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Kate Sawyer

Jul 23
8 min

Reading Women

How reading a quarter century of Women’s Prize winners got me through lockdown.

Kate Sawyer

Feb 6, 2018
1 min

New Trailer for Lawnmower

I'm so excited to share the trailer for my next short film, Lawnmower. Working on this short film over the summer was such a joy. The cas...

Kate Sawyer

Feb 6, 2018
1 min

New Writer/Director Showreel

Delighted with my new Director /Writer Reel. (thank to Invisible Darkness for the slick edit!) It's the first time I've put my work toget...

Kate Sawyer

Aug 28, 2017
3 min

Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment

Playing playing one of Shakespeare's characters is a challenge at the best of times. To play three of them, with only two weeks of rehear...

'Not Waving' short film in post-production.

Kate Sawyer

Jul 29, 2017
1 min

'Not Waving' short film in post-production.

It has been an intense couple of weeks! As well as finishing on the UK No.1 tour of Ray Cooney's Out of Order we completed filming on my ...

Kate Sawyer

Jun 20, 2017
2 min

Help me make not one film but two!

Donate to our Indiegogo campaign for Not Waving & Lawnmower short films. Great perks including IMDB credits as Actor, Producer & Exe

Gala Night: Celebrating Ray Cooney's 70 Years in Show Business

Kate Sawyer

Apr 8, 2017
2 min

Gala Night: Celebrating Ray Cooney's 70 Years in Show Business

We had a fantastic night courtesy of Tom O'Connell Productions at Richmond Theatre to celebrate Ray Cooney's 70 years in show busine

Kate Sawyer

Jun 30, 2014
1 min

Never can say goodbye...

My time in New York is nearly over. In 24hrs I'll be heading to JFK and boarding a jet for Vancouver and then on to LA. My time in this...

Kate Sawyer

Jun 22, 2013
1 min

Five class countdown

There are only five classes of my Summer Intensive here at The Maggie Flanigan Meisner Studio in NYC. The desire to stay on and do the tw...

Kate Sawyer

Apr 22, 2013
2 min

Couch surfer

I haven’t written a post for over a year. Why? I suppose it was a combination of things really; I lost my nerve, I didn’t necessarily wan...

Kate Sawyer

Dec 29, 2011
3 min

Copy Cat.

I have just finished watching Elizabeth:The Golden Age after spending the majority of the day learning lines to play Elizabeth in Mary St...

Kate Sawyer

Dec 13, 2011
2 min

I want to be a tree.

Unbelievably today in rehearsals involved being a tree. Actually standing there as a tree. An apple tree to be precise. How absolutely st...

Kate Sawyer

Dec 10, 2011
2 min

Who run the world?

Rehearsals have kicked off. The last two days have been INTENSE. Having spent the weekend pouring over the first half of both Mary Stuart...

Kate Sawyer

Nov 30, 2011
4 min

Representing.

This evening I have for the fourth time in two years stuffed 93 A4 envelopes with: 10x8 black and white headshot of my face, a flyer for...

Kate Sawyer

Nov 27, 2011
2 min

Winning

Today the company of which I am the producer and the company in which I am part of the acting ensemble won ‘Best Ensemble’ at The Peter Broo

Kate Sawyer

Nov 1, 2011
3 min

Plan of my dreams.

Last night (post Halloween party) I had a God-awful dream. In the dream I was in rehearsal and I couldn’t feel anything. I couldn’t feel ...

Kate Sawyer

Oct 13, 2011
2 min

Blog: Sixty Days to be Three Women

I’ve ummed and ahhed over writing a blog for a while. Real Me thinks it is an excellent idea. Actress Me isn’t so sure, what if I say someth

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