Kate Budgen

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Kate is the Joint Course Leader for MA Performance at Mountview.

She trained at Birkbeck College and on the National Theatre Studio Directors course.

Kate has been a Creative Associate at the Bush Theatre and has worked as Assistant and Associate Director for The Gate Theatre, The Almeida, The Opera Group, Pentabus Theatre, the Bush Theatre, Opera North and for the Michael Grandage Company.

She was Associate Director on Girl from the North Country from 2019-2022.

Selected directing credits include: Alice by Heart (Mountview), Anatomy of a Suicide (RADA), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Watermill Theatre), The Beautiful Game and There is a War (ArtsEd), Anything is Possible if You Think About It Hard Enough (Southwark Playhouse/Vault Festival), GUT (Guildhall), The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre), No Place for a Woman (Theatre 503), Strong Arm (Underbelly/Old Vic New Voices), The Hairy Ape (Southwark Playhouse), Rigor Mortis (Papatango/Finborough), Crossed Keys (Eastern Angles), Bedbound (The Lion and Unicorn), Stoopud Fucken Animals (Traverse Theatre), Punk Rock (Guildford School of Acting) and Anne Boleyn (RWCMD).

 

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