Kate is a theatre producer and consultant with 25+ years experience working with leading artists in the not-for-profit and commercial sectors in the UK and New York.

As Kate Pakenham Productions her credits include: Waiting for Godot starring Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw, directed by James Macdonald (West End); Medea starring Ben Daniels and Sophie Okonedo, directed by Dominic Cooke (West End); Heart, written and starring Jade Anouka, directed by Ola Ince (Minetta Lane Theatre, NY); Hamlet starring Ruth Negga, directed by Yael Farber (St Ann’s Warehouse, NY) and the Olivier Award winning, Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, directed by Nicole Charles (West End).

As a consultant Kate provides executive and creative advice and support.  Clients include: the National Theatre; the Kiln; the Gate Theatre, Dublin; the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith; St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn; Fictionhouse; Digital Theatre; and the WOW Foundation.

Between 2012-2018, Kate was Executive Producer for the Donmar Warehouse where she produced 40+ productions, many of which transferred to the West End, New York or onto screen.  From 2001-2011 she was a Producer at The Old Vic Theatre.

Kate began her career in factual television.

Kate serves on the Board of Sheffield Theatres and the Cambridge Arts Theatre.

Phyllida has had a forty year career directing theatre, opera and film. Her focus has been to promote equality on and off stage. After an early period in regional theatre she moved to London to direct classical and new work for the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse.  She also had an award-winning career as an opera director – La Bohème, Gloriana (also the film) Peter Grimes, Albert Herring, Macbeth, The Carmelites. In 1999 she directed Mamma Mia! – book by Catherine Johnson, which was followed in 2008 by the film. Lloyd’s next film was The Iron Lady (2011) by Abi Morgan,  for which Meryl Streep won her third Oscar.  Her latest film Herself by Clare Dunne premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Phyllida’s most recent theatre work includes the ground-breaking, all-female Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy,  Tina: The Tina Turner Musical – book by Katori Hall and Grenfell: in the words of survivors by Gillian Slovo at the National Theatre and St Ann’s Warehouse. In 2010 she received a CBE for services to drama.

Ruba has ten years experience in community engagement and advocacy, working with children, young people, and families across diverse communities, with her most recent work based in North Kensington. She joined the National Theatre as Community Liaison on Grenfell: in the words of survivors directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Anthony Simpson-Pike (2023), later becoming Assistant General Manager for the production’s transfer to St Ann’s Warehouse, New York (2024).