Kate Kavanagh

Animateur

Kate has been working with young people since 2005 when she started as a trainee practitioner at Plymouth Theatre Royal’s education and outreach department, TR2, during the final year of her Degree at Dartington College of Arts.   After graduating with a First Class Degree in devised contemporary theatre, she began to work freelance as both a performer and workshop leader, as well as developing her skills through further training at Birmingham School of Acting.

Kate works regularly with the Phileas Fogg Theatre Company, bringing Theatre-in-Education to the Netherlands, and with C&T has been working with Eaton Valley Primary in West Bromwich, and Oldbury Park Primary just down the road in Worcester. She continues to work as an actor under her full name Katharine Kavanagh, and is also developing the interactive literacy engagement project ‘The Story Exchange’ with Needle&Thread Theatre based in Birmingham.

Her particular theatrical fascinations lie in site-specific methodologies, somatic approaches to text, and the power of story.