Katharine Williams is a lighting designer, writer, and leader of projects. Lighting designs in Scotland include: Lost At Sea (Perth Theatre and Scottish Tour); Gagarin Way (Dundee Rep); Oor Wullie (Dundee Rep and Scottish Tour); Dolls (NTS); MOVE (Disaster Plan), Love Song to Lavender Menace (Lyceum, Edinburgh) and Mrs Puntila and her Man Matti (which was running at the Lyceum, Edinburgh, as the 2020 lockdown began).

Katharine was lead artist on the Love Letters to the Home Office project and was founder of ‘Crew for Calais’. They co-founded People Powered which ran in the UK at the start of the pandemic, to support the NHS and frontline services.

Writing credits include: Strangeways (development with Stellar Quines); Walk With Me (Vault Festival, London); Love Letters to the Home Office (BAC, London, and Edinburgh Fringe). Directing includes: These Hills Are Ours (Daniel Bye and Boff Whalley, who are currently touring in England).

Katharine’s pronouns are they/them.

www.katharinewilliams.co.uk