Kate Denborough

Kate is recognised as one of Australia's foremost directors of physical theatre.

She is an award-winning creator of multi disciplinary works that cross the mediums of film, television and live performance. She graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and in 1996 co-founded KAGE Physical Theatre with Gerard Van Dyck.

KAGE makes radical works of physical theatre. Visually stunning, arresting, provocative, humorous and humane, KAGE uses honesty and imagination to continually explore and redefine performance.

As the Artistic Director of KAGE Kate has devised, directed and/or performed in all of the Company's works including: Contamination (Next Wave Festival 1998), No (Under)standing Anytime, (Next Wave Festival 2000), Nowhere Man (Melbourne International Arts Festival 2003), Al Fresco (Melbourne 2006 Cultural Festival for the Commonwealth Games) and Headlock (The Malthouse 2006).

Many of these have won industry awards and national and international recognition.

The awards include the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Dance, a Green Room Award for Female Emerging Artist in Dance and joint winner of the Eva Czajor memorial Award, which salutes women directors. She has also worked with companies such as Chunky Move, ADT and compagnie par.b.leux
(Montreal).

Possessed is an exciting opportunity for Kate – a physical comedy work with one of comedy’s best – Frank Woodley.