Katie is an Adelaide based director, theatre-maker, and teaching artist, and is co-founder of The Anchor theatre company with playwright Laura Lethlean. She has directed There’s an elephant in the room (NICA, 2025); Fall With Me (NICA, 2024); VCE Top Acts (Melbourne Recital Centre, 2024); 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 has just finished up her role as the Performance Studies Co-ordinator at the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) and is now moving back into freelancing after relocating from Melbourne at the beginning of 2026. Katie studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Directing.