Kate

Austen

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Playwright & Theatre-Maker

ABOUT ME

Hello, I’m Kate and I am a writer and theatre maker from Essex. 

My practice focuses on immersing myself in every piece of work. I am all in right from the off! Whether that be extensive research knee deep in archives, taking verbatim interviews or living as authentically as possible as my characters would.
A method writer if you will, I’m a detective searching for the truth in every story before the drama begins.

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RELEASE
2024

FIND ME
2020

RELEASE
2024

The title page of a play script titled "Fight or Flight" by Kate Austen, with a wooden pencil labeled "The Minack Theatre" resting across the bottom of the page.

FIGHT OR FLIGHT
2021