Katie Greenall (she/they) is a director, theatre maker & writer living in NE London. She specialises in new writing, solo autobiographical work and working with Young People and Communities. 

She is currently the Associate Director at the Bush Theatre, where she also runs the Young Companies. Their directing credits include: COMMUNION (Bush Theatre); WE ALL KNOW HOW THIS ENDS (Theatre Royal Stratford East); AS WE FACE THE SUN (Offie nominated, Bush Theatre); PASS IT ON  (Bush Theatre); HERE, HERE, HERE (Theatre Royal Stratford East); ANTHEM (Bush Theatre); BACK UP! (Bush Theatre). She was also the Associate Director on BARCELONA (Duke of York’s Theatre).

 

As a ​writer, Katie was a member of the Poetry Collective at the Roundhouse and a Resident Artist at the Roundhouse in 2018-19. She was part of the Soho Theatre Writer's Lab programme, long-listed Channel 4 Screenwriting Course in 2021 and a member of VAULT Five. In 2020, she was runner up in Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund for theatre making and in 2024 was on the shortlist for the Popcorn Award. ​They have also appeared on radio and several podcasts, including BBC's Women's Hour & The Guilty Feminist, as well as writing from the Metro Online, Refinery29 & Bustle.

 

Katie also made FATTY FAT FAT, a solo show about living in a fat body. It won the VAULTS Origins Award for Outstanding New Work in 2019 and following this, completed a sold out 5* run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In Spring 2020, FFF was due to head out on a tour of England & Wales, and its final performances were in Soho Theatre's main house in September 2021. The show was supported by Arts Council England, and was published by Salamander Street in 2020. You can buy a copy here.

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Katie is currently making a new solo show BLUBBER, which follows her quest to reconnect with her own body through synchronised swimming, care and whales. This show is currently in development supported by: Arts Council England, arts depot, Cambridge Junction, Battersea Arts Centre, Roundhouse, Marlborough Productions, VAULT Festival, the Barbican and MAST, and it is produced by The Hale. BLUBBER was the runner up for the Oxford Samual Beckett Theatre Trust award, and after a successful run at Summerhall during 2024’s Edinburgh Fringe, it will be touring both nationally and internationally in 2025 & 2026.

 

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