Kate Wild

Kate Wild

Kate Wild has worked as a documentary and current affairs journalist in Australia and overseas for 8 years.She has worked for ABC TV on programs including 4 Corners, ABC documentaries and the news satire CNNNN.

Kate Wild:
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Kate Wild is a theatre and documentary director and a 2004 graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).She has worked as a director, producer, researcher and presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, SBS TV and the Discovery Channel on more than twenty documentaries and programs including Four Corners, Australian Story and the Chasers' CNNNN.She has been an online columnist and on air presenter for youth radio station Triple J, and in 2003 was a member of the creative team who developed Escape from Woomera; a computer game about life inside Australia's Immigration Detention Centres.EFW received $25,000 from the Australia Council's New Media Development Fund in March 2003. www.escapefromwoomera.org Kate's attention turned to theatre in 2002 when she volunteered on an Australian Theatre for Young People's outreach program in Walgett.In 2003 she applied to study directing at the National Institute for Dramatic Art and was one of six students selected for the class of 2004.
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Since graduating from NIDA, Kate has received support from the Australian American Association to travel to New York as one of 60 international artists accepted to study theatre making with avant garde director Anne Bogart. www.siti.org http://www.americanaustralian.org/Cultural/storydisplay.php?storyId=2062

Kate is currently writing and developing a short film for puppets and a dance theatre work based on a young woman's life, lived in a small car.