Kate Mulvany OAM is a writer and actor who has received the Mona Brand Award, several AWGIEs, the Sidney Myer Award, an Honorary Doctorate from Curtin University and an Order of the Medal of Australia.

Kate’s plays include adaptations of The Harp in the South, Playing Beatie Bow, Jasper Jones, Mary Stuart, Masquerade and Medea (co-written with Anne-Louise Sarks). Her original work includes The Mares, The Rasputin Affair, The Danger Age, The Web, the musical Somewhere (music by Tim Minchin), the oratorio Towards First Light (composition by Iain Grandage) and her autobiographical play The Seed.

Kate co-created and wrote on the award-winning TV series Upright and wrote on the acclaimed series Summer Love.  

She recently starred in Bernhardt/Hamlet for Melbourne Theatre Company and won Helpmann Awards for Richard III for Bell Shakespeare and Every Brilliant Thing for Belvoir. Her screen credits include The Clearing, The Twelve, Hunters, starring alongside Al Pacino, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, and the upcoming films Better Man and How to Make Gravy.

Kate is an ambassador for survivors of Agent Orange, and a mentor to emerging playwrights, particularly those with disabilities.