Kate Wilson

MEAA/EQUITY: In solidarity Since 1973

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Queensland Theatre Company: 1971 – 2020
PRODUCTIONS
As Actor
2020
Daylight Saving by Nick Enright (Playclub)
2016
Quartet by Ronald Harwood
Testify by Elaine Acworth (Labrats Playreading for Playlab)
Magpie by Elise Greig (Labrats Playreading for Playlab)
2015
Testify by Elaine Acworth (Playreading)
Romance Me Yesterday by Sally McKenzie (Playreading)
1996
My Father’s Father by Janis Balodis (Playreading)
Vertigo and the Virginia by Sven Swenson (Playreading)
1980
Travelling North by David Williamson
1972-1977 
Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn
Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray
Hobson’s Choice by Harold Brighouse
St Joan by G B Shaw
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Fourth of July
The Department by David Williamson
The Owl and the Pussycat by Sheila Ruskin and David Wood
The Philanthropist by Christopher Hampton
Suddenly at Home by Francis Durbridge
The Rainmaker by N Richard Nash
Aladdin 
Pygmalion by G B Shaw
Summer of the 17th Doll by Ray Lawler
Godspell (Musical) Stephen Schwarz
Old Times by Harold Pinter
Equus by Peter Shaeffer
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere
The School For Scandal R B Sheridan
Present Laughter by Noel Coward
The Rivals by R B Sheridan
A Toast to Melba by Jack Hibberd (Musical)
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Expresso Bongo (Musical) by Wolf Mankowiz and Julian Moore
The National Health by Peter Nichols
Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey
The Badly-Behaved Bunyip (TIE)
The Man, the Spirit Fish and the Rainbow Snake (TIE)
Robbo (TIE)
Masks (TIE)
Rain Rain Go Away (TIE)

As Director
1977 Tufff… by Bille Brown
1977 Eggfroth the Frithed by Bille Brown
1976 Robbo by Paul Sherman

As Writer
Mr Punch with Murray Foy
The Maiden at the Gate with Murray Foy
The Carrot and the Munchy Monster with Murray Foy
Rain Rain Go Away with Murray Foy

Other
2008-2016
Artists in Schools Programs
Theatre Residency Week: Tutor
Queensland Premier’s Drama Award: Judges’ Panel
Senior Ensemble: Tutor
Masterclass: Facilitator

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La Boite Theatre Company:
2012
As You Like It by William Shakespeare (Duke Senior)
1996
The Piano in the Garden by David Reiter (Playreading)

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Independent Theatre:
2021
A loss to the year of the plague. Thank heavens for audiobooks and VO.

2020
That’s What She Said  – The Good Room
Do Us Part – The Good Room

2019
The Revisionist by Jesse Eisenberg – Refraction Theatre (Maria) Matilda Awards Nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (2020)
Wildflower Women by Sue Davis – Fryer Library, UQ; State Library of Queensland

2018
Wildflower Women by Sue Davis – Caloundra Art Gallery

2014
The C Word by Claire Christian and Dave Burton – Metro Arts and Daniel Evans

2013
The Orange Grove by George Landen Dann (Playreading) – Noosa Arts Theatre

2011
Water Wars by Elaine Acworth – Umber Productions (Pat) Matilda Awards Nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (2011)

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Empire Theatre (Toowoomba)
2011
Secret Bridesmaid’s Business by Elizabeth Coleman Empire Theatre Projects Company (Colleen)

2008
Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb (Musical) Empire Theatre Projects Company (Fraulein Schneider)

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Twelfth Night Theatre Company
As Actor
1973-1974
Kean by Jean Paul Sartre
The Season at Sarsaparilla by Patrick White

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New England Theatre Company
As Actor
1981-1986
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Jay Presson Allen
Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
Summer of the 17th Doll by Ray Lawler
The Perfectionist by David Williamson
Gulls by Robert Hewett
Who Was Harry Larsen by Frank Hardy
Duet For One by Tom Kempinski
Female Parts by Dario Fo and Franca Rama (with Armidale Women’s Theatre)

Director
1986 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

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FILM
2012 Nothing Much (Video shop owner). Not Pretty Productions. dir Stephen Henry. Brisbane/AU
2001 Cyberwars (Lt Crowley). Cinemancer. dir Jian Hong Kuo. Singapore/US

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VOICE OVER
ABC radio drama, commercial and industrial radio, television, films; audiobook narration.
Representation: KAM Voices 1300 358 454;
Brisvo (Brisbane Voice Over Artists)

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ADJUDICATION/DRAMATURGY
Noosa One Act Play Festival
Toowoomba Repertory Theatre One Act Play Competition

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UNIVERSITY PRODUCTIONS
As actor, director, producer, acting and voice coach, writer

Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University – Performing Arts Department

2019
Cloud Street by Tim Winton and Justin Monjo (Director) Performing Arts Department
2018
Our Town by Thornton Wilder (Director) Performing Arts Department
2017
Allsorts: a collection of short plays (Director) Musical Theatre Program
2016
Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Director)
2014
Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine (Director) Musical Theatre Program
2013
Allsorts: five plays by David Ives (Director) Musical Theatre Program
2012
Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens by Bill Russell and Janet Hood (Director) Musical Theatre Program

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University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Performance Centre (1978; 1987-2007)
Director USQ Performance Centre 2003-2005
Producer Shakespeare in Queen’s Park Festival, Toowoomba 2004-2007

2008
The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson (Director)
2007
Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill (Director)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Dir Scott Alderdice (Voice Coach)
Sonnets at Breakfast Dir Scott Alderdice (Actor and Voice Coach)
A Bunch of Sonnets for Valentine’s Day Podcast (Director, Actor)
2006
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (Voice Coach)
Blackbox Shakespeare 3: All’s Fair … (Director/Voice Coach)
Allshorts: a program of one-act plays (Director/Voice Coach with Robert Ketton)
Beware of Entrance to a Quarrel Dir Robert Ketton (RAND Theatre Co) SiQP (Voice Coach)
2005
Black Box Shakespeare 2: all in the family by William Shakespeare (Director/Voice Coach)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller Dir Robert Ketton (Voice Coach)
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Dir Letitia Caceres (Voice Coach)
2004
The Grapes of Wrath by Frank Galati (Director/Voice Coach)
Androcles and the Lion by Aurand Harris (Director/Voice Coach)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare Dir Scott Alderdice (Actor: Gertrude)
2003
Return by Marcel Dorney (Director/Voice Coach)
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein (Director/Voice Coach)
2002
The Arkansaw Bear by Aurand Harris (Director/Voice Coach)
2001
Big Sister and the Improvivors (Director)
On Our Selection by George Whaley adapted from the Steele Rudd stories (Director/Voice Coach)
The Bacchae by Euripides Trans and Dir Greg McCart (Actor: Dionysos)
1998
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (Director/Voice Coach)
Showcase 98 (Director/Voice Coach with Greg McCart)
1997
Brezhnev’s Children by Olwen Wymark (Director/Voice Coach)
Gate Fever: Showcase 97 (Director/Voice Coach)
1987-97
1996 Pinocchio by John Morley (Director/Voice Coach)
1995 Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn (Director/Voice Coach)
1994 The Gut Girls by Sarah Daniels (Director/Voice Coach)
1993 A Toast to Melba by Jack Hibberd (Director/Voice Coach)
1992 Seasons of Love: scenes and music from Shakespeare (Director/Voice Coach)
1991 And When the Sky Began to Roar (Director/Voice Coach)
1990 Border Crossing by Martin Buzacott (Director/Voice Coach)
1989 The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Director/Voice Coach)
1989 One Cool Cat by John Laing (Director/Voice Coach)
1988 The Greeks by John Barton & Kenneth Cavander (Director/Voice Coach)
1987 Morning Sacrifice by Dymphna Cusack (Director/Voice Coach)
1978 Hamlet (Gertrude) dir David Addenbrooke

Writer
Seasons of Love (USQ)
… and when the sky began to roar … (USQ)

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University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
Kennedy Theatre
On the Verge by Eric Overmeyer dir Lurana Donnels O’Malley (Actor: Mary) (1993)
Hawaii State Theatre Council 1993-94 Po’okela Award Nominee: Leading Female in a Play
The Blind Giant Is Dancing by Stephen Sewell dir Dennis Carroll (Actor: Rose) (1991)

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University of New England, Armidale, Australia
Department of Theatre (1981-1986)
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (Director/Voice Coach)
King Lear by William Shakespeare dir Launt Thompson (Actor: Regan)
Old Times by Harold Pinter dir Geoffrey Borny (Actor: Kate)
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (Director/Voice Coach)
The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht (Director/Voice Coach)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Director/Voice Coach)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (Director/Voice Coach)