charlie and General Cartwright in Guys And Dolls (Bridge Theatre); Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stefano/Sebastian in The Tempest, Touchstone/Phoebe in As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables and Les Miserables The Staged Concert (West End); Mrs Beaver/Mother in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Clara in Hay Fever (Rose Theatre Kingston); Brenda in I Can’t Sing (London Palladium); Rosie in Mamma Mia! (Prince Charles Theatre); Hannah in A Chorus of Disapproval (Wolsey Theatre Ipswich); Mrs Micawber/Peggotty in David Copperfield (County Hall); Mama Morton in Chicago (UK tour); Rosie in Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward Theatre); Mary Bolton in Mother Clap’s Molly House, Mopsa in A Winter’s Tale, Maria in Twelfth Night, Hot Box Girl/Agatha in Guys and Dolls (National Theatre); Kate in Bedroom Farce (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Cinderella (Salisbury Playhouse); Teechers (Redgrave Theatre Farnham); Macbeth (Harrogate Theatre).

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TV & Film Credits include: Les Misérables; Satisfaction Guaranteed (short); Casualty; Megamaths, London’s Burning; The Matt Lucas Awards; Pompidou.

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Radio and Audio includes: Cunch; Twice Brightly; Twelfth Night; Kisses On A Postcard.