Kate Gaul

Director and Producer, CAMP

Kate Gaul is a theatre and opera director, creative producer, festival director, and designer based in Sydney, NSW. She is a graduate of NIDA (Directing 1996) and Artistic Director of Siren Theatre Co. Kate undertook a residency with SITI Company (NYC) and was Associate Director at Ensemble Theatre.

Kate has established herself as a distinctive and inventive director, with directing credits including plays, opera, physical theatre, devised works, and classics for theatre companies and schools in Australia. As Artistic Director of Siren Theatre Co, her passion is for text-based drama and challenges artists and audiences to have bold imaginative experiences.

Kate has also directed festivals including:

• World Interplay
• Playlist
• Invisible Circus
• Cabaret
• Short Play festivals
• Sydney Mardi Gras Parade

Opera credits include:

• Castor + Pollux (Pinchgut)
• Eight Songs for a Mad King (Verbruggen Ensemble)
• The Cunning Little Vixen (Sydney Chamber Opera)
• Hansel and Gretel (Pacific Opera)
• Il Matrimonio Segreto
• English Eccentrics
• Les Mamelles de Tiresias
• Cendrillon
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sydney Conservatorium)
• Dialogues of the Carmelites
• Die Fledermaus (WAPPA)

For Opera Australia, Kate was revival director on Attila, which starred Jonas Kaufman; assistant director on Lohengrin; and assistant director on Aida – Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. She was the revival director for the schools’ production, By the Light of the Moon, and the Opera Australia production of Carmen in 2007.

Kate's recent directing credits include:

• An acclaimed interpretation of H.M.S Pinafore, which toured extensively and last played Sydney Festival 2021
• The End of Winter (2022) by Noëlle Janaczewska, which will have a national tour in 2023
• An opera/drama mash-up based on Jenet/Poulenc's La Voix Humaine (2022), presented as part of The Flying Nun program

Recently, Kate also completed a play, Girl Running, Boy Falling (shortlisted for the Stoddard Playwright Award 2023).