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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).
Recent International work includes Roberto Devereux for Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo Italy (2024), SAFE HOUSE by Enda Walsh at Schaubühne Berlin and St Ann’s Warehouse New York (2025), What We Hold in collaboration with Jean Butler, New York (2024) and Krapp’s Last Tape at The Barbican UK (2025). She is currently designing “The Playboy of the Western World” at National Theatre, London (2025).
Notable designs include Safe House, Audrey or Sorrow, Tartuffe, Elsewhere, The Fall of the Second Republic, This Beautiful Village, What Put the Blood (Abbey Theatre), Peter Pan, Endgame, Once Before I go, The Visiting Hour, A Christmas Carol (The Gate), La Traviata, Maria Stuarda, Griselda, The Magic Flute, The Tales of Hoffman, 20 Shots of Opera (Irish National Opera); King | Shrine, Night Dances, Dolorosa; I am Ireland (United Fall), Sentient, Yes and Yes, Demos, (Liz Roche Dance Company); Chora (Luail), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rough Magic) and The Piece with the Drums (CoisCéim).
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