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Kate Burnett is an award winning theatre designer working with a wide range of environments and audiences. Between 1994 – 2008 she curated and co-curated four national exhibitions of design for performance for the Society of British Theatre Designers that won prizes in the international Prague Quadrennial .and were hugely popular in residencies at the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, 1997, 1999, 2003 and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2007 – 08.

Her research interests in Scenography / Theatre Design include:

• Curating & Documenting the processes of scenography
• Design for alternative spaces and audiences
• Pedagogy of Scenography and interdisciplinary applications
• Drawing and Scenography

• Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD)
• International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT)
• Victoria & Albert Museum
• South Yorkshire Health Authority
• Nottingham City Council

2009, £130,000 Nottingham City Council Post-16 ALIVE project in Work Related Learning. Concept and initial planning with Roma Patel for immersive multimedia environment following research enquiry established in WOW project. ALIVE Project developed and managed by Professor Christine White.

2007, Arts Council England grant £90,000, British Council £15,000 Collaborators UK national exhibition 2003 -07. Nottingham Trent University January 2007, Prague Quadrennial June 2007, Victoria and Albert Museum November 2007 – August 2008 (Society of British Theatre Designers)

2005 – 2007, £56,000 South Yorkshire, Nottingham, Lincolnshire Health Authorities WOW Project in Work Related Learning Environments, (large hospital sets created for 14 – 16 years WRL project.

2003, Art Council England grant £75,000, British Council £15,000 2D>3D: Design for Theatre and Performance exhibition, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield Prague Quadrennial 2003, Theatre Museum, London and touring. (Society of British Theatre Designers)

1999, Arts Council England £5,000, British Council £15,000 Time+Space at the Royal College of Art, PQ1999, Theatre Museum iLondon. (Society of British Theatre Designers)

1994, Arts Council England £15,000, British Council £15,000 Foundation for Sport and the Arts £40,000 MakeSpace! exhibition of Design for Performance 1991 - 95, (Society of British Theatre Designers)

• 2007 - 2011 Chair of History & Theory Commission and Co-Convenor of symposia in Helsinki (2008), Seoul (2009), Amsterdam (2010) and Prague (2007, 2011) for Organisation Internationale de Scenografes, Techniciens et Architectes de Theatre (OISTAT) .2010 – Member of QA Panel, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London
• 2010 – Guest speaker at International Seminar on the Education of Theatre Design / Scenography, PaCPA, Tokyo
• 2008 - External assessor on the Approval Panel for Single Honours Scenography and Theatre Design, Aberystwyth University
• 2004- 2008 Honorary Secretary and Curator/ co-curator of national exhibitions for the Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD)
• 2005 - External Examiner Edinburgh College of Art, Performance Costume MA course
• 2003 Prague Quadrennial Golden Triga for 2D>3D exhibition
• 2002 - 2006 External Examiner Rose Bruford College (University of Manchester) Theatre Design BA (Hons), Technical Theatre Arts BA (Hons),, Costume Production BA (Hons), courses
• 2000 – 2001 Member of RAE 2001 Art & Design Panel
• 1996 - 2000 External Examiner Wimbledon School of Art, Scenography MA Course
• 1996 - 1999 External Examiner Cumbria College of Art, Creative Arts BA Hons. Course
• 1995 Prague Quadrennial Gold Medal for Make Space! Exhibition
• 1988 Time Out Award for Theatre Design for DOCTOR FAUSTUS - Young Vic
• 1986 Manchester Evening News Award for Theatre Design for THE POWER OF DARKNESS, THE LITTLE PRINCE,and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD