In addition to being Senior Creative Practice Tutor at Mountview, Katie Paterson is a theatremaker and practice research PhD candidate at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and Interim Contextual Studies Module Coordinator at Guildhall lecturing in contemporary performance. Her research looks at the potential of performance to illuminate lived experience and validate embodied knowledge(s), and her queer feminist practice embraces chaos, scavenging and care as methodologies for change. Katie has performed at the Barbican, VAULT Festival, Camden People’s Theatre the Pleasance, Museum of Comedy, Theatre503, Maiden Speech and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Recent work includes the contraceptive cabaret Side FX; Game Face, a gig-theatre collaboration about body image and beauty myths; Minor Disruptions, a game show exploring the queerness of childhood. Trained at Mountview and the University of Birmingham, she continues to work freelance as an actor, singer, and producer. Katie has given papers at the TaPRA Conference, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.