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Photo by Ros Kavanagh
Katie is a set and costume designer based in Dublin.
She has an Irish Times Theatre Award for costume design (2021 & 2022) and was nominated in 2019. She is artist in residence with Ireland’s National Dance company luail (2025).
Katie has created scenography for many major theatre, opera and dance companies in Ireland, including The Abbey, The Gate, Irish National Opera, Landmark, United Fall, Liz Roche Dance Company, Coiscéim, Junk Ensemble Northern Ireland Opera, Theatre Lovett, thisispopbaby and Rough Magic. She created the installation “Pegeen’s“ at The Abbey Theatre - a pop up theatre café. She has designed for RTÉ, Ardmore studios art department and won an ICAD for Piranha Bar in 2016.
Recent International work includes Roberto Devereux for Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo Italy (2024), SAFE HOUSE by Enda Walsh at St Ann’s Warehouse New York (2025) and Krapp’s Last Tape at The Barbican UK (2025).
Katie was vice chair of the Irish Society of Performance Designers 2020-2024, Designer in Residence at The Gate Theatre Dublin in 2017 and a resident of The Dean Art Studio 2022-23. She represented Ireland in Beijing NCPA at Evolving Design for Performance in 2016 and again at The Prague Quadrennial 2019 & 2023, a world exhibition of theatre design. In 2020 She participated in a cross disciplinary group curated by Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and Project Arts centre, Studio Interruptions and contributed work to the publication “Lights, Music, Exit.” She contributed the cover artwork to The Stinging fly’s Winter 2023-24 issue.
Katie archived her set and costume work in a book: Archive #1 [2016-2021] and works from her studio on Drury Street, in Dublin city.
Articles: Image Magazine, My Cultural Life Irish Independent, Irish Times, RTE Culture, Operawire.eu, The Magic Flute INO
Agent jasmine@lisarichards.co.uk +44(0)20 7287 1441Personal email katiedavenport3@gmail.comShe/her/sí/í