Kate Wasserberg
About
Kate is Artistic Director of Out of Joint.
Previously she founded and was Artistic Director of The Other Room in Cardiff – winner of Fringe Theatre of the Year 2016 (The Stage Awards), several Wales Theatre Awards and the Olwen Wymark Award from the WGGB for its work supporting playwrights. The Other Room was also nominated for the 2017 Peter Brook Empty Space Award.
Kate began her career as Associate Director at Finborough Theatre where she ran the New Writing department and co-created the Vibrant! New Writing Festival. Whilst there she premiered plays by writers including James Graham and Nick Gill. Subsequently she became Director of New Plays and Associate Director at Clwyd Theatre Cymru.
She has been a judge for the National Theatre Playwriting Prize and jointly edited, with Tim Price, Contemporary Welsh Plays Volume One. Her recent directing credits include:
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Theatr Clwyd)
‘Directed by Kate Wasserberg … beautifully depicts the vast gulf between those who speak and never listen and those who listen but are never heard’ Wales Arts Review
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Out of Joint)
‘A short, sharp shock of a play with plenty to amuse, entertain and make you think’ The British Theatre Guide
Last Christmas (Traverse Theatre, Sherman Theatre, Theatr Clwyd, Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre)
‘One of the best things on the fringe’ ***** The Scotsman
The Barnbow Canaries (West Yorkshire Playhouse)
‘Wasserberg’s production is crammed with adroit, affecting performance and arresting imagery…visually startling, by turns nightmarishly surreal, tender and eerily elegiac.’ The Times
Sand (The Other Room)
‘It’s beautiful and terrifying, fearless and explosive.’ The Stage
The Dying of Today (The Other Room) WINNER – PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR 2015, WELSH THEATRE AWARDS ‘Powerful, stimulating, profound and moving, this is an impressive piece of work.’ British Theatre Guide
Blasted (The Other Room) WINNER – BEST DIRECTOR 2015, WELSH THEATRE AWARDS ‘Agonisingly powerful’ **** The Guardian