Kate Sulan is a performance maker, dramaturge and facilitator, specialising in collaboratively devised performance. Kate was the founding Artistic Director of Rawcus, an award-winning ensemble of performers with diverse minds, bodies and imaginations and led the company for 22 years (2000–2022). Kate is also a long-term collaborator with Back to Back. She has worked with the company as a co-devisor, dramaturge and director. Kate was one of the team of artists working on the multiyear Refuge project at Arts House. Refuge explored the role of artists and cultural institutions in times of climate catastrophe, bringing together emergency management, artists, the community and local, regional and international partners. She works as a lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts (Theatre).

Kate has an Advanced Diploma in Group Facilitation (Groupwork Centre) and is a trained mediator (Resolution Institute). She holds space and facilitates complex and challenging conversations with care and creativity.

Kate’s practice is relational and collaborative. Her work embraces complexity and diversity and is underpinned by the desire to fuel dreams, accumulate questions, slow down time, invite reflection, open possibilities and amplify connection.