Hello! I'm Katie and I'm a writer and performer based in London. Having worked as a copywriter for over six years, I'm now changing direction and pursuing my passion for the arts.
As a poet, I've performed my work at the Roundhouse, Bestival, Rich Mix, and Royal Academy of Arts. I was a member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective from 2016-2017 and was a Roundhouse Resident Artist from 2018-2019. As part of my residency, I wrote and performed a one-woman show, entitled Anything on Your Mind, Babe?, about my childhood experiences of OCD.
I perform improvisational comedy and I'm a front of house volunteer for the Battersea Arts Centre. I also volunteer for the Albany's Meet Me at the Albany programme, helping to facilitate art workshops aimed at tackling loneliness in older people.
Work history
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VolunteerThe Albany
London, United Kingdom
Helping to set up spaces and workshops for Meet Me at the Albany, a programme of creative and social activities for over 60s.
VolunteerBattersea Arts Centre
London, United Kingdom
Providing a friendly point of contact for audience members, answering queries, directing them to performance spaces and facilities.
Checking tickets and showing audience members to their seats.
Recently helped young artists set up their exhibitions at the Homegrown Art Gallery.
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Skills
- Copywriting
- SEO Optimisation
- SEO Copywriting
- Wordpress CMS
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Email Marketing
- Blog Writing
- Thought Leadership
- Digital Newsletters
- Press Releases
Education
2:1 BA (Hons) English LiteratureQueen Mary University of London
- London, United Kingdom
Extra-Curricular Activities:
Blogger for QMUL English & Drama department
Columnist for CUB Magazine
London Editor for CUB Magazine
Awards
Highly Commended Award for Feature of the YearQueen Mary University of London
At the QMUL Student Media Awards I received the Highly Commended Award for Feature of the Year for my column, The Neat and Orderly Ramblings of an Obsessive Compulsive. The column related my personal experiences of living with OCD.
The title was ironic; I felt that media portrayals too often misrepresented OCD as simply a compulsion to be 'neat and tidy.' Using real and imagined scenarios and humour, I wanted to show that OCD is an illness that manifests in many different ways. I hoped that this would help to change perspectives of a deeply distressing and widely misunderstood disorder.Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student MediaQueen Mary University of London
For my regular column, and my articles for other sections of CUB Magazine, I won an award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Media.