Director
Kate Sulan is a theatre-maker specialising in collaboratively devised performance. Her practice encompasses devising, directing, dramaturgy and facilitating.
Kate was the founding Artistic Director of Rawcus, an award winning Theatre Company of performers with diverse minds, bodies and imaginations and led the company for 22 years (2000-2022). Her work has been described as “a moving assertion of humanity with a wicked sense of humour.” Kate is also a long-term collaborator with Back to Back. She has worked with the company as a co-devisor, dramaturge and director. Kate was one of the team of artists working on the multiyear Refuge project at Arts House between 2016-2021. She currently is a lecturer in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Kate's practice is relational and collaborative. Companies she has worked with include Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Back to Back, Restless Dance Company, The Women’s Circus, Polyglot, Western Edge, Chamber Made, Stuck Pigs Squealing, Melbourne Fringe and The Centre for Reworlding.
Kate is currently working on We Keep Everything, a new work by Lisa Pellagrino premiering in Darwin in September 2025.
theatre of extraordinary reflection and poise, beauty and – that rarest quality in our fallen world – wisdom. The Age
