Katie Paterson
Key details:
- Department:
- Production Arts
- Role:
- Interim Contextual Studies Module Coordinator
- Contact details:
- Katie.Paterson@gsmd.ac.uk
Biography
Areas of expertise
Contemporary Performance, Queer and Feminist Theatre, Practice Research, Acting
Biography
Katie Paterson is a theatremaker and practice research PhD candidate at Guildhall School. She coordinates the contextual studies module at Guildhall lecturing in contemporary performance, and is a visiting MA Tutor at Mountview supporting students with their self-led practice. Her research looks at the potential of performance to illuminate lived experience and validate embodied knowledge(s) and her queer feminist practice embraces chaos, scavenging and care as methodologies for change.
Katie has performed at the Barbican, Pleasance, Museum of Comedy, Theatre503, and at Edinburgh Fringe, Maiden Speech, and Waitress Festivals. Recent work includes solo show Minor Disruptions, exploring the queerness of childhood; Game Face, a gig-theatre collaboration about body image and beauty myths; Side FX, programmed for VAULT 2022, a verbatim-cabaret extravaganza exploring hormone use. Having trained at Mountview, she continues to work freelance as an actor, singer, and assistant producer. She is one of the organisers of the TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium 2022.
Recent conference papers include:
Paterson K. Whose truth on whose terms? Unpacking verbatim practices in arts and health research. TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium 25 June 2021
Paterson K. Lived vs learned: performing the boundaries and bodies of medical knowledge. Intersections at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama 14 May 2021
Qualifications
MA Performance (Acting), Mountview
BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham
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