Kate Prince MBE

Founder & Artistic Director

Kate is a choreographer, director & writer working across theatre, film, and TV. She is the Artistic Director of ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company which she founded in 2002 and an Associate Artist at both the Old Vic and Sadler’s Wells, where ZooNation is also a Resident Company. In 2018 ZooNation became a National Portfolio Organisation with Arts Council England.

Kate’s work with ZooNation include creating ground-breaking productions such as Into the Hoods (Novello Theatre, West End), Some Like it Hip Hop (Peacock Theatre & UK Tour), Groove on Down the Road (Southbank Centre), The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Royal Opera House & The Roundhouse), Message in a Bottle (Peacock Theatre, UK, European, Australian & North America Tour), and SYLVIA (Old Vic Theatre). The company has also created special performances for the 2012 London Olympics IOC Opening Ceremony, the 2011 & 2023 Laurence Olivier Awards, the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Handover Ceremonies, and Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebrations in Hyde Park.

Kate’s other theatrical work includes Everybody’s Talking about Jamie (Sheffield, West End & UK Tour), Bacchae (National Theatre), Dream Ballets (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), Ballyturk (National Theatre), Shoes (Sadler’s Wells), I Can’t Sing: The X-Factor Musical (Palladium), and It’s A Mad World My Masters (RSC).

Her film work includes choreography for Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Warp, Film 4, New Regency & Amazon), Message in a Bottle (PBS America), StreetDance 3D (BBC Films & Vertigo) and The Holloway Laundrette, which she wrote & directed for BAFTA/ Channel 4.

For TV, Kate’s credits include work for Strictly Come Dancing, So You Think You Can Dance, The Royal Variety Show, Top of the Pops, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Take Away, CD:UK, Blue Peter, Sport Relief, The Album Chart Show, and PopWorld.

Kate’s personal achievements include an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Winchester, an MA from the University of Edinburgh and an MBE in 2019 for her services to dance.

In 2020, Kate was the subject of the BBC Imagine Documentary series entitled Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes presented by Alan Yentob. She has been nominated for five Olivier Awards, a Southbank Sky Arts Award, a WhatsOnStage Award and two Critic’s Circle National Dance Awards. In 2024 ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company won the Critic’s Circle National Dance Award for Best Midscale Company.

Kate is represented by Casarotto Ramsay & Associates in London and UTA in Los Angeles.

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