Kate Mulvany is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor. Her most recent play, Masquerade, a reimagining of the much-loved children’s book by Kit Williams, was performed at the 2015 Sydney Festival, the State Theatre Company of South Australia and the 2015 Melbourne Festival. Her autobiographical play The Seed, commissioned by Belvoir Street Theatre, won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Independent Production. With Mulvany performing in the play, it received great critical success, toured nationally and is currently being developed into a feature film.  She also recently adapted Jasper Jones from Craig Silvey’s novel, which premièred for Barking Gecko Theatre Company in 2014 and will be seen at Belvoir and the Melbourne Theatre Company in 2016.

In 2013 her play The Rasputin Affair was shortlisted for the Griffin New Play Award and for The Patrick White Award. Other plays and musicals include; The Danger Age (Deckchair Theatre and La Boîte), The Web (Hothouse and Black Swan Theatre Company), Somewhere (co-written with Tim Minchin for the Joan Sutherland PAC) and Storytime (The Old Fitzroy Theatre) which won her the 2004 Philip Parsons Award. As an actor, Mulvany has performed most recently as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Cassius in Julius Caesar for Bell Shakespeare, and as Lucille McKee in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. Kate is currently the Intersticia Fellow at Bell Shakespeare and the Patrick White Fellow at the Sydney Theatre Company.