ACTING
Kate Gaul is a theatre and opera director, creative producer, festival director, writer and (occasional) designer based in Sydney, NSW.
She is a graduate of NIDA (Directing 1996). Kate undertook a residency with SITI Company (NYC) and was Associate Director at Ensemble Theatre.
Kate has established herself as a distinctive and inventive director, with directing credits including plays, opera, physical theatre, devised works, and classics for theatre companies and schools in Australia. She is Artistic Director of Siren Theatre Co where her passion for text-based drama challenges artists and audiences to have bold imaginative experiences.
Kate has also directed festivals (World Interplay, Playlist, Invisible Circus, Cabaret, and Short Play Festivals), and Sydney Mardi Gras Parade.
Kate directed a new production of The Magic Flute for Opera Australia’s Summer Season 2024 for seasons in both Sydney and Geelong. She premiered a new play by Noëlle Janaczewska, The Past is a Wild Party. Other recent directing credits include a new play CAMP for a sell-out season at Sydney World Pride and an acclaimed interpretation of H.M.S Pinafore, which toured extensively and played Sydney Festival. The End of Winter by Noëlle Janaczewska, on national tour in 2023/4; and Singapore in 2025. Kate completed a play, Girl Running, Boy Falling (Shortlisted Stoddard Playwright Award and Longlisted Monte Miller Award). Kate will direct the Australian premiere of Charlie Josephine’s Cowbois later in 2025.
As artistic producer Kate works closely with Clockfire Theatre Company whose current production Plenty of Fish in the Sea continues to tour this year and Ruins
has a major season at Seymour Centre.