About

Since graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Contemporary Performance) in 2007, I have directed or co-created several independent theatre, live performance and opera works and have assisted on a number of professional productions with major Australian performing arts companies. Below is a list of my most recent works and past highlights. Please contact me for a full CV.

Company Artist 2013 – current

Current Work


THE CAKEMAKER

Director & Co-Creator | 2018

Created with Johannes Luebbers (Composer) and Nick Maclaine (Writer)
A new satirical musical about the ethics and consequences of extreme ways of engaging in politics. 

UNHEIMLICH

Katt Osborne & Performing Lines WA | Director & Co-Creator 2017/18

A new multi-artform performance collaboration with award-winning WA visual artist Tarryn Gill.
The project is currently in development and has been supported by The Blue Room Theatre’s LOFT program and the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.

Past Work


DR SEUSS’S THE LORAX

The Old Vic | Assistant Director 2017

Adapted by David Greig
Directed by Max Webster
Choreography by Drew McOnie
"The best family show since Matilda" – ★★★★★ The Guardian


ARIADNE AUF NAXOS

Operabox | Director 2016

“Small Perth opera company OperaBox and director Kathryn Osborne have taken… Ariadne auf Naos and come up with a real tour de force of high seriousness and anarchic comedy” – ★★★★ The West Australian
“Under Osborne's perceptive direction the humour doesn't cheapen the libretto and is couched sensitively within the splendor of Strauss' music” – Rosalind Appleby


THE OLD MAID AND THE THEIF

LOVE OPERA! | Director 2014

“Osborne is one of our finest young directors” – ★★★★ The West Australian