Kate Flatt

Choreographer

Biography

Flatt trained at RBS and is a choreographer, movement director, mentor and dance educator. She created the original musical staging for RSC’s Les Misérables (1985-2019, Queens Theatre/worldwide). Opera includes Don Giovanni (Welsh National Opera); Le nozze di Figaro (Garsington); The Carmelites, Verdi’s Requiem, Carmen (English National Opera); Betrothal in a Monastery (Glyndebourne, Valencia); Turandot, William Tell, Il viaggio a Reims, Aida (ROH); La damnation de Faust (Chatelet); Boris Godounov (Bastille); Peter Grimes (South Bank Award) and Gloriana (Emmy Award) for Opera North. Theatre includes Undivided Loves (Phoenix Dance Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof (Sheffield Crucible, West End); Roots (Donmar); Three Sisters, Dream Play, Albert Speer, Power, Ends of the Earth (National Theatre); ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Dr Faustus, Skellig, The Skin of Our Teeth (Young Vic); Hamlet (Old Vic); and Kreutzer Sonata (Gate Theatre). Dance includes Slowburn, Soul Play, Songs from a Hotel Bedroom and The Ballroom of Joys and Sorrows. Film includes Chaplin, Restoration, The Avengers, and with Sally Jacobs, The Dancing Room (BBC). She teaches at RBS, is a Churchill Fellow and holds a Rayne Foundation Choreographic Fellowship. She was awarded an OBE for services to Choreography in the 2020 New Years Honours.

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