Creative producer and arts leader
Complex creative projects, solved.
Kat McMorrow (also Kat Marchingo)
I turn ambitious, messy ideas into programs that run, leading the teams, budgets, contracts and logistics behind work across arts, education and community.
Two doors into the same work
The case log
2002–2013
Festivals and independent producing
Straight Out of Brisbane, Berliner Festspiele MaerzMusik, The Danger Ensemble, Youth Arts Queensland.
2014–2021
Backbone, from age 13 to CEO
Seven years leading the youth arts company where I started at 13. Case files 02 and 05.
2022–now
International curation and research
ISEA2024 across 25 venues, Arka Kinari to Colomboscope and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and a PhD at UQ.
Credentials
MFA Cultural Leadership, NIDA (inaugural cohort) · Green Room Award for arts advocacy, 2020 · Australia India Youth Dialogue delegate, 2019 · PhD candidate, Leadership in the Polycrisis, University of Queensland
Where the doors come from
Rainbow's End
2024 · HOTA Underground and ISEA2024. An immersive work about the twin rainbow goddesses Iris and Arke, made with Chroma Collective and Queensland women collaborators. I directed it and wrote the original concept. The two doors on this site are named after its goddesses.
“I’ve worked with Kath for over 20 years and she is a voice I can trust to untangle complex professional decisions. … Don’t confuse that for a lack of precision, she’s a sharp shooter.”
Michael Ross, Electric Fields
Earlier credits may appear under Kath Quigley or Kat Marchingo.