Profile: Kat Henry
In-schools Facilitator
In 2009 Kat graduated from the Postgraduate Directing Course at NIDA and in 2010 she directed her multi-media, multi-discipline production of The New Dead: Medea Material (with text by Heiner Muller) for the La Boite Indie season, through her own production company Stella Electrika and after sell-out seasons in Sydney and the Adelaide Fringe.
In 2010 she also directed the musical Miss Saigon for Ignations Musical Society and The Rover for UQ. At the Queensland Theatre Company Kat has been Assistant Director for Michael Gow on The Importance of Being Earnest and Jon Halpin on The Estimator and 2011 Kat will direct Orphans as part of the QTC Studio Season. For Warehaus Theatre Company Kat has directed Sondheim’s Assassins at the QPAC and for Zen Zen Zo and BGGS she has directed a production of Medea. Other major directorial works include shows at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art and Metro Arts. Kat has directed the music video Safe in Silence for Sydney band Former Child Stars through Triple J, which premiered on Rage and went on to rotation on American MTV. As a performer Kat has worked with La Boite, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, and performed around Australia and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Little Dove Theatre Art in the multi-award winning Six Women Standing In Front of a White Wall. She has also acted in Attempts on Her Life (directed by Kate Gaul in Sydney), Single True Things (short stories by Tim Winton), starred in the 2007 Tropfest finalist film Counter as well as the Pacific Film and Television Commission (PFTC) short film Passive Smoker.