Katherine brings a wealth of expertise to Sound Voice as a producer, strategic thinker and artistic programmer to create innovative multi-disciplinary work. Born in the North West, she has over 15 years of experience as a specialist producer making new work in collaboration with communities and young people. She has produced work for English National Opera (Mask of Orpheus; Orpheus and Eurydice; Dido in collaboration with the Unicorn Theatre), and site-specific performance for the ENO Baylis learning programme (Towards Another World with the V&A Museum; Millions of Years with the British Museum). She has worked as an Assistant Director with ENO, WNO, Opera North and Garsington Opera. She co-founded music-theatre company Re:Sound, was a Future Fire at Manchester’s Contact theatre, and trained as a music teacher with Teach First.