Kate Bramley is a prolific playwright and theatre director best known for her work with Badapple Theatre.
Kate co-founded Badapple Theatre Company Ltd in 1998 and also devised the first of their inspiring ‘Theatre on Your Doorstep’ productions back in 2006.
She is a theatre director who worked for many years with Sir John Godber's Hull Truck Theatre as well as Haymarket, Basingstoke and tours to York Theatre Royal, Bath Theatre Royal an many other venues nationally. She also worked for a time with Edinburgh-based Nonsense Room on site specific plays, THE APPRENTICE and A CHRISTMAS CAROL, at the world famous Rosslyn Chapel. Most recently she directed a pilot and two tours of Danny Mellor's 'Yorkshire Kernel' solo performance for national touring.
For Badapple- as writer and artistic director for 25 years- she has consistently pushed the boundaries of theatre experience for rural audiences in small spaces and hard to reach communities mixing her distinctive brand of comedy theatre with music, clowning, puppetry, dance, film and even live-baking!
For Badapple she has written AMY JOHNSON, MARLOWE MEET RAYMOND CHANDLER, STILL MARILYN, FIGHTING THE TIDE, AN HONORARY YORKSHIREMAN, LAUREL & CHARLIE, FARMER SCROOGE'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, BACK TO THE LAND GIRLS, EDDIE AND THE GOLD TOPS, LIGHTS OUT LAND GIRLS, THE CARLTON COLLIERS,THE MICE WHO ATE CHRISTMAS, THE DAILY BREAD, THE THANKFUL VILLAGE, THE UNLIKELY DADS, THE ELVES AND THE CARPENTER, THE LAST STATION KEEPER, SALSA VERDE, THE FROZEN ROMAN, TALES FROM THE GREAT WOOD, THE SNOW DANCER, ELEPHANT ROCK and THE MARVELLOUS MYSTICAL MUSICAL BOX.
For the Badapple Young Actors she has written ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN HAMMERTON, SHAKESPEARE'S APPRENTICES, THE GHOSTS OF HAMMERTON HALL, THE LOST GARDENS OF HAMMERTON, DYNAMO THE HAMMERTON HORSE & THE HOUND OF THE HAMMERTONS (with Aidan Lowe) as well as HAMMERTON ON SEA and HAMMERTON GALACTIC (with Aidan Lowe).
For York Theatre Royal THE THREE ALLOTMENTEERS (short).
Spring 2024 will see the world premiere of her latest full length play The REGALETTES.
She is also a professional touring musician and songwriter, touring with The Mile Roses and Jez Lowe.
For more music biography and tour dates click here
Kate co-founded Badapple Theatre Company Ltd in 1998 and also devised the first of their inspiring ‘Theatre on Your Doorstep’ productions back in 2006.
She is a theatre director who worked for many years with Sir John Godber's Hull Truck Theatre as well as Haymarket, Basingstoke and tours to York Theatre Royal, Bath Theatre Royal an many other venues nationally. She also worked for a time with Edinburgh-based Nonsense Room on site specific plays, THE APPRENTICE and A CHRISTMAS CAROL, at the world famous Rosslyn Chapel. Most recently she directed a pilot and two tours of Danny Mellor's 'Yorkshire Kernel' solo performance for national touring.
For Badapple- as writer and artistic director for 25 years- she has consistently pushed the boundaries of theatre experience for rural audiences in small spaces and hard to reach communities mixing her distinctive brand of comedy theatre with music, clowning, puppetry, dance, film and even live-baking!
For Badapple she has written AMY JOHNSON, MARLOWE MEET RAYMOND CHANDLER, STILL MARILYN, FIGHTING THE TIDE, AN HONORARY YORKSHIREMAN, LAUREL & CHARLIE, FARMER SCROOGE'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, BACK TO THE LAND GIRLS, EDDIE AND THE GOLD TOPS, LIGHTS OUT LAND GIRLS, THE CARLTON COLLIERS,THE MICE WHO ATE CHRISTMAS, THE DAILY BREAD, THE THANKFUL VILLAGE, THE UNLIKELY DADS, THE ELVES AND THE CARPENTER, THE LAST STATION KEEPER, SALSA VERDE, THE FROZEN ROMAN, TALES FROM THE GREAT WOOD, THE SNOW DANCER, ELEPHANT ROCK and THE MARVELLOUS MYSTICAL MUSICAL BOX.
For the Badapple Young Actors she has written ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN HAMMERTON, SHAKESPEARE'S APPRENTICES, THE GHOSTS OF HAMMERTON HALL, THE LOST GARDENS OF HAMMERTON, DYNAMO THE HAMMERTON HORSE & THE HOUND OF THE HAMMERTONS (with Aidan Lowe) as well as HAMMERTON ON SEA and HAMMERTON GALACTIC (with Aidan Lowe).
For York Theatre Royal THE THREE ALLOTMENTEERS (short).
Spring 2024 will see the world premiere of her latest full length play The REGALETTES.
She is also a professional touring musician and songwriter, touring with The Mile Roses and Jez Lowe.
For more music biography and tour dates click here