Kate Flatt
Choreographer
Kate Flatt trained at the Royal Ballet School and assisted Leonide Massine whilst developing her career as a choreographer. She now works nationally and internationally in contemporary dance, ballet, film, opera, theatre and musicals including the original musical staging for Les Misérables at the RSC, in the West End and beyond. Kate teaches choreography at the Royal Ballet School. She is a Churchill Fellow, and holds a Rayne Foundation Choreographic Fellowship.
Recent credits include choreographing Moonfleet at the Salisbury Playhouse, Le nozze di Figaro for Garsington Opera, reviving her original choreography for Don Giovanni for Welsh National Opera, Turandot at The Royal Opera House, as well as rehearsing new cast members for Les Miserables at the Queens Theatre and working on collaborative projects of her own.
Theatre work includes Three Sisters, Dream Play, Albert Speer, and Power, for the National Theatre; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Dr Faustus, Skellig and The Skin of Our Teeth for the Young Vic, The Kreutzer Sonata for the Gate Theatre, Fiddler on the Roof for Sheffield and the West End, Roots for the Donmar Warehouse, and Hamlet for the Old Vic.
Her devised dance theatre works include Undivided Loves for Phoenix Dance Theatre; Slowburn, Soul Play, The Ballroom of Joys and Sorrows and The Oss and the Ox. Other Opera choreography includes Turandot for ROH; Gloriana and Peter Grimes for Opera North and ENO, as well as works at Glyndebourne, in Paris, Valencia and Washington.
Praise for Turnadot:
“Much of the credit for its longevity rests with the fabulously extravagant cartoonish designs of Sally Jacobs, and with the choreography of Kate Flatt, she of Les Misérables fame, who returns at every revival to ginger up the movement. This is as splendid as ever”
– Mark Valencia, WhatsonStage ★★★★
SELECTED THEATRE CREDITS
Ends of the Earth Royal National Theatre with Andrei Serban
Pericles RNT with David Lan
Albert Speer RNT with Trevor Nunn
Three Sisters RNT with Katie Mitchell
Power RNT with Lindsay Posner
Dream Play RNT with Katie Mitchell
Doctor Faustus Young Vic with David Lan
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore Young Vic with David Lan
The Skin Of Our Teeth Young Vic with David Lan
Hamlet Old Vic with Trevor Nunn
The Doll’s House Birmingham Rep
Roots Donmar Warehouse with James Macdonald
The Kreutzer Sonata The Gate, London with Natalie Abrahami
Robin Hood Watford Palace Theatre
Mother Goose Watford Palace Theatre
Beauty and the Beast Watford Palace Theatre
Fourteen Watford Palace Theatre
Yerma West Yorkshire Playhouse with Roisin McBrinn
SELECTED DANCE THEATRE CREDITS
Undivided Loves Phoenix Dance Theatre
The Dancing Room UK tour (also BBCTV)
SELECTED FILM CREDITS
Clash of the Titans starring Laurence Olivier
Chaplin dir Richard Attenborough
Restoration
The Avengers
SELECTED MUSICAL CREDITS
Les Miserables RSC and now at the Queens Theatre with Trevor Nunn and John Caird
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg with Andrei Serban
Hello Dolly as director in Sweden
Tordenskjold Copenhagen
Fiddler On The Roof Sheffield 2006
SELECTED OPERA CREDITS
Eugene Onegin WNO, Lyon, Seattle, Vancouver
The Bartered Bride WNO, Cologne
The Jacobin WNO
The Merry Widow WNO
Tristan und Isolde WNO, ROH, Scottish Opera
The Duenna Opera North
Gloriana Opera North, ROH with Phyllida Lloyd (also awarded an Emmy for the film version)
Peter Grimes Opera North with Phyllida Lloyd
The Carmelites ENO with Phyllida Lloyd
Verdi Requiem ENO with Phyllida Lloyd
Turandot ROH, Olympic Games Los Angeles, Wembley Arena, Madrid, Lisbon, Cagliari, Parma with Andrei Serban
Guillaume Tell ROH with John Cox
Il Viaggio a Reims ROH
Aida ROH (also TV)
Betrothal in a Monastery Glyndebourne and Valencia with Daniel Slater
Le Nozze di Figaro Garsington with John Cox
La Damnation de Faust Théâtre du Châtelet with Yannis Kokkos
Boris Godunov Opera de Bastille
Carmen Festival d’Orange
Carmen Bastille
Don Giovanni WNO