KATE WYVILL
Kate is a playwright, actor and director.
She is also a performance and voice coach.
Kate began her theatrical career as an actor in the mid- eighties in Sydney and trained at the Q Theatre, Penrith.
She has performed in numerous theatre productions, film and radio in Sydney, Darwin and the UK.
More recent Darwin theatre credits include:
Away - Michael Gow, director Kyle Walmsley Brown’s Mart Productions (2020)
The Crucible - Arthur Miller, director Merrillee Mills Brown’s Mart Productions (2018)
Mr Takahashi & Other Falling Secrets - Sandra Thibodeaux, director Suellen Maunder Brown’s Mart Productions & JUTE (2017)
Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams, director Alex Galeazzi Brown’s Mart Productions at Darwin Entertainment Centre (2015)
God of Carnage - Yasmina Reza , director Alex Galeazzi Darwin Entertainment Centre (2013)
In the early-mid nineties Kate worked as an arts manager with the then government funded, Darwin Theatre Company (now Brown’s Mart) and was Darwin Entertainment Centre’s General Manager.
She began writing and producing theatre in early 2000 and performed her first play, a black comedy, Going Potty at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2004. Going Potty then went on to tour with Arts Council England funding in 2005, culminating in a London Hampstead season in 2007. Kate directed and produced The Wardrobe, a re-worked version of Going Potty at the Darwin Entertainment Centre in 2010 where it broke box office records. Her next play Marbles which Kate also directed and produced opened at Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin in November 2012 where it also broke box office records.
Her next script, And I'm the Queen of Sheba premiered at Brown’s Mart Theatre in November 2016 with Grace Barnes as director starring Melissa Jaffer and Russell Kiefel. The production closed on the second night due to the tragic death of Russell Kiefel.
A new production of And I'm the Queen of Sheba opened at Brown’s Mart Theatre in June 2019 directed by Gail Evans with Nicola Bartlett George Shevtsov, Fred Copperwaite and Andrew Tighe. The production broke box office records at Brown’s Mart Theatre over the past ten years for a script written by a Northern Territory playwright.
KATHERINE THOMSON
Katherine is a multi-award winning playwright, television and screenwriter.
Katherine has worked with Kate over several years as dramaturg on her scripts Marbles & And I’m the Queen of Sheba.
Katherine began her award-winning career in the theatre in 1982; her writing credits include: DIVING FOR PEARLS (1991), BARMAIDS (1991), FRAGMENTS OF HONG KONG (1995), NAVIGATING (1997), THIS HOSPITAL IS MY COUNTRY and MAVIS GOES TO TIMOR, KAYAK (2001) and HARBOUR (2004), KING TIDE and FRAGMENTS OF HONG KONG.
Katherine's extensive television screenwriting credits include HOUSE OF HANCOCK, SCHAPELLE, AUSTRALIA: THE STORY OF US, MR AND MRS MURDER, AUSTRALIA ON TRIAL, KILLING TIME, EAST WEST 101, SATISFACTION, BLACKJACK, WILDSIDE, GRASS ROOTS, HALIFAX FP, FALLEN ANGELS, SNOWY and GP. She is the Australian co-writer of ANSWERED BY FIRE. Other credits include documentary series called DARWIN’S BRAVE NEW WORLD for which Katherine was nominated for an AWGIE for Best Documentary, and an episode for another documentary mini-series, ROGUE NATION. She was the writer for feature documentary UNFOLDING FLORENCE – THE MANY LIVES OF FLORENCE BROADHURST directed by Gillian Armstrong which screened at Sundance Film Festival in January 2006. Katherine’s next collaboration with Gillian Armstrong is the feature documentary WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED about the Australian costume designer Orry Kelly, which will be released in 2015.
In 2006 Katherine was awarded The Australian National Playwrights Centre Award for her substantial contribution to the Australian theatre industry. Katherine has undertaken writer-in-residencies in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, has participated as an invited delegate to the International Women’s Playwright Conference in Jakarta, Bali and India and as guest speaker at various Writers’ Festivals including Darwin, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Hong Kong.