Biography
Multi-award winning musician, composer academic and arts leader.
Kathryn is a unique, interdisciplinary researcher with a professional practice in folk music and theatre. She has recently completed a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at Newcastle University in the UK, researching A Performance History of Morris Dancing. This research has followed on from a PhD at the University of Sydney, where she researched the musical culture of traditional festivals in the British Isles and their representation in Shakespeare’s theatre.
Kathryn is a musician and theatre practitioner who composes and performs live music with Matriark Theatre, a company she co-founded in 2014. She is also the producer of Talon, a folk dance group in the UK.
Kathryn is passionate about sustainability in arts practice, and volunteers on the boards of several organisations in Australia.
